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Living with 2 OS’s 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I was introduced to Linux during my 2nd year in college, about the time I started my part time job at a small hosting company. We had 6 servers running Red Hat and my first impression was “WTH is DOS doing here?” Of course that changed a few weeks later after a crash [...] Read more:Living
Want a free iPod? 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Here’s a quick head’s up:
Michael Kwan and Ed Lau are working on a new hockey blog and they need your help! If you come up with a totally awesome name for their blog, you can win an 8GB iPod
nano! More information about the contest can be found on Michael’s freelance writing blog and on [...]
Speak to attract 0000-00-00 00:00:00 One of the few excerpts in the lessons that my professor in Oral Communication that I’ll never forget is
The ability to communicate is something that only you can develop. I can teach you the basics of public speaking and technical writing but in the end, furthering your use and knowledge of it is something [...]
Rush Hour 3: Movie Review 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I seem to be having some problem with my host since when I got home, I couldn’t access both Atma Xplorer’s root page as well as my host’s cp. I’ve sent a support ticket about this. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again because if it does, I’ll either be looking for a new host [...] Read more:Rush Hour
, Movie Review
Viralinking 0000-00-00 00:00:00 After several blog-hops I found an interesting post and decided to throw myself into the fray. Just copy everything within the block quote and contact the innovator via shoutbox or technorati.
Below is a matrix of 120 stars, I have already added a link to my blog onto one of the stars, all [...]
Streamline your blog to earn cash 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Read this if you have a blog and want to squeeze more out of it.
If you’re still new to the blogging community start off with this guide from Supernoobice.
1. Search Engine Optimization:
Titles and URLS:
The more relevant the URL, the more easier it is to read both by visitors and the search engine crawlers. [...] Read more:Streamline
5 reasons to avoid call centers for help 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I’ve always been appalled by the call center system because non-technical people are supposed to filter and sort through our concerns so that the technical people, those in-charge of repair, maintenance, etc, won’t waste time doing so. Sadly it’s this system itself that causes the problems that it’s supposed to be preventing.. Here’s [...]
Alexa Redirect Train 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Here’s another great idea from Steve
A quick way of increasing your Alexa
Rank
~Start Copying Here~
Alexa RedirectTrain
by Carl Ocab.
Rules:
1. Put anything you like above this list – Chit Chat, talkies, introduce what this is. Something like that
2. Start copying on the “~Start Copying Here~” and copy all the things listed without removing [...]
Technorati Favorites Exchange 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Site promotion can be a pain sometimes and it’s one task that newbies to blogging like me find hard as hell to get good at. Luckily there’s quite a few people who want to help out on that. Here’s a post from Lifecruiser that’ll help boost your site’s popularity via technorati:
Note that the [...] Read more:Technorati
, Exchange
Minor site update and some blog resource 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I didn’t realize that I did’nt add the 301 redirect to my RSS. No wonder it wasn’t showing up on my reader. Anyway it’s fixed now and here’s an interesting find for my fellow bloggers, list of rss feed directories.
http://www.rss-feeds-directory.com/blog_lists.html
I’ve added my site to quite a few of them.
A disclaimer though, not all [...] Read more:Minor
The Agnostic and his Catholic family 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I believe in God but not in the church.
The statement is plain and unexciting and yet it seems to fire up the most vehement curses known to man, not surprisingly from the most pious, or at least spiritual, of people. With that simple statement, I have been in constant debate and argument with members of my clan and immediate family on how and why I should uphold my beliefs both directly and indirectly. The question is why?
I stopped believing in the church shortly after entering High School. Ironically, it was a Catholic
school, an institution that upheld the ethics of religion in a much higher perspective than others. Being born a Catholic, I was exposed to everything that the church has to offer; beliefs, prayers, saints. I’ve been baptized, taken my communion, confessed my sins, and taken part in so many rituals that the religion deems a requirement for a place in the heavens that I can’t remember most of them. I lived most of my days in fear of holy retribution and in lin Read more:Agnostic
Portable Applications 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I think its safe to say that when browsing the net away from home, we always want to use the software that we’ve grown used to. Say Firefox for browsing, Thunderbird for emails, Pidgin for IMs, because we’ve had our programs at home tweaked just the way we like. More often that not, what’s available to us offers the default configuration and little of the customization that we’d prefer (as is the case when one visits an internet cafe).
Instead of lugging bundles of installers, why not bring along portable versions on your flash disk? This is where Portable
Apps enter the scene. They provide convenient and lightweight versions of the popular open source programs. And they provide them totally free.
