Monday, January 31, 2005

mindoro, program, broadband, puerto galera

nagdeploy kami ng program nmin sa starhonda calapan mindoro. nag-install ng internet ang globe s calapan, mindoro. ambilis ng globe broadband. nakakatawid n ng dagat ung data ng program namin :-) then pumunta rin kami ng puerto galera. ok ung white beach malinaw ung tubig

So you want to be a consultant...?

So you want to be a consultant...?

Slashdot | So You Want To Be A Consultant

Slashdot | So You Want To Be A Consultant

Slashdot | So You Want To Be A Consultant

Slashdot | So You Want To Be A Consultant: "Re:are you going to pay me? (Score:5, Interesting)
by ScrewMaster (602015) on Sunday January 30, @02:18PM (#11521592)
Finance charges can help, but I've found (after a decade and a half as a consultant) that offering early-pay discounts help a *LOT*. Give them thirty days to pay, but if they pay early knock a couple percent off the bill. That eliminates their desire to play the float with your money by holding on to it as long as possible, because by delaying payment they are now losing money! Besides, you get more flies with honey than ... well.

Another tip: if you do anything for free, even something as simple as plugging in somebody's mouse or changing their desktop wallpaper, put it on the bill with a 100% discount so they can see all the benefits of keeping you happy. The more people at a given site that see an advantage in having you around, the more pressure there is to make sure you get taken care of promptly. All consultants (except, perhaps, lawyers) do things gratis now and then in an effort to accrue good will. But believe me, if you don't document the freebies you won't get credit for them.

Find out right away who approves your checks (if you are contracting for a large organization this may not be the person you think it is) and don't hesitate to give them a call if there a holdup in getting paid. And when you do speak to that person, be unfailingly polite and explain the importance of your work to their company. Often it just takes one phone call from that individual to whoever cuts your checks to get the job done.

Another point I'd like to bring up is that many large companies are depending more and more on outside help (seeing as how they've often fired most of their existing full-time staff in an effort to become 'right sized'.) Consequently, I've found that some corporations have special fast-pay plans for small contractors. They generally won't tell you about it (the perso"

Saturday, January 29, 2005

mabagal ang serbisyo ng globe telecom

ang tagal ikabit ng globe ung broadband s starhonda. mabagal ang serbisyo nila. kahapon p dapat. pero hanggang ngayon, wala pa rin pumupunta taga-globe s starhonda. nakakainip. so naginternet muna ako s labas. pampatanggal ng inip. ung program na idedeploy namin dito s mindoro is internet-based, centralized database. ung database nasa calamba.

Thursday, January 27, 2005

Slashdot | Running Windows Viruses Under Linux

Slashdot | Running Windows Viruses Under Linux

Saturday, January 22, 2005

got cheque

nakuha ko yung downpayment dun sa isa ko pang project. dapat sa susunod 6 digits na :-)

Thursday, January 20, 2005

Do You Want to Live Forever?

Do You Want to Live Forever?

Slashdot | Do You Want to Live Forever?

Slashdot | Do You Want to Live Forever?: "Jamie McCarthy writes 'In 1918, Gunnery Sergeant Daniel Daly inspired his weary men to attack by yelling, 'come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?' But how would the world change if we could? This month's Technology Review introduces us to the computer scientist, and self-taught biologist, Aubrey de Grey, who thinks immortality could be within our grasp by 2030. Thinking like an engineer, he's broken aging down into seven specific problems, like cell atrophy and mitochondrial mutation, which he believes can all, in principle, be solved. And he has good reason to think those seven are the only 'bugs' standing in the way of a thousand-year lifespan. De Grey is clearly both a genius and a little nuts, but I'm not sure in what proportion...'"

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Slashdot | Dancing Robots Help Preserve Japanese Culture

Slashdot | Dancing Robots Help Preserve Japanese Culture: "Dancing Robots Help Preserve Japanese Culture
Robotics
Science
Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 18, @01:27AM
from the pickling-is-a-form-of-preservation dept.
Neil Halelamien writes 'As reported on robots.net and other sources, researchers at Tokyo have used the HRP-2 Promet humanoid robot to help preserve moves from ancient Japanese dance for future generations. The researchers used motion capture to record the movements of a dancing master, then encoded and replayed them on the robot. The HRP-2 Promet robots are themselves quite interesting, capable of standing up after lying down and non-autonomously operating a backhoe. The external appearance was created by a designer known for his work on several anime series.'"

