Re: [plug] InformationWeek: Ubuntu 7.04 vs Windows Vista

2007-04-29 Thread Orlando Andico
It's not lagay. It's more like Erap putting the squeeze on Inquirer. Most/all "paper" IT magazines make their money from ads, not from circulation fees. So they are all under pressure to say glowing things about Microsoft (or, not say bad things..) for fear of losing major advertising revenue.

Re: [plug] Printer Support and Compatibility

2007-04-29 Thread Cocoy Dayao
On 04 30, 07, at 2:19 PM, Gerald Cenir wrote: Hi All, I am running on Kubuntu Edgy and bought a Canon Pixma iP1300 printer. As usual, it doesn’t have a driver for Linux included in the CD so I browsed the net for drivers. I found a driver but it is in rpm. I just found out that rpm can

Re: [plug] Printer Support and Compatibility

2007-04-29 Thread Mhac Janapin
Hi Gerald, Thanks for posting your thoughts. Regarding hardware support, you can write Canon about it. I did. And I was politely told that their company is not planning anytime in the near future to support Linux. I threw the printer away, and bought HP instead. LOL. Of course, not after the Canon

Re: [plug] experience with VERY LARGE LINUX postgresql SERVERS

2007-04-29 Thread Orlando Andico
Greenplum is a DW/BI database. So the workload is read-only :P The only time writes happen is when you're loading the DW using your ETL tools; this is a bulk-load. So there are no transactional issues. I was referring to the amazing performance figures (e.g. showing a picture of a single Sun X4

[plug] 1 web server 2 ISP's

2007-04-29 Thread greg
We have a web server with a public IP address provided to us by Innove. Due to frequent downtime of our ISP, my boss wants to have 2 ISP for our web server, so whenever 1 ISP down, we are still visible to the www using another ISP. Can anybody help me on this? By the way, I'm not really well-vers

[plug] Printer Support and Compatibility

2007-04-29 Thread Gerald Cenir
Hi All, I am running on Kubuntu Edgy and bought a Canon Pixma iP1300 printer. As usual, it doesn’t have a driver for Linux included in the CD so I browsed the net for drivers. I found a driver but it is in rpm. I just found out that rpm can be converted to deb package using a utility called alien.

[plug] InformationWeek: Ubuntu 7.04 vs Windows Vista

2007-04-29 Thread Pablo Manalastas
Here is the head-to-head comparison: http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=199201179 One thing I'd like to add: Ubuntu will run quite well on a 512MB 2GHz PC, but you need at least 1024-2048MB 2GHz PC to get a comparable performance with Vista. But the article

Re: [plug] experience with VERY LARGE LINUX postgresql SERVERS

2007-04-29 Thread Tiger Quimpo
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 14:10 +0800, Orlando Andico wrote: > On 4/27/07, Tiger Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting claims on that site though :-). > > Some of their claims don't make sense though.. Yeah, I thought so too. Or if they're true, I just don't understand them. I'm concern

[plug] Disable webmail access

2007-04-29 Thread Linuxpol
Hi guys, Just wanna ask if its possible to restrict specific users to access webmail w/out disabling their account? I just want them to use their email internally using their email client and no access in webmail from outside. I have Postfix+Dovecot+Mysql+SquirrelMail. TIA. Paul Magahis

Re: [plug] how to upgrading to Debian 4.0 Etch

2007-04-29 Thread Rage Callao
On 4/30/07, Rage Callao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here are a few more if you don't mind unofficial repos: deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main contrib non-free deb http://www.debian-multimed

Re: [plug] how to upgrading to Debian 4.0 Etch

2007-04-29 Thread Rage Callao
On 4/28/07, AC Perdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Can any one share his sourcelist here, I just installed Debian 4 but my source.list just have the following: # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20070407-11:55]/ etch contrib main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Lin

[plug] Latest kernel 2.6.21 for Fedora 7

2007-04-29 Thread Pablo Manalastas
I am using the latest Fedora 7 pre-release (6.93?). As of the latest update I am now using kernel-2.6.21-1.3116.fc7.i686. Linux-2.6.21 was just recently released, so this is really pretty new! P~Manalastas _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG)

[plug] Affordable Linux Robots For Everyone

2007-04-29 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://linux.about.com/b/a/257676.htm -- Of course, 'affordable' is relative, but "including the Qwerk, which is priced at $350, a typical Terk robot can be build for less than $800." -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoft