Brewing Cider December 24, 2009
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, diy, Hamakor, Uncategorized.Tags: alcohol, brewing, chemestry, cider, diy
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My cider (we call it Chateau la Sheffer)
Hey all,
During the semester break, I brewed alcoholic Cider (not to mix with apple juice, which is no-alcoholic). My cider has 7.2% alcohol.
Although some readers might think that making alcohol out of plain apple juice might involve black magic, its actually quite simple. The only thing it really takes is time – about 3 months total to start drinking, but if you wait 5 months, you will get something that tastes much better. Its quite fun, and one can create unique flavors.
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IGF Day 4 and last, Privacy – Incident with China – Human network – more Open Standards – Jordan FOSS – and Final statement November 24, 2009
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, Hamakor, IGF, ITU, open source, Uncategorized.Tags: human network, IGF, internet, internet censorship, ITU, open source, open standards, privacy
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Hi all,
This is the second day of the IGF 2009 and the 4th and last day of my journey.
There was a lot to write about, and I had little time back in Israel, so it took a while to publish.
I recommend you read my closing statement.
Scroll to the titles that interest you:
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IGF 09 Day 2 – Internet Security, Social Networking IPv6 and a Football Match November 15, 2009
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IGF 09 Day 2 – Internet Security, Social Networking IPv6 and a football match
Hi all,
Today was the second day of my visit, tomorrow IGF starts! Nearly all of the day I was in the 4th Symposium of GigaNet – a network of academic people that research Internet governance.
Although I am a technical person, and had to figure the basic relation the following: ICANN, IANA, ISOC, IGP, ccTLD and plenty more. However I’ll leave that to another post, since entire doctorates were written on how these organizations interact with each other (well ccTLD is not an organization, but you get the idea).
I managed to separate three topics I found interesting in particular so find the one you like:
IGF 2009 Day 1 – What is IGF? November 14, 2009
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, IGF, ITU, open source, Uncategorized.Tags: IGF, internet, ITU, open source
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Hi all,
(I am blogging this time on my OLPC/Nokia N810 so sorry about the typos)
I thought I might update that I arrived a few hours ago to the IGF conference.
Getting there
It took about 13 hours to get here, I have mostly been traveling in a taxi cab today from Taba to Shrem. Apparently there are a lot of security checkpoints because of the conference itself!
What is the Internet Governance Forum? – The ‘G’ in IGF
Since I have little of ICT news to tell I thought I might start with a conversation Dima and I had on the way here, regarding what the IGF means – When we wanted to translate the ‘G’ (for Governance) in IGF to other languages we did not know what exactly it means – Is it the government as in maneging the Internet as a resource? Or standardizing the Internet? or perhaps government as in how to get governments to interact with the Internet? It seems its a a bit of all, yet not clearly one of them nether. When looking at the huge number of workshops (10 in parallel!) this seems to become more apparent: privacy and freedom of expression, net neutrality, technical implementation of the infrastructure and how governments and organizations should treat the Internet, its all there. It seems it will be hard pick which workshop to go to!
Connecting a programmable chip to a remote Controlled Car September 11, 2009
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, Electronics, Hamakor, ITU, linux, open source, programming, Uncategorized, wireless.Tags: C, Electronics, hacking, howto, linux, open source, programming
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Car and the breadboard
Hey all,
I have been playing with electronics the last few days, and I thought I might show you the outcome.
I basically took a remote controlled car, and connected it to a 16F84 programmable chip, and now I can control the car using C code.
Although I am using a car in this guide, you should be able to close and open any kind of switch. Anything under 15 volts.
For people who have don’t feel like reading all this (and also for those who do), here is an action-packed video of the outcome:
After you saw that, here is how I did this.
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Copyright Lobbyists Might Be Tied Up to Israel’s Internet Censorship law July 18, 2009
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, Hamakor, ITU, open source, Uncategorized.Tags: censorship, copyright, internet censorship, Israel, law, no2bio, pirate
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About half a year ago, a law for internet censorship passed the first stage in our parliament, on its way to become in effect. The way it was done is disguising the law as a way to protect against child pornography.
There was quite a lot of opposition and finally at the beginning of this week, the law proposal was dropped. This of course makes quite happy.
However, this week I stumbled on a Google Talk of Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the Swedish Pirate Party. He said, and I quote (the video skips to the quote):
“I’ll give you an anecdote of a copyright seminar. The Danish head honcho came and said: You know, the politicians don’t understand file sharing. So what we need to do is to filter the internet. But since politicians don’t understand what that means, we should associate it with child pornography. Because politicians understand child pornography.“
I am flying to the UN’s ITU Telecom in Bangkok August 23, 2008
Posted by GuySoft in Hamakor, open source, Uncategorized, wireless.Tags: ITU
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Hi all,
I am happy to announce that I am flying to represent my country in the ITU Telecom conference in Bangkok. I am going to be there between the 30th of August and 6th of September. I am going there as a part of the youth forum, which is a nice way because all expenses are taken care of.
The goal of the ITU is to take care of telecommunication standards and you can read about them in Wikipedia. However I am going to a conference whose main objective is closing the digital gap in third world countries.
A Script for Greasemonkey Script to bypass Discount’s Bank Validation May 14, 2008
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, Hamakor, open source, Uncategorized.Tags: discount, firefox, Greasemonkey, javascript
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Hey All,
My bank seems to block my Iceweasel (Firefox) browser off their site. So here is a Greasemonkey script I wrote to bypass this problem.
If anyone else has this problem, please use this script.
Guy
First Post November 25, 2007
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Hello, I have just posted a “hello world” post, I hope to get up information about software I wrote, things I built and much more, here soon.
