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MSNBC acquires Newsvine 2007-10-08 01:42:33 I was new to the service (newsvine) so I was a bit surprised to see a post on digg about the issue as well as the new logo.
MSNBC
has acquired Newsvine, a socially driven news site (like Digg, Shoutwire, etc). Newsvine will continue to operate as an independent news site and will not be folded into MSNBC.com, but Newsvine technology will be added to the MSNBC website.
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Aborting a Shutdown on Windows XP 2007-10-07 20:28:50 If you’ve tried kill programs suspicious programs on the taskbar before then you probably got this message once or twice:
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IE7 removes WGA check 2007-10-05 19:56:04 The first time IE7, I was a bit confused at Microsoft’s intent. At first, they wanted to compete with Firefox by providing a “free,” safe and optimal browser to compete with Firefox, Opera and everyone else. When it came out, I was surprised to see an additional WGA check which was embbedded into every installation of the new browser, which was quite separate from the checks of my windows installation –this goes the same for WMP11. Now, from the official IE blog is an announcement that the WGA checks will be gone with the latest IE7 update, at least for Windows XP users.
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Software Review: Week 2 2007-10-05 15:58:27 I had a bit of trouble writing a review for this week. I’ve had about six people pestering (yes, it was beyond nagging guys) me to blog about one of the hot issues in the Filipino community today. No it’s not the ZTE deal, it’s about the issue with a scene in Desperate Housewives that’s raising a lot of ruckus. I will remain adamant on my decision to keep this blog away from that issue. Besides, this is a technical blog but you guys already know that didn’t you?
If you’re interested on my views on the issue, you can read up my comments on Pinoyblogero. Now that that’s done, on with the review:
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The Storm superworm 2007-10-04 19:12:32 No this isn’t a security bulletin but if you’re thinking that your computer is safe from viruses and malware, think again.
What is Storm
?
If you’ve been seeing floods of emails and IM messages that try to get you to click links that say, “Interesting Pics,” “Watch this video,” “Funny Pics here,” etc then you’ve seen how the Storm worm spreads. These hoax messages direct victims to a site and prompt them to install an “applet.” This applet is actually Storm Worm itself.
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Sun to replace mobile-specific Java 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Unless you’re a geek or simply a program, the places that you’re likely to encounter Java is on your browser and your mobile phone. Sun is planning a revamp of it’s current line up and is working to eventually replace the mobile-specific version of the software.
“We’re trying to converge everything to the Java SE specification. [...]
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Firefox 2.0.0.8 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Unlike 2.0.0.7, Firefox
’s new update is highly recommended to fix the crashes that many users have reported.
Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.
The security issues that were fixed are as follows:
URIs [...]
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Seto no Hanayome - Series Review 0000-00-00 00:00:00 After seeing the whole series twice, the top tier comedy anime Seto no Hanayome ranks as one of the best titles I’ve seen in this genre and paves it’s way into my short list of faved anime titles. Seto no Hanayome encompasses the following genres: Romance, School Life, Comedy, Parody, and Action. Although some [...]
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Ubuntu 7.10 is available for download 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Although it’s still not on the Ubuntu
site front page, you can get the latest distro from any of these sources:
Ubuntu Release Page
OSUOSL Mirror
FSLUTD Mirror
Indiana Mirror
CD image Mirror
Or you can save everyone’s server from the Digg effect and use a torrent
Highlighted Features of Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Edition:
GNOME 2.20
The Gutsy Gibbon release candidate brings you the latest...
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Asus EEE details and pricing 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I should have posted this yesterday but I had tons of stuff to do so pardon the late information to anyone waiting for their EEE’s.
Asus
finally unveiled the models in which their much awaited EEE PC will be available.
Model Name
Eee PC 8G
Eee PC 4G
Eee PC 4G Surf
Eee PC 2G Surf
Display
7″
7″
7″
7″
Intel CPU & Chipset
V
V
V
V
Operating System
Linux and...
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The rise of subnotebooks 0000-00-00 00:00:00 While the idea of ultra low cost subnotebooks was intended as a project for education purposes of third world countries, everyone seems to be chipping in into what’s likely to become a new battlefield for manufacturers.
The whole concept started with the OLPC. They wanted a portable, durable notebook with enough features to provide multimedia [...]
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Site move complete 0000-00-00 00:00:00 You may have seen the site downtime or the reset of the wordpress installation but rest assured everything’s clean and dandy now. I’m just polishing a few more items on the new host and will move on to posting some of the stuff I’ve made over the weekend.
For now I leave you with several [...]
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Mapua COE GC Logo 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Phew! After a few hours of dabbling in Photoshop I’m finally done with my entry for the GC logo (or whatever you call the design that will go on our shirt). I’ll be waiting for my batch mates reaction on my work so I’m still not sure if it’s going to be used [...]
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Site Changes and More 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I’ll be moving to a new host in a few days (change that to now, if I’m lucky enough to find an open bank which I doubt since it’s a holiday). I’m getting tired of the timeouts I’m experiencing when getting dugged an/or stumbled. It’s happened thrice this week and after consulting w/ [...]
