Monday, June 30, 2008

dalawangpung istorya at ang RSS ng Manila Bulletin

Ngayong huling araw ng hunyo ang dami ko ng gustong i-blog. naipon na ata at medyo kailangan kong maghabol.
may mga mahahaga din kasi akong tinatapos at inaasikaso sa ngayon, kaya baka hindi ko na sya ma idetalyeng maigi.
kaya marahil mga bagong istorya na ang aking mailalathala sa aking blog na ito sa mga susunod na buwan.

Eto nga yung mga listhan ng aking mga nais isulat sana.

1. yung aking opinion sa OSS.ph kasabay ng mga kwentong bagyo.
2. ang aking bagong laptop na lenovo at kung paano ito idemo sa akin yung VISTA ng isang engineer ng PCXpress at sinabi kong ihinto na nya dahil di din ako nag MS na Operating system.
3. yung bagong dating kong celphone na N82 dahil naubusan na ng stock ng Sony Ericson P1i.
4. yung aking opinion sa pagbaba ni bill gates bilang CEO ng microsoft.
5. yung aking komemto sa mga sinabi ng Microsoft representative nung OSS.ph tungkol sa kanyang mababaw na pangunawa sa mundo ng opensource.
6.tungkol sa www.microsoft.com/opensource at www.codeplex.com
7. tungkol sa halos isang oras at 200 pesos dahil pag hahanap ng handuraw at kayahag...na ngayon ay OUTPOST na daw ang bagong pangalan..sabi ni budoy ng junior kilat.
8. kabaklaan ng isang tao na nagcocomento sa isang BLOG na hindi naman kayang panindigan o tinatawag na "kapos" ang mga kaalaman sa mga bagay bagay na pilit na tinatahak.
9. creative common at ang aking mga akdang kwento at mga tula.
10. mga ekspiryens sa aming mga nakaranasan nitong mga huling KS sa opis.
11. huling bisita sa "republika de kapay" at ang babaeng buntis na namamara ng lahat ng saksakyan kahit umaambon na.
12. komento sa o kung ano aming sagot sa mga kaibigan at mga taong nagtatanong sa kung ano ng nangyari sa album ng dekada.
13. pag kawala ni Chox sa 8layer.
14. ang kagandadahang dulot ng WIKI sa aming organisasyon
15. si 8layer at ang kwentong 100% Linux OS (ubuntu at fedora) yung aming mga desktop.
16. maiksing sanaysay IBM at ang Lotus product at kay irish ng IBM kung paano sya mag present.
17. ang huling video-ke kasama si "PING" at ang mga IBM sa makati.
18. istorya bakit hanggang ngayon eh di ko pa napapanood itong laban ni Paquiao ke Diaz.
19. mga bagong nakilala sa larangan ng open source sa pilipinas.
20. SNOM IP Phones at ang SNOM Expansion Module

mas pinili kong iblog ngayon itong manila bulletin.
kakatapos ko lang kasing magdesisyon na gamitin ang aking Thunderbird para iconsolidate yung mga /emails/news/blogs. dati kasi ang gamit ko sa aking BLOG at NEWS (RSS) is yung tinatawag na "Akregator" at "straw"
since madami na masyado at gusto ko na isang beses lang ang pagbubukas ng application.ninais kong ilagay na aking THUNDERBIRD lahat ng ito kasabay ng pag configure ng thunderbird na magPOP ng aking mga GMAILs.

naiinis or natatawa lang ako kasi nung naisip kong mag subscribe sa mga local news (inquirer at manila bulettin) medyo binigo ako ng manila bulettin."Feed not found from http://www.mb.com.ph."

hindi ko makita yung RSS feed nila samantanang meron silang article na inilabas patungkol dito nuoong 2006 pa.
http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2006/09/03/TECH2006090372857.html

Nag message na sa "webmaster" para kahit papaano masulbahan agad itong maliit na hinaing na ito. (sana naman eh may aksyon).

