Category Archives: IT Matters
Bright Hope for the Country
III. Bright hope for the country Contrary to popular feelings, our beloved country is not as hopeless as most people have imagined. A. Partial-mess topology 1. Even though the country is a classic monster-infested archipelago where grey hairs atop an official’s head are not a measure of wit but a measure of greed, the country … Continue reading
Reason for Leaving the Philippines
[ad#468_60_banner_aligned_center] < Previous | Next > C. Reason for leaving the country 1. A significant number of those who leave the country for good are convinced their country is in the third quadrant. They both see 2 perpendicular initiatives, both negatives, hence yielding a negative result. 2. Comparisons between pseudo-officials and pseudo-nationalists Comparisons Pseudo-officials Pseudo-nationalists … Continue reading
Poverty and Pleasure of the Beast
I. PAST A. History class diagram 1. Humabon is historically credited in introducing doServeInvaders() call inside doBeast() method for the visiting Magellan. However, Lapu-Lapu, being a master of art and science of extortion [citation needed], resisted and commented it forcibly. Famously, the latter prevailed but the incident never held up against the bursting floodgates which … Continue reading
The Unsung Heroes of Information Technology
Having spent tremendous efforts tiring yourself off on telecom/computer books while in uni and/or digging every best practices known to software community or enterprise grade knowledge out there, wiring not too few networks and making sure they run, you’ll find at the end of the day some niche end users took hefty profits far bigger … Continue reading
IT and The Philippines
It was in the early summer of 1995 a classmate of mine narrated his life story. To me then it was one of the most fantastic life-conversion story I had heard in my entire life. He confessed he was once a drug addict, went to rehab not once but quite a number times. His father … Continue reading
Home Web Server for Dummies – Hosting & Installation
Domain hosting C. The easy part – hardware setup 4. Decide for yourself whether you want to pay for your own domain or you want to user free sub domain. Free subdomain is most probably supported by your existing router. Just point the dynamic dns setting to fee subdomain provider like dyndns. Should you choose … Continue reading
Home Web Server for Dummies
Important notice: Check your ISP first if they opened-up http port, ssh and mail port for you. There is no point setting up your home server when your ISP blocks these ports especially http (port 80). A. Advantage 1. A dedicated server – you can run as many websites as you want depending on the … Continue reading
Stopping a PhpBB Forum Board Registration Spam
I ran the site maconian forum with quite a few forums sections and topics. But to my dismay, in few days time, the site was flooded with literally hundreds of user registrations and forum contents. 1. I tried to prune the forums and removed the guest posting permission. In few hours I check again the … Continue reading