Cope With Tech - by Eric John Emberda

It's quite easy creating a simple information system with Firebird and C# express 2008. You will need the following to do this: 1. Firebird RDBMS (The latest release as of this post is 2.1.3) 2. EMS IBManager Lite (The freeware version. There are other Free Firebird IDE that you can use but for me, this one is the most user-friendly) 3. Microsoft C# Express 2008 (This can be downloaded at the Microsoft Website) 4. Firebird .Net Provider Creating the database: 1. Create a database in EMS IBManager Lite We'll create a table for recording our Gold IRA Deposits. An IRA is a retirement account that can be used by an employed person. It can be in various form. One of which is an IRA Gold in which instead of money being deposited, you deposit gold. It can be a gold coin. Preferably, it would be good to deposit high value items such as a 401k Gold . Use the following for the fields. Be sure to edit the ID field to have an autoincrement va...

Firebird SQL Database has been existing for so long already. However, not many have created a free and open source Firebird tool or IDE that is really easy to use. Developers are forced to use commercial ones because the free and open source in my opinion are not user-friendly at all. It's just ironic that a very good free and open source DBMS lacks decent free and open source IDE. I would like to create one and post it at sourceforge but I'm not that skilled yet. Hopefully soon. In the meantime, let's just enumerate the existing Firebird Tools currently being used by developers. 1. FlameRobin 2. EMS for Interbase and Firebird Lite 3. IBExpert 4. Lazarus 5. Firebird Maestro Of these, I like the EMS IDE.

Firebird is a free relational database that allows many SQL features and has existed since 1981. It supports indexing, primary key, foreign key, stored procedures, and many more. You can use it in many platforms of Linux and Windows. I liked using it because it's free. The only problem is with its IDE. It is really hard to find a user-friendly IDE that is also free. Although there is Flamerobin, I didn't like using it. The commercial ones like EMS for Firebird and IBExpert. I just wish the open source community also comes up with a comprehensive IDE for Firebird. It also took a very long while for Firebird to come up with another version. Maybe because it is almost complete.

The Internet has become a great tool in our time today. It has become a means to live a different life. Almost everything can be virtualized on the Internet. We can have friends anywhere. We can become different persons with different lifestyles in different places in a different world. It has created a new way of living. One reality that has become virtualized over the Internet is gambling. There are many types of gambling. From card games to slot machines, the Internet offers all of them. Some are free and some for a fee. You can have an online casino from different websites. Even facebook has applications with online casino. People mostly prefer free online casino . It’s just a way to entertain ourselves and make new friends both locally and abroad. An online casino is a form of website that provides you the opportunity to gamble on the Internet. It is also called Internet Casino or Virtual Casino. Whatever your game plan is, it’s either you win or lose money. Sometimes, I enjo...

School Year 2010-2011 is fast approaching. In the first semester, the 4th year students will be having their thesis proposal, and from what I have observed, students find it hard to look for topics for their research. The following categories might help: BSIT Major in Networking: Communications (Email, Chat, P2P File Sharing, Protocols, etc.) Networking and Network Security (Firewall, Routing, Monitoring, Access List, Virtual Private Network, VLAN, etc.) VOIP [Voice Over Internet Protocol] (Voice Quality, Transmission enhancement, Compression, etc.) Virtualization BSIT Major in Multimedia: Animation (2D,3D, etc.) Game Programming (Role-playing games, Simulators, etc.) Audio and Video Manipulation (Digital Image Processing, Audio Editing, Video Editing) BSIT Major in Software Engineering: Databases (Migration, Encryption, Load Balancing) Software Development and Integration (Interpreters, Compilers, Software Interoperability) Systems Security/Cryptography (Anti-Virus, Firewall,...

In a study published in the March issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine,  Dr. Rose Richards of the University of Otago said:  "Our findings give some reassurance that it is fine to limit TV viewing. In fact, it may result in stronger relationships between young people, their friends and their parents." The study concluded  that staring at any screen for a long time is detrimental. Richards advised parents to stick to the recommended time limit of less than two hours of any screen use a day. 

One of the common problems with laptops is the deteriorating performance of its battery. Laptop batteries are made up of Lithium Ion (Li-ion). I have a laptop that is more than a year old. Last week, its battery went totally dead. I'm still looking for a replacement. I'm very careful in finding one because most cheap alternatives are poor in performance (with only 45 mins up time compared to the original 3-4 hours). Some are overly priced. I now have a prospect seller and will be purchasing after this post. Well, to continue, out of my curiosity, I opened the battery. The laptop is a Lenovo 3000 G410. Before my exploration, I took the specifications of the battery. It turned out that it's manufactured by SANYO. Here are the specifications: Battery name: PABAS024 Unique ID: 3658QSANYO PABAS024 Chemistry: LION I really don't have any knowledge about the hardware. All I know is that it can be charged and discharged. Despite my limited knowledge, I still opened it up ...