"My work is largely on facing my laptop's console and surfing the net. Thus, it becomes handy to me that i get in touch with relevant socio-political news and events right at my fingertips.

Relatively, i feel delighted when local papers seemingly would like to be in tune with the technology to capture the vast market and readership.

However, to my surprise i believe that your online paper did feature the RSS technology some 2 years ago but still your website doesnt offer such technology/ service . May i know your stand on this? Are you against it, or you dont find it useful? What is your actual point of featuring RSS when your online paper doesnt offer this service?

Thank you,
Meric B. Mara "

Isa lamang itong halimbawa ng kwentong maitutugma sa tunay na buhay.
marami kasing nangangaral, nagsasalita ng mga bagaybagay ngunit walang implementation.

nasa kalahati na ako ng librong nabili ko sa Booksale ulit na ang pamagat ay "Back to the drawing board"
http://www.amazon.com/Back-Drawing-Board-Designing-Corporate/dp/1578517761 (btw, yung copy na nakuha ko eh may authograph ng isang sa mga author ng libro na iyon) na si Jay William Lorsch.

natutunan ko lang, na ang mag kadahilanan kung bakit yung mga "BEST PRACTICE o mga magagandang bagay" ay hindi nagiging tama na nagiging hilaw dahil sa mga sumusunod.

1. yung mga best practice na ito ay hindi na icoconvert o nagiging "PRACTICE" nananatiling nakasulat lamang sa mga libro o kwento.
2. yung iba nag susubok i practice ngunit kulang o kapos sa "ACTION"
3. dahil sa bilis ng bulusok ng technolohiya. yung mga hindi nakakasabay na iiwan at naipapractice eh yung mga luma na hindi naman na applicable.
4. expectation ng nagpapagawa vs time and execution o kakayanan ng mga gagawa at magiimplement nito.

Friday, June 20, 2008

Jose Rizal

Batiin ko lang sa kanyang kaarawan itong ating pambansang bayaning si "GAT" (hindi ko kasi nabati kahapon)

Magkukwento lang ako ng konti. Naalala ko kasi noong bata ako may mga kalaro ako at yung mga "barbero" ng tatay ko eh tinatawag akong Jose Rizal. Marahil eh... sa istilo ng buhok noong mga panahong iyon (elementary ako =) ). Kaya siguro, nung high school ako eh GEL yung pinagdiskitahan ko hanggang college..este pati pala dun ako sa mga dati ko pang work...

E ngayon kasi longhair at di na ako na ge-gel at alam ko nakwento ko na eto.

pero teka, bakit ba buhok ko ang ikinukwento ko eh KAARAWAN ng ating pambansang bayani nga ang aking paksa ngayon?

wala din naman akong balak mag kwento ng Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, di ko din balak mag detalye ng mga kontribusyon nya La Solidaridad. Ang sa akin lang, kahit sa *PISONG malaki at Dalawang Pisong papel na kulay bughaw ko na sya inabot eh, hindi ako papayag na hindi ko mabati ang ating pambansang bayani sa kanyang kaarawan.

*kahit pa yung PISO na ito eh ginagamit marahil sa palarong (sisiran sa tina) at unahan maishoot sa bibig yung piso sa pamamagitan ng paglagay ng PISO sa noo at pagkunot ng mukha.

Marahil ang mensahe ko lang ngayon eh.

WAG NA WAG NATING IHIHINTO ANG PAGGUNITA NOONG TAYO'Y MGA MAG-AARAL PA, yung ganitong mga araw at panahon kahit pa usapang "Ces Drilon", Obama, Pagbaha sa China, Nalalapit na Olympics o uso man mga bagong teknolohiya. BUHAYIN AT PAGNINGASIN NATIN ANG KANYANG SINIMULAN!

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

To all smart subscribers, did you know that WVdial can save the day!

Since it is very critical for me to be able to use "Internet" when I'm out of the confines office, I configured my Eeepc and my p990i+wvdial[1] ... This way, im able to

*properly monitor the status of our clients
*Send important emails
*update my projects and do my research
*others...

