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  • Your typical Rant Post

    I would just like to say that at this very moment, I am downloading mysql, php and phpmyadmin onto my computer, as well as setting up IIS to enable XP to locally host a Drupal project which I am working on at the moment.

    Whilst I would look forward to such activity at the early stages of my learning several years ago, and consequently look fondly back to those days today, I am wont to install these things at present time because a. they are a hassle to install and b. I’d rather work on the live version I’ve uploaded on my hosted webserver, and c. I’ve got a bajillion things to do other than f$#%!@cking set these things up. Things like, look for clients, prepare ad campaigns, strategize with the ballex, kikays and momex people, climb every mountain, forge every stream, etc. etc.

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  • PR5 means I should update this more often

    For some odd reason I cannot completely comprehend (nor accept), this blog has gained a Pagerank 5 (PR5) rating from Google, inspite of the fact that I had not written on it in weeks.

    What’s more, the more famous by intention Basketball Exchange, which had also retained a PR5 rating for several months previous, and receives daily hits of almost 1000 pageviews especially during the recent UAAP, was downgraded to a PR4.

    Such factors leading me to decide a.) I know nothing about how google rates websites, and b.) I should update this blog more often.

    Given the fact I have little to do with A, I’ve decided to work instead on B, being the more immediately addressable issue of the two. Hence:

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  • Capping Off The Week


    That guy is a great basketball player.
    Although I’ve heard the one on the right isn’t that bad either. 🙂

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  • Ready Normal People!?!

    dont have much to post, so here’s an oldie but a goodie!

    there’s a Gary in there hehehe.

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  • Of DSL, PLDT bills, A Job, Overwhelmed with Writing Assignments & 2 Other Random Thoughts

    1. Today our phone bill exploded in my face and the phone got cut (but not DSL. Hooray for PLDT’s internal communications!). Apparently, the bill was a whopping 12k+ since last our last recorded payment April 4, a fact my sister wants to dispute since she pays the bill herself while I fork over my agreed monthly share of 2.5k a month.

      I was woozy from having to shell out such a large amount off of my wallet which believe me, is a deeply dramatic moment. Things may look normal to the casual observer, but to me everything was going in slow motion while the background music in Apocalypse Now blares loudly in my head, at the part where helicopters napalm a village as a shirtless Robert Duvall says how he loves the smell in the morning.

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  • Exchange.ph Ventures Into Billion Dollar Industry with Kikay Exchange

    Yep that’s how my PR would read if I were to make one. Or maybe ‘Kikay Exchange takes off with 6 members and 15 posts in two days!‘.

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  • How To Update Drupal 4.7.2 to 4.7.3 (aka a Drupal HowTo for the rest of us)

    I figured it was time to make one of my howtos. The Drupal UPGRADE.TXT file is fairly straightforward:

    1. Backup your database and Drupal directory – especially your configuration file in ‘sites/default/settings.php’.
    2. Log on as the user with user ID 1.
    3. Remove all the old Drupal files then unpack the new Drupal files into the directory that you run Drupal from.
    4. Modify the new configuration file to make sure it has the latest and correct information.
    5. Run update.php by visiting http://www.example.com/update.php.

    But everyone knows things aren’t usually as they seem, so I went ahead and made a whole drupal howto on my own with pictures and everything. Here goes:

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  • Elordeboxing.com

    Almost done with my knockout of a project:

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  • 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.

    The most interesting factoid is the ATA naming schema used by the technical committees in charge of creating standards for hard disks over the years, vis a vis how the manufacturers named them, which is completely different and ultimately made to confuse the market, making it appear their products had improvements where there wasn’t any. Also another revelation: if it wasn’t for SATA II, hard disk technology would be pretty much the same as 5 or 8 years ago, the main difference being only in capacity, but certainly not speed.

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  • 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 the world’s premier hacker conference, DefCon, which ended in Las Vegas on Sunday.

    Some things come to mind here:

    1. Knowing that people are the main risks, shouldn’t technology then adapt itself to avoid such pitfalls?
    2. What is technology’s purpose anyway? A lot of people have forgotten the forest that the trees make up. The main purpose of technology is to help people, and if their security is jeopardized while using it, then technology is failing.

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