AlertPay

Last night, I was searching on the Internet for another online payment service other than Paypal. I know that PayPal is already supported here in the Philippines, but at least I have another way of performing fund transfer online. AlertPay allows you to deposit or withdraw online via bank wire or bank transfer, or even make payment using your credit card. Signup to AlertPay today.

Some rants

This is the first time that I will post some rants & I'll just use my native language.

Kung minsan hindi ko din maintindihan gf ko. Sabihin nalang din natin na mistake ko din na tinanong na ako kaninang umaga kung may problema ako at ngaun ko lang sinabi sa kanya kung anu ang problema ko. Kung anu man ung pinag mulan ng issue hindi ko na sasabihin dito pero alam na nya un kung bakit. Pero sa totoo lang madalas ko ng napapansin sa kanya na gusto parati sya na lang ung masusunod at ako naman ito iintindihin ko nalang. Parati nalang ganun. Parati ko syang iniintindi as parati nalang. Wala naman akong magagawa kasi unang una mahal ko. Pangalawa babae at parating iniintindi babae. Pero syempre naman may time din naman na gusto ko ako naman ung masunod. May mga time naman na gusto ako naman ung pagbigyan. Sa totoo lang bihira lang ako mag ask, mag demand o mag request ng kung anu anu. Ang sa akin lang naman is pagbigyan naman ung paminsan minsan kong demand. Hindi naman ako parating nag dedemand sa kanya well syempre kalalake kong tao at ako pa itong mag dedemand. Pero may mga time kasi na may mga lugar, gawain o kahit bagay na gustong gusto ko na minsan as in minsan lang naman akong mag aya sa kanya tapos i rereject pa ako. Ang masama pa nito, kahit anong pilit ko, kahit ako na mismo ang gagawa ng paraan, kahit wala naman syang gagastusin eh ayaw pa din. Hindi ko alam kung bakit ganun. Parati ko naman syang pinagbibigyan, hindi ko naman sya sinasakal. Anu ba naman ung pagbigyan ka man lang sa isang bagay na minsanan lang. Kung tutuusin kapag sya ang nagsabi, gusto agad agad. Gusto nya lagi kong pagbigyan gusto nya. Mga tipong kayang kaya naman nyang abutin i uutos pa sa akin na abutin ko anu ba naman un. Tapos ang sasabihin is ganun lang sya mag lambing!?!?!? May mga times naman na umaabuso naman na ung ganun sana man lang maramdaman naman nya na ganun na di parating sinusunod ko gusto nya eh paulit ulit nalang nyang gagawin un.

Na open ko na din sa kanya ito kanina lang, mahinahon ko pang sinabi sa kanya. Kaso in the end... sya pa itong nagalit sa akin. Ako pa ngaun ung pinapalabas na gustong makipag break o ano. What the!?!?!? Tatanungin nya kung anu ang problema ko tapos ngaun sinasabi ko ganyan magiging reaction nya. Tapos tutulugan lang ako!?!?!? Badtrip talaga.

Wala naman cguro masama kung paminsan minsan eh mag ask o mag request ako sa kanya na tipong gusto kong i grant nya sa akin un kasi gustong gusto ko. Minsan lang naman ako maging ganun sa kanya, sabihin na natin once a blue moon. Sobrang bibihira talaga.

Ayaw ko ng isipin, basta na itxt ko na sa kanya lahat ung mga un at sana man lang ma intindihan nya at magets nya ibig kong sabihin. At sana man lang wag masamain ung mga sinabi ko dahil nagsasabi lang ako.

One last note, kapag nabasa nya ito another issue nanaman ito at for sure ako nanaman ang mapapasama. Well talagang ganun tanggapin ko nalang na ganun. Intindihin ko nalang kasi mahal ko.

New HDD: WD Caviar Black Edition

Finally, my new HDD had arrived:





Below is a read benchmark using HD Tunes:





Transfer Rate
Minimum: 55.3 MB/sec
Maximum: 106.2 MB/sec
Average: 87.6 MB/sec

Access Time: 12.3ms
BurstRate: 110.1 MB/sec

I compared this with my 3-4 yrs old 160GB Seagate ST3160827AS drive and you will notice a big jump:





Transfer Rate
Minimum: 14.5 MB/sec
Maximum: 56.8 MB/sec
Average: 42.4 MB/sec

Access Time: 13.2ms
BurstRate: 72.4 MB/sec

You can see more review here from TomsHardware, but as for me I'm satisfied with my new HDD.

Seagate response on barracuda problems

Although I don't have one and the main reason why I've ordered 1TB WD Caviar Black, finally Seagate had answered those firmware issues on their 7200.11 drives

After what seemed like a few weeks of deafening silence, Seagate has finally acknowledged (officially) problems with their Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive series. We say series, as the potential list of affected drives is much larger than we first imagined when reports of drive failures escalated sharply in December. At that time, it seemed as though the problem was regulated to the 1TB ST31000340AS model. However, based on this knowledge base article, there are 21 hard drives that could potentially have a problem. We were also informed that certain Seagate FreeAgent Desk and Maxtor OneTouch 4 storage solutions in the retail channel might be affected. The good news is that Seagate is going to take care of their customers by offering immediate firmware fixes and if you have a bricked drive, they will offer free data recovery services. If you have an affected drive, you should immediately install the firmware update. The bad news is that this type of problem should have been caught in qualification testing before the drives were released. The following is the official statement we received from the public relations group at Seagate:
"Seagate has isolated a potential firmware issue in certain products, including some
Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives and related drive families based on this product
platform, manufactured through December 2008. In some circumstances, the data on the hard drives may become inaccessible to the user when the host system is
powered on*. As part of our commitment to customer satisfaction, we are offering a free firmware upgrade to those with affected products. To determine whether your product is affected, please visit the Seagate Support web site at http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931.

Support is also available through Seagate's call center: 1-800-SEAGATE (1-800-732-4283). Customers can expedite assistance by sending an email to Seagate (discsupport@seagate.com). Please include the following disk drive information: model number, serial number and current firmware revision. We will respond, promptly, to your email request with appropriate instructions. There is no data loss associated with this issue, and the data still resides on the drive. But if you are unable to access your data due to this issue, Seagate will provide free data recovery services.
Seagate will work with you to expedite a remedy to minimize any disruption to you or your business. For a list of international telephone numbers to Seagate Support and alternative methods of contact, please accesshttp://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/contact_us/

- Just to reiterate, there is no safety issue with these products." We have not experienced the bricking problem with our 320GB and 1TB drives after several weeks of abuse, but we did update our firmware today as instructed. In the meantime, we highly suggest if you have one of the affected drives to do the same. If you are nervous about this process, Seagate technical support can assist you.

Source: AnandTech - Seagate Responds to Barracuda Problems...

Post Trade Analysis: AT

Atlas Consolidated Mining



Analysis:

• +DI crossover at 1/6/2009 backed by 4-day EMA crossed above 9-day EMA at 1/5/2009. +DI has a wide gap with -DI indicating there's a strong demand.
• Established a long white candle where the 9-day EMA crosses above with 20-day EMA on 1/7/2009. This is also where the extreme point rule of 3.2 was breached.

Trade:

• Purchased the stock at 3.81
• Stop loss at 7-10% of purchase price
• Exit if RSI hits overbought condition.
• Use trailing stop of previous day low if short term uptrend continues.

SVN Repository

Just finished installation and configuration of an SVN server on my machine. Although I am only a single user, it's still a good practice to have a version control in your projects. On my setup, I use VisualSVN Server (http://www.visualsvn.com/server/) as my SVN server while AnkhSVN (http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/) for as my SVN provider for VisualStudio.