Yes, I opted for wvdial since this is very easy to use and this is the program that the NITIX product that we carry, used as an intelligent PPP dialer.

Dont cram yourself to send me SMS or email me on how I was able to configure this on my eeepc. Instead, right here i will share the steps so that everybody can also do this and enjoy this kind of service. (i believe that the steps will also work for any debian base linux)

IMPORTANT NOTE:
I just consulted "Jajapot" and she told me that you need to pay PhP 10/ per 30mins based on her experience. hiyun lang!

OKAY,let's start.

First you need to install WVdial on your PC (Eeepc)

then , I updated my /etc/apt/sources.list

#vi /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/xs2.0/upkg-srv2 etch main contrib non-free
deb http://dccamirror.xandros.com/dccri/ dccri-3.0 main
deb http://update.eeepc.asus.com/p701 p701 main
deb http://update.eeepc.asus.com/p701/en p701 main

install wv-dial using apt-get
# apt-get install wvdial

create/modify wvdial configuration file.
# wvdialconf
*this command will detect your USB modem (P990i) and will automatically genarate /etc/wvdial.conf file.

#vi /etc/wvdial.conf

IMPORTANT NOTE:
* “internet” is smart's (APN) so you need to put this line in your configuration.
Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet"
* If your using smart network you can put any value in username and password since this is not needed.
* It is very important that you also put *99# as your phone value. (check with smart network)

enough of explaining the other parametters..whew!...here is my /etc/wvdial.conf =)

[Dialer Defaults]
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet"
Modem Type = USB Modem
ISDN = 0
New PPPD = yes
Phone = *99#
Modem = /dev/ttyACM1
Username = meric
Password = meric
Baud = 460800
Auto DNS = 1
Dial Command = ATD
Ask Password = 0
FlowControl = NOFLOW

Once, you have this all configured "YOU'RE READY TO GO".

you can now run your "wvdial" and start surfing.
#wvdial

Enjoy!

Special thanks to Dave Coombs / Avery Pennarun for doing a greate job and innovation on the wvdial.

[1]http://alumnit.ca/wiki/?WvDial

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Back to School, Back to Basics

Madaling araw na din when we finished our work in the office.

It was enormously tiring after the 3 consecutive KS (knowledge sharing) which i conducted
yesterday not to mention the orientation that i shared to LEN (new member of 8liens)...hala! sana makayanan mo yung mahirap na work sa 8layer..lagot! =)

Very well, my topics majorly did dwell on the following:

1. Sharing my insights on R&D/Design patterns and ERP Implementations.
-Thanks to Jasper and Kuya Rey because of the "INVALUABLE" ideas that they shared yesterday with regards to this topic as well. (I will note on our panda_y,pand@y,panda\y na isunulat ni jasper sa ating whiteboard) ay sya! paano ba natin ito e-espelengin?

2. Medyo kating-kating ako dito as this is one of my favorite,conducting Linux training to schools and other firms.THE LINUX BOOT PROCESS, this is also the first time in which i just outlined topics for discussion using a scratch paper na gamit ang whiteboard marker tapos sulat(s1,s2,s3,s4.s5)..stages..blahblah.. before presenting it to the group. As I always use IMPRESS lately everytime I conduct trainings or do presentations.

Reminisicing, it was during my yourger years that i've really learned so much about LINUX and its was during that period (that was 1996-1998), where i used to have my PLAYBOOK to map each and every detail on how LINUX boots... Without it,I believe it will be difficult for me to make my own distribution. Since I just finished our core OS (Kawing-Kawing Linux) last week (knowledge on bootprocess,hacking loader and init) is really an interesting topic to share and discuss.

3. Technology Roadmap for our newcomer and trainee. In this KS I discussed ON-DEMAND application,Autonomic Computing,GRID computing plus the basic of OS and Applications.

