I saw this website, www.mysandbox.com being plugged on 2 tv shows yesterday and I knew that it’s something big cause for someone like Boy Abunda and Mo Twister to promote the website, then it must be a huge information source (not only for entertainment, as they said).

And so, I tried logging into that website using a 4mbps leased line and my oh my, it’s using up a huge deal of bandwidth. It is definitely loaded with information that it’s already overloaded.

I’m not sure if Smart Communications is planning to launch this website as it is cause it’s making me wonder how they are going to deploy it via wap (part of their marketing stint) if it loads this ssslllooowww.

On the other hand, mysandbox.com is only at its beta stage so I guess that should be taken into consideration. Let’s wait for the updates, shall we?

The Corporate world is beginning to search for answers regarding a threatening news about Conficker, Kido, Downadup Worm that is infiltrating millions of Windows systems. Meanwhile, Microsoft released updates and patches to combat this issue. It is highly recommended to have updated systems and firewalls in order to prevent this from jeopardizing a business.

On the other hand, fear not my fellow Linux users. We are, somewhat, safe since Linux systems don’t have *.exe files in them that are used by this kind of threat.

And yet, good luck to all our Systems Administrators who might spend sleepless nights on restoring Windows Servers (if there are any) and to Technical Support Teams for clearing up Windows desktop computers that are infected and updating those that are yet to be.

On behalf of everyone from Fedora Philippines, I’m calling out on you to help spread the news on registering fedora.ph as official dns for Fedora Philippines. The group will avail the services from domains.ph. Regular Domain for 2 years costs 70 USD, equivalent to 3290 php.

Here’s the message from the site Administrator, Engels Antonio:

As you may already know, Fedora Philippines is currently being hosted by Bluepoint Foundation on a Xen VM using fedora.bluepoint.com.ph as interim domain. Let’s pass the hat and get fedora.ph this year, shall we? We just need to raise 3,290 pesos to register the domain.

UPDATE!!!

Turns out the group will have to wait for what they call “Fedora System” for domains of local groups. Therefore, this will be put on hold until Fedora Philippines gets permission as per Fedora’s Rules.

I just read an article saying that EXT4 is super fast. But wait, it is notable that people who conducted the test used an SSD. I would have wanted to see a comparison of file systems’ performances on both mechanical and SSD. Another thing, why not include ntfs?

I really would like to see improvements on this file system cause maintaining huge file servers can benefit to it. Hey, not everyone uses SSDs yet.

There had been articles on the net saying that IPv6 is the newest version (right now we’re using IPv4) for TCP/IP. And the last time I heard of it was when I attended Software Freedom Day at Up Diliman last September.

What is IPv4 anyway? Why does the future of Internet relies on it?

IPv4 is Internet Protocol version 4 having 32 bits of IP addresses and supporting 2 raised to 32 unique addresses. But, these addresses will be all used up in the near future, near meaning around 2 years based on calculations of IP addresses usage. When that time comes, the Internet will stop growing. It will not malfunction, it just won’t grow anymore. Therefore reaching the limit of world wide web.

Of course, IT professionals can’t let that happen. That’s why IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is being developed since mid 1990’s. IPv6 has 128 bits and supports 2 raised to 128 unique addresses.

What conerns me the most is compatibility between these two versions. I haven’t seen a website with v6 being accessed by v4 assigned computers. What more when IPv6 transition is rolled out worldwide. I’m curious on how it will take place. But I do hope that our local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will be ready when it happens.