back to memory lane... my first computer was 286 clone... i thik it had 640k of memory and has a monochrome monitor... our school had same types computers but still has about two or three green monitors plus 2 colored monitors.. in a few months the 386's have arrived with VGA monitors and 3 1/5 drives... it was also the first time i saw windows 3.0... ang gandang tingnan kasi very different from the DOS that we used from our 5 1/4 boot floppies... syet! wordstar was the killer app in our school at that time and also lotus 123...

hika sa init ng araw...

grabe ang init ngayon!!!

whew! got a boatload of work piling up... time to drown myself one coffee cup at a time...

vacation is over... back to work... am still experimenting with various java tidbits on the freebsd platform... OTOH, i finally was able to edit the reported java version of the jdk14 port... really handy for the jdk to report a more sane version instead of the default (jdk version appended with the patch level number e.g. "-p3")... so now onward to more java adventures... tried to fire up resin and jboss and nice to see them both running smoothly... it still needs a whole lot of testing but having a running j2ee on freebsd can only be described by one word "ubercool!"... but still, jdk14's native freebsd port is a green threads only implementation...

sigh... cant help but remember my first encounter with information technology... weird really, i havent seen a real PC until my first day in college... my high school doesnt have a single PC back then... it was the love for playing computer games that made me decide to take computer science-- i was a family computer addict!... i would play super mario way past bedtime... kaya ngayon pasmado na ang kamay ko....


then yun na.. during my first year i got really fascinated with a language called pascal... started imitating peter nortons text based gui look and feel... tsk tsk tsk... i would redraw each character manually on the screen... we have no internet back then in 1994... i devoured every programming article and book i could get hold on in legaspi city... i discovered assembly and a way to interface it with pascal and was soon accessing the bios and console memory directly... and i got super fast text based screen drawing routines handled by assembly wrapped around by pascal procedures... then the third book of the pascal 5.5 bundle that a friend gave me, contained the reference for object oriented programming extension of pascal... i got hooked, now my design philosophy changed... and before the end of my first year i started with a language called c...


c was good... damn good... it brought me closer to the machine... its a language something in between of assembly and pascal... and it has object extensions called c++! i immediately got hooked... i spend the summer trying to access the vga directly and began taking mathematics seriously... i was starting to do GRAPHICS!!! i was disillusioned that i can finally do what i realy wanted: DEVELOP GAMES! and before the end of my 2nd year i already have a very crude graphical toolkit to represent dialog boxes and buttons... text was handled primarily by borlands provided fonts... ahhh.... now back to regular programming: meaning I SHOULD GO BACK TO WORK!

interesting discussion on When Should a Consultant Question Decisions?. i stand firm in saying to the client his options and let the client decide. at least maybe in the process of giving options the client might get a better view of the problem to be solved... just my P0.02...

am starting to blog again! my last post was way back year 2000 when blogging is still for the lonely hearted...

on the networking side... i'm begining to rediscover various aspects involving setting-up, maintaining and securing networks... i just cant help but reminisce those times when i yawned and slept most of my networking class on college.... hehehehe... like what they say... "it pays to listen...".....

rant for the day --> i'm just a young misguided youth coping with the pressures and the monotony of raising money and a family... i hope people around might somehow understand that... i have no regrets tho... :)

right now i'm using two computers @ work... that also means i'm constantly exposed to two monitors (17" and 14")...
i just hope i wont get sterile... yikes!!!

i wish i could have my offspring soon...

i cant help but say that mozilla is getting better and better with every milestone... its open sourced too... if only i had enough spare time to contribute to open source i'd be glad to do it for fun...

i hope one day everybody will work for the betterment of humanity as a whole...

hooorraaaaayyyyy.... mozilla milestone 18 is blogger friendly.... hehhhehe...
this is much MUCH better... unix ROCKS!

had a hard time building mozilla from the background of course... its looking for a patch, but apparently doesnt seem to find it even if i'm using the gedemet ports tree...

ok... back 2 ie for now... this is one advantage of having two machines at your disposal...

hey, hey, hey, what can i say? i found a very supportive employer...

whats the matter with mozilla? i cant view what i'm typing here at blogger... hmmnn... i need to find the solution fast!!! could this be a preference thingy?

had a chance to take a peek a thinkgeek.com... they have lots of this cool geek gizmos :)... again, the irony is i'm in no financial capacity to buy these things... hwek hwek hwek hwek...

work work work... fun fun fun! the irony is... the more you learn the more you learn that there is yet so much for you to learn... :)
that's a bit recursive but once you get the hang of it you'll know what i'm blabbering about...

this is what i love about unix... there is always something new! and attach to that is a never ending chaos which leads to -> headaches galore... hehehehehe...

whew! its friday again... how time flies... i'm still stuck of on this dns shuffle... work is work tho...

NameVirtualHost configuration directive working for apache now... setup is somewhat straightforward, it take's a while before the dns would catch up tho...