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to visit a few museums and monuments. Back on Monday nite.
Looks like the weather’s going to be sh*t.

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is a total pain in the neck.

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I have heard of it, but never seen it before, until yesterday. In Justco, Shenzhen Nantau. Kyocera ceramic knifes. White blade. Cool looking. Light and well balanced. Very sharp. Wicked.
Not cheap thou.
Update (20/5): Over the weekend I saw Justco in Tuen Mun selling them. The tubby guy had no idea how to sell this piece [...]

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I bought a Panasonic DV camcorder soon after Jasper’s birth, and after 5 and a half years of faithful service, it has just died, flashing “GET SERVICE” in red on the screen. I have been looking at a replacement for a year or two now, but never got around to it due to budget and [...]

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Ubuntu encrypted partition is very good. All data strongly encrypted. Bootloader asks for password when booting or waking from hibernation then it all works transparently.
Performance of X30 with 768MB RAM running Ubunto 8.04 was a bit slow but still quite usable. I even wrote a long paper on it using the excellent Kile (LaTeX editor) [...]

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Modern as in, available for sale today.
Around August 2006 I set up a computer running Ubuntu for my old man as he wanted something for the Internet. The Intel Celeron chip was a late version just before they went multi-core. Not too shabby for the day, and works okay.
Then the computer died. I suspect it [...]

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Pretty good, as the reviews on the Internet say. But not as good as Spiderman.

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