My son is learning Mandarin, so when I went to Hong Kong recently, I asked what I should bring back. His teacher suggested a Mandarin dictionary; it sounded like a good idea to me. Finding one to buy ended up being more of an odyssey than I expected though.
The hotel had an English-language Yellow Pages, [...]
I’m thinking of registering a couple of domains. GoDaddy annoyed me with their lame Superbowl ads, and their registration system is equally annoying (far too many screens, all with options I have completely zero interest in). Does anyone have recommendations for good basic registrars? What I want is basic .com|.org|.net, as well as .ca (separate [...]
I’m slowly recovering from the whirlwind that was Northern Voice this year (I’m one of the organisers). All our hard work paid off, we had the usual last-minute glitches but everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, to make new friends and contacts, to learn new things, to discuss issues they care about, and to have fun. [...]
Tagged northernvoice, northernvoice09, VancouverTim had a business trip to Hong Kong, and since I’m currently underemployed, I thought I’d tag along. It was only for a couple of days, which is a shame given how much there is to and see in Hong Kong. It was also my first trip.
First impressions are that Hong Kong is clean and [...]
By default, OpenSolaris doesn’t broadcast the hostname on the local network, just the IP address. To rectify this, find out what network interface you have (often nge0) by running ifconfig -a. It’ll be the one with the IP address given by the router (i.e., not 127.0.0.1).
Then, as root, edit the file /etc/default/dhcpagent. Find the line [...]
Australians learned so much from the Ash Wednesday bushfires (I was living in Melbourne at the time and still visit as often as I can); there was a sense that although everyone knew bushfires are capricious and dangerous, that there were things to do to mitigate them. That all changed this week.
The combination of years [...]
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