Re: [plug] DNS or webserver problem. help please

2006-12-03 Thread joebert jacaba
im using smart bro right now and i can dig www.orgz.ph _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.

Re: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Marvin noong Sun, Dec 3, 2006 at 2:25 PM: Hello all, I can't stand it anymore. If you just read the postcript of Federico D. Pascual Jr. at http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200612032602.htm it is unfair to us advocates of the F/OSS that we don't have any press releases defending our

Re: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread Rom Feria
This is an obvious challenge to us Open Source advocates. I am doing my share via Manila Bulletin but it is only a once a week thing. We need more - can we get sponsors such as IBM, Sun and Oracle to give us funds for a half-page advert stating that these writers from PhilStar and Inq do

RE: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread John Galt
Dude. No need to blow a gasket. There are always pro's and con's on using F/OSS and proprietary SW. The author of that article must be inclined on the latter. If you want to "return a favor", then heed Daniel's advice. I am a MCP and MCSE myself but I am here because a few of my clients wish to

Re: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread Sir John Nueva
Hi, I hope we Open Source advocates be cool about this, we are not politician to fight head to head with this people it will only cause more dis-information regarding the open source if we do. People do not know what is the difference between Open Source and the rest of Software license. We who un

Re: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread freelancer
I'm new in this loop. am a journalist and ubuntu user. Just want to share some thoughts about coming up with press releases or to just send individual feedbacks to pascual or to manila bulletin. Feedbacks or letters to the editor land in the letters section of the paper and sometimes they're no

Re: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread Rom Feria
On Dec 3, 2006, at 5:18 PM, John Galt wrote: On the mandatory implementation of F/OSS within the Gov't, I am on the side of pro-choice. Same with my clients, I always promote and recommend M$but also inform them of the alternative, F/OSS. Then I leave up to them to decide which techn

Re: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread Rom Feria
Dear Sir John, It is not that we are fighting head-to-head with them. It is just a matter of pointing out their misconceptions about FOSS and about the bill. I am urging Rep. Casino to publish a rebuttal and the community to do everything it can to inform the media about FOSS. The thing

Re: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread Rom Feria
Again, I say send me the press release and will get TechNews editor of Manila Bulletin to approve it for release. On Dec 3, 2006, at 5:32 PM, freelancer wrote: I'm new in this loop. am a journalist and ubuntu user. Just want to share some thoughts about coming up with press releases or to

Re: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread bopolissimus X platypus Jr
Moving to Plug-Misc because it's probably going to be a long discussion that should not clutter up the technical list. I'd suggest posting there instead of in the main PLUG list. On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 14:25 +0800, Marvin T. Pascual wrote: > I can't stand it anymore. If you just read the postcrip

Re: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread renlux
We're not talking about your clients... We're talking about the "government" of the Phlippines. I think you know the characteristics, good and bad, of our government. In my opinion, as far as the phillippine government is concern, mandating the use of FOSS in the government has a lot of advantage

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2006-12-03 Thread JALANI \"paner\" C. MONTILA
paano maging member ng Plug? may mga form ba na fil up? JALANI "paner" C. MONTILA Ituloy Angsulong homepage: http://www.j4l4ni.horizonwisp.com Interest: Computer Repair, Networking, Web Dev., Open Source Business site: http://www.ciscogadgets.com Cheap Webhosting & Domains in the Philippines

Re: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread thad
There is also a link for Philstar at PEX maye we can fire up a discussion there I know a lot of members of this list are pexersso calling all pexers. http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=252 On 12/3/06, Daniel Escasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sabi ni Marvin

Re: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread Roberto Verzola
> On the mandatory implementation of F/OSS within the Gov't, I am on the side > of pro-choice. Same with my clients, I always promote and recommend > M$but also inform them of the alternative, F/OSS. Then I leave up to > them to decide which technology platform to use. If my clients want M$, >

[plug] (OT) Situation of FOSS in the Philippines

2006-12-03 Thread Lorena Formanes
hello po mga kuya at ate sa plug, me nameet akong linux users group dito sa hamburg, and they asked me to share something about the FOSS in the philippines. kung sino man po ang may presentation or background tungkol sa FOSS sa Pinas ngayon, baka pwede pong makahingi ng kopya. maraming salamat

RE: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread John Galt
The use of "my clients" is just an analogy (*analogy is defined as a comparison between two different things, in order to highlight some form of similarity), to stress a point..that CHOICE is better than an all-sweeping legislation to MANDATORILY use F/OSS within WHATEVER government agency. My

RE: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread John Galt
Yes, I say pro-choice for that is the nature of a DEMOCRATIC society and a DEMOCRATIC form of Government. As far I can remember, no government has completely and absolutely regulated / controlled / mandated the use of specific SW in both public and private sectors. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A MATTER OF CH

Re: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread Rogelio Serrano
On 12/3/06, Marvin T. Pascual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, I can't stand it anymore. If you just read the postcript of Federico D. Pascual Jr. at http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200612032602.htm it is unfair to us advocates of the F/OSS that we don't have any press releases defend

Re: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread Ciaran O'Riordan
"John Galt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, I say pro-choice for that is the nature of a DEMOCRATIC society Democracies prohibit some things and allow some things. Here's a good explanation of why governments should reject non-free software: http://www.archive.org/download/Ifso_Federico_Heinz

Re: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread Roberto Verzola
> Do not evangelize F/OSS. F/OSS is just an acronym for "free and open source > software".hence technology. No need to be overzealous about it. Why would you call clarifying the meaning of FOSS as 'evangelizing' and being 'overzealous'? We who want govt to use FOSS want it to insist on a bundle

RE: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers[Scanned]

2006-12-03 Thread Joey Legaspi
> "free and open source _software_"...hence technology. Let's assume for a moment that F/OSS is a technology. Take Solaris as an example. It is a technology from Sun Microsystems. When they decided to release Solaris under an open-source license, did it change the technology? I think not.

Re: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread Rage Callao
On 12/4/06, John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The use of "my clients" is just an analogy (*analogy is defined as a comparison between two different things, in order to highlight some form of similarity), to stress a point….that CHOICE is better than an all-sweeping legislation to MANDATORILY

[plug] needs help, where can i buy soekris engineering net4801 in the philippines?

2006-12-03 Thread Jay Jesus Amorin
hello plug, can anyone here pls. help me on where can i buy soekris engineering net4801here in metro manila or in cebu? --jay-- _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines:

Re: [plug] [OT] Calling out all media men and/or bloggers

2006-12-03 Thread Rage Callao
On 12/4/06, John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, I say pro-choice for that is the nature of a DEMOCRATIC society and a DEMOCRATIC form of Government. As far I can remember, no government has completely and absolutely regulated / controlled / mandated the use of specific SW in both public and

[plug] Server Temperature Monitoring

2006-12-03 Thread Geruel M. Casibu
Hi Guys, I need a temperature monitoring program for remote servers. There are lots of choices from Mr Google but I need to hear from those being used in the productions already. Any suggestions? Server model is Dell 2950. TIA, Geruel --

Re: [plug] losing connection to samba when volume is under lvm snapshot and transferring large file

2006-12-03 Thread Warren Beldad
thanks so much for the reply. On 12/2/06, andrelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Warren, It's a bit late, but here is my take. The samba list did not give you the answer because as you mentioned, it looks like an LVM issue rather than a samba one. No LVM snapshots, no issues. Increasing max.

Re: [plug] losing connection to samba when volume is under lvm snapshot and transferring large file

2006-12-03 Thread Warren Beldad
On 12/2/06, Ariz Jacinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, can you provide more info? 1. have you tried copying a >500MB file into the filesystem (locally w/o passing thru SMB)? what's the outcome? yes, I have tried copying data locally without passing thru samba, it works fine. 2. can you s

[plug] [OT] Job Opportunity Overseas

2006-12-03 Thread Bass
Hi fellow pluggers, First, apologies for sending this off-topic email. A multinational company (ISP related business) supporting over 400 clients around the world is looking for a top caliber professionals to fillup the following vacancies: 1.) PERL PROGRAMMER (1) - male or female - must be e