Wordpress?

I've been considering moving over this blog to Wordpress. It seems a lot more sophisticated and flexible than what I currently use in Blogger. And its an itch I need to scratch. I'm curious about Wordpress and I just want to try it.

I'm worried though that I might loose my archived content when I move my blog over there. Wordpress' "Importing" FAQ does assuage my worries, but one can never tell what unfortunate things might happen when experimenting.

On a lighter note, I've installed Edgy now and I'm currently updating. I couldn't download the ISO for Ubuntu as the servers were busy at the time I started to download. I checked on the servers hosting Edubuntu and I saw that the speed was better, even though there were only 2 mirrors in close proximity to the Philippines. I ended up downloading that and installed it today. No worries, though. I actually like Edubuntu's defaults. Next on my list, getting everything up-to-date, including my plugins :-)

Optimistic...

Here's to another nail in the coffin... Microsoft Could Learn a Thing or Two From Ubuntu. Well, sorta. If only more and more analysts and business people see it the way consumers do. Or if only more consumers were better informed. Ah! The fight goes on...

Apologies...

My apologies to all the followers of Ubuntu PH's planet. I was unaware that moving my Blogger account over to its beta would republish everything and basically spam my Feedburner RSS feed.That'll be the last time I leap before I look...

Back!

I'm back...

At last!!! I have a connection at home again! I have cable internet now. Eventhough the speed isn't as consistent, I'm quite happy. I have a subscription for 384 kbps. I haven't been able to max it out. I hover more around 280, but that's okay, since I happen to think this is inherently more secure than Smart Wifi (now called Smart Bro).

Used to use Shields Up to scan my Smart connection. It would always fail on several ports and that alarmed me. I also used Shields Up on my mother-in-law's Smart connection and the same ports were failing the port scanning test. Thing is she has a software firewall and a hardware firewall through her broadband router. My current connection passed the Shields Up test (see screenshot below), so I think I'm better off now.


Off the bat, torrenting worked quite well. No problems with NAT traversal and all that stuff. I'm currently seeding only one ISO image (FreeBSD's 6.1 DVD compilation - listed here: http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/) since I need to bandwidth more for downloading other stuff. FDM 2.1 (Free Download Manager) works pretty well with this connection as well. No problems whatsoever. FDM's able to max out the connection to 45KB/s speed at certain times of the day.

Next up in my list of To Do's... Update all of my installers to newer version and back-up all my data. I really need to scratch my VMWare itch. If all goes well, by next weekend I'll be installing Ubuntu and using VMWare Server to test out Windoze and Bayanihan Linux (currently in Beta2). There are a lot of Beta software that I'm testing under XP. It's fun to watch them break the system under a controlled environment.

I took a little time off blogging because I just couldn't handle my sched. For several weeks, I would go to our little renovation project we had going over at the new house we were moving into. And then at the same time, I was working on getting promoted. Well, mission accomplished! It's been well over 2 weeks since I got promoted and almost 2 weeks since we moved in. All I need now is an internet connection at home. Sadly, none is available at this time. I gave up on SMART Wifi. It felt good to cancel the darned thing. I just got fed up. I'm waiting for the cable company to roll in those new lines into our subdivision. There are about 300 or so homes already built in our subdivision but barely 50 are occupied. Not everyone is as anxious to move in yet. So, we'll have to wait for cable and phone lines to come into our area. They're probably just waiting for enough customers to connect to justify the cost of rolling out lines. Well, from here on in I'll have to play the waiting game. Hmmm...reminds me. I need to buy a thumb drive for all those packages I need to download! I better bug the missus for a little spending money.