Japan launches super-high speed internet satellite

Japan successfully launched Saturday an experimental satellite aimed at providing high-speed Internet access across Asia, even when terrestrial infrastructure goes down, the space agency said. The domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying the Kizuna satellite was launched at 17:55 pm (0855 GMT) with no glitches from the Space Centre on Tanegashima island off the southern tip of Kyushu Island, southern Japan. The communications satellite, expected to be in use for five years, separated from the rocket approximately 35 minutes after the launch, said an official of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) during a live broadcast. The 342 million dollar-Kizuna will allow super-high speed data communications of up to 1.2 Gbps, which would make it the fastest in the world, the agency said.

That rate would translate to 150 times that of the average high-speed ADSL connection rate of 8 Mbps, or 12 times the speed of a fibre-optic communication delivery to a person’s premises (FTTP). The “Kizuna,” which also means “bond” in Japanese, is expected to begin transmitting and receiving data with terrestrial infrastructures in July after completing preparations and confirming the satellite’s safety. The satellite will enable students in Asian countries to communicate smoothly and with no time lag among one another, as if they were in the same classroom, it said. The satellite will to last five years, an agency spokeswoman said. The launch was delayed by one week after JAXA said it had discovered a problem with the gas jet thruster for its launch rocket.



Source: AFP

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Cisco Certification

I’ve been an Intern on the I.T industry for months and I’ve never regretted my decision in studying Computer Electronics Technology back in 2006 and ECE as of the present. The I.T industry is vast. It covers a range of skills and areas such as technical support, software/business analysis, consultancy, software development, Q & A (Quality and Assurance), Networking, and many more. Not to mention that each of them has a different specialization.

Networking (no, not social networking) is one of the most important aspect in the I.T industry. Every company nowadays needs computers to store their data, information, reports, and invoices. These computers need to be connected to one another (and usually to one or more data servers). If you are studying/working in an I.T industry and want to specialize in this area, then you should look no further than Cisco.

Cisco is a well known name and if you really want to focus or specialize in Networking, Cicso is “the man”.

You may not need to get a Cisco certification to do networking. I have no certification whatsoever but I can network my home and office computers. However, those are simply networking computers together. I haven’t mentioned the security, the robustness, and the effectiveness of networking from one router to another. Networking is not as narrow as you think. If you consider working in Banks as a network consultant, are you confident enough to handle the security and the other factors on the network?

Cisco certification gives you an assurance that you have the knowledge and the skill to apply what you have learnt during the courses. I’m not promising that having Cisco certifications will get you the perfect job, but Cisco certification is well known worldwide. If I’m looking for a Network specialist to work with, I’ll certainly value those applicants with Cisco certifications.

Some Network Certification Programs that are offered by Cisco:

• IP Networking (CCENT)
• Routing and Switching (CCNA)
• Voice (CCVP)
• Security (CCSP)
• and many more

Once you work on the I.T industry, you will need to stay up-to-date, no matter what your profession is. That’s actually the beauty of it. You’ll always grow and you’ll always learn something new. There are so much to learn in Networking too. The question is, are you going to let yourself be outdated and left behind? Check out Cisco certification programs on their web site if you’re considering to specialize in networking and never be left behind!

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Graveyard Training

It's my second day of my graveyard shift tonight because no one will take charge of the monitoring system except me. But it's okay, I can still manage my time over here doing such things.

Richie, my co-trainee had just left. I'm now alone here with a Desktop, facing it, sitting and waiting for an alarm that will buzzed me up if one of our clients fails to connect in the internet. I maximized the volume of the speaker so I can hear it when I fall asleep. The system is consists of networks with each clients. They're made up of color green when their status is stable. Otherwise, its red if down or unstable. It's like I'm the network manager here for a quite time of this small yet fresh business IT firm. Anyways, my patience will be paid off since I get paid here. But I'm not after of it, we will learned all new things about networks specifically CISCO platforms. It's my dream to become a certified CISCO Network Engineer someday.

Ooops! The symantec anti-virus is now expired. What to do? A pop-up dialog box had just appeared. Give me some break.

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Newly Registered Nurses..But..

Congrats to all who passed the June 2008 Nursing Board Exam.

