Re: [plug] IT jobs

2005-10-06 Thread Zak Elep
On 10/6/05, Antonina Binsol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you're interested in IT jobs both local and overseas, pls join Fil-IT at There is the linuxjobs-ph list for this, I reckon =) _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.

Re: [plug] cannot browse the internet with wvdial

2005-10-06 Thread Zak Elep
On 10/6/05, [C]hicken [G] od <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: have you tried disabling the firewall? Another reason could be the way wvdial (mis)configured /etc/resolv.conf and/or the routing table (viewable thru `route -n`).  If you know the IP addresses of your ISP's nameservers (a must have especiall

Re: [plug] Ubuntu desktop

2005-10-07 Thread Zak Elep
On 10/7/05, [C]hicken [G] od <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if i may ask, what do the zero's mean? Actually, that means umask=...  the last three octal digits from right to left signify world, group, and owner permissions, respectively.  A bit of Googling reveals this[1]. [1] http://www.mkssoftwar

Re: [plug] OpenOffice.org 2.0.0 has been released

2005-10-21 Thread Zak Elep
On 10/21/05, Arys P. Deloso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Puro RPM package pero may Debian Menu Integration! > Paano mag-install ng RPM package sa mga DEBIAN based distro? # apt-get -y install alien # for $oo-pkg in $(cat oo-packages); do alien --to-deb $oo-pkg; done # dpkg --install *.deb But if

Re: [plug] SATA drive died -- data recovery options?

2011-01-13 Thread Zak Elep
testdisk? On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Michael Janapin wrote: > I'm running an Ubuntu 10.04 box as an SMB file server. Its SATA drive > unexpectedly died this afternoon. > > Our tech guy said he saw a flurry of  "I/O error" message on the > screen. Because he could not shutdown properly, he j

Re: [plug] SATA drive died -- data recovery options?

2011-01-14 Thread Zak Elep
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Michael Janapin wrote: > Hi Zak, > > Does testdisk test undetected sata drives? If you could get it on a controller/cable that can be detected, yes. Based on your description it might be that the controller on the drive itself that is failing, not the disks. Migh

Re: [plug] php script to concatenate video files (to h264) using ffmpeg & named pipes

2011-01-24 Thread Zak Elep
Backticks smells. :P There's posix_mkfifo() and ffmpeg-php extension. Why not use them? :) On Jan 24, 2011 9:28 PM, "Winelfred G. Pasamba" wrote: > // > // concatenate videos (using ffmpeg and named pipes) > // > // Winelfred G. Pasamba c2011 > // > > if ($argc <= 1) { > die ("usage: php joinvid

Re: [plug] How can I force PHP to use the libiconv version of iconv instead of the CentOS-installed glibc version?

2011-02-01 Thread Zak Elep
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Randell wrote: > I basically had to modify the `configure` file to not use the glibc > implementation of iconv. Makes me wonder why the default implementation that > it was looking for was glibc, while the default version being used in Mac > and Windows is libiconv.

Re: [plug] The Philippines in Open Source Contributions

2011-02-06 Thread Zak Elep
SoC is not just the only way. Google recently introduced another program aimed at younger people (e.g. high school or earlier) for mentoring on open source projects. On Feb 6, 2011 11:19 PM, "JP Loh" wrote: > Invite mentors and students to join SoC? > > I remember reading a year or two ago about s

Re: [plug] The Philippines in Open Source Contributions

2011-02-06 Thread Zak Elep
I guess people just don't do it for fun anymore. People just tend to like working on big profitable projects, and most proprietary projects are that way; they don't realize the value of small projects with a genuine focus on solving some problem despite little or no profit. Another, perhaps more

[plug] Debian Release Party on Feb 11

2011-02-08 Thread Zak Elep
Through my company's gracious sponsorship, we'll be throwing a Debian release party this Friday, 7pm, at the office.[0] There's food and space for you to show-and-tell about your Debian experience, as well as Debian ISOs for distribution (please bring blank CDs/DVDs). I know it is a bit late, but

Re: [plug] Debian Release Party on Feb 11

2011-02-09 Thread Zak Elep
I'll try to get a ustream on for those who can't attend. :) On Feb 9, 2011 11:22 PM, "Drexx Laggui [personal]" wrote: > 09Feb2011 (UTC +9) > > Aarrggh! One day too late for me :( I arrive back home this weekend only. > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:06, Zak E

