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What Goes Up Must Go Down

I. Thanks God It’s Sunday
II. Fun with Physics
III. Another First, by Smart

I. Thanks God It’s Sunday

painted in a wide-ass mudguard of an old truck on the way to Rising Sun. I asked Ramel to come with me to buy a DVD writer. I chose the Benq DW1640. I’m trying it out now and I’m wondering why I can’t burn a couple of files because the software says I need a CD-R/W for that task. DVD manufacturers made burning life very complex. I’d have to choose if I were to get a DVD+R or a DVD-R. Why can’t we all get along? Ugh.

Oops, got it working now. I could blame Ahead (it was bundled with Nero 6) for poor UI design. I also can’t understand why I’d have to choose between two recording devices which point to one drive (CD-R/W or DVD-/+R).

Watched Final Destination 3 with Gian, Joy, Ramel and Kat yesterday. Man, the seats at Greenbelt 1 are annoyingly small. The movie was kinda bad too. The story sucked. I only liked the gory parts but Final Destination 1 and 2 had a better story. Only the chick and the dude knew about the escape-from-death’s-revenge thing.

II. Fun with Physics

I was browsing around again and bumped unto this cool physics site. They have this Factbook and has lots of stuff to know about everyday life/things.

They even researched some stuff from films like the speed of a car in Bad Boys II or the tension in Spiderman’s webs. Good place to check out if you have spare time.

III. Another First, by Smart

In case you haven’t heard and if you’re a Smart WiFi subscriber, their’s been a security issue that’s been discovered (I think it was mentioned somewhere before though). Check out this post at Pinoy Tech Blog.

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vance

btw i signed up with meridian (pre-smart takeover).

vance

NAT isnt a problem at all, except for torrents and online gaming, although nakaNAT na ang smart wifi users we still have to use third party firewalls aside from windows xp for added protection. hehe. everything about smart wifi is a problem, connection, service and security, why o why did i signed with meridian o why. hehe. Well i got no choice, theres no globe here and pldt port were full. i dont like the wireless pldt dsl since its also under same system with smart wifi, so what you get with smart you will also get with pldt-dslw. hehe.

JP Loh

Pouring out all the grudges from Smart. Hehehe.

They[, at PTB,] did mention setting up at least a SOHO router if you plan on setting up shared folders. Besides, who'd install the NetBIOS protocols and setup shared folders if you're directly connected to Smart WiFi?

This is pretty interesting. One can make money out of this. Just install a web server, and sell digital content (illegal or legit) to those inside the same hub since Smart cannot monitor the peer-to-peer connections within the same hub. Or better yet, intentionally share files.

Another point is that Smart can't do anything else than advise customers since this is almost in the hardware level. It's either they change the infrastructure or live with it.

PS. Patay, alam na ni miss yung blog ko.

mcag

all the author did was access the shared folders. anyone who keeps a shared folder is vulnerable to probing. i won't beleive a word he says if it's about thechy stuff. JP, you know ALOT more than he does. BELIEVE ME! :)

JP Loh

Yes, I know I read somewhere else that there were security problems. I think it was a couple of weeks after they bought Meridian when I read it. There were lots of other problems like NAT.

I was just waiting for more concrete proof before I could start yacking about it.

Anonymous

you know what security risk isn't new with smart wifi, i think since last year some users reported that they can actually access someone else comp using limewire and itunes. Its best to put your firewall up and running.

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