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It’s full speed ahead for the computerized general elections on May 10, 2010, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Jose Melo said Thursday.

“We are ready. There will be full automation nationwide,” Melo said at a press briefing Thursday after the Senate passed the House-approved P11.3-billion supplemental budget for the automation of the elections on May 10, 2010.

The Senate approval of the measure at midnight Wednesday finally discarded the fraud-prone manual counting of votes in the country.

Instead of writing on ballots, voters will shade the spaces allotted for the names of candidates. The ballots will then be inserted into the optical machine readers to be placed in clustered precincts all over the country.

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Last February 25, 2009 at the My Linux Support office, Tom Wickline who is the author of Wine Reviews and the man behind Bordeaux Project gave us a presentation about Wine and a little of Bordeaux.

Tom showed us Warcraft III running on Wine on an Ubunto box. He even played a little and yes! it runs fast on an opengl video mode. 3DMark 2000 was also demoed running on Wine.

Other applications like Windows Media Player, Microsoft office 2003, Internet Explorer, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop runs also on Linux operating system on top of Wine. Wine runs on FreeBSD too, Tom is a FreeBSD user also.

After his presentation, people from InfoWeapons, My Linux Support and Focus Interactive had a great discussion about this open source software.

POP III or Perfect on Paper III is an annual showcase of local graphic artists exhibiting their masterpiece. This time more local artists participated the said event. POP III is strict on landscape composition as what we have noticed on POP’s page.

Apple announces Safari 4 Beta which is their latest release of Apple browser. You can download Safari 4 Beta on their website. It’s got “Nitro” a Javascript engine which runs 4x faster than Safari 3. More visual enhancements, effects and new looking good layout.

Safari 4 Beta seems like Google’s browser Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox. “Hey I’m using a Foxey Chromey Safari” – Peevee