old stuff from January, 2007

txt spk (text speak)

Friday, 26 January 2007 12:05 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, internet, opinions, software, support

hi gud am,jst wnt 2 ask,i cnt cend email,d mesge says,cnt cnd bcoz d server dnt wnt 2 acpt d sender,wat 2 do,. tnx.
i had to read this text message three times, slowly, before i “got” its meaning. in short, its a call for help.
this is a sample of txt spk or “text speak” — [...]

more time to prepare

Friday, 26 January 2007 8:48 am by noel
posted in linux, opinions, software

i just read that microsoft is extending support for windows xp up to 2014. i cannot say i’m really surprised with that news. i think ms realizes that with the steep and somewhat costly hardware requirements that the aero bling-bling brings is another hurdle to adoption of vista.
most of the current systems out there will [...]

farm redirect

Monday, 15 January 2007 2:23 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, internet, software

“an unexpected problem has occurred (farm redirection)”
i’ve been seeing a lot of this notice lately especially when i click too fast on buttons. this only happens in the beta version yahoo! mail. i think i’d have to let the page load completely and wait until the browser says “done” before doing anything else. but the [...]

y! mail out of beta soon?

Monday, 15 January 2007 10:47 am by noel
posted in e-mail, internet

i noticed that one of my yahoo! small business accounts has moved from the old interface to the new yahoo! mail beta interface. does this mean that yahoo! mail is finally going out of beta? or did someone just flick a switch by mistake?
on other stuff, the internet is a little better but hardly stable. [...]

reboot

Thursday, 4 January 2007 8:41 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, hardware, internet, stuff

the first week of the new year and i don’t know if its a good week…
i feel sick. the internet is mostly slooow. i had to reseat my memory module so my computer can boot. my scsi hard disk is acting up sometimes refusing to start up.
i think i need to reboot this first week [...]