http://pipboy.paminta.com Fernando C Mendizabal Jr's insights, experiments and experiences about Management Information Systems topics, applied theories and best practices Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:32:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en CNN writes a short article on users petitioning to keep Windows XP: No matter how hard Microsoft works to persuade people to embrace Vista, some just can’t be wowed. They complain about Vista’s hefty hardware requirements, its less-than-peppy performance, occasional incompatibility with other programs and devices and frequent, irritating security ... http://pipboy.paminta.com/2008/04/14/xp-gone-as-of-june-30/ In preparation for an upcoming computer upgrade, i’ve been doing some research on what’s the better CPU to pick up. As a Pareto fan, the new computer will be used 80% of the time for work and 20% of the time for games (where that 20% of the playtime will ... http://pipboy.paminta.com/2008/04/14/to-upgrade-or-not-to-upgrade/ I was fixing my pc yesterday and couldn’t reformat because my xp installer was being ejected every 30 seconds. Since 1) most of my files can be accessed through the network, 2) i can share my laptop’s optical drive through the network, 3) i can create and use cd ... http://pipboy.paminta.com/2008/04/13/when-did-you-last-use-your-cd-rom/ I’ve never bet on pessimism… wouldn’t win anyway. http://pipboy.paminta.com/2007/10/12/never/ I got my d70 serviced the other day. A year without maintenance cleaning and lousy lens-replacement process can be belly bad for your CCD. Here are the cleaning details: WHAT: CCD cleaning WHERE: Digital Columbia Sales Center - #129 G. Roxas St. San Francisco Del Monte, QC. (It’s near G. Araneta, Quezon City). ... http://pipboy.paminta.com/2007/09/22/nikon-service-center-in-the-philippines/ My camera is 11 months old already by my watch. I got it last October 2006. However, I only started using it 6 months ago. When I got the camera, I wasn’t really into photography. Sure, I liked to take pictures, but I didn’t see myself as a legion of ... http://pipboy.paminta.com/2007/09/21/photography-landmarks/ Have you ever wanted to insert page numbers in your Microsoft Word Documents without counting the first few pages of the document? If you use Microsoft Word’s insert page numbers function, you’ll find that Word starts counting from the first page of the document. This can be bothersome if you ... http://pipboy.paminta.com/2007/09/15/microsoft-word-and-page-numbers/ This is the second time that ERD Commander 2005 has bailed me out. It’s a Windows XP recovery application that allows you to do lots of cool stuff! The application is stored in a CD which you use to boot up your system with. It will load its own files ... http://pipboy.paminta.com/2007/09/12/erd-commander-gj/ Yesterday marks the first ever formal photography lecture that I conducted! Teaching a while ago made me realize just how much I’ve missed the classroom setup. You see, I like teaching — especially what I like. In other words, I like teaching what I like. Teaching allows me to learn ... http://pipboy.paminta.com/2007/09/11/first-photography-lecture/ As my blog-readers and colleagues will know, I use WikiMedia as my Notepad. Here are two of the coolest things I’ve learned because I didn’t Read The Fancy Manual: You can rename page titles! Page Titles serve two notable functions: Title of the Page - This is the Title found at the ... http://pipboy.paminta.com/2007/09/07/renaming-and-deleting-wiki-articles/