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I moved ePanorama.net to a more powerful server some hours ago. Hopefully everything runs better now. →

Assembly Summer 2013 computer festival was held last weekend. Many earlier years I have been actively participating in it (even been on organizers team), but for last few years I have skipped that event (I am getting too old for this?). In assembly Assembly event there has been interesting computer demos on the competitions. Something →

I was interviewed by EEWeb Electrical Engineering Community. The interview is published now with title Featured Engineer: Tomi Engdahl – ePanorama.net webmaster. This is not my first interview for this reason. Years ago Elektor Electronics magazine interview me Tomi Engdahl – the man behind epanorama.net →

A fight between a spam-fighting group called Spamhaus and a Dutch Web host Cyberbunker has been called the biggest public DDoS battle in history in the news. Spam-fighting organization Spamhaus (helps to block spam from entering e-mail in-boxes) has been in a battle over the last week that has seen distributed denial of service (DDoS). →

Top 10 Pervasive Tech Myths That Are Only Wasting Your Time →

I am a big fan of LEGO as you can see on many LEGO related posts in this blog. Imagination-fostering Lego is 80 years old this month. Lego was founded by 1932, Ole Kirk Kristiansen, a Danish joiner and carpenter. The company started by making and selling wooden toys. In 1934, his company came to →

Here is one connector I don’t like and sometimes hate: The cigarette lighter receptacle in an automobile, initially designed to power an electrically heated cigarette lighter. It has became a de-facto standard DC connector to supply electrical power for portable accessories used in or near an automobile. It is commonly used as a means of →

Finland is now the last eurozone country to hold a triple-A credit rating. So, why are things so rosy in the Scandinavian state? AAA to Y* of Finland article gives one picture what is special in Finland (the country I live in). →

There are a million little ways retailers can screw you on what you buy. But maybe nowhere is this more common than in the world of high-tech gadgets. 5 Ways Hi-Tech Retailers Are Secretly Screwing You article gives examples how high tech opens up whole new realms of screwing the customer. Examples of this can →