Our school made it ! CIT tops again with 93% and
DALFON SILVIO NAVAJA - 4th placer. And to my beloved Alma Mater (MSU-IIT) has a whopping 97% with two 6th topnotchers RACHEL MAE DAIGDIGAN and ANNA MAE TRINIDAD.

But with all these, there's something you should know about this in-demand course now proliferating the entire Philippines' education. Are you still planning to take up Nursing so you can earn a lot when you practice the profession outside of the Philippines?

Think again, because if the decreasing demand for Filipino nurses continues, you may not be able to work abroad anymore.

According to the Philippine Nursing Association (PNA), the global demand for licensed nurses has been consistently decreasing since 2004.

The PNA attributes the declining demand to 3 factors:

1. Policy changes in countries hiring Filipino nurses

The United States is currently implementing visa retrogression while the United Kingdom is starting to rely again on local health workers.

2. “Oversupply” of nurses

As more Philippine nursing schools churn thousands of nurses year after year, the supply of nurses is beginning to catch up with the demand.

3. Deteriorating quality of nursing graduates

“Fly by night” nursing schools and “shortcut nursing programs” contribute to weakening the quality and, ultimately, the attractiveness of Filipino nurses to nurse-importing countries.

If that’s the case, then these nurses can just work locally, right?

Not really, because finding work in the Philippines may not be that easy anymore. According to the same PNA data, the demand for nurses in the Philippines has remained stagnant for the last two years.

So if new nurses can’t find work abroad and can’t also work in the Philippines, what are they supposed to do?

Hmm… that’s one critical condition for Filipino nurses these days. I knew some of my friends who worked as a volunteer in a certain Hospital in our hometown. She graduated in a highly-respected school here in Cebu.
And some don't still have work as of now and still waiting for pending approval to work abroad.

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The Dark Knight - Best Batman Movie Ever!

Batman has always been my favourite superhero ever since the first time I heard about him because he his human with no powers, also he is much more questionable than any other superhero. The story of the film is about Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent beginning to succeed in rounding up the criminals that plague Gotham City.

They are unexpectedly challenged when a mysterious criminal mastermind known as the Joker appears in Gotham. Batman's struggle against the Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and to improve his technology (which introduces the recreation of the Batcycle, known as the Batpod and the Batsuit was redesigned) to stop the madman's campaign of destruction. During the course of the film, a love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent and Rachel Dawes.

There are now six Batman films and I must say that The Dark Knight is the best out of all of them. The title is good because that is what Batman actually is. It has been 3 years for the adventure to continue from Batman Begins but that entire wait was worth it. Gotham city is very Gothic looking and is very haunting and visionary. The whole movie is charged with pulse-pounding suspense, ingenious special effects and riveting performances from a first-rate cast especially from Heath Ledger who gave an Oscar nomination performance for best supporting-actor. It is a shame that he can't see his terrific work on-screen. The cinematography is excellent which is made so dark & sinister that really did suit the mood for the film. Usually sequels don't turn out to be better than the original but The Dark Knight is one of those rare sequels that surpasses the original like The Godfather 2. I also really liked the poster where the building is on fire in a Bat symbol & Batman is standing in front of it. Christopher Nolan is a brilliant director and his film Memento is one of my most favourite films. He hasn't made 10 movies yet and 3 of them are already on the IMDb top 250. Overall The Dark Knight is the kind of movie that will make the audience cheer in the end instead of throwing fruit & vegetables on the screen.

You can watch free online at http://movie6.net
But, its price-worthy if you watch on iMax theaters near you.

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Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend is Now Officially #1 On YouTube!!!

AVRIL LAVIGNE's GIRLFRIEND VIDEO IS NOW OFFICIALLY THE MOST WATCHED VIDEO ON ALL OF YOUTUBE!!!!!

With the latest view update, Girlfriend now has 92,585,577 views while Evolution of Dance trails behind with 92,578,615 views!!!

More data below why she rocks YouTube.

holy crap! Seriously!!! That's so amazing! Congrats Avril and all her fans who made this possible!!


notice that on June 16th, When the autorefresher was introduced, the actual views are very low. on June 19th the Autorefresher was not working any more due to Youtube removing the ability to open a video in a frame. This was also the time when the internet was posting lot's of stories about Our mission to put "Girlfriend" at number 1. All the media attention definitely boosted the views on Girlfriend.

