Technology in the age of the Internet

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  • I will buy a Lemote Yeeloong laptop

    Chinese company by the name Lemote produced a few batches of FSF endorsed laptops called Lemote Yeeloong back in 2010 – 2012. First Yeeloong was the model 8089B with a 8.9″ screen, followed by 8101B with a 10.1″ screen size. These laptops are now out of sale and only obtainable on a second hand market.…

  • Rescue mode for Fonera+ (FON2201) Wi-Fi router / OpenWRT / Redboot / Wlan-si

    Running customized OpenWRT/Wlan-SI image for a long time and then upgrading the router caused it to crash, the error was probably triggered with the telnet/ssh timeouts and probably a high CPU load on the router which disconnected me several times before I managed to write in the image. As suggested on Wlan-SI website, you should…

  • Free hardware designs

    In the recent years the Free Software Foundation has encouraged (computer) hardware manufacturers to start producing free (free as in freedom) hardware. Most hardware produced and sold today has proprietary design (Apple, Intel, etc.) and is therefore restricted/encrypted and hard to use with free software, requiring programmers to use reverse engineering methods and write the…

  • Utilite computer 3.10.17 Linux kernel upgrade

    This is the manual about how to (properly) compile Utilite-developed Linux kernel for the Utilite computer (Utilite Pro) running “Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)”. It’s mostly written for my own reference in case of possible future upgrades, but some might find it useful, as otherwise the information seems to be scattered around the Internet. We…

  • International Human Rights Day reminds us about Free Software

    The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit organisation with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users. As our society grows more dependent on computers, the software we run is of critical importance to securing the future of a free society. Free software is…

  • Self-organised European Citizens Initiative against TTIP, CETA & TISA

    European Union member states are under increasing pressure from North American business groups to open their borders to imports of genetically modified food as part of negotiations for a new Transatlantic trade deal, environmental campaigners have warned. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is being negotiated among European governments, the US and Canada, with…

  • libreCMC on TP-LINK TL-WR741ND

    I was lucky that I already had TP-LINK TL-WR741ND ( version 1.8 ) previously installed with OpenWRT (libreCMC strips down OpenWRT to remove non-free software and binary blobs from the code) so that I could test out the libreCMC. At this stage the router seems to be (fully) functional with wired and wireless networking enabled.…

  • libreCMC

    libreCMC is a FSF endorsed embedded GNU/Linux distribution replacement for your wireless router which does not contain non-free software or binary blobs. The project’s goal is to provide an embedded distro that respects user freedoms and allows users to control what their hardware does. Since libreCMC is 100% free software, it allows the user to…

  • 20 years on the Internet

    It was around the year 1994, when my mother brought her business PC Atari XT 8086 home, which I was able to use. It had a Microsoft Windows DOS System installed. I managed to obtain the 2400 bps modem and install it into the computer. Because the internet wasn’t commercial at that time in Slovenia…

  • Two-step verification from Google

    Google offers Two-step verification for some time now, but I have only discovered it recently, when my Gmail account notified me with the warning : State-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account The warning doesn’t say “which” state attackers and there don’t seem to be any information or logs from break-in attempts in the…

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