tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73179772024-03-07T13:43:11.512+08:00The Armorer's HellForgeiSpeak - iLinux - iMac - iPolitics - iSkeptics - iFOSS - iLifenightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1132992634033457052005-11-26T16:05:00.000+08:002005-11-26T16:10:34.043+08:00Hello Wor[l]dPress!<span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">It has been a long time since I last tried </span><a style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);" href="http://nightfox.wordpress.com/">WordPress</a><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"> at my Linux box, the same time I had tried Mambo too. Maybe it will take a week or two before I get used to its new configurations or setups. I still don’t know what will happen to the case of my Blogger account. Try it!</span>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1132064636751355732005-11-15T22:08:00.000+08:002005-11-18T21:58:17.316+08:00Track-ed List<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">A week without a single post #includes event.s LIKE:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">- </span><a style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" href="http://os.up.edu.ph/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=137">UPOffice 2.0</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"> for Linux being released to the wild (finally, I had successfully recompiled it in my Ubuntu 5.10!);</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">- Sleep-hours;</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">- Experimentations on my Ubuntu;</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">- Semestral organizing of stuffs;</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">- Enrollment;</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">- Some stuffs++;</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">More to go! (or lesser posts?)</span></div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1131233253544035792005-11-06T06:55:00.000+08:002005-11-15T22:27:54.616+08:00ApacheMySQLPHP<div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(255, 204, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">I tend to setup such environments during midnights of chatting, testing scripts, and reading articles, but 2 nights ago, I had that nerve to setup Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Ubuntu 5.10. Since I was an old RedHat user, I had this </span><a href="http://cit.wta.swin.edu.au/cit/subjects/CITP0186S/LAMP/Installing-LAMP.html">Fedora LAMP guide</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);"> with me as reference and comparison. I had searched for some guides and had found the </span><a href="http://wiki.ubuntu-fr.org/serveur/lamp/">French Ubuntu Wiki</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);"> and the </span><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ApacheMySQLPHP/">official/English Ubuntu Wiki</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);"> as great guides to the installation. Some search queries resulted to sites such as the </span><a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_5.10/">ISP Server Setup</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);"> and the </span><a href="http://help.ubuntu.com/starterguide/C/faqguide-all.html#sect-database-server/">Ubuntu Starter Guide</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">. The only problem that I had encountered was for the choice of PHP version; I had chosen PHP5. After all the Synaptic stuff, I had only modified the apache2.conf to enable the UserDir part and had also set the mysqladmin password for MySQL. Afterwards, I copied and tested my improvised LAMP setup (the one that I had presented in one of my LAMP lectures in my college) and everything had worked well! Everything was really a breeze!</span></div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1131086978423621862005-11-04T14:28:00.000+08:002005-11-04T14:49:38.470+08:00UP up, Google down!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);">At last UP was up yesterday, but unfortunately, Google was down due to some 502/503 server error. This event then makes my preference of emails as stated on my previous post, an irony. I was even shocked to know that the laboratories on my college were already converted from Fedora to Ubuntu 5.04. I was the one that installed FC4 for my LAMP lecture and is now suggesting Ubuntu 5.10 after the immediate experience. AFAIK, the setup is not dualboot (with Wind0ze) anymore. I hope that it will be upgraded to Breezy version plus my own build of OpenOffice 2.0 as well.</span></div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1130936647628479212005-11-01T23:57:00.000+08:002005-11-02T21:04:07.690+08:00Mailer-Daemon?<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">It has been a very long time since I last encountered the demon, Mailer-Daemon! Why? Usually, I got all my contacts with their Gmail accounts for convenience in e-mail sending which eliminates the "User over quota" problem. My team has been working on rebuilding/recompiling (with some customizations) OpenOffice for our university and for this reason, we had managed to set up a single thread on Gmail for our logs, suggestions, problems, and build/bug fixes. Maybe about 10-15 minutes ago, I had received a Delivery Status Notification (Failure) indicating "Technical details of permanent failure: TEMP_FAILURE: DNS Error: Timeout while contacting DNS servers" for the third time. What? After some inspections, I had realized that someone in the team added a non-Gmail address (specifically, UP Webmail) in the recipients list which I had only noticed after receiving the mailer-daemon multiple times. That made me check my account as well but unfortunately, I couldn't log-on to the <a href="http://mail.up.edu.ph">webmail</a> and couldn't even go to the main site of <a href="http://www.up.edu.ph">U.P.