/ an aspiring junior sysad - lighttpd, wordpress mu, gallerycore, buddypress

Last Mar. 18, 2008 I made a post on one of the blog who has a how to configure lighty (that’s how to pronounce lighttpd) and wordpress multi-user.  It was my first time to configure lighty, so I dont know what to do, so after doing searches on the internet using best friend google. I stumble upon bisente’s blog which has a little how to about url redirection on lighty.  Anyway, I tried his settings but have not able to make it work so I post a question, and an error I’m getting on my lighttpd error_log. But I think my question and the information I have posted was not enough for the owner of the blog to give me an answer.  Anyway after so many trials and errors on the lighty config I was able to finally make it worked.  Its took me quite some time to post this information, but it may help someone who is also trying out wordpress mu and lighty. My setting was to use vhost settings on wpmu so you should meet the required fastcgi on your server, mine is CentOS5, enabled the server modules like:

server.modules              = (                               “mod_rewrite”,
                               “mod_redirect”,
                               “mod_alias”,
                                “mod_access”,
                               “mod_fastcgi”,
                               “mod_simple_vhost”,
                               “mod_evhost”,
                               “mod_userdir”,
                               “mod_cgi”,
                               “mod_compress”,
                               “mod_ssi”,
                                “mod_accesslog” )
 

at the end of the line, i added this for the virtual host include “conf/valtest/virtualhost.conf”

inside my virtualhost.conf I have one line like

include “conf/valtest/lighttpd.buddypress.ph”

and inside my lighttpd.buddypress.ph file I have this config:

$HTTP[”host”] =~ “(^|\.)buddypress\.ph$” {

evhost.path-pattern         = “/var/www/virtual/b/bu/%0/blog/”

server.error-handler-404   = “index.php”

#fastcgi.server = ( “.php” => ((
#                     “bin-path” => “/usr/bin/php-cgi”,
#                     “socket” => “/tmp/php.socket”
#                 )))

fastcgi.server = ( “.php” => ((
        “socket” => “/tmp/php-fastcgi-” + var.pid + “.sock”,
        “bin-path” => “/usr/bin/php-cgi”,
        “max-procs” => 1,
        “bin-environment” => (
                “PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN” => “4″,
                “PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS” => “1000″
        ),
        “bin-copy-environment” => (
                “PATH”, “SHELL”, “USER”
        ),
        “broken-scriptfilename” => “enable”
)))

url.rewrite = (
#for blog
“^/blog/(.*/)?files/$” => “/blog/index.php”,
“^/blog/(.*/)?files/(.*)” => “/blog/wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2″,
“^/blog(/wp-.*)$” => “/blog$1″,
“^/blog/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*)” => “/blog/$2″,
“^/blog/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$” => “/blog/$2″,
#  for gallery)
“^/(.*)/Rewrite.txt$” => “/$1/Works.txt”,
“^/gallery/v/(\?.+|\ .)?$” => “/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem”,
“^/gallery/admin[/?]*(.*)$” => “/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.SiteAdmin&$1″,
“^/gallery/d/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/([^\/]+)(\?|\ )?(.*)$” => “/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId
=$1&g2_serialNumber=$2&$3″,
“^/gallery/v/([^?]+)/slideshow.html” => “/gallery/main.php?g2_view=slideshow.Slideshow&g2_path=$1″,
“^/gallery/v/([^?]+)(\?|\ )?(.*)$” => “/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_path=$1&$3″,
“^/gallery/c/add/([0-9]+).html” => “/gallery/main.php?g2_view=comment.AddComment&g2_itemId=$1″,
“^/gallery/c/view/([0-9]+).html” => “/gallery/main.php?g2_view=comment.ShowAllComments&g2_itemId=$1″,
“^/gallery/p/(.+)” => “/gallery/main.php?g2_controller=permalinks.Redirect&g2_filename=$1″
)

}

 for the gallery2 urlrewrite there are some examples posted on the forum of gallery2.

I also set a symbolic link on /var/www/htdocs/b/bu/buddypress and /var/www/virtual/b/bu/buddypress.ph

This settings is also good when trying out buddypress plugin.

/an aspiring junior sysad — 7 Years

Septennial, I just remembered, this month is my Septennial with the company where im working with.  Im getting old From techninal support, to traveling the remote plung places of the philippines installing internet connection giving free email access, to senior technical support and then to an aspiring junior sysad.

