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2011-03-08T22:05:00.001-08:00

Medical / Dental Mission at Bagong Kalsada

2010-05-04T17:16:00.000-07:00

The ACS(Adventist Community Service) in partnership with Generika Drugstore conducted a Medical Dental Mission to poor residents of barangay Bagong Kalsada on May 2, 2010. The site of the mission was up in the hills of Mt. Makiling within the boundary of Los Baños and Calamba, more than 200 indigents were served. Among these were 181 medical patiences and 81 dental patiences. The services rendered were medical consulations, tooth extractions and free medicines.

Although Seventh-day Adventists from nearby SDA congregations from Los Baños, Bay, Tugtungin and Calauan spearheaded the mission, there were also non-adventists who volunteered their time and effect for its success. Among these are the employees of Generika Drugstore and the officials from barangay Bagong Kalsada. Noteworthy is Dr. Luz Valladolid who conducted a marathon dental service totaling more than 80 tooth extractions.

Althrough the location is difficult to reach (it is about 30 minute upward hike from the highway), the brethren objective was to do Jesus Christ commission. The Medical Dental Mission was to fulfill the SDA's church commission to share God's love by serving others.

WISDOM CORRECTED

2010-01-04T01:27:00.001-08:00

The history of weight loss.

CV5 BRUNCH 1/3

2009-10-28T01:54:00.001-07:00

My First TV Appearance!
No 1 Voltes V Fan!

Stopping a Sword

2009-08-22T01:25:00.001-07:00

FMA Digest DTS

2009-07-27T22:16:00.000-07:00

Here is the FMA Digest Dekiti Tirsia Siradas Special Edition.
I am contributor in this issue so I love to share this with you.

http://fmadigest.com/Issues/special-editions/special-edition.html

Google's commmitment to free expression

2009-07-22T21:06:00.001-07:00

Dekiti Tirsia Siradas

2009-07-17T01:47:00.001-07:00

Here is the promotional video I made for Dekiti Tirsia Siradas.

Gyachi can not login

2009-07-06T02:38:00.000-07:00

Gyachi is a Linux base alternative to Yahoo Messenger and Its the only one I know that has webcam support. Unfortunately, Yahoo did it again and change the login protocol leaving Linux users out in cold.
However theres a workaround. Change the server to cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com and It will work fine.
For Pidgin users click on the link below.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-Yahoo-problem-in-Pidgin-114754.shtml

2009-05-13T03:00:00.001-07:00

We ate at Ho Chai Lai, a Chinese restaurant in San Pedro, Laguna. There is this hi tech sign on the table with a buzzer to call waiters. As an IT professional, I think the waiters are robots

2009-04-13T04:25:00.000-07:00

Sesame Street is now 40 year old. I grow up on Sesames Street and it gave much of the foundation of learning that was valuable later in my life. Here is a video on the 40 years of Sesame Street and it really touch me that they really expand beyond letters and be a force for peace and understanding.

Youtube to MPP3

2009-04-06T21:15:00.000-07:00

For all music lovers like me, here's a a web site you can't do without. It converts online flash video like Youtube into MP3.
Here is the site: http://www.flv2mp3.com/
Please take note that the music converted is not stereo sound but mono.
Enjoy!!!

They are friends!

2009-03-25T17:52:00.000-07:00

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

How to save a flash video

2009-03-21T23:40:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-14T07:35:00.000-07:00

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)

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
Open SWAT (Menu > System > Samba Web Administration Tools), login with root user & password.
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"

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"

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?
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

2009-03-02T04:12:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-27T02:00:00.001-08:00

Seminar on Open Source Technology

AMA CLC LB

by

Janfel Villahermosa

Head, Products Research and Development

Pulse Digital Network Corp.

What is Open Source?

Open source is an approach to design, development, and distribution offering practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge). Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches, while others consider it a critical strategic element of their operations. Before open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; the term open source gained popularity with the rise of the Internet, which provided access to diverse production models, communication paths, and interactive communities.

Open source software (OSS) projects are built and maintained by a network of volunteer programmers. Prime examples of open source products are the Apache HTTP Server, the internet address system Internet Protocol, and the internet browser Mozilla Firefox. One of the most successful open source products is the Linux operating system, an open source Unix-like operating system

The verb license or grant license means to give permission. The noun license (licence in English spelling) refers to that permission as well as to the document memorializing that permission. License may be granted by a party ("licensor") to another party ("licensee") as an element of an agreement between those parties. In economics, a license is a government-issued permission to engage in an activity or to operate a business. A shorthand definition of a license is "a promise (by the licensor) not to sue (the licensee)."

