Bryan Arancon's Career Enhancer's, Computer Tips, Etc.

Exposing Oracle Database Connection

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:31:48 PDT

After Installation, your connection to the Oracle database is not yet exposed so you'll need to configure it inside Oracle.

This assumes that the user is successfully logged in to the Database.

1. On the Oracle Home Page, click the drop down box of the Administrators and choose "Manage HTTP Access"

2. On the Manage HTTP Access form, select "Available from local server and client". This will expose your database in your network.

Click "Apply Changes" button to save.

Your database is now accessible to you network.Happy DBA!

Mr.Bean On Show.AVI.exe

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:22:58 PDT

Your computer is infected!

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:35:17 PDT

If your desktop has this kind of problem. You can download Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830). And it will clean/remove this kind of irritating problem. Click this link to download the software.

(HON) Heroes of Newerth vs (DOTA) Defense of the Ancient

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:38:12 PDT

Like Defense of the Ancient or DOTA, Heroes of Newerth or HON has features that DOTA doesn't have. Here are the following:

Online HON can played only Online while DOTA can played in your own PC, via LAN or ONLINE. Since DOTA developers are still releasing more Maps including AI Maps where a single player can play in his own machine. I don't think if this will be an advantage by HON to DOTA. But for me, DOTA has 1 point.

HON with VIOP Since HON can played online, players must have a real time communication where they can plan and execute their strategies in the exact time. So no question about this, HON has 1 point for this.

Map Creation I'm still voting for DOTA regarding Map Creation because in HON, i think players can also create their own maps. In order to played these kind of game, you must have a single MAP that you can play on. DOTA has another point.

Leaver Protection When you play DOTA online, there is a lot of quitters or weak. They are the players who are quitting while the game is on because of some reasons like: their level gap to other players is far, and your hero is weaker compare to your opponent that’s why the only thing you can do is to quit your current game. In HON, quitters are restricted to other games because of its history of leaving games early. The game can be more exciting if all the players are complete until they finished the game.

For other info about Heroes, Items Changelogs, and etc, you can visit www.heroesofnewerth.com

URL Shortener

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:43:28 PDT

This tool is already available here in this site. You can enter to your long URL in the text box to make it short.

Avoid your identity to be stolen

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:39:09 PDT

After all these years, user identity hacking/stealing is still one of the issues which users are complaining. This horrible line of attack by some cyber hackers is now effective on some popular networking websites particularly in facebook and twitter. To avoid being a victim of this unfair attack, you can follow my advice.

- Don’t show your whole name on your account
Your name can be used by others to create an account where they can named it after your profile’s name. You can use your nickname or any names you like as long as it will not show your whole name.

- Just include only known friends in your list.
In this way, you’re confident that no one will steal your profile.

- Make sure that strangers can’t access your whole profile
All the networking sites have settings for this. Just let your friends access your profile.

- Apply edited images for your avatar

- Don’t save your passwords
Internet Browsers and some sites will ask you if you want to save your password after you login, it’s not a sin if you select NO sometimes. If you’re only renting a pc, this practice can help you protect your account.

- Combine numbers, special characters in your password
To avoid thieves to follow your hands while you enter your passwords. It’s a must. Or if you have a short password for your account, just observe your surroundings specially your back before you enter your password and type it very fast.

- Delete private data
Internet browsers have this option so you can remove it before you leave your machine if you are only renting the pc.

These recommendations are only the basics on how to avoid your profile to be hacked or steal. So it’s up to you if you want to search all of it to Google.

GMA's Missing and found persons report

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:30:47 PDT

A Television Network GMA creates a website that aims to help the people find their missing relatives or friends that was affected by typhoon ‘Ondoy’. By the help of this website, user can submit the names of their relatives or friends in this form. And this form will be transfer to authorities who’s still having their search and rescue operation to affected cities in Metro Manila.

To submit a report simply click this link.

Google Wave

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:02:09 PDT

A newest and hottest communication and collaboration tool is now here. Google calls it Google Wave. Check these videos why they called it WAVE...

I post some of its videos for the readers of my blog.

You can visit http://wave.google.com for more information about this tool.

You can click this link to know what people can say about Google Wave.

Just Avoid It

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:34:47 PDT

By avoiding the shapes using your mouse, your score will increase.

Play Games at AddictingGames

Let's play Parking Lot

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:25:51 PDT

Play Games at AddictingGames

Change your Blogger Favicon

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:18:51 PDT

To change your blogger favicon with your favorite logo or image, simply follow this instructions:

- Go to Layout Tab
- find this tag:

- After finding the tag, edit and paste this code:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="URL of your icon file"/>

If you select an image in your local machine, you can use tinypic.com to store your image and use the generated URL address of your image.