Re: [plug] The Philippines in Open Source Contributions

2011-02-16 Thread Zak Elep
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Miguel Paraz wrote: > I am not talking about making money at all - open source or not. > > I'm trying to discuss why there aren't more Filipinos contributing, > regardless of reason. M-x devils-advocate-troll-sub-mode 1. Filipinos don't care. Fsck your POS soft

Re: [plug] Unable to connect to web server using LWP (Perl) if SELinux is turned on

2011-02-16 Thread Zak Elep
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Ludwig Isaac Lim wrote: >      Any ideas why? Sorry, I'm not that familiar with SELinux and  I can't > find > SELinux related messages (except for it is turned on  / turned off messages) > in > /var/log/messages. First post in a "google:cgi selinux": "SELinux p

Re: [plug] The Philippines in Open Source Contributions

2011-02-16 Thread Zak Elep
Sorry, was busy :P Actually brought the first point up earlier, although in a disinterested form. On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Brian Baquiran wrote: > I'm surprised it took so long for someone to bring these up: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Zak Elep wrote: >> >&

Re: [plug] The Philippines in Open Source Contributions

2011-02-16 Thread Zak Elep
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:37 AM, eric pareja wrote: > It points to something I've observed about Filipino techies. Majority > are IT CONSUMERS, not PRODUCERS. > There has to be a change in perception of roles and the value of being > producers and not just consumers (this includes sales and market

Re: [plug] Unable to connect to web server using LWP (Perl) if SELinux is turned on

2011-02-16 Thread Zak Elep
inux as my google search keywords. > Can't believe I didn't think of "CGI SELinux" as keywords... > > Regards, > Ludwig > > > > > - Original Message >> From: Zak Elep >> To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussio

Re: [plug] Nokia's Platform Is Burning

2011-02-28 Thread Zak Elep
LOL WUT On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Nexus Droid wrote: > Question: Is there still plug-misc? > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Johann Vincent Paul Tagle > wrote: >> Uh guys?  I think it's time to move this thread to plug-misc.  Thanks. >> >> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Rogelio Serra

Re: [plug] Please archive off to someplace else Nokia is burning

2011-02-28 Thread Zak Elep
I see you're new :P or maybe not. Me, I'm just reading it like it's the early 2000s... On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Dan Sweeney wrote: > Or if your gonna respond at least change the subject line.. *sigh* > > Do good stuff > > Thanks > Dan > On 03 1, 11, at 3:12 PM, Michael Janapin wrote: > >>

[plug] Is it toast? (was Re: Nokia's Platform Is Burning)

2011-03-01 Thread Zak Elep
You wanna necro this? Some people already want to look at other things. Let the platform burn on its own. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Jaime Tiongson wrote: > Why close? This is the most active discussion recently here at PLUG. > > On 3/1/11, Michael Janapin wrote: >> Since I started this t

Re: [plug] Android Honeycomb source not ready for release...

2011-03-24 Thread Zak Elep
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Rafael R. Sevilla wrote: > Google is treading on dangerous ground the longer they delay.  Linus > Torvalds or the kernel developers or anyone holding copyright to any > other portion of Android which lies under the GPL could potentially file > a copyright infringem

Re: [plug] Disk Hash in Perl

2011-03-29 Thread Zak Elep
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:59 PM, John Homer H Alvero wrote: > Hello Ludwig, > > What exactly is the problem you are encountering right now? Is there > any issue that you want to address? Maybe this issue can be taken from > a different approach as the saying goes - theres more than one way to > sk

Re: [plug] Perl Hog

2011-04-17 Thread Zak Elep
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Ambrosio Berdijo wrote: > > That was an Awesome post from fooler... Yes, very instructive indeed. Interestingly though, the waste.c program displays a different behavior on a non-Linux system. In my case, I tried it on an OpenBSD box, and found it wouldn't eat C

Re: [plug] Perl Hog

2011-04-17 Thread Zak Elep
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:09 AM, fooler mail wrote: > just compile waste.c without gcc optimization (eg. gcc waste.c -o > waste) and make sure that during the sampling of clock speed time is > more than 1 second to get a better results... Thanks, that made the difference :) I was compiling the

Re: [plug] Database Best Practices

2011-04-18 Thread Zak Elep
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Michael Janapin wrote: > Hello, > I just want to ask the best way to do this. > We have a MySQL server that is accessible only within our local subnet, > which is of course, behind a firewall. > Now we have a website hosted abroad where I'm planning to put some php

