Author Archives: Kaido

LPI partnership

Posted on May 25, 2011 by

It’s finally done – Estonian Information Technology College is the first Estonian Approved Academic Partner of Linux Professional Institute. While Linux has always been a part of EITC curriculum (all labs have been in dual-boot since the beginning), it did … Continue reading →

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The same old tired song

Posted on May 12, 2011 by

BSA Estonia is apparently still not tired of singing the same stale litany… Quoting the article from ERR: “On one side, people have a habit of unknowingly using unlicensed software, and secondly, there is a popular misconception that using pirated … Continue reading →

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Taming Natty

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

A true geek should try out his main Linux distro on the same day the  new version comes out. I did. Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal started out all well when used on my workplace desktop. The Estonian localization that had … Continue reading →

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The system is broken

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

I read the article by Mark C. Taylor – even if he seems to overgeneralise some aspects, I have to agree with his main ideas. But I think that  the main problem lies not in overproduction of PhDs, but in … Continue reading →

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Hackers and Vatican

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

It all started with the article by Father Spadaro reviewed here. Then came the Slashdot discussion. Then ESR commented on it. If anything, it suggests that a certain kind of atheism is an intolerant religion by itself. Even ESR seems … Continue reading →

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Talking in Brussels

Posted on March 31, 2011 by

Estonian MEP Indrek Tarand showed up at one of the EITC LUG events at the beginning of the year. He seemed to have liked what he heard – anyway, after some weeks we learned that he had been an important … Continue reading →

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English or not English

Posted on March 5, 2011 by

Quite an interesting article at the Chronicle – pointing out that heading towards English as an universal language of academy in Europe will definitely bring along some problems as well.  Language skill shortage both on teachers’ and students’ side, having … Continue reading →

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Protect the authors… from themselves

Posted on February 3, 2011 by

The story was so absurd that it made it to the  TV evening news (which typically do not bother on similar blunders) yesterday. Two popular Estonian musicians teamed up and jammed some. Wrote a song, wrote its lyrics, recorded the … Continue reading →

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Joining the resistance

Posted on January 30, 2011 by

I recently joined the Estonian Internet Community , a non-profit entity created as a public reaction to the infamous Estonian Internet domain reform. It’s probably  already covered  by other bloggers, but here’s a brief account about what has been brewing … Continue reading →

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20 years ago

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

… terrible things happened in Vilnius, Lithuania.  Tomas Jermalavicius offers an extremely touching account. I was a little older than him, but I wasn’t there either when some time later the KGB forces surrounded Tallinn TV tower, defended by a … Continue reading →

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