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Wake on LAN from pfsense commandline

April 17, 2022 • 1 min read • Technology

Wake on LAN from pfsense commandline

Pfsense is an extremely powerful firewall/router OS. You can, for example, use it to remotely switch on computers that are in the same network.
Risk versus hazard

April 10, 2022 • 2 min read • Technology

Risk versus hazard

Last week I failed to explain the difference between risk and hazard.
How to reset the admin password in Drupal 9

April 9, 2022 • 1 min read • Technology

How to reset the admin password in Drupal 9

How to reset the admin password in Drupal 9
University helpdesk recommends Zotero, but does not provide meaningful support

March 20, 2022 • 7 min read • Technology

University helpdesk recommends Zotero, but does not provide meaningful support

With the end of last year (31.12.2021), the University of Helsinki discontinued licensing its default bibliographic software tool RefWorks.
Northern lights everywhere

February 13, 2022 • 3 min read • Finland

Northern lights everywhere

Northern lights seem to be normal these days in Helsinki, Finland.
Why would anybody get vaccinated?

January 22, 2022 • 1 min read • Science

Why would anybody get vaccinated?

As you can clearly see from these statistics, the smallpox vaccination did not work: It did not end the frequent epidemics that swept through Sweden (and all other countries for that matter).
Happiness or life satisfaction?

January 16, 2022 • 3 min read • Finland

Happiness or life satisfaction?

Finland is perhaps the only country in the world where you can be yourself.
Finally boostered

January 14, 2022 • 4 min read • Science

Finally boostered

Hooray, I am finally boostered!
Finding the annual return on investment (ROI) for assets at OP bank

January 9, 2022 • 9 min read • Technology

Finding the annual return on investment (ROI) for assets at OP bank

I am a customer of the Finnish OP bank. But they make it difficult for customers to know the real performance of their invesments. Probably on purpose, because most of them underperform.
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