All you need to do is drop them to your flash drive/ipod/portable hard drive, configure and you’re good to go. They’ll work on any windows computer
Here’s a list of what PortableApps Suite has in store:
Accessibility
Firefox Accessibility Exten Read more:Applications
Fingerprint of the Gods: Book Review 0000-00-00 00:00:00 “Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization”
It was a catch-phrase that simply piqued my curiosity, and pulled me from taking a quick look at the shelf with the tag Best Seller hanging above it. I haven’t been intrigued by a book for quite awhile so a catchy line was really a wake-up call. There were no open copies in the bookstores and I didn’t really want to spend money on a book that I wouldn’t really want on my shelf so I headed home and checked out the first few chapters from the net.
Right then and there I couldn’t stop reading.
Here’s an excerpt from the back flap of the book:
Could the story of mankind be far older than we have previously believed? Using tools as varied as archaeo-astronomy, geology, and computer analysis of ancient myths, Graham Hancock suggests a compelling case that it is.
In Fingerprints of the Gods, Hancock embarks on a worldwide quest to put together all the pieces of the vast and fascinating jigsaw of mankind
Tips to beat stress 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Stress is a change that we adapt to in our daily lives. You can almost describe it as pressure, demand, or any situation that requires physical and/or mental exertion. It can be positive or negative, ranging from something that motivates you to work or something that drags you to a halt. The negative effects can include lack of productivity, depression, loneliness, frustration or even anger. Those symptoms can sometimes cause much larger problems like break-ups, disparity at work, etc.
Here are a few tips to help cope with the effects of stress
:
1. Rest and Relaxation:
Take some time off and let loose. Work related stress can be due to the pile up of projects and deadlines. A vacation in the middle of the week will help you let loose all that accumulated stress.
2. Watch a movie or play your favorite game
Going to the movie house and taking a peek at a random movie can give you a sense of satisfaction that overrules the effects of stress. Games can do the same thing, especially
OTAKU FIESTA 2K7 0000-00-00 00:00:00 [ September 1, 2007; 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] What happens when Japanese culture and Filipino culture collide?
FIND OUT AT:
Dream2Reality Production’s
OTAKU FIESTA 2K7
“The FUSION of Japan’s Matsuuri and Philippine’s Pistahan”
September 1, 2007
Kapitan Moy [J.P Rizal, Sta.Elena, Marikina City] (near Teatro Marikina, beside OTTO Shoes)
The FUN starts at 2 P.M
80 pesos
Fashion Show | Band Performances
Art Exhibits | Fun Activities
Cool Booths
BAND PERFORMANCES BY:
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Living with 2 OS’s 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I was introduced to Linux during my 2nd year in college, about the time I started my part time job at a small hosting company. We had 6 servers running Red Hat and my first impression was “WTH is DOS doing here?” Of course that changed a few weeks later after a crash course on the basics of linux. 3 years after and I’ve gone and passed through several distros: Red Hat Server, Mandrake (Now Mandriva), Gentoo , Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Derivatives: Xubuntu and Kubuntu.
The time I’m spending in front of my desktop is 70% Kubuntu / 30% XP. I still can’t leave my windows installation for various reasons, mainly because I’m still programming/scripting on VB.NET and ASP.NET. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not at all dissatisfied with my Windows XP installation because the only crashes I’ve experienced was due to hardware failures. I don’t experience OS related problems because I use a legit copy updated with only the security patches, not one of those cracked/war Read more:Living
Want a free iPod? 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Here’s a quick head’s up:
Michael Kwan and Ed Lau are working on a new hockey blog and they need your help! If you come up with a totally awesome name for their blog, you can win an 8GB iPod
nano! More information about the contest can be found on Michael’s freelance writing blog and on Ed’s personal blog.
Speak to attract 0000-00-00 00:00:00 One of the few excerpts in the lessons that my professor in Oral Communication that I’ll never forget is
The ability to communicate is something that only you can develop. I can teach you the basics of public speaking and technical writing but in the end, furthering your use and knowledge of it is something that I or anyone else cannot teach. Communication is a skill not a knowledge.
It’s a simple deviance from what we know about how to communicate but the meaning is profound. Having sheer basic knowledge simply isn’t enough. Can you imagine being a public speaker and boring your audience to sleep?
Here’s a few tips on how to improve yourself:
1. Read everything you can get your hands on.
If you hate reading, then you should start to like it. There’s no way you can increase your skill to converse if you don’t know how to convey your ideas into words. Having a generic vocabulary is fine but if you want to excel in communication, you had best not bore your
Rush Hour 3: Movie Review 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I seem to be having some problem with my host since when I got home, I couldn’t access both Atma Xplorer’s root page as well as my host’s cp. I’ve sent a support ticket about this. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again because if it does, I’ll either be looking for a new host or upgrading my current account. Anyways on with the review.
