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I could talk about computers and trying to make them work for us and it would not be a waste of time at all. Just a few days ago, I had this idea that I should automate some very tedious and mundane task of converting some words into links. I needed it for a website that I was working on. I had done it before where I would just create the links. It was horrible and I was not really going anywhere at all. 

So I spent one afternoon on it along with some interruptions but I got it to work and it was beautiful. I should try doing it again with a different problem. Here are some ideas: baby and xuhs and cdo. Do they mean anything at all? It would be fun to find out, I guess. 

A Different Light

I am beginning to see computers in a different light. I had always assumed that I would be using computers on a one-on-one basis that is, one computer doing one thing and another computer doing another. I did have a setup like that where I had one linux box doing proxy stuff and another one doing my Internet surfing stuff and another doing my website stuff. That was ok and nothing was wrong with it except maybe they were eating up more electricity and we all know what it means to our environment.

A little later I learned that one could have virtual machines and that they could be existing side by side in one box and be doing their stuff without bothering and without being bothered by other virtual machines which could be existing on the same box. The main trick is to have enough computing power and to have enough memory.

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Anyway, here's Cagayan de Oro City with another one: Cagayan de Oro City. My Cebu City site has made pr1, surprise, surprise. Dumaguete is still in the boondocks as far as Google goes but Dumaguete has made some headway. Jai Alexander rocks!

Again

What do you do when nothing seems to be happening the way you want? This has got to be the worst way to live. I do not think that I will ever find a way to get things going on the Internet but I keep at it anyway.

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Here are some of the things I've cooked up. Nothing much but come in anyway. Ching's Way, Ching's Web, Ching's Illusion, Ching's Best.

AMD Quad Core

I asked Botp about what equipments were needed for a call center business and he gave me a list of computer hardware which were heavily weighted by AMD Quad Core computers. The Workstations and Servers that he specified were all AMD Quad Cores. This prompted me to Google these specifications and I found out that indeed, a great deal has happened since I took a look at computer processors.

There was one mention of a Cray computer which had 24,000 AMD Quad Core processors all contained in a cabinet with liquid coolant to keep the temperatures from rising and melting these powerful processors. It certainly is a long way since The Connection Machine was invented and boasted of 65, 535 6502 processors that powered the Apple II computers.

The thing that made me realize is that there is a whole generation of processors that I probably will never be privileged to own simply because my needs are well-met by the garden-variety dual-core processors from Intel and AMD. For one thing, 1 gigabyte of DDR2 memory is now the entry-level offering of computer stores, a far cry from the time when I bought my PIII computer which had a whopping 128MB Ram when 32 MB was the standard.

Quad Core CPUs

I have a dual-core Intel cpu that powers my website which is written in Squeak Smalltalk. This is not even a Core 2 Duo machine which they say is blazingly fast. My computer is a garden-variety Intel Dual Core computer. When I bought it I thought it was sexy enough and I never knew about Core 2 Duo. That's why I got it, that the price was cheap worked in its favor. Everyone wants power and speed and I am no exception. Just today I was talking to someone about motherboards that support quad-core processors. The price is quite high, the quad, when compared to the prices being charged for Intel Core 2 Duo processors. I am really an AMD fan and I believe that AMD has an ass-kicking processor in the Opteron. I just get confused with the names. Local stores call everything AMD either an Athlon or a Sempron. I could not get anyone to talk to me about Opteron as though it does not exist at all.

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So my Dual Core computer is way down low in the Intel pecking order which would tend to make it an underdog. At least subjectively speaking. Somehow, perception counts a lot when considering computers and deciding if you need a more powerful one.

Our favorites are: Ching's World, Green Tea, Dumaguete, Cebu City, Cagayan de Oro City, Papoy, Moira Trinity Cagayan de Oro, Dumaguete, Cebu are all in the Philippines in the world of Ching.

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Personal Computers

Computers are probably the biggest inventioni in the last century. The computer has changed almost all aspects of human life. Even little kids use computers these days in ways that are more sophisticated than before when kiddie computers allowed them to play kiddie games. I recall a time when programming in BASIC with an Apple II was such a cool thing. Getting introduced to this tiny little appliance where a 14-inch green monitor sits, was such an experience and it seemed like there was no limit to what could be done. These days the notion of geographical distance makes very little meaning since it is so easy to talk to someone on the other side of the globe face to face using software freely available in computers.

Everyone could use some interesting reading. Try these: Rails brought me to Seaside, Lotto, Yamashita gold, Nothing but flowers, Lilliputs flowers. Enjoy these!!

Kids nowadays routinely make websites where they interact with others. Ching's World is one rocking website and now it sits comfortably in #1. It took some coaxing but finally Ching's World is well ensconced in its rightful place. Ching's World was written in Smalltalk on the Seaside framework.

Get into the acion. Take a look at: Ching's World, Cebu City, Cagayan de Oro City, Dumaguete, Moira Trinity, Papoy.

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Computers: Hardware and Software

Computers have changed the world more radically than anything else invented by man. More so when the Internet was invented. More than just a means of counting or computing large numbers, computers have become a tool for social interaction. The arts have also been enhanced by the invention of computer graphics. Music has also been given a boost by the advent of computers

One could therefore say that computers have truly left their mark on human life and human relationships. The movable type revolutionized printing resulting in literacy speeding upwards as books became available. Computers and the software that run them have far outpaced expectations as people invent new ways of using them.

Websites are a way of communicating and it is estimated that over six hundred million people surf the net at any one time thereby replacing the printed word as a means of bringing ideas across. Ching's World is one such website that seeks to bring across a small niche such as the Philippines, Cagayan de Oro City and Dumaguete in front of people surfing the Internet. Ching's World rocks!!