spotted: a new poker house

 
    First of all, this is not a paid post. I’m not being paid by the establishment to do this, but if they do want, they can donate on my PayPal account.wahe. Just wanna share the new poker house by the name of Poker Royale located alongside Traders Hotel in Roxas Boulevard. I learned from one of the staff that the place was running for a month, and they are still in soft openning mode. The poker house is inside a two storey building. As of the moment only the ground floor is filled with 6 small tables and one tourney size table. And the staff told me, if I remember it right, that they will be adding more tourney size tables to be place on the 2nd floor or on the ground floor.

     Yeah, as far as I can notice, the place is still really new. By the looks of it; the entrance is still to be installed a CCTV cam (the holder and cables are ready execpt for the cam itself) ang their website at www.pokerroyale.ph is still unavailable. Inside, the venue is smaller compared to, ahmm… MBC in MOA, hence of the smaller size tables. You’re really be havin a friendly game with each player sitting side-by-side with a couple of inch distance. But, when I play, I prefer this kind of set-up ’cause I like to be in a funny table.LoL. The table is much more dealer friendly to ’cause the dealer wouldn’t haveto stand and extend to much of their limbs to deal cards and get chips.

     Poker Royale offers the same complementary service other poker house has to offer; free unlimited ice tea and coffee, tha’ts really one thing the encouraged me to enter my first poker experience.hehe.. Where else could you drink ice tea and coffee bottom less, and take note even if your not playing, but at a friendly poker house. LoL. I liked the ambience as well. But one thing I really liked about Poker House, which for me made it better than MBC is that one can play for a minimum buy-in of 200 pesos. Whew! how good is that for a marketing strategy, it will encourage beginners to play the game.

      So that’s it for now. Again I’m not a poker addict or some sort. I admit, I’ve only been inside 2 poker house, MBC and PR, I can say that I like the latter the most. So friends see you at Poker Royale’s poker tables. And before i really end thos post, I’d like to show my lucky winning hand combination for the night. \m/

“Everybody who sits and plays in a poker game is a liar. Everybody is a liar around the the poker table.“ -maskisa

Send Free SMS on Philippine networks

     To all visitors, I would just like to share this free SMS service. I always forget to post this post son now I’m taking my chance to write this post. If you want to send local SMS for free then just visit this site http://sendfreesms.megabyet.net/ . Once in the site just click on the Send SMS on Philippine networks link in the Navigation Menu (top right). You don’t need to register nor to inputa your number, just send your SMS right away.

Sila na mabibilis magmaneho ng sasakyan

Naisip mo ba kung bakit madami sa mga mga drayber na mabibilis magmaneho ng sasakyan ay t’yak na kamatayan ang kinahahantungan? Sa palagay ko kasi dahil wala na si Papa Jesus sa kanila. Hindi na nila kasama sa loob ng sasakyan. Marahil nahulog na Siya dahil sa sobrang bilis mag-maneho ng sasakyan.

Marahil ay nakakatawa, pero literal man o hindi ay kailangan ng bawat isa, hindi lang ng mga nagmamaneho, ang gabay ni Papa Jesus.

Kaibigan, hindi mo kailangan’ maging mabilis sa buhay lalo na sa pagmamaneho, ikaw din, baka makabitaw si Papa Jesus.

I just remembered… my computer thoughts

     A colleague of mine once asked me to give him a straight forward tip on how he can maximize his computer use. In reply, I told him his request was too broad, I asked him to give me a more specific subject. He paused for a while, then spoke, ” you see maskisa, I’m just an ordinary pc user. I bought my pc for one primary reason, and that is for internet usage. I use it daily for checking my e-mails, chatting, social-networking, visiting different news sites, blogging and surfing the web about anything. And yes when I do blog, I tend to download photos from my camera or mobile phone or even my usb flash drive.” He then rephrased his inquiry, “Maskisa I want to know how to make my pc secure, both online and offline. I also want to have a certain privacy if possible during my internet use. Lastly, I want to speed up my internet surfing. In short I want to know what to do, download, install, etc.. to make these things possible.”

     Whew! That was something of a request back then. But once in a while, some friends and colleagues still ask me similar questions from above. So, I thought of giving and sharing my suggestions to those who have the same, if I may call it problem. But first let me give you  a quick disclaimer. I’m just your average computer/internet literate person. What I say or suggest comes from my personal experiences and personal research. I’ve done a few trial and error methods with regards to computing. Now I hold the responsibility to you if you want to try what this little sort of turorial says. It doesn’t matter whether you have genuine or original softwares installed. I believe in a saying that internet is meant to be free. (softwares included) hehe

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Removing Common Malicious Programs

DISCLAIMER: The following procedures has been proven and tested to work on a Windows XP operating system and some RC version of 2000 and Vista. I’m not going to take responsiblity if further harm will be done into your system. Should you still want to apply the procedures, do backup your important files.

     In my last post, I gave my points and view with regards to malicious programs. Now, here’s the procedure on how to remove them.  This will only cover the common malicious programs transferred from USB devices (password_viewer.exe, autirun.inf, Winzip123.exe, Bar311.exe, and the likes). I searched for different solutions, and here’s what I’ve come up with. The following are what I think the simplest and best effective approach in removing and fixing malicious programs. The procedures will have 2 parts, one for the PC desktop and laptop and the other for the USB exernal device. If you’re not sure if your system is really infected by any of the above mention malicious programs then you can try a very effective method of determining it. For PC desktops and laptops, try to launch or do some commands using the command prompt, if your system reboots, then most probably your system is infected and should try to do the following. For USB devices, change your folder options to view hidden and system files and unhide common file extensions. Now, look into your USB devices and find something unusual like “autorun.inf”, folders names being duplicated and a folder name with a “.exe” filename extension, eg. MyPhotos.exe. If you are positive for the above the here’s how to fix it.

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Notes on Common Malicious Program/s

     In my years of experience in the events industry, I’ve already encountered lots of pc/laptop/usb_device problems with regards to malicious programs. It’s like having a bad event if there’s no one who would come to me and ask if I can remove malicious programs in their laptops, usb etc. For me, I can really say that “It’s all just part of the script”. Anyway, in this post and the other upcoming post I’ll try to give my points and views on : (if infected) how to remove it, (not yet infected) how to prevent it. Since most of my encounter with these situations are offline and with Windows XP+, then I can say that my tips works 99% all the time. The most common malicious program tackled here are “password_viewer.exe, autorun.inf, bar311.exe and the likes”. The actual removal will be in another topic to minimize contents here.

     To give you a brief explanation on a virus, worm and trojan (or VWT). VWT have one thing in common, and that is, they can be harmful and annoying all the time. VWT’s differ on the manner on how they infect into the system. A virus transmit itself through a medium, a human to be exact. So it’s safe to say, computer virus is similar alike a human virus. However, a worm can infect and spread itself without any human support, it spreads itself by using tunnels used by your system the same way it does in sending communications through the networks. A trojan uses a different approach, it is based on the famous “trojan horse” left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War. It is a program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful, a virus or even a worm.

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