HikikomoriI guess when it comes to being amazing, real world otaku trump their 2d counterpart. My room is the opposite, pretty much empty, only a PC on a shelf-table combo and a bed.
MacBook Pro 17"I wouldn't called it is plagued with problems. For me, it's rare and far between. Latest trouble was when I upgraded my computer last Feb, but it was due to my lack of experience (settings in BIOS), a few googling fixed it.
About you, I guess your h...
Otaku GraduationHypothetically, if your mother didn't agree with your otakuness, wouldn't she deserve to be your mother? People don't choose their family you know.
Otaku GraduationYou said that because you haven't really wanted to get someone with what you said as a requirement. Love might blind or enlighten one :D.
Otaku GraduationI loled at the fact that the way he did it was too extreme, one of the attributes ppl typically see in otaku, or was it just a show for attention. Anyway, I do hope he's not going to regret it if he's ever coming back.
As for me, I only read a littl...
Summer 2009 AnimeI will watch all of them as fansubs are released and drop accordingly.
From the looks of them, more than half of them are interesting and on top of my watch list (less likely to be dropped) are:
Umineko
Spice and Wolf II
San Sayonara Zetsubou Sen...
Japanese Men MakeupWell, I'm alright as long as it's done moderately. As for me, I use nothing that can be called makeup. I even cut my hair really short so I don't need to take care of it.
Japanese Gaming PopulationIf I were to be given 5 spare hours, I'd game and the game would be fallout3. Been wanting to play it for real but time doesn't allow it. Playing for 1 hour a time just isn't enough. What I do when I have free time is either watching stuffs (mostly a...
Keyboard CleaningMoe, will they ever make small robot like that?
For now, I clean my room including the desk and stuffs on it, obviously KB included, once a week. I only dust it off though, and might wipe any place that got hard to clean stuff stuck on. Full cleanin...
Japan Optic Fiber InternetWell you don't need to know perl, perl is only a requirement for you to run this suit. On my backup system I use rsync too, but for another purpose, backup the mail system, among other specific crafted shell scripts. Andrew Tridgell (rsync developer...
Sony Vaio P Boot TimeI meant the fans in these cluster nodes, not the HDs. As for the typical high RPM HDs out there (10K or 15K RPM), interface (SCSI, SAS or Fibre Channel) is irrelevant, they're not that loud compared to the type of computers they're attached to.
Japan Optic Fiber InternetDanny, if you also use MySQL I recommend you this backup suit http://mysqlbackup.zmanda.com/ if you don't know about it yet. This thing is really flexible. I'm using it over here and find it really powerful and easy to use. Requirements are perl and...
Japan Optic Fiber InternetThat's cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, damn my line over here. Pay around 15$/mon for a 1Mbit/512Kbit up/down here. No traffic shaping though. I use over 100GB/mom bw though and at some periods like comicket or when I download some full show, it can go u...
Sony Vaio P Boot TimeThat's bullshit. HDs, for AFAICR, spin at constant speed. The noises you can hear from them are the motor noise and the clicking noise from the heads moving around. These noises whether loud or not depend on the manufacturer's designs for that genera...
Sony Vaio P Boot TimeMine is a Vista 64bit with a Core 2 Duo E4300 at 1.8G default speed and 3GB of RAM. Boot to login screen is under 30sec and to usable state should be quite under 1mins, around 40s. How fast a Windows machine boot depends on how you manage it, same fo...
Internet Savvy ParentsMy father has a desktop which I built and a netbook. He uses computer for his job as a foreign language teacher or for his communication needs which involve chat, mail, youtube, image uploading, ..., heck he uses these services far more than me. And...
Japanese Women CompromiseForgot to say: there's a proverb in our country saying: "A kid will get his intellect from his mother and his look from his father." That's another reason lol, and we're Asian. Although I have to agree, most Asian guys feel inferior if either or both...
Japanese Women CompromiseHah, I don't, personally I prefer intellectual woman. In fact my gf is one step ahead of me in getting Master degree; same for salary. If I have a kid and thing call for one of us needs to stay at home for the child, plus my salary is lower, then I w...
Japanese Women CompromiseYou meant partner in love? They way you phrased it seems so. I think maintenance fee for a koibito and a family are different. If all you care about is getting a partner in love then np :D.
Japanese Women Compromiseregardless of that state of political, I think working to gain income or to simplify food is a requirement. From the time our ancestors were still using sticks and stones to hunt, they were also working. Just that what you gain now is "moolah".
Japanese Women Compromiseyou took the words out of my mouth. I don't believe in the idea that a happy marriage is a result of "a cottage with two golden hearts live in". That is impossible in our current world IMO. Then again building your happiness purely on money without a...
Windows 7 Beta ISO LeakedI guess you didn't know how long it was between XP and 2000 or might be you were small and didn't know what was on your computer back then.
Windows 7 Beta ISO LeakedForgot to mention in Windows 7, if an application hangs due to certain action, you might have a chance to undo that action and recover your application responsiveness. This is because there're some improvements to process management procedure in this...
Windows 7 Beta ISO LeakedI have tried it, and I can vote as there's no option for that, isn't it?
So first off, my BG: I'm a newbie administrator (only been one for around 5 months) who works mostly on Linux, I use Windows Vista at home and have tried out Mac enough to judg...
