My Ubuntu in action

What you are looking now is one of the capabilities of Ubuntu. A 3D-Desktop Composite, and all this are "FREE".

Like father like son

Fellowship of the beer is back

1% to finish setup of network cables and switch rack

80% to done (IT room)

Almost done, finalization and arrangements of UTP cables, base on color coding and deptartment assginments

PhilHealth - PRO6 New I.T. Room

Still Under Construction...Please come back again soon...
Thanks for visiting.

Just four bottles

Before this blog, I consumed 4 bottles of beer. I drunk with my fellow officemate "SEB".
We talk a lot of things, Oh yes so many things we have to say. Things we've encountered within office and outside the office. We have a family of our own, and the issue of our conversation just getting further.

Then there is one moment, I ask him, What would be the effect if your children will graduate in the year 2010 if the educatinal system was designed years back 1950's. I felt frigthened after I realized that. Sad but true like they say. Thats for all my friend Cyril the man is here.

Cyril will be getting married this November 8, 2006 and he will be my neighboor for a long time. Lots of beer again.

De Paul College Cafe or what?

It has caught my attention that it seems my blog turned out to be a stop-over station of De Paul College or Vincentians people. I must say, I'm very honored to have them as a guest.

To give you an overview, I'm working right now as an I.T . personnel and has been working for 6 years together with my 2 classmate and friends, Namely Orne Dignadice Jr. and Joey Aristoki.

Originally we were four, but sad to say Jovan Aristoki cannot work together with Joey since they are brothers. Right now we work together as an IT personnel in PhilHealth - Region 6.

Good Luck to all Vincentians...

philhealth6.gotdns.com new database structure

Its been a long time since I blog again, well I'm proud to announce that i-philhealth got its new database structure, a modified server configuration to give optimal performance.

Very soon i-philhealth will adopt AJAX technology to catch-up with the rapid changes in terms of Web Application. I'll be designing web layout and collect some necessary information to be included for the migration.

I'm also planning to add more features ie: visitors may inquire their Claims, Membership, Payment Status and more.

But as of now I'm very focus with Delphi coding due to my employer is in need of Database Application. That's all for this day..

Why We Are Not Out In The Streets

Dear Tita Cory, Senators, Congressmen, Businessmen, Media people, Leftists
and all Bleeding Hearts Out There:

I am angry. And I know that there are many out there, who are angrier than I
am for the same reason. And that reason is simple. I am sick and tired of
all you guys claiming to speak for me and many Filipinos. I feel like
screaming every time you mouth words about fighting for my freedom and my
rights, when you obviously are just thinking about yours. You tell me that
the essence of democracy is providing every citizen the right to speak his
or her mind and make his or her own informed judgments, but you yourselves
do not respect my silence and the choices I and many others have made. In
other words, your concept of democracy is limited to having your rights and
your freedoms respected, at the expense of ours.

I am utterly flabbergasted that you still do not get it: we already
responded to your calls, and our response has been very clear - we chose not
to heed your calls to go to EDSA or to Fort Bonifacio not because we do not
love our country or our freedoms or our rights, but precisely because we
love our country even more. Because quite frankly, we are prepared to lose
our freedoms and our rights just to move this country forward. You may
counter with your ideological propaganda and give me all the dire warnings
about the evils of Martial Law, authoritarian rule, suppression of freedom,
etc., but quite frankly all we see is your pathetic efforts to defend your
right to continue fulminating, filibustering, and sabotaging this country
until you wrestle power for yourselves. You tell me that you are simply
protecting my freedoms and my rights, but who told you to do that? I assure
you that when I feel that my rights and my freedoms are at a peril, I will
stand up and fight for them myself. I have done that in the past, and I will
do it again when I SEE THE NEED FOR IT, not when you tell me to do it.

You tell us that GMA is not the right person to lead this country because
she has done immoral acts. As someone who sees immorality being committed
wantonly in many ways every day and by everyone (yes, including the ones you
do), I may have become jaded. I may have lowered my standards about what a
leader should be. Guess what, Tita Cory, you lowered it yourself . When I
accepted your incompetence and fought for you during the many attempts
against your government, I already lowered the standards to ridiculous
levels. Guess what, Senators and Congressmen, you lowered it yourselves when
you ran for office and won and now make fools of yourselves in the august
halls of congress.

