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I mostly use academic software on Linux for my thesis, like NVMSpice, NVSim, HP CACTI, ngSPICE, GEM5 and DRAMSim.

"The people who can destroy a thing, they control it."
†• Frank Herbert, Dune

The removal of controversial content is a whole different issue. It was likely removed due pressure from affiliated companies.

By whom you ask? Last time it was the advertisers, this time though Jacob is being mum about it, which makes me think it must be the credit card companies.

At the moment the site relies on book sales, usually done through pay** or VI**/*****card, etc. If these companies ceased their services for any reason the site would be in a dire financial situation... As they have done so in the past with other entities affiliated with what they (or what they think the wider public) perceives as controversial content.

Why the great silence? Because these financial companies have also ceased co-operation with companies that publicly debated their policies as they perceive any and all bad publicity as lethal poison, hence they tend to go on full offensive when they perceive they're under attack.

Welcome to our brave new world, where the extreme fringe can dictate policy. This is why a small minority can push their extreme version of 3rd wave feminism and why companies act like culture police.

New scanlated manga is uploaded because people still use the site to disseminate their scanlated work even if it will be up only for a month at best. It's as simple as that, there's no conspiracy, no behind the curtain secret deals. Frankly, I'm getting rather tired of all the entitled moaning and Jewcob conspiracy lunacy.

You Johny Q. Public, the consumer have consumed a service that was given for free, was legally grey at best and was the culmination of the work of hundreds of people, from scanners through translators to editors and dissemination web-site administrators. (As well as a few good Samaritans who comissioned some of the people above to work for their hard earned cash).

FAKKU is going legal. Unlicensed, scanlated content will be removed.

Don't like it? Go somewhere else. There are dozens of compilation sites out there. Moan and bitch about it like a petulant child. It's your "right" (even though this is a privately owned site and the owner has every right to do whatever they want).

However what you should get into your head is that FAKKU was never something you had any right to demand and unless you're one of the people who helped the process above you have little grounds to argue otherwise.

Is FAKKU selling out the community? What insane question is that?! If that were so, why did FAKKU *host* so many scanlators? No, I'm not talking about their scanlated work, I mean all the blogs, personal sites that the translators have come to rely on. Often times FAKKU offered this hosting free of charge on the heels of other companies like blogpost or wordpress evicting said blogs for various reasons, usually with little warning or recourse offered.

If you had any attention to detail beyond your sense of entitlement, you'd have noticed that the very same people you claim to "defend" in your tirades are the ones signing up with FAKKU. People like Sahadou, veterans of scanlation who will finally get a chance to receive a steady income have their work published to a wide audience and in very high quality print.

From where I stand, FAKKU simply realized that as things stood its operation were in-viable (Hullo massive DMCA takedowns!) and has chosen to move with the times...

...from what I read, a lot of you are still living in the past.

Can one argue that Jacob is doing something that personally will benefit him in a monetary sense? Sure. But come, on! What is the alternative? Unless you personally are willing to put your money and livelihood on the line you have no grounds to vilify others for doing the grown up thing.

Small addendum:
The cbz files are nothing more than the images packed into a zip file, sometimes, but not necessarily accompanied by an xml file containing metadata. The extension was adopted by comic readers, so you wouldn't have to associate the generic zip extension with your comic reader app.

(CBR is just a RAR file, CB7 is a 7-zip file).

As my 3rd waifu, I claim Athena from Campione!, originally the goddess of darkness, snakes, owls, the earth, and of life, death, and wisdom. Later she was demoted to being Zeus's daughter in one role, in another, as Medusa, she was turned into a snake monster who turned those who gazed upon her to stone.



She goes beyond your typical creepy girl stereotype by being whimsical and very pro-active, quite at odds with her quiet persona if you think about it.

Nano Gallery:

It will work until the system does anything with system restore (which is part of installation of certain software, like MS SQL, Visual Studio, etc.), then the symlinks will break...

Not recommended. I know, because I tried this in the past.
Instead what you should do, is install the OS, then customize it in auditing mode with the proper answer file. (To do this, you must pause at the very end, so called OOBE - Out of Box Experience - part of installation where you start to create your user profile).

More details:

Win7: how do I move user folder to a different drive

Users Folder - Move Location in Windows 10

As my 2nd waifu I claim Erica Blandelli from Campione!



One of the few heroines who can not only keep pace with the guys but literally twirl them around her fingers with her wits, grace... and merciless teasing and ridicule. She's the kind of girl who makes you go full tilt as that's the only way to keep up with her.

