Stream of Ry

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.

I am probably the only person who ever replied like this to such assignments.

It’s just that, in my opinion, an instructor who asks his/her students to use a particular software is compelled to provide for them a copy of the software or at least a source where they can get a copy. Furthermore, being in education, the copy should be legitimate or else risk being a bad influence to his/her constituents.

Piracy is not an alternative and I do not want to be an educated pirate.

How can we, as academics, condemn plagiarism and not piracy? In essence, they are the same — making use of a legal intellectual property without credit — only that in software, credit is in the form of currency.

Seriously, if I don’t get an alternative or a legitimate copy, I will not do the Machine Problem.

Feel free to comment.

After 6 days with grueling Internet connection, I am finally back home to a fast enough Internet.

What is Asia Source 3?
From the site itself, it says:

Building Capacities and Empowering Humanity through the use of Free and Open Source Software to connect, cooperate, and collaborate – the FOSS way.

And true to their word, it is an event where the participants gets the final word  to what we will get to learn in the end. It also fosters and environment where everyone is encouraged to ask questions and share what they know. For anyone dealing with FOSS, Asia Source 3 is a good way to make connections with other FOSS advocates as well as a breath of fresh air as new ideas flow in from the conversations and from the track topics.

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