After upgrading my workstation to jdk 1.5, I realized I lost all my keystores located in the previous 1.4.2/jre/lib/security. Now all the my test cases against unsigned ssl http ports flooded me with red strips in a fit of rage.

Next step is to go to a PC with an IE to export all the certs again. Wonder if there is another way to do this? I can't find an export function for certificates in Firefox running on linux. Next step is to add it one by one using the java keytool utility.

keytool -import -file eas.crt -keystore $JAGUAR_JDK13/jre/lib/security/
[cacerts | jssecacerts] -trustcacerts

Back to eclipse, change the correspoding property file to point to the new JDK1.5 JRE security directory. Then click the run button. Oh yeah! the world looks good in green.

Since it's a holiday today, I decided to do some tweaking. First on the list is to enable horizontal and vertical scrolling. Am using this xorg.conf as a guide.

Also foolishly upgraded hoary to breezy. I ended up with a non-working X. The culprit was missing font.dir on the new font directory location -> /usr/share/X11/fonts. Breezy also does not include mkfontdir and mkfontscale so I had to download from an existing install. So far everything seems to be working.

The good news is the mouse seems to work reliably on wakeup after suspend to disk/RAM now. Still using the stock xorg ATI driver's and will try using the fglrx binary later on and see if it doesn't break the suspend-resume .

The breezy kernel is based on 2.6.12 and *seems* to be snappier than the 2.6.10 series. Still contemplating if it would be worthwhile to do a custom compiled kernel to make it some what lean and mean.

More on this later...

Had been playing around Beagle for a while. Its still in its alpha stage but seems to be ok for everyday use. One feature that it should have is the ability to stop the beagle daemon when the laptop is on battery. Continous disk activity doesn't make your battery happy. Wonder if Apple's Tiger spotlight feature has this feature.

One of the notable feature of Beagle is the Gaim plugin. I find it useful to search for previous online conversations. Provided of course that you enabled logging for Gaim.

INQ7 Syndication... Finally! inq7.net has RSS feeds.

FACEANALYZER daw.

G-nius The search for the great G-Cash Idea! - Bringing Philippine schools into the M-commerce era

Saw this via ka edong's blog. This could be a great opportunity to harvest fresh ideas for m-commerce. The criterias are:

- Originality (uniqueness and differentiation from competition/ other products) – 40%
- Business impact (market significance, cost saving/ profit maximization, feasibility) – 40%
- Social impact (alignment with Globe values, impact on nation-building) – 20%

The best gets to keep 1M in cash/G-Cash!

If I were a student what kind of G-Cash idea would I come up with? hmmmnn...

You can't use G-Cash to bribe your Professor since there would be an electronic trail. Same goes for other under the table transactions so ubiquitous in your campus life. This means we have to think of an idea with a bit of social impact. On the other hand it could be ideas that can somehow lessen those not so good practices inside the campus.

Maybe G-Cash could be a great tool for those PTA contributions. One account per PTA group. Parents could pay conveniently and perhaps be entitled to a verifiable copy of the account transactions. So that everybody knows where did all those PTA contributions really go.

During my student years the "paluwagan" system was a great way to save and earn. It can also sometimes help fellow students who suddenly find themselves financially handicapped. Applying G-Cash to that "paluwagan" system wouldn't be a bad idea either. And of course it could also be applied to facilitate micro-payments for student loans.

Book recycling was something I wish were available during those tosterone driven years. When school year ends, lots of textbooks are wasted and not re-used when in fact it can be sold or given away for the next batch. I could imagine an application where a student can submit the list of old books available for sale (hopefully cheaper than a new one) or to be given away for free. Then another student can query for a book title in the database, if there is a matching one he can pay or reserve via a payment gateway (could be G-Cash or Smart Money or _______). I guess this one meets the criterias, though not necessarily m-commerce specific.

Good luck to the participants! Hooray for the Filipino Youth!

Optimus keyboard

That's what I call "The keyboard of the near future".

*drool*

irresistibly cute. getting more and more curious about his surroundings. you cannot afford to take your eyes off him when his awake. i guess he has a passion for climbing, and is more likely to smile when she hears her mother scream ("janro mahuhulog ka dyan! wag kang gagalaw!"), and he can't even walk yet. we could just imagine when he starts to walk and run.

and yes, how time flies! not too long ago i blogged about it here. With a picture taken just minutes after his birth.