BTW , Girlfriend has always been getting more views per day than Evolution Of Dance (EOD).

An awesome find - that's concrete evidence right there that Girlfriend was already closing in on EOD way before Avril's fans "cheating" even begun, and continued to get more and more views than EOD every single day even after the "cheating" had been stopped. Any news story that claims that Girlfriend's success was because of cheating is just a complete fabrication based on twisted false stories and rumors, and this graph proves it.

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Bypass windows xp activation

Bypass windows xp activation
Done on WinXP Home. Works in Windows Server 2003 R2, with SP2, not with SP3! and should work just the same with Professional.

This is so easy to do I can’t believe it took me forever to find out

how to do it.

Original instructions at
http://epaloids.com/showthread.php?t=448.

1. Enter regedit Start -> Run -> type “regedit” you might want to make a backup, by choosing export in the menu


2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents


3. Change the value of OOBETimer from whatever it is to:
         FF D5 71 D6 8B 6A 8D 6F D5 33 93 FD

Read the next steps BEFORE you do it. You have to know what you’re going to do, because if you take too much time the value will reset and you must try again. That’s no biggie, but anyway.

4. Right click on the WPAEvents folder and choose “Permissions…”

5. Choose the “SYSTEM” group, and in the list below (”Permissions for SYSTEM”) check every box under “Deny”. I just needed to check the first box and it autamatically checked the others.

6. Press OK, close the regedit and you’re done, your windows is activated.

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Idol Blog '08!

I’ve been nominated for Idol Blog  2008! My friend Marky pioneered the said contest and I was one of the fortunate bloggers to be part of the nominees for its 2nd week..

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My 120GB Portable USB Hard Drive. Whoa!!

It cost for about 4,500.00 Pesos but it's price-worthy since its current market standard price as of now, is roughly from 7,000 - 9,000 Pesos and also, in some certain stores here in Cebu where I shopped.

Personally, I think the design is brilliant. The sleek styling also makes for a very pocket friendly piece of kit. The sleek lines and ultra-low profile styling of SimpleTech's memory devices were designed by Pininfarina, the very same design firm that gives Ferrari sports cars their stylish edge.

It weighs 165g (slight heavy than a Nokia N95 Phone) and use the USB 2.0 standard for data transfer. The dimensions of 80 x 125 x 20mm   is typical for one of these drives. And all my files are stored here from Adobe Photoshop CS3, Movies, Pictures, my fave Videos to Conquer Online (Name them... I have it here in my lil gadget). So, wherever I go, I'll always bring this with me.

This has an Anti-Scratch feature. Some similar HDD like Western Digital (WD) Portable hard drive, it's worth remembering that the shiny look is desirable but isn't necessarily the most practical for everyday life as it's prone to scratches. This drive is noticeably sturdier than the WD drive so at least it will stay in one piece even if it is covered in scratches.

I really luurrvve this gadget! =) Whoa!

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July 18 Philippine Earthquake prophecy.

People are really spooked because three minor quakes have already occured days before the predicted July 18 8.1 magnitude earthquake of a certain Jucelino Nóbrega da Luz - in this lengthy chain e-mail that has been circulating lately.

This so-called psychic’s predictions for 2008 are as follows:

• Will find the medicine for AIDS and Dengue
• 18th July, Philippine will get 8.1 earthquake, thousands people will die
• The Empire State Building New York will get terror attack in September.
• 13th of September, China will get 9.1 earthquake in Nanning and Hainan, at the same time will get 30 meters Tsunami, millions people will die, the tsunami may go to Japan Directly.

Following the advice of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, I researched if this person truly exists, and he does. He is said to have predicted many big world events. However, whether or not this guy can predict the future, I don’t care. I don’t even believe in such things.The issue right now is that this guy Mr. Jucelino Nobrega Da Luz. DID NOT EVEN PREDICT THE JULY 18 EARTHQUAKE IN THE PHILIPPINES.


