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Just a few minutes ago, I surrendered my ID card to the solutions delivery section at work. It's my last day here . On Monday, I will be reporting for work at the new workplace . It's going to be pretty exciting. At the same time, I'll miss this place, with the laid-back yet interesting environment. I sure learned a lot, and I got to try new things.

The phone , that is. (But come to think of it, *that* would make a nice pick-up line. Er... As I was saying...) This is the LG KS10 phone, the first of a series of mobile phones with Google services pre-installed. Now, that's even sexier.

Originally uploaded by iandexter . My son, Gab, joined a pizza-making camp last Saturday. Conducted by Greenwich, the camp taught kids how pizzas were made, and they were provided materials to make "solo" pizzas. They also had a tour of the kitchen. The kids got to eat the pizzas they made. For Php120 (~ US$2.50), that wasn't so bad at all.

From Diesel Sweeties : "I used to have an amazing rack, but I gave it to my administrator." :D

Ealden , here's how I do it: Install and prepare the Windows tools: Tortoise SVN and Putty . Create a session in Putty, named svnsession, for example. In Connection > Data > Auto-login username . Using the Tortoise SVN context menu (when right-clicking), select SVN Checkout . For the repository URL, type: svn+ssh://[putty-session-name]/path/to/repo You may be prompted for a password. To avoid that, try using SSH keys . Update : Also, make sure that the SSH client field (in Tortoise SVN context menu > Settings > Network > SSH ) is left blank. Tortoise uses its own built-in SSH client to establish the connection.

My favorite distro updates its packages frequently. If I wanted to install a new FC6 system, I would have to do updates all over again. So I decided to try the respins, which are distributions that contain the latest updates from the official repositories. However, Fedora Unity , which packages the respins, currently only offer torrents. It's not that I don't like torrents, it's just that I can't use them. There was mention of Jigdo for the respins, but I can't find the .jigdo nor .template files. Update : Jigdo files are available now. I was left with no option but do my own respin. Enter pungi : The pungi project is two things. First and foremost it is a free opensource tool to spin Fedora installation trees / isos. It will be used to produce Fedora releases from Fedora 7 on until it is replaced by something better. Secondly pungi is a set of python libraries to build various compose like tools on top of. Pungi provides a library with various funtions to find, de...

Har, har. Presenting the Nokia N73 Godfather edition . Comes with a 256MB SD loaded with The Godfather for your mobile viewing pleasure. Via Gizmodo.

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I sometimes telecommute. And when I badly need some files on my office desktop, I can connect remotely through the company's SSH gateway and tunnel RDP to my desktop. Here's how: Using PuTTY , create a new session for the SSH gateway. In Connection > SSH > Tunnels, add a new forwarded port: the source can be an arbitrary port number (e.g. 4444) and the destination should be the address of the remote desktop with the port set to tcp/3389 (the RDP port). Make sure the "Local" is selected because we will be forwarding the local port ( 4444 ) to the remote desktop's port ( remote.desktop:3389 ). Connect and log in in the SSH session. (We use one-time RSA SecurID passkeys, so I always keep that nob handy.) In Windows XP (yes, my notebook is still not free), open up Remote Desktop Connection, add connect to localhost:4444 . This should then be forwarded through the SSH session to the remote desktop port 3389. You would have to authenticate again, and i...

Originally uploaded by iandexter .

Seems a bit harsh, but true. I was looking for a 2.5-inch hard disk online, and visited a few online stores based in Metro Manila. While visiting Octagon , which has a "superstore" in SM Megamall, lo and behold: What the?! I did a bit of digging ( thanks to Google ), but apparently, the site is pretty much useless . Oh well, might as well haul my arse off and burn a few fats -- it's just a five-minute walk away from the office anyway.

From TechCrunch : "Verisign, the domain name registry that controls the .com domain (as well as .net and others), just notified its registrars that the wholesale price of .com domains will be raised 7%, from $6/year to $6.42/year." Great, that's all we need right now. Seven percent may not mean much, especially for domainers or speculators who register domains by the bulk, but for those who just want to establish a web presence (sounds so early 21st century), it's yet another obstacle. We certainly can't shift to a ccTLD easily, because the current ccTLD registrar charges $35 ! (Of course, pricing for CNO (.com, .net, .org) domains are not comparable to ccTLDs because of the sheer volume, but still, I wonder how much DotPH really earns from selling domains.) The issue here, I think, is that a monopoly can pretty much do anything it wants. Verisign has been given almost carte blanche in increasing domain name prices by 7% yearly, indefinitely. DotPH determines its...

I've recently decided to get a PLDT WeRoam prepaid account. Unfortunately, when I was about to purchase a wireless card unit in one of their resellers, I found out that they do not carry cards for the ExpressCard slot that my notebook (Dell Inspiron e1505) has. That left me with the following options to look for: PCMCIA-to-USB adapters. PCMCIA-to-ExpressCard adapters. USB GSM/GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA modem. Another provider (Globe Visibility, which carries the above). Hay, the woes of going mobile.

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