August 2016 – Icedman

DRM / School booksales on digital editions / Opinions

2016-08-27 by Icedman

This is a rant about something that’s been going on around here lately. Not necessarily criticism on our recent curriculum reform, but on our local Printing and Publishing Industry and maybe something on our Government.

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I noticed a tweet from our local Pirate Party, about a news article on MTV3 (translation on Google Translate).

To summarize (You know, TL;DR) – essentially some local school book retailers have run out on Digital Edition books and the delivery time for new books is three weeks, just because they can’t print out codes to download books.

mRemoteNG Updated

2016-08-17 by Icedman

Back on my old server, I had a post about this wonderful tool called mRemoteNG. The stable version was long in the number 1.72, and required the older .Net Framework 3.5 to work. For whatever the reason, the development stopped and to get that version to work properly with multiple RDP sessions, you had to edit … Read more

Suprastick torn open

2016-08-102016-08-09 by Icedman

So, I opened the case, which looks like it’s essentially an electronics box meant for some indoor installations. After opening the box, I was greeted with this sight

My adventures with the Suprastick

2016-08-09 by Icedman

I bought a used Suprastick the other day, from a local (former) Soarer enthusiast. It was long weekend, but on Sunday I decided to take a peek at what makes this piece of work tick, as it didn’t have a serial port newer versions have.