Archive for January, 2007

Floppies still essential in the Philippines

Another nail has been pounded on the coffin for the iconic floppy or diskette drive as PC World says farewell to floppy, meaning the UK-based computer super store will stop selling floppies when their stocks run out. In addition, some computer manufacturers have started to phase out the diskette drive, more popularly known as Drive [...]

Lifespans of HP Deskjet printers

Things have not been good for me since the blogparteeh07, first is the still crappy Globelines broadband connection, now it’s my HP Deskjet 3745 ink-jet printer. What happened to it?
Well, it’s broken. For reasons still unknown, the printer just refused to put on its led light indicating its readiness to put into paper the digital [...]

Tatsulok - Bamboo updated with Video

I am as surprised, excited and a bit militant at the moment, thanks to Banketa Republique, I just found out that the country’s number 1 band Bamboo is preparing to release a new album with this particular song included: Tatsulok.
Originally by Buklod, of which Noel Cabangon was once a member, a progressive musical group who [...]

Blogparteeh07 postscripts

This was supposed to be posted last night or earlier this morning but the crappy Globelines broadband connection has delayed this up to this point. *sighs*
Anyways, the blogparteeh07 was great! The rush from school to the venue was well worth it. Meeting some of the renowned bloggers in the Philippine blogosphere, live in person was [...]

Quick links: Blogparteeh07, WordPress 2.1 and Wikipedia

Haven’t upgraded to WordPress 2.1 yet, my plugins - a small number of them now - are still not compatible with “Ella” or as the new version is named after. I’m sticking with my plan of sitting it out for a couple of weeks, watch out for bug reports and monitoring the authors of the plugins I use to see if they have brought their plugins up to speed with WordPress 2.1. The J Spot had to downgrade because of of the Tag archives issue which I also use for this blog, which again underscores one important task for all of us bloggers, back up your database! For those who did make the switch, how’s the upgrade so far?

The Blog Parteeh has had so much buzz already it’s the #6 tag in Technorati (Its’ down to #7 as I write this). Too bad my blogparteeh07 post with the right tag is still not seen by Technorati bots so up to now, I’m still waiting, hoping and praying for an invite.

Video: WorldMap showing Storm-worm infection

Hackers and malicious coders are always the sneaky and surprising ones. They took advantage of a storm last week that his Europe by spreading scam e-mails purportedly containing details about the storm and it effects with subject lines saying “230 dead as storm batters Europe” that contains a virus.

Named Small.DAM, the virus successfully spread and infected computers world-wide. A video uploaded to YouTube shows a footage of a live web security firm F-Secure’s world map showing the spread of the virus via e-mail in a span of 24 hours as it was reported to be detected.


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