Assuming how is required, and to is required, the following 153 results were found.
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You live in Japan, and your computer is acting up. Perhaps you prefer communicating about the problem in English. Perhaps you manage or work in a branch office of a foreign firm with lots of English-speaking employees. Perhaps you just want some IT...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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At the ripe young age of 12, I briefly experimented with the fine art of thievery. The idea came from my then-in-college brother who had returned for summer break with more Nintendo games than the "Angry Video Game Nerd." His initial story was that the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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I've been figuring out how to block or redirect web traffic in Nginx based on the country geoIP. NOTES * You need the package nginx-extras for this because this package has the geoIP Nginx plugin. * I used Japan (JP) in these examples, so change the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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My First Movie Rental I finally started renting movies here. I rented "Amelie" because I'd always wanted to see it. I took it home and realized that the only languages available on the DVD were French and Japanese. So I watched a French movie dubbed in...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Laid Offhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10063-laid-off
allowed to stay. I'll never forget having to listen to an IT manager loudly continue a personal call with a friend about how to login to Facebook as I passively cleaned out my desk. The IT managers refused to offer any shred of consulting/contract work...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Stupid But Fun Purchaseshttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10082-stupid-but-fun-purchases
I'm far from being a shopaholic, but I definitely have a weak spot for electronic toys. I've made quite a number of dumb purchases in my life (most often electronics), but these particular ones reverberate in my wistful memories. Thank God for Ebay! The...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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The following is a task outline for building an Ubuntu-based web-server to run Joomla and JomSocial. I created this for my own notes, so apologies if it's a bit cryptic. Ubuntu server minimum install choose LAMP & SSH server during install static IP...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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Why I Hate the Apple Storehttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10149-why-i-hate-the-apple-store
goes to every floor. I get to the 2nd floor and find Snow Leopard, and I'm holding it like a moron trying to figure out how to pay. No registers. No checkout. Just a big brushed-aluminum party with a bunch of assholes in black shirts. I ask this...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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Rude Japanhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10010-rude-japan
Most all tourists that visit Japan say the same thing: "Wow! Everyone here is so polite!" Well, that's true if you're a tourist--especially one with a phatty wallet. Having lived here for over 5 years, I have come to realize that although Japanese...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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recently because my iPhone Gmail app didn't show the latest saved drafts, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to clear the app's cache. I couldn't find any obvious "clear cache" option, and completely closing the app and restarting the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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As an American guy living abroad in Japan, sending money between the USA and Japan is something I'm used to dealing with. In fact I documented the various international money transfer methods I've used over the years here: How I Send Money Between my...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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Due to the cheap Japanese yen, I've been doing a lot of shopping recently. I decided to upgrade my aging Sony Google Assistant speaker to the latest Google Nest Audio. Nice. Sounds good. Upgrade complete. Wrong. I'm forever plagued with IT problems. I...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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Religious Freakhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/1004-religious-freak
My brother Steve Pavlina is a professional blogger. He runs a rather popular self-improvement website. Since our family name is quite unique, I sometimes get traffic via his site; or people looking for his site simply stumble upon mine. In rare cases,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Japanese Bugs Japanese bugs are weird! I can't tell you how many times I go to my bike in the morning, and there is some green and purple thing with florescent wings and 15 legs crawling on it. Weird! Yumura Onsen Kayo and I spent a weekend at a hot...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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in Computer Management (under Services & Applications), and it shows problems, then the PC likely has a WMI issue. Here's how to repair it. I use powershell remoting to remotely run this, but it can be done at the PC's command line too. The command...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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Japanese Studyhttps://japanatron.com/directory/10415-japanese-study
Apps, websites, books, etc. that I've found useful during my adventures in studying Japanese. Renzo's Japanese Dictionary Renzo's Japanese Dictionary is another one of my go-to Japanese-English dictionary apps. It's free and incredibly feature-rich, so...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Directory
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I'm obsessed with bluetooth. So much so that I've been hunting for heaven's own pair of bluetooth headphones for my Tokyo subway commutes. I'm already on my 5th pair (thank God for Yahoo Auctions), so here's a summary of my bluetooth headphone...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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I learned in my psychology classes that memory is most deeply encoded when associated with concrete imagery. That is, memories are strongest when they appeal to all the senses and can readily recreate an imaginable scene or context. Rote memorization...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Studying Japanese
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input to work on Blackberries I receive from our head office. Unfortunately, several other guides on the web explaining how to manually install BB firmware are out of date and no longer work. To make matters worse, the Blackberry Desktop software keeps...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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laptop. I took remote control of their PC, but to my chagrin the user lacked admin rights to install the printer. Here's how to launch the add printer wizard using your (admin) credentials. * Open a command prompt with your credentials (Run As). * Run...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT