The Musings of an Olm
April 21st, 2007 |
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) arrived just a few days ago with promises of better hardware compatibility, included proprietary software and drivers, and more user friendliness. Was it worth the wait? And more importantly - Is it finally time to “Make the Switch”? Read my review of Ubuntu 7.04 to find out!
October 31st, 2006 |
When I was a conscript in the Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) I was assigned to a magazine called Fanb�raren (Flag Carrier) as an editor and journalist. It’s the PR magazine For Nylands Brigade which has a circulation of 4000 copies and read by many more including a lot of people abriad, also often commented on by larger newspapers. The theme for the latest issue was safety and one assignment, among others, was to write an article where ordinary privates and NCOs (Non Commissioned Officers / corporals / petty officer 3rd class in the navy (editor’s note)) would speak out about what they thought about the safety at Nylands Brigad.
My boss, the director for the magazine, wanted to see in which direction I was going with the article and I showed him my first draft. I was very surprised when he and the brigade commander for censored the whole thing.
September 17th, 2006 |
“What the hell is an Olm?! And why do you call yourself that?” I don’t know how many times I’ve gotten that question is an attempt to summarize all explanations I’ve ever served. So next time someone asks me about Olms I can just redirect them to this website and have it all at once. I’ve also written this article as sort of celebration of my self actually. It is now ten years since i started using the nickname Olmen and also ten years since I made my first website. If I count own personal websites this is also the tenth - so there’s a whole lot of tens going on here. Maybe I should’ve named this website XXX 
The history of the Olm starts in 1996 when I created my first website which was coded by myself. I called it “Olmen’s Homepage”. I started using the nickname Olmen which …
September 1st, 2006 |
NASA has announced that the so called Orion project will be handed to aeronautics giant Lockheed Martin for a whopping 3.5 - 8.1 billion dollars. The Orion looks very much like the famous Apollo capsule and Service Module but it’s bigger and better with space for six astronauts - and it’ll be reusable. NASA’s planning to use the Orion to ship the crew back and forth from the ISS and later ship astronauts to the moon and even beyond (although I can’t think of anything more horrible than cramming six guys into a cone measuring 5.5 meters (16.5 feet) and sending them on an at least 6 month long transfer to mars!).
It’s interesting that NASA has chosen Lockheed Martin as manufacturer, considering they totally destroyed the …