Bottomline, The lesson that I've learned in this KS sums to:

basic topics, like LINUX BOOT PROCESS with the rest above..can be definitely interesting (just make sure to focus on the accuracy and chronology/logic of nitty grittys, values and relevance, and make sure to answer the WHAT's in it for me/ or for the user? Whoever your audience is.
also, basic training tools and materials like (scratch paper) that comes in handy is not a
problem when doing presentation or technical sharing as long as you
know what you are talking about and know your topic by heart...( di kailangan ng projector..walang malaking TV.. excuses impedes learning and growth..) Just be selfless and continue the things that you want to share to your audience (make sure naman na tama). And lastly, it is also better you put this to practice, give each one assigned tasks/ assignment but most of all it is best that you make it work... kailangang magawa, first and for most.

More learning, More Work, More Fun.

Friday, June 06, 2008

My NVS and Lotus Foundation

I just finished installing my (3) three NVS environment on my Nitix Version 5.0.0a #0
1. nvs-sles10-2971.pkg; 2. Debian (Sarge) - Versabox 0.2.0 BETA and 3. nvs-1.1-25107.tar. Everythings works okay. I am still deciphering though on how to repackage all of these so that we can include our own rpm-based applications.

* BTW, if someone out there is knowlegeable in LFS, we are looking for a linux developer (certified geeks only- with lots of usable brain cells) who could help us with our ongoing project on linux distribution for our application. For those who may be interested just email mbmara@gmail.com or you may catch us at the Joomla Day on June 14 at UP.



Moving on, yesterday I was able to download a copy of Lotus Foundations-1_0_0. We installed it on my old P3 machines but we are having problem with it (hardware issue) . So we changed the hardware, we got to install it @

Genuine Intel[R] CPU 2160 @ 1.80GHz - 1800.442 MHz (GenuineIntel)
VT6102 [Rhine-II] (VIA Technologies, Inc.)
UniChrome Pro IGP (VIA Technologies, Inc.)
ST3160215AS ATA - 156.3 GB

Installation is as easy as 1-2-3, that even a grade three pupil can understand.
(hehehe sounds familiar j/k)

Enhanced user interface is something you will love on this distro.
I just have a little question with the "LOTUS FOUNDATIONS" logo since we are finishing up with this brochure, I'm really confused WITH REGARDS to its OFFICIAL COLOR. I see YELLOW+BLACK=WHITE or BLACK+WHITE. I hope that our friends@IBM will elucidate me on this.

... Going back, MY SAMBA experience after i connect using my ordinary user/account is that i can see all the other folders but can only access my own folder while the rest of the folders is "ACCESS IS DENIED". I just missed my Nitix SMB on which if i access my samba using my ordinary account the only folder that i can access is my own folder and only the root account can view all the folders.

And as to MY EMAIL experience, from qmail to postfix. =) it's very nice. But no webmail. Good thing our team developed our own webmail that we did call "mail8". As for now, this webmail client of ours uses http://www.php.net/imap to access our emails.... HENYO mabuhay ka!

upon more tinkering, my other findings shall follow...

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

IBM Lotus Foundations Start


What is Lotus Foundations Start?

IBM Lotus Foundations Start offers companies with little or no in-house technical expertise the essential software required to run a business. Combining reliability, security and simplicity, it helps to reduce cost and complexity:

* Self-configuring/managing – automates critical IT activity
* Automated disk backup
* Full system recovery in minutes
* Small footprint, reliable Linux-based OS that is easy to use
* Firewall included, antivirus and antispam (optional)
* Create and share information, email and calendars with IBM Lotus Notes and Domino
* Includes IBM Lotus office productivity tools – work on spreadsheets, presentations and documents without purchasing extra software

What's new in Lotus Foundations Start?

