Coredump

• Demystifying LDAP If you’ve been struggling to understand what LDAP is and how it can be useful to you without picking up a 1,000-page tome, look no further. LDAP is great for some problems, pretty good for some others, and completely inappropriate for yet another batch of / reference tcp/ip ldap network

I’m currently blogging offline, using w.bloggar.

I don’t have an internet connection in my apartment in Pasig (and I’m not likely to get one — too expensive and the logistics of applying for a fixed line is such a bother). I usually connect to the internet from work. I still haven’t tried WiFi on Mathilda. I’ll probably do that tomorrow.

I’m thinking about getting PLDT WeRoam or Globe Visibility. I called Visibility, alas, they’re open for corporate accounts only. As for PLDT, I tried several times but got busy tones on their hotline — it’s PLDT, what do you expect? My previous experience with WeRoam in my former workplace was just so-so, but at least I was mobile. I haven’t tried Visibility, but from a former colleague’s experience, it failed miserably, specially in Mindanao. (Not that I’d be going there in the near future, still it tells something about the service. But they have probably improved since that was, what, two months ago.)

For now, I’ll just have to leech from the office connection — just one hour a day, during breaks (heh), to do updates, etc.

I was contemplating on running OS X on Mathilda, based on Nox’s suggestion. Only: (1) I don’t have a “legal” (heck, even an illegal) installer; and (2) I’m too chicken to try it out just yet.

So I did the next best thing: install FlyAKiteOSX on a Windows XP image in VMWare. Heh.

The installation was a breeze. There was a selection of what to install. I skipped a restore point — I just took a snapshot in VMWare. Then a few clicks after that, it was installing.

It took a bit with VMWare as Mathilda was really taxed by now. She only has 40GB, and more than half is already spent. I was also running other apps as well. But after about five minutes, I rebooted and voila!

“Welcome to Windows”, it says. Heh.

The performance was a bit slow. I had to turn off the shadowing thingamajig. But it was cool to behold. It’s still Windows, though. All that was changed was the eyecandy. Now, if only I can borrow an OS X DVD…

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