The Misadventures of Penoi

Razer Mamba is one of the expensive gaming wireless mouse in the market. This is my wife's Father 's Day gift to me. I choose Mamba coz this is one of the insanely gadgets that i wish to have. Yes i'm insane coz i want a gaming mouse even im not a gamer at all. <grin laugh insert here>. Not familiar on 1ms polling rate etc but this is the best mouse i've ever used.

The Razer Gaming Mouse

Best packaging!!!! Razer Mamba complete package includes USB cable, Docking station, battery, razer sticker and manual

The mouse in action

Docking station and battery charger. Liked the blue light beneath the station.

Battery back cover. "For gamers by gamers"

Razer Mamba docked.

My Purchase Freebies:

Razer Sphex Gaming grade Desktop skin

Razer "Get Imba" Tshirt.

Back print

Razer Mamba Page and reviews:

http://store.razerzone.com/store/razerusa/en_US/pd/productID.169418100

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/input_devices/razer_mamba_gaming_mouse/1

http://gear.ign.com/articles/981/981803p1.html

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2345595,00.asp

Seems that the local test will post the speed that i paid for. But across the world test shows that i only have 3Mbps of speed.

Bakit kaya pumapalpak ang SMARTMATIC PCOS machines pagdating sa barangay tally. There's no room for erros lalo na sa time na ito na kung saan, ilang araw na lang ay eleksyon na. Programmer at technical nightmares pag nagkataon.  In a worst case scenario, baka mag-manual count pagdating sa barangay pero na-defeat ang purpose ng kaunaunahang Philippine election automation. Nagbayad pa naman limpak na salapi na kinuha sa ating mga buwis.

Im not against with automation, since nasa IT field ako. but with thorough planning at testing sana. Hindi yung ganitong bara-bara. Reactive sila sa mga technical problems with poor alibi. Basa ang papel, umurong ang papel, dahil ng moist, eh kasi manipis ang papel. Hindi na ako magtataka na pati ang alignment ng buwan at araw ay gawin na ding alibi :)

Valenzuela argued that since hard disks have magnetic components, then it falls under the control of the OMB based on Republic Act No. 9239, also known as the Optical Media Act of 2003. -- Gmanews.tv

This is my wife's new toy. Apple Macbook Intel Core 2 Duo 13inch .  We decided to go with Mac on our next purchase of a lappy as we are not  familiar with OSX. So let us unbox this toy.

Box front with the Apple Logo

Box back

Inside the box

Power cables

Apple Macbook power adaptor

Installation and application CD

Apple Macbook

Pure white eh!!!

Keyboard with a close up shot

Macbook boot up.

Specs

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26Ghz 3Mb shared level 2 cache

250Gb Hard Disk 5400 rpm

4Gb 1066Mhz SDRAM DDR3 memory

13.3 inch led widescreen

Nvidia GeForce 9400M graphics

After the free Novell Certified Linux Administrator certification, now Novell again gives free certification. Novell Data Center Technical Specialist. Everyone who received this cert is clueless what does this means.  Quick search on the Novell site does'nt give any result or info.

I'm not sure if i will add this cert on my CV.  Free cert without exam?  Bad idea i guess..

Will there be a 2 to 3 hour rotating brownout during the much awaited fight of Manny Pacquiao vs Joshua Clottey?  Hopefully not. As per National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP), the Luzon power grid was set to "red alert" which means that it has no power reserves from Feb16-March11 only. So technically, there's no rotating brownout on March 14, the fight night of Pacquiao and Clottey at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas.

NGCP better make sure that we have the enough power reserves on March 14, or else, they will taste the power punch of the Filipino people.

source : http://www.gmanews.tv/story/183732/rotating-brownout-looms-in-luzon

Last week i received an email asking if I'm in posting their ads. To check out their ADS Unit, i must click a Google Picasa Web album url. Curious, I clicked on the URL from the email and it forwarded me on a Google Account authentication page.

Hmm smells fishy. Remember that my wife’s yahoo account was hacked after someone from her friend’s hacked YM asked her to check out the pictures on his flicker. In just a minute, her username and password was harvested by the hacker and we have to call Yahoo just to retrieve the credentials.

