correction on my previous post... removing the fwe driver module doesnt cut, i have to disable the firewire device via the bios... posted my question regarding the winmodem on the freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailling list..

am trying to find my old pcmcia modem... speed is 33.6 i guess... that one worked flawlessly under freebsd 4.x series...

found the cause of the lockup... the bfe driver is conflicting with the fwe driver... learned by trial and error... had to recompile the kernel not to include the ethernet firewire driver... oks lang, as i dont even have a firewire device for now... so far hadnt had luck with the sis winmodem using the ltmdm and mwave port... wireless arriving hope it works fine... still wasnt able to test the digicam-usb and memory card reader...

MSI wireless card supposed to arrive tommorow... hope it runs on freebsd using the ath driver...

sound works using the stock snd_ich module... kldload sure is handy...

darn!!! doing a make yeilds an Error code 1, in the tcp_output.c... should cvsup again...

whew! finally was able to copy the latest sys... i hope this has a better bfe driver... though i cant seem to find any article related to bfe causing to crash in a degatto... this means am the only one stupid/brave enough to try FreeBSD 5.2 on a degatto...

tsk tsk... am getting bzip errors when untarring the nero burned cd... this is weird and downright frustrating...

FreeBSD wifi-ipsec guide... hmmnn... a nice way to secure a wireless connection...

also noticed that java port is now using 1.4.2 and patch-level 6... hope this compiles nicely... but before that i should solve the broadcom issue first!

otoh, at least XFree86 was working fine using the sis driver... i experimented with the stock gnome of freebsd 5.2 and it sure was a lot faster than the previous ones... also noticed that even root (/) label can use UFS2 now...

FreeBSD has undergone a LOT of changes (for the better) since i first used it (2.x era)... still the best free unix out there...

tsk tsk tsk... the FreeBSD 5.2 install is not going well with the degatto... everytime i bring the broadcom ethernet up the machine dies... i need another machine to get the recent source, burn it to a cd and recompile the kernel... hope this solves the problem somehow because am aching to go full bsd on this machine... for now, dual boot is still my friend, sigh...

Apple - PowerBook G4... tadannn... this beauty is always on the top of my dreamlist...

Acer's Ferrari Notebook nice to have... adding this to my dreamlist...

Serious flaws in bluetooth security lead to disclosure of personal data... this is serious stuff... elsewhere i have read that *the* phone company already admitted this flaw...

btw, ed dumbhill has an interesting app with regards to bluetooth... that is registering your friend's bluetooth devices and associating it with FOAF or your address book and have the app monitor/scan the area... youll then be notified by the app that your friend or boss is in the area (assuming both have bluetooth enabled device registered in the app)... nice to use in conferences... planet gnome sure helps in aggregating blogs of some of the brightest open source developers nowadays... gnome rocks!

25 gig of data sure takes a long time to complete... both ends operating at ethernet 100 speed via a crossover cable (no hub/switch)... feeling sleepy...

been meaning to attend the pinoyjug-projects meeting tonite... very near to our office... but sigh, there's still a lot of things needing my urgent attention... would be able to help out tho... just cant attend the meetings for now...

wonder if when will be the first hackathon here in the philippines... ala openbsd hackathon were a bunch of geeks meet and hack opensource happy code...

also been thinking why there are not many (actually haven't met any) active open source developer in the truest sense in the philippines... maybe due to practical reasons that better do good first and be productive in a day job than live the life of true open source dev and be paid for doing cool stuff... wonder if there are open source companies here too... hmmnn... the closest thing i can think of is the ASTI DOST people... though not a commercial entity people here are paid to do cools stuff, purely research that may or may not have commercial value... i hope the people here do "enjoy" what they are doing... the hungry programmers society, hmmnnn...

been listening to some blues music while typing this... the harmonica, the guitar riffs.... nice soothing music...

oras na para bumalik sa aking kama at sa malupit kong unan... will leave moby (laptop) and wolverine (desktop/server/etc) to finish the backup routine... got to add a larger capacity hard drive, two identical ones and a raid card to my wishlist...

i wonder, who on earth would be on his right mind to waste his time reading this blog? and why do i blog? come to think of it, i blog because i feel like blogging... to spill the contents of the room inside my mind... practically, should be doing this often to have some sort of e-diary for tracking back things... kind of a remembrance agent... dashboard comes into mind... that project is certainly an itch i want to scratch... certainly if a had the luxury of time... ahhhhhhh... the mind of the married man...

one more thing, should i be reading stuffs for grammar... one thing am sure of i suck into doing grammatically correct (obviously have a lot of spelling mistakes too, but that might be forgiven because more often than not my fingers do fly on the keyboard)... should search google for writing styles too... prose and poetry... poetry, poetry... i used to write non-sense poems... back in circa 1998 got addicted to chatting as well... that was the inquirer chat room where i met some people really good at writing poetry that it inspired me to try writing one as well... hope i had a way to get those poems back.... no matter how corny they were...

whoa! this is my very first LONG post...

whoa! scp keeps on getting disconnected... hmmnn... ping doesn't work... the connection is lost... ifconfig reveals the interface is still active... something fishy here...

just posting A Brief Introduction to IoC so that i would be reminded to read it some other time.

also, here i am, backing up my laptop on my freebsd desktop box... du -sh * reveals i have been lugging around 4.5 gigs of music... the thing is there's that funny tendency to just keep things on the drive even if i seldom use it... the pack rat in me...

Cgisecurity.com: Cross Site Scripting questions and answers. Got to keep this in mind. Got to keep this in mind in case am struck with web paranoia...

busy re-organizing the servers here at work... production and qa servers remain freebsd based... am trying out on another machine windows 2003 enterprise edition... microsoft has a trial download good for 180 days (6 months if my math is right)... am contemplating on reformatting my laptop...

other news, we are having a hard time now that we have no household help... hope we find one soon... the tricky part is finding a good and honest one thats within our budget...

tips on how to be a Good java Citizen . nice to keep this in mind.