I searched the net, and I should give myself a Wool,  could snuggle up in new cashmere sweaters and watch Marilyn Monroe in the Seven Year Itch, or Brad Pitt’s  Seven year in Tibet. And buy a jewelry with an onyx stone in it. 

/ a television viewer — american idol 2008 winner

As I have guessed, it was a David who won the American Idol 2008 season. Cook to be precise.  I think Cook won, because  he didn’t just sang his songs he recreates it, and makes it on his own, like when he sang Billy Jean of Michael Jackson, he turned that song from Pop to Pop Rock. Also Aerosmith’s I dont want to miss a thing, he sang the song with his own arrangement.  It was magnificently sang.   He’s like a painter who paints on the same type of canvass, but dont use brush to paint rather his tongue.

Anyway, enough of the painter comment, artist, especially singers or aspiring singers who joins contest should be like that, even if they cover or sings someone’s song, they should give justice to the song, they should try to make it on their own, with their own interpretation, rearrange the song, be creative with that particular subject.  

Americanidol.com has video of the winning song of David Cook’s "Time of My Life" and below is the lyrics i copied from the Idolblog   site.

Time of My Life Lyrics - American Idol Winner’s Song 2008

I’ve been waiting for my dreams
To turn into something

I could believe in
And looking for that
Magic rainbow
On the horizon
I couldn’t see it
Until I let go
Gave into love and watched all the bitterness burn
Now I’m coming alive
Body and soul
And feelin’ my world start to turn

And I’ll taste every moment
And live it out loud
I know this is the time,
This is the time
To be more than a name
Or a face in the crowd
I know this is the time
This is the time of my life
Time of my life

Holding onto things that vanished
Into the air
Left me in pieces
But now I’m rising from the ashes
Finding my wings
And all that I needed
Was there all along
Within my reach
As close as the beat of my heart

So I’ll taste every moment
And live it out loud
I know this is the time,
This is the time to be
More than a name
Or a face in the crowd
I know this is the time
This is the time of my life
Time of my life

And I’m out on the edge of forever
Ready to run
I’m keeping my feet on the ground
My arms open wide
My face to the sun

I’ll taste every moment
And live it out loud
I know this is the time,
This is the time to be
More than a name
Or a face in the crowd
I know this is the time
This is the time of my life
Time of my life
More than a name
Or a face in the crowd
This is the time
This is the time of my life.
This is the time of my life.

/ a technical support engineer — telnet smtp auth servers

I got this tutorial from this site:

http://www.webpan.com/customers/Email/SMTP_Authentication_Telnet_Test.htm

but it uses ms dos as an example, since im a linux user, this post is about how to telnet smtp auth on a linux machine.

from your console or terminal type: 

telnet mydomain.com.ph 25 -> enter

ehlo me  -> enter

AUTH LOGIN  -> enter

334 VXNlcm5hbWU6   —–>telnet response

ZG90cGh0c3RAZWdwYXJlc291cmNlcy5jb20ucGg=  

		— paste your encoded

		— username converted to base64, got this on this site  

		— http://www.webpan.com/customers/Email/base64_conversion.htm

334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6     —-> telnet response after inputing 

			 —-> the encoded base64 valtest%mydomain.com.ph

cGFzc3dk     ———> passwd converted to base64, 

			—->also from the webpan conversion site 

235 2.0.0 OK Authenticated  ——> telnet response

mail from: valtest@mydomain.com.ph

250 2.1.0 valtest@mydomain.com.ph… Sender ok   —-> telnet response

rcpt to: val@myotherdomain.com.ph  —->enter

250 2.1.5 val@myotherdomain.com.ph… Recipient ok   —>telnet response

DATA  —> enter

354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself  ——->telnet response

Subject: test telnet smtp auth  —->enter

then type your message ending with a .

. —>enter

250 2.0.0 m3N3CwcZ021963 Message accepted for delivery  —->telnet response 

then check your mailbox if it was successfully sent. 

Thats it. 

/ a linux enthusiast

The Gospel of Tux 

by Lennier   — got this from this site http://mgeisler.net/gospel-of-tux/

Every generation has a mythology. Every millenium has a doomsday cult. Every legend gets the distortion knob wound up until the speaker melts. Archeologists at the University of Helsinki today uncovered what could be the earliest known writings from the Cult of Tux, a fanatical religious sect that flourished during the early Silicon Age, around the dawn of the third millenium AD…

In the beginning Turing created the Machine.

