mamiya 7 ii from hong kong ebay seller etefore / HK supplies

After getting the camera with a defect shutter magnet, which costed me eur 100+ to get repaired at the local mamiya center they seller dont wants to pay that amount AND says that i broke the lense … WTF? browsing through the sellers ebay history i found some other negative ratings for exactly the [...]

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firefox tab behaviour in opera

i switched back to opera after using firefox for some years, after researching a bit in the opera forums i modified the tabs and their behaviour to my needs:

under preferences | advanced disable show close button on each tab and set Cycle Without Showing List as cycle method w/ ctrl+TAB
i want to make the next [...]

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fuck ftp because ftp sucks

ftp sucks, not because of being plaintext etc, also because of clients not being able to do recursivly forced deletes like rm -rf on any unix …
i always liked ncftp, not anymore, just installed lftp, …

lftp user@ftponlyboxnossh.org:/public_html/blog> ls
drwxr-xr-x 4 ftp ftp [...]

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ALSA audio samplerate converter

hi friends, spent some time to set up audio stuff today
i wanted to try amarok, seems to be a nice GUI audio player by default it uses xine as a backend – but sound stuttered. also when just calling xine binary directl, setting audio.synchronization.force_rate to 48000 in ~/.xine/config helped but seemed not to affect amarok, [...]

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Media Defenders

haha, if you don’t already know about it start reading here
http://torrentfreak.com/mediadefender-emails-leaked-070915/
spent some time to browse through the leaked emails which are for example available at:
http://www.mediadefender-defenders.com/
funny

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