Month: March 2012

  • Earth Hour 2012

    Today is Earth Hour 2012. Most lights in the office are shut off. I’m working the night, I usually do that whenever I work alone, but doing it with a thought today. Changing the theme to require less energy to display (in theory, on CRT:s anyway 🙂 ).

  • Intressant förelĂ€sning om utvecklingen i vĂ€rlden

    Swedish Prepper skrev i mĂ„ndags en artikel, och lĂ€nkade till en förelĂ€sning av Fredrik HĂ€rĂ©n om utvecklingen i vĂ€rlden. Jag sĂ„g den igĂ„r morse nĂ€r jag kom hem frĂ„n jobbet. Mycket tĂ€nkvĂ€rd, kolla in den. Siten verkar i övrigt ha en hel del intressant att lĂ€sa. Jag har tĂ€nkt börja skriva lite om survivalism och…

  • Securing the MikroTik RouterBOARD RB751G-2HnD (or any RouterOS device) – the bare minimum

    Before you do anything else with the MikroTik RouterBOARD RB751G-2HnD, or any other device running RouterOS with a default configuration I guess, you should configure the device with some bare minumum security features. Set a password The first thing to do is changing the password for the default user “admin”. When you are logged in,…

  • Examining, configuring and playing with the MikroTik RouterBOARD RB751G-2HnD for the first time

    I bought a MikroTik RouterBOARD RB751G-2HnD a little while back. Tonight is the first time I power it up and connect to it, examining what it can do, and how to do it. From the outside it’s a nice looking little box, with a seemingly sturdy enough plastic casing with the size of 113x138x29mm. There are…

  • How computer and operating system introduction courses should be done

    The following video is from 1963, before, or in the middle of the creation of proper operating systems. It explains so fantastically well how computers work in general, and also important concepts that was later developed further, and which are the foundations of modern operating systems today. This video should be shown at the first…