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Et tu Brute

MAIN Posted on Sat, October 27, 2018 01:09:25

Ja, jag vet.

En av de sorgligaste sakerna med ökande erfarenhet och kunskap (och därmed stigande ålder… Jag vill inte sticka under stolen med det) är att man får just… erfarenhet.
Det ger ett perspektiv på händelser och upplevelser i ens vardag som enligt mig alltid riskerar att strö smolk i ens glädjebägare.
En sådan händelse är den senaste erfarenheten av Skandiabanken. Jag var tidigt ett “fan” av just Skandiabanken. Och jag gladdes då åt en bank som strålade av nytänkande, framåtanda och kundfokus. Äntligen fanns det en utmanare som använde nya tekniska lösningar till kundernas nytta. Borta var “innan-tre-tänket”, kod-dosorna och de dryga bank-gubbarna (från framför allt SE-Banken) som krånglade till vardagen på ett meningslöst och tidskrävande sätt. På sätt och vis tyckte jag att Skandiabanken var banbrytande och (tyvärr säger jag idag) har jag rekommenderat dom till många av mina bekanta.
Jag ska förklara min bistra uppgivenhet… För ett par dagar sedan flashade min bank-app upp meddelandet om att jag senast den 13 måste uppgradera appen för att kunna använda banktjänsterna via mobiltelefonen… Inget konstigt i det, och hitintills ett kvalitetstecken. Det finns dock ett ” men”… Ett ganska stort sådant; för att kunna använda bank-appen måste jag ha bank-id, mobilt bank-id dessutom. Och för att kunna ladda ner det måste jag ha ett google-konto. Alla med en smula högre datakunskap (eller lite streetsmart it-erfarenhet) vet vad det innebär, nämligen att större delen av ditt liv dokumenteras av google. Och vill du inte det så kan du i dagsläget tyvärr inte ha ett bank-konto på internet (som om det fanns något annat).

Jag gjorde tappra försök att be Skandiabankens support om en alternativ nedladdningslänk för bank-app och bankid-app, men det finns i dagsläget inte och personen i supporten förstod (jag menar på riktigt) inte problemet i att låta ett multinationellt, vinstdrivande företag hantera svenska identitetshandlingar.
Å nu är jag där igen… Meh!

Naturligtvis finns det omvägar. Det går alldeles utmärkt att ta ner appar till sin smartphone utan att ha ett google-konto och jag kan än så länge fortsätta att använda min lur till att bekvämt göra enklare bankärenden.

Men även om det är bekvämt i mitt fall, stinker det om fenomenet.
1) Just googlekontot som supporten angav som ett säkerhets-skäl var mycket enkelt att gå förbi. Om sanningen ska fram gick det fortare att ladda ner apparna utan googlekonto än att försöka förklara för den informations-immuna Skandia-supporten att dom sänkt både sin servicegrad och sin säkerhet.
2) Dessutom, hear, hear, har den “nya” Skandia-appen MYCKET sämre säkerhet då den mer eller mindre bara är en web-sajt där du, då du har loggat in, kan hoppa runt i mer eller mindre historiska bank-länkar utan skandiabankens (eller bank-id’s) kontroll.
Så, med erfarenhetens sorgsna känsla är det nog dags att sakta börja leta efter en ny bank.
För med en obönhörlig Darwinistisk kraft är det ju till slut samma evolutionistiska process som arbetar nu som den gången som Skandiabanken kändes så nytänkande, fräsch och säker.



Pure lobbyism…

MAIN Posted on Fri, October 18, 2013 22:05:58

I just tried to look at “Jobs”. You know the movie about Steve Jobs, the apple guy.
My interest lasted for less than 20 minutes. It’s not that the movie is bad, to be honest I have to look at a movie for more than 20 minutes to know if it is bad or not, but the last fifteen american movies I have looked at is nothing more than drug propaganda. And it is sooooooo boring. Apparent, simple and booring.

No matter what the film is about, they have to stuff it full with narcotics. Why?

