Nasty!

I really wish that .doc’s and .ppt’s (and all non-standard formats) to be banned or removed from existence. Well, it’s just that sometimes I still feel that I’m in a Linux environment where its users are like M$ protectors.

I had experienced a time where my classmates preferred their statistical formulas to be in .doc format (to be uploaded via UVLE) than standard formats like .PDF that is obviously more/very portable. There exists OpenOffice Calc and Math – utilities that can easily deploy formulas and symbols than M$ Word, but they still resisted. (Like what do you expect in a Wind0ze world?)

I had also heard from a friend’s experience in Linux programming via Bash scripts that is now being taught in one of my past majors – I remembered him saying that one of his classmates had said that DOS is easier than what they’re doing. And this is somewhat similar to “M$ Access is better than LAMP”. In my DOS experiences, I never learned how to work with it. Why? It doesn’t even have a manual! No tabbing of commands, no color codings, no standardization, boring consoles, and lastly, its help command or whatever_that_stuff_is is not helpful at all! And that’s why I love *nix consoles more.

Well, at this time, maybe half of the world is already worrying about their Windows PCs due to some nasty kamasutra virus. Good thing I don’t have to. Haha!

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Your Birthdate: July 23

You’re not good at any one thing, and that’s the problem. You’re good at so much – you never know what to do. Change is in your blood, and you don’t stick to much for long. You are destined for a life of travel and fun.Your strength: Your likeability Your weakness: You never feel satisfied Your power color: Bright yellow Your power symbol: Asterisk Your power month: May

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Well, that sounds ironic to me.

Getting Things Done

At this moment, I should be attending my last class for the day but not this time. Early dismissal! Yes, and for what reason? I had already finished creating my presentation that was actually assigned last week, announced via UVLE, and will be reported in 2 weeks from now. Thanks to Apple .Mac’s iDisk feature, it is easy to deploy HTMLs in it although it is kinda slow (or maybe it’s just the network I was using that time when I was not at home). Well, the professor required the class to pass a written layout or draft of the report topics, but I instead showed to her the HTML presentation I had deployed.

Another thing that I had accomplished was to setup the internet connection of a Solaris server on SPARC. Actually it should already be easy doing it via usual terminal statements. At least, I now know that I should edit a line in /etc/nsswitch.conf such that the host line is:

hosts: files dns

Maybe I just forgot this step because I had actually configured a Solaris workstation before although for some reason, the internet setting is only temporary.

Yipee!

Kung Hei Fat Choi!

Today’s the start of the Chinese Year of the Dog… so it isn’t my year?

Screenshots out of the blue

Look at the screenshot below and see for yourself – Wind0ze Update on Internet Exploder running in Ubuntu?

How about the controversial site of Astalavista in Internet Exploder? I tried loading it but nothing happened – no viruses or stuffs just like what “helios” had stated in one of its articles.

Well, I think you can see my point now regarding those screenshots. As I was about to finish one of my reports, I tested one of the services cited in my readings:

Nah, I’m just fascinated about its thumbnail feature when outputting the results and the way it links sites.

PCXperience

I had been to PCX about 5 to 6 hours ago with a friend and had decided to get a USB 2.0 PCI card for my Ubuntu system hoping that I would be able to charge my 3rd gen Ipod via the USB cable instead of using another cable since I only have USB1.1 on my unit. In the end, I had purchased a USB2.0 ALI PCI card with 4+1 USB 2.0 ports. Unfortunately, it was a failure. Why?

Well, first, I tried right away if my USB mouse will work on the new set of USBs, and it did worked! Next was to plug the iPod to the USB2 port – it mounts but it doesn’t charge! I tried checking the hardware specs instead and executed the lspci command:

0000:00:09.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:09.1 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:09.2 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:09.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01)

Wait a minute! I thought I had purchased a PCI card with (4+1) USB 2.0 ports and it only detected 4 USB ALi ports and just a single USB 2.0! Argh!

I tried to do some minor searching in ubuntuforums instead and had come off with threads saying that USB 2.0 ALi chips work on Ubuntu and another one saying that they don’t. So which is which? I even tried locating the single USB 2.0 port but failed to do so. Maybe I will have a refund instead since they had given me a defective product. Oh well..

How much RAM do you really need?

I got this article from Digg.. read it then try to look at my screenshot below:

91 windows of GIMP (loading an average of 700-900kB each file), a Firefox with some tabs, Gaim (with multiple accounts), and Nautilus – loading on a 700+ MBs of RAM! Now, try the same set of programs in Micro$oft Wind0ze (provided the same set of hardware, of course) and test if the system will not crash after sometime (or if it can even survive from loading 91 frames of GIMP too!) Well, actually I can do a lot more if XFCE is the DE used in the setup, but well.. is there really a concept of DE’s in Wind0ze? What do you think?

M$ and Security (updated)

2 hours earlier, I was listening to a class report on security. Well, for some obvious reason, most of the reports were Micro$oft dominated. Ranging from software applications to internet security, there was even a topic at the end of the report that sounded like: “How to protect your Wind0ze XP”. I was supposed to ask why there were no tips on Linux or Mac, but I refused instead. Don’t they need the same thing such as an AntiVirus? Maybe my expectations (to see Linux/Mac in such reports) is too high. Oh well..

Lastly, I felt dizzy after the class. I blame M$.

No wonder I felt dizzy even in the afternoon – temperature was rising like crazy!

What’s Hot and what’s Not..

Instead of saying cool, I’d rather say that this one’s hot: imagine controlling a robot in the web like this.. Who would even know that I was controlling that robot X days ago?

If that’s hot, check out what’s not on Digg: Changing the Text on the XP Start button. It’s hard to imagine how such a thing is cool despite of the fact of the note in the article’s heading. But if that’s really the case (modifying FILE.exe), isn’t it about time that M$ make their source code open? Or about time to create and file lawsuits again for violation of EULAs?

At least, I can change everything in my system (Ubuntu). In fact, I can even change it to look like M$ Windoze XP! Err, forget it.. I’m tired of their interfaces.

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