Category Archives: Technology

Marte Thorsby og IFPI

Nok engang har Marte Thorsby vært i media og uttalt seg om ting hun tydligvis ikke har peiling på. I følge Dagbladet.no gir hun nå Telenor 2 ukers frist til å sperre norske brukere ute fra ThePirateBay.

Mener hun oppriktig og seriøst at sensur er veien å gå i et demokrati? At indekseringstjenester som ThePirateBay, Google, Sesam og Kvasir ikke har livets rett?

Søk gjort på ThePirateBay peker kun til torrent-filer, og disse inneholder som kjent ikke informasjon som er beskyttet av opphavsrett. Et raskt søk på hvilken som helst av de andre tjenestene peker derimot både direkte til mp3-filer, pdf-filer av bøker og annet materiell som er beskyttet av opphavsrett. Er ikke disse andre tjenestene verre da?

Eller er det kun det faktum at ThePirateBay har kategorisert informasjonen så grundig som gjør at IFPI reagerer og ønsker å sperre tilgangen for det norske folk?

Forresten; Enda ett kjapt søk på ThePirateBay gir meg side opp og side ned med torrenter som linker til helt lovlige filer. Skal IFPI nekte meg tilgang til dem også?

Loven er som kjent lik for alle. Faller det en dom i Norge som skal hindre norske brukere å nå ThePirateBay forventer jeg at myndighetene utøver samme praksis mot samtlige andre søketjenester tilgjengelig på nettet i dag.

VMware Infrastructure Course

This week I’ve been at a VMware course in Bergen. More precise VMware Infastructure 3 – Install and Configure. Although I’ve been working with VMware software for a while now, it’s still been very educational.

The course is held at Augustin Hotel, and the lunch we get is just fantastic. The fact that I’m staying at the same hotel the course is at makes the experience just so much better since I can have breakfast until the course starts at 9 am.

AutoStore – Unique and Revolutionary

One of the more interesting  things I’ve seen after I started working for The Hatteland Group is AutoStore. A warehouse system which utilize the available space to the absolute maximum.

Or to quote the website:

AutoStore is a unique and revolutionary warehouse system for the effective storage and handling of small goods.

But to fully understand what’s so remarkable, you have to see it yourself: https://youtu.be/_WjAUrc-jhA

You can find more information about AutoStore at Hatteland Logistics.

Windows Photo Gallery – It’s Really Bad

Today I was processing some images in Adobe Lightroom so I could send them to my brother. After the images was done, I did a quick preview of them. The default program on Windows Vista is Windows Photo Gallery. I was not pleased with the result, so I entered Lightroom and checked the export settings only to find them being set to maximum quality.

Then I opened the images in both Adobe Photoshop and QuickTime PictureViewer and to my surprise I discovered that the photo was looking better there.

Take a look at the sample image for comparison:

Windows Photo Gallery vs QuickTime PictureView
To the left: Windows Photo Gallery, to the right: QuickTime PictureViewer

Before you start complaining about the photo being totally awful, and that this has nothing to do with Windows Photo Gallery, but more my camera or my skills. Let me explain to you that this is not the photo itself as a whole. This is a crop of the top right corner of the image. In other words, it’s the background, not the main subject.

From this crop you can clearly see that Windows Photo Gallery renders the dark areas differently than QuickTime PictureViewer (and Adobe Photoshop).

I guess this has something to do with Windows using it’s own JPEG-library which differs from the real deal.

You have been warned.

Why do Acer fill their computers with crap?

A few days ago I was preparing a new Acer laptop for a customer. Instead of the 30-day trail version of some antivirus software, we usually install a full version of another antivirus software. So I open up Programs and Features, which it is called in Windows Vista, and while scrolling through the list looking for McAfee, I found the following programs.

  • Alice Greenfingers
  • Backspin Billiards
  • Big Kahuna Reef
  • Bookworm Deluxe
  • Bricks of Egypt
  • Cake Mania
  • Chicken Invaders 3
  • Chuzzle
  • Diner Dash Flo on the Go
  • Flip Words
  • Jewel Quest Solitaire
  • Mahjong Escape Ancient China
  • Mahjongg Artifacts
  • Mystery Solitare – Secret Island
  • Orinon
  • Zuma Deluxe
  • Turbo Pizza

I don’t know about you. But this is a list of games I would probably never play. I can’t really see our clients playing them either. It is probably faster to do a complete reinstall rather then removing these games.