The true list of his prophecies for the year 2008 can be found here.


The thing about the July 18 earthquake is not even there. Somebody got wind of information about this guy, inserted the Philippines in the list of prophecies, and spread the e-mail. It’s like, haha, let’s make a prank, let’s pick a random country, how about the Philippines? The people there are big internet fans.


So, Mr. Da Luz DOES make predictions, but he didn’t say anything about July 18.

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PicLens - My Best Friendster App.

Tired of getting pics in Friendster that takes even minutes to view?

Try the revolutionary PicLens.

or visit their site http://piclens.com

here's my preview of one of my friendster's album.

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How to Hack Password Protected Memory Card!

Hack Password Protected Memory Card for S60 1st and 2nd Phones.

1.First of all you`ll need to download FExplorer in phone memory.

2.Then launch FExplorer and then browser to c:\system folder there you`ll see a file named "mmcstore".

3.Now copy/send that file to your computer and open it using Notepad or just rename it as mmc.txt and then open it.

4.You should see your Password at the end of the file.

Hack Password Protected Memory Card for Nokia S60 3rd Phones, E-Series

In E-Series Phone you can unlock your phone by sending a sms using the "Remote lock option".Here the Password for your Memory Card will be your Remote Lock Message.So for now you just need to send a sms containing your remote lock message that will automatically change your memory card passsword.

But before you`ll need to activate "Remote Lock Option", that can be done by going to Tools>Settings>Security>Phone and SIM Allow remote lock menu.


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SOPCAST - Free Internet TV

SopCast is a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet. Adopting P2P(Peer-to-Peer) technology, It is very efficient and easy to use. Let anyone become a broadcaster without the costs of a powerful server and vast bandwidth. You can build your own TV stations comparable with large commercial sites with minimal resources. Using SopCast, you can serve 10,000 online users with a personal computer and a home broadband connection.

I was able to watched the fight of Pacquaio VS Diaz thru here without pay-per-view!


Features:

* State-of-the-art P2P technology. Share the data among all viewers, make the channel more available and stable.
* Minimal delay in the P2P streaming market.
* Fast buffering. 10-30seconds.
* Firewall and NAT traversal technology to pass 90% P2P barriers.
* Build your own channels and broadcast it over the Internet.
* Streaming real time streams. Support for many streaming transport protocol. mms, http, etc.
* Streaming media files. Many file types: asf, wmv, rm, rmvb, mp3, etc.
* Support for loop file playing.
* Extremely low memory footprint and CPU load
* Standard channel URL: click on any sop:// URL to play.
* Real time monitor of broadcasting source quality and network quality to help viewers to select a appropriate channel.
* Record the clips when you are watching it.
* Can play the stream with your favorite player, such as Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, VLC, etc.
* Memory buffering, no harm to the hard disk.
* Support for authentication for both the broadcasters and the viewers. The broadcaster has full control on his channels.
* End-to-End security, encrypted messages, hi level P2P security, no hijack.
* Support multiple channels broadcast on the same server. Normally, you can run 5-10 channels on one PC.
* The Sop Player can be embedded into a webpage or any software applications. It works just like Windows Media Player.
* The Sop Server and Sop Player can be run both on Windows and Linux. The whole system can be ported to embedded Linux.
* Freeware, not ad/spy ware

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Accessing Internet at 640Gb/s... whoa!!

University of Sydney physicists have developed an optical chip that could potentially improve ‘Internet speeds to up to 100 times faster than current Australia’s networks.’ According to the Sydney Morning Herald, these chalcogenide glass photonic chips will be very cheap to produce as they’re based on plain glass. As said the lead researcher, ‘we are talking about networks that are potentially up to 100 times faster without costing the consumer any more.’ He adds that these chips could be scaled to operate at data rates approaching 640 Gb/s — the equivalent to transmitting approximately 17 complete DVDs per second! These chips could be commercially available in 5 years with the possible first network deployments in Japan. But read more…

You can see above CUDOS researcher Neil Baker holding a chalcogenide glass photonic chip which allows all-optical signal processing. Professor Ben Eggleton appears in the background with two other researchers. (Credit: CUDOS)

This research project has been led for 4 years by Professor Ben Eggleton, Director of the Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) at the University of Sydney. Please look at the research section about Photonic crystals for more details. Before going further, here is what this document says about chalcogenide glass photonic crystals. “Chalcogenide glasses combine a large optical nonlinearity with strong photosensitivity, making them ideal for studying nonlinear photonic effects. Chalcogenide glass photonic crystals are fabricated at the ANU by milling holes in chalcogenide glass films using a focused ion beam. We characterise these structures by measuring transmission and reflection versus incident angle and wavelength.”