I was supposed to go to school today but the typhoon changed my plans and classes were canceled so I decided to watch a movie with my girlfriend. It was a choice between Rush Hour
3 and Surf’s up. I love penguins but I guess past successes goaded me to watch the former. Penguins can’t do kung-fun anyway.
Characters:
You’ll find the staple Rush Hour 3 characters, Jackie-chan as Lee, Chris Tucker as James Carter, Tzi Ma as Ambassador Han and Jingchu Zhang as the grown-up Soo Yang. Chris Tucker is much more rotund now, probably due to his lack of activity in the silver screen and Jackie looks more an Read more:Movie Review
Viralinking 0000-00-00 00:00:00 After several blog-hops I found an interesting post and decided to throw myself into the fray. Just copy everything within the block quote and contact the innovator via shoutbox or technorati.
Below is a matrix of 120 stars, I have already added a link to my blog onto one of the stars, all you need to do is copy and paste the grid into your blog and add your own link to one of the other spare stars, and tell others to do the same!
Viralink
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Streamline your blog to earn cash 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Read this if you have a blog and want to squeeze more out of it.
If you’re still new to the blogging community start off with this guide from Supernoobice.
1. Search Engine Optimization:
Titles and URLS:
The more relevant the URL, the more easier it is to read both by visitors and the search engine crawlers. Change your permalink structure from the default value of strings and numbers (say index.html=?123asya32) to something more search engine friendly like: /%postname%/%year%/%day%/%month%/
Links:
Linking is a good way of increasing your page rank. The more links you have, the better. You can ask friends to link to your site. If you have the time, going to forums is a good way to increase your site rank. So long as you keep a link to your blog in your signature and you stay active people are going to divert to your site every so often. Another path would be to spread your links with other bloggers.
Use TAGS for META keywords to help crawlers to your site’s content and Read more:Streamline
5 reasons to avoid call centers for help 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I’ve always been appalled by the call center system because non-technical people are supposed to filter and sort through our concerns so that the technical people, those in-charge of repair, maintenance, etc, won’t waste time doing so. Sadly it’s this system itself that causes the problems that it’s supposed to be preventing.. Here’s why:
1. A call center agent is not a technician
This is a common misconception to those who don’t know how the system works. The call center agents face the flood of calls and act as a buffer. Yes it’s economical and beneficial to the company because the job hierarchy prevents one staff member from doing the job of the other. For the customer’s side, it can mean long waits for a response to their support tickets or worse even no response at all. Because they rely on a set of “symptoms” rather than general knowledge of what’s going on, explaining a major problem is almost always a pai
Alexa Redirect Train 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Here’s another great idea from Steve
A quick way of increasing your Alexa
Rank
~Start Copying Here~
Alexa RedirectTrain
by Carl Ocab.
Rules:
1. Put anything you like above this list – Chit Chat, talkies, introduce what this is. Something like that
2. Start copying on the “~Start Copying Here~” and copy all the things listed without removing the links (Of course, the train would be no use without those links)
3. Move all the sites labeled “Newcomers” to the list labeled “Oldies”
4. Add 5 sites that you want to include in the train and make their link like this: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.example.com then invite them to join the train.
5. Visit all the listed sites! (That’s not much work! Remember, if you plant good seeds they will also grow good) and look at your high Alexa ranking next week!
Newcomers:
The BenSpark
[B][E][A][U][T][I][F][U][L]
7Confessions
Celebrity Brands
Still Frames
Atma Xplorer
Oldies:
Connected Internet
DoshDosh
Lyte Byte
Ref
Technorati Favorites Exchange 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Site promotion can be a pain sometimes and it’s one task that newbies to blogging like me find hard as hell to get good at. Luckily there’s quite a few people who want to help out on that. Here’s a post from Lifecruiser that’ll help boost your site’s popularity via technorati:
Note that the original post is here
Most of us want to promote our sites as much as possible and one way is by register at Technorati
.com, or claim your blog as they call it.
I found a post on Tricias site about Technorati Favorites exchange that I thought was interesting, so I was thinking: why don’t we, the cruisers at least, but every one else is welcome too, mark each other as Technorati Favorites, to support each other?
So, I’ve added active A-Team Cruisers to my Technorati Favorites to begin with and will continue with others.