Re: [plug] Perl Hog

2011-04-18 Thread Zak Elep
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:43 PM, fooler mail wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Zak Elep wrote: >> I suppose the compiler optimized away >> the empty for(), among other things... > > yup.. gcc will remove those doing nothing codes for optimization... in > this c

Re: [plug] Bizarre Cathedral 95 -- especially for Debian users

2011-04-22 Thread Zak Elep
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Miguel Paraz wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Daniel Escasa wrote: >> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/bizarre_cathedral_95 > > this actually means, non-Ubuntu users don't sudo because they "su -" > and stay as root ;) xkcd was first. http:

Re: [plug] MacBuntu?

2011-05-01 Thread Zak Elep
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Michael Janapin wrote: > Is it just me or Ubuntu is becoming more and more like the Mac in its > appearance? > > I'm trying out 11.04 (Natty) right now, and the desktop reminds me (in a > kind of weird way) of my Macbook. I just don't know if this is a boon or a >

Re: [plug] Perl undefined oddity (just curious why)

2011-05-11 Thread Zak Elep
A case of autovivification for you, I suspect... On May 11, 2011 10:49 PM, "Ludwig Isaac Lim" wrote: > Hi: > > A question for curiosity's sake: > > here's a snippet of code: > > use warnings; > > my $ref = undef; # in real code is a function that just returned undef > > f

Re: [plug] Jar file

2011-05-16 Thread Zak Elep
java -jar On May 16, 2011 8:10 PM, "John Li" wrote: > guys, > anyone here know how to run jar file on text mode without X. I have no option of installing Xwindows on the machine. sample i have setup.jar and i need to run it on cli only. any ideas. tnx > ___

Re: [plug] Alternative for checkdns.net

2011-06-15 Thread Zak Elep
www.zonecheck.fr ? On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Caloocan Gangsta wrote: > Hi guys, > Has anyone have used this site in the past? this has been very helpful with > me since its existence and having hard time looking for its equivalent in > the internet today, this site can check your webserve

Re: [plug] tcp_tw_reuse

2011-06-21 Thread Zak Elep
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:11 PM, hard wyrd wrote: > Hi all, > Would enable set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_reuse ? Why or why not? > Your thoughts will be appreciated. Thanks! Depends on how you use it. Do you have an app that creates many new connections (e.g. torrents)? You might also want to l

Re: [plug] soliciting opinions on vps host

2011-06-22 Thread Zak Elep
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Gabriel H. Mercado wrote: > hi folks > > Am looking to move to any of the ff. would appreciate your thoughts if any: > > vpsland.com > rapidxen.net > hostforweb.com I am on rapidxen, and I can vouch for their awesome support team (they hang out on freenode IRC to

Re: [plug] tcp_tw_reuse

2011-06-23 Thread Zak Elep
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:35 PM, fooler mail wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Anonymous `M` wrote: >> hi fooler, >> thanks for the informative response. >> i wonder what is your "elegant" solution to that. =)  does the bug still >> exists even today after recent kernel release? >> thanks

Re: [plug] traceroute & ping help

2011-07-01 Thread Zak Elep
Great posts! Guess that really confirms my understanding of how our ISPs today push our packets around ... On Jul 2, 2011 2:13 PM, "Dan Sweeney" wrote: > Oh yeah.. and whats weird about all this is that the 198.32.172.0/24 block shows AS9821 which belongs to DOST-PH-AP > > Go figure.. > > Do good

Re: [plug] favorite open source netflow analysis software?

2011-07-03 Thread Zak Elep
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Dan Sweeney wrote: > Anybody out there clueful as to whats the best, most current, least flawed > build ? > > Debian? > FreeBSD? > Redhat? > and ugh.. Centos ? Not in the list above, but there's the pflow(4) device in OpenBSD. http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=a

Re: [plug] NTP alias migration

2011-07-07 Thread Zak Elep
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:21 PM, fooler mail wrote: > restarting wont cause a downtime and not even affected your host's > clock... your only problem is that you have 2000 servers globally... > way to do it is to create a  script and automate it for you... > otherwise... condition yourself and pre

Re: [plug] Software routers and VIX and BGP

2011-07-07 Thread Zak Elep
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:43 AM, fooler mail wrote: > if you want to learn ospf, bgp and mpls... use dynamips and look for a > cisco ios version that supports those 3 i mentioned... it runs on > linux and you need a virtualization software (eg. in my case i prefer > and use vmware) to run as one ro

