Total Solar Eclipse

I saw it around 1049AM GMT+1. It was spectacular and amazing. A few hours before lunch break, lights begins to fade out as if the sun was swallowed by a big whale shark dumping him in the dark blue below the seas, never again to be seen.

Nope, it was not the end of the world!

The eclipse lasted over 4 minutes at maximum and visible by millions of people over a path up to 190km wide, CNN said.

Any cultural signs. Oh, that was long time during mediaval times.

You have a copy it?

Nope, I didn't find the time to digitally capture it.


Again and when?

This spectacular event would happen again by June 2008 again in EuroAsia. The next total eclipse of the Sun in mainland Europe is in 2026.

I was just late to blog it. So watch out for it next time...

motions:
spectacular events refreshes life's candy eyes...

FC5 officially released

Most awaited linux distro is now officially released.

200 GMT, March 20, 2006.

Fedora Core 5.

I am currently downloading the 386 DVD version of it from here:
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/iso/

DVD labels can be found here:
http://586z.wox.org/~foxkm/FC5/Fedora%205%20x86_DVD.jpg

Enjoy and have fun!

application in life:
insert the DVD and do your kungfu !

Philippine medical open-source project - finalist in Stockholm Challenge

The Community Health Information Tracking System (CHITS), the open source patient tracking system designed by the Medical Informatics Unit of the University of the Philippines for community health centers, is one of the finalists in the Stockholm Challenge Award 2006.

The Stockholm Challenge Award is an annual competition for the best initiatives that accelerate the use of information technology for the social and economic benefit of citizens and communities. Its objective is to help local entrepreneurs who work to close the digital divide by bringing in research communities, development organisations and strong corporate initiatives.

CHITS is one of the five Filipino finalists in this year's competition. The other finalists are: the Art Experience, Project Ryan (Hot City Wireless), Rice Knowledge Bank, and Young MDG.
CHITS was first rolled out in a pilot program in Pasay City. It gives doctors, nurses, midwives and barangay health workers access to data for critical decision-making.

The system stores treatment history, immunization records, consultation appointments, and Philhealth membership of patients for easy organization and retrieval. It also gives an integrated view for their program frontliners, particularly those involved in tuberculosis, vaccination, maternal care, and child care.
CHITS also forms part of the stream of information that begins with data collection by midwives and health workers, traverses the provincial and regional health offices, and ends with the Department of Health. It helps with policy development and decision-making processes as to what programs to roll out and what resources to allocate.

CHITS was funded largely by PANASIA-ICT, a collaboration between UNDP and IDRC of Canada. The systems developed within the project context is in the public domain as free and open source software (GNU GPL). Dr. Alvin Marcelo, one of the proponents of CHITS, was selected as Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines for his contributions to the project. The CHITS web site can be visited at http://www.chits.info.

The winners of the Stockholm Challenge Awards will be announced on May 11, 2006. Its web site can be visited at http://www.stockholmchallenge.se.

application:

we all become more human when we not only discover but share new things and stuff

delayed Fedora Core Linux 5

"Due to circumstances outside of our control, we're going to be unable tokeep to the scheduled date of March 15th for the release of FC5 and instead are going to have to make the release date Monday, March 20th.While unfortunate in some ways, this gives us the opportunity to pull inthe final GNOME 2.14 tarballs which should be available on Mondayassuming the changes are suitably minor."

Sadly, the above was a notice email coming from RedHat mailing list sent by Jeremy Katz.
Due to long hour recompilation and at the same time, which may or may not include latest version of Gnome which was set to be released on or before 20th of March fortunately.

Based from FC5 test 2 release, you will enormously feel the BIG screen show-off difference. The way mouse moves and interacts, puppy updater, early-boot login, suspend mode, active directory, SELinux, added and modified ATI/NVidia video drivers, bluetooth, PCI and wifi native drivers and more bleeding-edge and razor-sharp technology apps to come!

Moreover, the mailing list and forum are really growing bigger and higher in numbers.

application in life:
pick up the pieces of the past versions and move on with anew life version :)

achieved $5500 US dollar

under career mode.

it took me 2 hour to get this amount of money, no perspiration, no hardpress work and not much brain cells burned with this one. i used a few driving skills, some road speed calculations and estimates plus city familiarity and being speed-fast driver.

what are you talking about?

need for speed, underground 2. that is the driving name of the game.

check out here link

usefulness in life:

drag-race and speed-drive without speedlimit, without having to pay for any damages, without

seatbelt, without police and traffic enforcer, even without a driver's license and at your own home convenience using NFS underground 2

free open-source CMS

Open Source Content Management System

this free CMS would greatly contribute to linux communities and developers.

i was just evaluating some of them and profoundly amazed by what these tools can provide website content administrator and developer. Be it static or dynamic, it should serve as a good starting run-away point.

some names are
Drupal - www.drupal.org
Joomla - www.joomla.org

free open-source community had served a lot and achieved more than what have been imagined and expected until now by people.

