I know this might sound odd... but your best bet might be to try an anime fansubbing channel or two on irc. They all have Japanese <-> English Translators, (most are native Japanese) who might be able to help...
If you're interested, email me off list and I'll give you some places to try :) Jason On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 10:22, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 15:49, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > Hello, sorry for the extremely off-topic, but a bios update for my > > laptop is badly needed... > > > > Of course my laptop at least runs Debian :) even if a small win2k > > partition still survives for this kind of tasks... > > > > The story: > > I own a vaio gr7/k, a japanese model, I bought during a Tokyo > > vacation in 2001 (oh... japan is such a wonderful place...) > > > > Note: gr7/k is very similar to gr170k(US) and gr214MP (EU) so if anybody > > who already did that could also tell his experience. > > > > I'm looking for a (maibe native) japanese speaking guy who can briefly > > help in making me understand how to udate the bios of the beast. > > Sony support in italy carries 20EUR to talk to an autoresponder... > > What is written after the /!\ is that you need a PCGA-UFD5 floppy drive to be > able to upgrade your BIOS. > On the other hand, if I correctly understand all it is about (I can't read > all > kanjis), you probably don't really need this update. > BTW, IIRC (I'm not at home at the moment, but will check then), I have the > same Vaio model, never upgraded it, and had no problem with it... > > Mike -- ############################################################################### # Jason Straw -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Resampling Stats, Inc. -- Systems Administratior, Web Developer # # Statistics.com -- Web Developer # ###############################################################################
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