The day is again upon us when the whole Christiandom celebrates the
birth of Jesus Christ who is God who came to earth to seek and save the
lost.
Often the holiday season is lost in the rush of parties and gift
hunting. Some buy things just for the sake of having something to give.
Its the season of getting toys and new clothes for children. Its nice
to receive the gifts but often times, we don’t have use for it. And
very often, we are like children who after a few days of playing with
the new toys, gets tired of it and start to look for something new.
Let’s not forget the reason for the season. May the Christ of CHRISTmas find a home in your heart.
Wishing you and your loved ones a blessed Christmas.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
This past week I’ve been busy getting to know Facebook.
I got introduced to Facebook sometime back but have not really given it
much a second look. I was still taking advantage of using Multiply.
But somehow Multiply is not exactly what I want. I was trying to
juggle between maintaining my blog with either Multiply, Yahoo 360 or this one. I’ve finally decided to keep my blog with my own domain and use WordPress.
Why Facebook? Well, we had a Grace Christian scouts reunion and we started an e-group using Google. Since e-groups has its limitations to just emails, it was brought up to use Multiply and another suggested to use Facebook. Ross seconded that Facebook was better and so we’ve started a Facebook group and here I am learning more about it as I add more friends to my network.
Why Facebook? Well, we had a Grace Christian scouts reunion and we started an e-group using Google. Since e-groups has its limitations to just emails, it was brought up to use Multiply and another suggested to use Facebook. Ross seconded that Facebook was better and so we’ve started a Facebook group and here I am learning more about it as I add more friends to my network.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Changing formats again
Some may wonder what’s the big idea of changing the website again?
I started my website since 1998 with static webpages and edit html files by hand. After a while, it gets tedious adding links to the menu as I add articles so I started exploring automated menus. I still have the partial working old site here.
After a while, I found out about content management systems and started using one called ezcontents and phpcms. The program was nice but it had its short comings.
After searching for other options, I came to Mambo. We’ve made use Mambo for a number of our client’s projects which provided them with their own login access to allow them to update their sites.
I’ve also used Mambo and then migrated my site to Joomla.
Now, I’m trying to use WordPress for my blogging. WordPress uses tags instead of just putting articles into their categories allowing for a broader range of sorting and searching criterias.
I started my website since 1998 with static webpages and edit html files by hand. After a while, it gets tedious adding links to the menu as I add articles so I started exploring automated menus. I still have the partial working old site here.
After a while, I found out about content management systems and started using one called ezcontents and phpcms. The program was nice but it had its short comings.
After searching for other options, I came to Mambo. We’ve made use Mambo for a number of our client’s projects which provided them with their own login access to allow them to update their sites.
I’ve also used Mambo and then migrated my site to Joomla.
Now, I’m trying to use WordPress for my blogging. WordPress uses tags instead of just putting articles into their categories allowing for a broader range of sorting and searching criterias.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Ubuntu on MSI Wind U100
Got myself an MSI U100 at the end of August. It came in with Windows XP home. It has a built-in recovery partition to allow one to restore the system in case anything happens to the installed software.
Not content with just having Windows XP and just the Home edition at that, I tried to reconfigure the default setup. The system originally comes with 2 partitions. The first containing the recovery system and the remaining for the installation of windows.
Previous to getting this, I was reading an article by James A. Eshelman, about setting up different partitions for different uses and data. I was already doing this with all my installs. A default windows installation and a second partition to contain the data. The purpose of this is that in case drive C was corrupted, I just easily format it and install my softwares from the original installers and not worry about the data.
James A. Eshelman took this further by specifying a separate swap partition, a separate temp directory, tweaking the system to make the default documents directory outside of the default c:\documents and settings\user... to make it easier to backup any data.
After putting in the different partitions, I ended up with 5 partitions for Windows and 1 for linux. Setting up the partitions was the easy part. Installing linux is the hard part primarily because the unit does not come with a cdrom drive.
I started with a number of articles and the basic instruction is to copy linux into a usb drive and install from it. After several attempts, I found the MSI wiki sitewhich mentioned a problem with the version of Ubuntu that I was using. A newer version 8.04-1 fixed the problem and I was finally able to get Ubuntu Linux installed on the unit.
The next problem now is how to get the wifi to work on Ubuntu. Apparently the mini wifi card that came with the unit is a realtively newer Realtek 1817.
Not content with just having Windows XP and just the Home edition at that, I tried to reconfigure the default setup. The system originally comes with 2 partitions. The first containing the recovery system and the remaining for the installation of windows.
Previous to getting this, I was reading an article by James A. Eshelman, about setting up different partitions for different uses and data. I was already doing this with all my installs. A default windows installation and a second partition to contain the data. The purpose of this is that in case drive C was corrupted, I just easily format it and install my softwares from the original installers and not worry about the data.
James A. Eshelman took this further by specifying a separate swap partition, a separate temp directory, tweaking the system to make the default documents directory outside of the default c:\documents and settings\user... to make it easier to backup any data.
After putting in the different partitions, I ended up with 5 partitions for Windows and 1 for linux. Setting up the partitions was the easy part. Installing linux is the hard part primarily because the unit does not come with a cdrom drive.
I started with a number of articles and the basic instruction is to copy linux into a usb drive and install from it. After several attempts, I found the MSI wiki sitewhich mentioned a problem with the version of Ubuntu that I was using. A newer version 8.04-1 fixed the problem and I was finally able to get Ubuntu Linux installed on the unit.
The next problem now is how to get the wifi to work on Ubuntu. Apparently the mini wifi card that came with the unit is a realtively newer Realtek 1817.
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