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(..back from a week long vacation...)
Linux Live CD has been around for quite a while now. There are at least 200+ linux based Live CDs.

Now, why live CDs? Here's what it says on the Slackware site... "Imagine the ability to boot your favorite Linux distribution whether you are at home, at school, or at work. Imagine walking on the street and carrying the only thing you needed in life - the 8cm compact disk with your Live Linux CD. Wouldn't you want to experience such a feeling? :-)"
(I just remembered, before Live CDs I used to have that Linux in a Floppy. I just can't find it) :P

I'm using the one from Slackware 185MB (now SLAX http://slax.linux-live.org). But the old one I got still doesn't have a apache (web server) on it. But now there are a lot of modules you can download.

(It's been days since my last post. I've been on leave for a quite while...)

"Massively Multiplayer" Online Role-Playing Games ("MMORPGs")...

I find these games to be the most popular globally (or at least what I am interested in) Anarchy Online, Everquest 1 & 2, Dark Age of Camelot, Lineage II, Star Wars Galaxies, Sims Online, Ultima Online and of course, World of Warcraft.

To see slices of the MMORPG world, head out to www.mogchart.com (not sure if accurate though)

Do you know that WoW gold (World of Warcraft Currency) sells around half the price of a dollar ($).. KAAA--CHIIINGGG!!!! :)

And with Final Fantasy XI, last time I checked it was $54.99 for 1 million Gils.

http://www.yoper.com/ --- YOPER.

"Yoper is a high performance operating system which has been carefully optimized for PC's with either i686 or higher processor types. The binaries that come with Yoper have been built from scratch using the original sources combined with the some of the best features from other Open Source Linux distributions (distros). However, Yoper is not like general purpose distros such as Redhat or Mandrake. It is a high performance Desktop OS. It is compact. It resides on 1 cd-rom. In fact, Yoper is also one of the most standards-based environments in the Linux community! You will find hardware performance as good or better than that of any commercial OS."

This OS will definitely be next on my list of OS/Softwares to try out.......If I can only find time to fully try this OS on my (very) old PCs at home.

Hey DOTA fans (a very popular warfaft 3 custom map), there's a new map in town!
And if you happen to be a NFSU 2 fan also (like me), say hello to Azeroth Grand Prix!! Get it here.

What can I say? Well, it's not the kind of map that you'll be playing for a long time, but it's waaacky! :)

I just started out on (small time) investing last year. And if you happen to be interested in investing online (or investing in general), here's a very good resource for you. Investing Online Resource Center (IORC)

Don't just take my word on it, head on over to http://www.investingonline.org

And if you're ready to Trade online in the Philippines, your first stop would be http://www.bpitrade.com/ (not a paid ad) :) There used to be a high initial deposit requirement, but not anymore.

Cheers,

Here's a good read about the Mono Project, the open-source, cross platform implementation for Microsoft's .NET development framework. Read it here.

And of course, the Mono Project website.

I'm a bit rusty on my hardware nowadays since I finished setting up my PC upgrade which turned out to be an additional PC at home about several months ago.

Well, it's a conservatively overclocked machine featuring a Mobile Athlon CPU, Epox board (both great for overclocking by the way), some thermal paste, 5,000rpm cpu fan, 7200rpm ATA 133 Hard Drive, 512mb Geil DDR memory (yea, no budget yet for dual channel), HEC dual fan power supply, 3 casing fans (front & side intake, 1 back exhaust. How I wish I could have a top blowhole!) samsung dvd combo player and rounded cables. (and hours upon hours of tweaking and doing stability testing with Prime95)

There's already tons of resources on the net on OC (not obsessive compulsive...hehe) overclocking, but if you have any questions, feel free to email me at umbertoeklat@gmail.com or simply make a comment here.

Now going back to AGP...
I don't regularly upgrade my video card so I never knew the evolution of this motherboard slot. Basically, I didn't plan to upgrade my old Video card (saving up for a GeForce 6800 Ultra or Radeon 9800 XT) also since I have some older video cards lying around the house so I found it a bit confusing when I started inserting those old vid cards into my old PC.

The problem was the old ones won't fit directly on my AGP slot. The slots are keyed differently.

regular PCI from my old PC.

my old vid cards.

Here a rundown on all the PCI types:
1. Original PCI -- 32 bits/33 MHz, 1 Gbps, 5V
2. Wide PCI -- 64 bits/33 MHz, 2.1 Gbps
3. Fast/wide PCI -- 64 bits/66 MHz, 4.3 Gbps
4. Fast/wide 3.3-volt PCI -- 64 bits/66 MHz, 4.3 Gbps, 3.3V
5. PCI-X -- 100MHz, 133MHz, 266MHz, or even 533MHz. 1.5V/0.8V
6. Narrow PCI-X -- Just a physically narrowed PCI-X.
7. PCI-Express -- new. Signaling is both serial and parallel. There's serial signaling on each line, at 2.5GHz with an 8bits in 10bits encoding; and you can have up to 16 lines. It's also full-duplex - you can send data in both directions simultaneously.

Also consider other next generation technologies that would surely be adopted mainstream like Dual Core processors, DDR2 memory, Serial ATA (SATA vs. PATA) hard drives, Blue-ray Discs, HD-DVDs, SLI Video (nah, I don't think so. Still too expensive) etc.

Well, that's it for now. I'll try to post some topics on softwares next time. bfn