LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is a Webapplication that interacts with MySQL, MSSQL, orPostgres to develop surveys, publish surveys, andcollect responses to surveys.

Once a survey has been created, data can be inserted into the survey either by a “pretty” public screen which presents each question one at a time, or by a quick and nasty data entry screen. It includes the capacity to generate individualized “tokens”, so that invitation can be issued to participants. It also has the capacity to set conditions on whether questions will display (branching), numerous question types, and a basic statistics function. Changes: A Malay translation was added, several minor bugs were fixed, and translations were updated.

Notes on ZFS quotas, reservations and others.. like adding up disk for the pool and creating pool altogether.

First, create a pool using ‘zpool‘. Then use ‘zfs‘ to make the filesystems.

Creating Pool with zpool

Create a pool called pool1. The -m is optional. If given, it specifies a mount point for zfs filesystems created from the specified pool. The mount point should be empty or nonexistant. If the -m argument is omitted, mount point is “/”.

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ld.so.1: cc: fatal: libpicl.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory – that’s the latest problem we encountered in installing Ruby on Rails… (well, not actually on Ruby but in some dependencies)…

Last time we did the GlassFish webstack installation (just to get RoR working) because the Ruby in Coolstack was an old version Ruby 1.8.6 something.

But as far as Ruby on Rails installation is concern, the Optimized Open Source Software Stack (Cool Stack) is working properly.. As well as the Glassfish installation.. The problem we’re getting is for some Gems that we’re trying to install (oracle gems and hobo and others)…

For this one, we’re trying to install the Oracle gem thing.. and it requires to compile something that needs CC.. we ended up installing Sun Studio 12.. (but I still believe gcc is a perfect alternative for cc).

Anyway, searching for “ld.so.1: cc: fatal: libpicl.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory” will give you unrelated websites (well, until this one gets indexed that is)..

As of this writing it only has 4 results:

What I did is i downloaded a Sun patch that contains the file and placed in my server same location:

Take this patch for example:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-108528-29-1

libpicl.so.1 installs in /usr/lib/abi/abi_libpicl.so.1 , /usr/lib/abi/sparcv9/abi_libpicl.so.1, /usr/lib/libpicl.so.1

and others

Just want to confirm my hunch that this Ubuntu 9 sites that is all over the internet is nothing but worthless, infoless, another junk spread in the internet.  But if you really want to download the new release or version of UBUNTU 9, there is a link in Review ninja you can go ahead and check out…

Here’s the original article about Ubuntu and the newly released Ubuntu 9 for both desktop and Server:

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The SYSadmin Philippines’ Unix Sysadmin blog supports (and want to go!) to the 2009 South by Southwest music and film festival in Austin, Texas!

SXSW Austin will be held this coming March 2009 and many artists are looking forward to it! And since I’m doing this post about it… Nerds and Geeks (those cool ones) are also looking forward to SXSW – South by Southwest!

Merry Christmas to all! Happy new year!

From the members and good looking guys here in Sysadmin Day Philippines, Happy New Year!

If you’re a big fan of the iphone,  you probably are aware of the current news and event about it. Here in the Philippines, Apple’s Iphone was officially released and distributed by Globe Telecoms last August 22, 2008.

By default though, the iphone 3G has limitations being locked to the local provider of course. Because of that you may feel that there is a certain limitation to what the iphone 3G can do… aside from the obvious that you can’t use a different telco sim card.

So if you don’t feel like you’re getting all you can from the iPhone App Store and other perks of the iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 software, you may want to ‘open-line’ the phone yourself.

The ‘process’ for unlocking the iphone is called ‘Jailbreaking’. Though ‘jailbreak’ is for Mac users, most of us (well, I assume) are PC and Windows users. There is an equivalent application for jailbreakinig an Iphone on a Windows box.. That is WINPWN.

Here’s how to unlock / jailbreak your iphone/itouch:

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When we say ‘image editor‘ on the open-source world, we instantly think of GIMP, GNU Image Manipulation Program, right? Of course.

But do you know that aside from GIMP, there is also another application, which is part of the KDE Office suite that is also perfect for bitmap image manipulation? It is also convenient for webmasters for editing photos for their web server shared website.

The application is called KRITA.

Krita is the bitmap graphics editor software included with the KDE based KOffice suite. Designed to be both a painting application and a photo editor, Krita is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License. It was released for the first time as a part of KOffice version 1.4.0, on June 21, 2005. Before any public release, it was called KImageShop and then later Krayon, but legal matters motivated a change from these names.

The differences start with the layout of the various user interface components. Instead of having them organized as a set of separate windows, Krita uses a single-pane integrated view, where all the UI functionality is included in the main window. However, the panels and tools can be freely moved around in the window and are dockable to provide a clean appearance

I’ve been blogging about many different topics for a few years now but I never made any money doing it until most recently. Now, I am happy that I am earning a few bucks now and then with my simple post and SEO activities. With a little extra money, I was able to catch the interest of few people who got interested in starting their own blog. As a matter of fact I have already taught my brother and nephew a thing or two about blogging. Then I decided to create one quick post about it so I can refer other people who might interested in creating one for themselves. The following is a quick and dirty steps or guide and background in starting a blog. Read the rest of this entry »

Yes, you heard right, today topic covers an Exchange Server. You know an Exchange Server right? It’s one of those M$ operated box with mails going all inside and all around it.

It’s no secret that the mail server of Micro$oft has reputations of having security holes and is super prone to spam… well, with today’s technology which one isn’t right?

Luckily for those users of Exchange, there are more than a number of third party server based anti spam software available to help them cope up with these problems.

One of those server anti spam software is GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP. This server-side application has a lot of numbers and statistics to back its name up!

It already received 60 awards, 80,000 satisfied customers has also been using it with complete satisfaction with the lowest prices compared to other server application Spam filter, it is indeed a tough competitor to beat.

Oh and did I say GFI MailEssentials anti spam filter captures over 98% of spam and it eliminates the need to install and update anti spam software on each desktop since it is server-based.

I am currently dowloading a complete and functional 30-day evaluation copy of it right now. With only 27 MB size of file, I suggest you do to and experience how powerful this little piece of software is.

Remember, it’s an Exchange spam filter, anti virus is a completely different story.