Re: [plug] compiling perl module net-ssleay

2011-07-14 Thread Zak Elep
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote: > Try: > > $ ./config shared > > Found this at a thread: > http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-users@openssl.org/msg52685.html. > Can't say much on the background though, never encountered it from > before. Probably this. Also, you migh

Re: [plug] perllocal / Uninstalling Perl modules [ was Re: compiling perl module net-ssleay ]

2011-07-14 Thread Zak Elep
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Ian Dexter R. Marquez wrote: > For local installs, how do I remove the info about uninstalled modules > from perllocal: Aha, this sounds like a job for a new module ;) I haven't seen any of the CPAN tools (from cpan to cpanm) do any perllocal modification other th

Re: [plug] Fw: [LiCo] The New Linux Counter - Announcement - Data Update Reminder

2011-09-19 Thread Zak Elep
So real that the machine-update script is still written in Perl 5.004 :) they now use a newer script written in bash. On Sep 19, 2011 10:20 AM, "Michael Tinsay" wrote: > Is this real or a phishing attempt? > > > --- mike t. > > > - Forwarded Message - > From: The New Linux Counter Project

Re: [plug] Perl and buffering

2011-09-25 Thread Zak Elep
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim wrote: > Hi: >    From the glossary of the camel book: >    line buffering >     Used by a standard I/O output stream that flushes its buffer after > every newline, many standard I/O libraries automatically set up line > buffering on output tha

Re: [plug] Perl and buffering

2011-09-26 Thread Zak Elep
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim wrote: > Hi: >   Thanks for the quick response. Since according to definition of line > buffering (see below), a buffer is flushed is after newlines, so writing > statements such as : >     print " This is a paragraph\n" > > in a CGI p

Re: [plug] perl file logger to Mysql

2011-09-27 Thread Zak Elep
On Wednesday, September 28, 2011, Kenneth P. Oncinian wrote: > I found the following perl script in the web that logs data from a > serial port to a log file. > I tested it on a PBX and it worked Ok - logging the the SMDR data to a > log file. > Can this script be extended so that it inserts the d

Re: [plug] Unusual access behavior on port 80

2011-10-20 Thread Zak Elep
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Danny Ching wrote: > [LAN access from remote] from 46.105.180.237:49422 to 10.0.0.3:80 Friday, > Oct 21,2011 09:38:32 > [LAN access from remote] from 46.105.180.237:33853 to 10.0.0.3:80 Friday, > Oct 21,2011 09:38:21 > [LAN access from remote] from 46.105.180.237:2

Re: [plug] Gov’t to set up ‘private cloud’ of servers to host e-mail, ICT services | Inquirer Technology

2012-05-01 Thread Zak Elep
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Danny Ching wrote: > Anyone familiar with this? Are they using Open Source? Or did the MS lobby > win out again? > > http://technology.inquirer.net/10555/govt-to-set-up-private-cloud-of-servers-to-host-e-mail-ict-services I have a feeling it is the cloud service we

Re: [plug] Gov’t to set up ‘private cloud’ of servers to host e-mail, ICT services | Inquirer Technology

2012-05-04 Thread Zak Elep
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:29 AM, John Homer H Alvero wrote: > It is not clear in the article weather it will be delivered as IaaS, > PaaS or Saas. Can anyone shed light on this? Other comments in this > thread are pointing to SaaS but it's not indicated in the article. > Upon reading "setting up it

Re: [plug] Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Paper-based Certification Exam during the 10th Y4IT Sept 2012

2012-08-05 Thread Zak Elep
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Ariel Betan wrote: > Apologies for not having the exact cost yet. We are still negotiating with > LPI APAC based in HK about the final cost. And we would like to be sure > before giving any figures. Pls. fill up the form. We need the survey so we > can negotiate for

Re: [plug] apache 2.4.3 mod_authnz_ldap AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off error

2012-11-21 Thread Zak Elep
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Allen Umlas wrote: > > Dear Folks, > > Its been a long time i never use list, Currently I'm upgrading apache > version 2.4.3 and need ldap's modules for authentication. I compiled > httpd-2.4.3.tar.gz with this What distro are you using? Anyway I just did a

Re: [plug] apache 2.4.3 mod_authnz_ldap AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off error

