Tomi Engdahl’s ePanorama blog

New York invasion by 8-bits creatures! Old School geeks will simply love this new Amazing Pixels Video for Old School Geeks which combines many of the vintage and retro video game classics, characters, looks and feel into one amazing music video. PIXELS is Patrick Jean’ latest short film, shot on location in New York. This is amazing awesome entertaining video.

ePanorama.net is now running on a new more powerful web server. Things should be now running more smoothly. Enjoy the new speed. Report if you see any problems on the new server.

Wired magazine have an answer what to do with all of those leftover Valentine’s Day chocolates (if you have any). A microwave and some chocolate can be used to measure the speed of light. It is a simple yet surprisingly accurate method that can be used to introduce the scientific method to children. The details can be found at Leftover Valentine’s Chocolate? Use It to Measure the Speed of Light article. You get the 2450MHz microwave wavelength from the melted chocolate hot spots.

I have maintained three FAQ lists for many years. Those FAQs are VGA to workstation monitor FAQ, sfnet.harrastus.audio+video usein kysytyt kysymykset (FAQ) and sfnet.harrastus.elektroniikka usein kysytyt kysymykset.

VGA to workstation monitor FAQ tells how to interface different RGB monitors to to PC VGA output and a little bit about connecting other RGB signal sources than PC to VGA monitors.

sfnet.harrastus.audio+video usein kysytyt kysymykset (FAQ) and sfnet.harrastus.elektroniikka usein kysytyt kysymykset are the official FAQs for two Finnish sfnet newsgroups. Those two FAQs are written in Finnish.

I started FAQs started sometimes in the 1990’s when I was a student at Helsinki University of Technology, nowadays from the beginning of 2010 known as Aalto University School of Science and Technology. The University web server has hosted those FAQs for all those years, even after I got my degree. Nowadays due the changes the old web system they got is retiring, so I the FAQs needed a new home.

Being the webmaster at a ePanorama.net I decided that this web site is a good new home for those FAQs. Moving the FAQs to here was easy, but making sure everybody will find the new location can be a task before the old address stops working.

I have already submitted the new URL to Google and added redirects to old address (let’s hope they will stay there active for a long time). I also need to inform the sfnet usenet newsgroup maintainers of the new web address so it gets posted to newsgroups instead of the old one. And then there are many other search engined to to take care. So what are the the best tools nowadays to add/update the URLs on the major search engines easily? I would prefer free on-line tools to do that.

What would happen if they’ve turned off the Internet. After the riots have settled down and the withdrawal symptoms have faded, how would you cope? Cracked.com asked you to Photoshop what life would be like in an Internet-addicted society learning to cope without it. The World of Tomorrow (If The Internet Disappeared Today) picture collection shows you the best 20 pictures.