old stuff from September, 2007

easy things

Sunday, 30 September 2007 10:24 am by noel
posted in hardware, linux, software

i met with a couple of people a few days ago about making e-mail newsletters and maybe some web dev. as the meeting started, two of them brought out their mac books. as for me, the tech nerd that i am, brought . . . nothing. at one time, as [...]

signs

Friday, 28 September 2007 9:58 pm by noel
posted in software

first there came the option to “downgrade” from vista to windows xp for new pcs. then there’s the 5-month extension (until 30 june 2008) for pc manufacturers to continue selling windows xp pre-loaded.
there’s even a call to abandon vista altogether.
cannot read the signs, eh?
well, to me, it appears that most people just wants to stay [...]

approved as spam

Sunday, 23 September 2007 10:29 pm by noel
posted in stuff, wordpress

this is the second time i got this

what do you think this is? a program/script for automating comment spam? hmmm… to me, it looks like it.
approved as spam

no vista

Sunday, 23 September 2007 6:27 pm by noel
posted in software

ok. you can tell i found an interesting geek website. yup. i did. at least, it is for the moment.
10 reasons not to get Vista
good read especially if you’re still trying to convince yourself that sticking with xp is/was the right choice.

hardware stuff

Sunday, 23 September 2007 6:17 pm by noel
posted in hardware, opinions, stuff

i got nothing much to do today. wet and rainy and not hungry so i surf.
i found a good article on usb 3.0 which will be 10 times faster and expected to have a wide deployment by 2010. that’s not far. by that time, terabyte drives should be common enough as well as quad core [...]