But the simple truth that you try to obfuscate is this: you have not been
able to offer me any viable alternative On the other hand, GMA has bent over
backwards many times to accommodate you while continuing to work hard
despite all the obstacles and the brickbats you have thrown her way. From
where I sit, she is the one who has been working really hard to move this
country forward while all of you have been so busy with one and only one
thing: to make sure she does not succeed. So forgive me if I do not want to
join you in your moral pissing contest. Forgive me if I have chosen to see
things from another perspective. You say she is the problem. I say, we are -
all of us is the problem; more to the point, I think you are a bigger
problem than she is. Taking her out may solve part of the problem, but that
leaves us with a bigger problem: you. That is right, YOU.

While I felt outraged that she called a Comelec official during the
elections and that she may have rigged the elections, I have since then
taken the higher moral ground and forgiven her. Yes my dear bishops, I have
done what you have told me to do since I was a child, which you say is the
Christian and moral thing to do: forgive. Especially since she has asked for
forgiveness and has tried to make amends for it. Erap certainly has not
apologized and continues to be defiant, continuing to insult us everyday
with his protestations - and he is part of your cause now Cory has not
apologized for her incompetence but we have forgiven her just the same
because like GMA, she has worked hard after all.

I know you do not think that GMA's apology was not enough, or that she was
insincere, or that that apology should not be the end of it, but please
spare me the hypocrisy of telling me that you do so for the sake of
protecting the moral fibre of society. The real reason is because you smell
blood and wants to go for the kill.

Well, I have news for you. I do not like her too. I did not even vote for
her. I voted for Raul Roco. But as much as I do not like her, I do not like
you even more. I may not trust her, but you know what, I do not trust you
even more.

You know why I do not trust you? Because all you do is whine and sabotage
this country. You belittle every little progress we make, conveniently
forgetting that it is not just GMA who has been working so hard to achieve
them. Every single day, we keep the faith burning in our hearts that this
country will finally pull itself out of the mess and we work so hard to do
that. Every little progress is the result of our collective effort, we who
toil hard everyday in our jobs. Yet, you persist in one and only thing:
making GMA look bad in the eyes of the world and making sure that this
country continues to suffer to prove your sorry point. In the process, you
continue to destroy what we painstakingly try to build. So please do not be
surprised that I do not share your cause. Do not be surprised that we have
become contemptuous of your antics. You have moved heaven and earth to
destroy her credibility, you have convened all kinds of fora and hearings
and all you have done is test our patience to the core. For all your
efforts, you have only succeeded in dragging us further down. I say enough.

Don't get me wrong. I am not asking that we take immorality lying down, or
that we let the President get away with anything illegal. But you have tried
to prove your accusations all these time and you have not succeeded, so it
is time to let things be. Besides, you are doing something immoral as well
if not utterly unforgivable. The Magdalo soldiers are consorting with the
communists - the same people who have been trying to kill democracy for
years. Cory has been consorting with Erap and the Marcoses.

So please wake up and take a reality check. In the absence of true and
genuine moral leadership, many of us have decided to cast our lot with the
President, even if we do not like her. A flawed leader is better than
scheming power hungry fools who can not even stand up for their convictions
in the face of an impending arrest.

Your coup attempts and the denials that you have consequently made only
underscore what we think is true: you are spineless and unreliable people
who only want power but not the consequences and the sacrifices that go with
the quest. Your one and only defense is to cry suppression when your ruse
does not work. You are nothing but BULLIES who taunt and provoke, but cry
oppression when taken to task for your cruelty. You call for the rule of law
and respect for authority, but so brazenly display your defiance and
disrespect for the same things you claim to be fighting for.

I would have respected you if you took the consequences of your actions like
real heroes: calmly and responsibly instead of kicking and screaming and
making all kinds of lame excuses. You say you are willing to die for us,
that you do all these things for the country and the Filipino, but you are
not even willing to go to jail for us.

Come on, you really think we believe that you did not want to bring down the
government when THAT IS THE ONE AND ONLY ONE THING THAT YOU HAVE BEEN
DESPERATELY TRYING TO DO in the last many months?

We love this country and we want peace and progress. Many among us do not
give a f*&k who sits at Malacanang because we will work hard and do our
share to make things work. We the people will and can make it work, if only
you get out of the way and let us do it. If you only do your jobs, the ones
you are supposed to be doing, things would be a lot simpler and easier for
all of us.

The events during the weekend only proved one thing. You are more dangerous
and a serious threat to this country than GMA is. We have seen what you are
capable of doing - you are ready to burn this country and reduce everything
to ashes just to prove your point. If there is something that we need
protection from, IT IS PROTECTION FROM YOU.

S. C. Austero S. C. Austero

D Boyz

ThE Boyz of Philhealth Region 6, taken at my house after the session

Which File Extension Are you?

Which File Extension are You?

I took the quiz and diz is d result.

Really, I'm Flattered. whahahaha....

Top 10 System Administrator Truths

I figure with enough time and effort, anyone could be a System Administrator. Really, it’s not hard, it just takes practice, methodology, and trial and error. A lot of trial and error. These truths will certainly get you on your way. Let’s get started.

#1 – Users Lie

Oh yes, they do. Don’t think you’re immune either. Have you ever been on a tech support call, convinced that you know the problem and the guy on the phone says something like “Would you put in the recovery CD, restart, and scan your memory?” “Oh, I’ve tried that,” you say with eyes rolling. Believe it or not, sometimes we crazy admin peeps suggest these fixes because they work. When a user is protesting my assessment, the best is to politely insist them to do what was asked until the doing is done.

#2 – Email is the Lifeblood of Non-Techies

I love my non-techie bretheren—I mean, how else would I know what happened on the OC and Gilmore Girls?—but at the end of the day, email is #1 in their book. Now a lot of it is business related, and certainly that shouldn’t be taken lightly, but most likely they were waiting on a warm, fuzzy message from their daughter or sister and really needed their email back up ASAP (“I’m waiting on a proposal!” they screech — see #1)

#3 – Printers Suck

Ever had to clean a laser or, God forbid, an inkjet printer? It’s like stabbing yourself in the eye. It’s not just the grime either—it’s the fallacy that a little chunk of ink could make the machine just stop working. 90% of the time (or better), this isn’t the case (instead, check the fuser/print heads). In terms of network troubles, HPs Jetdirect cards have a pretty solid reputation of failing every few years, so expect to shell out $200+ for those on a semi-regular basis, depending on what kind of printers you run in your office. For those with network cards integrated into the printer mainboard—what were you thinking?

#4 – Cleanliness is Godliness

Ever open up a PC and see the Ghost Of Dust Bunny’s Past in there? It’s scary stuff, I tell you. I’ve seen some PCs begin to lock up “for absolutely no reason” while the innards tell you different. Sure Peggy in Accounting wasn’t stuffing her machine full of cloth, but that blanket she keeps at her feet will slowly shed and the PC fans suck that stuff right up. When you’re completely stumped, make sure there isn’t something inside gunking up the works.

#5 – Backups are Crucial

This needs to be said. I’ve been caught with my pants down on this one a few times myself. Backup, Backup, Backup! Nothing (and I mean nothing) will bite you in the ass like a piss-poor backup schema. If your server dies right now as you read this post, what are you going to do about it? Do you know where the install discs are, do you have a configuration backup, do you know who to contact regarding tech support on that box? If not, you need to get your act together before you have a disaster and a lot of excuses and apologies following it. I use Retrospect at my job and consider it better than Backup Exec. It has amazing Macintosh support and is cheaper too.

#6 – Switches and Hubs (Usually) Die One Port At A Time

You can spend hours tracking down a bad network card or cable just to figure out that a port in a switch has died. You’re pinging and pinging and looking, the lights are on but there’s nobody home. The trick here is to know that a single port doesn’t spell the end of the hardware, quite the contrary. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. If a port does go out, that hub or switch may work for years without another outage, but do be sure to stuff an RJ45 connector in that bad port so you don’t forget (and chase down phantom problems) in the future.

#7 – No One Ever Got Fired For Buying Microsoft

So sad but so true. This old saying used to reference IBM, but oh how times have changed. Linux may be powerful, but the command prompt and configuration files and filesystem obscurity will just as soon get you a pink slip if something goes wrong and no one knows how to fix it but yourself. Even so, with as much stupid crap as we admins have to put up with on a daily basis, configuring some of the ‘high end’ Microsoft software is enough to drive you insane. Ever tried installing Exchange Server or, worse, installing Exchange Server and migrating a 5.5 install to Exchange 2000? I feel your pain, oh how I feel your pain.

#8 – Politeness > Brevity

You can come up with all sorts of analogies for this one. You’ll get more bees with honey, a spoonful of sugar, etc. But generally, you probably have very little day-to-day contact with end users. This means that when you do finally get to speak to one of those souls fortunate enough to login to your domain (both figuratively and literally), you should be sure to be as polite as possible about it. Even if the network is down. Even if the server is having weird, irrational problems. Use please, thank you, I’m sorry, and don’t be too proud to apologize or ‘make nice’ with those who may ultimately influence your career path down the line. The peon you insult today with a “I sent an email about this, do you not check your own email?” could very well climb the corporate ladder and let your rude ass go in a few years. Mind your manners, peeps.

# 9 – Know Your Needs

This one could also be called “Learn Linux.” Many admins get wooed into the idea that “managed solutions” are always the correct ones. A web interface on a switch is cute, but rarely useful. A huge Cisco router may not always be necessary, sometimes a ‘lo-fi’ approach is best. When you want a spam solution, before looking at $5,000 servers and huge licensing fees for Windows Server software take a look at one of those old ‘junk’ PCs you have in the closet, download your favorite distro of Linux, and install procmail and spamassassin. You (and your budget) will thank me later.

#10 – The Holy Grail of Tech Support

…is the reboot. Rebooting can cure ailments of all sorts, can stop network troubles, crashing computers, find missing documents, and rescue cats in trees. System admins all over the world have, by and large, trained their users to reboot before even calling support. I mean, when’s the last time you didn’t reboot to see if it cured a problem? If you’re not, then you’re either stubborn or you’re an admin who knows better. Rebooting doesn’t cure all ailments, but it cures so many of them it’s hard to not throw out a “Can you reboot for me?” to the end user when they call with some off-the-wall issue. Use and abuse as necessary.

I hope we all learned something.

by: Robert Brent Lipke

Dream Machines

I wish I could ride one of these.

Welcome Mungkey

Hey mungkey if you ever pass by tnx for accepting my invitation, I hope you'll come back again some time. I've seen you're blog, youre poetic indeed . Ciao.

Founder of Strikerz-Phil

This is my friend Cyril he is renowed to be the founder of Strikerz-Phil, a cyber group who is fond of Yahoo Messenger. They say that cyril is the master booter in Visayas 1 chat room, in his looks he doesn't seem to be aggressive to boot. I told him to boot me, and his booter works on latest version of YM, since my YM is version 2.0 and my OS is WIN3.1 his booter has no effect,I'm unbootable bwahahaha, wtf.

check out there site www.cybercirskie.tk

Ang aking pader de papel (Wallpaper)

This is purely PSD, no 3rd party filters required.

The former 4 horsemen of Philhealth-Region 6

Stokiz, Buloy, Me and Jaijaix

New layouts for i-philhealth

It took me 2 days to implement new layout in our local website named i-PhilHealth. I called it NEAT edition, just for 1 reason I have eliminated using too much images on tables and some menus. I decided to do this coz as every webmaster would know, downloading or preloading images can eat up more precious bandwidth and since, the said site is growing, i'd rather trade off eye catching pages for more robust but dynamic pages.

Maybe someday i'll bring back more images but as of now, lets focus on how the pages generate.

In the next few months i'll be going to change a little bit of the infrastructure of i-philhealth with the help of Delphi.

You'll be reading some of it here. On how Delphi can produce MODS for Apache Web Server and how can it extracts data from different platforms of data providers and upload it to the main database, the backend well of course MYSQL.

Miss me...blog...

Sorry for the long no blog period. Anyway i'm back. Don't ever ask where did I go??? This Blog won't fit here.