From the monthly archives: March 2007
One of the organizers of the Philippine Blog Awards, Abe Olandres, is interviewed by RPN-9.
I’m sitting here at the Globe booth just outside the Philippine Blog Awards, waiting for the ceremonies to begin. After more than a year of communicating with him on the phone and online, I finally met Abe Olandres, one of the organizers and, as it turns out, my Web host, too.
IN his 1975 short story “Remembering Needleman,” Woody Allen recounts the enigmatic last words of the eccentric professor, Sandor Needleman, after he was tapped on the head by a wrecking ball on his lunch hour. “No thanks, I already own a penguin.” For some strange reason, the line has stayed with me all these years. Now I finally have an excuse to use it. Perhaps the question to Needleman’s cryptic last words was: “Want to install an expensive, proprietary operating system?”
TO come undone is to be ruined. With computers, you can often avoid this state by using the undo command—a feature we take for granted until we need it to bail us out of a spot of trouble.
BILLED as the world’s thinnest portable all-in-one multimedia player, the NextBase SDV1102-A Tablet DVD Player is perfectly suited to people who want to take their digital entertainment with them.
WHEN did technology become a lifestyle concern?
In the early days, if a computer company called a press conference, it would more likely attract writers from specialized trade papers than reporters from the mainstream press. I remember days when there were only two publications covering a tech story, neither of them a general-interest newspaper.
ONE good turn deserves another.
Sometime in September 2005, my editor at Standard Today, Jojo Robles, thrust his old Apple G3 iBook at me with “a request” that I learn to use it. Fortunately, I liked what I saw, and when it came time to retire my old Fujitsu Windows 98 notebook, I chose a G4 iBook, which continues to serve me well.
The transition from Windows to Mac OS X wasn’t very difficult. A bigger change was in store for me in June 2006, when, in a fit of frustration over repeated crashes on my home computer, I nuked Windows XP and installed Ubuntu Linux over it.
WHEN digital cameras were still a novelty, it was difficult to imagine that they would one day become so ubiquitous or so powerful. Yet today, we have the likes of the new Kodak EasyShare V803, an 8-megapixel consumer camera that’s both feature-packed and easy to use.
HOW do I get system specs? This question stumped me for awhile when my editor wanted to know how to display the hardware on his new Ubuntu Linux desktop PC. On Windows, you can get that information via the Control Panel then System. On a Mac, you can get it by going to the Apple menu and choosing About This Mac. How do you do it in Linux?
