Monthly Archives: October 2002

Paradise Kiss

George is my hero… ^_^

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Security

If you still haven’t noticed, Blogger has been hacked, so you might want to change (ftp-)passwords….

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Sad Fact of the Day

Yes, I’m still in the Maths-Department doing homework (but heading off to bed now. G’night!).

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Posters and Quality

Just had Anime Society film night, were we showed Mamoru Oshii’s “Avalon” and “Ghost in the Shell”. This is the first time that I realised that the posters in the background while Batou is chasing the Puppet-Master controlled ghost hacker … Continue reading

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Princess Tutu?

Good SF-novella by Nancy Kress: “Dancing On Air” (and no, you don’t have to be interested in ballet to like the story…)

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Sucker for Wings

Kudos to bakaMX, who are now fansubbing Haibane-Renmei aka “Charcoal Feather Federation”; and it is just soooo good. clean art, nice music and tons of cute fluffy wings. created by Yoshitoshi ABe (lain, niea_7) and Tokoro Tomokazu (niea_7). I don’t … Continue reading

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Watched quite a bit of anime over the weekend

Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai (up to ep11) is another GAINAX show which transports a boy + girl (just friends ) to alternate realities making parodies of just about anything (SF, Jurassic Park, Film Noir, Romance Games / High School Anime, Kung-Fu … Continue reading

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It’s not complicated

Managed to recompile the kernel (knowing about mkinitrd helps… thanks, mandrake-manual… not!) w/ ACPI and w/o framebuffer-support (as that supposedly breaks the nvidia X-driver). i still can’t switch to a full-screen terminal from X, though (and neither exit…). grmbl!

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Not quite there

installed linux (mandrake 9). works fine. had a bit of trouble getting the audigy digital-out to work. also nvidia drivers make me loose the console (w/ blank screen) after exiting X / switching to consoles… (problem w/ smp & missing … Continue reading

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Another Opportunity to spend Money

JList will sell the Japanese Saikano DVDs (which supposedly have English subtitles) as special order…. ^_^

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Quite busy

Got over the initial bout of lectures… Seems I’ll be busy.

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Whasango – Volcano High

‘nother Mini-Review: Whasango aka Volcano High. Live-Action Korean film, and way over the top. Does not take itself seriously at all, but looks good enough that it could… Student w/ mystical powers has been expelled one too many times (six … Continue reading

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