Eggdrop: Quick and dirty upgrade to 1.6.19

November 15, 2008
Filed under: Eggdrop 

True to neglected-category form, I’ve just recently upgraded my eggdrops from 1.6.18 to… wow… 1.6.19, a little less than seven months after the latest incremental version was released last April 18. YAWN.
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GMail now has voice and video chat

November 15, 2008
Filed under: Geek 

Yey! GMail now officially joins the bandwidth-sucking bandwagon. *groan* How will their offering fare against Yahoo? Will people bite? How will this affect other VoIP providers? Who cares?
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Globelines Broadband DSL DNS servers

November 15, 2008
Filed under: Geek 

Think of your ISP’s DNS (Domain Name Service) servers as your Yellow Pages to the internet. They translate human-readable addresses (hostnames) into the numbers that computers understand (IP addresses).
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Ishmael Bernal’s “Himala” voted Best Asian Film in history

November 12, 2008
Filed under: Film 

Voters on CNN’s Entertainment Section chose Ishmael Bernal’s 1982 classic “Himala” as the “Best Asia-Pacific Movie” of all time. The film bested Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” and Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” among others.
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OpenBSD: Changing 104-bit WEP keys

November 12, 2008
Filed under: BSD 

The 104-bit WEP key our home network uses has been in place since the 2nd quarter of this year. Time to change it.
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PATATAG: Nov. 21 reunion concert at 70s Bistro

November 11, 2008
Filed under: Music 

PATATAG will be holding a much-awaited reunion benefit concert on the 21st of this month at the 70s Bistro. Proceeds will be for the benefit of one of their ailing members.
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OpenBSD: Mounting a USB stick

November 11, 2008
Filed under: BSD 

In the previous post, I wrote about mounting a USB stick on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. Here’s how you do it on OpenBSD. OS version is 4.3-current; the pen drive is still the same 2Gb Imation stick used in the last post.
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