Here are some shots taken from my trusty Sony Ericsson k608i cameraphone on Friday, Sep 29 2006, the day after Tropical Storm Milenyo hit Metro Manila. These pictures track the foot route I take going to the office every day. The clear theme of it all is falled trees and leaves all over the place. […]
During PhilOSC 2006 yesterday, we had this discussion about a very very very controversial topic: software patents. Patents, in general, are a form of intellectual property (IP) protection that is provided to a patent holder for a limited amount of time. This protection allows the holder of the patent to exclusively benefit from the said […]
I just did a talk on securing voice-over-IP during this year’s Philippine Open Source Conference held at the EDSA Shangri-La, Mandaluyong City. The presentation is a bit technical and it does discuss the more common strategies for providing VoIP security.
I just read (from PinoyTechBlog) that an updated version of the proposed Free/Open Source Software Bill (RA 8293) is now available. The download link is from a site called rapidshare.de which is pretty cumbersome to use (and has a specter of sleaziness in it). So, I decided to host a copy here.
This version only […]
Nigel Roberts of nobiscuit.com found another bug in the Asterisk TCP code. Here are the updated patch that fixes this problem: [1.2.12.1] and [SVN trunk]. The bug was a broken if-then-else statement. Grrrr…
By the way, the symptom of this problem is that Asterisk slows down into a mush when doing a “reload”.
Dr. Manalastas (Doc Mana) has this lengthy and interesting discourse about Computerizing Philippine Elections with Free and Open Source Software and the Internet. I agree that healthy dialogue about this topic is very very important. I commend Doc Mana for giving it a serious amount of thought. The first paragraph aptly describes his main point […]
Different people have different places of work. Most people have just one or two. Some people have much more. I have decided to dedicate this blog entry to the areas where my creative juices typically flow and are consumed immediately. The list is sorted according to the place I spend more time working.
The Office. I […]
I was just browsing my long list of RSS feeds to read when I bumped into this article on HP Forum article in NetworkWorld. Sadly, I am getting less and less time to read online news … which is bad! Anyway, here is a snippet from the article:
HP president and CEO Mark Hurd, speaking at […]
Here is a creepy article via Slashdot on the plan to put loudspeakers on CCTV camera install across the United Kingdom. All we have to do is add a TV screen and we have a class Orwellian Thought-Police monitoring device. The Daily Mail describes the release of the first batch order barking CCTV cameras:
The […]
Well, the future of mobile phone revenue is definitely with mobile data. Here is some new statistics that were obtained during the recently concluded CTIA:
US mobile data revenues are starting to look rosy. US operators scored a cool $6.5 billion in mobile data revenues for the first half of 2006, with over 12 billion SMS […]
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