Highlights:
- FSF30 satellite party in Berlin
- Migration to Trisquel Thinkpad T60p and T500
- Year-round: translation of FSFE newsletters, news, events and other PR in Dutch
How I got a Thinkpad T60p coreboot GNU Linux-libre Trisquel laptop
Recently something went wrong on my laptop so I was not able to be online for several days. A fast solution wasn’t there. This meant my needs changed and I decided to go for a second laptop so I could keep one as a ready back-up.
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I Love Free Software Day 2015: GnuPG
If you went through regular education in the Netherlands like me, then you most likely ended up in a situation where what you’ve been thought and what is happening around you now are two completely different things.
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Downloading e-books with Free Software
Today NRC brought the news: Bol.com and CPNB are coming with an e-book reader for everyone. Anyone who registers for a LeesID-account can read and administer books from several webshops in a digital bookcase.
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How to generate a password with special characters
After Matthias showed me how to generate a password, I wanted to be able to create one with special characters. This way you don’t have to add them later to the password yourself.
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The student
If you live in a university city you sometimes have contact with a student.
Free Software and a pension fund
The pension fund I’m with requires proprietary flash software on it’s website. Members face the choice: install flash or be uninformed.