Monthly Archives: November 2011

Tokyo-Narita – a bush-league airport?

According to the latest statistics of the world’s busiest airports Tokyo/Narita, which is Japans largest international airport does not make it into the top 30. Tokyo/Haneda which is the main domestic hub ranks 7th in this list. I am currently

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Gas heater

Until now we used to heat the rooms during the cold season either with the air-condition or we put up two small halogen heaters. By either way, we were not very efficiently heating the apartment and also had to pay

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Posted in Japanese

Morning bread

After living in Japan for quite a long time I got used to start my morning with any kind of rice, mostly onigiri. However, since I moved to my new place I am passing a very small bakery that does

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Building a “konbini”

When I walk from my apartment to the train station (or the other way round) I passed an empty lot of land which approximately has a square shape of about 30 x 30 meter. Three weeks ago, nothing more than

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Posted in Drink, Food, Japanese

TediOS

I know that I misspelled “tedious” but I wanted to abbreviate the way how Apply updates my iPod with the latest OS (5.0). Before the v5 release was announced my iPod worked like a charm, played videos without interruption and

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Posted in computer, handy phone

Fedora 16 and CUDA

Until Fedora 15 I somehow managed to get the NVIDIA driver and the CUDA compiler running, but Fedora 16 seems to quite of a hurdle. I tried something similar as for F15, including a patch which solves the Kernel version

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Posted in computer, math, programming
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