Now, here is a quote from the Sydney Morning Herald article. “The device, a photonic integrated circuit, could overcome the gridlock that occurs when information travelling along optical fibres at the speed of light has to be processed by slow, old-fashioned electronic components. This would make almost instantaneous, error-free and unlimited access to the internet possible anywhere in the world, Professor Eggleton said. The market would ultimately decide which technologies were introduced to meet the skyrocketing demand for faster and cheaper downloads. ‘But our job at CUDOS is to go out to the absolute limit, and demonstrate in the lab what is possible,’ he said.”

In “Breaking the Internet’s glass ceiling,” a University of Sydney news release (July 9, 2008), you’ll find additional details. “‘This is a critical building block and a fundamental advance on what is already out there. We are talking about networks that are potentially up to 100 times faster without costing the consumer any more,’ says Federation Fellow Professor Ben Eggleton, Director of CUDOS, based within the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. Eggleton, whose team beat their deadline by a year, says that up until now information has been moving at a slow rate but optical fibres have a huge capacity to deliver more. ‘The scratched glass we’ve developed is actually a Photonic Integrated Circuit,’ he says.”

This research work has been presented at the 13th Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) held in Sydney, on July 7-10, 2008, under the title “Error-free 640Gb/s demultiplexing using a chalcogenide planar waveguidechip” (PDF format, 3 pages, 268 KB).

The team also published a highly technical article for Optics and Photonics News, “Chalcogenide Glass Photonic Chips, Signal processing for the next generation of the Internet (PDF format, 6 pages, 484 KB). The picture above comes from this document.

Here is a key part of the conclusion of the paper. “Chalcogenide glasses offer an interesting and exciting new platform for developing all-optical signal processing devices for the photonic equivalent of the electronic chip. These devices will be able to demultiplex high data rate signals, convert the carrier wavelength, and perform other functions, such as optical signal regeneration and packet buffering and switching. Further improvements in device performance are needed in order to achieve all-optical signal processing at data rates for future telecommunications applications (e.g., at 160 to 640 Gb/s).”

Finally, if you want to learn more about these photonic crystals, take a look at an Elsevier scientific publication, Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications and read the abstract of a paper called “Chalcogenide glass photonic crystals” (Volume 6, Issue 1, April 2008, Pages 3-11). “All-optical switching devices are based on a material possessing a nonlinear optical response, enabling light to control light, and are enjoying renewed interest. Photonic crystals are a promising platform for realizing compact all-optical switches operating at very low power and integrated on an optical integrated circuit. In this review, we show that by making photonic crystals from a highly nonlinear chalcogenide glass, we have the potential to integrate a variety of active devices into a photonic chip.” Interestingly, you cannot access the full paper for free from the abstract, but you can from the home page of the journal — at least today.

Sources: Deborah Smith, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, July 10, 2008; and various websites

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Find out what’s slowing your site down

One thing that you have to ask yourself is how fast does your blog/site load? Before you answer that, though, bear in mind that you need a good quality answer and not some vague answer. If I say to you, “Hey your site is too slow! I’ll never go there again!”, you need to ask me back “How slow? What’s your connection speed? Does this happen every time? Are you downloading porn or anything when you browsed to my site? What browser are you using?”.

Those are only a few types of questions that you can ask back. However, you should listen to your readers. Especially if there was more than one person saying the same thing.

I’ve found a site where you can check how long do your site load and some information of the files responsible for it (the size and loading time).

There is only one site that I recommend:
http://tools.pingdom.com/

It’s quite useful and I certainly encourage you to try it. The loading time may not be accurate, but you can certainly see which files are responsible in slowing your site down.

