Greetings! Just some pointers on how to install the java runtime environment on Bayanihan Linux 4.0
JRE is needed by your firefox browser to run applets.
First, download the JRE file from http://java.sun.com with the filename like goes like this "jre-6u3-linux-i586.bin" then open a terminal window and log-in as root by typing "su" and entering the root password. If you do not know the root password, read no more. Your effort will be futile.
Extract the file by first typing "chmod +x jre-6u3-linux-i586.bin" then type "./jre-6u3-linux-i586.bin"
At the end of the terms type "yes" and press enter.
Then go to "/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins" and type "ln -s /path to your .so file/." Remember to use the .so file in the "ns7" folder and not the "ns7-gcc29."
After that, you're good to go.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Believe on your own
There is a tendency for us to criticize the work of others. Often, suggestions are given which should be most welcome. But why is it that some people make criticisms without any constructive suggestions? And why is it that some people criticize the work of their countrymen and make it look like their countrymen could not achieve what people from other countries had?
I have read the column of Dr Isagani Cruz, a former Undersecretary of the Department of Education during the time of the late Secretary Raul Roco. His criticisms on the Cyber Education Program of DepEd by far are objective (it is a 3-part series) but he did not offer any suggestions on those subjects.
What touched me is that in his second installment, he discussed how other countries faired in implementing a distance education program similar to Cyber Ed. Most of the countries included were reported to have certain degrees of shortcomings in the way they implemented their programs. After discussing each country, he asks questions like "if they failed in this how can DepEd succeed in it" or "if they can't do this, how can DepEd be able to do it."
Dr Cruz is still to publish part three and I am hoping there is a redeeming portion there because what I think he presents in this second installment is that our education department, where he once spent sometime as one of the senior officials, can not achieve or surpass what other countries can do.
I have always believed that the Filipino can go beyond what others can do. It was a Filipino who designed flourescent lamp that was patented by GE because of the failure of the government to have it recognized. The last time I have heard, it was a Filipino who designed the moon rover used in the lunar landings in the early seventies. The Filipino can always surpass what others can do or where they fail. And I still believe the Filipino can go beyond the limits other nationalities think we cannot reach.
When will we start to believe that we can be better than what we are now? That we can be better than what they are now? When will we ever begin to support someone who have surpassed our capacity to allow that person to bring us higher?
Until we stop living like the stereotyped Filipino with crab-mentality that people think we are, we will not be able to get beyond our barriers.
I have read the column of Dr Isagani Cruz, a former Undersecretary of the Department of Education during the time of the late Secretary Raul Roco. His criticisms on the Cyber Education Program of DepEd by far are objective (it is a 3-part series) but he did not offer any suggestions on those subjects.
What touched me is that in his second installment, he discussed how other countries faired in implementing a distance education program similar to Cyber Ed. Most of the countries included were reported to have certain degrees of shortcomings in the way they implemented their programs. After discussing each country, he asks questions like "if they failed in this how can DepEd succeed in it" or "if they can't do this, how can DepEd be able to do it."
Dr Cruz is still to publish part three and I am hoping there is a redeeming portion there because what I think he presents in this second installment is that our education department, where he once spent sometime as one of the senior officials, can not achieve or surpass what other countries can do.
I have always believed that the Filipino can go beyond what others can do. It was a Filipino who designed flourescent lamp that was patented by GE because of the failure of the government to have it recognized. The last time I have heard, it was a Filipino who designed the moon rover used in the lunar landings in the early seventies. The Filipino can always surpass what others can do or where they fail. And I still believe the Filipino can go beyond the limits other nationalities think we cannot reach.
When will we start to believe that we can be better than what we are now? That we can be better than what they are now? When will we ever begin to support someone who have surpassed our capacity to allow that person to bring us higher?
Until we stop living like the stereotyped Filipino with crab-mentality that people think we are, we will not be able to get beyond our barriers.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Sickness has its rewards
Being sick has its own rewards. You get some rest. You get to do light stuff at home. And you get to discover what other people had discovered long ago.
1. Photobucket has hooked up with Meez to provide you with an interface to create an animated avatar.
2. I have just found out that flickr had connected with Yahoo!
3. Yahoo! web messenger behaves the same way as the java chat code I have created. :)
Plus, I have discovered that bebe got multiply and photobucket accounts.
1. Photobucket has hooked up with Meez to provide you with an interface to create an animated avatar.
2. I have just found out that flickr had connected with Yahoo!
3. Yahoo! web messenger behaves the same way as the java chat code I have created. :)
Plus, I have discovered that bebe got multiply and photobucket accounts.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Education
Improvement in ones social status allows a person to elevate the status of those close to him/her.
An executive in either government or private institutions or organizations who got his elementary schooling from a far flung village where he/she grew up, his high school from a municipal school and college from among the schools located in his/her home province will tend to enroll their children to exclusive schools for their elementary and high school education and bring them to the national capital for college schooling in one of the prestigious universities.
It is their right to do so.
It may be because he/she did not find the education he/she got from his/her schools to be adequate. It is every parent's dream to give their children the best education there is.
