Aggregated Thinking

Back to school blues

jon — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:37:57 +0000

I’m already feeling the need to kick myself for taking full load this semester, but as my wife would always say, I’ve seen worse days and situations and just as long as I stuck with “the” plan, no problems.

For now, I need to answer the following questions: Am I ready for distance education? Am I ready to teach online?

Christmas Conversation – The Reason

jon — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:19:24 +0000

A good friend of mine started a conversation project and I told him I’d be happy to participate. He’d probably know what I’ll write here, considering that we’ve both gone to GCAF back in Cagayan de Oro, but it’s all good. What’s important is the intention of the conversation starter; and that is to let others in on the conversation of what the Christmas season is about.

So, not very succinctly, here’s my take of the Season. Christmas is not about Santa, elves, reindeer, or gnomes. It’s not about pine trees, tinsel, mistletoe, or fruit cake. It’s not just about gift-giving and sharing either, though these are done with Christ in mind. Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Christ, and what he’s about to do 30-something years afterwards.

What’s your take?

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-31

jon — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:59:59 +0000

almost done with the migrations #
add-to-calendar doesn’t work for me #
@JeromeGotangco mine didn’t get sent at all. but mozilla dinosaur said it did. in reply to JeromeGotangco #
sending this one from Ubiquity #
@tildemark yea i am so loving it! in reply to tildemark #
loves classic rock! #
don’t want to start a flame war, but IMO, Cliff Burton was the man! #
is swamped. server migrations, KRA adjustments, regularization review #
@JeromeGotangco you bought online? in reply to JeromeGotangco #
PLDT DNS servers seem to go haywire between 3am and 4am. #
getting intermittent notifications of some timeouts. Monitoring snapshots seem fine. What gives? #
thinks he may have that “final” hosting list for extensive review tomorrow #
@JeromeGotangco hope you get better soon. baka pwedeng i-IV na lang ang kape? in reply to JeromeGotangco #
@rcdiugun i’m spending more time on twhirl myself. the timeline thing gets to you eventually. in reply to rcdiugun #
watched The Warlords again. looking for some good Asian Civ resources online. #

Removing Adobe Air apps on Ubuntu

jon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:52:12 +0000

I was trying to remove AgileAgenda after fiddling with it for a week and deciding it wasn’t going to cut it. There’s no Adobe Air Application “uninstaller” in the menu, and search engine results usually point to Mac lurv, or not. Seems like uninstalling Air apps on OSX is bloody.

I did find this nice article on removing Adobe Air on Linux and gave it (well parts of it) a shot.

jon@jedi-ntbk:/opt$ sudo dpkg -S /opt/* adobeair-enu: /opt/Adobe AIR com.agileagenda.agileagenda.f49a4d8df78a1fee7a3be440dc11bab18d922274.1: /opt/AgileAgenda de.makesoft.twhirl.0ea062bc275e7ed1e6ec3762effd73c7158adf33.1: /opt/twhirl

I merely copied the package name of AgileAgenda, ran dpkg with the right switches, and pfft app’s gone! Menu entry seems to be gone too.

jon@jedi-ntbk:/opt$ sudo dpkg -P com.agileagenda.agileagenda.f49a4d8df78a1fee7a3be440dc11bab18d922274.1 (Reading database ... 128350 files and directories currently installed.) Removing com.agileagenda.agileagenda.f49a4d8df78a1fee7a3be440dc11bab18d922274.1 ... jon@jedi-ntbk:/opt$

More Plesk Blues

jon — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:42:48 +0000

I’ve had this problem with Plesk since I started relying heavily on it in 2006. For some reason, after you’ve added your client, allocated IP address to client’s pool, added a domain, and selecting physical hosting, you get the message:

Unable to update hosting preferences: hosting update is failed: object ID is invalid

After getting this error, you get the domain listed, but still requiring set up. Attempting to complete physical hosting setup will give you same result. First thing you’d want to look at would be some log. For all of its peculiarities, Plesk has an organized directory tree. Look at /usr/local/psa/admin/logs/httpsd_error_log and you’ll see that skeleton or template is missing.

I didn’t know exactly where to get the .skel directory, but some Googling led me to /home/httpd/vhosts/.skel/0, which after some directory skimming, I was able to verify as non-existent. I simply copied an existing .skel directory from one of our other servers and redid the physical hosting setup.

I’ll see if I can find out what’s causing the .skel directory to cease to exist. This is a fairly easier to solve issue. I so need to start looking in forums of Parallels (formerly SWSoft) for solutions.

giving microblogging a shot

jon — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:44:11 +0000

I am going to change the layout again, so I can slap in Twitter and Plurk badges or something. I have this strong urge to go back to writing substantial entries, and use the above-mentioned channels for asides.

pink v.smile tv learning system for sale

jon — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:10:00 +0000

My wife and I are selling one of Kysa’s barely-used toys. It’s one of Vtech’s multi-awarded preschool consoles and one of the best educational toys around.

It’s called the V.Smile TV Learning System (the ones they’re selling now are new models), and it’s in pink! It also comes with the Dora’s Fix-it Adventure game cartridge.

We’re selling it for only P4,000, after we’ve taken off 20% from the original retail price. It is practically brand new as it is barely used, and it’s readily available for anyone here in the Philippines.

There will be no shipping charges if you’re in Cebu or in Cagayan de Oro; meaning if you’re somewhere else, we’ll have it couriered to you and you just pay COD for shipping.

If you’re interested, and would like to buy, please email me privately (jon at doblados dot net)

my must-have’s for firefox

jon — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:27:00 +0000

in not so significant order:

1. mm3-proxyswitch
2. regular expressions tester
3. del.icio.us
4. greasemonkey
4. better gmail
5. firegpg
6. downThemAll
7. save as image

you’re looking good, opensource!

jon — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:18:00 +0000

opensource gets another breakthrough today, as canonical launches launchpad personal package archive (PPA), an ubuntu linux developers service intended to extend collaboration in software development and give the community equal opportunity to build and package code for ubuntu on the desktop, server, and for mobile applications.

great news for those itching to modify packages and contribute to the furtherance of opensource! users can make changes on packages of their choice, and these will be published in the PPA system, somewhat like a special repository.

aptly, users get the updates from the system whenever new versions of the packages become available.

more agua

jon — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:07:00 +0000

just how much water can your body take? doing a little experiment while i’m on treatment. one freakin’ mug-full an hour. bloated.