If you’ve been optimizing your site for designs, advertisement placements, and pretty pictures, stop! Before you go any further, analyze your site carefully first. You may have a great design, but if it takes 2 minutes to load, who will bother?

This post is not just for you, but directed to me as well. It’s a reminder for me to do the house keeping correctly! What’s an acceptable loading time for the site, then, you ask? I honestly don’t know. It all depends on how far you want to go, I guess.

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The 400GB Disc.. whoa!

WOW! - Pioneer (awesome company) have made a 400GB Blu-ray Disc (16 layers)-and it can work in existing players. Imagine the games on the PS3. That would make one huge and awesome PS3 game ;) Right now, dual-layer 50GB discs are the biggest.

Well, if you encode movies to 1GB per movie, that's 400 movies on ONE DVD. Is that not amazing?

So just think, how many movies have you seen in your life time? Even if you saw 1 movie a day, you would only need the number of years of your life in DVDs to have every movie you ever saw. So you're 30 years old, every movie you have ever seen on 30 DVDs.

Now no one watches a movie a day. Maybe 1-3 new movies a week. So you can even break that down more.

I think it's incredible. Some crafty hackers are going to get EVERY movie ever made and put them to blu ray. Can you imagine have a 30 set of DVDs with just about every movie you'd ever want to see? Or could see in a life time?


But, in other news blu-ray players are still expensive as hell and hard media is dying. Digital downloads are coming.

So,eat that HD-DVD. hehe..

P.S.
I have my own 120GB USB Hard Drive but I'm satisfied already with it.


Source:
http://www.engadget.com/

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Free IMEEM Downloader

Free Music Zilla is a free IMEEM™ downloader which can help you to download IMEEM™ free and easily .

Install first or visit their site at freemusiczilla.com


Tips:

• You could run Free Music Zilla to start sniffer BEFORE playing the IMEEM™ music in webpage. If Free Music Zilla don't capture the IMEEM™ music, try refresh the page and make sure the music is PLAYING.
• The IMEEM™ music file is in FLV format.
  
• Please keep the IMEEM™ music playing when downloading. Or the download will be failed.

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Conquer Online Addiction

Yes Yes I know, I have not been posting for several months. ( I stopped posting in my old blog) I have been so addicted to Conquer Online that I have irregular sleep patterns now. Since I usually blog at night right before I sleep, I don't do that any more. I guess I'll have to come here and blog any time.

I have been asked to design again a new banner for this school year in ICNHS forum site and I had to go back to school to discuss with my fellow CityHaynons alumni. They told me it was a little plain so I decided to add in a little stuffs. I will post it as soon as it is ready.

Besides that, nothing much already happened. I have been staying up very late everyday that I'm started to have headaches. I can't seem to sleep enough even though I never set the alarm. I merely sleep 4 hours a day. Some how, I can't sleep after 4-6 hours. I will wake up right in the middle of my dreams.Irregular sleeps are really killing me now. All the headaches are so painful. I just can't kick and kill the addiction. I'm going back to the game now. (You can see my virtual character at the upper-left.)

This morning, I tried to get into Conquer Online only to realize that it is under maintenance. Until now it is still under maintenance. I heard it is applying a new patch. So this morning, I went surking around the web and stumble on something I did not expect to exist.Anyway, I just went to their website and saw that they have updated everything. YES FINALLY, I can play it again. I'm going to end this blog writing as the game is downloading the patch. YEAH!!!

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YM invisible hack...

I have heard people talking about a yahoo messenger invisible hack, which in essence consists in a 3rd party sniffing tool that hacks the Yahoo IM network and detects the real connection status of a user.

I would like to warn my readers from using 3rd party tools to probe the Yahoo IM network. Those 3rd party sniffing tools compromise your privacy, as they can potentially open “back doors” to your system and have your personal information and data stolen.


If for emergency reasons still need to know how to know whether a contact of yours is online, although his/her connection status is offline, you can use one of the following two methods:

Using the Yahoo Conference settings

1. Open a conversation with your contact.
2. Click the Conference button. The Conference window will open up.
3. Click the Invite button. If the Talk button is highlighted, then your contact is online, if not he/ she’s offline.

