While reviewing web hosting companies where I can transfer my website, I came across to Webhosting.Info, a good review website for web hosting and domain registrar companies all over the globe. Read the entire entry …
It seems that, based on the Senate investigation today, and as I was also expecting, MERALCO is not the only one “responsible” to this, so called, “high cost of electricity” in MERALCO franchise area, which covers Metro Manila. Napocor (NPC) and TransCo are also “involved”, as well. High transmission charges, generation adjustments and stranded cost are some of the issues that were brought about to these two government corporations.
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I didn’t know that Vicente “Vince” Perez, the former Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary, is one of the directors of PNOC-EDC, even at First Gen’s control of the geothermal company. And it’s good to have him as a director because his vast experience in energy sector would guide the company to the right direction, assuming he’s honest to goodness of the company’s vision. Remember that he was then an appointee of GMA in the DOE. Read the entire entry …
You will badly need this if your computer has no CD-ROM drive, especially for ASUS EEE-PC.
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After knowing about Smart Bro a few days ago, I finally got one for Php4,500 (preloaded with Php 30 worth of one and a half hours of internet connection) this morning.
The package is so simple; just a 1” x 2.2” modem, two sets of USB extension wire, a CD installer, and a SMART Bro Sim card. Read the entire entry …
Even though the information that we could find in the internet is vast and is continuously expanding and the search engines has also been continuously upgrading its technology to organize the content of the web and to deliver a more comprehensive, better, and faster results, we still find it hard to find what we exactly are looking for. One such example of these things that is hard to find in the internet is a reliable and non-bogus mp3 download sites. Read the entire entry …
I think awareness of the global warming issue is already enough and all we need now is a radical and concrete action.
So what’s next after the Earth Hour campaign, another awareness campaign? We can’t solve this crisis by just giving awareness. We need an action that will have a sure and big impact to solve this problem. Read the entire entry …
Too much has been said about this issue of the looming Global Warming. However, aside from using this issue for political and popularity, and maybe, business gain, of some individuals and groups, very little is being done to solve this problem. Read the entire entry …
I think Mr. Butch del Castillo of the Business Mirror still need to have a deeper research to correct his understanding on his cited example in his article on this issue of the Business Mirror , “Expect a long, hot summer” - March 25, 2008, which according to him, Quezon Power is owned by the Lopez Family; Read the entire entry …
We’re not justifying that coal power plants is good, but I think, considering the magnitude of contribution to the world wide CO2 emissions, Green Peace should focus their battle against coal in the United States rather than in small countries like Philippines. Why? Read the entire entry …
Just for us to be more knowledgeable about our industry, I`ll give some general information about the existing and decommissioned power plants in the Philippines. Some of them might not be as big as a hundred of Megawatt Plant, but still, it is interesting to know. Let’s start with the Baligatan Hydro Plant in Isabela.
This is an erratum to my previous article about what really is the first and oldest power plant in the Philippines. Though it’s correct that those mentioned plants are indeed the first and oldest hydro plants in the Philippines, the real first electric generating plant in the country was the Central Power Plant on Calle San Sebastian (now R. Hidalgo) in Manila City. It was built by La Electricista, the Philippine’s first electric company. Read the entire entry …
Renewable energy or not?
