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The rantings of a confused computer nerd

The rantings of a confused computer nerd

Short circuits of a mind in perfect imbalance or something like it

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One world

tolecnal July 18, 2016November 6, 2020 General No Comments

I am so fucking angry, I’m way beyond upset, my heart is bleeding, my head is racing, my gut wants to vomit until there’s nothing more left inside, I’m disappointed beyond even my own comprehension. I’m sitting shaking my head

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Brexit – the times they are a changin’

tolecnal June 24, 2016June 24, 2016 No Comments

So, the people of Great Britain have spoken. They have voted in favour of leaving the European Union. A decision that came as a surprise to many, especially to the Union itself it seems, with messages of huge distress in

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Blue light addication

tolecnal August 1, 2015October 2, 2020 General 2 Comments

Hello, my name is Jostein and I’m a blue light addict. I crave the blue light that my so called smart phone gives off, I need the blue light, it drives me, it feeds me. From the moment I wake

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Google Cardboard VR – nerdgasm!

tolecnal February 4, 2015March 6, 2017 4 Comments

What is it they say? Once a nerd, always a nerd? I don’t know about you, but for me that definitely rings true. Working in IT, you tend to be surrounded by great people with vast knowledge in both the

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Artificial intelligence – The ghost in the machine?

tolecnal January 18, 2015January 20, 2015 3 Comments

Recently there has been quite a bit of talk about artificial intelligence, and the possible problems this technology might introduce. Technology and evolution go hand in hand, and even though some might disagree, I find to be a natural part

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Energy

tolecnal September 2, 2014September 2, 2014 2 Comments

Energy It surrounds us It consumes us It’s everything and nothing From the painful birth At ground zero The biggest orgasm known The Big Bang The genesis of entirety The cradle of life From single protons and neutrons To a

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[HOWTO] Install bindgraph in Ubuntu

tolecnal February 17, 2014December 3, 2021 General 1 Comment

This is a simple howto on getting bindgraph installed on your Ubuntu system. Bindgraph is a handy CGI tool written in perl that gathers statistics from your BIND9 installation, to see exactly what sort of DNS lookups are made to

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[HOWTO] Accessing MSSQL with perl in Ubuntu/Debian

tolecnal October 8, 2013December 3, 2021 General 1 Comment

Have you ever had the need to access a MSSQL database from Ubuntu/Debian via perl? Well, it’s rather easy once you have the right tools. All you need is to install a few things, edit a config file and off

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[HOWTO] Set up a backup MX for Zimbra in Ubuntu/Debian

tolecnal February 21, 2012December 26, 2021 General 2 Comments

Have you ever wanted to set up a backup mail exchanger (MX) for your main Zimbra installation? Recently, I had this need for two of my Zimbra installations. Of course, if you run the enterprise version of Zimbra where they

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[HOWTO] Install Redmine on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

tolecnal February 14, 2012December 3, 2021 General No Comments

Preface What is redmine? Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database. What does that really mean though? What it means is that it gives you a great

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