What's new in Lotus Foundations Start?
Lotus Foundations Start is based on the NitixBlue product that you are familiar with, and features the following enhancements:

* Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook (DAMO) support for Outlook 2003 and 2007
* Enhanced user interface with IBM branding
* 14 day trial for Sametime Unyte web conferencing service
* IBM Lotus Notes Domino 8, as opposed to IBM Lotus Notes Domino

Benefits of Lotus Foundations Start
• Provides essential software required to run a business, in one package
• Minimizes maintenance - no in-house IT expertise needed
• Quickly sets up a security-rich company network – includes firewall, and antivirus, and antispam are optional add-ons
• Protects and stores data with frequent automated backups – (software included)
• Facilitates the creation and sharing of information through e-mail and calendars
• Connects remote employees with anytime/anywhere access

Ryan's In/Out Board

May isang tanong kasi sa partner forum namin ng Nitix, kung meron na daw bang nakapagpagana ng
ryansiob sa nitix since ito daw yung gusto ng client nya. sabi ko lang sa kanya, na yung ryansiob eh madali lang iinstall at yung customization ng program ay nangangailangan ng konting background sa linux at perl programming. medyo ininform ko din sya na since yung program eh walang database o text files driven, hindi maganda kung lalaki yung data nya.

mahalaga din na marunong kang maginstall ng NVS (nitix virtual server) sa nitix since dun pwedeng itakbo yung application.

pero kung ako yung tatanungin, masmagandang gumawa nalang ng maliit na version nito sa PHP since pag binasa mo yung info patungkol application eh nakapa liit lang naman.

Kung may mga gusto pa ding magpatakbo ng application na ito. eto yung mga steps sa pag iinstall sa kanilang linux (eto rin yung ni-share kong steps sa aming forum)

tatakbo ito sa CENTOS 5.0,FEDORA 7,8,9 at Nitix version 5 na may "NVS version 1.1"

yung mga information abaout ryaniob pwedeng makita dito sa URL na ito.
http://ryansiob.sourceforge.net/

kung nitix ang gagamitin, walang "make" ito kaya magandang ito na muna ang maiinstall.
using "YUM"

eto yung mga pagkasunod sunod ng mga command na ginawa ko para maiinstall yung application. madali lang sya yung IP address ng laruang nitix ko na ginamit dito ay 192.168.0.34

yum -y install make

download Date-EzDate-1.10.tar.gz
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MI/MIKO/Date-EzDate-1.10.tar.gz

tar zxvf Date-EzDate-1.10.tar.gz
perl Makefile.PL
make;make install

download CGI.pm-3.37.tar.gz
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/L/LD/LDS/CGI.pm-3.37.tar.gz
tar zxvf CGI.pm-3.37.tar.gz
perl Makefile.PL
make;make install

yum -y install httpd
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
change Listen port to port 88

chkconfig --level 345 httpd on
service httpd restart

download ryansiob_2_3.tar.gz
wget http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ryansiob/ryansiob_2_3.tar.gz
tar zxvf ryansiob_2_3.tar.gz

cd ryansiob_2_3
mkdir /var/www/cgi-bin/ryansiob/
cp ryansiob.* /var/www/cgi-bin/ryansiob/
chown apache:apache /var/www/cgi-bin/ -fR

mkdir /usr/local/ryansiob/
cp -fR * /usr/local/ryansiob/
chown apache:apache /usr/local/ryansiob/datafile
mkdir /var/www/html/images
cp envelope.gif /var/www/html/images/

vi /var/www/cgi-bin/ryansiob/ryansiob.config.pl
*change the following

$ryansiob::cgiurl = "http://192.168.0.34/cgi-bin/ryansiob/ryansiob.pl";
my $images = "http://192.168.0.34/images/envelope.gif";

then "SAVE"

vi /var/www/cgi-bin/ryansiob/ryansiob.pl
require "/var/www/cgi-bin/ryansiob/ryansiob.config.pl";

then "SAVE"

YOU CAN NOW ACCESS YOUR IO/OUT APPLICATION
http://192.168.0.34:88/cgi-bin/ryansiob/ryansiob.pl
my $images = "http://192.168.0.34/images/envelope.gif";

for other configuration options READ
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=24764&group_id=119431
section 8.6-8.9