Author Archives: micolous

The Pepsi Challenge, Day 5

Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2012 by micolous

This post is the second part of the series. Day 2 (part 1) is here. So Android has this “accessibility” feature that lets you hang up on a call by tapping the power button. Except what happens if you’re on … Continue reading →

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The Pepsi Challenge, Day 2

Posted on Monday, April 9, 2012 by micolous

(Despite this being named “day 2″, this is the first part.) My normal phone arrangement consists of an iPhone 4 and a Nokia N900. iPhone gets my main SIM card for calls and the majority of my web browsing, N900 … Continue reading →

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How to screw the auDA for fun and profit

Posted on Sunday, September 4, 2011 by micolous

Recently, the auDA (Australian Domain Administrator) updated their rules regarding the registration of names in *.au. Among them are some changes to the policies on domain monetisation. But in the end, these rules don’t matter at all — because of … Continue reading →

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28-hour day experiments notes

Posted on Monday, June 20, 2011 by micolous

I decided that I would experiment with a 28-hour day for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately it turned in to a week-and-a-half deal, as I had to fall off the wagon for some other commitments. I thought I’d write up … Continue reading →

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Belated announcement: tollgate source released

Posted on Monday, May 9, 2011 by micolous

Last weekend, tollgate’s source code was released. This is the project formerly known as portal2, which ran the captive portal system at StreetGeek and SAGAfest from January 2009 to September 2010. It’s a quota-managed captive portal system for Linux mainly … Continue reading →

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