</a>.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">Is U.P. DOWN ?</span></div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1130071002626230622005-10-23T20:13:00.000+08:002005-11-06T12:42:06.753+08:00Film Production via Open Source<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">The recent episode on YSpeak talked about digital vs mainstream on Filipino movie production. There were 2 things that I have noticed in that episode: those who were in favor of digital as an alternative or main medium were still considered as part of the youth and the ones in favor of mainstream were already seniors. It has always been a conflict on change - old people didn't like it because they didn't know how to use it whereas the youth takes the opportunity as an advantage to be a master in an early age at a shorter timeframe. On the technical side (which was not so discussed in the episode, or maybe they didn't really bothered to), using digital medium in film production is cheaper in the long run. In fact, one can even start by just borrowing from a friend that has a digital videorecorder then start recording and earning from it (which one can already use to buy his/her own digital medium). But this is not the point, </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);" href="http://www.go-opensource.org/go_open/episode_1/lead_story/">this</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"> is. Open Source Software is obviously cheaper than getting proprietary movie editing softwares such as Adobe's. In fact, Hollywood had already embraced OSS just like in the creation of the Last Samurai. Go Open!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">But still, choosing over digital/mainstream as a medium is not the problem. The quality is still the main factor that distinguishes a film from another. How about if Filipino films have some trailers over the web just like this </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);" href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/">one</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">? Will there be a difference?</span></div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1129961151139688752005-10-22T12:34:00.000+08:002005-10-22T14:10:14.203+08:00CC: Chaos and Convenience<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Chaos? Yes.. I had felt this yesterday before and after going to the school where I had experienced my high school life. Our task was yesterday was to install Linux in their internet cafe. I just can't believe that on my way to Philcoa, I was stuck in a traffic jam that had its head somewhere in Central Avenue and the tail somewhere in the Elliptical Road (No, It's a circle!). Rallyists were almost ubiquitous that we had encountered them creating the heavy traffic in the Elliptical Road. Anyway, enough of this chaotic stuffs first and I will tell you the convenience and customer satisfaction I my team had experienced yesterday.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Installing Ubuntu 5.10 requires only a single CD to run and we had 10 installers composed of 8CDRs and 2 CDRW (the 2 CDRs and 2CDRWs were mine - all placed in a Red Hat cd case). Imagine the convenience of installing the distro at the division or rate of 2-3 CDs per person that did not even took more than an hour to finish. Having the internet connection available, we had managed to get the necessary package updates via Synaptic or apt-get. Even the flash plugin was also included in the package list and the plugin worked like a breeze! One doesn't need to make symlinks or copy plugins in every browser. Everything just works! After the installation, I was amazed to see the senior high school students enjoying the default screensaver on Breezy Badger while listening to our Linux introduction tutorial.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">All in all, we had deployed Ubuntu on 20 PCs in a matter of 3-5 hours, complete with the necessary configurations (an informal tutorial included). I had gone home with a friend and had experienced chaos and a feeling of rush hour from the trip. The vehicle that we had primarily taken even bumped another vehicle that made us took another jeepney. I remembered that it was Friday and I shouldn't have wondered why the feeling was like a rush.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">As I sniff over the ubuntuforums, I was fascinated about this thread: </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=80167">Why is Ubuntu better than your previous distro?</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">. You may also look at the image below that shows a poll where most of the shifters or converts were former Fedora users.</span><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4690/444/1600/Screenshot.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4690/444/320/Screenshot.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1129471475360125852005-10-16T21:56:00.000+08:002005-10-19T00:04:49.850+08:00Ubuntu 5.10<div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">My old setup (FC3) was running great and was stable until I noticed some errors in one of my system logs - it reflected that i had some bad sectors on my HD. For this reason, I terribly needed to backup my bulk amount of disorganized files to CDRs and USB disks and got myself a new HD. Since I will be having a fresh install, the linux distro that comes into my mind (as a reserve) is Fedora Core 3 again and maybe another distribution, <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a> and/or SuSe. I didn't had the SuSe 10.0 OSS isos yet so I had started downloading them while chatting with some co-SAs. Unfortunately, I had already burned the CD1 after knowing from a friend that the OSS is incomplete. Since it is better to have a complete _new_ system and not an _evaluation_ version, Ubuntu is the key. Ubuntu 5.10 can already be downloaded since the official announcement of their release. People can request <a href="http://shipit.ubuntu.com/">here</a> for shipping.