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Light novel - where to buy?

elroid — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 23:06:40 +0800

Anyone knows are there any place that sells Chinese light novels aside from Kinokuniya? Would prefer if it published by Taiwan Kadokawa (台湾角川) instead of Tianwen Kadokawa) since the latter once in a while has weaker quality due to translation/censorship/edit/etc.

One thing I dislike buying from Kino is it mostly only imports LNs that currently been adapted to anime or those that are currently popular. This causes many LNs that were either older or new to be easily discontinued and out of stock. Most of the time I need to request order to get what I want to read
If anyone know any retail store that sells LN pls intro me.

Follow list: 9S, Tasogare iro no uta sekai, Shakugan no Shana, To Aru no Index, Sword Art Online, Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei, Black Bullet, Nobuna no Yabou, some one shot LNs
-Most you can read summary from wiki(chinese) or baka-tsuki

HELP- Internet frequent disconnect

elroid — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:18:08 +0800

I am using the streamyx 1Mbps package. Recently I'm experiencing internet disconnection once in a while at random intervals which the modem will not show the internet light while the ADSL light remains on and stable. This problem has happened since one month ago but I noticed it happened more and more frequently... Would like to know what are the possible reason that causes this problem and if possible also the solutions for solving it. To me I felt that the connection might have some disturbance or maybe somewhere there is some cable or port faults, but I am only taking a wild guess so its not helping at all.

I did call 100 and launched a report yesterday and a technician did call me just now. however, his attitude is kinda rude and all he says is the usual "cannot find any problem with the port and there is nothing wrong with the connection". All he says is ask me to continue to monitor the connection and strangely he keep insisting me to make a new report, which is suppose to be the same problem. Worse still, the problem is happening at random intervals and there is no way I will always be sitting in front of my computer so there is no way I should know when did it happen again...

After a little quarrel the technician agrees to come to my house to check today. however since i dont really trust that guy i would like to at least find out what are the possible reasons causing the problem. I dont know is it my area is shorthanded or they are slacking or something, but always all my reports tend to take longer time to actually solve the problems (2-4 weeks), so if possible i need to know what is causing the problem to smoothen the process.

Otherwise, if my experience does not fails me, later the technician come he will just say now there is no problem so he cant find out anything....

Slow internet connection during nightime

elroid — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:44:03 +0800

I am using the streamyx 1Mbps package. Recently I'm experiencing slow connection speed during night time start from around 8.30pm. This problem has started since last month's cable faulty problem but iirc the problem should be solved sometime ago... Are there any problem that is happening again or is it just happening to me only?

btw, has tm changed their customer service schedule? i tried to call to ask for resetting the port but always no one pick up the phone

Took alot time to load one speedtest result due to keep having configuration load failed problem...

[WTA] Game edition differences?

elroid — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:23:01 +0800

What is the differences between the editions of games? For example premium or limited edition. I see many dealer sells them with higher price but it seems like nothing special about it. Just curious as I thought those are editions that bundles with goods or DLCs only

[WTA] how to check PSN remaining downloads

elroid — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:32:30 +0800

anyone can teach how to check the remaining download counts of PSN downloads? i plan to share with some of my friends but it should be better if i keep track of the remaining downloads since it is limited to 5 only...

also, i just downloaded some avatars from a game bundle and installed them on other user. after i found out avatars could not be shared, i downloaded them for the account that uses it again... So if I'm downloading for the same system and user, will the remaining count drops again?

[WTA] PS Store question

elroid — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:33:12 +0800

Would like to ask some question regarding PS Store.

1) Would things like DLC affected by the game disc regions? For example like purchasing dlc from the US store then play with r3 disc
2) Could other user of the same PS3 share the dlc without redownloading again?
3) I heard downloaded games takes one user slot of the ps3 each, what is it about?

cant access to anything without proxy...

elroid — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:47:02 +0800

hi, I've got this problem since yesterday. i couldnt browse any webpages and sign in to any programs that requires the access to the network including MSN or Yahoo messanger. After i tried to ask my friend to find me one proxy finally i could regain control over the internet.

Does anyone knows what is the causes and methods to solve this problem? I believe this is not caused by any virus or malwares since the same problem happens on both my desktop and laptop...