Kelsey Briggs (2002 - 2005)

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:51:50 PDT

My girlfriend, give me a link from youtube which show the images of Kelsey Briggs.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kelsey+briggs&search_type=&aq=f

And this is the video that I watched from the link.

I hope some of you was touched by this video. Please help to spread her story to enlighten those parents who are abusing their daughter(s)/son(s). And you can visit her memorial website.

Disable autorun using gpedit.msc

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:21:57 PDT

To disable Autorun feature of Windows, follow this instructions:
- From your desktop, click Start.
- Click Run…
- Type gpedit.msc in the drop down box.
- Hit Enter key from your keyboard.
- Group Policy will appear after pressing the Enter key.
- Under Computer Configuration double click Administrative Template to collapse the sub menus.
- Click the System folder.
- From the right side of the window, double click the Turn-Off Autoplay setting.
- Click the Enabled radio button to enable the settings.

Disable autorun in Windows XP

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:11:37 PDT

Except for using gpedit.msc to disable the Autorun, here is the other procedure for creating a batch (.BAT) file that creates an AUTORUN.INF folder and disables the autorun feature in Windows.

1. Open Notepad. Click Start>Run, type NOTEPAD, then press Enter.

2. Copy and paste the following text in Notepad:

<@echo off :: SET_NO_DRIVE_OTORUN reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer /v NoDriveTypeAutoRun /t REG_DWORD /d 0x0ff /f :: GET_DRIVES for /f "tokens=1 delims=:" %%j in ('reg query hklm\system\mounteddevices ^| findstr \DosDevices\') do ( echo %%j >> drives ) :: REMOVE_\DosDevices\_PREFIX for /f "tokens=3 delims=\" %%j in (drives) do ( echo %%j >> drives.txt ) del /q /f drives > nul :: REMOVE_SPACE for /f "tokens=1 delims= " %%j in (drives.txt) do ( echo %%j: >> drives ) del /q /f drives.txt > nul :: CHECK_DRIVE_TYPE for /f %%j in (drives) do ( fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%j | findstr "Fixed " >> fdtype fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%j | findstr "Removable " >> frtype ) del /q /f drives > nul :: GET_FDRIVES for /f "tokens=1* delims= " %%j in (fdtype frtype) do ( echo %%j >> dtype ) del /q /f fdtype > nul del /q /f frtype > nul :: REMOVE_SPACE1 for /f "tokens=1 delims= " %%j in (dtype) do ( echo %%j >> drives ) del /q /f dtype > nul :: DEL_DRIVE_A_FROM_LIST sort drives >> sort type sort | findstr "A" > nul if errorlevel 0 for /f "tokens=1 skip=1" %%j in (sort) do ( echo %%j >> sorted ) del /q /f drives > nul del /q /f sort > nul :: CREATE_OTORUN_FOLDER for /f %%j in (sorted) do ( md %%j\AUTORUN.INF attrib +s +h +r /d /s %%j\AUTORUN.INF ) del /q /f sorted > nul echo Press any key to close this window.. pause > nul>

3. Save the created file on your Desktop as the file DISABLE.BAT.

4. Locate the file on your desktop. Once located, double-click on the file.

Windows System Restore

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:37:49 PDT

If your machine encounters a problem or an irremovable virus hits your machine that your antivirus software can’t eliminate, you can use this option to use the machine’s state and content of a selected restore point. Here are the instructions you can follow:

- If you are using Safe Mode, you can choose NO to this option or otherwise skip this part.
- To access System Restore using Normal Mode, Click Start from your Desktop.
- Choose Programs.
- Choose Accessories.
- Choose System Tools.
- And Click System Restore. System Restore window will appear in your desktop.

- If you want to restore your computer to an earlier time, just click Next button.

- The next window is the Select a Restore Point. There was a bolded numbers on the calendar from the left, and they are the restore point you can select. The other numbers are disabled.

- When you pick a number from the calendar, you can select the restore point on the right side.
- Once you click the Next button, windows will now restore your machine.
- And this window will appear when your machine reboots after the restoration.

Safe Mode

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:00:30 PDT

Using Safe Mode, you can fix the problems of your machine, here are the instructions:
- When you hear a beep after your computer starts, immediately press F8. Or if you don’t hear anything, just keep on pressing F8 key.
- After pressing F8, you will have the Windows Advance Menu.

- Use the cursor to select the option for “Safe Mode”.
- Hit Enter key from your keyboard to start your machine in Safe Mode.
- If you got more than 1 user accounts in your machine, you can select any of them as long as they are member of the administrator group.
- After you selected a user account, a window will immediately appear.

- Click yes, if you wish to continue using the Safe Mode without the function of the System Restore. System Restore lets you choose the Restore point which your machine is running normally with no abnormalities in your system.
- Click No, if you wish to continue in Safe with the use of System Restore.