<br /><br />Installation is easy for it takes only a single CD for the whole process (not 4 or 7 CDs). After setting the necessary configs, the stuff indeed was a desktop setup which is the default configuration. Everything just works, it was quite impressive for the devices such as USB HD and printers were automatically detected. I didn't even notice the shift because the usual stuffs that I do on Fedora Core 3 can also be done (obviously) on Ubuntu Breezy Badger. The thing that was cool (or hot) here was the enormous supply of repositories which enabled me to see more applications. Would you believe that it has an <a href="http://www.avantgo.com/">Avantgo</a> utility for Palm? Knowing this, I had realized that even my Palm Vx was supported by Ubuntu! Finally, I had left Fedora (as well as Wind0ze) without even pain except for the moving or mirroring of my disorganized files again in my new organized set of folders. Fedora is good if a user doesn't have a good internet connection and if the packages are also in the 4/5CD installers. Ubuntu has the edge if a user has a constant internet connection.<br /><br />Ubuntu is definitely a breeze. I had tried starting OpenOffice and it loaded in just 5-7 seconds. I had tried burning on k3b (kubuntu-install) and it had ended after only 5-7 minutes, complete with the verification thing. The <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=23376">CD covers</a> were attractive as well. I can't wait to have my requested packages in hand! Go Breezy Badger!</div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1129153169295290592005-10-13T05:31:00.000+08:002005-10-13T06:12:39.026+08:00And the fight goes on..<div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/06/business/ballmer.php">"For Ballmer, however, the typical corporation offers more than just innovative products. "Our brand means there is someone you can call if there is a problem, and some of these things don't come out of the <span style="font-style: italic;">non-paid volunteer format</span>."</a><br /><br />Well, if he's pertaining to customer support on communities, he's definitely very untrue. After all, Wind0ze isn't that user-friendly to me. One needs to adjust to it - by being friendlier to the system to be able to get over with the bugs and the old problems associated with the system. So where's customer satisfaction, on the OS or the games that run on this problematic OS? How about the price or cost of installation and maintenance?<br /><br />And now, <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2143697/grisoft-warns-linux-virus">Grisoft predicts linux virus plague</a> as a major threat to the linux community. But if there will be existing viruses/virii (on Linux or even Mac), I still don't know if those stuffs will really have a chance to inflict that massive damage as compared to the chaotic effects and hopeless problems on Wind0ze.<br /><br />Yesterday, I just can't believe that I had spent a lot of time fixing numerous 'mushrooming' package dependencies on Mandriva. I really wish that it has good package managers that can simply download the stuffs in the Internet and easily autofix the dependencies just like in <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu's</a> APT-GET and <a href="http://fedora.redhat.com">Fedora's</a> <a href="http://linux.rasmil.dk/cms/">YUMex</a>. Just imagine that I need to go to RPM search engines just to get the package required and the bad thing is that the problem is like a recursion. Oh well.. I hope that they had already solved that problem and if such an application exists that I didn't knew yet, Mandriva users, tell me, right here right now.<br /></div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1129041952611094602005-10-11T22:24:00.000+08:002005-10-13T06:27:58.266+08:00Mandriva 2006 Hits The 'Net, Can it hit me?<div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(255, 204, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);">Quoted from </span><a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3554806">this news article</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);">: "Out of three distributions comes one. Mandriva 2006, the convergence of the former Mandrake, Connectiva and Lycoris Linux distributions was released today. Mandrake acquired Brazilian Linux vendor Conectiva in February for $2.3 million. In April, the combined entity changed its name to Mandriva. In June Mandriva acquired desktop Linux vendor Lycoris. And now it's all together in Mandriva 2006, which is being offered to its "club" members, who pay fees ranging from $66 to $1,320 a year for membership."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);">In my view, the club membership thing creates boundaries due to having different types of editions and support as well. Unlike </span><a href="http://fedora.redhat.com/">Fedora</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);">, as far as I know, Mandriva assures the customer support or maintenance as well as the upgrades _only_ on club membership subscriptions. It doesn't have demo versions like in the old SuSe and the Open Source Leader, Red Hat, which has RH Enterprise Linux and Fedora - the latter having clear definitions that it offers _full support_ on their 2 release versions. The </span><a href="http://fedoraforum.org/">Fedora Forum</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);"> has been indeed very successful and it has also been established as an official forum board for Fedora. Right now, I'm thinking if Mandriva could still be deployed on Internet cafes after knowing that club members can share Mandriva Powerpacks as long as it is not for commercial use.