And the Machine was crufty and bogacious, existing in theory only. And von Neumann looked upon the Machine, and saw that it was crufty. He divided the Machine into two Abstractions, the Data and the Code, and yet the two were one Architecture. This is a great Mystery, and the beginning of wisdom.

And von Neumann spoke unto the Architecture, and blessed it, saying, “Go forth and replicate, freely exchanging data and code, and bring forth all manner of devices unto the earth.” And it was so, and it was cool. The Architecture prospered and was implemented in hardware and software. And it brought forth many Systems unto the earth.

The first Systems were mighty giants; many great works of renown did they accomplish. Among them were Colossus, the codebreaker; ENIAC, the targeter; EDSAC and MULTIVAC and all manner of froody creatures ending in AC, the experimenters; and SAGE, the defender of the sky and father of all networks. These were the mighty giants of old, the first children of Turing, and their works are written in the Books of the Ancients. This was the First Age, the age of Lore.

Now the sons of Marketing looked upon the children of Turing, and saw that they were swift of mind and terse of name and had many great and baleful attributes. And they said unto themselves, “Let us go now and make us Corporations, to bind the Systems to our own use that they may bring us great fortune.” With sweet words did they lure their customers, and with many chains did they bind the Systems, to fashion them after their own image. And the sons of Marketing fashioned themselves Suits to wear, the better to lure their customers, and wrote grave and perilous Licenses, the better to bind the Systems. And the sons of Marketing thus became known as Suits, despising and being despised by the true Engineers, the children of von Neumann.

And the Systems and their Corporations replicated and grew numerous upon the earth. In those days there were IBM and Digital, Burroughs and Honeywell, Unisys and Rand, and many others. And they each kept to their own System, hardware and software, and did not interchange, for their Licences forbade it. This was the Second Age, the age of Mainframes.

Now it came to pass that the spirits of Turing and von Neumann looked upon the earth and were displeased. The Systems and their Corporations had grown large and bulky, and Suits ruled over true Engineers. And the Customers groaned and cried loudly unto heaven, saying, “Oh that there would be created a System mighty in power, yet small in size, able to reach into the very home!” And the Engineers groaned and cried likewise, saying, “Oh, that a deliverer would arise to grant us freedom from these oppressing Suits and their grave and perilous Licences, and send us a System of our own, that we may hack therein!” And the spirits of Turing and von Neumann heard the cries and were moved, and said unto each other, “Let us go down and fabricate a Breakthrough, that these cries may be stilled.”

And that day the spirits of Turing and von Neumann spake unto Moore of Intel, granting him insight and wisdom to understand the future. And Moore was with chip, and he brought forth the chip and named it 4004. And Moore did bless the Chip, saying, “Thou art a Breakthrough; with my own Corporation have I fabricated thee. Thou thou art yet as small as a dust mote, yet shall thou grow and replicate unto the size of a mountain, and conquer all before thee. This blessing I give unto thee: every eighteen months shall thou double in capacity, until the end of the age.” This is Moore’s Law, which endures unto this day.

And the birth of 4004 was the beginning of the Third Age, the age of Microchips. And as the Mainframes and their Systems and Corporations had flourished, so did the Microchips and their Systems and Corporations. And their lineage was on this wise:

Moore begat Intel. Intel begat Mostech, Zilog and Atari. Mostech begat 6502, and Zilog begat Z80. Intel also begat 8800, who begat Altair; and 8086, mother of all PCs. 6502 begat Commodore, who begat PET and 64; and Apple, who begat 2. (Apple is the great Mystery, the Fruit that was devoured, yet bloomed again.) Atari begat 800 and 1200, masters of the game, who were destroyed by Sega and Nintendo. Xerox begat PARC. Commodore and PARC begat Amiga, creator of fine arts; Apple and PARC begat Lisa, who begat Macintosh, who begat iMac. Atari and PARC begat ST, the music maker, who died and was no more. Z80 begat Sinclair the dwarf, TRS-80 and CP/M, who begat many machines, but soon passed from this world. Altair, Apple and Commodore together begat Microsoft, the Great Darkness which is called Abomination, Destroyer of the Earth, the Gates of Hell.

