Archive For December 28, 2006
now i’d really take the saying – be careful what you wish for, it might come true – seriously. i didn’t really think i would get one this Christmas. a lot of things were in the way. first the HP laptop i had my eye on is only available in the US. second, who’s gonna…
the common things i tend to forget. one way or another a Linux user will have to face this problem one day.. . so in case there’s no grub boot menu, or you need to edit something, just go to the grub command prompt. press ‘c‘ and you will be taken to the prompt. enter…
it’s already halfway through December and 10 more days before Christmas. somehow it still doesn’t seem quite right. where is She? the Christmas decors hanging around are at a minimal, and i have hardly heard Christmas songs. one night while i was on the phone, i heard carollers singing a medley of popular holiday tunes…
a storm [supposedly] hit the Visayas region some time between the 9th and the 10th of December. Cebu, fortunately, is not within the direct path of this latest monster to hit the Philippines. internationally codenamed Utor and locally named Seniang, a Storm Signal No. 1, though, was issued in Cebu the other day. well it’s…
i seem to be having weird problems with the 2 latest NVIDIA drivers for Linux released last November 7 and December 4, 2006. last Saturday i upgraded to 1.0-9629 from 1.0-8774. the upgrade went fine. the nvidia-settings works again too. yesterday, Monday, everything was still ok. used my computer for more than 8 hours. today,…
One of the world’s largest computer and consumer electronics manufacturers will ship a completely open, Linux-based, GPS-equipped, quad-band GSM/GPRS phone direct, worldwide, for $350 or less, in Q1, 2007. First International Computing’s (FIC’s) “Neo1973” or FIC-GTA001, is the first phone based on the open-source “OpenMoKo” platform. Sean Moss-Pultz, an FIC product development manager, introduced the…
From Novell and Microsoft Today’s announcement of the collaboration between Microsoft and Novell marks the beginning of a new era: Microsoft is coming to terms with Linux. Read more Over the past six years, we’ve seen the effect that the open source community has had on Microsoft. They’ve shared some source code, driven community projects…