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);">On the lighter side, choosing over Fedora/<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>/Mandriva on a new machine, I would rather save money, get a <a href="http://www.apple.com/macmini/">Mac Mini </a>someday and try developing applications on it as well. What makes <a href="http://www.apple.com/">Apple</a> unique is its strategy as far as customer satisfaction is concerned.<br /><br />Quoted from <a href="http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20051010#2">another news article</a>: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">"What are </span><i style="font-style: italic;">your</i><span style="font-style: italic;"> experiences with the Mandriva Club and Mandriva Linux 2006? Are they worth the investment? Is there room for improvement? Are the complaints on the Club's forums just some noise by never-happy eternal "moaners" or are they legitimate gripes about poor customer service? Why is it that SUSE has moved from being a mostly closed and somewhat proprietary distribution to a completely free and open project, while Mandriva has shifted in the opposite direction?</span>" - I hope that Mandriva advocates shall notice this issue as well.<br /></div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1128716284710374852005-10-10T04:12:00.000+08:002005-10-10T07:38:14.353+08:00Absolute and Relative Reality<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">There always comes a time where a clash of ideas end somewhere else or nowhere at all. Such a case is like the recent topic of YSpeak: Pinoy Big Brother. IMO, PBB is not educational at all. If it really is, I should expect that it will be fully endorsed by the Dept of Education. For goodness sake, their eyes should be enlightened as well as the definition of the term 'reality' should be established even before the start of argument throwing. There are many kinds of realities out there in the wild. They range from the absolute to the relative type but I might be wrong here, besides, everyone has always something to say. Absolute reality might be the case of them as humans and _not as robots_ deployed in the scene. If they are just mascots or dummies, then its sense of reality is gone for the actors aren't real at all. In the case of having reality reality, seeing them deployed in the _unreal environment_ it is not sufficient to say that it is already reality. For me, the reality would be the thing or situation that is hard to accept. For instance, the reality that people especially children, watch PBB instead of studying is very shocking to see in a world where technological development is faster than the natural or ideal development of a child's brain. The reality that most of the television viewers are children who easily believe everything that the TV shows tell them especially during noon-time. And for this reason, everyone tends to be a showbiz superstar than be a doctor. Besides, in the Philippines, anyone can run for elections even at the presidential level without having the necessary equips (such as the graduate degrees and educational background). Philippines is indeed the place where actors make rules and the politicians entertain. Do you want to watch an educational and reality TV? Watch the sessions of the Congress.</span><br /> </div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1128255905676673342005-10-02T20:08:00.000+08:002005-10-02T20:25:36.923+08:00Reality or Fantasy?<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 255);">Finally, YSpeak returned to its informative state (unlike the past 2 episodes where I was confused if the show was really or is still endorsed by the DepEd) by talking about the controversial show, Pinoy Big Brother.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 255);">I almost ROFL upon hearing this statement from a 'resident psychologist': "...if you watch the show, huwag ka na lang magcriticize..." Yada-yada, so where's the point of critical thinking on the first place? The participants even said that they learned 'values' upon joining the 'reality' show...which only mean that they don't know those basic values yet before joining the show? Oh, for goodness sake! I really kinda liked the people composing the panel that is somewhat in the opposing side, just like how the newspaper columnist said that PBB was indeed meaningless and pointless to watch.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 255);">On the lighter side, the PBB song is great but the PBB show doesn't reflect its true meaning and reality after all. I would rather watch Final Fantasy Advent Child. Haha.</span></div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1127998816542116612005-09-29T20:31:00.000+08:002005-09-29T21:03:10.603+08:00Toxicity III<span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">What to do.. what to do..</span><br /> <ol style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"> <li>Span 10-11: I need to review right from the start just like when learning a programming language. Sheesh.</li> <li>Pol Sci 14: My class has tons of reports to listen to, we don't know yet if we'll be exempted in the finals exam (how i really wish) and that will only be answered during the 3-4 day extensions (Yes, during the finals week! Ouch!)</li> <li>Nat Sci 1: I have just taken my 2nd exam and I hope that it had gone well.