A software license agreement is a contract between a producer and a user of computer software which grants the user a software license. Most often, a software license agreement indicates the terms under which an end-user may utilize the licensed software, in which case the agreement is called an end-user license agreement or EULA. When the software license agreement is between the software licensor and a business or government entity, it is often implemented as a specialized form of contract with many clauses unique to the license and the nature of the software being licensed.

Software Piracy is the unauthorized copying of software. Most retail programs are licensed for use at just one computer site or for use by only one user at any time. By buying the software, you become a licensed user rather than an owner. You are allowed to make copies of the program for backup purposes, but it is against the law to give copies to friends and colleagues.

An open source license is a copyright license for computer software that makes the source code available under terms that allow for modification and redistribution without having to pay the original author. Such licenses may have additional restrictions such as a requirement to preserve the name of the authors and the copyright statement within the code.

Licenses that are popular and widely used or with strong communities (11)

Affero General Public License (AGPL)

Apache Software License 2.0

new BSD License

Common Development and Distribution License

Common Public License 1.0

Eclipse Public License

GNU General Public License (GPL)

GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

ISC license

MIT License

Mozilla Public License (MPL) 1.1

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL)

is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft license that requires derived works to be available under the same copyleft. Under this philosophy, the GPL is said to grant the recipients of a computer program the rights of the free software definition and uses copyleft to ensure the freedoms are preserved, even when the work is changed or added to. This is in distinction to permissive free software licences, of which the BSD licences are the standard examples.

The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a modified, more permissive, version of the GPL, originally intended for some software libraries. There is also a GNU Free Documentation License, which was originally intended for use with documentation for GNU software, but has also been adopted for other uses, such as the Wikipedia project.

The Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL) is a similar licence with a focus on networking server software. The GNU AGPL is similar to the GNU General Public License, except that it additionally covers the use of the software over a computer network, requiring that the complete source code be made available to any network user of the AGPLed work, for example a web application. The Free Software Foundation recommends that this license is considered for any software that will commonly be run over the network.

Linux (commonly pronounced IPA: /ˈlɪnəks/ in English; variants exist^[1]) is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed by anyone under the terms of the GNU GPL^[2] and other free licenses.

Linux distributions are predominantly known for their use in servers, although they are installed on a wide variety of computer hardware, ranging from embedded devices and mobile phones to supercomputers,^[3] and their popularity as a desktop/laptop operating system has been growing lately due to the rise of netbooks and the Ubuntu distribution of the operating system.^[4]^[5]

The name "Linux" comes from the Linux kernel, originally written in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. The rest of the system, including utilities and libraries, usually comes from the GNU operating system announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman. The GNU contribution is the basis for the alternative name GNU/Linux.

Mozilla Firefox

is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox had 21% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of January 2009, making it the second-most popular browser in current use worldwide, after Internet Explorer.^[4]

To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements some current web standards plus a few features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.^[5]

Firefox includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and an integrated search system that uses the user's desired search engine. Functions can be added through add-ons created by third-party developers,^[6] the most popular of which include the NoScript JavaScript disabling utility, Tab Mix Plus customizer, FoxyTunes media player control toolbar, Adblock Plus ad blocking utility, StumbleUpon (website discovery), Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer (bookmark synchronizer), DownThemAll! download enhancer, and Web Developer toolbar.^[7]

Firefox runs on various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and many other Unix-like operating systems. Its current stable release is version 3.0.6, released on February 3, 2009.^[8] Firefox's source code is free software, released under a tri-license GPL/LGPL/MPL.^[9]

OpenOffice.org (OO.o or OOo), commonly known simply as OpenOffice, is a free cross-platform office application suite available for a number of different computer operating systems. It supports the ISO/IEC standard OpenDocument Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office formats among others. As of November 2008^[update], OpenOffice supports over 45 languages.^[1]

OpenOffice.org was originally derived from StarOffice, an office suite developed by StarDivision and acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 1999. The source code of the suite was released in July 2000 with the aim of reducing the dominant market share of Microsoft Office by providing a free and open alternative; later versions of StarOffice are based upon OpenOffice.org with additional proprietary components.

The project and software are informally referred to as OpenOffice, but this term is a trademark held by a company in the Netherlands co-founded by Wouter Hanegraaff and is also in use by Orange UK,^[3] requiring the project to adopt OpenOffice.org as its formal name.^[4]

The acronym LAMP refers to a solution stack of software, usually free and open source software, used to run dynamic Web sites or servers. The original expansion is as follows:

Linux, referring to the operating system;

Apache, the Web server;

MySQL or mSQL, the database management system (or database server);

PHP or others, i.e., Perl, Python, the programming languages.^[1]

The combination of these technologies is used primarily to define a web server infrastructure, define a programming paradigm of developing software, and establish a software distribution package.