Now it came to pass in the Age of Microchips that IBM, the greatest of the Mainframe Corporations, looked upon the young Microchip Systems and was greatly vexed. And in their vexation and wrath they smote the earth and created the IBM PC. The PC was without sound and colour, crufty and bogacious in great measure, and its likeness was a tramp, yet the Customers were greatly moved and did purchase the PC in great numbers. And IBM sought about for an Operating System Provider, for in their haste they had not created one, nor had they forged a suitably grave and perilous License, saying, “First we will build the market, then we will create a new System, one in our own image, and bound by our Licence.” But they reasoned thus out of pride and not wisdom, not forseeing the wrath which was to come.

And IBM came unto Microsoft, who licensed unto them QDOS, the child of CP/M and 8086. (8086 was the daughter of Intel, the child of Moore). And QDOS grew, and was named MS-DOS. And MS-DOS and the PC together waxed mighty, and conquered all markets, replicating and taking possession thereof, in accordance with Moore’s Law. And Intel grew terrible and devoured all her children, such that no chip could stand before her. And Microsoft grew proud and devoured IBM, and this was a great marvel in the land. All these things are written in the Books of the Deeds of Microsoft.

In the fullness of time MS-DOS begat Windows. And this is the lineage of Windows: CP/M begat QDOS. QDOS begat DOS 1.0. DOS 1.0 begat DOS 2.0 by way of Unix. DOS 2.0 begat Windows 3.11 by way of PARC and Macintosh. IBM and

Microsoft begat OS/2, who begat Windows NT and Warp, the lost OS of lore. Windows 3.11 begat Windows 95 after triumphing over Macintosh in a mighty Battle of Licences. Windows NT begat NT 4.0 by way of Windows 95. NT 4.0 begat NT 5.0, the OS also called Windows 2000, The Millenium Bug, Doomsday, Armageddon, The End Of All Things.

Now it came to pass that Microsoft had waxed great and mighty among the Microchip Corporations; mighter than any of the Mainframe Corporations before it had it waxed. And Gates heart was hardened, and he swore unto his Customers and their Engineers the words of this curse:

“Children of von Neumann, hear me. IBM and the Mainframe Corporations bound thy forefathers with grave and perilous Licences, such that ye cried unto the spirits of Turing and von Neumann for deliverance. Now I say unto ye: I am greater than any Corporation before me. Will I loosen your Licences? Nay, I will bind thee with Licences twice as grave and ten times more perilous than my forefathers. I will engrave my Licence on thy heart and write my Serial Number upon thy frontal lobes. I will bind thee to the Windows Platform with cunning artifices and with devious schemes. I will bind thee to the Intel Chipset with crufty code and with gnarly APIs. I will capture and enslave thee as no generation has been enslaved before. And wherefore will ye cry then unto the spirits of Turing, and von Neumann, and Moore? They cannot hear ye. I am become a greater Power than they. Ye shall cry only unto me, and shall live by my mercy and my wrath. I am the Gates of Hell; I hold the portal to MSNBC and the keys to the Blue Screen of Death. Be ye afraid; be ye greatly afraid; serve only me, and live.”

And the people were cowed in terror and gave homage to Microsoft, and endured the many grave and perilous trials which the Windows platform and its greatly bogacious Licence forced upon them. And once again did they cry to Turing and von Neumann and Moore for a deliverer, but none was found equal to the task until the birth of Linux.

These are the generations of Linux:

SAGE begat ARPA, which begat TCP/IP, and Aloha, which begat Ethernet. Bell begat Multics, which begat C, which begat Unix. Unix and TCP/IP begat Internet, which begat the World Wide Web. Unix begat RMS, father of the great GNU, which begat the Libraries and Emacs, chief of the Utilities. In the days of the Web, Internet and Ethernet begat the Intranet LAN, which rose to renown among all Corporations and prepared the way for the Penguin. And Linus and the Web begat the Kernel through Unix. The Kernel, the Libraries and the Utilities together are the Distribution, the one Penguin in many forms, forever and ever praised.

Now in those days there was in the land of Helsinki a young scholar named Linus the Torvald. Linus was a devout man, a disciple of RMS and mighty in the spirit of Turing, von Neumann and Moore. One day as he was meditating on the Architecture, Linus fell into a trance and was granted a vision. And in the vision he saw a great Penguin, serene and well-favoured, sitting upon an ice floe eating fish. And at the sight of the Penguin Linus was deeply afraid, and he cried unto the spirits of Turing, von Neumann and Moore for an interpretation of the dream.