FOSS, GPL, GNU and linux plays happily together.

application in life:
a. atleast you pay cheaper money on private hospital since they are using free medical software and tools developed and driven by community.

b.your clock, watch, laptops, PDAs, routers, mobile phones and more are more stable, reliable and cheaper too because of these open-source software and platforms...

and more ..

free stuff from Micro$oft

Have you heard of the big-evil giant bird giving away first aid help to small-poor ants?

I have nothing to post really as the time has always been filled up by my no non-sense mind-tiring never-ending daily routine job.

So, where's the free ones?

Hold your horses. IT IS STILL FREE from Micro$oft.

Get these Visual Tools FREE of CHARGE here :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/install/

..while supply lasts. (maybe it was mistake link !)

application in life:
When that link goes down, you can start selling it for cheaper price as a memorabillia!

angels and more

my ever wonderful growing amazing angels

growing up

First Day in the world, seeing your parents for the first time. Everything is cool and everything is just fine. Mommy is happy Daddy is proud; they been waiting nine months to see their first child.

You learn to walk, you start to talk, and your learning new things. Your parents see you growing up and all the talents you bring, The world sees you as a trouble maker because of the color of your skin. But your family sees you differently because they see what's within.

You're a teenager now you think you know it all. You drive, you date, you smoke and drink. You think your parents are Lost. You don't realize your another statistic in the world today. And you overlook the pain you caused and the love your friends and family portray.

The world laughs in your face because of a little 'fun' that got you in jail. Little do you know the road your on only leads to hell. Your Parents are praying that you get your act together. So you can be caught up and live with Jesus forever.

Mom and Dad have been fasting and praying that you get back on track. And after two years of time the Lord finally brought you back. You thanked your family for all there prayers. And then thanked the Man who lives upstairs.

It was your PRAYING family that brought you out. They had faith in you and lost no doubt. They stuck by you through think and thin; and let the Lord step right in. He took control of you one night he gave you strength and gave your might. He gave you a gift that no human can give and promised you life so that you can live.

After years of heartache, sin, and frustration you decided to walk with God and become an inspiration. You talk to young children who are headed on the wrong path. You teach them to Pray, read the Bible, and to Fast. You told them who you once were and who you became to be. And they learned that a Praying family can help set you free.

'Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.'

by Anonymous...
(searched from Google)

state of emergency declaration

23 February 2006.

Twenty years. The last time this tremendous and colosal unity of public defiance members, allies, opportunist politicians and leftis, medias, local citizens, military and rebels successfully and eventually overthrew ex-president Ferdinand E. Marcos, his family and righthands- that was Feb 1986.

Again, this time around was not for a masculine president. It was an unconfirmed plot to overthrow current president Gloria Macapagal-Arryo (GMA) - daughter of late ex-president Diosdado Macapagal.

State of emergency was declared.

Media, journalist and publicist are being upholded their rights contributing to Freedom of Press civil rights.

Rallies in EDSA Shrine. Malacanang Palace.

What more do we need? What future behold Philippines islands?

Citizen's deaths and casualties vs presidential supreme sacrifice?

Remind's me of an old phrase.
"When two big elephants fight each other whatever the cause is, it is the grass that suffers the most."

Considering these haze and quarrels, political unstability, economic uncertainty, mere politicals facts and opinions, still I am proud to say, I am Filipino.

MORE:
Dollar to peso exchange rate now is $1 = P52.1 . Six months ago it was P55.9 .
Would continue listening to CNN and BBC broadcast. Goodness, WWW updates us a lot.

embedded spam code

yes, it was an embedded spam code.

you will receive it from your eboxes. at first, it looks like text-based email, but it's not. it was an image representing codes, letters and drugs, on which the recipient might be familiar of. no wonder an elementary grade student can read it for you easily, atleast half of its content.

so where is the hidden code anyway? how and where to find it?

try to highlight the email content first and copy, fire up your favorite text editor and paste it there, walaah! the hidden codes is there shown in different text format! which were apparently different from the time when you were viewing it before from your mail client a few minutes ago. just incase you failed with the copy and paste command, check the below pasted equivalent hidden spam code:

X s a m n y a d x c V x I n A g G t R c A w V i A l L r l g U d M u C x I s A a L k I v S w A h m b b b i m e z n u http://www.herbextras.com


at the right is the captured image. interesting though.




application in life?

what was the force and numbers behind building the great pyramids of egypt? is there hidden codes there?

only in the twilight zone....

my blogspot redefined

riday. No good cable shows. No good local TV. and no good CNN news either!

