old stuff from February, 2007

show us the code

Sunday, 25 February 2007 8:46 pm by noel
posted in linux, software

this website made me smile.
in short, they’re saying to microsoft’s boss to show everyone what code in linux violates microsoft’s patents.
if not, then shut up.
comes a time to show people if a person is just full of hot air or not.

4gb sweet spot for vista

Wednesday, 21 February 2007 9:21 am by noel
posted in hardware, software

i got a link from slashdot that vista and its users would be really happy with 4 gig of memory installed in the system. forget about putting in the minimum of 512 meg — that’ll just make vista slower than xp.
as of this writing, two 2gb ddr2 800 geil sticks goes for 17,500.00 pesos over [...]

warning: spam is up

Monday, 19 February 2007 7:05 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, internet, support

i’ve been getting a lot more spam for the past two days. something’s up. so:

don’t open any e-mail from anyone you do not know.
don’t click on that link from an e-mail unless you’re expecting that e-mail
be wary of e-mails even if it appears to be from someone you know
be wary of e-mails with small file [...]

two-drive crash

Monday, 5 February 2007 8:11 pm by noel
posted in hardware, software

three hard disks. disk number 2 decided to go south for a permanent vacation about three weeks ago. i think disk number 1 wants to follow soon. and i have this sinking feeling that disk number 3’s partition table got trashed.
disk 2 had my pictures, music, a handful of videos and downloaded software programs (all [...]