Author Archives: Rewarp

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Big meet­ing tomor­row, as Sen Wai has covered quite flat­ter­ingly on his blog. I have little else to say except that I am look­ing for­ward to the next 24-hours.

Friday, 11th May, 2012 – 0046 | By Rewarp | Posted in Atheism | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Mark Shuttleworth’s Keynote at UDS Q

Mark Shuttleworth’s key­note speech intro­duces a lot of awe­some stuff for the future of Ubuntu, plus a lot of grat­it­ude paid to developers and design­ers who worked and are con­tinu­ing to work on Ubuntu. High­lights include a 48 node 192 core server designed to run effi­ciently enough to allow you to run it in your …

Wednesday, 9th May, 2012 – 0007 | By Rewarp | Posted in Geeky, People | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

How to: Resolve gWaei Problems in Ubuntu 12.04

I assumed incor­rectly that pro­grams that pre­vi­ously worked without issue would con­tinue to do so in the new­est, stable, long-term-support ver­sion of Ubuntu. In this instance I found myself woe­fully con­foun­ded by gWaei Japanese-English Dic­tion­ary, the best dic­tion­ary to date I have used for learn­ing Japan­ese, get­ting stuck and crash­ing while load­ing. This is merely …

Sunday, 6th May, 2012 – 1542 | By Rewarp | Posted in Geeky | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

Subconscious Self Retains Some Credibility.

My strictly stalker-like admir­a­tion for Hanazawa Kana’s voice seems to be echoed by the female half of the human pop­u­la­tion. The last part of the video ends with a mock-sketch of a little sis­ter telling her big sis­ter to cheer up. My trans­la­tion based-on a feeble grasp of Japan­ese. Kana-chan: My dear sis­ter. You have …

Sunday, 6th May, 2012 – 0157 | By Rewarp | Posted in People | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

My Subconscious Self is Losing Credibility.

Because this bloody catchy song by blatantly com­mer­cial­ised group of singing girls AKB48 has been stuck in my head ever since I heard it. I hate myself for liking it.

Sunday, 6th May, 2012 – 0035 | By Rewarp | Posted in Music | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Mainstream Media Coverage of BERSIH 3.0

The cov­er­age of BERSIH 3.0 on the main­stream media has been as expec­ted, ludicrously one-sided. Every 10 minutes of the local news chan­nels will be devoted to a “BERSIH SUCKS!” seg­ment trans­ition­ing into “LOSS OF BUSINESS FOR ONE DAY DISASTROUS SO DISASTROUS” before seguing into “BN IS THE BEST” news with the occa­sional “GUY COMMITS …

Wednesday, 2nd May, 2012 – 2126 | By Rewarp | Posted in News, Politics | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Installing Ubuntu 12.04

If I could sum up my exper­i­ence with installing Ubuntu 12.04 Pre­cise Pan­golin, it would be “unbe­liev­ably fast and straight­for­ward” where I had already com­pleted both the install­a­tion and the fid­dling of set­tings and pack­ages within half-a-day. That is from abso­lutely noth­ing to the same func­tional setup I was using on my pre­vi­ous install­a­tion in …

Tuesday, 1st May, 2012 – 1523 | By Rewarp | Posted in Geeky | Tagged , | Comments (0)