Stream of Ry

Last week, we’ve touched on about:cache but did you know that there are a lot more about: pages in Firefox?
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Before I give you the link, I would like to clarify that:
“This is a demo installation and Single User Session locking and Recording of Votes were disabled to accommodate every tester without having to create additional accounts.”

Which means, even if you vote using the sample accounts, it will not be recorded, ever (in this demo install).

Comments and questions are welcome and encouraged.

Sample Ballot for Chairperson, Vice Chairperson and Councilors are hosted (temporarily) here.

It’s Firefox Friday again and this time I’m going to teach you guys how to download YouTube videos using only Firefox and your file explorer.. and no, this is not the “go to this website, paste video link and you get a download prompt” sort of technique. I learned this method via my Dilnet friends so, many thanks to them. :3
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For those who’ve upgraded to Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka) in Linux and could not seem to find Java support, you can do the following to fix it up:

1. Verify that sun-java6-plugin is installed: sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin
2. Once verified/installed, look for libnpjp2.so: locate libnpjp2.so
   • You may have to do an updatedb first: sudo updatedb
   • Mine returns /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.15/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
   • Take note of this path.
3. Then, navigate to your mozilla plugins path:cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
4. Move somewhere else or completely delete libjavaplugin.so
5. Make a symbolic link of the libnpjp2.so you find earlier to the current folder: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.15/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so . Take note of the dot at the end.
6. Restart Firefox
7. Test it over at the Java website

My references were the following site: Mozilla Forums and Java Webnotes
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From now on, I’ll try posting Firefox related posts every Friday. This was an idea brought up at the Mozilla Philippines Community 2010 Kick-off meeting.

Here’s a concatenated screencap of the site:

Page 1:

Page 2:

And here are dig and whois returns: TESDA.txt

Well, securing the server is really supposed to be the job of the webhost (in this case, Bitstop Inc. or Ikoula judging from the whois records) and if this was on a shared hosting, oh boy, they’re in real big trouble with their other clients if they made some changes with the system files. Tsk tsk.

Important lesson from all of this: Do not use IIS.

Although I will not claim that Apache is bulletproof, I’m pretty sure it’s far more secure than IIS.

Edit: Tesda Women’s Center website is the one hosted at Bitstop.