As you might recall I bought a pair of Lacie Porsche 500GB disks some time ago. Well, a few weeks ago the power supply of one of them began making funny noises and it was getting harder to start up the Porsche. The disk worked fine with the power supply that came with the other [...]
Tagged beer, problemsandsolutionsYou might have read my previous reviews of Ubuntu which were not very flattering. Basically they apply nearly in full to the latest edition. At least the “scanning the mirrors” issue was fixed. It times out and the installer continues, unlike with previous editions. However, the network driver for my SIS chipset is still broken. [...]
Tagged linux, reviews, ubuntuI’ve been traveling since Monday already. I left Helsinki for a short trip to Madrid to attend a meeting for the European project I am in since January. Madrid is great and I had a opportunity to catch up with Christian del Rosso, my neighbor in Helsinki who is living in Madrid for one year [...]
Tagged travelingI’m traveling a lot lately. Two weeks ago I was in Zurich at the first Internet of Things Conference. I uploaded some pictures already last week and some more today.
Last week I also attended a Dagstuhl seminar on Combining the advantages of product lines and open source to present the position paper I posted some [...]
There is a nice article on Ars discussing Microsoft’s business practices regarding windows and how they appear to be not quite working lately. It used to be that your PC came with windows whereas nowadays you have to select from a around five different versions and Microsoft is rumored to go to an even more [...]
Tagged apple, beer, google, microsoft, nokia, Software in General, ubuntu, windowsLast week I was in Zurich and I took some photos, which have now been added to my photo album. Most of them were taken in the evening. Some of them are pretty nice considering I had no tripod and it was quite dark.
For example this one was taken from a bridge in Zurich with [...]
Tagged photography, traveling
