old stuff from November, 2006

that much for xp?!?

Saturday, 11 November 2006 9:01 pm by noel
posted in software

i came across this piece of news that microsoft jacked up the price of vista. i thought to myself, well then better stick with xp if all you’ll get is the basic vista stuff. linux really looks good right about now. but what got to me was the posted price of windows xp professional over [...]

ct*: microsoft’s linux

Saturday, 11 November 2006 8:16 pm by noel
posted in linux, opinions, software, stuff

i was reading a blog entry saying that linux won. yes! finally! bring out the champagne! linux won! microsoft will now have to jump into the bandwagon and make its own linux. it makes sense since they just got into that 5-year agreement with novell. after that i am willing to bet that microsoft will [...]

nailed at 14535

Tuesday, 7 November 2006 2:50 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, internet, opinions

its been nailed at 14535 for about two days now. strange. either the spammers have stopped, which is highly unlikely, or i just reached a cap at yahoo! mail. i’m going to leave it at that and see if my 30-day settings work. yahoo!’s spamguard keeps the bulk mail for 30 days after which it [...]

monday crash

Monday, 6 November 2006 2:46 pm by noel
posted in firewall, hardware, linux

its a monday. the firewall‘s hard disk crashed. it didn’t even give me a warning. stupid hard disk. its a good thing i have an extra drive (4 gig) hanging around and a recent backup of the firewall. all i have to do is install the firewall, copy the backup and untar the thing. but [...]

is it right?

Sunday, 5 November 2006 7:04 pm by noel
posted in stuff

“this is capitalism, we are competing.“ i don’t think its wrong. but in your guts, do you think its right?