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20 years of Firefox

Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open source[12] web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. Firefox web browser turned 20 years old just few days ago. Frederic Lardinois /

PC History: CD-ROM

In the innocent days of the early 90s the future of personal computing still seemed to be wide open. To many, the internet and especially the World Wide Web didn’t seem to be of any major significance yet. The the Hot New Thing in the world of PCs was multimedia. CD-ROM was introductroduced in 1985,

Embedded Conference Finland 2024

Embedded Conference Finland is Finland’s only independent embedded technology conference. I took part in the Embedded Conference Finland 2024 few weeks ago. Program Thursday September 26 2024 The morning started with congatec’s presentation, where the topic is the aReady concept announced in the spring. In it, the customer is offered the building blocks of a

Friday Fun: Finnish language memes

12 Finnish language memes to make you laugh out loud https://veryfinnishproblems.com/blogs/news/12-finnish-language-memes-to-make-you-laugh-out-loud Finnish memes have become increasingly popular in recent years. Finnish memes, or “Suomi-memet” as they are known in Finnish, have become a cultural phenomenon in Finland and beyond.

International Repair Day

International Repair Day is tiday on 19 October 2024 to promote and celebrate the value of fixing. International Repair Day is an annual celebration for everyone who makes repair happen in their communities around the world. Be part of the global movement calling for The Right to Repair. People are celebrating the power of repair

HiFi Ethernet isolator

LAN iSilencer Audiophile Ethernet Dongle Claims to ‘Quiet Your Network’ article says that at ‘just’ $100, it seems like a “bargain” compared to some audiophile Ethernet cables. iFi-Audio has released the LAN iSilencer, an audiophile accessory which aims to “quiet your network.” According to the Ethernet dongle designers in Japan, this product removes digital signal

Ethernet network isolators

One day I came across a device called “Ethernet Network Isolator” and started to wonder why we would need such device as standard Ethernet system that uses twisted pair cable and RJ-45 connectors is already isolated  from both ends of the cable (isolation transformers that can withstand 1500V).  When the network connections made with unshielded