old stuff from November, 2007

pldt slow

Monday, 19 November 2007 5:05 pm by noel
posted in internet

pldt has been slow again for the past three weeks.

the graphs are all in kilobytes per second and not kilobits per second.
apparently a lot of people have been having problems with their pldt dsl connections as well. i was informed that one of the slots containing 16 ports went south and they had to replace [...]

ubuntu in the mail

Sunday, 18 November 2007 6:39 pm by noel
posted in linux, software, stuff

i got my free ubuntu cds from canonical the other day. yey!

and stickers too! four of them.
thanks to shipit.
the strange thing is that the mail came from the netherlands. i was expecting to get it from the philippines or at the least — asia. i guess canonical doesn’t have partners here yet.
i can be. (hint [...]

a letter from papt

Saturday, 17 November 2007 6:04 pm by noel
posted in software, stuff

i got this letter from the pilipinas anti-piracy team (papt) just last week. i’m reproducing the content here:
october 17, 2007
mr. noel
it consultant
subject: alert on copyright infringement handling

reference: republic act 8293 — intellectual property code of the philippines
we have obtained evidence proving that recently there is widespread selling of pirated products in such forms as cd, [...]

latest activity

Saturday, 10 November 2007 9:23 pm by noel
posted in software, wordpress

i don’t know but i found this image funny enough that i had to get a screenie — its my wordpress dashboard. that section where the internal server error is where the incoming links are suppose to be. something borked again. i have a feeling yahoo is doing some “improvements” in the background.
i suppose i [...]

old computers + ubuntu 7.10

Tuesday, 6 November 2007 9:32 pm by noel
posted in hardware, linux

i have a generic computer which will be used as an ubuntu desktop test bed. it used to be an xp pro machine — it still has the sticker — but this time we’ll be using it as part of an experiment. we want to see if end users with simple needs will use it.
the [...]