From there, you can fix your computer and even transfer your important files if you wish to format and install a new copy of Windows Operating System.

JABBAWOCKEEZ Rocked Manila!

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:09:27 PDT

After rocking Wowowee

the crew performed in Trinoma

and in Alabang Town Center.

I missed to watched their performance in ASAP 09

that's why before i published this post, i watched it in youtube And on that night, the crew have their final show in glorietta.

Follow Jabbawockeez on Twitter(The_Wockeez)

JABBAWOCKEEZ LIVE in Manila!

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:35:18 PDT

The America's Best Dance Crew Champion JABBAWOCKEEZ will perform in manila on the following dates

- September 5 Quezon City (Trinoma Activity Center)
- September 6 Muntinlupa City (Alabang Town Center)
- September 7 Makati City (Glorietta 5 Atrium)

Or you can visit the JABBAWOCKEEZ Website for more details of the group's tours and events.

Twilight : New Moon Official Trailer

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:47:40 PDT

ERROR [JDBCExceptionReporter:101] Communications link failure due to underlying exception: BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION java.net.SocketException M

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:03:10 PDT

ERROR [JDBCExceptionReporter:101] Communications link failure due to underlying exception:

** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION **

java.net.SocketException
MESSAGE: Broken pipe

This error always comes out to my logs, while liferay is up but the good thing is it doesn't have an effect at all. The reason is that the application is left idle after a few hours, then this error will come out.

To solve this kind of problem, you have to edit your portal-ext.properties file. In my case, i was connecting to MySQL 5 database and i want to share my settings of my portal-ext.properties file:

#The tcpKeepAlive and autoReconnect will do the trick...
jdbc.default.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.default.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/lportal?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useFastDateParsing=false&tcpKeepAlive=true&autoReconnect=true
jdbc.default.username=root
jdbc.default.password=password

#This line will set the file upload size to unlimited######
dl.file.max.size=0

#This line will disable the displaying of "Terms of Use" page####
terms.of.use.required=false

#Set the following to true to enable programmatic configuration to let the Portlet
#TCK obtain a URL for each test. This should never be set to true unless you are #running
#the TCK tests.
#tck.url=false
tck.url=true

#Set this to false to disable all persistent cookies. Features like automatically #logging
#in will not work.
session.enable.persistent.cookies=false

#Set the auto-extend mode to true to avoid having to ask the user whether to ex-
#146 Advanced Liferay Configuration
#Advanced Liferay Configuration
#tend the session or not. Instead it will be automatically extended. The purpose of #this
#mode is to keep the session open as long as the user browser is open and with a #portal
#page loaded. It is recommended to use this setting along with a smaller #session.timeout,
#such as 5 minutes for better performance.
session.timeout.auto.extend=true

#Set the default logout page path for users relative to the server path. This is the
#page users are automatically redirected to after logging out. For example, if you #want
#the default logout page to be http://localhost:8080/web/guest/logout, set this to
#/web/guest/logout. To activate this feature, set auth.forward.by.last.path to true. #To customize
#the behavior, see com.liferay.portal.events.DefaultLogoutPageAction in the logout.
#events.post property above.
default.logout.page.path=/web/guest

#DEFAULT LANDING PAGE
#Set the default landing page path for logged in users relative to the server path.
#This is the page users are automatically redirected to after logging in. For #example, if
#you want the default landing page to be http://localhost:8080/web/guest/login, set
#this to /web/guest/login. To activate this feature, set auth.forward.by.last.path to
#true. To customize the behavior, see #com.liferay.portal.events.DefaultLandingPageAction
#in the login.events.post property above.
default.landing.page.path=/web/guest/home

#
# This sets the default home URL of the portal.
#
#
company.default.home.url=/web/guest/home

#
# This will disabled password reminder in first login of the user
#
users.reminder.queries.custom.question.enabled=false

# This is a test to hide/disable jsessionid in the URL
#
session.enable.url.with.session.id=false

# This will disable the password reminder
#
users.reminder.queries.enabled=false
users.reminder.queries.custom.question.enabled=false

# Once this configuration is set to true
# there are queries that will be logged in catalina.out
# hibernate.show_sql=true

#
# This part is for the Performance Improvement
#
# Set this property to true to load the theme's merged CSS files for faster
# loading for production. Set this property to false for easier debugging
# for development. You can also disable fast loading by setting the URL
# parameter "css_fast_load" to "0".
#
theme.css.fast.load=true

#
# Set this property to true to load the combined JavaScript files from the
# property "javascript.files" into one compacted file for faster loading for
# production. Set this property to false for easier debugging for
# development. You can also disable fast loading by setting the URL
# parameter "js_fast_load" to "0".
#
javascript.fast.load=true

Upgrade Liferay Portal 5.2.2 to 5.2.3

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:03:24 PDT

To upgrade you liferay portal 5.2.2 into 5.2.3, simply follow this instructions:

1. Create a folder liferay-portal-5.2.3 to the same directory of your liferay-portal-5.2.2
2. Copy the compressed LR 5.2.3 to the created folder, then extract the file.
3. Since i have my portal-ext.properties file which contains my connection string to mySQL database , I've copy and paste it to new LR 5.2.3 on the same directory.

