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“Ultimately our mission is to enable sustained social and economic opportunity for those at the middle and bottom of the world’s economic pyramid—the next 5 billion people.” source: http://rivet.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/greg-goes-to-china/ WOW! all i can say is `wow` on this mission statement. i mean come on.. . who wouldn’t get wow-ed at it?! it’s pretty impressive ain’t…
last week, the Windows XP on my laptop just won’t boot properly anymore. the bootsplash screen loads for a few seconds, then i get dumped back to BIOS. selecting safe mode, last known good configuration, or any other mode didn’t work. i repeatedly did each of the options available to no avail. it was futile….
KDE 4 is the forthcoming series of releases of the K Desktop Environment. The first version (4.0) of this series is scheduled for release on 11 January 2008.[1] The new series includes updates to several of KDE’s core components, notably a port to Qt 4. It will contain a new multimedia API, called Phonon, a…
weee.. . my blog zeroing in almost always lands on the first page of Google & Yahoo!, The search giants. just type the keyword “zeroing in” and it should be there. how wonderful! it should depend on the data center in Google’s case. but i’ve also tried using IPs from the US & Canada and…
i just heard of this new Linux distro that supposedly sold out @ Walmart.com. it’s name.. . gOS. sounds like a Mac eh? and from the screenshot, it looks like one too! but wait, all over the desktop you can already distinguish familiar icons. going over to the gOS website, you can find more subtle…
NWN2. short for NeverWinter Nights 2. this is the sequel to the hit role-playing computer game NeverWinter Nights. released last 2006. this game is based on the dungeons & dragons 3.5 edition rules. i won’t say much about this game. except that it’s one of the few games that i don’t wanna miss playing. supposedly…
paris hilton is one sexy and pretty chick. i must admit that. in her reality TV shows, and even in her famous homemade video, she always looked skinny. but in this picture of the hotel heiress, she actually looks fat! man, look at those hips and upper legs. but i can easily remember those legs…
aha! this was what i exclaimed when Open Arena first ran on my Kubuntu Feisty 7.04. Quake 3 was one of the first commercial Windows games that i successfully ran on my Suse Linux through cedega. i still play it from time to time now. except that i can’t seem to find a free cedega…
this game, Nexuiz, adds to the handful of games i play on Linux. i just stumbled upon it by accident last night, after i also discovered yet another kewl game on Linux – Open Arena. Nexuiz is a fast paced, 3D, first-person shooter game like Quake. it has very good graphics and effects. you can…
here’s an interesting chat i recently had with this M$ marketing chick. i was asking her what Vista i should buy.. . then the chat turned from one thing to another. basically she told me that Windows XP will be supported for another 10 years or so. maybe give or take a few. woohooo! i…
it is great to see that one of the best Linux CD/DVD burning tool has finally gone to version 1.0. (in software development releasing an application under version 1.0 is a milestone.) it is undeniably one of my fave Linux apps. something i have to have on my KDE desktop, like amaroK. thanks to k3b,…
this letter wast sent to me by email from my father’s sister who has been residing in the US for over 30 years. i rarely get an email from her. and when i do, it is usually a forwarded message about some disgruntled guy ranting Philippines this or Philippines that. most of the time i…
Here’s a preview of the updated Gnome Main Menu. Isn’t it nicknamed the slab? What is it with SuSE/Novell and main menus? It seems like they have an obsession for it. However, I personally like what developments they have made with the main menus for both Gnome and KDE (kickoff). The main menu is probably…
unpack the tar-cola package. configure –prefix=/usr/local/brewer shake shake install ——————————————– disclaimer: ok so it’s not really called gnuola. i just couldn’t help it. LOLz.. . 😀 they call it the OpenCola. mind you it is a brand name. and Yes it (the source code) is licensed under the GNU General Public License. License:…
This in from Max Ryser: I was wondering if you’d do not only me, but also thousands of other deaf videogamers a favor… I’m trying to have a petition signed by as many people as possible so that I can show game developers that there IS a need for them to include at least an…
“They thought they were like everyone else… until they woke with incredible abilities.” funny but when i was younger (i’m still young now. hehehe.. .) i had this recurring dream of me flying. i would see myself rise from bed and then float towards a corner, inches from the ceiling. always the same corner of…
as redundant as it may sound, these 4 words – Araw ng Xavier Days – has been around for as long as i’ve been a student of Xavier University. Araw ng Xavier Days literally means Day of Xavier Days, or Xavier Days Day, the word araw being a Filipino term for day. so the phrase…
heard the news already?! “Microsoft and Novell have announced a set of broad business, legal, and technical collaboration agreements to build, market, and support a series of new solutions that will make Novell’s Linux and Microsoft’s Windows products work better together.” “First, the two long-warring companies will create a joint research facility at which Microsoft…
Halloween is a tradition celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets. It is celebrated in parts of the Western world, though most commonly in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Puerto Rico, and with increasing popularity in Australia and New Zealand. Halloween…
Firefox 2.0 is finally out. It was released last October 24, Tuesday at 2:15 PM PDT, or 10:15 PM BST. It is available for free download @ http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/. For other versions of this cool and award-winning web browser from Mozilla, go to this page http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html What’s new on this release: Visual Refresh Built-in phishing protection…
Google offers those who have GMail accounts the option to send or forward messages to a cellphone in SMS format. it’s just like texting or text messaging (as it is popularly known here in the Philippines) but you send it via your GMail account instead. how does google do this? well you have to sign…
Ramadan (in Arabic: رمضان, Ramadhan) – or Ram’zan in several countries – is the ninth month of the Islamic (Hijri) calendar, established in the year 638. It is considered the most venerated, blessed and spiritually-beneficial month of the Islamic year. Prayers, fasting, charity, and self-accountability are especially stressed at this time; religious observances associated with…
well what do you know, this month’s 13th day falls on a friday. friday the 13th is one of the most famous superstitions around the world. paraskavedekatriaphobia, the fear of friday the 13th, is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a phobia of the number thirteen (13). it is considered to be an unlucky day, if…
A profitless Web site started by three 20-somethings after a late-night dinner party is sold for more than a billion dollars, instantly turning dozens of its employees into paper millionaires. It sounds like a tale from the late 1990’s dot-com bubble, but it happened yesterday. Google, the online search behemoth, agreed yesterday to pay $1.65…