But when it comes to looking back, only a few of them do try to reach out to their former schools to help make it better. Some will just tend to put down their alma mater while still some will not take notice nor take action on anything.
Is it human nature to keep on improving yourself and leave everyone else behind? Is it because of the so-called crab mentality of people that they will just pull themselves up and leave the rest to fall? When will it become our task to help others up? When will we make it our principle to be the one to take someone to a higher plane, even higher than ours?
Unlike the crabs in the final installment of Pirates of the Caribbean who, even though they walk over each other to bring the Black Pearl to sea, put others ahead so they can all move forward, we tend to move forward on our own leaving the others behind.
An executive in either government or private institutions or organizations who got his elementary schooling from a far flung village where he/she grew up, his high school from a municipal school and college from among the schools located in his/her home province will tend to enroll their children to exclusive schools for their elementary and high school education and bring them to the national capital for college schooling in one of the prestigious universities.
It is their right to do so.
It may be because he/she did not find the education he/she got from his/her schools to be adequate. It is every parent's dream to give their children the best education there is.
But when it comes to looking back, only a few of them do try to reach out to their former schools to help make it better. Some will just tend to put down their alma mater while still some will not take notice nor take action on anything.
Is it human nature to keep on improving yourself and leave everyone else behind? Is it because of the so-called crab mentality of people that they will just pull themselves up and leave the rest to fall? When will it become our task to help others up? When will we make it our principle to be the one to take someone to a higher plane, even higher than ours?
Unlike the crabs in the final installment of Pirates of the Caribbean who, even though they walk over each other to bring the Black Pearl to sea, put others ahead so they can all move forward, we tend to move forward on our own leaving the others behind.
Baseless accusations
Often times we hear people defend themselves from "baseless accusations."
In a recent post in her column, Ms Patricia Evangelista claimed that based on her assumptions "the men who put together the CEP are, scientifically speaking, idiots."
To claim that other people are idiots supposedly based on science, where is the "scientific" proof? Assumptions are just assumptions. Hypotheses, they were called during my elementary and high school days. To be scientific, a hypothesis must be proved or disproved using scientific methods. Where is the method here to prove that?
I do not have any scientific proof, but I do have various references.
According to wikipedia, idiot means (1) person lacking professional skill, (2) a private citizen, and (3) individual based on the Greek word idiotes. A modern day meaning is uneducated or ignorant person from a 1300 French word idiote.
In dictionary.com idiot means (1) an utterly foolish or senseless person and (2) in Psychology, a person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old and an intelligence quotient under 25.
I'm afraid I do not have enough time to look for a scientific study on idiots. Based, however, on what I have gathered from the ethernet, the "men who put together CEP" cannot be described as idiots. Here are the reasons why:
1. As opposed to the wikipedia definition, the "men" are professionals, working in the public sector, and are part of a group (ergo men - plural).
2. In contrast with the French word idiote, if those "men" are idiots, how could those "men" have finished their college and post graduate courses? And if they are ignorant, how could they have seen the need for the education sector to find a solution to put to scale all successful pilot project of the government and its partners?
3. And finally for the dictionary.com definition: these "men" are not senseless for they see the need to give poor children from far-flung schools a chance to learn from among the internationally recognized teachers of the country; and these men could not have the mental age of three because if they did, they will be talking about three year old stuff like bunnies and ponies and airplanes and candy.
When I was three, I began gathering an army of toy soldiers and vehicles and was on my way to planning world domination and intergalactic conquest.
In a recent post in her column, Ms Patricia Evangelista claimed that based on her assumptions "the men who put together the CEP are, scientifically speaking, idiots."
To claim that other people are idiots supposedly based on science, where is the "scientific" proof? Assumptions are just assumptions. Hypotheses, they were called during my elementary and high school days. To be scientific, a hypothesis must be proved or disproved using scientific methods. Where is the method here to prove that?
I do not have any scientific proof, but I do have various references.
According to wikipedia, idiot means (1) person lacking professional skill, (2) a private citizen, and (3) individual based on the Greek word idiotes. A modern day meaning is uneducated or ignorant person from a 1300 French word idiote.
In dictionary.com idiot means (1) an utterly foolish or senseless person and (2) in Psychology, a person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old and an intelligence quotient under 25.
I'm afraid I do not have enough time to look for a scientific study on idiots. Based, however, on what I have gathered from the ethernet, the "men who put together CEP" cannot be described as idiots. Here are the reasons why:
1. As opposed to the wikipedia definition, the "men" are professionals, working in the public sector, and are part of a group (ergo men - plural).
2. In contrast with the French word idiote, if those "men" are idiots, how could those "men" have finished their college and post graduate courses? And if they are ignorant, how could they have seen the need for the education sector to find a solution to put to scale all successful pilot project of the government and its partners?
3. And finally for the dictionary.com definition: these "men" are not senseless for they see the need to give poor children from far-flung schools a chance to learn from among the internationally recognized teachers of the country; and these men could not have the mental age of three because if they did, they will be talking about three year old stuff like bunnies and ponies and airplanes and candy.