SubEthaEdit: a powerful and lean text editor. And it's the only collaborative one you can actually use. by combining the ease of Bonjour with the world's best text collaboration engine, it makes working together not only possible but even fun...

This could be a fun tool to use for those user group discussions (like pinoyjug meetings), or hackfest like scenarios. Wonder if there is an open source alternative. A Vi or Emac integration would be slick!

LanceArmstrong.com | Your portal to everything Lance | About Lance...

Truly inspiring! Truly inspiring! Truly inspiring!

Reading on articles about this man can really motivate you and remind you that everyday is precious, and that every step matters.

Live strong!

choices, choices, choices...

the good news is that finally there's a solution to my stuck lcd problem. it is now possible to get a refund for my dell 600m.

now am torn between returning it, since i got a really good deal for it (hand carried from the us, so it was way cheaper than its current local price).

for $1,200, what would be a good laptop deal locally? one that i would not miss the 1400x1050 lcd, 512mb, 1.6 centrino, 64mb of dedicated video ram, ATI radeon for video, 5lb's travel weight specs of the dell. thats the dilemma, for that amount can i buy a brand new one here with almost the same specs as the dell?

maybe i should just stick with the dell, its just annoying that for that hard earned money, you expect some level of build quality. and it doesn't help that the stuck pixel is right in the middle of the screen.

its hard to let go of the current dell gear, due to several economic reasons, since there's no clear alternative yet. but should i just let it be that way, should convenience be my main priority? or should i do more research and ask around for a better alternative?

*sigh* i think my last paragraph is in some ways related to the current political landscape.

NOVELL: Cool Solutions: Multi-tiered Service-Oriented Systems with JBoss

The article outlines JBoss Service-implementation fundamentals as well as techniques for instrumenting services using JBoss and JMX.

The Core Pocket Media Player - About TCPMP.

If you have a Palm or Windows CE/ Windows Mobile based device, be sure to check out this nifty smooth media player. Supports a wide variety of formats. Bundled with pocketdivx you can watch those DVD series during your daily commute on the MRT.

Best of all, its FREE!

rant mode:

The Philippine Social Security System service sucks! I was trying to follow up on the status of my loan filed months ago. Even if I have that stub signifying that I have loaned It still does not reflect on their online query system. The online query system would bail out with java exception errors more often than not (Hmmmnnn... I could see Oracle on those exception messages). Worse, the numbers they gave me to follow up the loan status (9206446 to 55) are always busy, and I have been trying for several weeks now to get thru.

*sigh*, SSS you can do better than that!

i give up, i can't resist whacking (wacky hacking) maps.google.com's publicly available API. and here's what i ended up with, a few minutes later.



give me a latitude! give me a longitude! and let's whack it into google map dude!

treo Addicts ? Blog Archive ? Google helps send text to your Treo.

haven't tested this send to phone yet. but shoud be really handy. i would assume the user will be charged for a push message.

on the other hand, can this be used for mobile spamming?

i wonder... do sites like Google News need to request permission on all the news content on that page? or is it ok as long as:

1. you acknowledge where the blurb came from.
2. you provide a link to the actual news article.
3. ?

interesting...

Wired News: Map Hacks on Crack. Nice to know yahoo is following google's open platform approach.

If only our telcos would follow this model. Its really a win-win situation. THE MORE MOBILE APPLICATIONS, THE MORE TRAFFIC!

I'm dismayed everytime i hear them say "this is an open platform", especially for m-commerce. For m-commerce this is the way to infuse more electronic cash into the system. A google like approach of opening the platform would mean more innovative applications! If they do that, then it would accelerate the increase of the level of awareness of potential users.

For the meantime, i don't wanna wait in vain...

HNS - Laptop Theft - An Insider’s Guide To Not Becoming Another Statistic.

i don't know the statistics locally, but in these trying times, better be safe than sorry. i regularly see people who are obviously just showing off their laptops (using a regular laptop bag) and even goes to the extent of opening their laptop at the mrt. good luck to them. i'll stick to the not so obvious laptop backpack rather than use a regular laptop bag.

wonder if there's a local insurance company for laptops....

at first glance i thought doing the UCP/EMI via Kannel ain't going to be easy. the docs remind of the early NET HOWTO days. was pleasantly surprised to have a working setup after i really took the time to read the doc. RTFM, read the farting manual. yay! sweet justice :D