Category Archives: Technology

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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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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Congratulations!

Posted on December 4, 2010 by

The Robotics Club folks from the EITC did another clean job at the annual Robotex event held at Tallinn University of Technology today, grabbing the 1st and 2nd place.  Just like in previous years, Margus and his disciples showed the … Continue reading →

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Reasons to sneer

Posted on November 23, 2010 by

At one of my courses, the task of the week was to read and review ESR’s How To Become A Hacker. One of the students said that he liked it much and might as well as be a hacker himself, … Continue reading →

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Hackers vs ITNs

Posted on November 12, 2010 by

About a month ago, we had the EITC curriculum council meeting that featured a number of serious IT guys from different state institutions and companies as guests – in order to better grasp the ideas and requirements of the enterprise. … Continue reading →

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Is it why

Posted on November 9, 2010 by

… typical IT/CS students have serious difficulties in understanding the whole thing about free and open-source software (FOSS)? Just read a discussion on Slashdot about omission of elementary collaboratory software development tools from the CS curricula (in the US -  … Continue reading →

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CreativeCommons.ee

Posted on November 5, 2010 by

About a year later than originally intended, the Estonian localisation of the main six Creative Commons licenses has been finished. The promotional event concluded a couple of hours ago at EITC, my slides (sorry, in Estonian) are available at SlideShare … Continue reading →

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VirtualLife and coloured clothes

Posted on October 30, 2010 by

EITC started to experiment with Second Life back in 2008, gradually moving to OpenSim when the economy went downhill and lack of funds forced many educational facilities to pull out of SL. In Spring term 2009, we had an ERASMUS … Continue reading →

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