They are friends!

Despite their rivalries, Jollibee and Mcdonald remain friends. The proof is below.

How to save a flash video

I got this simple but very helpful video on how to save a flash video by Mitch Frazier of Linux Journal. This is done without any plugin. Enjoy!

Sharing Files with Zencafe

Zencafe is a great Linux distro for Internet cafe.
However sharing files is pain. Below are steps for easing the pain of file sharing.

Samba Server (Directory that you need to share with other)

1. Make sure you has activated SAMBA service at first time install, if you don’t have activate yet, you can activate SAMBA service at Menu > System > Zenpanel, then click Startup Services
2. Open SWAT (Menu > System > Samba Web Administration Tools), login with root user & password.
3. Click GLOBALS icon, follow step below:
• Workgroup, change with your workgroup name
• Netbiosname, change with your PC name
• Security, change with "SHARE"
• Click "Commit Changes"
4. Click SHARES icon, follow step below:
• Enter share name, example: Documents, then click "Create Share"
• Path, change with folder path that you want to share, example: /home/username/Documents
• Read only, change with "NO"
• Guest ok, change with "YES"
• Click "Commit Changes"
5. Change /home/username/Documents permission to RWX (777), if you don’t now how to do it, just right click Document folder > Properties > Permission, change all to Read & Write. Please don’t ask why I’m not show you how to do that with CHMOD command? No, not everyone know how to maintain from console, right?
6. That’s it, simple enough, right? Now you can share your file with other PC

Samba Client (Read you share directory from Zencafe)

You only need this step once. You never need this step again as long as you still use your Zencafe. Just click Menu > Network > FuseSMBTools, change Mountpoint directory to your Network directory Example: /home/username/Network then Save. That’s it? Yes that’s it. Just click Network shortcut at desktop everytime you want to access other share directory. Goodluck

I got this from http://linux.blogs.ie/2007/04/27/simple-samba-file-share/

Running XAMPP on a flash drive

My programmer Noel Macaraig discovered that you can run XAMPP on a flash drive. This is a great way for students (may be even professionals) to run and develop web applications even if you don't own a computer.

Just plug-in your flash drive and when you install XAMPP, just unzip to the flash drive. You may have to manually start and stop XAMPP from that directory.

For those who are not familar with XAMPP, it is a bundleof software package together to run web applications. It is an acronym for: X stands for different operating systems (X could stand for cross platform) Apache webserver, MySQL database, PHP and Perl scripting languages. It runs on Linux, Windows, Mac and Solaris.

Personnally I love XAMPP because its so easy to setup up and get your database and web application up and running quickly. I really used in alot of my projects.

You can learn about XAMPP by visiting their web site at http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html