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Goodbye Soekris! Pity to see you go!

May 11th, 2017

Soekris was a small i386/amd64 computer on a rackmountable or desktop small case. They were driven out of business by the competition in Asia and what I think was a business mistake. Their long awaited products never left the drawing board last. I would have bought it but they scrapped it.

This is my soekris at home but it uses more connections than the one you see. In fact I utilize 1 external NIC card fully with 1 connection on the second card.

Goodbye Soekris rest in peace! It was probably the last Made in the USA computer that I bought, pre-snowden. For all those other manufacturers that are waiting on business, we want 10-Gigabit ports! Without them we can't justify buying more equipment. I also want under 20 watts power consumption on top of that.

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Why do we need more than one State-run TV station?

May 8th, 2017

Rumours has it that the state-run TV and Radio stations are wanting to increase the GEZ tax. Now the question abounds to.. why do we even need more than one state run TV station? As the "official" voice of the state we don't need two! In german these state run behemoths are called "Oeffentlich-Rechtliche Sender". Germany, you're not giving choice, you're milking ordinary citizens dry with GEZ taxes! Let there be only 1 TV and 1 Radio station that is from the government. Because even if we switch channels the message coming from the government will always be the same. There is no difference! Let some die! And we welcome the digitalization of the state-run TV station and radio.

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In 6 days we're 8 years old (with history)

May 1st, 2017

Happy anniversary!

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Government issued national ID card online

April 24th, 2017

Before a nation decides to hook everyone to an ID card, I'd like to remind them that not everyone runs windows. And it is against our democratic right to be forced to use windows. No, I don't run a Macintosh at all times either. My OS (betriebsystem) is OpenBSD. If you'd like me to run your ID card, I expect a fully open sourced driver to my OS. The driver has to satisfy the OpenBSD developer community in order to be accepted into the base kernel system. No, it isn't linux and it's not linux compatible! There is a lot of OS's other than Windows and Macintosh, AND I'm afraid you'll have to satisfy all instances if you want 100% coverage. This means jobs for developers. It can be done. Please make it so!

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Goldflipper's new solarscale suit

April 24th, 2017

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Goldflipper is detected

April 24th, 2017

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Goldflippers escape

April 21th, 2017

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Second image for Goldflippers attack

April 21th, 2017

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First draft of image of Goldflipper attack

April 21th, 2017

There is more to come.

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Got the Wacom CTL-490

April 21th, 2017

Well I got the Wacom. I unwrapped it... plugged it in. and I see this in my dmesg:

uhidev3 at uhub0 port 8 configuration 1 interface 2 "Wacom Co.,Ltd. Intuos PS" \
rev 2.00/1.00 addr 5
uhidev3: iclass 3/1, 1 report id
ums1 at uhidev3 reportid 1: 5 buttons
wsmouse2 at ums1 mux 0
I didn't work right away, I first had to restart X11 with control-alt-backspace. Then it really worked! I fired up gimp and made 2 doodle drawings. This is the second drawing I made with it on OpenBSD and gimp:

I'm very satisfied! Thank you OpenBSD and thank you to the author of the uwacom(4) driver Frank Groeneveld! I'll be making more detailed illustrations of Goldflipper in the time to come.

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