noel alanguilan

yahoo mail suddenly acted up — web access to both the free yahoo mail and the bizmail part is not working. i don’t know if its a maintenance thing and if it is then yahoo should really inform their user base. as of this writing, there’s no mention of the downtime in the yahoo mail [...]

at least with the linux version, it is. as of this writing the version for windows is not yet available but i would assume it will be soon… mozilla.com is even asking for help in setting the guiness book of records for the most software downloads in 24 hours.
as for the software itself, the good [...]

givens:
server is running samba on linux; users are on windows
problem:
a single or group of files need to be “isolated” from the users, i.e. certain executables, malware, spyware, etc. on the server.
it files cannot be deleted yet because the malware in the users’ computer will jusT recreate them. a remedial solution is to set the file [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

hardy heron — officially known as ubuntu 8.04 lts — was released april 24. “lts” versions of ubuntu enjoy long term support — 3 years for the desktop version and 5 years for the server version.

i tried upgrading online on the 24th but i guess the servers were pretty busy.

persistence leads to downloading of new [...]

if for some reason the graphical user interface of linux doesn’t show up, try booting in recovery mode and run:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
this will run a script that will allow you to setup your video card manually.