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Supermicro 7048A-T

For at least 5 years (I honestly don’t recall when I put the box together…) there’s a been an Antec Mini P180 purring under my desk. This machine has been running various flavors & versions of Linux, mainly performing as KVM host. This box contains 4 hard drives, and a Intel Q9400S CPU. (For those […]

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the Mighty Micro

A little while ago I came across this gem from the past: A book titled ‘The mighty micro: the impact of the computer revolution’, by Christopher Evans. In the US it was published as ‘the Micro Millennium’. This book contains predictions about the (then) upcoming microcomputer revolution, which includes predictions for the future up to

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Posten Sporing app lets me track my packages… and everyone else’s!

I just came across an interesting feature in the Posten Sporing app of Posten Norge AS.This app does the following (translated from the product description on Google Play): Record tracking makes it easy to monitor packages on their way to you with the Post Office.When you register with your mobile number and email we find

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Azure web sites down – February 27th

Azure wasn’t having one of its best days yesterday. The mess started around 07:30 local time, and lasted until almost 16:00. In other words, our sites were down for the full duration of the business day! The following table contains the ‘explanations’ Microsoft shared with the public during the downtime: No mention of the cause.

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Unable to send SMS with CyanogenMod? Here’s a fix!

Are you unable to send SMS text messages after upgrading (to) CyanogenMod? Here’s something you should check! (This fixed it for me after installing CyanogenMod 11 on my Nexus 4)Open the Voice+-app. As it mentions, ‘Voice+ enables all apps to send SMS messages through Google Voice’. Well… this apparently doesn’t work for everyone. So if

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