Help Sendong Survivors

Donate at least P5 to the National Red Cross. It’s so easy:

via SMS:

Text REDAMOUNT to 2899 (Globe) or 4143 (Smart)

via G-Cash
Text DONATEAMOUNT4-digit M-PINREDCROSS to 2882

You can donate the following denominations:
Globe: 5, 25, 100, 300, 500 or 1000
Smart: 10, 25, 50, 100, 300, 500 or 1000

Or go to: http://www.redcross.org.ph/donate

RIP Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

UP Naming Mahal

UP NAMING MAHAL music video from teddy salido on Vimeo.

XAMPP post install tweaks (Mercury)

verbatim from: http://www.danieltmurphy.com/setting-up-mercury-smtp/ — works!
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Alright so after being up late last night until about midnight I finally found out how to get Mercury Server running for SMTP. This is very helpful when you are testing on your XAMPP server and you are testing your email functionality and want to see the emails that it is sending out. Below are the steps to get things working.

Setup DNS for your NIC

* Go to Start->Network Connections
* Edit the NIC you are using
* Double Click TCP/IP settings
* Manually enter in the DNS servers from your ISP

Disable unneeded Protocols

* Start Mercury from the Control Panel
* Go to CONFIGURATION->PROTOCOL MODULES
* Disable everything except the MERCURYC SMTP RELAY CLIENT and MERCURY SMTP
* Restart Mercury

Make Changes to Core Module

* Go to CONFIGURATION->MERCURY CORE MODULE then the GENERAL tab
* Check to make sure “localhost” is the value of “internet name for this system”
* Disable all but “send copies of all errors to postmaster”
* check tab “Local Domains” make sure Localhost is there
* Close and save

Edit MercuryS SMTP Server

* Open CONFIGURATION -> MERCURY S SMTP SERVER
* Choose general tab and enter name as SMTP
* Make sure port 25 is listed
* Add 127.0.0.1 to “IP interface to use”
* Go to Connection Control and add 127.0.0.1 to the list
* Un-check “do not permit SMTP relaying to non-local mail”
* Close and Save

Edit MercuryC SMTP Client

* Open CONFIGURATION -> MERCURYC SMTP CLIENT
* Enter in external SMTP client (smtp.google.com for example) on port 465 with SSL (or whatever ports are supported)
* Enter your login name and password to that external SMTP server
* Close and Save

Edit PHP.INI file to include from line

* Then go edit your PHP.INI file in XAMPP
* Under [mail function] add the line “sendmail_from = postmaster@localhost”
* Stop and restart Mercury and Apache

Yup 27 steps is why it took me so long to get this thing working! The key is that last step to the PHP.INI file without that you will get an awesome syntax error on all your emails.

Q. why is everybody (on Facebook) turning into cartoon characters? O_O (c/o don tabin)

A. Ayon sa aking imbestigasyon… dito yata nagsimula

“From the 16th to the 20th of November, we shall change our profile pictures to our favourite cartoon characters. The purpose of this game is to remove all photos of human for a few days from Facebook”

Until the message was modified and had become a campaign

“November 22 to November 29, change your profile picture on Facebook, for a cartoon of your childhood. Why is this? To see only cartoons until Monday on Facebook, to create an invasion of memories of a well spent childhood to join the fight against child violence”

and then

“Change your facebook profile picture to a cartoon from your childhood and invite your friends to do the same. Until monday (Dec.6) there should be no human faces on facebook, but an invasion of memories. This is for violence against children. Let us do it for the kids! This is just a small thing.”

then we get videos. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=111821788886886

ref:

1. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101202225240AA5lYKx
2. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/facebook-cartoon-profile-picture-week
3. http://blog.codesignstudios.com/change-your-facebook-profile-picture-to-a-cartoon-from-your-childhood-to-support-the-campaign-against-violence-on-children/

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You can bet your ass that they will keep this going for as long as they can because this is a very good example of “gossip spreading like wildfire” and demonstrates the power of facebook. You can’t say its untimely, remember Christmas is still on Dec 25 and “Ninos Inocentes” is on Dec 28. They will find a reason to extend it.

As with all fads that come and go, its up to you to jump the wagon or not. Personally I got hooked with “invasion of memory” line, I liked the idea and so did a lot of people. Look at your friends’ avatars now and it really shows their age!

This fad is considered spam, stupid or downright pointless by some but so far it is less scary (or harmful) than chain letters threatening you of a death in the family if you don’t hit that forward button.

;P

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