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Unlocking the Sanyo W33SA

( Computers and Japan and W33SA )

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Those damn cell phone, there is nothing that makes me grind more than a cell phone that I fully paid and still I can’t do what I want with. I own a Sanyo W33SA from AU in Japan. [...]

November in Okazaki

( Fashion and Kismet and OS X and Okazaki and WRT54 )

October is almost finished. I heard that Quebec had its first snowstorm. Here in Okazaki, we are still enjoying a pleasant 25 degrees. Halloween is Tuesday; we bought crap American chocolate, with 50% sugar, 50% fat. One per day is enough. I had trouble with the bathroom in Yamasa’s Residence U. The water drain went [...]

Yamasa Network and Macs

( Computers and English and OS X and Residence U and Yamasa )

1 month ago, I had the displeasure of debugging a Powerbook that did not wanted to connect to the internet in residence U. My neighbor complained of sudden and recurrent disconnection from the Lan network of the Yamasa Institute. She asked for help at tech guys office but have been told that the problem was [...]

Trade Shows in Japan

( Computers and English and Japan )

I like trade shows. They are a good opportunity to give business card to company official that might be interested in my services. On my list of possible trade show to attend this year in Japan I will particularly watch everything in relation with microelectronics and telecommunications. In April there is a huge convention with [...]

A busy year

( Computers and English and WRT54 and job search )

This is my plan for a busy year:
Get back at learning the specification for the 3G and 4G cell networks
Setup an effective wireless drone device and unlock WEP encryption of more that 40bits
Update my knowledge of digital radio communication for voice and GPS encoding systems
Get back at practicing Karate (might be a good thing to [...]

Goodbye Computer

( Computers and English )

I sold my last computer codename whitewhip3, this weekend. Moved things around in my shipping boxes. I am still unsure if I will need a third one. Maybe I will ship it half full, leaving space for things I might acquire during my stay at Yamasa.

SQL Database and DNS problems

( Computers and English )

I hope this time I fixed it for good. The Database was corrupted, again. Thank god for backups! More trouble to be expected in the next days, as I will reintroduce advertisements. The new web server isnt free, and my bandwith was sucked up by surfer who thought they could find nude pics of Mio [...]