old stuff from May, 2008

wine 1.0 rc1 released

Sunday, 11 May 2008 12:09 pm by noel
posted in tech

wine is a bunch of software programs which allows a person to run windows programs on x86-based unixes which includes linux, freebsd and solaris. wine is not an emulator.
this is a bit exciting for me because with wine i can play my windows games on linux. and i could possibly run photoshop (up to cs2) [...]

time to consider linux

Sunday, 11 May 2008 1:23 am by noel
posted in tech

with windows xp on the way out and vista on its way … somewhere (or nowhere-my opinion) maybe it time for people or businesses to seriously consider linux as a real and viable replacement, if not an alternative. i stumbled on to this interesting comparison by infomationweek between seven linux distributions. there are literally hundreds [...]

tags plugin

Saturday, 10 May 2008 3:21 pm by noel
posted in tech

i have been using amaury balmer’s simple tags plugin to extend wordpress‘ tagging feature since wp 2.3.x and it has been great so far. i recently had a glitch which prevented me from installing the latest releases of simple tags. to be fair, its not the plugin’s fault. the problem stems from my hosting server, [...]

occupational therapy

Thursday, 8 May 2008 9:16 pm by noel
posted in mine

i went through my first session of occupational therapy (ot) yesterday which i found doubly harder than my physical therapy (pt) sessions. the therapists and doctor had a lot of “torture” gadgets that they use to exercise various parts of my left and right shoulders, arms and hands. fun people though. my shoulders and arms [...]

cyber attacks

Wednesday, 7 May 2008 6:59 pm by noel
posted in tech

i came upon this interesting article (via /.) that china has started cyber attacks on indian sites. hmmm… why india? i don’t think that china would limit itself to just this one country. which got me into wondering if china would pay any attention to the philippines and if we are ready for such an [...]

after effects

Monday, 5 May 2008 12:21 pm by noel
posted in mine

some people have been asking me how i was after the stroke — do i get dizzy and nauseous; am i paralyzed; can i move and some other questions. to answer, i’m generally fine. i do not get dizzy or nauseous and i can move about. and no, i am not paralyzed nor any side [...]

wander

Saturday, 3 May 2008 7:50 pm by noel
posted in nothing

it was too hot in the house — 37 degrees centigrade on the mercury and 39 on the digital clock. nifty little thing. and since ironman hit the big screens yesterday i invited my wife and son to watch it. it was a good excuse to go to the mall and pay my overdue phone [...]

breaking the habit

Saturday, 3 May 2008 9:49 am by noel
posted in nothing

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DCg3EgMXmqs
linkin park - breaking the habit
its been 19 days…

detecting bogus e-mails

Friday, 2 May 2008 6:12 pm by noel
posted in tech

every once in a while it happens. i get an e-mail that looks legit but on closer inspection it turns out that its not. here’s one of the ways i find out if an e-mail is bogus or not.
this first e-mail (shown below) appear to be from rapidshare.com — a webhosting provider. the e-mail provides [...]

therapy

Thursday, 1 May 2008 7:51 pm by noel
posted in mine

i am now taking out-patient physical therapy after my confinement in the hospital. each new session is harder than the previous one but i think i am making good progress. often times i feel that i am too slow to recover but the doctor told me that it is not true and she cut the [...]