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Dango slot machine

12 Feb 2009

After watching Samurai Champloo I was kind of obsessed about Dango. I looked everywhere for Dango, but couldn't find it. I dreamed about eating Dango. When I saw some Mochi ice-cream at the asian grocer I thought it was Dango! Can you imagine my degree of distress? An attentive friend Ritee picked some up from the store for me when I stayed with her last year in Tokyo.

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What's the deal?

01 Feb 2009

Posted by luciferous

Google servers have become sentient and decided the internet is harmful to humans. That's the only reason I can think of to explain that every search result is coming up with a “malware warning”.

Even Google's website has a malware warning. Look.

These days the apartment block is a cluster of disconnected rooms whose occupants exist in isolation.

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tar method of recursive file copying

30 Jan 2009

Posted by luciferous

I heard that recursive copying using tar and stdin is faster than cp -R. The syntax to do so is a little awkward. Here is an example which is the equivalent of cp -R source destination:

~$ mkdir destination
~$ cd source
~/source$ tar cf - . | (cd ../destination; tar xf -)

I have created a convenient script (cpr) which uses the tar method but whose syntax is closer to the cp method. The same example as above with the script:

~$ cpr source destination

What if we want to copy just the files inside source and put them in the current director?

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Installing 32-bit chroot on Debian Etch

29 Jan 2009

Posted by luciferous

On systems that can address up to 32 bits of memory, pointers have to be large enough to store any address – up to 32 bits – and this makes them each cost 4 bytes. Generally, this means that 32-bit systems have 4-byte pointers whereas 64-bit systems have 8-byte pointers.

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Lunch and a skinny dip

27 Jan 2009

Posted by luciferous

Buy me lunch and in return I promise a lively, engaging discourse throughout. 'Have you no shame?' demanded the woman by the pool.
'Yes, ma'am,' I replied. 'And, no money.'
'I am referring to your naked frame.'
I examined myself treading the water. Indeed, I was naked.
'Haven't you heard?' I casually asked. 'It's called skinny dipping.'
She looked arrogant at first...
'Care to join me?'
...And then incredulous.

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