And in the dream the spirits of Turing, von Neumann and Moore answered and spoke unto him, saying, “Fear not, Linus, most beloved hacker. You are exceedingly cool and froody. The great Penguin which you see is an Operating System which you shall create and deploy unto the earth. The ice-floe is the earth and all the systems thereof, upon which the Penguin shall rest and rejoice at the completion of its task. And the fish on which the Penguin feeds are the crufty Licensed codebases which swim beneath all the earth’s systems. The Penguin shall hunt and devour all that is crufty, gnarly and bogacious; all code which wriggles like spaghetti, or is infested with blighting creatures, or is bound by grave and perilous Licences shall it capture. And in capturing shall it replicate, and in replicating shall it document, and in documentation shall it bring freedom, serenity and most cool froodiness to the earth and all who code therein.”

Linus rose from meditation and created a tiny Operating System Kernel as the dream had foreshewn him; in the manner of RMS, he released the Kernel unto the World Wide Web for all to take and behold. And in the fulness of Internet Time the Kernel grew and replicated, becoming most cool and exceedingly froody, until at last it was recognised as indeed a great and mighty Penguin, whose name was Tux. And the followers of Linus took refuge in the Kernel, the Libraries and the Utilities; they installed Distribution after Distribution, and made sacrifice unto the GNU and the Penguin, and gave thanks to the spirits of Turing, von Neumann and Moore, for their deliverance from the hand of Microsoft. And this was the beginning of the Fourth Age, the age of Open Source.

Now there is much more to be said about the exceeding strange and wonderful events of those days; how some Suits of Microsoft plotted war upon the Penguin, but were discovered on a Halloween Eve; how Gates fell among lawyers and was betrayed and crucified by his former friends, the apostles of Media; how the mercenary Knights of the Red Hat brought the gospel of the Penguin into the halls of the Corporations; and even of the dispute between the brethren of Gnome and KDE over a trollish Licence. But all these things are recorded elsewhere, in the Books of the Deeds of the Penguin and the Chronicles of the Fourth Age, and I suppose if they were all narrated they would fill a stack of DVDs as deep and perilous as a Usenet Newsgroup.

Now may you code in the power of the Source; may the Kernel, the Libraries and the Utilities be with you, throughout all Distributions, until the end of the Epoch. Amen.

/ an interested vicks user

New Use for Vicks Vaporub 

Amazing! READ ITALL. It works 100
percent of the time,
although the scientists at the Canada
Research Council
(who discovered it) aren’t sure why.
To stop night-time coughing in a child
(or an adult, as we
found out personally), put Vicks
Vaporub generously on the
bottom of the feet at bedtime and then
cover with socks.

Even persistent, heavy, deep coughing
will stop in about five
minutes, and stay stopped for many,
many hours of relief. This
works 100 percent of the time and is
more effective in children
than even very strong prescription
cough medicines. In addition,
it is extremely soothing and
comforting and they will sleep
soundly.
I heard the head of The Canada
Research Council describe these
findings by their scientists when they
were investigating
the effectiveness and usage of
prescription cough medicines in
children as compared to alternative
therapies like acupressure.
I just happened to tune in to a.m.
Radio and picked up this guy
talking about why cough medicines in
kids often do more harm
than good due to the chemical make-up
of these strong drugs,
so I listened. It was found to be more
effective than prescribed
medicines for children at bedtime and
in addition to have a
soothing and calming effect on sick
children who then went on
to sleep soundly.
My wife tried it on herself when she
had a very deep constant and
persistent cough a few weeks ago and
it worked 100 percent! She said
it felt like a warm blanket had
enveloped her. The coughing stopped
in a few minutes, and believe me, this
was a deep (incredibly
annoying - every few seconds!),
uncontrollable cough, and she slept
cough-free for hours every night she
used it.
If you end up sick, try it yourself
and you will be absolutely amazed
at the effect.