When I was three, I began gathering an army of toy soldiers and vehicles and was on my way to planning world domination and intergalactic conquest.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
The traffic is heavy
There is traffic and there is heavy traffic.
In my country, when people say it's traffic, they mean heavy traffic.
I found out from my high school English teacher that the proper term is "heavy traffic" when the vehicles crawl inch by grueling inch along a city street. She also told us that traffic means movement of something along a predetermined path to a destination or from a source. So when we say, "It's traffic," what we really mean is that the traffic heavy.
So, mga pinoy, matrapik talaga sa EDSA kasi maraming sasakyan ang dumadaan. Pag walang trapik sa kalsada, ibig sabihin nun (1) nasa probinsya ka at walang sasakyan kasi hatinggabi na o (2) nasa siyudad ka pero Biernes Santo kaya walang bumibyahe.
In my country, when people say it's traffic, they mean heavy traffic.
I found out from my high school English teacher that the proper term is "heavy traffic" when the vehicles crawl inch by grueling inch along a city street. She also told us that traffic means movement of something along a predetermined path to a destination or from a source. So when we say, "It's traffic," what we really mean is that the traffic heavy.
So, mga pinoy, matrapik talaga sa EDSA kasi maraming sasakyan ang dumadaan. Pag walang trapik sa kalsada, ibig sabihin nun (1) nasa probinsya ka at walang sasakyan kasi hatinggabi na o (2) nasa siyudad ka pero Biernes Santo kaya walang bumibyahe.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Drinking tips
Here are some tips for a more enjoyable drinking session anytime, anywhere.
1. Drink beer while cold. It is always best to drink beer cold. You can drink it as fast as you can without much of an after taste. I have been drinking San Miguel Beer myself. And I drink it cold... very cold.
2. Gulp about half a glass of oil. My friends in the street corners once told me, "to stay long in a drinking session, gulp about half a glass of edible oil to line your stomach with water rejecting oil so it will not absorb much alcohol into your blood stream.
3. Eat oily food. Here in the Philippines, we have what we call pulutan or beer-matches - foods eaten together with beer. Again, the street corner boys suggested selecting oily foods as pulutan. This will also line your stomach with oil to lessen alcohol absorption.
4. Hard first before beer. It has always been a good practice to drink hard drinks first - whiskey, rhum, bourbon - before your drink beer. Alcohol content of hard drinks, being high, get's easily absorbed by the body thus affecting the sobriety of the drinker. On the other hand, beer takes longer to affect a person.
1. Drink beer while cold. It is always best to drink beer cold. You can drink it as fast as you can without much of an after taste. I have been drinking San Miguel Beer myself. And I drink it cold... very cold.
2. Gulp about half a glass of oil. My friends in the street corners once told me, "to stay long in a drinking session, gulp about half a glass of edible oil to line your stomach with water rejecting oil so it will not absorb much alcohol into your blood stream.
3. Eat oily food. Here in the Philippines, we have what we call pulutan or beer-matches - foods eaten together with beer. Again, the street corner boys suggested selecting oily foods as pulutan. This will also line your stomach with oil to lessen alcohol absorption.
4. Hard first before beer. It has always been a good practice to drink hard drinks first - whiskey, rhum, bourbon - before your drink beer. Alcohol content of hard drinks, being high, get's easily absorbed by the body thus affecting the sobriety of the drinker. On the other hand, beer takes longer to affect a person.
So, if you drink whiskey before you drink beer, by the time beer alcohol takes effect, whiskey alcohol effect has waned down. But if you drink beer first and then drink whiskey, fast acting whiskey alcohol will come into effect just as beer alcohol hits you taking you taking your consciousness into a wild ride down the rabbit hole.
5. Beer then wash with brandy. In another advise from a professional acquaintance, it is best to wash down beer with brandy. It was indeed. But our situation, however, is that we only had a few beers. We did not have any full blown drinking session that needed us to crawl back home.
After about 6 bottles each from a seaport side umbrella covered side walk drinking store in Tacloban, Cebu, we retired to the hotel's bar where we each had 2 shots of brandy to wash down our beer. In the morning, we were fresh as daisies sans hang over.
6. Brandy before dinner. That same acquaintance gave me another tip. Brandy first before meals. I never got to practice this but this is what he does: He drinks several shots of brandy until he feels a little light or tipsy. When that happens, he goes ahead and eats his dinner. I did not catch the scientific and probably medical explanation for that but he seems to have been fine after.
Happy drinking!
After about 6 bottles each from a seaport side umbrella covered side walk drinking store in Tacloban, Cebu, we retired to the hotel's bar where we each had 2 shots of brandy to wash down our beer. In the morning, we were fresh as daisies sans hang over.
6. Brandy before dinner. That same acquaintance gave me another tip. Brandy first before meals. I never got to practice this but this is what he does: He drinks several shots of brandy until he feels a little light or tipsy. When that happens, he goes ahead and eats his dinner. I did not catch the scientific and probably medical explanation for that but he seems to have been fine after.
Happy drinking!
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