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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 [...]

azureus on ubuntu

Wednesday, 24 October 2007 6:25 pm by noel
posted in linux, software

problem: when starting up azureus, it pauses for a few seconds and then disappears
cause: i don’t know the real cause but i have observed that it happens when azureus doesn’t make a clean exit. this happens sometimes when i double-click on a torrent and az suddenly disappears and the next time i start up the [...]

hot air

Wednesday, 10 October 2007 8:18 am by noel
posted in software, stuff

its hot air. lots of it. some people call it fud.
and here’s some cold water.

microsoft fonts on ubuntu

Sunday, 7 October 2007 5:12 pm by noel
posted in linux, software, web development

i, being part web dev, had to make sure that the fonts i used are “standard” web fonts. in the name interoperability, microsoft released its true type core fonts years ago. its was a free download and, in a way, successful in its intended purpose — a large number of websites use it because of [...]

ubuntu, pcbsd and me

Thursday, 4 October 2007 10:23 pm by noel
posted in hardware, linux, software, stuff

after two days and several retries, i was finally able to install ubuntu 7.04 on this friggin’ laptop and continue writing this post.

a friend of mine lent me his old laptop for a couple of months — an hp compaq nx6120 — with a note “have fun. do what you want.” cute. next thing i [...]