noel alanguilan

after about a day of downloading 1,435 packages which boils down to 972 megabytes, i finally got interpid ibex installed and running. here’s what appears to be new, at least, in my eyes.

make usb start up disk: it will set up your usb disk so that you can use it as an installer for ubuntu. [...]

its been about a year since i replaced windows xp with ubuntu linux. its been fun in a geeky sort of way. at the start i had a difficult time finding applications equivalent to the windows programs that i used on a daily basis but i eventually i found them. for the programs i use [...]

the release date of ubuntu 8.10 is a few days away but i wanted to find out how its going to be like to do the upgrade online so i decided to perform it on one of the laptops lying around here.
in a terminal window issue:
update-manager -d
the system will present you with a dialog box [...]

version 2.6.3 of wordpress came out of nowhere. it has a security update for snoopy which gets the feeds being shown in the dashbard. they say the vulnerability is low risk but its still a risk hence the sudden upgrade. the good thing is that you only need two files to make the upgrade:

wp-includes/class-snoopy.php
wp-includes/version.php

just download [...]

i practiced riding again today and it was better than the last time — i only fell twice out of more than 10 tries. hurts less. for now, i just wanted to practice dismounting and look for my weaknesses so i can correct them in the future. it seems i succeeded in that sense. found [...]

i just realized it now. its been six months since i quit smoking. its been a breeze. so far. i didn’t have any of the major withdrawal symptoms — intestinal disorders, headaches, mental confusion, irritability, axiety and depression. i don’t even have cravings anymore. but got bigger (my other word for fatter). according to [...]

i was looking over the plugins page of one of the blogs i manage and the plugins program is telling me that it had disabled a plugin — reporting a file with an unfamiliar name and a series of ‘../’ before it. hmmm… alarm bells rang in my head.
a little looking and i find the [...]

i tried biking a couple of days ago. the house where i live has an empty first floor. it is big enough to practice my, by now, rusty cycling skills. the last time i got on the saddle was a little over five months ago. i know i have lost some fine motor control over [...]

well, it crept up on me. food tastes a lot better after i quit smoking. lots better. even plain rice tastes good these days. it doesn’t help that my girlfriend’s culinary skills have vastly improved.
but the price is that i have a harder time tying my shoe laces. i come up for air every handful [...]

after preparing for it for more than a month, i wasn’t able to attend the first philippine wordcamp. bummer. i actually was dressed and ready to go already but fate and my mom had other ideas. you see, a few days before wordcamp was my mother’s birthday. she lives about 90 kilometers [...]