2012-11-21 Thread Zak Elep
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Allen Umlas wrote: > > Dear Zak, > >Thanks zak > I used also --with-ldap but i removed during compilation cause configure > --help not showed --with-ldap instead will show only enable-ldap and > --enable-authnz_ldap The link mentions that, it seems like so

Re: [plug] apache 2.4.3 mod_authnz_ldap AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off error

2012-11-22 Thread Zak Elep
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Allen Umlas wrote: > Dear Zak, > > yes at all, apr-util actually compile separately with option > > ./configure --with-apr= --with-ldap > > > apr version was 1.5.1 > > I forgot to mention. apr-util separately must be compiled --with-ldap option > > As its new stabl

Re: [plug] Linux distro in Filipino

2012-12-04 Thread Zak Elep
What, a distro thread in PLUG? It isn't 2005 right? XD On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:21 PM, claive alvin Acedilla wrote: > Hello guys, > Can we start a project Linux desktop distro that is translated to Filipino? No; you don't need my (or anyone's) permission, just do it ;) You can call for help if

Re: [plug] HIgh availability requirements

2013-03-05 Thread Zak Elep
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Caloocan Gangsta wrote: > Hi Holden, > > Ok, here's the requirements. > > I have 2 servers with identical specs. > 1U server with single processor > 2 sata hardrives each having 1 terabyte capacity.(Raid1 or volgroup > whichever is preferable) > > Application that w

Re: [plug] PLDT mydsl

2013-03-22 Thread Zak Elep
PLDT mydsl is generally the worst among residential DSLs. PLDT i-gate on the other hand is great, but of course only caters to businesses. I've generally come to rely on mobile broadband unli services over actual lines; a bit more expensive overall but at least I can stop my service on a daily/wee

Re: [plug] Java JRE 1.6.0-01-b06

2013-03-25 Thread Zak Elep
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Chris Haravata wrote: > Hi guys. > > I have a client with legacy systems wanting to create duplicate servers for > their applications. Unfortunately, one of the apps needed can only run using > JRE 1.6.0-01-b06. I can't find this any longer, though. > Is it not h

Re: [plug] IBM Model M keyboard

2013-04-09 Thread Zak Elep
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Holden Hao wrote: > Try HMR. But I doubt if they still have it. Zak acquired one a few > months ago but he bought it from Ebay. Yep, I bought mine[1][2] from eBay as all the local places I've checked (HMR, TPC, etc.) are either out of it or don't carry it at al

Re: [plug] [weird] NTFS & XFS parts can't be seen in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, only on 10.04 LTS!

2013-04-14 Thread Zak Elep
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Drexx Laggui [personal] wrote: > I thought I lost it all when my NTFS & XFS partitions couldn't be seen > in my newly installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS amd64 (including Xubuntu) or > Kali Linux amd64 (based on Debian 7) even after I checked, > double-checked, triple-chec

Re: [plug] OT: Tor Network Blocked?

2013-04-15 Thread Zak Elep
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Michael Tinsay wrote: > I tried Tor using 3G as few months ago. It is slow as jam. The telcos may > be throttling TOR and other P2P/P2P-like traffic, since accessing the same > site without TOR is ok. TOR router connectivity also exacerbates the problem. I don'

Re: [plug] PCOS Machine Source code is now open for review

2013-05-07 Thread Zak Elep
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 7:29 PM, wrote: > > Look for the TEC 2013-01 resolution in the Comelec website. It contains the > trusted > build certificate with the hash codes for source and binary. Wow, not only is the comelec site darn slow, but also looking like it was designed in the 90s (in a bad

Re: [plug] PCOS Machine Source code is now open for review

2013-05-12 Thread Zak Elep
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Dan Sweeney wrote: > Comelec has been under attack from Taiwan.. > > Long story short their DDOS attempts are slowing things down.. > > Have no comment on the content or design of the site.. just know about the > DDOS. Not really just comelec, but the gov.ph regi

Re: [plug] Penguins in spa-a-a-ce! ISS dumps Windows for Linux on laptops

2013-05-12 Thread Zak Elep
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Gideon Guillen wrote: > My guess is that the other reason why they switched to Linux is that > hardware that is certified for use in space is older than what is used else > where (consumer and enterprise). That's why they were using Windows XP until > the switch to

Re: [plug] RAID 6 question

2013-05-12 Thread Zak Elep
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Michael Tinsay wrote: > I have a just-arrived, brand spanking new server to play with for the next > few days or so. I'm toying with the idea of using RAID 6 on this for > storage. I can put 4 disks right now on it during the setup and additional > 2 disks later

