Swedish National Day: Deep thoughts ...

June 6, 2006 - 1 min read

From time to time, even though it seems to occur more frequently these days, I think about the persistence of things. How development is continuously accelerating in the modern world. To me this is like a double edged sword, it’s both comforting and unsettling. Comforting that we as humans continuously improve and develop our methods and technologies. Unsettling because I know much of the development is in directions that I don’t approve of: more intricate and capable weapons and methods of surveillance.

Laptop Network Configuration in Debian/Ubuntu

June 6, 2006 - 2 mins read

I have three network cards in my laptop. Two built-in and one PCMCIA card. I’m currently investigating how I can migrate from using the slow and tedious gnome-network & C:o tools to the more integrated Debian/Ubuntu tools ifupdown, guessnet, ifplugd and waproamd instead. As usual Debian has a fine and clever way of handling all this with their /etc/network/interface file. To learn more about this fine management interface I’m reading the well written book The Debian System by Martin F.

No news are good news?

May 26, 2006 - 1 min read

Seriously, it’s been one long winter and now finally summer is upon us again. It was about six months ago that I switched jobs and this is the first time for that period that I’ve got ten minutes above the surface. The new job is fun but currently takes up too much of my time to be healthy in the long run. Today we’re going to Stenby TV-service with our broken Hitachi 32" TV.