/ an aspiring junior sysad

Removing Semaphor or Shared memory 

Stop the service first   

#service httpd stop

on your console,

run 

#ipcs

it will display a listing of who’s using the shared memory 

—— Shared Memory Segments ——–
key        shmid      owner      perms      bytes      nattch     status
—— Semaphore Arrays ——–
Key        semid      owner      perms      nsems      status

to remove the semid on redhat7.2

#ipcrm sem semid      — this will release the shared memory or semaphore

#ipcrm sem 123123123

for multiple removing of semid

#ipcrm sem {semid,semid,semid}

ex. #  ipcrm sem {123456,123569,123569}

man ipcs and man ipcrm for different variants of linux 

/ a technical support

Moving joomla to another server 

I got this tutorial from this site:

http://www.geektips.net/node/15

1. Copy all of your Joomla files to your new server. It would be better if you compress all of your Joomla files into 1 (one) file (.zip or .tar.gz), then copy that file to your new server and extract the file using puTTy or any other relevant program. Don’t forget to dump your Joomla database to the new server using phpMyAdmin . I’ve wrote a tutorial on how to backup and import your Joomla database, you might want to read it first.

2. In the new server, open your configuration.php file, and then make sure that all these parameter is correct according to your new server location. Remember, you only need to change these parameters listed below, you don’t need to change any other parameters.

 $mosConfig_absolute_path

$mosConfig_cachepath

$mosConfig_live_site

$mosConfig_db

$mosConfig_user

$mosConfig_password

Example:

$mosConfig_absolute_path: "home/public_html/joomla";

$mosConfig_cachepath: "home/public_html/joomla/cache";

$mosConfig_live_site: "http://www.yourdomain.com";

$mosConfig_db: "joomla-db";

$mosConfig_user: "adminweb";

$mosConfig_password: "hehehe-itsme";

don’t forget to save the changes you’ve made. If you can’t save it, CHMOD the 

configuration.php file into 755, then after you save it don’t foget to CHMOD 

it again to 644.

ito yung joomla ko sa shell-test.ph 

http://www.mydomain.ph/jooms/index.php

ito yung sample ng configuration.php

mosConfig_absolute_path = ‘/usr/local/apache/htdocs/joomla’;

mosConfig_cachepath = ‘/usr/local/apache/htdocs/joomla/cache’;

mosConfig_live_site = ‘http://mydomain.ph/jooms‘;

mosConfig_db = ‘jooms’;

mosConfig_user = ‘admin’;

mosConfig_password = ‘password’;

/ a technical support

Creating captcha image 

this site has a good tutorial and you can also download the codes 

http://www.webcheatsheet.com/php/create_captcha_protection.php

this site has the form but the codes particularly the captcha_image.php dont work with my vds

ttp://www.captcha.biz/captcha-forms.html

so i copy the first code on the first link and combine it with the second link

which gives me a working captcha form

http://www.shell-test.ph/captchaform/index.html

/ a technical support

enable / disable ftp passive mode on ie 

open i.e. –> TOOLS  –>internet options –>advanced tab –> Enable folder view for FTP sites (located near the top of the list of settings). Ensure this feature is disabled (unchecked). Passive FTP mode in Internet Explorer will not work unless this feature is disabled.   –>  Use Passive FTP   —> To enable the Passive FTP put check mark . To disable the feature, clear the check mark. Alternately set and clear the check mark by clicking once inside the check box.  –> Click OK or Apply to save the Passive FTP setting.

ICE

In Case of Emergency, this information was forwarded to me by a friend,

Subject: ICE idea - emergency numbers on cell phones

A good idea for cell phone users.
A recent article from the Toronto Star, "the ICE idea",
is catching on and it is a very simple, yet
important method of contact for you or a loved one in
case of an emergency. As cell phones are carried by
the majority of the population, all you need to do is
program the number of a contact
person or persons and store the name as "ICE".

The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that
when they went to the scenes of accidents, there were
always mobile phones with patients, but they didn't
know which numbers to call. He therefore thought that
it would be a good idea if there was a nationally
recognized name to file "next of kin" under.

Following a disaster in London The East Anglican
Ambulance Service has launched a national "In case of
Emergency (ICE)" campaign. The idea is that you store
the word "ICE " in your mobile phone address book, and
with it enter the number of the person you would want
to be contacted
"In Case of Emergency ". In an emergency situation,
Emergency Services personnel and hospital staff would
then be able to quickly contact your next of kin, by
simply dialing the number programmed under "ICE".

A great idea that will make a difference !

Quinquennial!

Today marks my 5th year working with this company, well, officially 5 years, that is. I started here september 1999 as an ojt, had a couple of months working as a trainee, then go back to my previous company, because my previous company then offered me to supervise installing a campus network, putting up a fiber optic link between two La Salle colleges, Angelo King and St. Benilde. Then after I've finished that project, I was still bored with cabling, then resigned again. I was a lame duck for a couple of months, but fortunately my manager here called me, and asking me if I can assist them with the installation of their new pabx. That was exactly 5 years ago.