Using the Yahoo Doodle IMvironment

1. Open a conversation with your contact.
2. Click the IMvironment button.
3. Select See all IMvironments then pick Yahoo! tools and Doodle.
4. If you see the following screen, then your contact is offline, if the screen is blank he is actually online:

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Share Private Files with Drop.io

There are many file sharing services on the net,but I recently came through Drop.io. I liked it,it simple with a clean interface and easy to use.Basically uploading files creates a web site to organize them. You can password-protect the files, and anyone who you share the link with can add to the repository.


Drop.io does have a 100mb upload limit—so it's a bit more suited for sharing documents and images than music and videos.The drop folder can have both an access and an admin password, and you can choose what level of access (read, read/write, read/write/delete) the non-admin has. After you've created a drop folder, you can continue to add files and notes to it via the web interface or by email. Each drop also has a phone extension that will allow you to call in and record messages that are added to the drop.

It's completely anonymous. You don't make an account to use the service. There is no profile. The drop folders aren't search indexable unless you choose to make them without passwords and publish the URL somewhere crawlable. You can renew the expiration period of the drop, but when it expires, it goes away along with its contents.

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Bloxorz Game

It's not a square, it's a Bloxorz. These challenging puzzles ask: Can you get a rectangular cube into a square hole? I really liked this game, I should say the first game liked so much... and yaa its addicting (only if you can solve it).Swear it can puzzled up your brain! Best of all its fun. Enjoy. =) P.S.I'm on my 29th stage already. Can you beat my record so far? bwahaha... CONTINUE READING ►

Chatting with a Pinoy Idol

Sue Ellen Cubing, known only as Sue Ellen, is 17 from Iloilo. She is a daughter of a pastor and beauty pageant runner-up. She and her sister, Genevieve, auditioned together in Iloilo and made it through the theater rounds, where Genevieve was among those eliminated.

Sue, who i think, has the potential to blow the audience away. She's the cutest among all the contenders. They tagged her as a Cute Girl with Golden Voice and the little Rihanna. So much with that. To make this story short, I was able to chat with Sue Ellen through her Sister Kim. Kim is already in my friend's list in YM and that night It was a privilege to chat with her Sis Sue shalala...

Pictures of our Chat


I asked her some of the intriguing questions like, "Who is your crush among the boys?", "Her very close friend(s) among the hopeful remaining idols?", "Her bet and rival?", etc.., and she even gave her cellphone no. to me.. Shalala.. (I can't share her no., sorry.) She also played on cam with me. Poked fun with her twisted lips and pinkish cheeks. shalala..

Her Friendster Profile: http://profiles.friendster.com/kongjoreyo


P.S.
Support, SUE, on PINOY IDOL by voting her. We can make her stay by voting after the show every saturday, 7:00 PM. to vote, txt IDOL SUE and send to 367 for smart/talk n txt and 2344 for other networks... by the way, within 2 hours lang daw after the show ang voting...

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Scan your PC in seconds

How long does your Antivirus takes to scan your entire disk? 1, 2 or more hours…..? And during scan, you can’t do anything otherwise you computer will slow down like a turtle :(.

For those who were annoyed by time taking “Anti viruses”, I have found a really nice application for you. It is known as nanoscan, a web scanner from Panda Security. A very efficient, accurate, and less time consuming virus scanner. It scans your computer in seconds and gives very accurate result. See this

I knew that my computer was infected from a virus and AVG couldn’t detect it, so then I tried nanoscan. It took 22 seconds to scan and then detected the virus! As its name suggests, it only scans and has another companion tool to clean viruses. Ideal for those who wanna be sure that if they have virus[es] or not.

Features:

* Install and ready to scan in less than a minute or two.
* Detects 2,719,153[and counting] viruses, spywares, adwares, worms and all nasty things like these
* Only 400kb in size
* Detects those viruses also which haven’t yet been discovered.

Install it in a few simple steps and you’re on your way. Scan your computer daily because it won’t take your day

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Independence Day for Americans and B-day for my Chloe.

This day, is one of my special day as Americans celebrate their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1776, commonly known as the Fourth of July. It's also the 22nd birthday of my special friend who is very close to my heart... Chloe.