If the USA is so full with narcotics it sure does explain why the americans feel so flimsy and odd. So “out of the blue false” and shallow. The whole idea makes me shiver. If I am right, it won’t take long before the no. one leading country is really in the ditch. What do the film producers try to achieve? Are the whole of hollywood in marijuana haze or do they try to repeat the tobacco success only with heavier drugs?

Please, someone, explain this to me. Why and for whom are they doing this?



And apparently to IOS as well

MAIN Posted on Thu, September 20, 2012 08:02:31

Judging from the latest articles, Android is not alone of loosing tempo.

This can be really interesting. A whole new field is opening up for newcomers.



So now it’s happening to android to!

MAIN Posted on Fri, September 14, 2012 22:08:00

When android first showed up about five years ago I was thrilled. Finally the potential of linux was beginning to show. And at first things really looked like it was going to become mindblowing.

Now when looking at google play (what name is that?) you can litterally see the soap opera mentality spreading.

Why? What is the reason?

Bought? Hardly! Scared? Maybe!

But if I was pushed to pin point it… I think I would say bored.

Somehow the whole platform has overlived itself. The potential of evolution seemes to have eroded away. And it is the same smell about IOS. Staggered. Slowing. Boring. Turning into its own dinosaur, so to say. Sad!



A new laptop!

MAIN Posted on Fri, June 13, 2008 22:17:05

So I bought a new laptop.
I have been using my HP NX7010 for about three years now, and I am very pleased with it. In general I tend to think that HP make good computers.

So when datorbutiken.com sold HP computers for under 3000 SKr, I hooked on the deal.
The newcomer is a HP530, and it was never ment to replace the older NX7010. Instead it was time to give the other family members some happieness as well. The family computer, placed in the library, is used for homework, some work, surfing, banking and gaming. The one being replaced is a Compac Armada 1750. It has served well and still works fine. I have tweaked and pushed it for years now, but it never liked SuSE9. And my wife sure had a point when she was complaining about the sluggishness in open office.

I have learned that some information about HP and the 530 makes life easier. It will put down the information I know here. Maybe I can supply you with some tricks.

First you need to know that the HP530 comes with two different wireless NIC’s. One from Intel, and it works right out of the box with SuSE10. The other NIC (the one I have), is made by Broadcom. The only solution to make this NIC work is to run it under NDIS wrapper, because Broadcom has failed to write a linux driver for it. Sad!

The other thing you would like to know is even more sad. HP has started to white list hardware in BIOS!!! As stupid as it sounds, this means that your computer wont boot just because you have put an non HP branded NIC in the PCI slot. DUH! Wake up HP! Proprietary hardware have killed many companies. And as if some guys never learn, IBM has started to do the same thing. Silly, ugly and stupid if you ask me. And just to top it of with even more stupidity, they are applying white lists in BIOS upgrades. That means your computer can refuse to boot after a BIOS upgrade. Now that is something, isnt it!

Well, apart from theese sad stories (you will learn HP, wont you?) the 530 is a nice little laptop. The hardware acceleration works, but you have to manually activate it under sax2. The headphones does mute the speakers if you add “laptop” in the model tag under YAST2, hardware, sound.

Since the processor does not support freq. scaling the battery life is quite short. And that isnt made better by some bug in BIOS that does not dim the LCD after the first wake from sleepmode when you run it without power connected. That problem turns up in Vista as well.

And one last tip. Dont even bother to run Vista on it. You will have doubble the joy and speed in SuSE according to me. But what the heck… that goes for all computers!



THE BEGINNING

MAIN Posted on Wed, July 25, 2007 15:11:20

This is where it all begins. Well at least where my experience in the art of blogging begins. The main purpose of this blog is somewhat divided. The first half is that I need a place to store information about myself. The second part is that I need a place to contribute to internet.

Bloggers (and other home pages) have helped me tremendous in my hunt for information. If I can pay back a little with things I put here… well I know how happy I would have gotten.