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Mozilla aims for mobile web 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Opera is probably the best browser for your mobile device and the Mozilla
team now wants a piece of the action. While many mozila fans will go crazy over that announcement, there’s a few things I’d like to point on that the Mozilla team needs on their checklist to make it a hit:
Firefox should [...]
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Software Review: Week 3 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I’ve had my gmail accounts (I have 4) for quite awhile now and it’s feeling quite cluttered so I decided to take a look if the grass is greener on the other side, namely yahoo and live hotmail to see what they have to offer.
Interface
All 3 webmail programs offer AJAX built interfaces, and an [...]
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Windows XP SP3 leaked details 0000-00-00 00:00:00 It’s been a long time coming but Window’s XP Service Pack 3 is coming.As with SP2, Service Pack 3 will consist mainly of previously-released hot fixes and security patches so you don’t have to install SP1, SP2 THEN SP3. Internet Explorer 7 and Windows
Media Player 11 will also be included by default.
So what’s new [...]
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Citibank on Paypal Withdrawal 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I had pause all my blogging activities to catch up on my research for my Electronic Design subject. To compensate for that, I tried to contact Citibank
on how one will go about withdrawing your Adsense income via Paypal. Here’s their reply:
We wish to inform you that once you withdraw funds from your [...]
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The Gphone is not a phone 0000-00-00 00:00:00 ?The essential point is that Google?s strategy is to lead the creation of an open-source competitor to Windows Mobile,? said one industry executive. ?They will put it in the open-source world and take the economics out of the Windows Mobile business.?
The GPhone (Google Phone) is not going to be a second iPhone. Google’s main [...]
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Ubuntu 7.10 available for preorder 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Shipit, Ubuntu
’s FREE CD delivery service is now taking orders for Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) shipments.
While placing my orders I noted that there’s a bit of decrease in the cds they send out:
1 Ubuntu CD (1 PC Edition)
1 Ubuntu CD (1 64-bit PC Edition)
2 Ubuntu CDs (2 PC Edition)
I’m quite sure I started [...]
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Open Source Code Editors 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I found an interesting list and thought of posting it here. Multi-purpose code editors are probably the best thing that happened to programming. If you need to develop in one or more platforms, there’s little need for more than one editor. Other than efficiency and ease of use, there’s also the issue [...]
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General Programming Tips 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Every developer follows a set of guidelines no matter what language he/she is handling. These guidelines can be good or bad depending on how they’re used and on how much they speed development up or slow things down.
General
guidelines
Avoid white spaces in the source code while possible.
During initial development, make methods/functions public. Allot proper [...]
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Gundam 00 - Initial Review 0000-00-00 00:00:00 There’s still some bad after taste of Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny so I wasn’t willing to try anything under the CE time line. Lucky for me, Gundam 00 (pronounced as double ‘O’) is using the AD time line.
Here’s some preliminary information on the series:
Set in 2307 AD (AD = Anno Domini, [...]
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Microsoft Bows to EU 0000-00-00 00:00:00 After three years of resistance, Microsoft
has finally agreed to start complying with a European Commission 2004 anti-monopoly ruling against it.
The commission said the US firm would now “comply with its obligations”.
Microsoft, which was fined nearly half a million euros in 2004 and a further 280.5 million euros ($400.6 million) in 2006 for non-compliance, faced [...]
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Software Review: Week 4 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Sorry for another late review, things were a bit hectic for our graduate class so I had very little time to assess stuff, much less review my posts for typo so I’m doing it at work (Bad sylv3r!).
The first name that comes into mind when mentioning cd/dvd authoring is Nero because OEM versions of their [...]
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Thoughts on KUbuntu 7.10 0000-00-00 00:00:00 After about 3 hours of tweaking, I’ve finally managed to get a stable configuration for installation of Kubuntu 7.10. While I will add my hand on all the praises that Canonical has been receiving, I’ll be one of the first few who’d tell you that Gutsy Gibbon is not as perfect as it seems. [...]
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EA’s Crysis (not Farcry 2) 0000-00-00 00:00:00 If you’re still living under a digital rock and haven’t seen what’s hot in the gaming world, Crysis
is an upcoming science fiction First Person Shooter, that is being developed by Crytek. The story is as follows:
Set in 2019, Crysis’ plot follows Jake Dunn, a United States Delta Force operative, whose codename is [...]
Mac OS X 10.5 installation solutions 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Mac users who have upgraded from previous builds of Leopard to 10.5 experience something similar to Window’s BSOD. The problem didn’t seem to crop up for people who did fresh installations. Here’s 3 ways on how you can avoid that problem:
On the Select Destination page under More Options, pick the Archive/Install option. Installation [...]
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XP performance tweaks 0000-00-00 00:00:00 While we’re waiting for Vista to get better or Windows 7 (probably 3 years to go), or contemplating on a Windows alternative altogether like Mac’s Leopard or LInux’s Ubuntu, don’t throw your XP partition away just yet. Tweak it up to get the most of your PC’s hardware as well as in preparation for SP3.
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