Went back to play Battle of Realms, race Wolf this time but faster game speed, resources and more enemies!

Am defeated again.
Oh well, back to Need for Speed Underground, non-career race track this time.

I was defeated by Wolf clan.

Time to redefine my blogspot now.

Colors and themes, it make take a while as am still recalling some CSS commands, arg. The possibilities and effects of incorporating it with blogspot.com dynamic pages.

This may take a while.

Happy weekend!

alternative web browser

Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Avant, Netscape, Safari, SeaMonkey, Icab. You heard the names. You may have tried one or tried switching to another one and realized you have the same feeling of browsing the web using it. You think it does not matter what browser you are using - it really does.

Why should you care?

Viruses, trojan horses, spyware, adware, spams, keyloggers, security, will tell you why.

Fortunately, there are lots of browsers you can choose from as of this date. They are far better, more secure and more flexible to use with. Most of leading rivals are now cross-platform. Similar features you can notice from them are:

Tabbed browsing
Modern web pages with HTML, CSS, SSL, and JavaScript
Cookies and cookie management
Plugins and Java Ad blocking and/or pop-up blocking
Download Managers
Integrated Search
Favorites/Bookmarks and import
and more security.

Solution?

If one browser firesup one level from another browser to keep up with market share, all browsers improve and everybody wins.

Valentine is a Day

February is known as the love month, St. Valentine’s Day being celebrated annually every 14th day of this month.

Happy D day for all Valentines!

New Picasa version

Google and Codeweavers are now working hand in hand to bring Picasa in Linux.
Images, pictures and more in Linux will be much more beautiful and more organized.

Imagine the continuous fight and struggle of Google to, one step at a time, place the G word every major thing in our sytem. This will come soon in both worlds.

However, I have also heard that it will run under Wine. Wine is an open-source technology that provide Windows API (Application Programmer's Interface). Wine is definitely not an emulator.
It serves as a middleware API for windows program like M$ Office to be executed and run under Linux OS with slowing it down and interfering it. In fact, WINE is faster than XP!
But not everybody uses it.

FC5T2 - Fedora Core 5 Test 2

i thought it would be interesting to see a review of this upcoming fedora core 5 final release, hopefully by march 15, 2006.

a new logo as you can see.
infinity + fedora + voice = the new logo.

i was one of the first ones to download FC4 final release the first day it was officially released.am planning to dowload FC5 final the first day it will be officially released. there would be like 7 to 10 days extensions, as i heard that there is need for major recompilation with gcc .

not against ubuntu:
ubuntu is really good for beginners and window$ professionals. however, after dloading the DVD version and ordering the free CD, the more time i spent with it (ubuntu linux),the less interest i had with it. i felt like getting back to XP machines from clicking and moving around with it...something like my hands were missing stuff from the keyboard. yes, it was really good and nice for desktops and laptops for beginners i may say i would recommend it for desktops and laptops for newbies and noobs.

so how do i feel about fedora?

well fedora is powerful yet unpolished server os that contains thousands of libraries and applications,
which makes it powerful but daunting. it has the potential when it comes to secure, reliable and stable bleeding-edge linux distro. i may have some compains with it as it is not yet a user friendly one to everybody, wherein you can put it besides the Window$ XP box in a store sale, no newbies or noobs would grab it and am sure a techie would give a copy or download it for you. redhat developers focuses on stability and reliability of an OS. looks and art designs arent yet their priority as most icons, images, and default themes havent improved yet,except for the bluetheme curve, which is the default nice theme though. but hey, most users needs friendly OS for first times. another one, NTFS/FAT is not automatically mounted nor recognized on default installation. security is a pirce of crappy excuse for me. most of us cannot be contented with a single distro as the OS comparison terms would not exists then. but ever since i have it, i have achieved a better OS after redhat, much more relaible, stable, update manageability and bleeding-edge linux distro.

all in all, i am sticking with it as server.
as free linux distro. see more of Fedora Core Linux here http://fedora.redhat.com

victory is mine - manny pacquiao

i must be late to blog about the championship between mr. manny pacquiao and mr. eric morales for the second time. mr. morales was totally knocked-down in the 10th round,
as i saw from replay last sunday morning here with supersports 1 channel.

imagine that, another fight from both of them this year end for the third time!

this proves another fame and triumph for filipino around the world,
regardless of personal boxing interest...

hmmm...wonder if he was still with old management, would he still achieve the same outcome???

nevertheless, congratulations mr. pacman! keep it up!

registered linux counter

Recent post reminds me of my linux counter http://i18n.counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=338623

statistics shows daily counter increases amazingly, which has always been a threat to leading monopoly, since the age of Linuz Torvalds.

you can check it out more with http://uptime.netcraft.com. statistics shows 68% of webserver are now being served by apache. see it here http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html

Folding at Home

Recent post reminds me of my linux counter http://i18n.counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=338623

statistics shows daily counter increases amazingly, which has always been a threat to leading monopoly, since the age of Linuz Torvalds.

you can check it out more with http://uptime.netcraft.com. statistics shows 68% of webserver are now being served by apache. see it here

Goobuntu OS

Is google developing their own OS?

