Face to face chassis

 My illegal WinXP machine reintroduced me to the dreaded Blue Screen of Death and crashed last week. I'm not surprised because deep inside my heart I know that every WinXP installation are bound to crash sooner or later because it's a hidden Microsoft's feature scheme to let you buy new M$ software every 2 months. And that's just genius. And evil.

Anyhow, like any seasoned WinXP user, I already mastered the kung fu of WindowsXP re-installation. It's an art form if you must. But unlike my previous installations, I decided to do some much needed upgrade. You see, my PC has been asking for a lot of juice and my current 350W PSU (powers supply unit) isn't up for a 2 DVD ROM ( the other is a dvd writer), a 7200RPM HDD, 2 auxiliary fans and a gigantic CPU Volcano fan setup. Sometimes i just have to remove one of those components to make my PC running.

Not only i need to upgrade the PSU, i also need a new housing for my PC. My PC chassis is not doing any help cooling the insides of my PC that i have to use my PC half open all the time. This is like driving a car without the hood or like running around half naked all the time or like Lito Lapid carrying a big-ass machine gun on his right hand and his intestines by his left. Not really ideal.

So I bought this chassis with 500W PSU and it came free with a PS2 keyboard and mouse and crappy speaker. It was a nice deal though. And after nearly 2 hours of CPU to CPU transplant, my machines up and running. And after reinstallation of WinXP (which I will discuss next), it's running smoothly and much better. Guess the temperature drop helped a lot.

Here's my newly "pimped" PC.

Senator likens Arroyo’s SONA to a Friendster list

Now that the minority is the new majority, GMA would be better prepared and use Facebook next time around. 

 Senator likens Arroyo’s SONA to a Friendster list

Posted July 24, 2007 19:21:00(Mla Time)

INQUIRER.net
Veronica Uy

MANILA, Philippines — (UPDATE) President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's State of the Nation Address (SONA) seemed more like a Friendster list than a development roadmap, Senator Pia Cayetano said Tuesday.

“Like last year's SONA, the speech sounded like a Who's Who list of the President's closest friends and allies and the infrastructure projects they had asked from her administration as reward for their political loyalty,” said Cayetano.

She said Arroyo’s hour-long speech at the opening of Congress Monday “resembled a Friendster list, but failed to address ordinary people’s concerns.” Friendster is a popular social networking site on the Internet.

Critics said this year’s SONA became a virtual roll call of Arroyo’s allies in Congress and the local government.

Cayetano, using the yardstick of delivering basic services to the people, gave the President’s seventh annual address a failing mark.

She said several crucial targets in health, education and poverty reduction not met by the Arroyo administration were not substantially discussed in the SONA.

“We're way off some of the targets that the government itself had laid down (under the Medium Term Philippine Development Plan),” she said. “Basic health and education are among the closest to the hearts of our people since these involve basic services that they always expect to hear about in the President's SONA.”

Cayetano cited the following statistic:

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Jesus failed

Jesus was given a task, a relatively easy task, but failed to pull it off. And so was Kevin and Vicky.

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Good thing Chong made it on time.

What’s with Google Groups Directory??

If you are programmer and you are daunted with a task so daunting, you probably need help. And when a programmer needs help, he doesn't want to read thirty pages of documentation or a dozen FAQs. The most effective way to get help is by asking another programmer which sometimes can be really annoying. And the least annoying way to ask another programmer is by the way of forums or groups. And the easiest way to search for *that* group is probably Google, since they are too kind to adopt usenet groups, the king of forums.

And while I was doing that, this happened…

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I don't know if I'm doing it wrong, but i can't seem to browse Google Groups directories! I have to use the search to get to the groups i wanted.

I guess nobody's perfect, even Google. 

Take That Apple