It’s summer and the heat is on. Some goes to the beach, some to Bagio, some goes to their hometown for their vacation. But for me (and my family), we’re staying at home (well, they spent a week in Laguna for a week of vacation).
With the currently temperature we’re experiencing here in Manila Philippines (from [...]
Here’s an update on my previous post regarding the diet pill spam lurking on Yahoo Messenger (and as I researched, on other IM networks as well)
After further research, CA Security Advisor Research Blog tells that this is actually a phishing scam.
I never clicked the links included on the spams I receive. But as the article [...]
I’ve been a long time Yahoo! Messenger (YM) user. Yahoo was my first e-mail account and most of my contacts are Yahoo!.
I won’t make the intro long. So here’s what’s I want to post. There are times before where I receive an instant message from an unknown Yahoo! ID. Well, simply, that was spamming. I [...]
Whenever I download a large file (~60mb+) and I try to run the program, I always get this error:
I asked someone to download the same files (xbmc for example) and they didn’t get the error. Trying some options suggested (save it on a different disc).
Was this hardware related or ISP problem?
Update:
I downloaded the file to [...]
From the halls of a university research lab to the desks of hundreds of millions of computer users, the computer mouse has come a long way. Douglas Engelbart created the first prototypes of the now-familiar device in 1963 at Stanford Research Institute, but he first displayed his creation to the public in 1968 forty years [...]
At last I was able to get a new monitor. Well, it’s not totally new since I bought it from an officemate whow wants to get a bigger monitor. It’s still in “brand new” state (only used for a few months with care).
Set it up last Saturday and everything was fine. I can now do [...]
I was able to replace som major parts of our home desktop. We used to have an AMD Duron 800mhz with “64kb L2 Cache” (overclocked to 1ghz), 8mb Nvidia tnt2 agp video card, 512 mb memory, 160gb HDD. I was able to get a new motherboard (intel chipset), processor (Intel Pentium III 800mhz) and a [...]
Yesterday, one of my colleagues asked me to help her setup their home network. The have a desktop (Windows XP), a Toshiba laptop (Windows Vista Basic), PLDT DSL, and Linksys wrt54g.
I was able to setup the router to dial the DSL modem (Alcatel modem) via PPPoE. Setup of the wired connection (for the desktop) was [...]
Before I start, my favorite web broswer is Mozilla Firefox 3. I set it up that every time I start Firefox, it would open the websites I always visit.
Here they are…
marvincruz.com – well, this is my blog. Though I don’t post often (or post nonsense most of the time), this is the first on my [...]
Yeah, Joomla!, one of the world’s best Content Management System (CMS), will be conducting it’s first ever Joomla! Day Event in the Philippines.
Too bad I heard about the news late, and due to overwhelming response (I just realized that there are a “lot” of Joomla! users in the Philippines), the registration is already closed.
I hope [...]
