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  • Usernames, passwords of IT employment site revealed

    ISAW or Internet Security and Warfare alerts users of a page in ITPros.ph that contains a listing of its members’ account details, including passwords, in plain text. ITpros.ph is designed to be “the Philippines’ key employment facilitator for the ICT industry.” The page is searchable through Google and when I went over its listings, I…

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  • Open source Valentine

    It’s a hot date before the big day. Bayan Muna has scheduled a round table on Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 13, at the Rajah Park Hotel function room in Fuente Osmeña to discuss free and open source software. Organizers are still finalizing details but I was told it’s open to anyone interested to discuss free and…

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  • Mobile Internet and Globe Visibility, a demo

    In the run-up to Sinulog, the biggest festival in Cebu, I was invited to a demonstration of Globe Visibility, Globe’s HSDPA or High Speed Downlink Packet Access mobile Internet service. The service, marketed by Globe with buzz phrases such as “3G plus,” “better than 3G,” and “mobile broadband,” promises download speeds of up to 1.4mbps.…

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  • Mapping Cebu’s Wi-Fi hotspots

    I’ve been meaning to map Cebu’s Wi-Fi hotspots for more than a month now. It is a project that I’ve kept putting off, mainly because of work deadlines and other tasks. For a while, I planned to set out–and was on the verge of doing so at least twice–and go through 4 or 5 coffee…

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  • Nice work if you can get it: Ella sings and WordPress blings

    I took the plunge. This blog, as well as a host of other sites I run using WordPress, is now using the latest release of the popular open source blogging software: WordPress 2.1 “Ella,” named after the great Ella Fitzgerald, one of my favorite singers. I did not encounter errors in the upgrading process, which…

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