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Plurk removes karma limit

Posted by Mikko at 22 December 2010

Category: Internet

Earlier today, I read several plurks on my timeline saying that their karmas reached 100.01. I immediately checked my karma and yes, it was 100.01 too. At first I thought that they had a 0.01 karma give-away triggering a bug for those with 100 karma.

Just a few minutes ago, @plurkbuddy officially announced that they are removing the upper bound for the karma. The announcement said “Have you reached 100 Karma and are you bored now? We have a solution – Karma is unlimited now! Enjoy!”

Actually, I didn’t care much about my karma since I reached karma 100. What do you think about the recent change?

Plurk is a social networking and microblogging tool popular mostly in South East Asia, just like Twitter. Users post updates where people can reply. These updates are laid on a scrollable horizontal timeline. Replies are shown in a threaded way, unlike in Twitter. Karma is a measure of user’s activity.

Curious about Plurk? Join Plurk now.

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BayanDSL FAIL

Posted by Mikko at 27 June 2010

Category: Internet

Someone should have been or is gonna be reprimanded really soon for forgetting to renew bayandsl.com!

I can’t wait for the deletion of the domain. I’m quite interested on buying the domain once, or if ever, it becomes available.

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Utilize Google Calendar’s SMS Notifications for class schedules!

Posted by Mikko at 9 November 2009

Category: Google, Internet, Life Hacks, Mobile

Tomorrow is the start of classes for the second semester in UP Diliman. Students will be confronted with new class schedules. Yikes!

Fortunately for those who are lazy enough to take a peek on their form 5 from time to time, there’s this Google Calendar SMS notification for you. Google will text you your next class minutes or hours before your class, based on your preference.

You just need a Google account (which is free) to enjoy this free service! Continue reading “Utilize Google Calendar’s SMS Notifications for class schedules!” »

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Surviving the World

Posted by Mikko at 24 August 2009

Category: Internet

Surviving the World: Lesson 394

I’ve learned about this website, Surviving the World, after a friend posted a link to one of their entries in Plurk.

Surviving the World is a webcomic focusing on all shades of life, from science to literature, politics to sports, romance to religion, and everything else in between. –Surviving the World FAQ

The website is updated daily so you don’t have to worry not having a daily dose of STW. :D

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Short rant. Wow, I am busy that I can hardly update this blog.

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Use your Globe Broadband account in Starbucks, for free!

Posted by Mikko at 17 August 2009

Category: Internet, Life Hacks

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Did you know that most Globe Broadband packages comes with WiFi minutes?

These WiFi minutes can be used in any WiZ hotspot (Wireless Internet Zones) around the country, including most Starbucks coffee shops.

Globe + Starbucks

Instead of paying a hundred bucks an hour for Internet on your next visit to Starbucks, just don’t forget to copy your Globe Broadband username and password and redeem your two free hours per month. The format of the username is [alias]@globelines.com.ph where alias is the username you gave when you applied. The default password is your account number which is reflected on your bill.

If you are quite unsure of your username or password, you may call their hotlines @ (02) 9198888. The number is toll-free if you dial the number from a Globelines landline, local landline or Globe Telecom mobile number.

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Enjoying Google Map Maker

Posted by Mikko at 20 July 2009

Category: Google, Internet

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Google Map Maker

I am officially enjoying Google Map Maker now.

Google Map Maker is Google’s crowd-sourcing tool to gather geographical information and turn them to maps. Google Map Maker was launched in the Philippines October of last year. Due to the positive response to the product, Google deployed Map Maker data in the Philippines to Google Maps.

I always loved the idea of crowd-sourcing (like Wikipedia, Yahoo! Answers, etc). There are other similar online tools out there such as OpenStreetMap and Wikimapia. My only problem with OpenStreetMap is that their default editor doesn’t have satellite imagery which makes it hard to point areas of interest or identify location of roads unless you have GPS. Wikimapia, though, uses Google’s imagery but their moderation scheme is not good at all. I find it very prone to vandals. Continue reading “Enjoying Google Map Maker” »

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Globe Broadband: Setting up PROLiNK Hurricane 5200 with Linksys WRT54G2

Posted by Mikko at 28 June 2009

Category: How-To, Internet

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Last Friday, we had our Globe Broadband connected at the apartment. Globe Telecom deployed a PROLiNK Hurricane 5200 as our ADSL modem. Since we wanted to share the Internet connection throughout the room, we bought a Linksys WRT54G2 wireless router.

