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Linux saves a man's life from robbers

marvin — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:06:27 +0000

My title is a bit exagerated. But somehow there is a truth on it. This is an experience of Nhatz, a Linux user and an instructor in AMA CLC in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan when he faced robbers and was stabbed 3 times. But let’s see how Linux saved (somehow) his life.

This is a rephrase of his story as posted at the Ubuntu Forums Philippine LoCo (here).

May 9, 2009 evening, Nhatz was walking on way to home (his motorcycle was borrowed by his brother), he crossed with 3 men who, without warning, stabbed him before declaring a “hold up” (Filipino slang for declaring robbery). He was able to catch one of the fatal strike by his hand. He was stabbed at his side (mild cut) but he went down. When he was trying to get up, he was stabbed by one of the robbers at the back. This is the part where he was thankful for Linux. He was wearing a bag and inside it is his book “Linux Administration for Beginners”. The knife hit that book and the knife didn’t wounded him that much. He was robbed but he survived and is currently recovering from his wounds.

I remember movies that has the same scenario. Being shot but the bullet will hit a medallion or something and it will save his life. Well. as for Nhatz’ case, he was saved (,,, somehow) by that book.

Times are getting tough.

http://www.marvincruz.com – back online

marvin — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:01:55 +0000

After some time experimenting, I got my blog site back online. Had troubles uploading some files before.

The reason for the down time was the site is not rendering properly in IE (any version). I deleted my installation and tried reinstalling, that’s where all troubles came up. Due to restrictions on my webhost, can’t do proper install and upgrades. But now it’s okay. Still planning to move to a paid hosting for future enhancements.

BTW, the reason why the page wasn’t rendering properly was because of an incomplete clause on one of the post. I deleted the post and everything worked well..

Soli Deo Gloria.

Ads on my blog….

marvin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:03:38 +0000

As you can see, I have placed google ads on my blog. I really don’t hope that much that I would profit form this ads. But it’s worth a try. The ad with a blue bar (bottom) is ad placed but the web host (I am using free hosting that’s why). Well, I’m hoping that someday this won’t just be a personal blog. So when the time come that this blog won’t be just a personal blog, everything is ready (including the ads

Well, if you think that I should not put ads on this blog. You can put a comment and state the reason why and I might consider your concern.

Have to think of what other contents I could place here. Also, I’m planning to change the name of the website.

God bless….