Author Archives: Zakhar

About Zakhar

I, Zakhar Kolleen Lutgardis, write about things that don't piss me off. That's pretty much my standard test when deciding if I like something. If it does not piss me off, then I'm happy.

Still A Fan Of Netflix

I have been a Netflix customer for a long time. I’m so glad they decided to keep “partitioned accounts” after announcing they were going to get rid of them. In the past, they reversed a price increase. Recently, they did … Continue reading

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Ad-free site to check my IP address

check my IP address at address.cat

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Piracy Is Lending, Not Theft

I’ve said this for a long time, but my audience is very small, so I’m glad someone with a bigger audience agrees (video below). I’m not ripping off artists if I download their works for free. I don’t think (m)any … Continue reading

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ps.mu noise music iec5010

ps.mu IEC5010 (noise) Music A project from more than a few years ago finally surfaces on the web.

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A “Real” Artist Gets It

The bit about being inspired by those artists that step before you was interesting, but I’m glad to see Francis Ford Coppola pondering the same idea (of artists making a living) I wrote about a couple years ago: Francis Ford … Continue reading

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How to login to the Magnatune app for iPhone iOS

I’m a Magnatune lifetime member. First thing I wanted to know was how to login to the iPhone app, so I don’t have to hear the spoken message at the end of each track (placed there because every song is … Continue reading

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Bandwidth Caps Are Deceptive

Time to revisit my post, “Dramatically Lower Bandwidth Cap” from May 30. It turns out it sparked a mini debate. I am disappointed with joetron2030′s suggestion to “leave” the offending ISP. It seems that Clear does offer uncapped service (but … Continue reading

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negative income tax

Even though I’d prefer to go to a capitalistic system which only has sales tax, if we’re stuck with income tax, negative income tax (Wikipedia) seems a reasonable idea.

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Removing Adobe Bonjour CS3 to fix 0.0.0.0 Gateway Address (I hate Adobe)

In my top 100 things that piss me off is Adobe. I think their motto is “Mistreat Your Users.” I found hundreds of pages on this issue, but only one full solution (and it wasn’t from Adobe) to remove Adobe … Continue reading

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America is NOT a Christian Nation

I realize it’s more complicated, historically, than these “sound bites,” but the campaign is on the right track: New FFRF Bus Sign Campaign “America is NOT a Christian Nation”

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Does Not Put Me Off

I realized if I (ha ha) ever wanted to go mainstream, I’ll have to rename this site. Changing “piss” to “put” would be easy enough.

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Dramatically Lower Bandwidth Cap

OMG, it’s been six months since I posted. Too, too busy. I got this in the mail this week: The cards says: Dear EarthLink Internet Cable Service Powered by Comcast customer: Effective July 1, 2010 the terms of service for … Continue reading

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Backup Software

I want backup software that does incremental backups at the file level. It might waste more space, but it would be easier to retrieve lost files. It should make a folder for each date-time (YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS) it finds a changed file … Continue reading

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VMWare could be so cool

I’ve now paid for VMWare Fusion 2 and for an upgrade to 3. It seems the upgrade added a few minor new features. It mostly seemed like bug fixes (like making Windows 7 work properly). Two big bugs that haven’t … Continue reading

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horrible etrade baby commercials

I cannot wait until the day I never have to watch etrade baby commercials ever again. Makes me want to swear to express how blanking stupid the commercials are. I can’t even give a critique. They’re just stupid. So stupid … Continue reading

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iPhone Features (leftovers)

In my iPhone Features Sunday, post on February 22nd, 2009, I gave a list of my top choices. I have to say, I think that they’re past the point of pushing normal users to jailbreak their iPhones. I have no … Continue reading

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