http://ursecta.com/wp J. Martin Wehlou on Security, Software Development, and Medicine Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:36:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I had this old office chair that's been with me since 1982. It was expensive back then, which explains why it lasted this long, but lately it's become wobbly. The back rest seems not to know exactly what's vertical and what's not. Parts and padding are falling off every ... http://ursecta.com/wp/2008/07/chairs-and-the-internet-age/ The Swedish parliament just passed a bill that allows the Swedish military to monitor any communications over the net of anyone without a court order. It also allows building up maps of interrelationships using traffic info without any court order. It kind of beats anything the US administration did even ... http://ursecta.com/wp/2008/06/another-freedom-bites-the-dust/ The worst just happened. The Windows XP instance I use for development, the one with VS 2008 on it, just bluescreened, then did disk repair, then went into a bluescreen cycle. Can't break out of it even with safe boot. This is the one instance I have my development source ... http://ursecta.com/wp/2008/06/whodunnit-sp3-maybe/ My Mac Pro came with an ATI 2600 XT card, which turns out to be not so great. We're having a heat wave in Sweden right now, and that card is definitely getting the vapors. The symptom is that the machine freezes and has to be hard booted to snap ... http://ursecta.com/wp/2008/06/not-so-good-video-card/ Just for once, I opened up a Windows Vista (64 bit Ultimate) to run Ikea's planning tool (I actually used the Swedish version of it). Ikea only makes it for Windows, but since I run Parallels and Fusion, I really don't mind which OS the app is for. I run ... http://ursecta.com/wp/2008/06/vista-has-no-respect-for-my-work/ Browsing through the people LinkedIn recommends I should link to, people it thinks I may know, I just discovered that LinkedIn not only flags what people I may enjoy contacting, but it often clearly flags what people to avoid. There are a small number of people around that I've had a ... http://ursecta.com/wp/2008/04/linkedavoid/ Today I got this email from FON: ...in which I am accused of being a profiteer and someone who doesn't care about promises made. Jeez. Fact is, as soon as FON appeared on the Swedish market, I was one of the very first ones to apply for a free router. In ... http://ursecta.com/wp/2008/04/fon-abuse/ Medical technology is evolving and one particular area where a lot is happening is in robotic surgery. By moving the surgeon a couple of feet away from the operating table and into a comfy chair, we accomplish a few goals: relaxed surgeon, better view using keyhole techniques, filtering of movements, ... http://ursecta.com/wp/2008/04/a-call-to-telescopic-arms/ I have this "letter to the editor" on my desk that is too good to throw away, still I don't know what to do with it. So I'll just translate it freely from Swedish and post it here for your enjoyment. The letter is a response to another letter to the ... http://ursecta.com/wp/2008/04/one-pilot-missed-the-point/ I'm getting more and more convinced that MS will start over with a Unix based OS (I'd call it Windex). If they'd include a virtualization system allowing them to run Windows apps on it, similar to what Fusion and Parallels are doing on the Mac, they would be able to ... http://ursecta.com/wp/2008/04/cleaner-windows/