stuff on opinions

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 [...]

shifting attention

Monday, 27 August 2007 10:16 pm by noel
posted in internet, opinions, stuff

… online poll of consumers’ digital media and entertainment habits, sponsored by IBM, showed that more people are spending more time Web surfing than channel hopping of late…
– informationweek, Internet’s Killing The TV Star
that sentence says a lot about today’s generation.
hmmm. i sound old.
most of everyone is connected in some way or another. wired. wireless. [...]

y! photos closing

Saturday, 25 August 2007 6:52 am by noel
posted in internet, opinions

its always a sad thing for me when something that’s been there a while will go away or close.

i hardly used yahoo! photos. the interface is a bit awkward and storage space is a bit on the small side. but it is, or was, there.
in the end, i think its a good decision on yahoo!’s [...]

mixed systems

Saturday, 18 August 2007 10:15 pm by noel
posted in linux, opinions, software, stuff

linux vs windows vs mac. the neverending comparison. at times i find the exercise futile if not close to pointless. but then again we humans aren’t exactly predictable.
i’ve believe its a matter of personal preference. no matter how hard we push one or the other it still falls on whether it fits the user’s comfort [...]

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” — [...]