Assuming computer is required, the following 22 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...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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How to Look at Internet Pornhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10142-how-to-look-at-internet-porn
the course of my IT career, I can't tell you how many times some guy has brought a computer to me saying, "I dunno what happened. It seems to have a virus or something. Can you take a look?" I take a look and the story is always the same. The guy just...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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I gave myself a home project--upgrade / reorganize my home studio so that it is both more comfortable and more like a proper man-cave. As a man-cave cannot be complete without a game console, a PS3 was high on the agenda since my wife commandeered the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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me immensely. I can organize, sort, and shift-through not only boxes of old photos and movie DVDs, but also things like computer data. My professional value as an IT Systems Engineer increases that much more when counting my data organization skills....
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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an email that looked like it was from the trainer Alec at the AEON headquarters in Okayama. It's an old and very easy computer trick that spammers use all the time. Anyways, the email said that I had called him and told him that I was upset and that I...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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You're a foreigner living in Japan, and you're in the market for a computer with an English keyboard. To your chagrin perhaps finding that laptop with an English keyboard proves rather taxing. Or maybe you're forever stalking the elusive desktop...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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a sweat, all while juggling multiple MIDI sound-scapes flawlessly. Now on to my 1 complaint. It's software running on a computer, so setting it up and using it on stage is not as streamlined as a hardware music device. My setup included a Native...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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to make them bigger? Combine crappy mouse acceleration with microscopic buttons, and you have the recipe for “throw the computer out the window” frustration. I still haven't found a solution for this one. The Finder sucks. The Finder is Mac's Windows...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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things like the Symantec management agent and its ability to deploy software. If you check properties of "WMI Control" in Computer Management (under Services & Applications), and it shows problems, then the PC likely has a WMI issue. Here's how to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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frightening trend right now is "ransomware," a type of malicious software that will encrypt all of the data on your computer. A message appears demanding a ransom to decrypt your data. BEST PRACTICES - GENERAL - Install antivirus software. Avast is good...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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will restart into start-up recovery. The problem here is that start-up recovery often makes an even bigger mess of the computer by removing it from AD. These commands disable Windows start-up recovery. Use at your own risk. bcdedit /set {default}...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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know. I also sang an "Ode to Hotcakes and Honey." My DSL finally got turned on, so I'm REALLY happy. The nice woman at the computer store knows me pretty well cuz she talked to me for long periods of time using really slow Japanese. Fortunately, it all...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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mission was to get him streaming to my Tokyo living room. While it is relatively easy to watch USA news and TV shows on a computer connected to the Internet, my goal here was to have it on my TV screen. Approach #1 - A Custom Media Center PC I used this...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server. Registry editor can also connect to remote computers. 2. Double-click fDenyTSConnections. 3. Change the value of this setting to 0 to enable Remote Desktop or 1 to disable it, and...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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kanji better by writing it. If you can write it, you can read it; but the reverse is not true (unless you're using a computer). Nevertheless, the website www.readthekanji.com is well worth mentioning. It's a kanji flashcard system that seeks to address...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Studying Japanese
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It's All Youhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10055-its-all-you
at. I mapped out a few of mine: * I'm good at annoying people. * I can make people laugh. * I can sing. * I'm good with computers. * I can write. * I prefer individual sports to team sports. * I fart a lot more than the average person. Other things I...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Why Japanese TV Suckshttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/show-biz/10053-why-japanese-tv-sucks
recently implemented an XBMC PC loaded with the "Navi-X" python script. You're totally cool if you know what that is. This computer dork gadget/software gathers hundreds of online video feeds so that I can enjoy as much Discovery channel, Animal Planet,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Show Biz
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Sony PRS-505 Ebook Readerhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10052-sony-prs-505-ebook-reader
cards as well as Sony memory sticks. This is convenient because I can transfer books using the card reader built-into my computer monitor. It's nice not having to cable the reader to the PC. Book files don't take up a lot of space (I don't need 500...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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FTP access to 1 share, opened a port in my firewall, and used the feature to transfer photos from my parent's computer in Los Angeles to my NAS in Tokyo. It worked wonderfully. Last weekend I was recabling the USB drive I use to backup the NAS. I...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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down to 29.5. So basically we now have 2-3 hour lunches everyday. And since I've been there so long, and since I now use a computer at work, I don't need much time to prepare for classes (every class has since looped several times over). In short, I'm...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside