Archive for 2008

My personal take on PHP Frameworks

Well, there has been lots and lots of talk about PHP Frameworks over the past couple of years and it almost looks like everyday a new one comes out that promises faster and easier PHP development.
I’ve personally tried a few different ones, specifically CakePHP, Code Igniter and, to a lesser extent, the Zend Framework. They [...]

RIP Paul Newman

Well, sad but exptected news today, Paul Newman, undoubtedly one of the greatest actor ever, has died today with 83 years old after a long battle with cancer.
Being a huge movies lover I’ve seen a lot of Newman’s work, he was such a great icon on the industry and I will certainly miss him.
So here’s [...]

PXE Boot Windows XP Install

So I needed to install XP on a toshiba R100 laptop, it’s an ultraportable and as such has no cd-rom and no floppy drive and it didn’t even boot from a USB cd-rom so my only option was to use the PXE network boot option to install the OS.
I never did that before so I [...]

Spore, continued…

Well, I played it… and am currently in standby at the space stage, and maybe it’s just me, but this stage gets really boring really fast. I was never a really big fan of strategy games but I actually liked Spore’s path into the space stage, although they were all very small. Now the space [...]

Spore is out!

The long awaited game from the makers of The Sims is finally out! Yes, Spore. The evolution game that takes you on journey never before seen on any game. And with it, I predict thousands of wasted human hours. And that is just on the character and other editors. On the game itself it’s still [...]

Back to work…

So I’m back at work again, and let me tell you, it still sucks! Everyday I get more and more tired of it. Computer tech support is a bad, bad job. Sure, every once in a while you get to meet some very interesting lady customers but not even that makes it worth it, [...]

Vacations almost over

Hello there, been a while without posts. The reasons for that is that I’ve been on vacations and therefore I’m trying to take as much time off from the computer as I can. I start working again next Monday so I’ll spend most my days in front of them (which would be fine, if was [...]

Life, if you were an 80’s cartoon

A couple a days ago I found this guys youtube channel with 17 videos with a lot of 80’s cartoons intros and spent a couple of hours reminiscing. I remembered a lot of them since I was a child back in the 80’s and therefore was kind of addicted to a few of them. What [...]

Dear Microsoft, please stop hiding file extensions…

Working on an IT company giving tech support to a wide range of users and dealing with fucked up pc’s everyday there is “one” little detail that really gets on my nerves about Microsoft Windows… you guessed it, the file extensions are hidden by default.
Why is this really? At what point in windows history did [...]

ESET NOD32 Antivirus owns, even on a corporate environment.

So yesterday I was set in charge of replacing my workplaces aging Trend Micro antivirus with a brand new NOD32 installation. We were already using and selling ESET’s NOD32 to some of our customers when some of us on the tech department discovered it about a year ago and quickly found out that this little [...]


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