English Posts

●2005/07/04 Buying a Laptop for a Relative

Bought a laptop on a relative’s behalf — wireless LAN, email and browsing only. Honestly overkill for the need, but nobody’s satisfied with a Celeron 500MHz these days.


●2005/07/03 Nagashima’s Return

Shigeo Nagashima returned to the stands after 488 days, all smiles. Meanwhile the Waka-Taka family feud drags through the media — sort family matters among yourselves!


●2005/07/02 FreeBSD

My professor’s one-liner — ‘why not try FreeBSD instead of obsessing over Linux?’ — sent me down a rabbit hole, including a site that documented a text-mode install as selectable HTML.


●2005/07/02 A New Type of Virus

Viruses have evolved from deleting files to leaking My Documents over Winny — and now Fantibag.B blocks antivirus updates via packet filtering. Telling it from legit software won’t be easy.


●2005/07/01 Emergency Cover Shift & ETC (Electronic Toll Collection System)

Covered a coworker’s shift for some pocket money, then drove home via ETC — where the commuter discount halves the toll and a ¥5,000 install campaign sweetened the deal.


●2005/07/01 Rain

Good morning. Today is the first real rainy-season weather we’ve had. Hopefully it’ll help ease the water shortage.


●2005/06/30 The Differences Between RedHat 9 and Fedora 4

But it turns out they’re quite different, I found out after trying it myself.


●2005/06/30 Differences Between RedHat 9 and Fedora 4

I expected there would be some differences — but trying it out revealed they’re actually quite significant.


●2005/06/30 Win 95

Installed Windows 95 in VMware on an AthlonXP 2800+ — and it ran smoothly. I actually never used 95 myself; my first PC was 98SE. A little nostalgia, a 5-minute install.


●2005/06/30 Win 95

Installed Windows 95 in VMware on an AthlonXP 2800+ — and it ran smoothly. I actually never used 95 myself; my first PC was 98SE. A little nostalgia, a 5-minute install.


●2005/06/29 Engine: The Final Episode

Watched Engine’s final episode two days late, thanks to PC recording. Also submitted my highest-level English paper at seminar yet — now I really need to study English conversation.


●2005/06/29 Engine: The Final Episode

Watched Engine’s final episode two days late, thanks to PC recording. Also submitted my highest-level English paper at seminar yet — now I really need to study English conversation.


●2005/06/28 Setting the Shift Schedule

July shift-setting day at the part-time job, where everyone sits down together to work out the schedule — which makes it the one day the whole team is in the same room.


●2005/06/28 Dead Tired

Overnight shift, and an impossible choice: pay for the expressway home or pay for dinner out. I picked a frozen karaage set near work. Home cooking really is best.


●2005/06/27 New User (Co-Managing the Site)

A new user signed up wanting to co-manage a site — a first for me. My notes on setting it up with useradd: -d for the shared home directory, -g for the shared group.


●2005/06/27 Even Though I Know It Won’t Be That Easy…

Currently at 27 points. Still can’t seem to win. I’ve been living the oolong tea life day after day, but that iPod mini just won’t come my way.


●2005/06/26 Earthquake Alerts

Apparently they do this on websites too. I was surprised. When an earthquake occurs, Yahoo’s ad space turns into an earthquake alert.


●2005/06/25 Early Morning and Car Wash

Up at 7 to drive my mom and sister to a new supermarket’s 9 o’clock opening — their dedication to crowds amazes me. So I washed the car, dried the futon, did laundry. 33°C in the rainy season?


●2005/06/24 Site Renewal☆

Done it. Right here. No complaints about it looking the same as the home server top page design, please.


●2005/06/24 Fedora 4

Tried Fedora 4 in VMware after Fedora 2 once wrecked my HDD and sent me back to Red Hat 9. A friend says recent versions are stable — maybe time to move my home server’s services over.