Assuming country is required, the following 44 results were found.
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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...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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the minds of many gaijin (foreigners) in Japan, particularly those who are required by law to get a driver’s license in the country. If you live in urban centers such as Tokyo, Nagoya, or Osaka, you may not bother learning how to drive because you can...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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Growing up I never considered my home country to have much of a culture of its own. Elementary school textbooks described it as a "melting pot" of other cultures, or more accurately, a "salad." However, much to my chagrin, America does indeed have a...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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configured to check SPF DNS records. Here's how I enabled SPF checks in Zimbra: Setting Up SPF on Zimbra Running on Ubuntu Country Blocking My next goal was to implement country blocking. Every country in the world is assigned certain stocks of IP...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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I am most definitely keeping my Smart DNS subscription. Living abroad in Japan I often miss out on cool stuff that my home country comes up with. Netflix USA and Pandora are prime examples. On one trip back to the States, my friends demonstrated the...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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a personal inkan and a koseki, and you know what those are. You've accidentally said 「お疲れ様です」 to a friend from your native country. You take your shoes off when visiting your native country. You get upset when having to use a toilet without a heated...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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fridges, massive parking lots, a massive carbon dioxide footprint, and the coveted title of number one energy-burning country. Two errors exist here: Quantity is favored over quality, and the food is stored too damn long. This in turn degrades the...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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With a Question Be the slightly-confused foreigner with a legitimate question regarding Japanese language or culture. This country is a wild and curious place bursting with mysterious wonders. It's so very new to foreign you, and a bit confusing. Don't...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Living abroad I often find myself comparing the best and worst of my home country with that in Japan. How cool it would be to mix-and-match to create the perfect country precisely customized to my desires. Just as I may visit a friend's house and stare...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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to the USA. “Yeah...sure...I'll do that,” I sarcastically replied. And that was that. All I had to do was move out of the country, and I was officially exempt from jury duty forever. Wrong. Over the next several years I was called to jury duty many...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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the Japanese language everyday is one of the most challenging things foreigners to Japan encounter when facing life in this country. As an expat you must command more than just the basics; living here requires an entirely new vocabulary, alphabet, and...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Studying Japanese
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this is simply because I'm a new user of Sophos. A example of this sometimes unintuitive approach is when configuring country blocking. If you enable it for a particular country, it blocks all inbound and outbound traffic by default. You then have to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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Work support blocking inbound mail from certain countries (aka geo-location)? There's currently no way to block mail from a country IP or geo-location. However, you can set up a content compliance filter to block mail from top level domains using a...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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27 - I Don't Get Ithttps://japanatron.com/?view=article&id=10255:27-i-don-t-get-it&catid=52
No matter how long I live in Japan, there are a few things about this country and its culture that perpetually confuse me. I present my whine list followed by grinch-like groans.
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Podcast
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in a health-conscious restaurant like Subway is as logic-defying as smoking while jogging on the gym treadmill. For a country so seemingly well put-together, things like these make Japan's dark underbelly all the more incomprehensible and frustrating....
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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you realize to keep this thing going it’s going to take a lot more than that initial spark. When falling in love with a country, this equates to the monetary means to stay there. Which after checking my bank account meant I Needed. A. Job. Yesterday....
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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on your wallet. Don't Buy Beer Commensurate with the above is the sin of beer. Ahhhhh, beer. How I miss it so. My home country's beer prices are something to write award-winning novellas about. Not so in Japan, where beer is taxed worse than exotic...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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ample chain pulled taut across the road would do the trick, right? To Conclude I wouldn't live here if Japan weren't a good country. But a few disturbing-the-peace laws with requisite enforcement would get Japan on the road to being a great country. I...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Japan's Smoking Addictionhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10083-japans-smoking-addiction
job of getting much-needed legislation passed quickly. Japan needs this. The no-guns thing over here is really holding this country back. Nothing gets problems solved like lots of guns. I can pretty much guarantee that smokers will be convinced to quit...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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13 - LA Visit Part 1https://japanatron.com/?view=article&id=10201:13-la-visit-part-1&catid=52
Part 1 of 2 of a very special episode recorded in my hometown of Los Angeles with my 3 best friends. Among other things we discuss Japan's dark underbelly, including the red light industry and the Yakuza.
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Podcast