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Playing with Nokia Sportstracker

I was quite surprised that the N95 built in GPS also worked inside the train. Since I am abroad I switched off assisted GPS and Network help. The device obviously worked quite well anyway. Just check out my route here. It show the way from a bit before Nagoya to Kyoto on the Shinkansen.
 

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Funny Japan

You can see such things when you are walking in the shopping mall at nearly 9pm. Seems he was very tired.

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High tech water faucets

Last time when I was walking around in a shop here in Japan I found these fancy faucets.

These seem to be filters for the water to be able to drink it, but looks quite fancy anyway.

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The task was to make it possible to write a document in Japanese Language and compile it with platex.
First there are some packages you need to install. I don’t really know if you need anthy to be setup at this point, but it was already setup on my machine.
Get:

% sudo apt-get install ptex-bin ptex-base okumura-clsfiles
% [...]

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New LAN Blocker / Locks by elecom

Elecom presents some awesome devices for LANs.
LD-DATABLOCK01
This device allows you to switch off network traffic through a on/off switch

LD-LOCK/HUB03
is a small thing you put in an unused port of your router/switch/hub and prevent 3rd party access to it

LD-LOCK/CBL03
You can put this device on a Ethernet plug to prevent it to be plugged in.

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