Re: [plug] Ubuntu Mirror

2013-05-22 Thread Zak Elep
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Holden Hao wrote: > Folks, > > Do you have good experiences with using Preginet's Ubuntu mirror as a > package repository? I have been using servers from Japan in the past. > The Philippine mirrors have been slow in my experience. > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu

Re: [plug] Ubuntu Mirror

2013-05-22 Thread Zak Elep
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Holden Hao wrote: >> Last time I did a ping on them for Debian and Ubuntu, their mirror was >> out of date. But that was years ago; I do not know now as I use JAIST >> and WIDE rsync mirrors maintaining our own mirror at $WORK. > > I did not even know that Pregine

Re: [plug] Fwd: Ubuntu Mirror

2013-05-23 Thread Zak Elep
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:37 AM, eric pareja wrote: > Can those who posted their ping times to mirror.pregi.net also post > traceroute output and what telco they are using? > > I don't think the mirror performs well across all PH based ISPs. > > Hint: some telco holdouts don't want a neutral IX.

Re: [plug] AV for Redhat Workstations

2013-05-28 Thread Zak Elep
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Thad Mailist wrote: > I have a big deployment of Red hat workstations. Any recommendation for rpm > based AV that can be deployed via Satellite? We spoke to AVG and they only > support server, I know it doesn't make sense but compliance require us for > vendor s

Re: [plug] AV for Redhat Workstations

2013-05-29 Thread Zak Elep
Time to kick the asses of those "auditors" then :P On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Thad Mailist wrote: > Hi Zak, > > Yup and I know it's doable. But it will takes a brave soul to explain that to > process to "auditors". > > Zak Elep wrote: > &

Re: [plug] AV for Redhat Workstations

2013-05-29 Thread Zak Elep
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 3:53 PM, jgotan...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Zak Elep wrote: >> >> Time to kick the asses of those "auditors" then :P > > LOL easier said than done. Compliance is a very powerful business motivator. Pretty easy

Re: [plug] AV for Redhat Workstations

2013-05-29 Thread Zak Elep
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:02 PM, jgotan...@gmail.com wrote: > You know very well what you posted is personal opinion and won't make sense > to any high grade requirement like sox :-) Maybe. Most likely we're just dealing with different cases. I'm not saying compliance is a bad thing, but there

Re: [plug] Training to enhance skills

2013-05-29 Thread Zak Elep
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:01 AM, xrm user wrote: > Parang nagsasawa narin ako sa ganitong work (IT), kaya I'm planning to shift > my carreer. Lord willing. Hehehe time you get recovered? :D With the sysadmin background you have, I think you'd be interested in taking up implementing cloud comput

Re: [plug] strange app behavior

2013-07-01 Thread Zak Elep
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Michael Tinsay wrote: > I have this baffling situation... Our consultants are installing their very > expensive piece of Java app running under Tomcat and RHEL 6. The whole > thing is in a VM guest. Here's the thing, their app segfaults if the VM is > a KVM guest

[plug] linux.org.ph: missing in action :P

2013-07-02 Thread Zak Elep
Hi Jijo (and PLUGgers too!) Just wondering: any way we can have the old http://linux.org.ph site back? That address currently redirects to your professional services site (http://fs3.ph) which is confusing. I reckon there was an effort to rebuild the PLUG site in Drupal; what happened to it? C

Re: [plug] linux.org.ph: missing in action :P

2013-07-02 Thread Zak Elep
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > Thanks for the heads up. "Unknown" requests which hit our web server are > redirected to our main website, hence the redirection to the FS3 site. The > "correct" URLs are http://www.linux.org.ph for the website and > http://lists.linux

Re: [plug] linux.org.ph: missing in action :P

2013-07-02 Thread Zak Elep
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Ian Sison wrote: > Done! Thanks! :D Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/

Re: [plug] Symlinks not being executed by apache 2.2

2013-07-26 Thread Zak Elep
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Ludwig Isaac Lim wrote: > Hi: > > I'm migrating our engineering webserver when I encountered this problem: > > We have a test directory that contains various perl file, php as a > test to see if CGIs and PHP is properly configured. One of the test we have

Re: [plug] [plug-misc] linux.org.ph: missing in action :P

2013-08-26 Thread Zak Elep
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 8:57 PM, chr1x2 wrote: > Digging into the mailing list, looks like the last work was way back 2008 > http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20080403.032207.3001aa39.en.html > > But again there is discussion > http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20090312.004254.c88e2b59.en.html

