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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.

And finally, here’s part 3 of my series of entries on what moved me in 2016 technology wise. While part 1 and 2 focused on networks and Linux computing this part deal with a few miscellaneous things.

Apart from mobile networks, another topic that I write about quite often these days is Linux in general and Ubuntu in particular. Ever since I jumped into the Linux world in 2009 it’s been a thrilling and liberating experience and 2016 has been no different. So here’s part 2 of my summary of what moved … Continue reading Things That Moved Me In 2016 – Part 2: Linux

Like every year, time has flown and it is already end of December and thus time to look back at what has happened this year that has literally ‘moved’ me. This year I have three categories: Networks, Linux & General computing and Miscellaneous Other Things. Let’s start with a look back at my year in … Continue reading Things That Moved Me In 2016 – Part 1: Networks

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

2008 was full of events, news, thoughts and new insights and part part 2 of "Things that 'Moved' Me" captures the blog posts which left a remaining impression on my in the second half of this year.

July

I've been in Paris a lot this year on a client location which is in a new office quarter. While there is good coverage outside, I often found it lacking inside and I was wondering when the three mobile operators would finally upgrade their networks to give good coverage also inside the buildings. In the meantime, at least some of them seem to have moved and coverage has markedly improved. Also, the month brought some more LTE voice gap thoughts and musings on why the small screen suddenly becomes big in places such as the metro. Earlier in the year, Nokia has released a sub 100 euro phone with a great screen and OperaMini pre-installed and in this post, I was looking at what is still missing for mobile Internet access for the mainstream. And finally, I noticed that Orange must have probably upgraded or changed the configuration of their EDGE and 3G networks in France, as my N95 suddenly stopped rebooting frequently when connected to the Internet.

Lots of things happened in 2008. I usually have the impression that the industry is moving too slowly for me. However, as the following overview shows, this impression is not really accurate, one just forgets all the things that happened over the year too quickly.

January

Intel has decided to make a comeback to mobile computing and has started a fight with its new Atom platform against ARM, who's processors drive the majority of medium- and high end mobile devices today. Not much has been heard or seen from them since then, except for a few bulky prototypes and some eeePCs driven by first versions of this chipset. However, I expect more to come in 2009. In January I also mused on the fact that LTE and SAE have no built in voice capabilities and that finding a solution that works will be on of the main factors deciding over how long it will take for LTE to become a success and 2G and 3G becoming a thing of the past. I've picked up the topic several times since then as at least 4 solutions have been proposed since then, all with their pros and cons. Unfortunately, that is 3 too many.

Back in 2024 I moved most of my services from a bare metal server in a data center of one provider to a bare metal server in a data center of another provider. In my case, the data center I migrated to was Scaleway and like pretty much everyone else, their bare metal servers are … Continue reading Scaleway Bare Metal Server: Removing the RAID

In the previous post, I’ve had a look at how to create a new Ubuntu 26.04 installation with an encrypted system partition and a separate partition for the user directory that is also encrypted. A cool way to get this done is to bring up an installation in a virtual machine first and then move … Continue reading Ubuntu 26.04 – An Encrypted Separate Home Partition – Part 2

I’m still running on Ubuntu 22.04 and it’s time to upgrade to something more recent after the release of Ubuntu 26.04 earlier this year. I’ve decided to start with a clean installation and make a number of improvements to my setup. So far, I’m using an ext4 system partition and a separate ext4 LUKS encrypted … Continue reading Ubuntu 26.04 – An Encrypted Separate Home Partition