Utilization Drivers

It is such a pain when you bought a gadget only to find out that the installer for drivers was not included. Then, you google it, google it, and google it. But still, no trustworthy site to give you the installer. Some may need to log-in or sign up for an account to avail it. And before you can utilize your gadget, you don't have the drive to actually use it because of your disappointment.

When you bumped in with this kind of problem, like for your HP drivers, you must already know what trusted site to download your gadget drivers. This site will cater you with most of your needed installers so that you don't need to put an effort and so much time looking for those things. They also have Sony drivers if you need it. This doesn't serve laptops or PCs only , but also drivers for the gadgets of that brand.

Compiz on Intrepid Ibex

I have successfully activated compiz on ubuntu 8.10 that I have and I'm so happy about it. Install it by going to the synaptic manager and choose the one with compiz manager and whoala, 3D animation and other compiz features can now be use by your pc. I really love it. I was also able to change each desktop background on every workspaces, which I found here.

Gmail Theme!

The other day when I was reading my emails, something caught my eye: a red note at the upper left corner of my screen. I became curious when it said about having email themes...and it's the first time I've heard about Gmail theme...so I ride on the link and deliver me to the setting. I first tried the candy theme but I was not satisfied so I then tried cherry blossom and I liked it...Compare to yahoo, which monochromatic in themes, Gmail is so awesome to integrate customization of different flavors and likes of the consumer who loves not just the color, but the overall design.

Intrepid Ibex - Ubuntu 8.10

Today, before noon, I have successfully installed Ubuntu 8.10 after trying twice. I used a bootable USB to do it. I then customize the theme into pink one and change the wallpaper and panels...hehe I'm going back again to this nice-than-windows OS because it has plenty of features and advantages than the monopolized one.

Self-deleting Image Embedded with Fragile Watermark

My thesis group is currently proposing an approach on how an image self-deletes using the embedded fragile watermark on it. The plan is to embed a fragile watermark on a still image or picture and add some codes to the watermark that will call an outside method of self-deleting. When the image is modified or altered, the code in the fragile watermark will call the outside method to self-delete itself, preventing anyone to modify the image. Now, we need to find ways on making it secure and possible. Although we already had the concept, we still need to learn some tricks to make this approach effective and secure. Hope you guys can help us through your comments. Thank you very much!

IRM Midterm Slides

from Sir Victor Emmanuel "Bikoy" Hanopol

IRM 278 - Information Resource Management of 3rd yr. BS Information Technology

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Laptop Radiation Awareness

Nowadays, more and more people acquire laptop for educational, office, and entertainment purposes and because of the trend, most teenagers have this device. According to my research, using this literally as “laptop” is really dangerous. Most of the radiation comes from where the hard disk, CPU, RAM, and processor are located. It is extremely dangerous to work with this notebook on the lap since its bottom part emits a very very hazardous radiation. Not only the base part is dangerous, its WIFI Radio Field Radiation that makes us connected to a network is more dangerous than the radiation that the hard disk, CPU, RAM, and processor are emitting. This radiation that we get from our laptop can cause cancer, tumor, and brain dysfunctions. Also, the heat that we get from where we rest our hands while typing is the radiation from the CPU. However, the radiation from the laptop's LCD is lesser than desktop computers.

I recommend all laptop users to prevent putting their notebooks on their lap especially if they will work with it for a long time. Also, don't frequently lay your hands near the keyboard, and use anti-radiation glasses because even though the LCD releases less radiation, it still emits radiation. Most especially, exercise frequently, and eat healthy foods like vegetables; but if you don't like veggies, consume more fruits. All of these help decrease the possibility of acquiring diseases. Stay healthy! Additional information: Cellphones with WIFI emits more radiation than laptop, therefore it is more dangerous to use cellphones than laptop when surfing the internet.

Sources:

http://www.goodhealthinfo.net/radiation/radiation.htm

http://yogaforgeeks.com/blog/sarahfelicity/electromagnetic-radiation-from-your-laptop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnd4SP_oh_Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IgO-g-bkGU&feature=related

Operating System class IT 251 Exercise for Jan. 23

Here are the exercise in OS to be pass tomorrow, Jan. 23, 2008
Exercise 14.3.4
Exercise 14.4.5
Exercise 15.2.8

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20-20-20 - Eye Exercise for Computer Addicts

These exercises are suggested by an eye doctor.

It is apt for all of us, who spend long hours at our desks, looking at the computer screen.
I Thought I'd share it with you. 20-20-20
Step I :-
After every 20 minutes of looking into the computer screen, turn your head and try to look at any object placed at least 20 feet away. This changes the focal length of your eyes, a must-do for the tired eyes.
Step II :-
Try and blink your eyes for 20 times in succession, to moisten them.
Step III :-
Time permitting of course, one should walk 20 paces after every 20 minutes of sitting in one particular posture. Helps blood circulation for the
entire body.

Circulate among your friends if you care for them and their eyes. They say that your eyes are the mirror of your soul, so do take care of them,
they are priceless................

from: my father, from the company he is working

Richard Matthew Stallman

Background...

• Born: March 16, 1953, New York City
• Parents: Daniel Stallman and Alice Lippman
• Atheist
• www.stallman.org
• Hired by IBM New York Scientific Center
• preprocessor for the PL/I programming language on the IBM 360
• Harvard University
  
• programmer at the AI Laboratory of MIT
• regular in the hacker community: “RMS”
• graduated from Harvard magna cum laude earning a BA in Physics in 1974
• knee injury
• awarded six honorary doctorates and two honorary professorships

Where it all began...

• MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) installed a password control system in 1977
• decrypt the passwords and sent users messages containing their decoded password
• to demonstrate that they were not increasing security, but only hindering free access to each other's software and discouraging sharing it

Works...

• AI truth maintenance system called dependency-directed backtracking with Gerald Jay Sussman
• early work on the problem of intelligent backtracking in constraint satisfaction problems
• TECO, Emacs, and the Lisp Machine Operating System
• Copyleft
• is a play on the word copyright
• practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions
  
• requires the same freedom be preserved in modified versions
• author surrenders some but not all rights under copyright law
• GNU General Public License, Tiny BASIC
• GNU Project
• “GNU's Not Unix”
• September 1983
• free Unix-like operating system
• free software movement
• GNU/Linux operating system
• incorrectly called Linux
  
• Free Software Foundation
• October 1985

Some humor...

• “I am also a saint, in the Church of Emacs--Saint IGNUcius...”
• "There are no godfathers in the Church of Emacs, since there are no gods, but you can be someone's editorfather."

Sources:
http://www.stallman.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
http://www.gnu.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft