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Cleaning Kitteh

blog — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:11:35 +0000

Cleaning the floor with mop cat | Japan Probe.

Catch the Suspect with a Mii

blog — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:56:17 +0000

In Kanagawa, Japan the sketch artist at the police station used a Mii to try and catch a man suspected of a hit and run. The result looks like this.

I am really wondering if they could find the suspect.

Playing with Nokia Sportstracker

blog — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:03:34 +0000

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.

Funny Japan

blog — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:31:40 +0000

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

High tech water faucets

blog — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:51:55 +0000

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.

Using Platex For Writing Japanese In Ubuntu

blog — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:40:33 +0000

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 % sudo apt-get install ptex-base ptex-bin ptex-jisfonts % sudo apt-get install xdvik-ja dvipsk-ja dvi2ps gv gnome-gv % sudo apt-get install jbibtex-bin jmpost mendexk % sudo apt-get install okumura-clsfiles vfdata-morisawa5 dvi2ps-fontdesc-morisawa5 % sudo jisftconfig add
After that you can fire up emacs. Go to Options->MULE and set Language Environment to Japanese.
Now you can just start writing the document. To start withI suggest using jarticle as the documentclass.

When you are done with it run platex yourfile.tex and if you are not getting any missing font errors your are nearly done with everything. The next step is to view the *.dvi file. For that use xdvi-ja yourfile.dvi and everything should show up correctly.

Leave me a comment if problems occur.

New LAN Blocker / Locks by elecom

blog — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:04:45 +0000

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.

14 terabits transmission record

blog — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:42:37 +0000

“Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, President and CEO is Norio Wada) has successfully demonstrated the ultra-large capacity optical transmission of 14 Tera bits per second (Tera is one trillion) over a single 160 km long optical fiber. The value of 14 Tbps (111 Gbps x 140 ch) greatly exceeds the current record of about 10 Tbps and so claims the record of the world’s largest transmission capacity.
This result was reported as a post deadline paper in the European conference on optical communication (ECOC) that was held in Cannes, France from September 24 to 28. (…)”

awesome, but such things happen in Japan

Segas cute robot ねこ

blog — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:20:42 +0000