23 Dec
2010

Christian tradition disappearing in Finland

I say, good on you! There’s discussion in the Finnish media about tradition (read: christian tradition) disappearing in our schools. Some schools are downright outlawing songs and plays that portray christian values. Funny by the way, how the word christian, no capital C, is listed as misspelled in WordPress / Chrome. This whole issue just […]

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19 Nov
2010

A rant about IBM

Having dealt with IBM products (hardware and software) in the last few weeks, i have to open up a can of rant. The shit i’ve been subjected to i would not put on anyone, except perhaps my ex-wife. So here goes: First of all, the hardware. I dealt with an, admittedly lower range, IBM Bladecenter […]

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18 Oct
2010

Politics, meet Religion. Religion, meet the 21st century.

Handshakes and hugs all-around? No. I’ll stray from my regular technical writing for a moment, to adress an issue that is very much in the public eye at the moment here in Finland. It all started on a sad and rainy tuesday, the 12th of October. YLE (our state television channel) showed a program called […]

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5 Oct
2010

Pyrit 0.3.0 with ATI graphics cards

Inspired by this post on the Pauldotcom website, i decided to reinstall Pyrit on my machine, and see how it has evolved. Pyrit is a program that allows you to use your graphics card (and cpu) to perform calculations relating to cracking WPA pairwise masterkeys. GPUs are considerably faster than CPU’s at such calculations. I […]

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28 Aug
2010

Samsung Galaxy S, pt. 3, My Favorite Applications

Ok, so you have your phone rooted, updated and lag-fixed. You want some apps? Here are my picks: Android Terminal Emulator (Well, it’s a terminal emulator) Quadrant (For benchmarking and cock-measuring contests) IMDB (Because i love my movies) Spotify (Great if you have the.. Unlimited? Premium? Whatever it’s called nowadays account) XBMC remote (Control your […]

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