If you’re a big fan of the iphone,  you probably are aware of the current news and event about it. Here in the Philippines, Apple’s Iphone was officially released and distributed by Globe Telecoms last August 22, 2008.

By default though, the iphone 3G has limitations being locked to the local provider of course. Because of that you may feel that there is a certain limitation to what the iphone 3G can do… aside from the obvious that you can’t use a different telco sim card.

So if you don’t feel like you’re getting all you can from the iPhone App Store and other perks of the iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 software, you may want to ‘open-line’ the phone yourself.

The ‘process’ for unlocking the iphone is called ‘Jailbreaking’. Though ‘jailbreak’ is for Mac users, most of us (well, I assume) are PC and Windows users. There is an equivalent application for jailbreakinig an Iphone on a Windows box.. That is WINPWN.

Here’s how to unlock / jailbreak your iphone/itouch:

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When we say ‘image editor‘ on the open-source world, we instantly think of GIMP, GNU Image Manipulation Program, right? Of course.

But do you know that aside from GIMP, there is also another application, which is part of the KDE Office suite that is also perfect for bitmap image manipulation? It is also convenient for webmasters for editing photos for their web server shared website.

The application is called KRITA.

Krita is the bitmap graphics editor software included with the KDE based KOffice suite. Designed to be both a painting application and a photo editor, Krita is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License. It was released for the first time as a part of KOffice version 1.4.0, on June 21, 2005. Before any public release, it was called KImageShop and then later Krayon, but legal matters motivated a change from these names.

The differences start with the layout of the various user interface components. Instead of having them organized as a set of separate windows, Krita uses a single-pane integrated view, where all the UI functionality is included in the main window. However, the panels and tools can be freely moved around in the window and are dockable to provide a clean appearance

I’ve been blogging about many different topics for a few years now but I never made any money doing it until most recently. Now, I am happy that I am earning a few bucks now and then with my simple post and SEO activities. With a little extra money, I was able to catch the interest of few people who got interested in starting their own blog. As a matter of fact I have already taught my brother and nephew a thing or two about blogging. Then I decided to create one quick post about it so I can refer other people who might interested in creating one for themselves. The following is a quick and dirty steps or guide and background in starting a blog. Read the rest of this entry »

Yes, you heard right, today topic covers an Exchange Server. You know an Exchange Server right? It’s one of those M$ operated box with mails going all inside and all around it.

It’s no secret that the mail server of Micro$oft has reputations of having security holes and is super prone to spam… well, with today’s technology which one isn’t right?

Luckily for those users of Exchange, there are more than a number of third party server based anti spam software available to help them cope up with these problems.

One of those server anti spam software is GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP. This server-side application has a lot of numbers and statistics to back its name up!

It already received 60 awards, 80,000 satisfied customers has also been using it with complete satisfaction with the lowest prices compared to other server application Spam filter, it is indeed a tough competitor to beat.

Oh and did I say GFI MailEssentials anti spam filter captures over 98% of spam and it eliminates the need to install and update anti spam software on each desktop since it is server-based.

I am currently downloading a complete and functional 30-day evaluation copy of it right now. With only 27 MB size of file, I suggest you do to and experience how powerful this little piece of software is.

Remember, it’s an Exchange spam filter, anti virus is a completely different story.

There’s a great news for those companies and business that relies on extremely important data to operate. Business that requires consistent and reliable data backup. This can only be achieved by using a sophisticated server backup software.

Backup for workgroups is perfect for Small to Medium Enterprise (SME). It is an easy to use backup software solution with features comparable to enterprise backup solution, but with very little cost.

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Who in heaven is Arlo Gilbert? Yep, using ‘heaven’ is perfect for describing this man for he do sometimes tries to conquer heaven. He’s into planes you see.

Anyway, you’re probably Googling about Arlo Gilbert as you read this post. Well, let me save you a few minutes and introduce you to Mr. Gilbert in one fast minute.

He is the following:

• The Man is from Austin, Texas
• Arlo Gilbert is a high school drop out… and a proud one (don’t do that boys and girls)
• A family man! So there’s a Mrs. Gilbert and two little Arlo Gilberts (daughters)

The reason why we feature this brilliant man is that he has successfully launched online startups and been doing it for 10 years now. Remember, high school dropout and no training in marketing or any business related studies… Brilliant indeed.

What caught my attention while reading his ‘About’ page was his current project - the iCall. It’s a VOIP startup company. I was wondering if iCall was developed by Arlo Gilbert or if it uses Asterisk?

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Tekken Philippines

As you may probably notice, this blog of mine haven’t been updated for weeks! I don’t want it to be stale for a month, so i thought doing this small quick post and announce my plan for this little technology/work blog…

So what’s the plan?

Well, it’s very obvious that there’s nothing much going on at work lately… (sshhh, don’t tell the boss).. So, I’m thinking of posting open-source articles… sort of like what everyone is doing on their own technology/computer/unix related blogs.

Right, that’s what I’ll do… Now, I only hope laziness wont struck me first.

If you’re a System Administrator, have you ever wonder what really is you’re market value? I mean, have you ever stop and think about your salary and comparing it with other people on other fields of work… or from your fellow Sysads?

I have.

Here’s a link to the Salary Report for professional who are working in the Philippines. Note that the figures shown there are taken from those who participated to the survey.

The specific ‘SysAd’ job description was nowhere to be found, so I took the next most probably job function.. Since my job title is a Systems Engineer, I took:

Engineers:

Although I can say which salary range my salary is, you can see that the digits are quite small given consideration to the present living condition here.

What a SysAd to do? He can either work triple hard, do overtime, ask a friend for a loan or he could take a payday loan from company that offers one or even a website such as Easy Online Payda.

They have a fast and simple form that will be beneficial for anyone who needs to have a loan instantly. The only requirements are you have to be at least 18 years of age, maintain a regular source of income, and have a direct deposit system set up with your local bank.

Thanks for these kinds of services! This is a great aid for hard working sysadminstrators!

draft……. note to self

#!/bin/bash -x
FILE=”/tmp/IAP_sched”
DIR=”/PRA/prod/files/nz/area11/logs/”
FILE2=$(awk ‘{ print $1 }’ $FILE)
echo “*** Nameserver IP ***”
for ip in $FILE2
do
echo “Doing GTL on” $ip
/PRA/prod/scripts/arc/get_log_times *$ip* >> /tmp/output.txt
done

*alias command is not recognize.. hence the full path of ‘glt’

What do most sysads do during they idle time? We could play tennis, badminton, soccer, basketball and other physical sports, but no! Some of us, though more that 12 hours in front of a computer terminal still prefers to play computer games, either PC games or mac games or both!

Introducing Midoritech

Tons of games can be found in the internet.

At midoritech.com there are many games to choose from there’s the classic solitaire, a mahjong, and a couple of Games for kids. One particular game that is truly relevant is all about global warning !

Head on over to the site and check out them cool games!