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Same old, same old...

I'm at my old college today -- Visca, Baybay, Leyte. I figured i'd spend the night here before going to Tacloban Saturday. I'd like to ask around for anyone experienced in building biogas digesters to fuel electric generators. I'm on an errand for my sister heheh.

Had dinner with 3 campus paper editors (it was like a mini college editors' congress hehe) and they showed me around the publication office. Ahh, same old computers I remember from 3 years ago... still running on pirated stuff ... except that time when most computers abruptly switched to Linux...

I discovered PCLinuxOS in 2004, at the height of the Microsoft-Business Software Alliance raid rumours at Visca. Heheh, everybody was scared because the penalty for being caught with pirated software was confiscation of your computer plus P100,000 fine for every pirated title identified -- including windoze. Some even hid their pirated CDs up the kisame. Over a weekend, many PC units in Visca were converted to Bayanihan Linux (crap) or Ubuntu, and for two months or so, majority of campus computers were on Linux. And then, everyone saw the coast was clear and so Windows (XP at the time) started crawling back from the woodwork.

I don't think Visca's network admins really care to make Winbloze and Linux systems work together. During the raid scare, they installed Linux on a lot of computers while using MS-IIS for NT in their Internet proxy -- this effectively denied Linux computers access to their distro's repositories (no wonder the users said Linux sux, they used hobbled distros)-- it took me a long time to find a way to hurdle this (NTLMAPS, but if they learn about this, it's bye-bye Linux time).

But things are (slowly) a-changing ... i'd say people nowadays are more forward-looking. It's just a matter of time before people start using Linux again ... or

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