Woot

Configuring the PROLiNK Hurricane 5200 to work with Linksys WRT54G2 wasn’t that easy. Here’s a rough guide on how to do it. This guide must work with other models (such as Hurricane 9200) and other brands, but the steps will differ. Continue reading “Globe Broadband: Setting up PROLiNK Hurricane 5200 with Linksys WRT54G2” »

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Bypass image proxy for Globe Telecom 3G/EDGE/GPRS

Posted by Mikko at 19 June 2009

Category: How-To, Internet, Life Hacks, Mobile

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Globe Telecom uses a transparent proxy on it’s http.globe.com.ph access point. This means when you open a website, it passes thru their server for caching or whatever purpose it might server before it reaches your cellphone or computer.

Before caching
URL of image when not cached.

I’ve noticed though that they replace the URL of images inside <img> tags with another URL on their server for caching. This, in turn, causes some problems with web applications that requires authentication and generates images on the fly such as StatCounter. This replacement/caching process is only done when Globe Telecom detects that you are using a web browser on a computer or on a mobile phone (I curl-ed this website and the output did not have any URL replacements).

URL of image after caching!
URL after caching. Notice, the cached and compressed image is in Globe or a third-party partner’s server.

As a workaround, you can spoof your User-Agent by modifying the headers of your requests. You may do this in Firefox by:

  1. Going to about:config. A warning will have to scare you but just continue.
  2. Then, find the general.useragent.extra.firefox setting. Using the filter above may help you find it.
  3. Once you find it, double click the entry and change it to whatever you want. For it to work, it should not contain words like Mozilla, Firefox, Safari or other web browsers. I’ve changed mine to MikkoFox. :D

about:config screenshot

Have fun browsing without cached images. :D

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The Geek Brewery is ONLINE plus DreamHost and A Small Orange Promo Code!

Posted by Mikko at 17 June 2009

Category: Blogging, Internet

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The Long Short Story

The DreamHost coupon codes is on the last part of the post.

Some three days ago, I was complaining to RapidVPS that my websites were loading really slow. I logged on to my server thru SSH and checked the server load. To my amazement, it was on it’s 300+ mark. Way above my 1.00 average. The servers running my account could have been boiling by that time.

It was around 7 hours after my first ticket when they responded. They gave me a very surprising surprise. RapidVPS permanently suspended my hosting account after it sent mass-mails to tons of people, thus spiking the server load which was detrimental to their services. They said my data was too risky to host. Up to now, I don’t know how it happened. As far as I knew, I did not have any cron job on that account. Someone might have sneaked in to my server and ran a really bad script using my account.

Pirate takes over!

So I was forced to host a 503 (maintenance) page thru DreamHost to avoid search engines to remove my pages from the index while waiting for the backup of my files to be sent back to me. It took me around 36 hours to get a reply. By the 40th hour, I got a link to a tarred file of my backups. I immediately logged in thru my A Small Orange (ASO) account thru SSH and wget-ted the file. Sadly, I can’t untar the file on my ASO server since I only had very limited web space. Tandandandan.

What I did was I sent a request to A Small Orange to untar my files and copy the files for The Geek Brewery to the root of conradmiguel.com. I also asked them to import my SQL databases. Within five minutes, I got a reply. They were willing to help me out even if it was not part of my subscription. A Small Orange, FTW! Continue reading “The Geek Brewery is ONLINE plus DreamHost and A Small Orange Promo Code!” »

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Microsoft rebranding Live Search: will it HIT?

Posted by Mikko at 26 May 2009

Category: Internet

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UPDATE: It’s confirmed. The new name will be Bing (http://bing.com). Rumors are spreading that they will launch it on May 29, 2009.

There are various reports in the Internet that says Microsoft is doing a rebrand of Live Search, their very own search engine. Live Search lost its luster in the search engine game, just as how Internet Explorer lost the consumer’s trust. Microsoft’s several failed attempts to buy Yahoo may have led them to do the rebrand.

Rumored potential names of the search engine reboot are Bing, Kumo and Hook. Both bing.com and kumo.com are already on the hands of Microsoft, while hook.com is still owned by another party. Continue reading “Microsoft rebranding Live Search: will it HIT?” »

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