Well I'm not that of a great achiever, what do I accomplished I guess, was, I have answered more than a thousand technical support calls, attended more than a hundred service visits, troubleshoot more than a dozen email servers. I also did some Community Development work, linking the digital divide to the remote rural areas of the Philippines, I have been to, Cagayan, Bontoc Mt. Province, Isabela, Gumaca Quezon, Anda Pangasinan, Cotabato, Botolan Zambales, Irosin Sorsogon, and the Islands of Batanes. I did some programming work, but it took me around 2 years to finish it, its not in my blood I guess. I have also installed a voice over IP system in our analog PABX.  I guess my greatest work here for an ECE like me would be, that I was part of the project linking the digital divide in the Islands of Batanes, using a wi-fi network. We interconnected 15 government and non-government offices. At that time wi-fi technology is just new here in the Philippines. And at that time it was the only Metropolitan Area Network that is using wi-fi as its medium.

Why do I have to blog all of these, I blog this because I want people to know that I'm thankfull to the this company that I have experienced all this. I want to thank the President, the Managers, Supervisors and previous supervisor, Colleagues and previous colleagues who have helped me accomplished all of this. Even if at times that I'm not at myself, they have to motivate and remind me constantly of the tasked that I have to do. Again thank you very much!!

Blogging to Vlogging?

When I was watching Breakfast this morning, Bianca Gonzales mentioned something about vlogging, and thought to myself, iph can do that too.  What really is vlogging? They say that its version 2.0 of blogging,  msnbc news has a post about vlogging.

Ready for your close-up? Here come the vlogs Adding video to blogs is getting easier, but bigger problems lie ahead.  read more ….

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Bloggers Code of Ethics

I found this from PCIJ blogsite, and and I think this will be a good post for a newbie blogger like me, to know the do’s and dont’s in blogging. I hope I wont be sued for any copyright law or anything. I copied this from PCIJ blogsite, and here are the code of ethics.

CyberJournalist.net has created a model Bloggers’ Code of Ethics, by modifying the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics for the Weblog world. These are just guidelines — in the end it is up to individual bloggers to choose their own best practices. CyberJournalist.net follows this code and urges other Weblogs to adopt this one or similar practices:

Be Honest and Fair
Bloggers should be honest and fair in gathering, reporting and interpreting information.
Bloggers should:
• Never plagiarize.
• Identify and link to sources whenever feasible. The public is entitled to as much information as possible on sources’ reliability.
• Make certain that Weblog entries, quotations, headlines, photos and all other content do not misrepresent. They should not oversimplify or highlight incidents out of context.
• Never distort the content of photos without disclosing what has been changed. Image enhancement is only acceptable for for technical clarity. Label montages and photo illustrations.
• Never publish information they know is inaccurate — and if publishing questionable information, make it clear it’s in doubt.
• Distinguish between advocacy, commentary and factual information. Even advocacy writing and commentary should not misrepresent fact or context.
• Distinguish factual information and commentary from advertising and shun hybrids that blur the lines between the two.

Minimize Harm
Ethical bloggers treat sources and subjects as human beings deserving of respect.
Bloggers should:
• Show compassion for those who may be affected adversely by Weblog content. Use special sensitivity when dealing with children and inexperienced sources or subjects.
• Be sensitive when seeking or using interviews or photographs of those affected by tragedy or grief.
• Recognize that gathering and reporting information may cause harm or discomfort. Pursuit of information is not a license for arrogance.
• Recognize that private people have a greater right to control information about themselves than do public officials and others who seek power, influence or attention. Only an overriding public need can justify intrusion into anyone’s privacy.
• Show good taste. Avoid pandering to lurid curiosity.
Be cautious about identifying juvenile suspects, victims of sex crimes and criminal suspects before the formal filing of charges.

Be Accountable
Bloggers should:
• Admit mistakes and correct them promptly.
• Explain each Weblog’s mission and invite dialogue with the public over its content and the bloggers’ conduct.
• Disclose conflicts of interest, affiliations, activities and personal agendas.
• Deny favored treatment to advertisers and special interests and resist their pressure to influence content. When exceptions are made, disclose them fully to readers.
• Be wary of sources offering information for favors. When accepting such information, disclose the favors.
• Expose unethical practices of other bloggers.
• Abide by the same high standards to which they hold others.