Micro Gallery

[size=18]For my 1st Waifu, I claim Tohsaka Rin from Fate/Stay Night.[/size]

(She also appears in Fate/Hollow Ataraxia, Fate/Extra and Fate/Kaloid Liner Prisma Ilya).



Tohsaka's been my dream girl for quite a while. She's self-possessed, pro-active, passionate, slyly teasing and not above putting matters into her own hands. In other words, as far as you can get from the "MOE" stereotypes of the weak, submissive girls as one can get without without turning the heroine into a guy... Just to clear things up: Rin's definitely feminine. She has both an outgoing, impish tomboy and a more romantic, star-eyed romantic hidden beneath her cool class idol act. I hope we can get through the first date without her shooting me with Gandr or her having to regrow my vital organs after a homicidal Irishmen stabbed them.

[size=18]Galleries:[/size]

Solo Gallery:


A Saber is Fine Too Gallery:


Your Sister is Here Too Gallery:


PS: Given my job (sysop) and her "luck" (Gremlins!) with technology, we might have some "interesting" times... oh, well at least the I'll have something to tease her with in turn

Actually can you back up MSE's abysmal record with some data? (Some articles that show test results would suffice) AFAIK, it's not top tier, but it's not bad either. Before you point out that Kaspersky or other top-tier products are better, yes they are, but we're comparing free products now.

Reclaiming Tohsaka Rin from Fate/Stay Night.

Wrong. Dead wrong. For the n+1st time: Torture is ineffective, since it doesn't produce reliable results and contaminates the witness you're interrogating as they'll start to believe their own made up stories created under pressure to stop the hurt.



Exept it doesn't work. Not as a reliable interrogation method. Do you want to break someone? Torture will do that. Get useful intel? Torture is not reliable.



For the millionth time: Even if it wasn't ethically repulsive and wrong in a myriad ways, it's still not worth it. It's not effective.

Given how many people were on death-row who were later proven innocent, I can't support the death penalty. It's not something you can undo and the state keeps fucking up.

Can't believe no-one has posted these yet:
Tom's Hardware - Graphics Card Hierarchy Chart - 2015
Tom's Hardware - Gaming CPU Hierarchy Chart - 2015

Picking a good GPU/CPU is a real headache, since buying the something from the "newest line" won't necessarily get you the strongest card for your $.

Urm... actually that argument doesn't stand either.

Did western fans pirating and scanlating H-magazines affect the creators to a degree where their livelihood was undermined? No. Until recently the western market has been really marginal sales-wise. As it was written above by Tenzou, things got serious when the international scanlation community's actions started to affect the Japanese market.

That said, do people have the legal right to pirate stuff because they can't (or won't) afford it? No, they don't. While I believe in the necessity of providing as wide (and free) access to culture on-line as possible, I don't believe this gives a Carte Blanche license to distribute somebody else's work. (The devil, as usual, is in the details. When should something become part of the public domain and under what restrictions?)

As for actual exploitation, publishers have squeezed authors a lot more than piracy ever did. Traditionally the main problem for authors was always the gate-keepers fleecing you and censoring you instead people "pirating" your work.

What I really like about digital distribution is that it's a big equalizer, really lowering distribution costs and allowing authors to reach a wider audience with competitive (AKA *low*) prices.

What I hate is how entitled and whiny some of the H-community is, not realizing that they were enjoying the work (and money!) of other people, staring with the authors themselves through the efforts of the scanlation community.

Thanks for clearing things up!



Frankly the /h/ community in general only knows:
a) Wani did it
b) People still claim it was "Jewcob"

There is no such thing as "right to read". Hentai magazines and tankoubons are commercial products and the copy-right laws are very clear: Unless you buy the product you don't have any rights to access it.

Fan-translations are in a grey area. Can you make them? Sure. Can you distribute them? Not legally... Do publishers give a damn? For a long while they didn't since fan-translations targeted a market the publishers deemed insignificant or inviable (as in the profit "lost" to these translations wouldn't have covered the operating costs).

Frankly WANI shut down sadpanda and went on a warpath because Asian scanners switched to high gear and instead the usual 1-3 month wait between being released in print and scanned they started to pirate content ASAP. Since sadpanda was heavily used by Japanese fans, WANI (rightly) felt that they were cutting into their profit.

Whatever was done seems to have some side effects. For now I have FAKKU Gold so ads are not issue... however now it's impossible to change pages with the arrow keys. Can't change pages with either AdBlock enabled or disabled.

OK, did some testing: The same problem arose whether I used Firefox or IE. However *logging out* and enabling AdBlock fixed the issue, so I have a nagging feeling there's a bug in the FAKKU Gold code now.