iDevices have been known to be amazing little devices, especially when you do image sharing, music, etc.. all in the cloud. the iCloud.
there is one catch, however…
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gnome3 – why not? :)
installing ubuntu gnome and broke it in less than 24 hours.
I really need to find a way to transfer home and all config data without breakage – or better: what not to transfer…

– do not install encrypted home – let’s do that later
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wget… just as user-friendly as tar ;)

wget -r -N –no-parent http://server.tld/directory/ –level 1 –accept “*.mp3” -nd -e robots=off -U “custom user-agent” -b

downloads all files in the remote directory without creating a hierarchy, without traversing links and only getting mp3 files – rewriting the timestamp, ignoring robots.txt and listing itself as my custom user-agent – runs in the background and logs all activity to a file in the directory

I need fridges all over the house. Why? Because fridge-magnets are the secret to getting things done. However, in the morning I often don’t go to the fridge. Also it isn’t magnetic
So I want a whiteboard/magnet thingie at the door so I see it before I exit the house.
Now this does not match my philosophy of “we need modern things” so let’s build it using a raspberry and hang it to the wall.
Obviously, it should look nice, too so lets not have error messages, mouse-cursors or other stuff that distracts from what is important!
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so I need a new board – snowflower has died and is now a surfboard/toy for my kids ;)

having ridden a longboard (K2 Eldorado) last winter I got addicted to long boards and carving. Skip the park, park is for dogs :P – I want speed and I want to learn to ride in fresh snow – so what’s to do?
http://www.extremecarving.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2524

being 172 and 90 kilos I obviously need something a little special:
no clue about that camber/rocker stuff, will have to test it but lets start dreaming
apparently keywords to use are
– freeride
– carving
– longboard
– somewhat wider
– stiff

so finding this:

– K2 Eldorado obviously (apparently a masterful allrounder)
– Rad Air Tanker (grandfather of longboards, apparently)
– Dupraz D1 (comes in + and ++ – depending how heavy you are / how agressive you ride)
– LTB – supreme
– Swoard – dual
– good – keep should know more

it works when using pipelight-plugin and user-agent-overrider

add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
apt-get update
apt-get install pipelight
(pipelight-multi?)

pipelight-plugin –update

pipelight-plugin –enable silverlight

install user-agent-overrider
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/user-agent-overrider/

enable, go preferences
add these two for Netflix and Unity3D:

# Netflix/Unity3D
Firefox 15/Windows: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120427 Firefox/15.0a1
Safari/OSX: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3) AppleWebKit/534.55.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.3 Safari/534.53.10

test silverlight plugin here:
http://bubblemark.com/silverlight2.html

then Netflix should work using the overrider set to Firefox 15 / Windows

Any DRM-errors you still get are caused by Noscript, https-everywhere and Adblock or flash – just create exceptions for them

wget -qO- http://ipecho.net/plain ; echo

or

wget -qO- icanhazip.com

or

curl ipv4.icanhazip.com