And off we go straight into part two of my summary of things that moved me in 2018!: Raising My Shields – Year 5 Ever since the Snowden revelations in 2013 I’ve been moving more and more services I use into my own domain and made sure as much of my Internet traffic as possible … Continue reading Things That Moved Me in 2018 – Part 2
Back in December last year I could spend a few hours at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge and loved the experience. A few days ago I was again in the area for a couple of days and fortunately, could spend some quality time in the museum yet again. A major plus there is … Continue reading A Return To The Centre For Computing History
There are lots of good books out there about the beginnings of the Internet in the 1960s and how people started using it in the decades to come. I specifically recommend ‘Dealers of Lightning‘ if you are interested in the early history. But how was the development of ‘networking’ in general and the ‘Internet’ in … Continue reading The Beginnings of The Internet From A German Perspective
We are quite a bit into January 2018 already and I still haven’t come around to reflect which things from back in 2017 ‘moved’ me. But finally here we go this is my 2017 round up from cellular to history.
Last year I reviewed ‘Dealers of Lightning‘, a great book about Xerox PARC in the 1970 where pretty much all of the technology was invented we are still using today on our graphical user interface based PCs today. Over the past year a number of very interesting videos have appeared that are a great complement … Continue reading ‘Dealers of Lightning’ Revisited – Xerox Alto Videos
So how exactly did we end up with graphical user interfaces, touch screens and shell windows? Apart from improving my understanding of how a CPU really works, understanding the evolution of how users interact with a computer with a keyboard and screen, or a touch sensitive screen on mobile devices, and how this maps into … Continue reading From Teletype to Touchscreen
Wifi in the 60 GHz band has been specified since 2012 in the 802.11ad extension of the IEEE WLAN standard. It has taken a number of years but it seems that products are slowly becoming available now. Heise and Anandtech have been reviewing the Netgear X10 access point here (in German) and here and the … Continue reading 802.11ad Wifi – Whitepapers on 60 GHz Wifi
It’s become almost a tradition for me in December each year to have a look back at what happened in the previous 12 months in the telecoms industry and in my private technology endeavors that have left long lasting impression or have marked the start of something new. And so here we go again, in … Continue reading Things That Moved Me In 2015
Every now and then it would be great to have a full operating system on a tablet rather than Android or another mobile optimized and castrated replacement that is just too inflexible for my taste. From some reports I've seen over time I was aware that Ubuntu has some sort of touch screen and on-screen keyboard integration but little is written about it. Recently, I came across the Lenovo Yoga 3 – 11" that has a 360 degrees rotatable keyboard and a touch screen. It can be used as a Laptop, as a screen only with the keyboard as a stand and in a full "tablet" like mode with the screen rotated 360 degrees so it rests on the backside of the keyboard. That sounded interesting and it's price tag of €599 fit my idea of what I would pay for such a device. But would it run Linux in a way that the device is usable in a non-keyboard mode? I tried hard to find more information on the net but came up pretty much empty handed. So I decided to give it a try myself as some of the stuff that I found at least indicated that it could work. After about a week I'm ready to give you an account of how it went from me, so here we go. It's going to be one of those long blog entries so if you only care for the summary, jump right to the end the post. Otherwise just read on for the nitty-gritty details of my adventure.
Every now and then I read books about different aspects of computer history. Good books written on the topic obviously heavily rely on original sources and interviews and make a good plot and summary out of it. To dig deeper on specific aspects requires to get hold of the original sources. Fortunately, quite some of … Continue reading Old ‘Byte’ Magazine At Archive.Org To Experience The Past