Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex... hilarious stuff... gotten from migs lj site... am glad am not superman... getting laid becomes insanely complicated if your the man of steel...

Firefox Extensions... i have to say this FIREFOX ROCKS!!! mouse gestures is friggin awesome! this is by far the best browser on the planet!

Fabrique another interesting product from jetbrains, makers of uber cool java ide called intellij idea... man this russians are quite something... the programmers in this group are top notch and very creative... the omea project headed by dmitry jemorov of the same company is also interesting as well...

for now am sticking with eclipse as far java ide's goes, its ehem *free* and quite usable with good help from the wide array of plugins available for it... long time java gurus however say intellij idea wins hands down as the best java ide out in the market today...

but currently am used to the eclipse way of doing things... funny since intellij idea (eap version) was the first java ide i tried for a while when i was learning java (aside from vi of course ;))...

"AT CNMI=1,2,0,1,0" init string... will also look into this... currently using new message indication "AT CNMI=1,2,0,0,0" as the default init string...

Kannel 1.2.1 User's Guide... will read this later...

edhand.com: Java Example #1: Struts with Hibernate Java Example... a simple straightforward guide to a hello world struts-hibernate-mysql java app...

New 3-D effect could be a bright spot for Sun... this is fascinating stuff... i remember doing graphics during college years and how i would rock my brains to understand low level graphics... i still remember my blit blit functions... sigh, those were the days... assumptions that i would be doing graphic games when i graduate... john carmack is my idol way back then, and i guess even until now...

sigh, what am i doing? i still have 38.8 temp with a really bad cold to boot and here am i blogging and hacking happy code...

man, this is computer tech addiction... siguro, if i suddenly stop, am bound to experience withdrawal symptoms...

browsing down lone_geek's blog... and ahhh, there it is... trouble with rpms, etc etc...

me thinks, am sticking with freebsd!

further down on migs techscene... Lone Geek has some interesting points against the use of freebsd... my opinion however is that the guy has been a linux user and that probably is his comfort zone...

me, am no os zealot... but am tend to be biased against freebsd, maybe its my comfort zone ;)

to date, i still use freebsd for most things except on this degatto due to the wifi-card issue... i had come to admire the rock solid feel of the os as well as the easy to use ports collection... to date it runs all the java dev tools and apps *i* need to get the work done... production and qa servers are quite happy serving java apps and they are all based on freebsd...

i do think linux is a great os with pretty much support for the new hardware coming out today... but in general i hate that theres a a lot of incompatible distros and the way the whole file system is arranged... in freebsd you can pretty much expect things to be consistent (dirs and files)... consistency is great especially when it comes to overall management of a system...

FreeBSD, the power to serve!

migs is running Pinoy Tech Scene, aimed perhaps to be a one stop shop for pinoy tech blogs... cool idea... am glad that there are pinoys who had the time? energy to do this kind of things...

also added comment utility to this blog using comment this...

i upgraded the desktop to freebsd 5-current and switched on the ULE scheduler... things do seem a bit faster now in the 5.2 series... got to upgrade the java 1.4.1 to java 1.4.2 one of this days... eclipse also needs to be upgraded 2.1 to 2.1.2... as well as the rest of the java dev tools on this desktop...

anyway the major freebsd install showstopper is this -> MSI CB54G which doesnt have a freebsd compatible driver as of now... the device however works fine with windows and its pretty much a bang for the buck at a price of P2,900.00 at PC-OUTLET Glorietta... sad, because i still can do dialup using an old pcmcia modem from the old HP omnibook which works great with freebsd 4.x series before... going full freebsd on the degatto would mean not being able to use the wlan card, hence the decision to use windows 2003 trial version instead...

windows services for unix brings the shell tcsh, vi and perl so am half happy with this box right now...

just noticed this now, windows 2003 detects the modem as Lucent windmodem... i wonder... will this work with the ltmdm port?

apparently my degatto uses PCTel Winmodem which as of now i cant seem to find a freebsd driver... am usually on a dialup when am home so this is a *need* for me... btw, am currently using windows 2003 trial for now... i have resigned to installing freebsd on the degatto for now...

Extension Room rocks! Firefox is the browser to beat... btw, same goes to thunderbird mail client... go mozilla!