ACCOUNT ALREADY EXISTS ERROR

When joining in domain an existing account after reformatting the unit, the “Account already exists” error displays.

I am still trying to understand the logic, but this trick works well:
• Join in Workgroup first
• Restart the system unit
• Then join in the domain

SHAREPOINT AND ADMIN PASSWORD RECOVERY

Today, I have one challenge to another...
Recovering Sharepoint site
Recovering Windows Server 2003 R2 Administrator Password

Visited:
http://sysadmintalk.com/
http://philsys.org
http://www.mtusysadm.mtu.edu/docs/limoncelli/timeManagement.pdf

Office 2003 in Wine 1.1.06

So far, only MS Office 2003 works well in Wine. MS Office 2007 cannot run among other proprietary software list targeted to run in Ubuntu.

Vinegar as Mold Remover

Holidays allow room to clean not consider things in regular days like me actually cleaning the bathroom. Surprisingly, VCP told me that vinegar can remove molds. It actually wiped out the molds! VCP said that the science behind is that Vinegar is an acid. And if want to whiten the tiles, I should use baking soda.

PLAY ON LINUX

December 3, 2010
PlayOnLinux
Tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh26YBy812M

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html

sudo wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_jaunty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install playonlinux

install fonts

30 Reasons Why Turning 30 Rocks! Project

It's my 30th Birthday today!

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.- Hervey Allen


I will make the 30 Reasons Why Turning 30 Rocks like what is posted below:

http://michael-moniz.com/30-reasons-why-turning-30-rocks/

How to Know if you can make a living out of Your Passion

Notes from "How to Know if you can make a living out of Your Passion" video by Jonathan Mead.

How to Know if you can make a living out of Your Passion:
1. Long Term Dream / Interest
-moves you emotionally

2. Path is no limit
-When you think of following or has been following
-something you can evolve at

3. Excited to invite others
-excited with sharing with community
-can provide something potential for other people

4. Occupies great amount of mental space
-often wakes up at night
-what keeps at night

5.When you get a taste of it, it makes you hungry
-makes you hungry to learn more
-the hunger will drive you to learn more and to master
-when you can position yourself as an authority

Link is here: http://paidtoexist.net/blog/sustainable-passion/

Simple but treasured moment

My last Friday night was tremendously amazing! It was not the typical alcohol night but dug deeper officemates relationship.

Just a simple dinner in a no fancy resto brought spontaneous and intimate personal values. Everyone felt so honest and open to what is bothering one’s mind. Everyone blushed and giggled to every behind love stories!

I simply offer a simple dinner but treasured once in a lifetime personal connection and sharing!

Next plan:
Think of incorporated blog site. I am tired of switching topics from one blog site to another.

Subic Grande Island and Ocean Adventure

Subic Grande Island and Ocean Adventure
October 24-25, 2009

I enjoyed relaxing and fun company outing this first semester break.

Some facts:
-Subic is from the word CUBI.
-There are bankers all over Subic which were the storage of American ammunitions, missiles, etc.
-Whales below 20 ft are still classified as Dolphins
-Zoobic is the only Zoo in the Philippines that has Camel in its animal collection
-Only Aetas are allowed to catch fish in Subic, others will be jailed!

Covey’s Quadrant in Setting Priorities

I am now using the Covey’s quadrant in strategizing how to catch-up pending blog postings and article submission, review and pass her MIDTERM exam, attend information security training and open source work programs, and Rotaract issues and events.

Right now, I am monitoring the Asia Souce 3 event.

Exploring EXPOs

Still part of searching possible business, I’m now into exploring Expos. Awhile ago, I visited Philippine Business and Entrepreneur Expo (PBEX) in Megamall.

Interesting notes:
- P65.00 life insurance through text only covering 1 year
- Ice cream products with freezer
- Stocks investments
- Picture printing machine that can be placed anywhere
-Free Seminars focus on Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization

I will explore more on tips in visiting and later joining Expos.

MARKET UP IN 9TH SONA OF GMA

Yesterday was a full blown pro and anti-President Gloria Arroyo day! The heavy rain did not stop the protesters and supporters alike.

