http://noelbautista.com/blog From Tech stuff to paranormal to internet marketing Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:30:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you were wondering what's inside a laptop battery, you're just like me. Fortunately I have an old, defective laptop battery. Just like the show "Mad Labs", smash labs, and mythbusters, I opened it up and here's what it looks like. There are 4 Li-ion cells ... http://noelbautista.com/blog/whats-inside-a-laptop-battery-2/ How to Add Variable Voltage to Your ATX Based Bench Power Supply from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit If you've built a bench power supply using an old ATX computer power supply, you may feel limited by the choice of voltages + 3.3V, + 5V, and +/- ... http://noelbautista.com/blog/diy-variable-voltage-bench-power-supply-using-atx-power-from-pc/ I've been waiting for Fedora Core 9 for a couple of weeks now. Three more days till release. Can't wait to get my hands on FC9 and try it out. I have an XPC shuttle which I loaded FC5 a few years ago. I plan ... http://noelbautista.com/blog/3-days-till-fedora-core-9/ This is how the cover looks after screwing the switch and pressing down the mini solar module/solar cell with double sided adhesive tape. Next would be to tape the terminal block to the battery. The way I did it is to tape a horizontal terminal block and then add 2 vertical terminal ... http://noelbautista.com/blog/diy-solar-lantern-part-33/ To continue my DIY Solar Lantern project, I'll now talk about the charging module. This is composed of the Nicad battery, Solar Cell, and a diode. Charging Module A diode is an electronic component that allows current to flow to one side but not the other way. For solar charging, we would ... http://noelbautista.com/blog/diy-solar-lantern-part-23/ One of my project ideas which I have been wanting to do for quite some time now is to make my own solar powered lantern. It basically works something like a solar garden light but it doesn't automatically turn on when its dark. Parts list: solar cell Nicad/Nimh rechargeable battery terminal block resistor diode double sided tape a ... http://noelbautista.com/blog/diy-solar-lantern-part-13/ Fedora Core 9 Alpha is now available. Note that this isn't the final FC9 release. This is the Alpha release. Some of highlights of Fedora 9 Alpha: GNOME 2.21 Development Release KDE 4.0 Firefox 3 Beta 2 Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install Support for creating and installing to encrypted ... http://noelbautista.com/blog/fedora-core-9-alpha-now-available/ Method 1 (Long Method) mysqldump -u USER -pPASSWORD DATABASE > filename.sql copy the file to the new host and restore using mysql -u USER -pPASSWORD DATABASE < filename.sql Method 2 (short method) mysqldump --opt --compress --user=USERHERE --password=PWHERE --host=SOURCE.HOST.HERE SOURCE_DB_NAME | mysql --user=USERHERE --password=PWHERE --host=TARGET.HOST.HERE -D TARGET_DB_NAME -C TARGET_DB_NAME http://noelbautista.com/blog/backup-and-restore-mysql-database-using-command-line/ I was installing ISPConfig to a Fedora Core 7 Installation but when I rebooted, it shows a black screen with a cursor that appears to be "busy". Logging in remotely via ssh seems to be working but when I check out which process was ... http://noelbautista.com/blog/ispconfig-conflict-with-fedora-core-7-and-fedora-core-8/ I just got an email from paypal announcing a new feature which most of us would really be happy about. Now we can withdraw paypal funds directly to your Philippine Bank Account. Previously, we can only withdraw to a credit/debit card but now, directly to your savings/current account. There is no ... http://noelbautista.com/blog/withdraw-paypal-funds-to-philippine-bank-account/