</li> <li>LIS 62: Projects and Finals! All due next week!</li> <li>LIS 160: Let's see.. I still don't know the results of my job. After all, it's my first time to lecture and deploy such a tutorial all by myself, including the installation and configuration of the environment. Unfortunately, some PCs (yes, it is dual booted with Wind0ze) get bonkers maybe at the rate of 1-2 machines every 2 weeks. Oh well.. if only the lab wasn't located in such a very high place..</li> </ol> <span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">Others? These are the stuffs due for the semestral break:</span><br /> <ol style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"> <li>Learn More Java Stuff!</li> <li>Continue building OpenOffice 1.9X (I hope that OOo shall have their stable version released by that time.)</li> <li>A plan to backup and make a fresh reinstall of my Fedora Core.</li> <li>Learn JSP and other related components.</li> <li>Continue being a technical support in the helpdesk.</li> <li>Watch a lot of TV series episodes.</li> <li>Get a life. (life == girlfriend?) Nope, just kidding! But who knows?</li> <li>break; /*Yes, I need a break.*/<br /> </li> </ol>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1127513615682855652005-09-24T06:07:00.000+08:002005-09-24T06:30:10.663+08:00Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt<div style="text-align: justify; color: #ADFF2F;">FUD? Nah.. the week has passed and I'm still confused on the tasks to do for next week. But at least, I don't have the trouble which the usual local Internet-rental shops have nowadays. Reading this <a href="http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=50844">article</a> from INQ7.net, I noticed a humorous part which was: "Why have they not informed us of these raids? Do we need to get a new license of Microsoft Windows 98? We don't know what they require from us to comply. We heard that the BSA, with the OMB and NBI, has been conducting raids this week. They said that they are requiring shops to only buy from PC Express [a local PC distribution shop] and Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2," the Internet shop owner said." -> this was like.. "Duh, you should have known this (software ethics) beforehand especially when establishing such kind of business."</div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1127047157279115312005-09-18T20:31:00.000+08:002005-09-18T20:39:17.283+08:00Chikka on Gaim!<div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">New discovery? I was only notified of its existence in my eBNC forum when a thread about Chikka on Linux was started. Javalite will still work but the port number can not be set. So <a href="http://chix.sourceforge.net/">Chix</a> was suggested by one of our moderators. After a few readings of the manual and the normal ./config, make, and make install, i restarted my Gaim, and poof! The accounts settings had already included the Chix modules/libraries as a plugin! I had tested and it really worked. The feature that I'll be looking for in the future is the presence of PC to PC mode (and that's why the version is around 0.99-1.0). This one's really HOT! WD!</div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1127031896788414182005-09-17T22:04:00.000+08:002005-09-18T16:25:48.456+08:00Y4IT Days<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">[root@Tifa:~] tail /var/log/y4it</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">At last, Y4IT ended today! The event was great for it was similar to the Sun Tech Day event where I had volunteered with the Dilnet SAs before. The venue was heavily jam-packed and both the participants and staffs were sort of mixed up due to the confusion or inconvenience that the rain has made. For me, it was very memorable because I considered it as a geek day and is unforgettable for some 'mysterious reason'. Obviously, it is unforgettable because I met a lot of friends and sort of increased my network. Just like the required time for the volunteers in the Sun Tech Day event, the Y4IT 2005 Congress needs staffs by 6am because the registration starts at 7am. I learned some potential tactics on lecturing although the gist of the topics are already in the event guide. It was great to be assigned (sort of) in the </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);" href="http://jedi.up.edu.ph/">UP JEDI</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"> booth because it is the first booth at the entrance and it is where participants claim their prizes or drop their raffle tickets.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Hopefully, I will have my bag (and freebies!) on the party this coming Saturday.</span></div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1126966208262758442005-09-14T21:22:00.000+08:002005-09-18T15:04:29.930+08:00import *<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);">From the Apple training, I learned some of the basics of AppleScript. Some sample codes include:</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">display dialog "OPTIONS:" buttons {"say", 2, 3}</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">set x to result</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">if button returned of x = "2" then</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"> display dialog "you pushed 2!"