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15 <a href=
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22 <h3>Entries from July
2015.
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26 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_to_find_a_new_laptop__as_the_old_one_is_broken_after_only_two_years.html">Time to find a new laptop, as the old one is broken after only two years
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32 <p>My primary work horse laptop is failing, and will need a
33 replacement soon. The left
5 cm of the screen on my Thinkpad X230
34 started flickering yesterday, and I suspect the cause is a broken
35 cable, as changing the angle of the screen some times get rid of the
38 <p>My requirements have not really changed since I bought it, and is
40 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thank_you_Thinkpad_X41__for_your_long_and_trustworthy_service.html">I
41 described them in
2013</a>. The last time I bought a laptop, I had
43 <a href=
"http://www.prisjakt.no/category.php?k=353">prisjakt.no
</a>
44 where I could select at least a few of the requirements (mouse pin,
45 wifi, weight) and go through the rest manually. Three button mouse
46 and a good keyboard is not available as an option, and all the three
47 laptop models proposed today (Thinkpad X240, HP EliteBook
820 G1 and
48 G2) lack three mouse buttons). It is also unclear to me how good the
49 keyboard on the HP EliteBooks are. I hope Lenovo have not messed up
50 the keyboard, even if the quality and robustness in the X series have
51 deteriorated since X41.
</p>
53 <p>I wonder how I can find a sensible laptop when none of the options
54 seem sensible to me? Are there better services around to search the
55 set of available laptops for features? Please send me an email if you
62 Tags:
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</a>,
<a href=
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71 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MakerCon_Nordic_videos_now_available_on_Frikanalen.html">MakerCon Nordic videos now available on Frikanalen
</a>
77 <p>Last oktober I was involved on behalf of
78 <a href=
"http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG
</a> with recording the talks at
79 <a href=
"http://www.makercon.no/">MakerCon Nordic
</a>, a conference for
80 the Maker movement. Since then it has been the plan to publish the
81 recordings on
<a href=
"http://www.frikanalen.no/">Frikanalen
</a>, which
82 finally happened the last few days. A few talks are missing because
83 the speakers asked the organizers to not publish them, but most of the
84 talks are available. The talks are being broadcasted on RiksTV
85 channel
50 and using multicast on Uninett, as well as being available
86 from the Frikanalen web site. The unedited recordings are
87 <a href=
"https://www.youtube.com/user/MakerConNordic/">available on
90 <p>This is the list of talks available at the moment. Visit the
91 <a href=
"http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/?q=makercon">Frikanalen video
92 pages
</a> to view them.
</p>
96 <li>Evolutionary algorithms as a design tool - from art
97 to robotics (Kyrre Glette)
</li>
99 <li>Make and break (Hans Gerhard Meier)
</li>
101 <li>Making a one year school course for young makers
104 <li>Innovation Inspiration - IPR Databases as a Source of
105 Inspiration (Hege Langlo)
</li>
107 <li>Making a toy for makers (Erik Torstensson)
</li>
109 <li>How to make
3D printer electronics (Elias Bakken)
</li>
111 <li>Hovering Clouds: Looking at online tool offerings for Product
112 Design and
3D Printing (William Kempton)
</li>
114 <li>Travelling maker stories (Øyvind Nydal Dahl)
</li>
116 <li>Making the first Maker Faire in Sweden (Nils Olander)
</li>
118 <li>Breaking the mold: Printing
1000’s of parts (Espen Sivertsen)
</li>
120 <li>Ultimaker — and open source
3D printing (Erik de Bruijn)
</li>
122 <li>Autodesk’s
3D Printing Platform: Sparking innovation (Hilde
125 <li>How Making is Changing the World – and How You Can Too!
126 (Jennifer Turliuk)
</li>
128 <li>Open-Source Adventuring: OpenROV, OpenExplorer and the Future of
129 Connected Exploration (David Lang)
</li>
131 <li>Making in Norway (Haakon Karlsen Jr., Graham Hayward and Jens
134 <li>The Impact of the Maker Movement (Mike Senese)
</li>
138 <p>Part of the reason this took so long was that the scripts NUUG had
139 to prepare a recording for publication were five years old and no
140 longer worked with the current video processing tools (command line
141 argument changes). In addition, we needed better audio normalization,
142 which sent me on a detour to
143 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_and_adjusting_the_loudness_of_a_TV_channel_using_bs1770gain.html">package
144 bs1770gain for Debian
</a>. Now this is in place and it became a lot
145 easier to publish NUUG videos on Frikanalen.
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