For Linux users, you can do this part to run liferay:
-from your terminal window, go to the bin directory of LR.
-type ./startup.sh, press enter.
-type tail -f ../logs/catalina.out

and liferay will automatically run.

For Windows users like me, simply follow these instructions:
-click the startup.sh batch file from the bin folder under tomcat and it will automatically run.

Observe tomcat while running, all the tables from the lportal database are upgrading which means that all your uploaded documents/files are upgrading to liferay 5.2.3 but the other files which you paste from the LR 5.2.2 like jsp files/ jpeg,etc will not be transferred. Just do it manually, copy-paste it to the same directory.

Sources:

Liferay Quick Installation Guide for 5.1
Upgrade 5.2.2 to 5.2.3?
Liferay Portal Administrator’s Guide for 5.1

Why more people are shifting from Friendster to Facebook?

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:54:35 PDT

I’m also one of the people who already shifted to facebook but I didn’t disable my account in FS because I have my geek group there. Although I got an account in both social networks, I preferred to use facebook rather than friendster. I’ve saved a lot of images and friends on my FS compare to FB that was newly introduced to me because of thousand flash applications and question and answer portions like “How big is you d*ck?” and many more. I’ve created my FB account because of these things called “FLASH GAMES” like Pet Society, and Restaurant City. Today FACEBOOK is the hottest social community site globally and also FRIENDSTER already received that crown when they acquired so many users and this is the reason that’s why their site is sometimes unavailable or under maintenance.

Self Migration From Visual Basic to JAVA

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:37:20 PDT

After watching videos and reading e-books about java, I unexpectedly appreciate the importance of class in Visual Basic. And since they’re both belong to OOP and uses objects, it will be easy for a programmer to shift his course from VB to java or vice versa. For a deadkid like me, it took a month for me to completely understand the ins and outs of java. I want to share my story on how I do the migration on being a javaman.

After 1 year of testing, bug fixing and producing a lot of documents for visual basic projects, I’m now starting to migrate into a JAVAMAN. I don’t know the real plan but I’m happier on what I was doing and it gave me reasons to create and publish this post. After I was transferred here in my temporary location, I started and still reading more e-books and watching video tutorials with reference to java stuffs. Since I was in my temporary table, I also have my temporary boss that gave a task to create a page for the maintenance of a table. The good thing is, they already have the whole system and I thought It will be easy because I can copy-paste codes for my page but I was stunned when I saw a lot of class, xml, jsp files that was already in their repository server. After 5 days, my superiors keep on asking about my little master piece and I feel pressured everytime they do that. After a million questions to my tutor feona and a bunch of pressured moments from my superiors, I already finished my task. Finally!

Though I’m learning java, I can still use my visual basic expertise in my special curricular activities. LOLZ!

Globe, Smart, Sun Prepaid Internet Kit

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:08:04 PDT

After I’ve finishes my dues to K-Servico were I bought my first baby[i'm talking about my computer], I'm now starting to wonder what will be my internet connection network. My parents is worried in terms of expenses more that I am that’s why they don’t want me to let my baby stay up everyday, and that’s my reason of choosing prepaid internet rather than DSL and Wireless Broadband.

Since the SMART, GLOBE and SUN are introducing their own prepaid kit, what brand will I prefer?

Smart Bro vs Globe Tattoo

As a COE student, I have little familiarity about broadband. Water is the primary resistance, that’s why you have to expect a little rain will make your connection sluggish. But according to other consumers like my officemate, he’s surprised in his fast internet connection. He added that a movie can download for only 15 mins. Sounds unbelievable, right? That’s why I’m still finding more proofs that one of those prepaid internet connection network has a higher speed connections.

Download and Install Java SDK 6u12

noreply@blogger.com (Bryan Arancon) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:35:57 PDT

Click this link to download jdk-6u12-linux-i586-rpm.bin

To install the downloaded bin file, simply enter these commands:

[root@localhost~]# chmod a+x jdk-6u12-linux-i586-rpm.bin
[root@localhost~]# ./jdk-6u12-linux-i586-rpm.bin

# accept the license agreement presented by the installer, then
# wait for the installation to finish