Author: Gabriel

3rd German Silent Film Festival

What: 3rd German Silent Film Festival Where: Greenbelt 1 Cinema 1 When: Tuesdays from August 15 to September 5, 2006. Lineup: August 15 – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, music by Radioactive Sago Project Dr Caligari exhibits clairvoyant sleepwalker Cesare at a fair and challenges his audience to ask him anything about the future. When… Continue reading 3rd German Silent Film Festival

Whenever I go to Mercury Drug, I think of Native Command Queuing

Hey cool, my article about SATA came out on the PCMag.ph site. I wrote this very technical article for the January 2006 issue, and I really enjoyed writing it as I learned a lot about Serial ATA (SATA) and consequently, Parallel ATA (PATA), the technology it’s supposed to have replaced. It’s basically a geek’s dream.… Continue reading Whenever I go to Mercury Drug, I think of Native Command Queuing

Thoughts on: “People seen as the Achilles’ heel of computer security”

From here: LAS VEGAS–The most vexing weakness in computer security is not in the hardware or the software, it is in the people who use the machines, according to top hackers and cyber safety specialists. “It really is more of a human problem than a technical problem,” Dan Kaminisky of Dox Para Research said at… Continue reading Thoughts on: “People seen as the Achilles’ heel of computer security”

Best Site Evar

I’ll let you guys in on a secret. One of my fave sites in the world is thebestlegaladvice dot com. I know, I know, it sounds weird, but where other site can you study the very strange hairdo of Flock of Seagulls lead singer Mike Score?

Girl fired via text

A yawner of a news article From Yahoo: LONDON (AFP) – A company has defended its decision to sack one of its staff by text message, claiming it was keeping in touch with youth culture. Katy Tanner, a 21-year-old sales assistant, received the message while she was off work with a migraine, the South Wales… Continue reading Girl fired via text