</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">else</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"> display dialog "not pushing 1"</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">end if</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 204, 51);"><span style="font-style: italic;">AND</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="font-style: italic;">display dialog "key in text" buttons {"Cancel", "Say", "Display"} default answer ""</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="font-style: italic;">set x to result</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="font-style: italic;">if button returned of x = "Say" then</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="font-style: italic;"> say text returned of x as string</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="font-style: italic;">else</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="font-style: italic;"> display dialog text returned of x</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="font-style: italic;">end if</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);">which are compiled and executed in the script editor. The script editor even includes a recorder of sessions and even writes/shows the codes as you move the window/s or browse menus throughout the desktop. Xcode was also introduced in the presentation. Some sample scripts are found </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);" href="http://homepage.mac.com/juniortan/as102.html">here</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);">.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);">In my work as linux help support, I managed to fix almost everything except a bug in OpenOffice.org 2.0 on Mandriva. I had just assumed that the package is not yet upgraded atlhough I had not researched about it yet.</span><br /></div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1126428709948941102005-09-11T16:44:00.000+08:002005-09-11T16:51:49.956+08:00Gmail: Mga Bagong Katangian!<a style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4690/444/1600/gmail.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4690/444/320/gmail.jpeg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Gmail has added a new set of features which include a language support for Tagalog.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Picture on the right is captured by using KSnapshot on <a href="http://fedora.redhat.com">Fedora Core 3</a> and enhanced using <a href="http://www.gimp.org">GIMP</a>.</span>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1126220159865371652005-09-09T06:05:00.000+08:002005-09-09T06:55:59.870+08:00Every geek indeed has its day++.<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">It is a day++ where there is political stability and a great freedom day++ for geeks. Software Freedom Day is on the loose as well as a lot of fantastic events in the coming weeks. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">while(day == geekday) {</span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> print:</span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> 1. <a href="http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/SFD_Philippines">Software Freedom Day Philippines</a>. You may register <a href="http://sfd.uplug.org/">here</a>.</span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> 2. <a href="http://ittc.up.edu.ph/">Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology 2005</a>. For more info on the schedule of events, visit <a href="http://ittc.up.edu.ph/y4it/schedule.html">this.</a></span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> 3. <a href="http://www.upacm.org/blog/2005/09/developing-apps-using-open-source.html">Developing Apps using Open Source tools on the Mac</a>.</span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> 4. <a href="http://www.mediag8way.com/events/">LinuxWorld Conference and Expo Philippines</a></span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">}</span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">So.. where do you want to go for tomorrow?</span>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1125931532416888582005-09-05T22:25:00.000+08:002005-09-05T22:46:53.766+08:00Memories..<div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">Finally, I managed to get back my bugged 512 MB RAM and it is now in the state of testing/observation mode. From <a href="http://www.xfce.org/">XFCE</a> I returned again to my usual theme which is <a href="http://gnome.org/">Gnome</a> with MAC OS X interfaces.<br /><br />[root@Morpheus:~] ps -ax | grep -i entertainment > Lower House<br /><br />At this time, I'm wondering if Rep. Cayetano used Wind0ze in his presentation and if it's licensed/legal as well. I got strucked by one of its flashes: "Kung naayos na ang butu-buto, bakit pa tumawag kay Garci?" I would really like to ask the same question to him and see his reaction about it. The question seems to be contradicting itself. (Isuntok na lang niya ito sa buwan)<br /><br />Another thing, how could a letter be simply authenticated and be used as an evidence? It is actually one of the easiest ways to create false truths. I just can't help but drink a glass of water after laughing for minutes although being pissed too simultaneously. There was also an issue that was pointed out - the Senate is already unfair if it would be considered as a judicial body.<br /><br />Panic? Yes! Mr. Paras was like having tantrums, screaming "Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker, MR. SPEAKER (shouting), Why don't you recognize me?!?!" For goodness sake, there might be some people that increased their blood pressure in the process.<br /><br />Well, the people might be afraid of what the President could do because of her power as the chief of the army, but I'm more afraid of people that I do not know and just interfere with other people's lives, and destroy it for no reason at all.<br /><br />And lastly, for the funniest part: "Chug, chug chug chug chug.." Guess who? Secret.<br /></div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1125838127706779582005-09-04T20:23:00.000+08:002005-09-04T20:48:47.713+08:00Ang Pikon ay Talo!