Welcome to my blog. I'm trying to post things whenever I get inspired to write something. Sometimes it's more often, and sometimes not so much. The subject can vary quite a lot, but it tends to be mostly about tech.
I don't have any commenting enabled at the moment, because no one really comments anything except spammers, but if you have any thoughts on anything, feel free to email me at niklas@uplink.fi.
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A while ago I got a email from Parse that made me realize I just dodged a bullet. Facebook, that owns Parse announced that they will be shutting down their service in one year. For those of you who don't know, Parse is (was) a service that let you build apps on top of their service, and offered ne...
When I switched to Linux full time back in 2004 for desktop use, I chose my then favourite distro, Debian. Soon after this the first vesion of Ubuntu was released. At the time Ubuntu combined a much needed focus on getting things to work with the wonders of Debians apt package manager. I started gra...
I remember switching to Linux full time in about 2003 when XP SP2 came out. I had been thinking about it for a while, but the update that switched on the then badly configured firewall was the one that pushed me over the edge.
Since then I have always had a Windows installation on my main home com...
When I installed Arch about a week ago I instinctively installed Gnome as my desktop enviroment. I stared using gnome about 10 years ago and have used it on and off since then. And I'm one of the people who liked the change to gnome-shell, at least the idea of it. There is a lot of really good ideas...
After hearing nearly everyone rave about Arch Linux for a while now, especially ex Ubuntu users, I decided to give the thing a shot. I really had no idea what it was about, other than a more poweruser friendly distro akin to Gentoo, but without the silly compliling of every single package.
I have...
I tried the one month trial of Netflix about one year ago when it launched in Finland. But decided to cancel because the device support was really bad. The main reason I wanted to get it was to have movies and shows for the kids to watch, and for my wife to watch from her computer. Getting Netflix t...