ABOUT MUTAKU.com

On the name:

The name mutaku here represents the combination of two concepts meshed to one. The first part of the name 'mu' is derived from the anime character Mugen of Samurai Champloo. The latter part, 'taku', is as you probably have guessed by now, from the word 'otaku' in japanese.

On the site:

I created this site in an attempt to have a place to aggregate all the things I find on the internet world that tickle my fancy. You'll find snippets about gaming news, computing news, Linux news, and maybe sometimes politics. I also wished to post about my projects and endeavors in my computing and electronics hobbies. These will range from pictures and summaries of general projects, to guides I have thrown together (we young Jedi must stick together to defeat the dark force).

On xiao_haozi:

I am currently (at least I still hope so) a graduate student in Philadelphia pursuing a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology studying G-protein signaling (specifically Rho-GEFs). This site is an aggregation of my 'outside of lab' time - that which keeps me up into the wee hours of the night. As you can probably tell by know, my guides and the like are often pretty crude and/or novice in execution - which I will simply attribute to computing and electronics as a hobby rather than something I get paid for. Thus any ineptitudes I can justify accordingly. Some of these interests include:

-Bash and shell scripting for automation (and well using bash to do things that one should probably do with a language like python or c) --- this is my main passion

-Monowall including remote access, NAT, and VPN

-Linux (server and desktop usage) including building systems

-Media PC project running linux and playing media from a file server using SAMBA

-SAMBA

-Synergy

-MAME over the network

-Systems security and administration

-Network security and administration

other obsessions include:

-Building homebrew electronics and electronics repair

-Games (consoles and MAME essentially)

-Movies and music

-A finely tuned internet addiction

-Vegan cooking

-Climbing and paddling

-Photography

On some questions I foresee:

Why does your site suck - Why are your guides horrible/wrong - Why are you boring?

First part - because I made it. Second part - because I made it. Third part - really?

How did you make your site - What does it run?

I used geeklog. Currently my site runs on a server hosted by Venai (thanks to erik and tony at sublevo.com and venai.com).