You wont notice that this is a bogus page.



http://picasaphotos21.t35.com/photoalbum.htm

hmmm, ok. Not your usual Google URL and looks like a subdomain of t35.com

Let’s check out www.t35.com



Boom!!! t35.com is a free website service. So the hacker uses a free web service to host his fake Google Picasa page. The minute you entered your Google Account username and password it will be harvested.

How will you identify if the page is bogus or not? Here are some of the basic steps that you can use:

1. Google always use webpage SSL certificates. You will notice that the URL starts with https://…. instead of http://… on its page authentication.

2. Update your internet browsers. New browsers are intelligent enough if the SSL certificates is fake or not.

3. Always check the URL of the page. Most of the hackers uses free web service hosting to host their bogus site.

Internet security awareness will always save your butt and your hard earned ADS payments.

It sucks when you have a status of "i'm having a bad day" and then people clicked on "Like"

Philvocs warned that a possible tsunami will hit the eastern part of Philippines generated by the massive earthquake on Chile. Hopefully the warning is not true and regard it as one of those hoax news.

source http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/02/27/10/philippines-issues-tsunami-alert

Linux Professional Institute alumni to receive Novell Certified Linux Administrator for free. As in for free!!! No charge or extra exam to take. As long you are a LPIC-1 certified, you are eligible to be a CLA certified. So what's the catch? Seems Novell wants to boost their marketing strategy and pump up the numbers of certified professional under their umbrella.

To validate your LPIC go to https://cs.lpi.org/caf/Xamman/certification and apply for Novell CLA certification at http://practicum.novell.com/LPI2CLAForm.php. Fill out the form, provide your LPI ID and verification code. Allow 1 business day before they send your pdf certification stating that you are a certified SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 admin!!!

Preparing one of Filipino's favorite delicacy adobo with my preggy wife. Yep you heard it right, my wife is pregnant.. Finally... Excited and nervous at the same time. This will be a new journey for us.. Having a baby and also having those sleepless nights as they said.  :)

Taglish as option for language

Firefox themes is now outdated on its newest build. Enter Firefox Personas!!!. It enables you to change browser's skins on the fly. Just install Personas Firefox addon and choose your skins at www.getpersonas.com

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First ever cyberinuman of all tambays circa 90's tonight at 11pm PHT.  Middle east, europe, australia, singapore and the philippines already confirmed. I still have half consumed Jack Daniels and Tiger beer. Thanks to modern day social networking that even though we don't see each again, we can still be in touch.

Laklakan na!!!!!

Manila Bulletin posted on their website a good breakdown of Philippine holidays and long weekend schedule for 2010

January 1 (Fri) - New Year's Day (five-day long weekend from December 30 to January 3)
February 23 (Mon) - EDSA Revolution Anniversary (holiday for schools only, three-day long weekend from February 21 to 23)
April 1 (Thu) - Holy Thursday
April 2 (Fri) - Good Friday (four-day long weekend from April 1 to 4)
April 9 (Fri) - Araw ng Kagitingan (three-day long weekend from April 9 to 11)
May 1 (Sat) - Labor Day
June 14 (Mon) - Independence Day (three-day long weekend from June 12 to 14)
August 23 (Mon) - Ninoy Aquino Day (three-day long weekend from August 21 to 23)
August 30 (Mon) - National Heroes Day (three-day long weekend from August 28 to 30)
September - Eid'l Fitr (to be announced, calculated September 10, possible three-day long weekend from September 10 to 12)
November 1 (Mon) - All Saints Day (three-day long weekend from October 30 to November 1)
November - Eid 'l Adha (to be announced, calculated November 16)
November 29 (Mon) - Bonifacio Day (three-day long weekend from November 27 to 29)
December 24 (Fri) - Non-Working Holiday
December 25 (Sat) - Christmas
December 27 (Mon) - Rizal Day (four-day long weekend from December 24 to 27)
December 31 (Fri) - Non-Working Holiday
January 1 - (Sat) New Year's Day (three-day long weekend from December 31 to January 2)

Less
1. Sleep
2. tv watching
3. eat
4. web browsing

More
1. exercise
2. blog updates
3. study

If these resolutions can't be fullfilled, there always be a next year for me :)

Hiya!!! It will be my last blog post for the year 2009. Year 2010, here we come!!!! Happy New year Everyone!!!

