Today I visited my parents for BBQ in their garden.
Hmmm, that was delicious… can you smell it 
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Holiday
Ahhh… holiday, finally.
My wife is on her way to Japan, visiting her parents, some friends
and a marriage-party.Time for me to let good old times roll…
Try all that cigars that are already waiting for me a long time,
and my expensive bottle of australian red wine that I kept for a
special moment. Bought me that wonderful tub chair
directly at the airport after my wife left me alone back here….
But I guess I’ll find some things to do within those two
weeks, and if it’ll be pure relaxing only.
Vocabulary Trainer ProVoc
I’ve been looking around for some time now to find the
ultimate vocabulary training application on Mac.
Since my focus goes to the ability to train japanese vocabulary,
the range of applications supporting asian characters is rather
small.
My first finding was Kotoba which is specialized on japanese
kanjis, but it’s more or less a vocabulary card type learning
program, as you enter your vocabulary or load an existing one, and
you view one language and guess the other then review the
answer.ProVoc goes much further, as it has real multimedia abilities, like
audio and even video support.
Additionally you can type the answer even in japanese or any other
input style, or just point and click from multiple choices, or just
enjoy a cinematic slideshow of vocabulary.
And for those of you on the road it is even possible to export your
vocabulary to the iPod including audio and exercise wherever you
are.
Statistics freaks may enjoy the historic view of hopefully getting
better vocabulary testing results. It’s also possible to
train only the last wrong answers. In other words….
…ProVoc is simply great !!!!
BeNuts Ska@StuStaCulum
Right after their big tour in Japan,
the BeNuts finally arrived at Munichs biggest annual student
festival, the “STUdentenSTAdt spectaCULUM”.
the BeNuts finally arrived at Munichs biggest annual student
festival, the “STUdentenSTAdt spectaCULUM”.
Above video is from one of their biggest hits: Ska Summer Night,
filmed during their concert today.
I have to excuse for the bad quality, but I only had my wifes
camera by the hand, which only does QVGA, with horrible 8kHz mono
8bit sound.
The BeNuts started 12 years ago in munich, and have already managed
to be successful on tour in Madrid, Moscow and the big japanese
cities Tokyo, Osaka…
Check out the BeNuts Homepage, buy a CD there and
further checkout the StuStaCulum website.
Suki Yaki – Homemade
Suki Yaki
Finally I got some time to work on my first few video
podcasts.
Todays special is a japanese style SukiYaki.
Finally I got some time to work on my first few video
podcasts.
Todays special is a japanese style SukiYaki.
Satey – Homemade
Satey
Satey originally is thai food, as far as I know.
It’s really great to prepare everything, and then go for
picnic camp fire and enjoy lunch.
Satey originally is thai food, as far as I know.
It’s really great to prepare everything, and then go for
picnic camp fire and enjoy lunch.
Teppan Yaki – Homemade
Virtualization @ MacMini
This weekend I spent some time playing with virtual machines on my
Intel-Mac.Due to the lack of virtualization support in the current Mac OS X
release, rumors say it might be introduced in the next major
release of Mac OS Leopard, the only way to run another operating
system simlutanously is by using a virtual machine emulation
software.
For example: QEMU or its Mac pendant Q
Q is optimized for speed on Mac hardware and already available as a
universal binary, which means that it will provide near native
performance for x86-architecture based operating systems like
Windows, or a linux distribution running beside Mac OS, e.g. Gentoo
Linux
as it doesn’t need to translate all theCPU operations to a foreign architecture.
Q makes everything amazingly easy. Just download a OS-system image
from http://free.oszoo.org or any usual installer-cd.iso, setup a
harddisk-image by entering the amount of MBytes and boot.
I tried Gentoo 2006 and ReactOS (a WinNT-Clone) and both work
perfectly and quiet fast besides Mac OS.
But right after installing the MacOS provided X11-package, I asked
myself, why I would need another OS.
I found no reason.
Virtual machines shutdown.
Mac OS is simply great.
I’m not missing a single application that I had used before on
win/linux, and thanks to Apples Xcode (IDE) I will write my own
application if I’ll feel that I would miss something.
Apple, Intel,
good job.
Todays special: Mac Mini – Intel Style
Year after year I enviously watch he
development on Apple’s newest Mac creations, Mac OS X, iPod’s,
iMac’s, Mac mini and this year finally Apple decided to switch over
processor technology from PowerPC over to Intel CPU’s.
development on Apple’s newest Mac creations, Mac OS X, iPod’s,
iMac’s, Mac mini and this year finally Apple decided to switch over
processor technology from PowerPC over to Intel CPU’s.
The biggest showstopper for me was their high selling prices . But
with their new Intel Core chips which you can’t buy yet for the PC
market, and a relatively low price for a new revolutionary
technology assembled together in a tiny little box, I couldn’t any
longer resist buying a Mac mini.
Calculating together all the pieces, shows that the price is fair
enough to buy, and as usual for Apple you can count on reliable
prices for a long time period. So, if you buy later, it will cost
almost the same and you will miss the technology advantage.
Compared to other processors, the Intel Core definitely has it’s
place, especially compared to power consumption (31Watts).
So here’re some pictures of my new baby, the Mac mini Core
Duo:
A new mac fan.
Support privacy !
This time I want to encourage all
folks of you owning a router which is capable of running the
OpenWrt system.What you need:
OpenWrt can be installed on many different router-hardware.
See here for a list of supported devices.
folks of you owning a router which is capable of running the
OpenWrt system.What you need:
OpenWrt can be installed on many different router-hardware.
See here for a list of supported devices.
What you get:
Compared to other router system-software, OpenWrt by default is a
very slim system. You can think of “minimalistic”=”more
secure”.
Almost everything you’ll ever need can be simply installed as
packages or compiled by yourself. (e.g. a webserver/VoIP-proxy
a.s.o.)
For GUI-enthusiasts the white-russian-release also offers the
possibility to update, and configure your router via web-interface,
although most of you people will be happy to have ssh-access and
therefore full control over you linux-routerdevice.
Getting even more:
Most of the listed hardware devices, can use external or internal
memory-sticks, sd-cards or at least nfs or samba shares, to install
more software or hold more data accessible from your router.
How you can help:
Back to my initial thought for this blogentry.
As your router is usually up 24/7, and most people have flatrates,
there’s a great possibility to support the TOR network by
installing a tor-server on your router and use it(or not) from
within your LAN by accessing privoxy on your router to browse the
web anonymously for example.
What is TOR:
TOR (The Onion Router network) is a concept to tunnel
networktraffic through multiple other nodes before connecting to
the final destination node. That way it will be harder for
evesdroppers to trace your origin IP-address, and for hosters more
safe to offer content without the danger of being shutdown when a
server-ip might get blocked by someone.
Further you can provide access to the whole internet, dedicated
services or even dedicated addresses through your own TOR
server.
If you don’t want others to use your router to access the internet,
you can just contribute as a tunnel-peer for other
TOR-servers.
Where to get:
All required packages for OpenWrt-capable routers can be found here
and a precompiled privoxy-package here.
I’m addicted:
Of course you can do even more crazy stuff with OpenWrt see
here.
Peace !