Re: [plug] by law, FOSS is now the default in Ecuador

2008-04-17 Thread Rage Callao
During the House committee hearing on the FOSS bill, the PSIA had stated their objections to it. I wonder with Winston Damarillo being their new "chief" will they be singing a different tune this time around. _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mai

Re: [plug] by law, FOSS is now the default in Ecuador

2008-04-17 Thread Michael Cole
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 5:11:38 am Roberto Verzola wrote: > Like the announcement that the Presidente > of Ecuador, Rafael Correa Delgado, has just signed a decree making the use > of open source the default policy for government: Well is there not an law here about all government organizations

Re: [plug] by law, FOSS is now the default in Ecuador

2008-04-17 Thread Rogelio Serrano
They seem to have lost interest. On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Rage Callao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Rogelio Serrano > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what happened to the anti- "FOSS legislation" folks? Caught sleeping > > or in M$ funded junkets abroad

Re: [plug] by law, FOSS is now the default in Ecuador

2008-04-17 Thread Rage Callao
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what happened to the anti- "FOSS legislation" folks? Caught sleeping > or in M$ funded junkets abroad? Maybe its time we put that back in the > Philippine Agenda? > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Roberto Verzola <[

Re: [plug] DVD unreadable in linux, perfectly readable in Windows

2008-04-17 Thread Gerald Quimpo
On Thursday 17 April 2008 21:48:06 you wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:11:51 +1200 > I know all about regionset. However, I don't want to bake my drive > into Region 4 just so that I can watch the Evangelion DVD my sister > gave me! ah, that's right. > and that I can change it to a different reg

Re: [plug] Home Workstation RAID Setup Ideas?

2008-04-17 Thread fooler mail
On 4/17/08, Michael Tinsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With disks these days, by the time you start getting bad sectors, disk failure > ain't that far behind. in normal operation.. disk drives have a life span by its given mean time between failure (MTBF) by the manufacturer... or even more tha

Re: [plug] by law, FOSS is now the default in Ecuador

2008-04-17 Thread Rogelio Serrano
what happened to the anti- "FOSS legislation" folks? Caught sleeping or in M$ funded junkets abroad? Maybe its time we put that back in the Philippine Agenda? On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Roberto Verzola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got this from http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com. As of last

Re: [plug] DVD unreadable in linux, perfectly readable in Windows

2008-04-17 Thread Rafael Sevilla
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:11:51 +1200 Gerald Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cool. that's what the problem was. and i think dido might benefit > from that too. it seems that the drive *does* honor the regioncode > in firmware. i did notice that in windows this switching regioncode > message po

Re: [plug] DVD unreadable in linux, perfectly readable in Windows

2008-04-17 Thread Gideon Guillen
On 4/17/08, Gerald Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cool. that's what the problem was. and i think dido might benefit from that > too. it seems that the drive *does* honor the regioncode in firmware. i did > notice that in windows this switching regioncode message popped up with a > warni

Re: [plug] DVD unreadable in linux, perfectly readable in Windows

2008-04-17 Thread Gerald Quimpo
Hi Cedric, (and apologies to dido (in private email, dido, see below). On Thursday 17 April 2008 16:30:40 Cedric Paul Alberto wrote: > #sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh yeah, i'd done that. no joy. > If you get messages that the css key can not be found you may set the > regionc