Happy New Year!

Jan 01

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Happy New Year to all!

Merry Christmas!

Dec 25

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Merry Christmas to all!

Dear NAIA Officials

Nov 14

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After ranking #1 in 2011 Worst Airports and #5 in 10 of the world’s most hated airports, please renovate, not only the airport, but also the staff and employees.

Thank you very much!

In Danger

Nov 07

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In danger of not enrolling CS 300. Oh no!

Department of Education Helps Prepare Students for Workforce

Oct 15

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Department of Education Helps Prepare Students for Workforce

Teaching students to be software-dependent means “providing them with skills they can use after graduation”? Last time I checked, not all workplaces use MS Office 2010.

Fanboyism at the Highest Level

Oct 11

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Crap resolution by some honorable congressman.

What is happening to the Philippines?!

Halalan Again

Sep 26

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Cooking something for Halalan. Yay!

Eiga Sai 2011

Aug 16

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Due to foreseen circumstances, we couldn’t watch the rest of the films in UP anymore. Huhu.

On a whim, Aica and I decided to watch (hopefully) all the films in this year’s Eiga Sai. At first, I planned to write a review for each film but I realized that I don’t know how to do it. Hehe. Instead, we will just rank the films according to our preferences.

Ranking:

  1. Departures – July 8, 2011, 7:00 PM, Shang Cineplex Cinema 4
  2. Summer Days with Coo – July 3, 2011, 1:00 PM, Shang Cineplex Cinema 4
  3. Your Friend – July 8, 2011, 1:00 PM, Shang Cineplex Cinema 4
  4. The Summit: A Chronicle of Stones – July 2, 2011, 7:00 PM, Shang Cineplex Cinema 4

To Watch:

  • One Million Yen Girl – August 17, 2011, 3:00 PM, UP Film Institute
  • Yunagi City, Sakura Country – August 17, 2011, 5:30 PM, UP Film Institute
  • Climber’s High – August 18, 2011, 7:30 PM, UP Film Institute
  • Villon’s Wife – August 19, 2011, 5:30 PM, UP Film Institute
  • Feel the Wind – August 20, 2011, 3:00 PM, UP Film Institute
  • The Chef of South Polar – August 20, 2011, 7:30 PM, UP Film Institute

I will update this post as soon as we watch another film.

More information on Eiga Sai 2011 can be found here.

Original Date: July 4, 2011

What the POC?

Aug 12

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Blood, sweat, tears win Pinoy Dragon Warriors glory – but not POC recognition

POC: Dragon boat team needs to retire

Philippine Olympic Committee

No need for words…

Formatting an External Hard Disk with Ext4

Aug 10

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Recently, I bought an external hard disk formatted with NTFS. Not that there is something really wrong with NTFS but I prefer using ext4.

First, I deleted the existing partition and created a new Linux partition using fdisk:

# fdisk /dev/sdb

Assuming /dev/sdb is the external hard disk. Use d to delete the partition and use n to create a new partition. 83 is the ID of the native Linux partition.

Them, I use mkfs.ext4 to format the partition with ext4:

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1

Note that mkfs.ext4 expects a partition as its argument.

Finally, I use tune2fs to adjust some parameters:

# tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdb1
# tune2fs -L bakap01 /dev/sdb1

The -m option is for adjusting the percentage of reserved blocks. The reserved blocks are used by privileged processes which is by default 5% of the hard disk size. Since I’m using the external hard disk solely as a storage, I set this to 0 so I can also use those 5% for storage. The -L option is for labeling the filesystem.

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