Zeroshell and OpenDNS

If you are using Zeroshell and OpenDNS (a great combination), don’t use a password with spaces in it! It will NOT work. ddns2 is a shell script and not properly escaped in order to handle spaces in passwords.

Zeroshell and OpenDNS

If you are using Zeroshell and OpenDNS (a great combination), don’t use a password with spaces in it! It will NOT work. ddns2 is a shell script and not properly escaped in order to handle spaces in passwords.

team Tops!

A great representation of the tops Software team.

Check out this episode of This American Life,”Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory”

“Mike Daisey was a self-described “worshipper in the cult of Mac.” Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out.”

http://thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=454

Boingo Hotspots Don’t Work Well

Dear Traveller,

Boingo is an internet service provider for wireless internet across the world. It has hot spots in many locations such as airports and hotels.

I am here to write about the negative experiences i have had with the Boingo iPhone/iOS app and their hotspots. If you can, avoid Boingo, or use it being aware that you might be able to get only a fraction of the service they offer.

About a year ago, i purchased 10 credits of the Boingo at an airport. It was a good deal. I think it payed about 10-11 USD for 10 credits, each credit is for 1 hour of internet usage, which is pretty much the cheapest way to get online from an airport outside of the country where i have a cell phone data plan. And the way it works is easy: i downloaded the app from the App Store, and i just had to launch it, and tap start, after having connected to the open Boingo access point.

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It worked OK for a few times: in some places it would not work, others it would, and i was able to use 3 or 4 credits.The around february or 2011, i was in paris, and couldn’t get it to work so i decided to call customer care. They were not able to help me (couldn’t find my account). Eventually i had to leave, so i decided to continue over email, so i could use the credits for the next trips.

The email exchange was useless. I kept getting replies from different customer care reps, (Eric Ortiz, Mary O’connor, Bronwyn Olsen, Mitchell Owen), always very polite, with warm wishes, but no practical info on how to solve the problem i had. What i did get out of the email exchange is that there might be two ways of purchasing credits: one is from the App Store, the other from boingo directly. The App Store way doesn’t really create an account on boingo, or maybe it does but one should be able to log in with iTunes credentials (which i was not able to do). It also seems that the App Store approach could be device specific. That is, if i purchase the boingo app with credits from the app store, and i then switch device, (say i go from iPod touch to iPhone), then i loose all the credit i have).

In short, avoid Boingo, or use it being aware that you might be able to get only a fraction of the service they offer.

Double Tie

I really like how woman can pretty much wear anything, and don’t like how men are limited to the standard pants shirt jacket tie. I’m trying hard to come up with something new.

This is how i dressed up for christmas this year. I think it looks great!

Giant LEGO Man Appears On Florida Beach

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Face Off

I’ve seen Face Off movie a while back, and, oddly, i remembered it, when i saw it again. Its a super violent classic hollywood blockbuster, so why did i remember so much of it when i recently happened to see it again?

I came to the conclusion its about the story and the acting: the fact that the bad guy switches roles with the good guy, creates a whole new scenario, which is kinda new to the classic blockbuster movie. First of all, at the end, the bad guy can’t die, because the good guy needs his face back.

Secondly, the whole time, the good guy is playing the role of the bad guy and the bad guy of the good guy! Which creates a double acting scenario. It made me immagine a lot: “If i were, say, john travolta, how would i prepare for such a role?” Maybe i would ask Cage to act out my role first, tape it, then watch it a million times, then act it out, so that i move, talk and act out like Cage. Interesting perspective.

And the whole idea of actually being the wife of these men who are not them anymore, makes the viewer think about how much importance they give to physical appearance.

I won’t forget about this movie. It stuck with me for a day or so after i’ve watched it. It did make me feel more violent, though, after watching it. I haven’t counted the deaths in the movie, but eyeballing it must be at least 50-100.

Tre Tigri contro Tre Tigri

Rete 4

Italian comedy 1977, divided in 3 stories. I started seeing it from half way through the first story. Did i like the movie? Well, not sure. At first i was desperately trying to find a bond between the title and the stories. Couldn’t find any. All three stories have to do with some kind of betrayal within a couple.

In all three stories, the main actors excelled in performance: Renato Pozzetto, Enrico Montesano and Paolo Villaggio certainly performed very well, as they always did. It felt like the producers put together this movie, with a poor plot line, just to score hit. It feels like this is the precursor of the idiotic italian comedies that come out for new year’s and christmas here in italy, even though its much more fun, and much less idiotic.

Mainly male characters, women used for their bodies. Some boobs showing. I’m happy i have seen it, as it appears to be a classic, however i wouldn’t be thrilled to have to watch it again.

Oslo, Norway

Didn’t do much, really. Landed from Tromsø at about 18h, looked for hotel and booked single room @ Gardermoen Airport Motell for NOK495 over free wifi, which needs a user and pass combination which I got from information desk. S44 to Motell is NOK70 each way. Not bad for an 8 minute ride! Could have walked it. Didn’t think about it.

On TV watched Monty Python, not as funny as I hoped. In between, on a different channel, i found myself getting emotional on a Norwegian game show, the one where the team has to guess a sentence using as clues body gestures, no words, no tools, of one of the team members… Interesting. It’s not the first time I cry watching people performing in front of others.

However on discovery channel, a documentary on Ed Stafford’s Walking the Amazon Mission and Cho, who walked the entire length of the Amazon river in about 2,5 years. That’s another one of those amazing achievements of man. Apparently nobody had done it in history before.