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Open a terminal, type "crontab -e" and look for the line which looks like this:

@reboot "/home/islesv/Freenet/run.sh" start 2>&1 >/dev/null #FREENET AUTOSTAR$

And just delete it.

(You need to restart the system.)

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A few minutes ago I blogged about my questions regarding LawPhil.net's licensing of its content under a Creative Commons license (more here).

Aside from its archaic contact form which just opens your default mail client and tries to send an email to russfaller@yahoo.com, LawPhil.net does not seem to have a valid contact address: lawphil@arellanolaw.edu does not work.

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As I've noted in this blog earlier, the people behind LawPhil.net had released it under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Philippines License. The problem, it seems, is what is meant by "This work" in their "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Philippines License." Since Es Alvarado is asking me what is meant by this, I am forwarding the question to the LawPhil.net team:

Hi Sirs,

I would like to ask some clarification regarding your licensing of LawPhil.net under CC. What is really included in "This work"? If common sense is used, then "This work" would include everything on the site, including your images, which I don't think you would like to release under a CC license. Also, if indeed the entire "This work" is under CC, this should include the HTML coding, but in your HTML source you are still putting the following copyright notice:

<!-- COPYRIGHT NOTICE
The LawPhil Project.
Copyright�2000. Arellano Law Foundation ITC Web Development Team. All Rights Reserved.
Obtain permission before copying codes here.
Web Design and Programming by the ALF-ITC Web Development Team. -->

Isn't the main purpose of CC is to make the permission automatic?

I hope to hear from you soonest.

BTW, a copy of this email is deposited here: http://tech.islesv.net/2008/08/which-this-work.html


Respectfully,


Vincent Isles
http://tech.islesv.net/

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I checked Bisdak.org on the process of updating the sites under my direct control. This is what I got:

(I typed the 'h'.)

I remember someone mentioning the same kind of problem at 110mb.com's forum, but I could not locate the actual post right now. As I didn't have the time to investigate what he really happened, I just changed my DNS server to OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220) [some notes] and the problem disappeared. Maybe some problem with the caching at my ISP's end.

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I just checked my blog at Blogger.com and this is the new dashboard that met me:


The official announcement is here.

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I was searching for BisdakWeb via Google as part of my research into a new startup which... well, I'm starting, bisdak.org. I envision bisdak.org to be the Cebuano portal on the Internet.

The only hit was this thread at PhilWeavers.net, which I could not access anyway since they require registration, which I really hate. Anyway, I got it via Google's cache, and I was able to read something about iWebmasters. Off to Google again. I don't know how Rick Latona figures into this, but I discovered that he also runs aeiou.com. And here's a funny thing.

Now I have to go and meet my girlfriend. :)

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ATutor "is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind," while 110mb.com is a free host. To install ATutor, you first need to download the zipped script file from SourceForge (link available from ATutor.ca), extract it, and re-zipped it in .zip format since 110mb.com only supports .zip format.

You then upload the .zip zipped file to your 110mb.com account, and unzip it. Create a database via 110mb.com's database manager, and then go to your ATutor installation - you will be redirected to the installation page.

Once you enter the database connection information, you will be greeted with this statement:

Database [database_name] is not in UTF8. Please set the database character set to UTF8 before continuing by using the following query: ALTER DATABASE `[database_name]` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci. To use ALTER DATABASE, you need the ALTER privilege on the database.

To do the task above, get 110DBManager and upload it to your account. Make sure you can access the database you created above, and then run the following query: ALTER DATABASE `[database_name]` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci

That's it. You can then continue.

When you are asked for the content folder, you can choose to put the folder inside your ATutor folder, but use a random string generator to get a hard-to-guess name.

Other notes:

1. Delete the installation folder afterwards.
2. Remove write access to includes/config.inc.php

Also, there are a few things which might need some tweaking: escapeshellcmd() and shell_exec() are both disabled on 110mb.com due to security settings.

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I finally got some time to fix some things at Bisdak.org. Whoa! That's it. That's the entire post :)

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