[plug] G+ hangout on Saturday

2013-08-29 Thread Zak Elep
Hi all, For those not following the Facebook group, there's been some talk about revitalizing PLUG org and the website.[0] Among other things, I've started organizing monthly informal hangouts now; the first one[1] was held at UPD, and it was great meeting both familiar and new faces. [0] https

Re: [plug] Debian installation DVD's

2013-11-01 Thread Zak Elep
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Samuel Akava wrote: > I would like to hire services for someone to burn the installation DVD's of > Debian Wheezy. My location is Pacita 2, San Pedro, Laguna. If you have the > DVD's available, please reply back or send SMS to 09328798850. I know the feeling (Debi

Re: [plug] Debian installation DVD's

2013-11-04 Thread Zak Elep
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Zak Elep wrote: > On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Samuel Akava wrote: >> I would like to hire services for someone to burn the installation DVD's of >> Debian Wheezy. My location is Pacita 2, San Pedro, Laguna. If you have the >> DVD

Re: [plug] cannot access AWS console on PLDT

2013-11-18 Thread Zak Elep
Yeah some folks are experiencing that. Curiously it doesn't seem to happen on smart (which shares connectivity with pldt) On Nov 18, 2013 4:20 PM, "Robert Locke" wrote: > Hi gang, > > Not really a Linux question, but I'm wondering if anyone else is having > problems reaching the AWS console login

Re: [plug] cannot access AWS console on PLDT

2013-11-20 Thread Zak Elep
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:58 PM, GMDumlao wrote: > plug has gone facebook??? Yes, https://www.facebook.com/groups/22366806436/ More people seem to interact there more often, and it also seems easier in organizing some group activities like IRC/hangout or RL meeting. -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.

Re: [plug] Open source development in the Phil

2014-01-12 Thread Zak Elep
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Rogelio Serrano wrote: > How active is the open source development scene in the Philippines? Writing > open source code is the best way to learn computer science and I'm still at > it 14 years on. With cost of a college education being a colossal bubble I'm > wonde

Re: [plug] OpenSSL TLS Hearbeat read overrun

2014-04-11 Thread Zak Elep
Reminds me of that bugtraq shutdown and resurrection in the last few weeks. Check it on lwn. On Apr 11, 2014 6:18 PM, "Rogelio Serrano" wrote: > > On 11 Apr 2014 05:06, "fooler mail" wrote: > > > > there is no point between open and closed source when it comes to > > security because of the prem

Re: [plug] copying multiple DVDs

2014-04-13 Thread Zak Elep
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Roberto Verzola wrote: > What I have in mind is to connect 10 burners to one machine. Then, to have > 10 instances of K3B (or some similar disk-burning software, K3B is best > though...) running, each instance using 1 of the 10 burners. > > Is this at all possible

Re: [plug] Revisiting PLUG

2014-06-05 Thread Zak Elep
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Ariz Jacinto wrote: > Ano na nga ba ang latest sa PLUG aside from having a G+ hangout that is > organized using FB Events? ;-) Do you guys still organize tech meet-ups or > conference? (in some areas, LUGs are still going strong e.g. > http://linuxfestnorthwest.org

Re: [plug] Linux Laptops

2014-08-19 Thread Zak Elep
Not surprised that the X220 failed: that is where Lolnovo started to decline in quality. X200/201 was much better. I run Slackware on all my TPs now v(X61, X200, and T420 at work) and despite some physical defects and weakening batteries, they still work nicely. On Aug 18, 2014 11:33 AM, "Holden H

Re: [plug] Linux Laptops

2014-08-19 Thread Zak Elep
You'd make a good endorser for Dell lol On Aug 19, 2014 7:44 PM, "Drexx Laggui [personal]" wrote: > 19Aug2014 (UTC +8) > > I live a semi-rugged life. I sometimes drive to places where most > 4x4's can't go. I even walk with a flimsy umbrella at the height of > super typhoons, most recent was Yola

Re: [plug] LINUX as CLOUD?

