T. FAX - tyrannosaurus FAX!

I got a call from a government agency yesterday asking for a FAX TONE! 

Last year, I finally donated my fax machine to an e-junk group.  I really don't see why on earth do people still use FAX MACHINES when you have the ever-reliable email not to mention that thermal paper does not store for long.

Most of the time it's government offices that still use fax machines and in remote cases, companies that do not want to go through your proposals :-)  Anyway, when I told the gov't employee on the other line that I finally got rid of my fax machine he chuckled and said that they will just send it by mail.  Waaahhh!!! from jurassic to the big bang!

Maybe if the government would do an audit on the facsimile and courier expenses for documents that are merely meant to "NOTIFY" I bet they will realize how much savings they will have if they simply EMAIL these notifications.

PNoy!  Paki-check! Now na!

DIGITAL DIVIDE

For as long as there are gatekeepers of information and for as long as the tools for information dissemination remain ridiculously expensive then the DIGITAL DIVIDE will remain.

So kudos! to DATAWIND, MY PHONE and NEO for serving the majority who should have as much EDUCATION and INFORMATION rights as the few. 

HISTORICAL CEDULA

The sedula is another item in our government system that needs to be ERADICATED. It's plain and simple useless. It's time for the printers and the long line of payola people who are behind the sedula system to RETHINK of other ways to earn extra income. PNoy and LGUs pakitanggal na ang sedula. Now na pwede?

At 46, I've finally decided to talk :-P

I created this blog last year just for the heck of it. But am I a blogger? And the most important question is what will I blog about? Who cares?! I will share and write about anything and everything that I know will be useful and helpful to anyone. And let's see if I will become a blogger... Watevah... :-P

Regarding my last posting about making bootable flash disks or sdcards for your laptop, I've encountered other tweaks when Windows xp was done installing. just comment here if you encountered some errors that are not in the link that I've posted, or errors that you can't seen to shake off :-)

for LAPTOP users :-)

http://komku.blogspot.com/2008/11/install-windows-xp-using-usb-flash-disk.html

part 2 of implayok virus

Sorry for the late follow up. Been busy after my network went up.

Okay how to re-install your system knowing that some of your installer files for your peripherals may already have rootkit viral keys in them.

1) Before re-installing your OS make sure you have with you, preferrably in your hard drive, a legal copy of a virus cleaner. I strongly suggest AVIRA.

2) Re-install your OS and only the basic drivers especially your network card driver. If you're installing windows XP with sp2, it may not have the latest security updates so better make sure you're not connected to the Internet when re-installing. Also, it is best to have your hard drive partitioned. Leave around 50-80GB for your system drive (the drive that will house your windows system). save all your data files to another partition which appears as another drive letter. So that next time a virus strikes, you will just format your system drive and not your data drive. I'm assuming you already know how to install your OS

3) after you've installed your OS and basic drivers, install AVIRA. Avira will require you to connect to the internet to register your software. This is the only time that you will connect to the internet and follow the remaining steps of the installation. After AVIRA is fully installed, unplug your internet again and do a full system scan as AVIRA will suggest after installing.

4) when your OS prompts you to switch on your firewall, your auto updates and others, do it. then restart as you plug into the internet again so your OS can update itself in case as I've mentioned it doesn't have the latest security updates.

5) now that you have avira, and now that avira has scanned your system and hopefully has gotten rid of all the sleeping virus in your system, you can now install all the other software that you need.

6) I suggest that you install norton ghost. There is a freeware version http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/soft/874742/ and it's the only thing i like about norton. This will allow you to create an image file so that you will just restore and no need to reinstall all the software that you've installed.

If you have any questions, blog it :-) ciao!