I promised I’d post my interview of Mr. Arnold Gamboa, Managing Director of Sparrow Interactive, regarding the successful migration of 16 of their Windows machines to Linux.
This has to do with my talk last April 8, Saturday, at the PLUG 2nd Quarterly Free Seminar Series. Incidentally, I learned of Arnold’s migration from his post about it at Pinoytechblog, so here’s some linklove in that direction.
Without further ado:
Continue reading Interview of Arnold Gamboa re Linux Migration from Windows
The many fans of this blog (all two of them) will be happy to note I am speaking at the PLUG 2nd Quarterly Free Seminar Series, to impart my knowledge on the Black Arts, namely Interviewing, Writing Articles, and other related debauchery.
I just read this Cnet article about Boot Camp, Apple’s effort to make their machines run Windows.
Have to admit it was a little hard concentrating, mainly because of the question that kept going on and on in my head: But In God’s Name, WHY?
For the record, Metrobank’s P50.00 surcharge for interbank deposits, is the most blatant attempt I’ve yet seen by a bank to suck money out of anyone unlucky enough to have to deal with them.
April 22 is a-comin’. That means the end of the NBA regular season, and the start of what gets every red blooded baller’s heart a-pounding – THE NBA PLAYOFFS.
Once again I’m in a position to do something I’ve always dreamed, but for some reason continue to procrastinate, or just plain screw up.
And that is, start a Basketball Blog.
Last Sunday was a strange day. Sure the sun came up as usual and all that, but the strange part of it was that I went down to the village basketball court and no one was playing.
Oh sure about fifty little kids and about as many balls were there running and screaming and doing what little kids do in a wide open space, but the ballers – the village ballers – those guys constant in every Village in the Philippines, who play ball day and night and spend what little money they make on overpriced shoes – were nowhere to be found.
My long time client whose roots are deeply nested into the local I.T. Distributorship scene (she used to work in a major Distributor and now runs a Dealership for a well-known gadget brand) floored me recently when she agreed to offset my retainer for a laptop when I broached the idea.
Naturally this sent me scurrying off to several local websites, battling fatigue late into the night trying to make sense of what was available out there. My priorities were simple. 1. Cheap As Possible., 2. Lightweight, 3. As much RAM as possible. 4. Sturdy, and 5. Cheap as possible.
Ok I’m still obsessed with Chucknorrisfacts.com, (and with such quips as “Chuck Norris can divide by zero”, how can one not be?), but I’ve also got a life, and in this life I do websites, amongst other nefarious schemes to rule the world.
As such, I’ve recently come to encounter Drupal, which, in a sentence, is an open source content management system, and “can support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites”.
Continue reading Chuck Norris Rewrites Drupal 4.6 Installation Instructions
One of the key elements of a conspiracy theory is that since it’s so far out you automatically consider it unlikely and laugh at yourself for even thinking it. You feel somewhat embarrassed for even conjuring it, even less will you discuss it openly.
But hell, as far as I can remember, I’ve always wondered aloud if manufacturers were keeping RAM prices so expensive.
The title is a phrase from Incubus’ Talkshows on Mute, then there is of course Orsen Wells’ 1984, the first Terminator story was set in 1984, and on May of that year, Australia released it’s first one dollar coin, a factoid I insidiously placed there purely to round out this paragraph, which of course is quite irrelevant and uninteresting, except of course to Australians.
At any rate I’m bringing your attention to 1984 because I’m about to talk about my car, which was first sold to its original owner in 1984, and is an otherwise uninteresting car if not for that fact.
At this point you might well discern that this post is about a car, and not about my usual subjects, such as tech reviews, writing and even basketball, and you will be correct. So those uninterested in said subject may well excuse themselves at this point.