2014-12-03 Thread Zak Elep
As others said already, there's a bunch of ways: OpenStack (both open source and HP/Ubuntu), Ubuntu's own Metal-as-a-Service, and others like Cloudstack. Also, if you're familiar with Amazon Web Services, you can replicate their setup using Eucalyptus. Things like Docker and Rocket are also worth

Re: [plug] linux machine build for Eric S. Raymond

2015-01-01 Thread Zak Elep
Nice! Cool that the trusty Unicomp Model M still serves! On Jan 1, 2015 10:30 PM, "Drexx Laggui [personal]" wrote: > 01Jan2015 (UTC +8) > > Just thought I'd share, the start of the linux machine build for Eric > Raymond: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=875NbdL39A0 > > > > Drexx Laggui -- CIS

Re: [plug] book launching

2015-03-24 Thread Zak Elep
Pretty sure much energy will be conserved and/or generated with either way lol :D A better question: what can Linux do to help out? On Mar 24, 2015 6:22 PM, "jgotan...@gmail.com" wrote: > Guys! I think neither of you are wrong as both are alternatives! It's > probably just that solar seems more

Re: [plug] Fwd: Nmap Project Seeking Talented Programmers for Google Summer of Code

2015-03-25 Thread Zak Elep
Yeah, someone ought to join! To my knowledge, no one has followed me yet as a GSoC student participant since 2006 (although there are a lot of local mentoring participants from orgs like Drupal, etc) On Mar 25, 2015 3:35 PM, "Drexx Laggui [personal]" wrote: > 25Mar2015 (UTC +8) > > Thought that s

Re: [plug] Nginx - URL convert to lowercase

2015-03-25 Thread Zak Elep
Maybe dumb(?) way is to just force a 301 Redirect to the case-fixed URL (which you can do with embedded perl:) location ~ [A-Z] { perl 'sub { my $r = shift; $r->internal_redirect(lc($r->uri)); }'; } On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Mark Anthony Delfin wrote: > Hi Guys, > > What wil

Re: [plug] Nginx - URL convert to lowercase

2015-03-25 Thread Zak Elep
erred language. On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Mark Anthony Delfin wrote: > Thanks Zap, I found that on google but looking for something native on nginx > if possible. > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Zak Elep wrote: >> >> Maybe dumb(?) way is to just force a 301 Redi

Re: [plug] interview with howie severino

2015-03-26 Thread Zak Elep
Friendly reminder that there's still a plug-misc mailing list, to avoid triggering some folks :) That said, thanks for keeping us aware of the power issue! If only we could respond it with a sysctl call... On Mar 27, 2015 11:53 AM, "Roberto Verzola" wrote: > Dear pluggers, > > Here's my intervie

Re: [plug] PLUG Digest, Vol 119, Issue 28

2015-03-28 Thread Zak Elep
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Arvin Hagad wrote: > guys this is tech forum for linux shiteee why u guys discuss stupid stuff and > raising point by point issue, stop whining with nonsens > > this forum never change like the sacha chua incident, u guys are fcktards for > real While I share t

Re: [plug] PLUG Digest, Vol 119, Issue 28

2015-03-28 Thread Zak Elep
https://www.Facebook.com/groups/linux.ph/ On Mar 29, 2015 10:07 AM, "Robert Locke" wrote: > > Facebook group? Where’s this? I need to get with the times! > > Rob > > > > On Mar 29, 2015, at 1:55 AM, Zak Elep wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 a

Re: [plug] PLUG Digest, Vol 119, Issue 28

2015-03-28 Thread Zak Elep
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Robert Locke wrote: > > Thanks for the link and lightning fast approval Zak! > > Rob > > > On Mar 29, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Zak Elep wrote: > > https://www.Facebook.com/groups/linux.ph/ > No problem :) Also, for those interested

Re: [plug] your own root server, anyone?

2016-07-01 Thread Zak Elep
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Roberto Verzola wrote: > Dear pluggers, > > I managed to get in touch with Louis Pouzin, an Internet pioneer who says > anyone can actually create a root server, if there are others who want to try > them out. He and colleagues operate one, called OpenRoot. He al

Re: [plug] Hello World. :)

2016-10-05 Thread Zak Elep
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:30 PM, MEI George wrote: > Hello, > > I just already Philippine , i am a JAVA/Grails/PHP programmer > sometime maintain Centos or Ubuntu > > where can look for IRC/Slack for Philippine user group? > > I'm in Makati now. Hi, welcome to the mailing list! There are sever

Re: [plug] Any body home?

2021-07-21 Thread Zak Elep
Yes? On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 10:49 AM Martin Acupanda wrote: > > Hi fellow PLUGers, > > Anybody home? Just wondering. > _ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: ht

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