In Japan, copyright infringement is a criminal offense (unlike here, although our corporate fascist leanings might push it there in due time), so file sharing is a dangerous game. Because of this, sophisticated anonymizing and encryption techniques have been built into Japanese peer-to-peer programs for at least 5 years now.
general tech
: things that blink
Mostly electronic. Topics range from televisions to computers to smart-boats.
Haven't been writing mostly for want of time. Wanted to drop this, for what it's worth.
Sawadee Krab from Chiang Mai
posted November 17th, 2007 @ 06:23:57
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travel
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Usually i try to write these titles in the proper alphabet, but I'm too tired and frankly I have no idea where to find a resource for even the most simple Thai phrase (hello!).
I really like open source software. I think the quality of most popular open source software is pretty good, and on average it is at least on par with the quality of closed source software. At the extremes, there are open and closed projects that are unmatched; for every Photoshop and Skype there is an openssh and apache. This short blurb is about why open source software matters to you: my mother, my steel-working friend from high school, my friend from university, the intergalactic electric rodent. As various large organizations continue to lobby to remove all of our "digital" freedoms, a few reasons why open source software (and the freedom of data in general) are important to even non-technical people, and decided to write some of them down.
I just started my new job this week at attila, and there are some things I want to talk about, but I want to kinda mull over it for a few weeks and then describe the whole situation in full in a few weeks. Any American (aged 18+, or thereabouts) knows that April means income taxes, and because most of the standalone software is for Windows or MacOSX, and I also have a need to run some graphics utilities that are windows only for my Canon 400d RAW format pictures, I decided to set up my laptop to dual boot again, installing Windows XP Service Pack 2.
Knockout
posted August 19th, 2006 @ 05:06:29
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development
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general tech
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music
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site news
comments: 1
Perfectionists may never let Linux be ready for the desktop. I don't think its quite there yet, al...
Fluxbox & mouse wheel semantics
posted May 5th, 2005 @ 23:55:23
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development
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general tech
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linux
comments: 0
For those of you possibly uninterested, this is going to almost entirely dwell on esoteric computer...
Misc notes on Gtk & ViM
posted February 16th, 2005 @ 06:02:46
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development
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general tech
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linux
comments: 0
Been using [ViM](http://www.vim.org/) for a while, and decided to use the X version (gViM) for my J...
Various (linux) desktop issues
posted February 15th, 2005 @ 00:00:21
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general tech
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linux
comments: 0
Courtesy of [OS Galaxy](http://galaxy.osnews.com) blog syndication came a link about [Mockup](http:...
Re: NextGen toolkits, cell architecture
posted February 8th, 2005 @ 14:50:39
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general tech
comments: 0
Just when you figure you have something figured out, [changes happen](http://dot.kde.org/1107786164...
No internet in north korea
posted September 8th, 2004 @ 05:02:18
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general tech
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odd
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politik
comments: 0
I began what was quite an interesting day waking up at 8:47 and wondering just exactly what time it...
For about a week now, I've had a problem. Linux just wasn't cutting it for two of my devices; "my...
Let us suppose that you were me. You just got finished with a day in which you got 3 hours of sleep...
Testing website stuff in Opera has; rather than make me understand why friends of mine, some who's...
Why I do various things
posted February 11th, 2004 @ 22:36:13
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C
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development
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general tech
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linux
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python
comments: 0
I've been trying out a few console only programs in the past week; a few programs that I had been ...
Every so often, [random people](http://arsjerm.net) stumble upon something [brilliantly useful](htt...
Well it came; I got a new [Canon Powershot s400 Digital Elph](http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon...
Rsync for Synchro multiple sites through SSH
posted May 30th, 2003 @ 00:10:16
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general tech
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linux
comments: 0
At work today it occured to me (through my discovery of various rsync related things) that Rsync co...
read the rest of "Rsync for Synchro multiple sites through SSH"
Change my Pitch Up
posted May 10th, 2003 @ 11:20:06
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C
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general tech
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life
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python
comments: 0
My thumbs seem to be any color except green, a contributing factor to the apparent slow and painful...
Downtime downtown
posted March 10th, 2003 @ 01:58:09
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general tech
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life
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politik
comments: 0
After a long downtime, and probably another few days of a transitional period, my backend is finaly...
My god has arrived in the shape of a demon. That's right, far beyond just being trendy (or, more t...
When I started to use Linux full time a few months ago, it was something else. It was special. Not ...
he phrase come sweet death was never such a misnomer. For some reason, I can't find my MSI and Rag...
Bowling for columbine
posted October 21st, 2002 @ 06:43:07
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general tech
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life
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politik
comments: 0
Today has, to a large degree, been a mixed bag of things that piss me off and things that inspire a...
from [slashdot](http://www.slashdot.org), article [here](http://slashdot.org/articles/02/08/10/1420...