Most of the people might outrightly conclude that any geothermal energy sources, like what PNOC-EDC and Chevron Geothermal and Power owned and operated in the Philippines, is renewable because of what it seems infinitely abundant source - the heat of the Earth. But experiences showed that it is not always the case Read the entire entry …
For almost a long time, US$ 1.0 Million was adopted as a good “rule of thumb” or the approximate US dollar per MW of investment in constructing a new power plant. However, due to the surging price of raw materials and inflation rate, the cost of building a plant also increased. Read the entire entry …
As of this posting date, Feb. 14, 2008, I would like to get the attention of electrical engineers out there, preferably Registered Electrical Engineer and graduate of any reputable school, that First Gen Corporation, the largest Filipino-owned Independent Power Producer in the Philippines and the Majority share holder of PNOC-EDC, the largest geothermal steam supplier in the Philippines, is looking for Electrical Engineers to be assigned on the following positions; Read the entire entry …
All transformers generate gases to some extent at normal operating temperatures. But occasionally a gas-generating abnormality does occur within an operating transformer such as a local or general overheating, dielectric problems, or a combination of these. In electrical equipment, these abnormalities are called “faults”. Read the entire entry …
Sometimes the computer admin, or even the user, would want to protect the content of their folders and the files in it by setting the folder permission to disallow access of other users of that computer. Here’s how; Read the entire entry …
Anyone who may see this model of laptop would be really tempted to buy one. Its stylish design and portability make it a hit for a person who is always mobile. The price is also affordable.
However, taking a look at its basic specification, consumers must first think twice to buy this laptop model at this early stage of its development. Why?
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Some windows user who were annoyed with the functionality of MS Office 2007 and decided to remove it and went back to Office 2003 may find it difficult to remove this more than 1 gigabyte of software because it has no uninstallation program and cannot be removed through “Add/Remove Programs” in the Control Panel. Read the entire entry …
There is a very little, if not none, documents that will verify what power plant is the very first in the Philippines. However, based on the author’s personal visit to some of the plants, and some research and conversation with some reliable individuals from the industry, he compiled some of the oldest power plants in the Philippines, all hydroelectric power plants, and most are still operational today. Read the entire entry …
I was a little pissed-off these past couple of days.
I was trying hard to trace the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), the Mitsubishi Electric Corp (MELCO), of our 31 year old power transformers in one of our power plants to ask some technical support for their equipment that they installed in our plant 3 decades ago. Look simple but tracing the right people who can give me a definite answer to my inquiry is really hard. Read the entire entry …
Webmasters of the world, here is an example of content theft (or should i call it spam). After spending a day of research and article writing just to come-up with this article, How to Download Books from Books.Google.Com, pctipsbox.com just copied it and posted it here, http://www.pctipsbox.com/how-to-download-books-from-google. And shame on this idiot, he/she made an exact copy of my article. What the f…..
I know I`m not the only victim of this thief, So, let’s voice ourselves before it, too, happens to you.
If you own a website that is fairly popular and consistently receives relatively large of visitors everyday, you may want to monetize it by placing advertisements.
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For all Filipino employees who are working on private sector, and always feel bitter every time that you look at your payslip and start to realize where the government has been spending the portion of your hard-earned salary, here’s some fact to mend your hearth. According to www. worldwide-tax. Com data, income tax rate in the Philippines is high but not yet the highest in the world (hurray!!). VAT also in the Philippines is one of the lowest (hurray again!!!). (Hope it will make you feel a little better.) Read the entire entry …
Having the impression of both struggling from being a third-world country in the South East Asia, now, let us have a brief look on the energy planning of Philippines and Thailand.
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There are some instances in your work that you need to change or edit “already a hard copy”, scanned to pdf or tif files, or simply a file with no more existing editable softcopy. Read the entire entry …
In the March/April 2007 issue of IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, one of the authors wrote an article citing a possible crisis in the US power industry, that is, a possible shortage of technical talents of Power Engineers. The author was referring to a report submitted by the Department of Energy to the US Congress with the following finding; Read the entire entry …
Sometimes, you may want to “compact” all your post in your Wordpress web blog by making the post title the only visible for all your posts. That is, the content will not be shown in the main page - only the title. See sample; http://www.jcmiras.net/wiki/category/electrical. Read the entire entry …
Looking at the author’s historical Cost per Click for both ‘Adsense for Content’ and ‘Adsense for Search’, a significant increase of CPC that started on 2nd Quarter of 2007 until now was observed. Read the entire entry …
If you’re having a hard time trying to completely uninstall AVG due to missing uninstallation files, try this one; Read the entire entry …