Technorati rank sites by popularity and the more links you have to your site the lower your rank drops. The lower your rank gets, the closer you ar Read more:Exchange
Minor site update and some blog resource 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I didn’t realize that I did’nt add the 301 redirect to my RSS. No wonder it wasn’t showing up on my reader. Anyway it’s fixed now and here’s an interesting find for my fellow bloggers, list of rss feed directories.
http://www.rss-feeds-directory.com/blog_lists.html
I’ve added my site to quite a few of them.
A disclaimer though, not all of those services are free and other sites are down. Read more:Minor
Microsoft’s SideWinder Mouse 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I’ve been using an A4Tech 3XFire mouse for about 2 years or so, give or take a few weeks and I’ve never thought I’d consider replacing it because it’s given me the features any gamer can ask for. Customizable side buttons, a 2xFire button, a button to scroll through your DPI resolutions and a sleek body. I always thought that when it breaks I’d be replacing it with something along it’s product-line. Microsoft
proved me wrong.
Microsoft debuts the revival of their SideWinder™ line its first gaming mouse built from the ground up. If anyone can remember their controllers before Saitek, arguably MS’s best competition in the field, entered the fray, MS’s SideWinder products, controllers, steering wheels, joysticks were above average, providing basic functionality and a few added quirks. MS changed that age-old perception with the release of a fully customizable gaming mouse.
Here’s a quick list of new features:
o Quick Turn – a performance-en Read more:Mouse
Suprnova is back 0000-00-00 00:00:00 To those who have been familiar torrents starting for quite a while, the name Suprnova (and that’s not a typo) is no stranger. Many consider it the most popular BitTorrent search engine. However, the site was closed down due to legal pressures. Now it has been relaunched by Pirate Bay.
Here’s their post on the front page:
We’re back!
Suprnova has been down for some years due to some heavy pressure from the copyright lobby. The former owner sloncek donated suprnova to The Pirate Bay - and as you know, we like to kick ass and bow for noone!
We were going to keep this site a secret until we had finished it, but of course it leaked, that’s how internet works. So now that the word is out, we’re releasing it!
Please consider these first weeks/months as a beta test. Since we love all you guys and gals so much we decided to keep it an open beta test. That means, please behave, don’t complaint to much and if you discover any weird bugs or problems, let us
AMD’s new 6400+ Black Edition 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Good news for AMD
fans: The company has officially released their new Atlhon 64 X2 6400+ for the high-end category. The since rumored chip came at a surprise since official AMD roadmaps clearly stated that the 6000+ was the last member of the X2 line before the arrival of Phenom. At 3.2GHz the 6400+ BlackEdition
is meant to compete with Intel’s E6750 and E6850 series. Although it’s still built on 90nm technology, the chip comes with 2.0GHz HyperTransport link, 2MB L2 cache (1 MB per core) and 125 TDP.
AMD intends the chip as a buffer to bolster their current high-end line with the 6400+. The longer they delay though, more competition enters the fray like Tilera’s Tile 64 chip.
Tilera launches 64-core processor 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Here’s some news to wet those tech savvy appetites.
A new company, Tilera has introduced the a new processor
for the server line called Tile64 a with a 10K tray priced at $435 per chip. Why Tile64? It’s not because it uses 64-bit technology but rather it’s an embedded processor with the unusual feature of having 64 cores. If memory serves me correct, the largest number of cores in the market is the 8-core Mac. What’s nice about this piece of hot technology is that each of it’s core has its own switch and memory, and can thus share data with four neighboring cores. It’s kinda like the feature AMD proposed when they announced their 4×4 architecture a few months back. The memory is divided into two 8KB L1 caches and one 64KB L2, with L3 being simulated as necessary up to 5MB.
The RISC based chip of the Tile64 has a clock between 600MHz and 1GHz. Although they still have to release benchmark comparisons, Tilera claims it to be 10 times faster
6 ways to become famous 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Everyone wants to be famous (or at least infamous). Admit it, you know you love the attention. But the problem is how to get it. If you’re just starting off on your road to fame, check this list out. You can be:
The contributor
You share your knowledge with everyone for the betterment of the community. You ask little compensation like donations to help fund development, pay for hosting or none at all. Fame arrives from those who appreciate (or sometimes bash) your work and asks for more. Guys like you spearhead the development process of Open Source applications
The reviewer
You point out pros and cons from the works of the contributors with an unbiased (although most of the time biased) opinion. Your reviews gives readers perspective on what’s hot and what’s not so they can choose between A, B, C or none at all. You can either be paid to do your reviews (either by being part of a network or going solo) or you simply do it for the fun of it
The critic
If you think t
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