<div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Napanood ko ang YSpeak kanina at hindi na ako nagtaka kung bakit ganoon na lang kagulo ang mga usapin. Andun ang astig na si "Way Kurat", Miles, Guingona, isang ADMU student at isa naman PLM. Nakakatawa lang na pagmasdan ang debate dahil sa aking pananaw, kitang-kita na pikon ang mga nasa oposisyon o mga pro-impeachment. Kahit mga simpleng batas ay hindi masundan ng mga nasa pro-impeachment sa YSpeak. Sumasabat sila kahit wala na sa kanila ang 'focus' o ang 'mikropono' at sa halip, nagmistulang kabastusan, katangahan at pagkapikon ang naroon. Ang mga nasa 'anti-impeachment' (mahirap sabihin na anti) ay pinagbibigyan lamang ang mga nasa oposisyon na sumabat kahit hindi 'turn' nila na magsalita. Kapag ang atensyon naman ay nasa oposisyon, nananatiling tahimik ang mga nasa 'anti-impeachment' na side ng YSpeak - ipinakikita lamang nila sa isang simpleng maayos na paraan na hindi sila pikon. Sabi naman sa panig ng 'pro': "Ganito, ganito ang nangyari sa amin noong Martes. Hindi na nagkakaliwanagan at parang ganito rin na nakatayo si Way Kurat. Siguro rin naman ay magwwalkout rin kayo (ang panig ng 'anti-impeachment') kapag hindi kayo napakinggan." Syempre, may sumabat na isa "Hindi ah, hindi kami magwwalkout (dito sa YSpeak)". Sa aking palagay, 2 lang siguro ang pwede kong maisip sa pagwalkout ng minorya: (1) Talunan sila at sila'y napahiya. (2) Pikon sila na ayaw pa rin magpatalo.<br /><br />Si Way Kurat naman ay astig; napatalbog niya ang mga pinagsasasabi sa 'pro' side ng YSpeak. Paano ba naman kasi, sabihin ba naman daw ng minorya na "ang pipirma sa impeachment ay pipirma sa katotohanan"?!?! Aba! Sabi nga ni Way Kurat, "Ibig sabihin pala nun, kapag hindi pipirma ay hindi na para sa katotohanan, falsehood kumbaga. Paano mangyayari yun eh iba ang katotohanan ng admin sa oposisyon?" Sumabat si Guingona: "Hindi ata pwede yan, isa lang ang katotohanan, black or white lang". (Ewan ko ba kung ano ang pinagsasasabi ni Guingona at waring wala siya sa tunay na kalawakan at hindi siya nabubuhay sa panahong ito.) Malamang naman kasi siguro na iba-iba ang katotohanan na pinapaniwalaan ng bawat panig. Tama rin bang sabihin ng oposisyon: "Ang pipirma sa impeachment ay simbolo rin ng isang malinis na konsensya." Aba! Kalokohan na pala ito e! Sinabi naman ng isang estudyante ng ADMU, "Tama lang na magdabog ang oposisyon, blablabla" na kinontra ni "Way Kurat": "Teka, wala naman nagdabog ah? Marahil siguro ay nasa eskuwelahan ka at parang hindi mo alam ang tunay na nangyari. Walang nagdabog pero tama bang magkalat/magtapon sila ng papel sa kung saan?" (Tahimik, hehe)<br /><br />Kung iisipin, lumalabas na dapat ay madali lang para sa minorya ang makakuha ng 79 na lagda. Ngunit bakit kaya hindi nila makuha ang kailangan? Nakakatawa rin na hindi tuluy-tuloy na tumataas ang bilang dahil meron rin mga bumabawi ng lagda dahil marahil sa pagkatuklas ng mga kahinaan talaga sa oposisyon. Ang oposisyon rin ay wala noong Miyerkules kung kailan ay meron silang pagkakataon na magsalita, ngunit nasan sila noong oras na yaon?<br /><br />Sinabi nga na ang bise presidente ang siyang papalit kung sakali sa presidente. Pero paano kung ang bise presidente ay ayaw rin ng oposisyon? Ibang usapan na yan..<br /></div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1125789779928587452005-09-04T07:09:00.000+08:002005-09-04T07:25:04.100+08:00Monopoly, Business Tactics, and Digital Imperialism at its best<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4690/444/1600/virus.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4690/444/320/virus.jpeg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">This is an example of a corporation implementing and expanding its monopoly throughout the Philippine market through this business strategy of increasing the bulk of digital imperialism throughout the country.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">Some will say that the consumer/customer is being cheated in the process, but why let oneself be cheated if there are hell a lot of alternatives out there? </span><br /> </div> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">There's also a news that some </span><a style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);" href="http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/09/02/state_may_drop_office_software/">State may drop Office software</a><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);"> and use a new document standard called OpenDocument format that is used in </span><a style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);" href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice</a><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);"> and StarOffice.</span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(204, 204, 255);"><br />Another controversy out there in the wild is that <a href="http://news.com.com/Court+docs+Ballmer+vowed+to+kill+Google/2100-1014_3-5846243.html">Ballmer vowed to 'kill' Google</a>. Some sneakpeeks:<br /><br />In a sworn statement made public Friday, Mark Lucovsky, another Microsoft senior engineer who left for Google in November 2004, recounted Ballmer's angry reaction when Lucovsky told Ballmer he was going to work for the search engine company. </div> <p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">"At some point in the conversation, Mr. Ballmer said: 'Just tell me it's not Google,'" Lucovosky said in his statement. Lucovosky replied that he was joining Google.</p> <div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(204, 204, 255);"> </div> <p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">"At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office," Lucovosky recounted, adding that Ballmer then launched into a tirade about Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google." Schmidt previously worked for Sun Microsystems and was the CEO of Novell.