New iPhone 4

Natasha’s iPhone 4 is almost here; maybe she will have it this evening. I know she was pretty excited when she ordered it and I hope when she is still excited about it.

WordPress Beta

WordPress 3.0 Beta RC is just awesome! I love the new menu system, the default theme and everything else about the new WORDPRESS.

Update on the blackberry Kindle app

Alright, I can sync the farthest location read between my kindle and my blackberry, text resizing works great and I do have a full screen option. This is not really a great option since it hides the location bar at the bottom (the only item other than the books’s content), which is about a few [...]

Kindle application for blackberry

Finally Amazon has released the blackberry app for kindle. I just got my hands on the app and so far it looks great. The UI is very polished and I am already able to see my archived items from my existing kindle. Getting the books downloaded is going to take a while given the spotty [...]

eAccelerator downtime

Upgraded my Ubuntu distribution on my server yesterday night and restarted; This morning I was not able to access my site. I realized that I had not recompiled my eAccelerator for the new version of PHP because I did not note that in the 280+ packages that were upgraded, PHP was one of them !!! [...]

Setting up VMware ESXi on an IBM xSeries

It has been a while since I updated my blog. After I moved into my new house, I had re-assembled my old system and moved my server from my primary desktop. Now that I had more space, I wanted to get this second system up and running. This is a very old system and the [...]

Breaking the Silence….

For all those who have been checking back on my blog, yes I have not been very active on my postings. A few of you who have my phone number have been very kind in reminding me of this. However, I have been very active on the backend. I have migrated my server from a [...]

Update on Hurricane Ike from 77089

Winds started at 1:00 PM this afternoon. They have become stronger. The rains have just started to drizzle…. @ 10:50 PM – Winds getting Stronger !! – Update: @~midnight, the Hurricane hit us with full force. It was a great experience to hear the wind howling. Luckily we were safe but I can’t imagine how [...]

UCF_E_SPECIFY_APPLICATION for PDF files

This is a very often encountered error on the client’s machine. I have seen many blame the JRE on the machine or UCF installation itself. Some have suggested that the user update his webtop preferences or modify windows registry. This issue however is related to the acrobat installation on the client machine.

Hide attributes on new document creation and show them on the properties page

There was a question on the support forum today where a user wanted to hide certain attributes on the new document creation page but show it on the document properties page. This cannot be achieved by configuration in DAB as the definition would make it universal. The only way to do this is to customize [...]