Cureless

Around lunchtime today, Fluffy and I saw our former colleague (and buddy) at the lobby of our company’s head office. Not being able to talk with him for a while, we urged Lei (let’s call him that) to eat with us at the building’s canteen. Apparently, he’s already with our company. The last time I heard about him was when he updated us about when he’ll be starting in his new job. I was the one who submitted his resumé to our recruiter. (So, I get the referral moolah heh~)

It came as just a little bit of a surprise when he told us about his stolen laptop. Techie gadgets such as laptops and small computers these days are easy targets for thieves. What’s more disheartening to know was it got lost inside his apartment. Someone broke into his room and voila! Sad, isn’t it?

So our talk this noon wasn’t just about our jobs and our lives. It came to a point when we’re already recommending laptop brands to each other.

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A few months ago while logging into Windows, I was surprised to find a pop-up from AVG Free announcing its cease of support for the 7.1 version starting 15 January 2007. I misread it and thought that Grisoft won’t release updates for the free edition of the antivirus anymore.

What I misread was that AVG Free 7.5 has been released and will replace the 7.1 version among Grisoft’s line of AVG Free Edition. That’s quite very generous of Grisoft.

For Windows, as well as Linux users, you can download AVG Free Edition here.

Friends from the office were complaining, they couldn’t install Internet Explorer 7 in a Windows installed from a non-genuine copy. I wonder why they couldn’t be satisfied with Mozilla Firefox. Besides it’s been our policy to use open source software from the beginning.

Well, it seems like I received a quite late notice regarding my IE7 upgrade. I don’t really give so much care. I’m very satisfied with my Mozilla Firefox as a user. But as a developer, it’s cross-browser compatibility is a rule. Besides, I’d also like to try it out so I’m currently downloading the IE upgrade in Toshi.

[EDIT] I guess IE 7 renders PNG images well. My site actually looks the way it does in other non-IE browsers.

Ooops, I did it again. I don’t want to sound like Britney Spears here. Unfortunately, I couldn’t keep my eyes from that chicharon (fried cracklings from pig skin and fat) pack displayed on our canteen’s stall. After munching on 2 packs of EAJI chips, with free dips of salsa & mayo, Fluffy and I helped ourselves on that big pack of chicharon. Same amount was consumed earlier by 5 of our workmates, ugh.

Consequence: no evening dinner & breakfast today.

We’ve been restraining ourselves from eating too much since we wanted to reduce our fat masses and maintain our body weights. Actually, we have different goals. Aside from keeping a healthier lifestyle, I wanted of course to keep a good body figure. Fluffy, on the other hand, just wanted to pass the PFT, he doesn’t care if he turns into ‘the Toad’. Pffft~

Speaking of ‘the Old Toad‘, yesterday was our usual ‘rain-or-shine’ TaeBo day. Guess who paced our jogging? Uh-oh, we didn’t finish the 4 rounds cause old toad was already probably exhausted that he stopped during the third round. I say no more.

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I’m in the process of reinstalling my workspace environment in Fedora Core 4. My previous workspace obviously failed since my last attempts to checkout the project. I have to mount my Windows installation yet in order to access most of my ‘entertainment’ stuff are there. I have to create another category in this journal to keep my notes on running Linux commands (like uncompressing tar files, installing rpm’s, etc). I seem to search the Internet everytime I need to do something. And I’m getting tired of it.

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Basketball. I heard the news that the Blue Eagles swept the first round of the conference, 6-0. Good job! And they don’t owe the win to someone’s shameful absence. Although I think it’d be less fun anticipating the matches than before.

I just found the link from the Javalobby.org newsletter. It’s IceFaces, an AJAX-solution that uses no JavaScript at all… I just saw the demo here and I’m enthusiastic about trying it.

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I spent my bonus yesterday on a Memory Stick Pro, which I’ve been planning to install on my Sony digicam. My other option was buying an external hard drive. However my laptop doesn’t have USB 2.0 so I need to install an extra pc card for it, which costs around PhP2,000. I estimated the total cost to be around PhP7,500.
I was a bit hesitant on spending the money. Like you know, I planned on buying a Pen Tablet last year and I got it, but now I’m not even using it. I’m afraid same fate goes to the other devices I’m planning to buy. Besides, I don’t feel like I can’t live without it. Therefore, I must just indeed buy those that are really very important. So I backed out on buying the mobile hardisk and opt for my other plan instead.

Whoa~ That was fast… I could barely cope with FC3, then came FC4 last year… then this year…. FC5?!

Amffff…

I was duty computer yesterday and teh bozz told me to download installers from Fedora site. Tsk…

This year the office purchased a 64-bit PC. And they’re testing off 64-bit compliant OS’s (including FC, Sun, WinXP)…

I’m not quite sure what happened all I know is that it’s been useful in setting up the video streaming tech used in the latest leader’s conference…

“You suck!” is the last phrase I could yell at our old PC at home. I said it nevertheless. Almost a month ago, both of our PC’s at home broke. All the fault’s drawn to the RAM, both RAMs. The tech who diagnosed the disfunctionalities asked for almost a half-worth of a 256MB RAM, that’s 750PhP off my budget. I bought his old 64MB PC100 RAM (which is already phased out from the market) for Pytri. Imagine… just for the love of Pytri. I could just leave the poor PC on the corner since my Toshi is doing all the needed automation for me, but I couldn’t. As long as the motherboard’s working fine, I wouldn’t really think of ditching the PC…

So I don’t have enough budget to buy the other PC’s RAM (the one shoti is using). [I emailed my imouto about it and *hinted* that if he wants his PC fixed he should buy the RAM. Heh. No avail. He didn't get me at all. Guys are totally dense. *rolls eyes* He'd rather rent at the nearby computer shop than have his PC fixed. This is perhaps where computer majors (or geeks) differ from the others... Imouto is a PC/console gamer but I've never seen him tinker with technical electronic stuff.]

Two weeks ago, shoti used the Pytri I just fixed and installed RO. The video drivers failed (naturally) since Pytri’s specs are lower than what are needed in Ragnarok.

I reinstalled Windows 98. It didn’t work so I decided to format drive C. But the damn installation is failing on Pytri! I saw some weird files on drive D. I have a huge suspicion that Pytri is virus-laden. (;_;)

Agh… I don’t wanna give up on Pytri. But I guess its time has come.