Archive for March, 2006

Now Google Wants to Control Your Money?

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

With the recent stories about Google beta testing it’s Google Finance service, this definitely nails Google’s agenda to the coffin. World Domination aka Do Everything The Google Way. This article from Techcrunch gives us a sneak preview of this new service by Big Brother Google. The article says that it is no more than a […]

Community-based Mobile LBS in the Philippines

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

This topic has probably emerged numerous times in the past already. However, most LBS activities here in this country are closed and no publicly available GPS-correct softmaps are available for use. There are a number of possible uses for a Community-based Mobile LBS system. Here are a few:

Emergency and disaster recovery efforts can be […]

Visa admits flaw in system

Monday, March 20th, 2006

In a sudden reversal of attitudes from my previous blog entry on the Citibank Visa Scandal, Visa has finally admited that certain terminals do insecurely store confidential customer information. In a zdnet article entitled “Visa warns software may store customer data”, the equipment in question are retail solutions from Fujitsu Transaction Solutions used by retailers […]

Ateneo Graduation Online Webcast Link

Monday, March 20th, 2006

In a previous blog, I mentioned that the Ateneo will be officially webcasting its graduation for the very first time. Catch the Ateneo de Manila University’s graduation online here. This webcasting solution is provided by Mozcom.
Update: Webcast Graduation Schedule.

Thursday, March 23, 5:00 PM Graduation Grade School
Friday, March 24, 7:00-9:00AM Baccalaureate Mass Loyola Shools
Friday, March […]

Pre-final CS 31 and CS 154 Grades

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Here are the computed pre-final grades. For CS 31, these will more or less be your final grades. For CS 154, the only item missing is the final exams. The grades are in alphabetical order so I just hope you can deduce your grade if you do not have an ID number encoded.

ID
Pre-Final
Letter

CS 31

71.94
C

CS 31

90.47
B+

CS […]

Universal Chat Client for J2ME-enabled Mobile Devices Using the JXME Implementation of JXTA

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

A student of mine T. Espiritu worked on an idea for a “Universal Chat Client for J2ME-enabled Mobile Devices Using the JXME Implementation of JXTA” for their undergraduate research project. This is different form the JXME demo chat program as it is implemented to use a relay and an annoucement-based system for presence management. More […]

X-Box Hacked Again: Possible Platform for a PVR or HPC system

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

In this Slashdot article, it mentioned that the Xbox 360 has been hacked. Again. This means that we can finally install other systems and software (including Linux) on it. Again. In the xboxhacker.net forum, there are discussions about the recent hack on the Xbox 360.
Here is a short description of the hack:
A little more about […]

Jailkit Patches to Fix RHEL getgrgid() and getpwuid() Bug

Friday, March 17th, 2006

I just downloaded the latest version of jailkit (version 1.3-1) from Dag Wieer’s repository. Apparently when I installed it in my RHEL 4.0 x86_64 system, it does not work. I get the error “uid %d or gid %d does not have a name”. I checked and double-checked the installation but everything was fine. I started […]

PLDT-Ateneo Advanced Network Testbed Receives Equipment Donation from Nortel

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Nortel Philippines together with PLDT has donated two (2) Nortel Optera Metro 4150s to the PLDT-Ateneo Advanced Network Testbed. This is an SDH system capable of provisioning up to three (3) DS3s (45 mbps) and sixteen E1s (2 mbps). This equipment will be replacing the old PDH equipment currently being used by the Network Testbed. […]

Ideal Multimedia Moblogging Platform

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Hutchison 3 and MSN UK recently annouced that they are are joining forces to promote a video moblogging platform called SeeMeTV to MSN UK users. In the UK, there is also this company called YoSpace that is also into this user generated content in the mobile arena buzz. I heard about them in 3GSM. In […]