Saturday, January 15, 2005

replanting genetically modified plant/fruit; a piracy?

http://science.slashdot.org/science/04/05/21/1653238.shtml?tid=191

what is centrino

http://www.powernotebooks.com/centrino.php

some insights

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run
with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. Keep
the company of bums and you will become a bum. Hang around with rich people
and you will end by picking up the check and dying broke.
-- Stanley Walker

Tuesday, January 11, 2005

If you want to make God laugh...

tell Him all your plans in life.

Friday, January 07, 2005

LOVE, COURTSHIP IN FILIPINO CULTURE

LOVE, COURTSHIP IN FILIPINO CULTURE

Yahoo! News - Researchers See Gigabit Data Over Power Lines

Yahoo! News - Researchers See Gigabit Data Over Power Lines

Thursday, January 06, 2005

The year 2038 bug

The year 2038 bug

Slashdot | Y2K: Hoax, Or Averted Disaster?

Slashdot | Y2K: Hoax, Or Averted Disaster?: "A little perl script you can use on your server to check if you are already 2038 ready:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use POSIX;
$ENV{'TZ'} = 'GMT';

for ($clock = 2147483641; $clock < 2147483651; $clock ) {
print ctime($clock);
}

# Correct output is the following:
#
# Tue Jan 19 03:14:01 2038
# Tue Jan 19 03:14:02 2038
# Tue Jan 19 03:14:03 2038
# Tue Jan 19 03:14:04 2038
# Tue Jan 19 03:14:05 2038
# Tue Jan 19 03:14:06 2038
# Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 <-- Last second in 32-bit Unix systems
# Tue Jan 19 03:14:08 2038
# Tue Jan 19 03:14:09 2038
# Tue Jan 19 03:14:10 2038

"

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

regular expression

http://www.devx.com/vb2themax/Tip/18638


Extract words with the RegExp object
The following routine extracts all the words from a source string and returns a collection. Optionally, the result contains only unique words.

This code is remarkably simpler than an equivalent "pure" VB solution because it takes advantage of the RegExp object in the Microsoft VBScript Regular Expression type library.



' Get a collection of all the words in a string
' If the second argument is True, only unique words are returned
'
'
' NOTE: requires a reference to the
' Microsoft VBScript Regular Expression type library

Function GetWords(ByVal Text As String, Optional DiscardDups As Boolean) As _
Collection
Dim re As New RegExp
Dim ma As Match

' the following pattern means that we're looking for a word character (\w)
' repeated one or more times (the + suffix), and that occurs on a word
' boundary (leading and trailing \b sequences)
re.Pattern = "\b\w+\b"
' search for *all* occurrences
re.Global = True

' initialize the result
Set GetWords = New Collection

' we need to ignore errors, if duplicates are to be discarded
On Error Resume Next

' the Execute method does the search and returns a MatchCollection object
For Each ma In re.Execute(Text)
If DiscardDups Then
' if duplicates are to be discarded, we just add a key to the
' collection item
' and the Add method will do the rest
GetWords.Add ma.Value, ma.Value
Else
' otherwise just add to the result
GetWords.Add ma.Value
End If
Next

End Function
Here is an example of how you can use the routine:


' Count how many articles appear in a source string
' held in the txtSource textbox control
Dim v As Variant
Dim count As Long

For Each v In GetWords(txtSource.Text)
Select Case LCase$(v)
Case "the", "a", "an"
count = count + 1
End Select
Next
MsgBox "Found " & count & " articles."


Generate GUID Online

Generate GUID Online: "Set TypeLib = CreateObject('Scriptlet.TypeLib')
NewGUID = TypeLib.Guid
WScript.Echo(left(NewGUID, len(NewGUID)-2))
Set TypeLib = Nothing

If you have the Microsoft SDK installed on your system, you can use the utility uuidgen.exe, which is located in the 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK\Bin' directory.

If you are using PHP, use the uniqid function as described in the uniqid documentation"

How To Call GetNetworkParams/GetAdaptersInfo From Visual Basic. ipconfig /all

How To Call GetNetworkParams/GetAdaptersInfo From Visual Basic

Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Slashdot | Introducing Children to Computers?

Slashdot | Introducing Children to Computers?