Aja Lapus

Category: Tech

  • No Windows, No QWERTY

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    After more than a decade of computing experience, and being stuck with Microsoft Windows along with the QWERTY keyboard layout, my non-conforming self just wanted to be different.

  • Avoid MS Excel 2007

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    MS Excel has a certain multiplication bug reproduced by doing multiplication that would result to 65,535 (0xFFFF). Try =850*77.1 on yours.

  • Calamities Bring Up Broadband Speeds

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    Who would have thought that I’d get speed ups whenever there is a calamity? I know I shouldn’t be happy, but who wouldn’t? I’ve been downloading at a semi-steady rate of ±100 kiB/s, and have been getting boosts of up to 175 kiB/s on BitTorrent and above 200 kiB/s on linear HTTP downloads.

  • Energy Conversion Starts Making Sense

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    I just came to realize that my most hated subject at the moment, EE204: Energy Conversion, in which I have flunked my exams 2 out of 2, would be useful to me as an aspiring Electronics Engineer. At first, as an ECE student, I thought I’m not going to need this course since I’m not…

  • Prevent Autorun-driven Virus Infections

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    USB flash drives and portable hard disk drives are commonplace today as PCs and digital media are conquering the market. But, while ease of use and portability of the UFD and HDD [as well as their digital content] increases, the spread of malware on them also increases. There are several ways to prevent this from…