Archive for October, 2008

Fedora-Philippines Mailing List

Posted October 15, 2008
Filed under: FOSS, Fedora Project, Filipino, Linux, Philippines, Technology | Tags: , ,
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The Filipino mailing list is now operational. Many thanks to Mike and Huzaifas for making this possible. Nothing there yet, but I’m excited to see a community grow from this. Giddy!

Wishful Listing

Posted October 12, 2008
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This early before Christmas, I wish can be able to afford either of these at the end of the year:

  • Lenovo Thinkpad T61 - Php 54,599
  • A clone PC with specs like the one below - Php28,440
    • Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.5GHz
    • Asus P5K-SE
    • 2GB Kingston DDR2 800
    • 80GB Seagate SATA
    • Lite-on DVDRW SATA
    • 19″ Samsung 920NW

Now back to work.

The Great Laptop Hunt

Posted October 11, 2008
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I just had the green-light to pick a specific laptop model that will be our company’s standard issue for our future purchases. So far, I’m having a hard time balancing what I want with what we need. There’s also the ever present question of price.

Anyhow, I have already identified how our company utilizes a laptop unit:

  1. Presentations/meetings - powerpoint/word processing/spreadsheets/…
  2. Desktop replacement - AutoCAD/STAAD/Google Earth/SketchUp/…

For simple presentations or meetings, the choice is simple - I’ll go with a netbook like an HP MiniNote or an Asus EEE - something you can easily lug around without necessarily compromising performance.

For the desktop replacement, here are my criteria:

  • Should cost around Php 60K (around $1270)
  • At least dual core (2.+ GHz)
  • At least 2GB RAM
  • At least 80GB hard disk space
  • Good enough video card (for AutoCAD)
  • Windows XP Professional or Windows Vista Business (downgradeable to XP Pro)
  • 10/100 LAN and wireless G connectivity
  • Around 14″ display size
  • Reliable brand (should have after-sales support)

A simple scan of the Internet yielded me such brands as Thinkpad, HP and Dell are said to be reliable. Right now, I’m leaning toward Thinkpads but the price scares my boss. Oh well.

A Sideway View of Allen the Poet

Posted October 9, 2008
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My young cousin Allen was supposed to recite a poem during a school program but he got some cold feet. Here he is giving us a peek into what could have been :)

Quarter Century Today

Posted October 4, 2008
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I turned out not so bad :D

[updated] Software Freedom Day 2008 (Philippines)

Posted October 2, 2008
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Update (Oct. 2, 2008): The pictures are now available! Here are some samples.
Original post (Sept. 25, 2008) : Software Freedom Day 2008 (Philippines)

Total Attendees: 480

One of Two Visual Rooms SFD08 Utilized

Because the AV Rooms are full

Speaking Before Eager Students

Speaking Before Eager Students

intern, Junix, Jumbz, Sir Engels, Ma'am Magie and Herson

before i go to bed

Posted October 1, 2008
Filed under: Office, Philippines, random ramblings | Tags:
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Its been quite depressing to find myself without any substantial output for the assignments I currently have.

Cases in point:

  • Quality Manual update- another project has been getting much of my time these days while the usual trivial office tasks have found my desk so conveniently. I have a meeting tomorrow with my supervisor and I have nothing to report. Sheesh.
  • Our Office Server Crashed - and I really don’t know why. The system logs points to smbd and cupsd refusing connections but that’s all. It seems like samba just refused to write on the filesystem even though files are still open - and that caused some files to be corrupted - erasing a good half-day’s worth of honest work.
  • Holiday work - it’s non-working holiday in the Philippines in celebration of the Feast of Ramadan and I’m at the office the whole day and more. No choice there, work exigencies you know.

Some items I’m considering spending more time on:

  • Bug Zappers - I’m interested on how things work for Fedora and I figured that the best way to do that is to know how things break :D I had just joined the mailing list and I might say, it’s quite active - more active than the ambassadors’ list.
  • Django - I tried following this book and it’s quite promising. Too bad, I had so little ME time nowadays that I had to stop for the meantime.
  • F10 Release Party - I need to call on the brods ASAP to discuss the details for the UP venue. Ditto with Sir Engels and Ma’am Magie.
  • Exercise - I’m getting too far ahead in the weighing scales that I just have to cut back on the munching and more on the sweating.

Now, I can sleep.