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Oxford Beginner’s Chinese Dictionary – (2006 book)

2013-10-11

books, Chinese, Chinese language books, dead-tree books, dictionaries, education, loved, non-fiction, owned, Oxford, reviews, things

Chinese > Books for learning Chinese >

Recommended – This book has value above and beyond being a book of definitions.

Feel free to change the Amazon.com URL from .com to your language of choice. Odds are good that it’ll be available from another amazon.foo website.

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Langenscheidt Pocket Dictionary Mandarin Chinese – (2011 book)

2013-10-11

books, Chinese, Chinese language books, Chinese language entertainment, dead-tree books, dictionaries, loved, non-fiction, owned, reviews, things

Langenscheidt Pocket Dictionary Mandarin Chinese

Chinese > Books for learning Chinese >

Highly recommended – Portable, durable and to-the-point.

ISBN-10: 3468981333
ISBN-13: 978-3468981333
(amazon.com: look inside) (look inside unavailable as of 2013-10-11)

Feel free to change the Amazon.com URL from .com to your language of choice. Odds are good that it’ll be available from another amazon.foo website.

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poweroff

2013-08-04

commandline software, freeware, HOWTO, Linux, Linux software, live, loved, open-source software, reviews, software, Usability

poweroff replaces halt for how I was using it.

I finally took some time to look into why halt wasn’t powering off my computer. This was a very long-standing bug, and it was odd that something so obvious would go unfixed.

Provided by the package “pm-utils”

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Raspbian

2013-07-26

dead, glances, Linux distributions, Linux distributions based on Debian, loved, Raspberry Pi, Raspbian

Linux distributions + Debian >

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=raspios
http://www.raspbian.org/

Debian, for the Raspberry Pi.

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rdesktop

2013-07-23

dead, freeware, glances, GUI software, internet software, Linux software, loved, open-source software, rdesktop, remote controlling software, reviews, software

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.rdesktop.org/

A remote desktop thing.

I didn’t really take notes on rdesktop itself, though I had significant exposure through some of my projects with it. See /tag/rdesktop. Apparently I didn’t note an rdesktop version.

check out SeamlessRDP mode. It does what I was using xpra for.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190505223025/http://www.cendio.com:80/seamlessrdp
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=824710
xrdp

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I still have more offline notes I have to clean up and upload..

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/

A MMO whose defining qualities are its maturity, user base and low system-requirements.

Recently focusing entirely on endgame, to the detriment of all earlier content. Instead of improving the game in measurable ways, its developers use desperate psychology to string along its user base. DO NOT PLAY unless you’re already playing. Then DO NOT STOP.

Once anything comes along that’s decent, haul ass and bring everyone with you. Consider, for example, Guild Wars 2 – (2012 game).

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