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Orange HRM is most pupular Human Resources Management Software in the world. Orange HRM is an open source application that developed base on php Symfony framework. I try to install it on localhost and in my production server, a Centos server that managed by Cpanel. The steps are: I download the Orange HRM source code from http://www.orangehrm.com/download.php. I download OrangeHRM 2.6.3 Stable Release for Linux which has .tar.gz extension. I upload orangehrm-2.6.0.2.tar.gz file into my server and place it in public_html directory. I upload it using Cpanel File Manager. I extract orangehrm-2.6.0.2.tar.gz into public_html directory. I change the owner and the group off all directory and all file inside public_html to nobody, since apache in Cpanel server run as nobody. To change the owner and the group of all file inside public_html, I had to be a root first. I create an orangehrm database and a user that has all privilege to orangehrm database. From my browser, I call www.my-dom...

IPCop is one of my favorite router firewall linux distro. I had tried IPCop version 1 and now I use IPCop version2 (1.9.17). On many occasion I find the internet traffic in my office going slow. I have to monitor who has make it slow. I using iftop command line to monitor it. How to do that, it simple, since iftop is builtin on IPCop. First I have to enable SSH access to my IPCop router firewall box. From the web administration panel of my IPCop, I go to System menu then into SSH Access sub menu. I give a check mark on "SSH Access" and click the save button. Secondly, from my Linux Mint Debian Edition console, I login to my IPCOP box via ssh, with this command: ssh -p 8022 root@192.168.0.1 and login with root password. In my IPCop console, I run this command to monitor internet traffic: iftop -i lan-1. It means iftop will monitor the interface lan-1 which is my Office LAN connected to. Iftop give me a real time internet traffic monitoring. By the way, I got the na...

Open Office is one of free office suite that suitable for home and office user. It has word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool like microsoft powerpoint, database and some other. You can find the detail information on open office website . Some time we need to show or to hide gridline in openoffice calc. It is easy to do that. Open Option Menu and from the option left menu choose Openoffice calc then view. You can give "Visual Aid" a check mark on or off to show or to hide gridline.

Just for experiment, I install IPFire router firewall in virtual box inside my PC that running Linux Mint Debian Edition. IPFire is a wellknown router firewall linux distro today. In my opinion, IPFire is more like IPCOP router firewall, but has more integrated modules in default installation. The installation process is more like IPCOP. IPFire easy to use and administered through its web admin page. Since my PC only has on ethernet card, so I missed the RED network configuration, but all install process is completed. The RED interface can be setup later by running setup command. See the installation process video on Youtube.

Some times I need to record some certain activities in my desktop in order to make a kind of video documentation or a kind of tutorial on a certain topic. I used recordMyDesktop in my Linux Mint Debian Edition PC to record my desktop. To install recordMyDesktop, I use the Synaptic Package Manager. After installed, I can access recordMyDesktop through "Sound & Video" Menu then clicking "Desktop Recorder". With recordMyDesktop I can select a certain windows to record to by clicking on "select window" button. Or I can leave it to record the whole desktop. The result is a video file in format ogv named output.ogv that placed on my home folder. RecordMyDesktop give me an option to save the video result as another name. To start recording my desktop, I hit the "record" button, then recordMyDesktop application windows will disappear. To stop the recording process, I hit the red circle on my lower desktop panel. Since the output file is...

Several days ago, my friend had a trouble with his Thunderbird email client. He is a windows XP user and had used Thunderbird for several years. Thunderbird showing an error that indicate the inbox folder is full so it fails to download new message. I have found the similar error with Microsoft outlook 2000 at one of my friend PC, since Microsoft outlook 2000 personal folder has 2GB limitation. I ask uncle "Google" about this error... and I found that Thunderbird Inbox has 4 GB Limitation. But why my Thuderbird never show this error event my email size more than 4 GB? By comparing the internal folder structure between my Thunderbird and his, I found the cause of error. My friend put all messages into inbox only and never separate or categorize them into folders in local folder. And the solution come.... 1. I close Thunderbird 2. I copy the inbox and inbox.msf file as a backup into other folder. 3. I open Thunderbird again 4. In Thunderbird, I make several new fold...

I am using Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) right now. Some times I interest to try other Linux Distro or other Operating System, but still want to keep working on LMDE. I only have one PC and one hardisk. I could make a new empty partition on my hardisk, but this would make my PC become a dual boot system. I don't like dual boot system. And I think the better solution is using Virtualization. It is my lucky day, that we have virtual box ose in Debian repository. I install it using "Software Manager" in Administration menu. After properly installed, I can access Virtual Box via "System Tools" Menu. And then the journey to other linux distro is begin...