Student's Outlet

I guess the video tells it all! A great AVP made by Gerry Roxas and script made by Marston Pascasio. *hats-off* to this guys.

Tired of opening lots of different chat clients? Try Pidgin.

Pidgin is a chat client program that used to be installed by default in Linux (now it is Empathy IM Client), or to be downloaded and installed in Mac or Windows. Pidgin lets you log in to different accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. Like Meebo (no installation needed, only a web browser is needed), this means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time.

Pidgin supports many features of these chat networks, such as file transfers, different status messages, buddy icons, custom smilies, and typing notifications. Numerous plugins also extend Pidgin’s functionality above and beyond the standard features. One feature I like the most about this chat client program is that logs or conversations you have with someone is automatically stored in your computer.

Pidgin is free and contains no ads. All Pidgin’s code is open source and licensed under the GNU General Public License. This means you can get Pidgin’s underlying code and modify it to suit your needs, as long as you publish the changes you make for everyone to benefit from as well.

This is also translated into many different languages. See this for list.

Now, Pidgin already has a Twitter plugin (Twitgin), a Tweeter Conversation, which lets you tweet and receive tweets from the users you are following using this chat client. Read this for the instruction on installing this Tweeter plugin. Also, this chat client already supports Facebook chat. All you need to do is download and install the debian file, if you are using Linux, or the executable file if you are using Windows.

Now, you could already chat with you friend on MSN, talk to friends on Google Talk, sit in a Yahoo chat room, tweet and receive tweets with Tweeter, and chat with online friends in Facebook, all at the same time.

I have currently installed Lucid Lynx in my laptop’s system and this is the first bug I have seen, video thumbnails won’t load. All the thumbnails for images and PDF files are loading.

What I mean about the thumbnails are the screenshot preview of the video, not the generic thumbnail.

So, here are the necessary solutions I have found in the Internet:

• Check Nautilus preference (open any directory) then go to Edit Menu, Preference, and then the Preview Tab. Now, you could modify the settings.

* Video thumbnails should be automatic if you have a default gnome install and your gstreamer supports the codecs of the video.

• Next step would be deleting your cache for thumbnails. You could just point yourself to ~/.thumbnails or /home/username/.thumbnails delete its content, or maybe the directory itself (don’t worry, it would automatically created in the future as long as your file wants to load a thumbnails).
• Last solution I found is checking your codecs. I tried installing mplayer and the ffmpeg
  • sudo apt-get install mplayer
  • sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

  But here’s a package, which i think could help you to play restricted formats:

  • sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Pahayag ng USC Elections Technical Team hinggil sa mga balitang lumabas sa araw ng eleksyon sa UP Diliman

Una, nais namin linawin ang isyu tungkol sa pagiging late ng pagbubukas diumano ng mga presinto. Totoong nagkaroon ng pagkahuli ang pagbubukas ng ilang mga presinto dahil nagkaroon ng problema sa pagiimprenta ng mga password ng mga estudyante. Pero ang balitang mahigit dalawang oras naantala ang pagbubukas ng ilang presinto ay walang katotohanan dahil ang pinakahuli nang nabuksang presinto ay nasa 40 minuto lamang matapos ang alas otso ng umaga.

Ikalawa ay ang pagpapahinto ng pagboto sa buong unibersidad. Bandang alas-nueve y media ng umaga ay nahinto ang pagboto sa loob ng ilang minuto dahil ni-restart ang server na kinaroroonan ng Halalan (yung software). Ikatlo ay ang isyu sa CAL kung saan nagkaroon ng problema sa network. Naging dahilan ito upang maantala ang pagboto ng mga estudyante pero matapos malipat sa CAL Library ang presinto ay naipagpatuloy na ang botohan. Ito ay malinaw na problema sa network at hindi sa software.

Isa pang isyu na lumabas ay ang tungkol sa mga non-major. Hindi naimprenta ang listahan ng mga estudyanteng non-majors pero sila ay nakapaloob na sa sistema kung kaya’t sila ay maaring makaboto basta maipaalam lamang sa Technical Person na naka-assign sa bawat presinto.

Isa sa pinakamalaking isyung lumabas ay ang tungkol sa “glitch” diumano ng programa. Laman ng isang mensaheng teleteksto ang mga salitang ito:

“As you vote for less than 12 councilors only, tick that name and leave the others blank. Wag mag-aabstain, mavovoid votes niyo. Just let it be. Don’t tick abstain. May glitch ang system. Please pass.”

Nais naming linawin na hindi “glitch” ng sistema ang tungkol sa abstain. Ito ay function talaga ng sistema kung saan kapag pinili mo ang abstain ay hindi mo na nais bumoto para sa posisyong pinagbobotohan. Nabanggit naman namin sa mga public demo na ganito nga ang gamit ng abstain. Halimbawa nito ay kung hindi mo nais kumpletuhin ang 12 konsehal sa USC, maaari mong piliin kung ilan lamang ang nais mong iboto nang hindi pinipili ang abstain.

Maraming salamat sa pagsuporta sa Halalan. Sana’y nabigyan namin ng linaw ang mga agam-agam niyo hinggil sa ating eleksiyon.

- Halalan 2010, Technical Team

For more information regarding the computerized elections, please contact JP Bernardo at jp@jpbernardo.com.