stuff on opinions

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 [...]

are you kidding me?

Thursday, 21 December 2006 7:02 am by noel
posted in hardware, opinions, stuff

60k for a playstation 3?!?
are you kidding me?!?
that’s twice the price for the srp which should be around 30k only.
nah. no thanks.
i’ll wait until 2008.

limp computing

Wednesday, 22 November 2006 8:58 pm by noel
posted in hardware, opinions, software, stuff

i’m limping about. one of my memory modules went south and i’m left with 256 megabytes of memory. i thought to myself that this should be enough for most of the stuff that i do with the computer. i was wrong.
i remember a couple of days ago i finished a complete reinstall of windows on [...]

geek funny

Saturday, 18 November 2006 8:59 am by noel
posted in linux, opinions, stuff

i found this really funny — well, if you’re a geek anyway.
its part of a thread over at slashdot about ballmer (ceo of microsoft) saying that linux users owe microsoft. har har.
liquidcooled: alright, own up. who merged the linux genuine advantage code into the tree? come on, speak up - i know it [...]

curbing brain drain

Sunday, 12 November 2006 1:10 pm by noel
posted in opinions

i was reading this article in the philippine star about asian development bank recommending “taxing brain drain in order to curb the growing problem of losing educated laborers in the country.”
i do not see this recommendation as a positive solution to the problem. i see it as leading to more problems.
what these laborers want is [...]