Hannes Hauswedell Hannes Hauswedell

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ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity

I have this tablet since two or three months now and I must say, I pleasently surprised with the hardware. People who know me, know that I don’t say stuff like that often. My taste in hardware just doesn’t align with the mainstream, I guess. I want hardware keyboards, I need high resolution displays, I like metal bodies and battery time is important. I don’t care about weight, style issues or fancy accesories, like pink fur covers or stuff like that.


An inside view on the Great Chinese Firewall

As I am currently located in China, I thought I’d give all of you some technical infos on the current censorship techniques employed here. My experience differs a little from what Wikipedia tells us. What you see as a user: youtube.com, facebook.com, twitter.com are all not reachable. Google.com is on and off, usually redirects to google.com.hk (which is still the less censored version of google.cn). Google.de is however available. A nice site that lets you test which web-sites are unavailable is http://www.