My friend, on Your Birthday,
I Have So Many Wishes for You






I wish for you to have
people to love
people in your life
who will care about you
as much as I do

blue skies and clear days
exciting things to do
easy solutions to any problems
knowledge to make the right decisions

strength in your values
laughter and fun
goals to pursue
happiness in all that you do

My friend
I wish for you to have
beautiful experiences
each new day
as you follow
your dreams

May All Your Dreams
Come True on Your Birthday!

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My A-B-C's of Technology

I have my own version of A B C to Z of the latest and current technology nowadays, in which some go kraaazzzy and I'm hip to it. Hope you'll like it. He he...

Make yours too.. !!

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World's 6 Most Worthless Money

As Americans worry about the rate of inflation exceeding 4 percent, we should consider Zimbabwe, where the inflation rate broke the shocking 100,000 percent mark and the country released a 10 million-dollar note (now valued below $4 on the black market).  

500,000-dong note. U.S. value: $31.37
An early-1980s U.S. embargo hobbled exports, leading to price controls and the printing of excess currency.

100,000-rupiah note. U.S. value: $11.05
During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the rupiah lost 80 percent of its value within months, sparking riots in Jakarta (and soon ending President Suharto's 32-year rule)

 50,000-rial note. U.S. value: $5.35
Since the 1979 revolution, Iran's inflation rate has hovered around 15 percent, thanks in part to ever-rising oil prices.

   

50,000-dobra note. U.S. value: $3.47.

This African island nation's economy is tied to the volatile price of its chief export, cocoa, and is measured against its trading partners' robust euro.

 

 10,000-franc note. U.S. value: $2.33

In 2002, the mineral-rich African country refused to implement reforms mandated by the International Monetary Fund; foreign cash dried up, and the central bank printed too much money.

 

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Pupil Wins Gold in 2008 Promax Awards

An animated music video featuring Filipino band Pupil (Ely Buendia’s newly formed band after Eraserheads) won gold and was hailed as the Best Music Video in 2008 Promax/BDA Awards held in New York City.

In the music video, Pupil performed Animax Asia’s theme song, “Set Me Apart,” which celebrate youth and individuality.

Pupil is composed of Ely Buendia, Yan Yuzon, Dok Sergio, and Bogs Jugo.

Here is the music video of Pupil’s “Set Me Apart”:



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Mozilla's World Record.

Mozilla officially announced today that Firefox 3 set the Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours, totaling at an impressive 8,002,530 downloads. Pat yourself on the back and grab your personalized Download Day certificate.

It feels like I'm an online MBA graduate!

But it has crashed for me sometimes, but only very rarely. Rather than extensions it seems to be dodgy plugins that are the problem. Can't fix this though- good job it only happens very rarely.

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CIT Network Server brought down.

Our school had just experienced network interruption this early afternoon. It went totally down when our server was malfunctioned. All transactions like tuition fee payments were temporarily down at the moment when the problem occurred.

I witnessed how the Problem Recovery Team led the solution for it (FYI, I was an OJT, in the Technical Support Group of our school). The said server is placed in a certain part of a confined room and ordinary students will not noticed it since the area is too dim and dark.

I came close over how the server look like. It's like a CPU but has a bunch of add-ons inside. Often include faster processor and memory, more RAM, larger hard drives, higher reliability, redundant power supplies, redundant hard drives (RAID), compact size and shape, modular design (e.g., blade servers often used in server farms), rack or cabinet mountability, serial console redirection, etc.

The team was desperate enough on how to handle the scenario, since too much pressure was waiting outside, as many students were exhausted by the sudden shut down of the network system. The vulnerability of the hardware in such problem like this was discussed upon retrieving the bolts and nuts of the server components. The hardware was full of excessive dusts. Over time the dust built up gets so thick to it actually forms a conductor and shorts out critical components. Fans get clogged up with dirt and are no longer useful in serving their purpose etc. This is the major problem for Computers. Without this, it will automatically extend the life of your Computer.

So the team used a vacuum cleaner, brushes and a spray for it to make clean and dust free. Then the server starts to work fine after. It was a great relief for them and for the students as well. Hardware maintenance is a must for a school or organization like CIT.

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