I had an avi file that was not supported by Samsung LCD TV series 6 builtin media player.  Dont get me wrong as the media player can play mkv, avi, mp3 etc. Maybe its the new encoding that was used in ripping files. Good thing after months of waiting, Samsung released Firmware patch last Nov that fixed my avi issues. You can say im pretty much satisfied to the functionality that Samsung integrates to their new product line of LCD and LED TVs. You don't have to buy external media player to enjoy your downloaded media files.

Contract renewed for my hosting and domain.  i dont know if people visit or read my blogs, but who cares right. As long we blog.. we rock..

And by the way.. this site pays for this...

Pacquiao wins over Cotto and it feels good!!! Ito ay isa sa mga pagkakataon na magiging proud kang maging Pinoy. Isa sa mga pagkakataon na lahat ng banyaga ay titingala sa Bandila ng Pinas.. Isa sa mga pagkakataon na nagkakaroon ng respeto ang mga taga ibang bansa sa atin... Isa sa mga pagkakataon na magkaisa ang mga Pinoy, magkakakilala man o hindi..  Isa sa mga pagkakataon na tumigil ang mundo ng mga Pinoy at nanalangin na sana manalo ang pambato ng Pinas na si Manny Pacquiao... Mabuhay ka Manny!!!!

Singapore Starhub will air Pacquiao vs Cotto Firepower.. Mali nga lang yung ispeling ng name ni Pacman sa site nila :)

Pinoys all over the world are excited for the boxing match between Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto.  Everybody wants to watch it live and not by delayed telecast. Though we always search the net for a Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto Live Online free Streaming Video, Singapore Starhub will air the fight thru their Video on Demand (VOD) subscription for only SGD8(?). Beers not included.

Home alone na ulit kami ni misis sa bahay. Umuwi na kasi si pinsan at ang gf niya sa Pinas. Sana kung babalik man sila dito sa SG eh suwertihin sila. Mahirap na nasanay na may kasama sa bahay. Kasama sa pagluluto, pagkain at panonood ng TFC.. at syempre mga download movies.. hehehehe...

Hanap pa din kami ni misis ng bagong malilipatan. End of contract na kasi ang bahay namin sa end ng november. Try din maghanap na makakashare sa rent.  Sana magkalinaw na this week ang lahat ng mga tiningnan naming room  last saturday.. Syempre, natawad kami sa rent.

Ellaganda.com made a serious buzz in the net today. She blogs about relief goods in DSWD not being distributed to  typhoon victims. Hay naku, ganyan naman tayo. Kapag may nakapuna na, saka hindi magkaintindihan umaksyon.  Ang masama dun, inililihis ang tunay na usapin sa paggamit ng salitang "nabubulok" . Nakakalungkot isipin.

Nabasa ko din about "donor's tax" kung hindi sa DSWD dadaan ang cash donation. Meron palang ganung buwis. Pero teka, tulong na nga yun pero bakit kelangan pang buwisan.

But moving forward, since nabulabog na ang mga taga-DSWD, kelangan magtulungan na lang tayo para maipamahagi ang mga relief goods at matulungan ang mga nangangailangan.

It so frustrating and stressful in finding a new place to stay. Our lease will expire on the first week of december and still no luck with our current room viewing.

Mr Big Reunion Concert tonight!!!

Greenday will rock Singapore on Jan 14 2010!!!!

Mama, can we go please :)

I dont know about you, new Pinoy Big Brother is boring.  Or maybe Kuya's Bahay recently opened and the housemates are still adjusting inside the house.  Masyado pang mahiyain ang mga housemates...

Pero isa lang ang masasabi ko.. Minsan nakakabingi si Mariel.. Katok sa TFC, please bring back Precious Hearts Romance... :)

Many thanks to my wife as she allowed me to watch Mr Big Reunion Tour Singapore on Oct 18. I can't wait to see them live. They toured the Philippines when i was in 4th year high school but not lucky enough to watch them. Hopefully it will be a blast!!!! Bad thing we missed No Doubt last week :(

JBoys will release their Journey Live in Manila DVD this Oct 2. It will be exclusively available in Walmart Stores.