Though the originators of these open source programs did not design them all to work specifically with each other, the combination has become popular because of its low acquisition cost and because of the ubiquity of its components (which come bundled with most current Linux distributions). When used in combination they represent a solution stack of technologies that support application servers.

The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to simply as Apache IPA: /əˈpætʃi/, is a web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. Apache was the first viable alternative to the Netscape Communications Corporation web server (currently known as Sun Java System Web Server), and has since evolved to rival other Unix-based web servers in terms of functionality and performance. The majority of all web servers using Apache are Linux web servers.

Apache is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation. The application is available for a wide variety of operating systems, including Unix, GNU, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, Novell NetWare, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, TPF, and eComStation. Released under the Apache License, Apache is characterized as free software and open source software.

Since April 1996 Apache has been the most popular HTTP server on the World Wide Web. As of December 2008^[update] Apache served over 51% of all websites.

MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS)^[1] which has more than 11 million installations.^[2] The program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.

MySQL is owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company MySQL AB, now a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems,^[3] which holds the copyright to most of the codebase. The project's source code is available under terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements.

"MySQL" is officially pronounced /maɪˌɛskjuːˈɛl/^[4] (My S Q L), not "My sequel" /maɪˈsiːkwəl/. This adheres to the official ANSI pronunciation; SEQUEL was an earlier IBM database language, a predecessor to the SQL language.^[5] However, the company does not take issue with the pronunciation "My sequel" or other local variations.^[4]

PHP is a scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. It has evolved to include a command line interface capability and can be used in standalone graphical applications.^[2]

While PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, the main implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP Group and serves as the de facto standard for PHP as there is no formal specification.^[3] PHP is free software released under the PHP License, however it is incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL), due to restrictions on the usage of the term PHP.^[4]

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. It generally runs on a web server, taking PHP code as its input and creating web pages as output. It can be deployed on most web servers and on almost every operating system and platform free of charge.^[5] PHP is installed on more than 20 million websites and 1 million web servers.

Joomla! is a free open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets as well as a Model–view–controller (MVC) Web Application Development framework. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. Joomla is licensed under the GPL, and is the result of a fork of Mambo.

It is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database.

Moodle is a free and open source e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System, Learning Management System, or Virtual Learning Environment. It has a significant user base with 49,256 registered sites with 28,177,443 users in 2,571,855 courses (as of February, 2009)^[1].

Moodle is designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. Its open source license and modular design means that people can develop additional functionality. Development is undertaken by a globally diffused network of commercial and non-commercial users, streamlined by the Moodle company based in Perth, Western Australia.

Compiled from Wikipedia,

Changes in Word document format from Windows to Linux

2009-02-26T20:19:00.000-08:00

There are times when I will create a Word document in Windows then it turns out ugly in Openoffice in Linux. The fonts and layout changes with the conversion.
Import one document created in one application and opening it in another will always have conversion problems. Try loading a Word document into Wordperfect or even different versions of MS Office.
There are two ways to lessen this problem.
One way is to install Microsoft font on our Linux box. This will work for Ubuntu. Make sure you are connected to the Internet.

Open a terminal
if your are using Ubuntu or Debian, enter the command sudo aptitude install msttcorefonts
Enter your password and then MS fonts will install from the web.

Another way is to create your document in MS Office and save it as an Open Document Format. This can be done by installing Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office to your MS Office. You download it at http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/

How to add ñ into Linux

2009-02-25T04:47:00.000-08:00

One of the most common question Linux newbies ask me is how to put the character ñ in Open office or a web form. Its is a common question here since I live in Los Baños and some nearby town isnamed Biñan.
In Windows its really easy, just press Alt-164 and the ñ pops out. Unfortunately that does not work in Linux.
I do it in Linux is by to adding a character palette (character map is the Windows equivalent) to the menu bar.
In Gnome,

Right click the top main menu and the applet dialog appears.
Scroll down and look for Character Palette.
Click to highlight Character Palette and then click and the Character palette will be added to the Main Menu.
Click close.
Click the ñ in the Character Palette and that will copy it to the clipboard.
Use or Cntrl V to paste ñ to Open Office or a Web form.

You can also use this method for other characters.

Please check this article for other way of adding extended characters http://www.linux.com/feature/122167.

Introduction

2009-02-25T04:26:00.000-08:00

Hello and Mabuhay!
Let me introduce myself, I am Janfel Villahermosa living in Los Baños Laguna Philippines. If you want to know more about me you can visit my friendster at http://profiles.friendster.com/7726135.
In this blog I will mainly talk about computers, the Internet and open source technology which is my work and life.
I will also insert some of other interest here like martials arts, history, religion and humor. I also manage the web resources of Dekiti Tirsia Siradas. Please visit them at www.youtube.com/dekiti and http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/dekiti-tirsia-siradas/
See you!!!