old stuff from January, 2008

a good month

Thursday, 31 January 2008 9:52 pm by noel
posted in cycling, mine, nothing, tech

january 2008 is ending and i think its been a good month. granted that there has been glitches here and there and i’m late on some of my workload (with good reason) but no one under my care has been hacked and work-related stuff are moving forward although at a slower pace than i [...]

bcc

Thursday, 31 January 2008 1:32 pm by noel
posted in people, tech

i get a lot of forwarded mails from friends containing jokes, quotes, stories and whatever. when i open the mail i see this longish list of people which forwarded the mail to their friends who forwarded to their friends, etc. until the list of recipients is nine times longer than the actual message at which [...]

samba ownerships and permissions

Thursday, 31 January 2008 9:31 am by noel
posted in tech

givens:
desktops are running windows with ms office; file server is running samba on linux
problem:
file ownership of a shared file gets messed up once a user opens, edits and saves the shared file.
what happens in the background is when user1 opens, for example, an excel spreadsheet with a file ownership of nobody.research, excel copies the file [...]

it’s the content

Tuesday, 29 January 2008 6:17 pm by noel
posted in tech

i had a visit from a friend of mine who works as a web designer. she was half way through her pint of ice cream when she came in. i was working on a website and she took one look at the page i was working on and she gave me that knowing smile.
“obssessive/compulsive.”
“what?!?”, i [...]

human multitasking is not good

Monday, 28 January 2008 10:00 am by noel
posted in nothing, people

i’ve always thought that doing two (or three) things at the same time is cool. my mother on the other hand always told me not to. “it’s not good”, she would say. i would also receive the same advice from my father.
well, it appears that they’re right. i found this article (via /.) by walter [...]

a small distraction

Sunday, 27 January 2008 6:49 pm by noel
posted in cycling

12km to moa (mall of asia) from the house. at the moment, the cyclocomputer is a distraction.
i have to maintain 25kph.
what?!? i’ve only ridden this long?!? this far?!?
wow. look at the time. i’m late.
its a small distraction but i’ll keep it on because i want to know how far i’ve gone after every ride. i [...]

spoofed mail forensics

Sunday, 27 January 2008 4:32 pm by noel
posted in tech

the other day i received an e-mail which looked a lot like spam but it didn’t get filtered. i took a closer look and i found out that the address of the sender was my e-mail address and it was sent to the same. i’m absolutely sure i didn’t send anything with a subject “january [...]

moa ride 0127

Sunday, 27 January 2008 1:13 pm by noel
posted in cycling, people, places

i rode to moa (mall of asia) this morning for a little meet up at seattle’s best. there were a lot of cyclists along roxas boulevard as well as walkers and joggers as is usual for a sunday in manila. the drivers were happily accomodating. its only on sundays afterall.
unfortunately, also saw an accident at [...]

up diliman ride

Saturday, 26 January 2008 11:34 pm by noel
posted in cycling, places

lito and i rode in up diliman. he said there was a group ride that goes on from 2pm to 4pm. all in all there were six people riding around. lito forgets sometimes. i forgot my water bottle.
but it was a beautiful afternoon. cloudy and the acacias sheltered us from the sun. the ride [...]

my computing recommendations

Saturday, 26 January 2008 12:46 am by noel
posted in tech

being known as the “computer guy”, a good number of people ask me for recommendations of what computer to get or what computer-related “toy” to buy. and i get asked these questions quite often warranting this post.
get a laptop.
honestly. laptops are cheaper these days. almost everything you need is there and you can fold it [...]