Track Listing:
DISC ONE
1. NEVER WALK AWAY
2. ONLY THE YOUNG
3. ASK THE LONELY
4. STONE IN LOVE
5. KEEP ON RUNNING
6. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
7. CHANGE FOR THE BETTER
8. WHEEL IN THE SKY
9. LIGHTS/ STILL THEY RIDE
10. OPEN ARMS
11. MOTHER FATHER
12. WILDEST DREAMS
13. WHEN YOU LOVE A WOMAN
14. SEPARATE WAYS
15. WHAT I NEEDED

DISC TWO
16. EDGE OF THE BLADE
17. WHERE DID I LOSE YOUR LOVE
18. ESCAPE
19. FAITHFULLY
20. DON'T STOP BELIEVIN'
21. ANYWAY YOU WANT IT
22. LOVIN' TOUCHIN'
23. TURN DOWN THE WORLD
24. BE GOOD TO YOURSELF

After typhoon Ondoy cause unbelievable flood in the Philippines, a 7.9 earthquake in Sumatra Indonesia and tremors reached Singapore and Malaysia.  Everyone is asking, what's next? Hopefully thru our faith in our Lord we can surpass this tragedy. Hindi tayo pababayaan ni Bro.

We bought cheap phone for Pinoy Jokes and Funny filipino SMS Text TXT Messages blog. It is a Nokia 1661 decent enough to receive txt messages contributions from my blog visitors.  My old Sony Ericsson k770i fucked up when we fly from Manila to Singapore.  Maybe the "static electricity" thing killed the phone. But im pretty sure that i turn my phone off. So as a precaution, better to remove your phone's battery before boarding the plane.

Patrick Swayze dies due to pancreatic cancer. Rest in Peace!!!!

We h00ted in Singapore’s COMEX 2009 a point and shoot compact camera. Olympus Tough-8000, a shockproof and waterproof digital camera.  Personal choice of my wife coz she likes to take underwater pictures. There goes my XBOX hehehe.

Olympus Tough-8000 digital camera Benefits

SHOCKPROOF (6.6ft.)
Life can be tough, this camera is tougher. Rugged metal body and revolutionary shock-absorbing construction are designed to withstand a 6.6-foot drop, bump or other mishap.
WATERPROOF (33ft.)
A revolutionary system of waterproof seals and gaskets keeps water out so you can take pictures as deep as 33 feet underwater.
FREEZEPROOF (14°F/-10°C)
Boldly enter that winter wonderland without worrying about your camera. This camera is winterized to perform at below-freezing temperatures.
CRUSHPROOF (220lbf.)
With a rugged body and reinforced LCD, the STYLUS TOUGH-8000 withstands up to 220 pounds of pressure so your camera and images are protected.
DUAL IMAGE STABILIZATION
Forget about blurry shots with this 2-in-1 anti-blur solution. Sensor-Shift Image Stabilization compensates for camera shake to keep your shots steady while Digital Image Stabilization captures crisp, clear images in any situation.

In US, a baby born at 9:09 on 9/9/09 weighing 9lb, 9ounce. Paglaki siguro nito, magaling suwerte siya sa Lucky 9 :) more info at gmanews.tv

Have you tried Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer 2009? It is a blog editor that supports blogger and wordpress. Now you can layout your blog posting the easy way.  Supports Technorati, LiveJournal, Flickr etc tagging, picture, photo album, table, map and video. You can add also  plugins from its Windows Live Writer Extensions

Full Feature List
In addition to the highlights of this release, here’s the list of all the major new features added since Windows Live Writer 2008:

• New border treatments (including Instant Photo)


• Crop and tilt photos


• Insert multiple photos


• Toolbar alignment commands enabled for images


• Insert and upload Windows Live photo albums


• Insert and publish video to YouTube


• Additional spell checking languages: Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, English (Australia), Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish, and Ukrainian


• Server-side tagging (for supported blogs)


• Type-down filtering in the Open dialog


• Twitter, Digg and Flickr Plug-ins


• Improved blog account setup


• Lightbox and Windows Live Spaces inline preview support


• Improved category control: adding categories, type-down filtering


• Tabbed view switching


• AutoLink glossary


• Smart quotes/typographic characters


• Word count


• Support for bidirectional languages (like Hebrew and Arabic)


• Tabs for view switching


• Updated look and feel

It is still in active development so beware of some bugs that might come in your way.