While everyone relaxed and watched the television (It was declared holiday!), the stock market went high. It’s unusual though, in every political uncertainty and speculations, the market seemingly goes down. But not this 9TH SONA of GMA. That’s good news!

INVESTING IN THE STOCK MARKET

The “Investing in the Stock Market” lesson for tonight is timing with my quest for personal financial management. It gave me a more in-depth but basic background in stock investment.

Some of the important thoughts:
• There is a real and big money in becoming an insurance agent
• There is such thing as mutual fund specialist
• First time to hear “Samurai” bond and “hot” money

I am now excited for Philippine Stock Exchange visit!

The pest is in the soil!

I already figured out what’s the problem! The soil itself is infected with a pest! I remember that I placed a cloth in every pot and box to prevent soil erosion. However, according to what I’ve read, cloth in contact with soil increases the moisture driven pest attack.

Therefore, I will dry-up all the pots and box so the pests in it will automatically die too. I prematurely harvested the previous batch of Pechays.

I learned that it is better to record and post calendar to remind of the exact age of the plants. This can be as simple as paper and pencil clipped in stick and erected near them.

Now I’m more excited to learn new discoveries with the fourth batch of Pechay planting experiment. I have already prepared the replacement seeds, they are now four days old!

Got my Flu Vaccine against N1H1

My arm is still aching a bit. I had my flu shot against N1H1 yesterday for free. The free vaccine shot is part of the precautionary measures of our company aside from alcohol, LYSOL, alcogel and other supplies pouring all over. The flu shots will be also for free for all our students.

Protection by screen…

I have been planting Pechay and have grown them healthy for a month then suddenly I scraped out the whole plant. Then the cycle keeps on repeating. This is because the leaves were attacked and eaten by the “unknown”. Until now, I really don’t know what insects were eating my Pechays’ leaves. Is it the worm, rat or bird?

Since I still can’t figure out because I didn’t catch them in the act, I bought a wire screen. The screen serves two purposes, protection against the “unknown” and strong direct sunlight. I think my Pechays are happy now :).

Urban gardening on the side again….

The rain poured the whole day. Raindrops signaled by brain to sleep all day. However, my green thumb said “It’s a great day for gardening!”. Therefore, it’s a gardening day once again.

I cultivated and gave my 2 months old Pechays a breath. Then, I cut and propagated my Basils. Basil is one of the medical plants for Hydrosis.
I really can imagine myself doing gardening as one of my healthy hobbies when I become a retiree.

I have finished two books today. Yay! What a day!

BE AN OPTIMALIST

The Primer for Pessimists suggests to be an “optimalist” instead of optimist.

The OPTIMIST believes everything happen for the best while the OPTIMALIST makes the best of things that happen. This article still revolves around the power of positive thinking and serves as a guide especially in our current recession crisis, be it in corporate or personal levels.

The topic is an inspiration for performing and gaining companies even in tough times like ours :).

But still, one should not make the current recession as an easy excuse for things we should be doing.

Below is the complete full article.


A Primer for Pessimists

Obesity and smoking may be the most conspicuous causes of illness in this country, but physical factors don't account for everything. Your psychology--namely, your personality and outlook on life--can be just as important to your well-being as exercising and eating right. And especially these days, with the world's economy tumbling toward a depression, it's a good time to prevent yourself from slipping into one too.

An entire science has grown up around the perils of negative thinking (as well as the power of positive psychology), and the latest findings confirm that a pessimistic outlook not only kindles anxiety, which can put people at risk for chronic mental illnesses like depression, but may also cause early death and set people up for a number of physical ailments, ranging from the common cold to heart disease and immune disorders.

Optimism, meanwhile, is associated with a happier and longer life. Over the course of a recent eight-year study, University of Pittsburgh researchers found that optimistic women outlived dour ones. Which may be good news for the motivational gurus out there, but what about the rest of us who aren't always so chipper? Are we destined for sickness and failure? Or is it possible to master the principles of positivity the same way we might learn a new hobby or follow a recipe?

The answer from the experts seems to be yes. But it does take effort. Seeing the sunny side doesn't come easily.

Be an "Optimalist"

Most people would define optimism as being eternally hopeful, endlessly happy, with a glass that's perpetually half full. But that's exactly the kind of deluded cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldn't recommend. "Healthy optimism means being in touch with reality," says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor who taught the university's most popular course, Positive Psychology, from 2002 to 2008. "It certainly doesn't mean being Pollyannaish and thinking everything is great and wonderful."

Ben-Shahar, who is the author of Happier (2007) and a new book, The Pursuit of Perfect (April 2009), describes realistic optimists as "optimalists"--not those who believe everything happens for the best, but those who make the best of things that happen.

In his own life, Ben-Shahar uses three optimalist exercises, which he calls PRP. When he feels down--say, after giving a bad lecture--he grants himself permission (P) to be human. He reminds himself that not every lecture can be a Nobel winner; some will be less effective than others. Next is reconstruction (R). He parses the weak lecture, learning lessons for the future about what works and what doesn't. Finally, there's perspective (P), which involves acknowledging that in the grand scheme of life, one lecture really doesn't matter.

Studies suggest that people who are able to focus on the positive fallout from a negative event--basically, cope with failure--can protect themselves from the physical toll of stress and anxiety. In a recent study at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), scientists asked a group of women to give a speech in front of a stone-faced audience of strangers. On the first day, all the participants said they felt threatened, and they showed spikes in cortisol and fear hormones. On subsequent days, however, those women who had reported rebounding from a major life crisis in the past no longer felt the same subjective threat over speaking in public--and did not show a jump in cortisol. They had learned that this negative event, too, would pass and they would survive. "It's a back door to the same positive state because people are able to tolerate and accept the negative," says Elissa Epel, one of the psychologists involved in the study.

Accept Pain and Sadness

Being optimistic doesn't mean shutting out sad or painful emotions. As a clinical psychologist, Martin Seligman, who runs the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, says he used to feel proud whenever he helped depressed patients rid themselves of sadness, anxiety or anger. "I thought I would get a happy person," he says. "But I never did. What I got was an empty person." That's what prompted him to launch the field of positive psychology, with a groundbreaking address to the American Psychological Association in 1998. Instead of focusing only on righting wrongs and lifting misery, he argued, psychologists need to help patients foster good mental health through constructive skills, like Ben-Shahar's PRP. The idea is to teach patients to strengthen their strengths rather than simply improve their weaknesses. "It's not enough to clear away the weeds and underbrush," Seligman says. "If you want roses, you have to plant a rose."

When a loved one dies or you lose your job, for example, it's normal and healthy to mourn. You're supposed to feel sad and even depressed. But you can't cocoon yourself in sadness for too long. A study by UCSF researchers of HIV-positive men whose partners had died found that the men who allowed themselves to grieve while also seeking to accept the death were better able to bounce back from the tragedy. Men who focused only on the loss as opposed to, say, viewing the death as a relief of their partner's suffering, tended to grieve longer, presumably because they couldn't find a way out of their sadness.

Smile in Your Profile Picture

If all else fails, try "catching" happiness from your friends. We are social beings, of course, and our outlook is influenced to no small degree by that of our friends and family. Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a professor at Harvard Medical School, documented in a 2008 study just how extensive and powerful this network effect is. Compared with glum people, those who were happy were more likely to be surrounded by other happy people--even the friends of happy people's friends' friends (who might be complete strangers) tended to be happy.

Christakis and his colleague James Fowler at the University of California, San Diego, are now studying happiness contagion in perhaps the largest social network of all, Facebook. They noticed that people who smiled in their Facebook profile pictures tended to have other friends who smiled. This might simply be peer pressure at work, with members feeling obliged to flash a smile to fit in with the rest of the group, but Christakis and Fowler are investigating whether there isn't a more infectious phenomenon at work.

If you still aren't convinced that your doomsaying ways can ever be changed, consider this: only about 25% of a person's optimism may be hardwired in his genes, according to some studies. That's in contrast to the 40% to 60% heritability of most other personality traits, like agreeableness and conscientiousness. Science suggests that the greater part of an optimistic outlook can be acquired with the right instruction--a theory borne out in a study of college freshmen by Seligman. Pessimistic students who took a 12-week optimism-training course devised by Seligman--which included exercises like writing a letter of gratitude then reading it aloud to someone--were less likely to visit the student health center for illnesses during the next four years than their similarly pessimistic peers who weren't tutored in positive thinking. And a larger study of more than 3,000 middle-school students who are being taught resilience techniques is under way in England. "It's the largest-scale validation that optimism can be taught," says Seligman, who developed the techniques used in the study.

The thing about being optimistic, though, is that it takes hard work--and that's a drag. It's an active process, say psychologists, through which you force yourself to see your life a certain way. Indeed, the leading optimism and happiness experts consider themselves born pessimists. But if they have learned over time and with lots of practice to become more hopeful, take heart. So can you.

By Alice Park Thursday, Mar. 26, 2009
(Wellness Section in Time Magazine)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1887872-1,00.html

iBlog5: The 5th Philippine Blogging Summit

iBlog5: The 5th Philippine Blogging Summit
Malcolm Theater, UP College of Law, UP Diliman
May 9, 2009 (Saturday) 8 am to 5 pm
Registration :FREE

To register :
http://iblogph.org/iblog5_registrants.php
I'm in number 298.

Program (as of March 22, 2009)

Morning session: (some can be sponsored talk)

* 9:00 - 9:20 Blogging 101 (Micaela Rodriguez & sponsor slot)
* 9:30 - 9:50 Photo Blogging 101 (Faith Salazar and Fritz Tentativa)
* 10:00 - 10:15 Break
* 10:15 to 10:35 Video Blogging 101 (Azrael Coladilla)
* 10:45 - 11:05 Mobile Blogging 101 (sponsor slot)
* 11:15 - 11:35 Do’s and Don’ts of Blogging 101 (Benj Espina and Juned Sonido)
* 11:45 - 12:05 Blog Promotion & Traffic Generation Strategies 101 (Winston Almendras and Coy Caballes)
* 12:05 - 1:00 Lunch break

Afternoon session:

* 1:00 - 1:20 Legal issues in Blogging
* 1:30 - 2:30 Preparing Bloggers for the 2010 Elections
- COMELEC on Blogging & Bloggers
- Citizen Journalism for the 2010 Elections (Oliver Robillo, NAMFREL Chairman - Davao City)
- The Bloggers Election Handbook project release (Janette Toral)
* 2:40 - 3:30 Blog Advertising Situation in the Philippines (Yehey and 2 sponsors)
* 3:30 - 3:45 Break
* 3:45 - 4:45 Blogging to the Next Level (Fitz Villafuerte
and Anton Diaz)
* 4:45 - 5:00 Raffle & Group picture taking

7:00 pm onwards After-Event Party (sponsored)

Continuing the Rotaract Legacy...

The Pilipinas Multi-District Information Organization (MDIO) has been very busy the last three (3) months and so I was too. We are now on our 4th series of meetings for Manual of Procedure.

The aim of coming out with standardized (but still always subject for respective DRRs’ discretion) is to provide a tool for DRRs in decision-making over common but needed district functions and concerns.

It’s been addressed that the existing districts have their own ‘version’ of policies which are sometimes chaotic. Remarks such as bias and unfair or no basis at all are the roots for standardization of these procedures.

Done manual of procedures are for District Rotaract Representative Election, MDIO Chair Election and DRRs’ Aide to MDIO. Targeted to be finished on 4th meeting are Sister Club / Twinning Guidelines, and Award Pointing System covering the four (4) avenues of service, finance and public image.

I’m happy that I’m healthy enough to continue to guide the growth of Pilipinas MDIO. It’s an exhilarating feeling to witness and contribute to what I thought as my legacy to Rotaract – the establishment of Pilipinas MDIO. For two years, we’ve been helping DRRs but now we are now also ‘creating’ future DRRs and MDIO Chair. I guess, along the process of trainings, seminars, discussions and fellowships, involved Rotaractors gain the awareness and enlighten them to aspire the positions. This in turn means continued leadership or life of the organization per se. This leads me through John C. Maxwell’s Law of Legacy states that a leader's lasting value is measured by succession.

And now is even easier as I have also fellow PDRRs who dedicate their time and expertise to our most cherished organization – Rotaract Club.