http://www.kimchikid.com/blog fermented cabbage boy... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:31:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We already concluded in my previous guide (from April) that we think that Ubuntu might be the greatest OS in the world. But that doesn't change the fact that the desktop looks very dull out of the box. But now we are going to change that and I will now let ... http://www.kimchikid.com/blog/2008/11/20/9-steps-make-a-ultra-cool-and-good-looking-desktop-for-your-ubuntu-linux-machine-in-30-minutes-green-version/ Example of major sites that are down piratebay.org was recently taken down, all other torrent sites I tested works sourceforge.net, China has amazingly taken down the other of open source wordpress.com, all blogs hosted on wordpress are blocked including results on dashboard from wordpress stats plugin :) livejournal.com doesn't work 99% of all porn sites ... http://www.kimchikid.com/blog/2008/06/28/sites-blocked-by-the-great-firewall-of-china/ For whatever reason China is now blocking the centre of open source, sourceforge.net . I wonder why and can find no reason. http://www.kimchikid.com/blog/2008/06/28/omg-sourceforgenet-is-down-as-well-in-china/ Recently I have noticed that the Great Firewall of China seems to be blocking Piratebay. Damn, that is my favourite torrent site. Oh well, all other torrent sites seems to work perfectly still though. But what is happening? Before was all blogs on blogspot.com and wikipedia.org down but now they seem to ... http://www.kimchikid.com/blog/2008/06/22/piratebay-down-in-china/ Today the EEE PC 900 was available for sale in an electric market in Shanghai. They offered both versions, 20 Gb with Linux or 12 Gb with Windows. The price for both versions were 3999 Yuan (about USD 570). They did not seem to be willing to do anything on that ... http://www.kimchikid.com/blog/2008/05/25/eee-pc-901-released-in-shanghai-picture/ I have a Sony Ericsson P1i and this is tested on that phone. But most can be applied also to the other phones using Symbian UIQ 3 operating system. Phones which have UIQ 3 includes: Sony Ericsson P1, P1i, P1c, M600i, M600c, P990i, P990c, W950i, W950c, W960i, W960c, G700 and G900 Motorola ... http://www.kimchikid.com/blog/2008/04/26/easy-uiq-3-guide-including-must-have-apps-and-hints/ For about a year now these oxygen bottles have been for sale in 7-eleven in Japan. They come in several choices such as melon, coffea or like the in the photo below, "forest". Exactly what to do with these bottles including how, when and why to use them remains unknown. But a ... http://www.kimchikid.com/blog/2008/04/26/oxygen-gas-bottles-for-sale-in-7-eleven-in-japan/ The new Ubuntu release 8.04 Hardy Heron will be released tomorrow. If you can't wait, upgrade to the release candidate, available now, and then upgrade to the final version again tomorrow. Note that its not recommendable to install the release candidate on working machines but what the heck, you only live ... http://www.kimchikid.com/blog/2008/04/23/install-hardy-heron-already-today/ Shot in Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan. Where else? 300 Yen is about 3 USD. When it starts to rain hard in a western country, people start to run. When it starts to rain in Japan, everybody by magic brings up an umbrella (only the few westerners start to run). [ad#add5] http://www.kimchikid.com/blog/2008/04/21/umbrella-vending-machine/ When I checked the dashboard recently I found that James Dimick has released a brand new Wordpress plugin for changing the admin colors called Easy Admin Color Schemes. After you install the plugin you can change admin color themes in the settings and you can make your own theme by changing ... http://www.kimchikid.com/blog/2008/04/20/first-plugin-to-change-admin-colour-themes-for-wordpress/