Stream of Ry

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.

The teaser video of the Durian Open Movie project used quite an epic accompanying music by Denny Schneidemesser. A lil’ searching should bring you either to his website or his newgrounds account which hosts his other music scores.

And the best part is, majority (or all?) of his music is licensed a CC-BY-NC-SA license which means it is perfectly legal to use his music scores in your personal, non-profit YouTube videos as long as you give him credit. You can also alter the work as long as it should come with the same CC-derivative license. :3

Right now, I’m listening to the said epic music titled “Entering the Stronghold” over at his NG page.