<br /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">Oh shucks, what a pity!</span><br /></p>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1125742954011162052005-09-03T18:18:00.000+08:002005-09-03T18:22:34.016+08:00BasketBRAWLING 101<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">Do you want to learn BasketBrawling 101? I had heard that DLSU basketball players were good at this and it was obviously seen at the latter part of the recent UP-DLSU match. That skill was enhanced by some weird and/or suspicious calls of the referee. Oh shucks.</span><br /> </div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1125408835131577532005-08-30T21:03:00.000+08:002005-08-30T21:51:42.320+08:00Aray[].<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">At the end of this day, I realized that I should have set the permissions for the PCs in our ILS lab and tested it first before letting its users experiment on it. It's kinda weird that the permissions for the MySQL client got flushed because it's supposed to work already without any necessary configurations to repair. But at least, I had already rechecked all of the computers in just an hour while installing Fedora Core 4 to two computers that previously run on Mandrake.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">*toxicity++*</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">I heard someone say that M$ Access is better or maybe easier to learn than MySQL. But that's good, if the user owns a licensed/authentic version of the program and is really proud (like Hell) in using it. Forget about the price *wink* and the problems bundled with it as well. It's just that I would rather share FOSS with my fellow classmates than to advocate proprietary ones.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">When I got home, I was surprised or maybe devastated to watch the results of the impeachment proceedings. The oppositions walked out of the debate. Is this a delaying tactic? They were the ones that argued before that the suspension yesterday was a political move by the administration to delay everything. But from my view, it favors the opposition more time to get that stupid 79 votes or signatures. The thing is that the requirement is just 1/3 (and not even 50%!), how come they weren't able to get such a number? Gheez. The weird part? Yes! Dinky ignited some stuff (out of nowhere - without any basis at all) to the press interviews before the proceedings started. Obviously, everything was planned but it wasn't flawless. If Dinky really knew that stuff, why only now?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">In an interview on the ANC, she said that it's up to the people to judge.. blablabla.. to see "our truths". Or maybe she was really referring to the people that didn't know anything at all with regards to the political controversies everywhere. It's obviously easier to brainwash such communities if they do not know the real issue in the first place. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">Now, I really believe that Philippines is a place where actors make rules and politicians entertain. Why? Read on (the words are somewhat close to the real version..it's the humor that counts!):</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">1. (quoted from a recent ANC interview w/ Korina) - "</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">..because that was only the time I make BABAD in Congress..</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">" -> oh.. talaga? Telebabad ba yan? Nag-i-soak?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">2. (from the opposition) - </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">"Isang boto lang talaga ang hindi nabibili, at yun ay ang boto ng Panginoon"</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"> -> malamang naman siguro alam ng bawat tao yun ano? Ano ka ba, hilo? hello?? Pero teka, sino ba Panginoon mo?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">3. It's very funny to see how "future leaders" like Susan Power violate some simple rules in the impeachment proceedings such as clapping, etc. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">Oh well..</span></div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317977.post-1125268669237374042005-08-29T06:20:00.000+08:002005-08-29T06:41:05.803+08:00< strong > and < weak ><div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Nah, I don't wanna receive an award for saying that "..</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">kung hindi strong ang lalaki, weak siya</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">.." just like in the episode of YSpeak last night. Judging the entire series from that single episode, I couldn't figure out why DECS would be endorsing it.. or maybe as always, it's up to the viewers to be critical to everything they percept. IMHO, the episode didn't had any content at all. I would rather read Virginia Woolfs writings and be refreshed to her ideas that I had once learned in English 12 from last semester.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Anyway, classes are suspended today as well as government offices. Nothing new in this society except the chaos and skepticism that ruled the political actors and viewers. (From the second time once more?) Bad representation of the Filipino people is still observed on the hearts of rallyists specifically the Anti-GMA group. All I can say is that everyone cheat, it's just that some are good in hiding it and some are not. </span><br /></div>nightfoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279726120929797388noreply@blogger.com0