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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from July 2015</title>
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  10                 <title>Time to find a new laptop, as the old one is broken after only two years</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2015 07:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;My primary work horse laptop is failing, and will need a
  15 replacement soon.  The left 5 cm of the screen on my Thinkpad X230
  16 started flickering yesterday, and I suspect the cause is a broken
  17 cable, as changing the angle of the screen some times get rid of the
  18 flickering.&lt;/p&gt;
  19
  20 &lt;p&gt;My requirements have not really changed since I bought it, and is
  21 still as
  22 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thank_you_Thinkpad_X41__for_your_long_and_trustworthy_service.html&quot;&gt;I
  23 described them in 2013&lt;/a&gt;.  The last time I bought a laptop, I had
  24 good help from
  25 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisjakt.no/category.php?k=353&quot;&gt;prisjakt.no&lt;/a&gt;
  26 where I could select at least a few of the requirements (mouse pin,
  27 wifi, weight) and go through the rest manually.  Three button mouse
  28 and a good keyboard is not available as an option, and all the three
  29 laptop models proposed today (Thinkpad X240, HP EliteBook 820 G1 and
  30 G2) lack three mouse buttons).  It is also unclear to me how good the
  31 keyboard on the HP EliteBooks are.  I hope Lenovo have not messed up
  32 the keyboard, even if the quality and robustness in the X series have
  33 deteriorated since X41.&lt;/p&gt;
  34
  35 &lt;p&gt;I wonder how I can find a sensible laptop when none of the options
  36 seem sensible to me?  Are there better services around to search the
  37 set of available laptops for features?  Please send me an email if you
  38 have suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;
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  43                 <title>MakerCon Nordic videos now available on Frikanalen</title>
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  46                 <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2015 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
  47                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Last oktober I was involved on behalf of
  48 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; with recording the talks at
  49 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.makercon.no/&quot;&gt;MakerCon Nordic&lt;/a&gt;, a conference for
  50 the Maker movement.  Since then it has been the plan to publish the
  51 recordings on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt;, which
  52 finally happened the last few days.  A few talks are missing because
  53 the speakers asked the organizers to not publish them, but most of the
  54 talks are available.  The talks are being broadcasted on RiksTV
  55 channel 50 and using multicast on Uninett, as well as being available
  56 from the Frikanalen web site.  The unedited recordings are
  57 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/user/MakerConNordic/&quot;&gt;available on
  58 Youtube too&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  59
  60 &lt;p&gt;This is the list of talks available at the moment.  Visit the
  61 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/?q=makercon&quot;&gt;Frikanalen video
  62 pages&lt;/a&gt; to view them.&lt;/p&gt;
  63
  64 &lt;ul&gt;
  65
  66   &lt;li&gt;Evolutionary algorithms as a design tool - from art
  67       to robotics (Kyrre Glette)&lt;/li&gt;
  68
  69   &lt;li&gt;Make and break (Hans Gerhard Meier)&lt;/li&gt;
  70
  71   &lt;li&gt;Making a one year school course for young makers
  72       (Olav Helland)&lt;/li&gt;
  73
  74   &lt;li&gt;Innovation Inspiration - IPR Databases as a Source of
  75       Inspiration (Hege Langlo)&lt;/li&gt;
  76
  77   &lt;li&gt;Making a toy for makers (Erik Torstensson)&lt;/li&gt;
  78
  79   &lt;li&gt;How to make 3D printer electronics (Elias Bakken)&lt;/li&gt;
  80
  81   &lt;li&gt;Hovering Clouds: Looking at online tool offerings for Product
  82       Design and 3D Printing (William Kempton)&lt;/li&gt;
  83
  84   &lt;li&gt;Travelling maker stories (Øyvind Nydal Dahl)&lt;/li&gt;
  85
  86   &lt;li&gt;Making the first Maker Faire in Sweden (Nils Olander)&lt;/li&gt;
  87
  88   &lt;li&gt;Breaking the mold: Printing 1000’s of parts (Espen Sivertsen)&lt;/li&gt;
  89
  90   &lt;li&gt;Ultimaker — and open source 3D printing (Erik de Bruijn)&lt;/li&gt;
  91
  92   &lt;li&gt;Autodesk’s 3D Printing Platform: Sparking innovation (Hilde
  93       Sevens)&lt;/li&gt;
  94
  95   &lt;li&gt;How Making is Changing the World – and How You Can Too!
  96       (Jennifer Turliuk)&lt;/li&gt;
  97
  98   &lt;li&gt;Open-Source Adventuring: OpenROV, OpenExplorer and the Future of
  99       Connected Exploration (David Lang)&lt;/li&gt;
 100
 101   &lt;li&gt;Making in Norway (Haakon Karlsen Jr., Graham Hayward and Jens
 102       Dyvik)&lt;/li&gt;
 103
 104   &lt;li&gt;The Impact of the Maker Movement (Mike Senese)&lt;/li&gt;
 105
 106 &lt;/ul&gt;
 107
 108 &lt;p&gt;Part of the reason this took so long was that the scripts NUUG had
 109 to prepare a recording for publication were five years old and no
 110 longer worked with the current video processing tools (command line
 111 argument changes).  In addition, we needed better audio normalization,
 112 which sent me on a detour to
 113 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_and_adjusting_the_loudness_of_a_TV_channel_using_bs1770gain.html&quot;&gt;package
 114 bs1770gain for Debian&lt;/a&gt;.  Now this is in place and it became a lot
 115 easier to publish NUUG videos on Frikanalen.&lt;/p&gt;
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