I Was Wrong About Book-On-Demand
Here’s a fun case of me not anticipating an imminent technological development, not thinking that last centimetre of far enough. In July of 2007, six years ago, I wrote: Lately I have come to think of...
View ArticleTech Note: Get Rid Of LibreOffice’s Annoying File Recovery Failure Message
This bug in OpenOffice / LibreOffice has been with me for years and years. You open a file, you delete it while open, you close LibreOffice — and then LibreOffice will henceforth tell you eeeevery time...
View ArticleSamsung Sweden to Linux User: “UEFI BIOS Bug Not Our Problem”
Linux is a common operating system, not least in its Android version, and it is universally assumed that a PC (or whatever “IBM compatible” is called these days) will be able to run it. In fact,...
View ArticleTech Note: How To Install Linux On A Laptop With UEFI
Here’s what I did to replace Windows 8 (boo) with Linux Mint (yay) on a 2013 Asus ultrabook with the problematic UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware, using an external DVD drive...
View ArticleSwedish Linux Users: Avoid Elgiganten
As detailed here before, a few Samsung laptop models have a firmware bug that makes them liable to becoming inert bricks if you install Linux. It’s a one-way process. This happened to me when I bought...
View ArticleOwnit Deploys Wifi Routers With Security Hole Across Sweden
My whole housing development recently changed Internet Service Providers. We now have optical fibre from Ownit, offering hundreds of megabits per second. It works just fine. But there’s a security...
View ArticleIs Facebook’s Android App Monitoring My Phone Calls?
Facebook’s Android app seems to be monitoring whom I talk to on my phone. A few days after I’ve called somebody who wants to submit a paper to Fornvännen, or after I’ve texted the mom of one of...
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20 Years On The Web
I got access to email through the SöderKOM BBS in 1994. In early 1995 I got a dial-up connection to the Internet via Algonet, an ISP started by my childhood buddy Ragnar. And in June of that year I put...
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Ten Years Of Portable Internet Access
My 2006 smartphone, a Qtek 9100 On 2 February 2006 I took delivery of my first smartphone, or handdator as I called it in my diary – “hand computer”. On the following day I got the machine on-line. It...
View ArticleSatnavs and the Sunk Cost Fallacy
One of the best pieces of economic advice I know is ”Don’t throw good money after bad”. Or in other words, when you consider whether you should continue to invest in a project, don’t let the sum you’ve...
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