What is your background? Both educational and industry related work.
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Now when this deal is public he will surely boast about his brilliant foresight in the upcoming election...
There's of course no definite proof that he knew about this deal at the time of the article, but the timing couldn't be better.
[1] = http://www.version2.dk/blog/tid-til-danske-datacentre-76979 (in Danish)
Where some dude says "They have this thing called jantelaw, which essentically says that you're no better than anybody else, a garbage man can live in a middleclass neighborhood and hold his head high." - Which I think is a nice way to look at it.
Of course there's differences and social "classes", but there is some truth to the contentedness of many Danes, many people know that more stuff will not necessarily make them happier, so why work so hard to earn money for it?
It feels very rude for me to just answer with a "great/fine/ok and you?" when someone asks me how I am, I think is has something to do with that the Danish version of that sentence (hvordan har du det?) is something that is most often said to someone when that person is having a tough time or is sick or if the person saying it is worried about the other persons emotional well-being.
Been using Linux (Ubuntu LTS releases) as my everyday desktop and laptop OS since around 2007/8. I had issues at first with drivers, especially with wifi and graphics cards.
But lately (approx since Ubuntu 12.04 LTS), stuff just works, no need to manually install or compile anything, no need to tweak anything unless I want to. Of course you can find hardware that doesn't work on Linux, but that's just a matter of a bit of googling before buying a laptop/desktop.
I've found that lately, it seems like Ubuntu requires less fiddling than osx or windows, especially with printers & scanners, where I just plug it in and it works (or it auto detects if it's on a network). But colleagues on windows or osx have to download drivers, usually filled with crapware (i.e. "YOU ARE OUT IF INK, BUY IT HERE" messages, unless they're careful to download the barebone drivers instead of the full driver pack).
And I'm guessing it's not easy to get a loan (I haven't tried so might be wrong).
It's been a while since I've studied, so my information might be outdated, but feel free to send me an email if I can help in any way. I live in Copenhagen.
Was lucky enough to have the company I was recruited for help me by having their name on the rental agreement, covering any expenses the owner might have if I thrashed the place, didn't pay rent, etc. Ended up finding a place for 13.000SEK/month on the outskirts of Stockholm, at the very last subway stop.
For most of the employees starting at the same time as me, most of their rental agreements were only valid for a year or so (and the owner could kick renters out pretty much at any time), forcing people to go and find other apartments, which is not easy when the employer no longer offers support with the contract.
One colleague of mine found that his response rate was extremely low on his bot that automatically applied for an apartment, which matched his criteria, as soon as it came up online. He suspected his non Swedish sounding name was a factor, so he changed the name in the message to something Swedish-y ("Sven Karlsson" or smth. like that) and instantly the response rate rose dramatically. As a foreigner, not having anyting on your Swedish credit report doesn't help either.
Translated article: http://www.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=da&tl=en&u=...
While it was running, some people reported that not opting out and then putting your cable model in bridge mode, would disable both wireless networks, but allowing you to use the extra bandwidth for your own use. Didn't get to try it myself before the feature was disabled due to the bug mentioned above.
[1] = https://github.com/Guake/guake/ [2] = http://i.imgur.com/njoTQXe.png
Anything you put on a public IP address is going to get scanned pretty regularly by all sorts of bots/worms/etc.
With a powered USB hub and an external disk drive and a webcam, it functions as remote backup via. rsync and monitoring my home when I'm on vacation, when enabled it takes pictures every 2 seconds when there's movement in the frame. The pictures are uploaded offsite immediately.
I'm using OpenWRT and have had very little problems, only issue I've noticed is that the wifi transfer speeds are a bit slower (10-30%) than when using the factory firmware, but I can live with that.
21:47:12 up 221 days, 5:22, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.04http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/installer...
Always use that instead of the official desktop CDs, to avoid all the extra programs that I never need.
Programming: The 2½ years I spent at a small startup as the only full time developer