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Vistatorrent.com to MS : But we just wanted to help!

The UK based Inquirer website (not our local Inq7.net!) reports "Vista Torrent site ordered to cease and desist", with the subheading "What happens when you try to help Microsoft out".] I blogged about Vistatorrent.com last week. You can read their … Continue reading

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Exciting Reformatting News

Finally had time to reformat and reinstall the other day, and discovered some amazing revelations. First, I'm still very much a geek, writer aspirations and others aside, and I still actually find such a thing as reformatting and reinstalling apps … Continue reading

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Bluetooth Usage Guide

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), has released a Bluetooth Icon Program to help "guide consumer purchases of Bluetooth enabled devices". Here's how it goes: Print – The print icon lets you know that printing can be simpler by allowing … Continue reading

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A Treasure From Youtube

I'm Gary, and I'm a Youtube Addict. Youtube's hooked me good, and with some thanks to PLDT's unexplained increased bandwidth, I'm having my fill. One particular vid's got me reeling though, and for some odd reason I watch it everyday … Continue reading

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VistaTorrent.com. Just because.

Either you're curious, or you like to inflict self-pain, but apparently there's a MS Vista Torrent site aimed to help you download either the x32 or x64 Vista Torrent today. That's right malicious code delevopers! Why wait till December (the … Continue reading

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In search of the ‘cowboy’ phone

cowboyMy old phone has been wanting to be put to pasture for almost a year now, and cheapskate (I prefer to call it 'practical') man that I am, I've been holding off on buying one for just as long.

Well, there're other reasons actually. And they're also the reason why I'm using a five year old+ phone. I'll try to list them down:
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The Great Notebook Search Part Deux

ang pagdadalaga ni maximo oliverosFirst off, you would notice that I quite ingeniously used "Part Deux" instead of the more commonly used "Part II" to mark the distinction that this post is the second part of an ongoing process, namely to leech a laptop off of my client, as discussed here.

Using the French version done ostensibly, of course, to parlay the message that I am a smart person, incidentally one of the many, albeit hidden reason why this blog exists. Other than that of course, is the fact that I am a fan of stupid Charlie Sheen movies, one of which is Hot Shots! Part Deux, which for some reason I dreamt of last night. Continue reading

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Interview of Arnold Gamboa re Linux Migration from Windows

Interview of Arnold Gamboa re Linux Migration from WindowsI promised I'd post my interview of Mr. Arnold Gamboa, Managing Director of Sparrow Interactive, regarding the successful migration of 16 of their Windows machines to Linux.

This has to do with my talk last April 8, Saturday, at the PLUG 2nd Quarterly Free Seminar Series. Incidentally, I learned of Arnold's migration from his post about it at Pinoytechblog, so here's some linklove in that direction.

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Let me just state categorically that..

Let me just state categorically that, for the record, Metrobank's P50.00 surcharge for interbank deposits, is the most blatant attempt I've yet seen by a bank to suck money out of anyone unlucky enough to have to deal with them. Continue reading

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Summer Brings Forth Dreams of Laptops

Summer Brings Forth Dreams of LaptopsMy long time client whose roots are deeply nested into the local I.T. Distributorship scene (she used to work in a major Distributor and now runs a Dealership for a well-known gadget brand) floored me recently when she agreed to offset my retainer for a laptop when I broached the idea recently.

Naturally this sent me scurrying off to several local websites, battling fatigue late into the night trying to make sense of what was available out there. My priorities were simple. 1. Cheap As Possible., 2. Lightweight, 3. As much RAM as possible. 4. Sturdy, and 5. Cheap as possible. Continue reading

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