Author Archives: ivan

Apr
06
2011

Driving: Vancouver vs. Santo Domingo

Just sayin’…

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Apr
04
2011

Samsung Galaxy S II vs Motorola Atrix 4G

UPDATE 2011-06-15: Well, I recently acquired the Galaxy S II, so this debate is over for me. After reading countless of reviews and comparisons between these two superphones, the SGS2 clearly is the better device (for my needs). The fact that it has no lag whatsoever in pretty much anything you throw at it is [...]

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Apr
03
2011

SSH public key authentication on Windows 7 64-bit

So I’ve been struggling for the past 2+ hours trying to get something I’ve done a million times before to work in Windows 7 64-bit. Namely, public key passwordless authentication from a Windows SSH client to a Linux OpenSSH server. I need to have seamless logins without a password/passphrase because I’m using a headless VirtualBox [...]

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Mar
13
2011

HTPC/NAS project

So in my previous post, I mentioned the possibility of building my own mini PC that would serve as an HTPC/NAS and also replace all the current uses of my poor Slug (file server, torrent box, etc.). After some investigation, I think I have narrowed down a few possible candidates: Asus AT5IONT-I. Wonderful board. New [...]

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Mar
12
2011

Home NAS or mini PC?

Why are home NAS devices so expensive? The Synology DS710+ is $530 and it has a measly Atom D410 and 1GB of DDR2 RAM. In contrast, a Zotac ZBOX has an Atom D525, Nvidia ION GPU, support for DDR3, and is essentially a full-blown PC. All for $260. Granted, the Synology has a very different [...]

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Jan
22
2011

How to hack your Wii

Step 1: + Step 2: Step 3:

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Nov
22
2010

Fix for login issues on Android Twitter clients

So yesterday I went back to Donut on my trusty G1 after a short fling with Froyo for a couple weeks (ugh). In keeping with the speedy profile of SuperCSDI, installing any Twitter client other than twicca would be blasphemy. It’s fast, simple, and goes well with my dark Espresso theme. ^_^ Yet, I was [...]

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Nov
16
2010

Cristo viene… ¡esta vez sí!

Hoy, en pleno disfrute de un tapón típico de S.D., me topé con esta joya: Resulta ser que el sitio web que anuncian es real (no lo linkeo para no contribuir con su SEO). Allá pueden ver todo tipo de información relevante… si vives en el mundo bizarro. Lo que no me explico es cómo [...]

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Oct
29
2010

Windows audio players

The first audio player I remember falling in love with (as much as you can love a software) was Sonique. It had a revolutionary UI for the time, and that was all that mattered. Winamp was the second obvious choice, and I used it for years (before the version 3 fiasco, and version “5″… before [...]

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Oct
11
2010

My partition table

So over the weekend I geeked it out and upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate x86-64 and Ubuntu 10.10. All in all, a smooth procedure, some driver issues aside (I hate you, Optimus). Finally ditched Firefox completely and switched to Chrome, among other improvements… But before all that, I had to decide on which partition scheme [...]

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