Windows Live Writer 2009 Download

Next year is our National Election, but for now, go register and cast your vote to NU Rock Awards 2009

Here's my pick for this year's Rock awards

1. Artist of the Year
Sugarfree
2. Album of the Year
Villains

3. Vocalist of the Year
Ebe Dancel

4. Guitarist of the Year
Manuel Legarda

5. Bassist of the Year
Buddy Zabala

6. Drummer of the Year
JB Leonor

7. Song of the Year
Hay Buhay

8. Best New Artist
Abstain

9. Best Album Packaging
Mornings and Airports(Sugarfree)

10. Best Music Video
Ibrahim (Wolfgang)

11. Producer of the Year
Manuel Legarda

12. Smart / URock
College Band of the Year
Abstain

domain renewal? not yet as my hosting's exchange rate is still Php45 = $1

Support Eddie Gil for President Movement!!!

Condolence to Iglesia ni Cristo. more info at gmanews

Who says that you can only receive spam messages thru email. Well here a concrete example of old school spammer. Everyday we recieved tons of flyers from our mailbox where spam filtering will not work.

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Holiday na naman sa Pinas. At isa yan sa mga namimiss ko sa Pinas.  Long weekends at Christmas Vacation. Working overseas demands much of your time. Kung baga eh kain lang at tulog ang pahinga. Hindi na din magtama ang schedule namin ni Misis. Paano kami magkakaroon ng munting Penoi nito. :(

Tagalog muna tayo!!!! Night shift :( nakakahilo at nakakapagod sa katawan. Pero ang maganda dito, pagdating ng madaling araw eh wala na halos ginagawa. Hintay hintay lang ng mga alerts. Binisita ko ang dati kong blog na penoycentral.blogdrive.com Kuwela nga pla dati ang mga entry ko sa blog na kung saan eh wiling wili sa pagbabasa ang asawa ko ngayon.

Kasayang balik balikan ang mga entry ko noon. Hindi ko akalain na nakakapag-blog ako ng ganun. Siguro hindi masyadong busy at nabibigyan ng time ang blogging. Siguro magandang ibalik ko ang dating penoycentral. Hay bahala na...

Sony announced its new PS3 Slim!!! Good news for gamers and sad news for Linux geeks though as this new console doesnt have an install other OS option.

Sony stated in the press materials. Apparently Linux just isn't entertaining enough to make the cut. 

I had my first Chuck Taylor when i was in my high school years. Shoes immortalized by Eraserheads in their Ultraelectromagneticpop album. Red in color bought using profit from selling sweet beans to my classmates.

Yesterday, my wife gave me Converse Chuck Taylor Metallica and Justice for All Edition as gift for our monthsary. Thanks Mama!!!

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After the comment of Freddie Aguilar to Arnel Pineda and Charice Pempengco, many Filipino's throw their angst to Ka Freddie. One of this is vandalizing Freddie Aguilar's Wikipedia entry

Freddie Aguilar , better known as Aguilar The Talangka , is a mukhang unggoy folk musician from the Philippines. He is best known for the hit Anak ng Talangka, which became the anthem for the opposition to the Marcos regime during the 1986 People Power Revolution.[1] He is heavily associated with Pinoy rock.[2]

He is not well known internationally, and within the Philippines and Asia-Pacific region, claiming fame as the best imitator, fake song writer and singer of the Philippines.

-- Taken from wikipedia.org

Condolence to Aquino Family and to million Filipinos. Corazon Aquino, may she Rest in Peace.

It was year 2007, so many things happened to my life... loosing my job...financial problems...new job after 4 months hiatus... my rants about Wolfgang Reunion concert in Music Museum... and now, after years of waiting, Wolfgang and Razorback released their Alive 2007 CD. Thanks to modern era, i was able to order here in Singapore thru priss of wolfgang mailing list.

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Tracks:

Center of the sun

Giyang

voodo who do

Temple

as oceans

rp deathsquad

what grows in your garden

manna

sanctified

tabi ng bulkan

war pigs

CD includes Wolfgang and Razorback stickers, amob.com card, promo code for free in-games in levelup, not much of inlay cards, BEERS not included.

Yesterday i upgraded my Samsung LCD TV LA40B6450T1M's firmware. At first im quite nervous. Oh come on, i dont want our very own 40 inches tv to become a brick. Downloaded firmware at www.samsung.com.sg/support page, unzipped software at my thumbdrive, load the firmware using the update utility of the TV.. and that's it. Proud owner of one of the latest LCD tv in the world with updated firmware.