Google had denied many things in the past.
I still remember they were denying Google IM, now called Google Talk. They were also denying stocks share 2 years ago, google talk, google map and more other things.

The rumors said, the OS will be based with Ubuntu OS. It would be used internally for them but there is a possibility, that it would also be launched publicly along with the google browser like AOL browser and google chat. thse are unproven rumors still.

whatever Google plans to have, is for to me to wait.

defeating captcha

it is not an easy one. you would need some drawing combined with programming skills
plus artificial intelligence applied. worst, for every new captcha image created,
another module to be created, so the list goes on.

this one is harder to decode.

a few made it, google led me to some captcha decoder..
but major maintenance and support needed for every new algorithm of this captcha-image generator emerges. a good AI approach will bring in money for this one i guess...

fewer than brief

Brief spot:

few places i have lived
1. quiapo
2. sampaloc
3. project 8
4. antipolo city
5. las pinas city
6. alabang
7. bataan

always visited websites
1. provincial site
2. city site
3. google and yahoo
4. redhat and fedora linux sites
5. some job sites from time to time

few movies able to watch over and over again
1. unforgiven
2. young guns
3. godfather 1,2,& 3

few classic games enjoyed most
1. pacman
2. river raider

smiling ideas
1. lebanese bread with hot strong black coffee
2. mango juice and cigarettes
3. brandy and medicines
4. summer breeze
5. spring rice field dawns

few fave foods
1. hot and spicy ones of any
2. real hot and fast foods
3. spagetti and fast noodles


still doing
1. fighting boredom and homesickness
2. getting more of the keyboard and screen interaction
3. driving single motors and snipping fresh air

if i have $1M dollar to spend in luxury within 7 days
1. would buy a harley davidson's big bike i saw in dubai
2. would bring my family and have a visit to mysterious countries like
jerusalem, egypt again, india, morocco, mexico, a few italy and china perhaps
3. visit wonder hotels and beaches

favorite keyboard function keys
1. F5 and enter keys
2. shift+inser and shift+delete keys
3. ctrl+U and ctrl+A

enjoys me most aside from family
1. motorcycling
2. computers
3. WWW
4. sunsets

four numbers i have
1. 33
2. 4
3. 14
4. 24

most clicked messengers
1. YM
2. GAIM
3. chikka

channel most showed in TV screen
1. seven (7)

...

will add more from time to time...

geommetrical harddisk error

have you ever heard of it?
all my years of working with PCs, this is the first time it was showed from my screen.
sure it was harddisk related error as the phrase says, but was it hardware related issue that pushed windows to show "hey, i cannot fix this since it is geommetrical error and am afraid to do something about it" message box or was it the OS?

sad to say, this was yesterday with one workstation a Compaq Evo. oh well, many crappy things from window$ XP, for years they are still fighting with it. another reformat and reload, duh.

would try Ubuntu with another partition this evening with the same system though i prefer rpm-based linux distro like fedora. am planning to try FC5T2 this weekend from my box at home.

my totally 3d desktop

oh well, just another weekend spent, never touch any phone and mobile -
my minie remote control only, some kind of fresh-air-ventilation in one place i guess.

hey, just saw a 3d post from a forum, and figure out i can have a new 3d cool desktop with my box, happenned a few days ago...see attached pix.

until recently spending 30 mins, i combined it with a 3d-cube effect , so i have this 9 selection desktop squares representing 3d desktop inside those squares, where i can work with, and i just figured out that these 9 selection box of squares desktop can be turned down to a nanogon (rolling both sideways) desktop too, so its a combination of 2 sets of 3d desktop plugins.
this enabled me to choose from in a keystoke or 2.

oh, this has been made possible using metisse + 3ddesktop + nucleo under ATI X600 video card, under Fedora Core 4 Linux OS, all tarballs were experimental and not for desktop replacement, just an experimental project. google and a forum leads me unto it.
here is a wider view of it here


have spent more hours installing my ATI Radeon Mobility X600 driver than making it work all together.

cool and sweet.. but useless.