Re: [plug] open source bill

2006-07-10 Thread Rogelio Serrano
On 7/11/06, Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/9/06, Johann Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 10:01 +0800, GOvvin wrote: > > Re pushing for "plain linux and not a specific distro". That isn't > > also possible. Discrimination against proprietary sofwtare pa

Re: [plug] Out of order packets-TCP

2006-07-10 Thread fooler
sure no problem :-> just let us know if you need further help... plug would love to help anytime :-> fooler. - Original Message - From: "shahnawaz S.P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [plug] Out of order packets-TCP Hi fo

Re: [plug] open source bill

2006-07-10 Thread Andre John Cruz
hmm just my 2 cents... your ideas sound too radical. i don't think it would be easy to introduce such rapid change into the government. baka maging open source "horror story" lang ito at lalo pa matuwa ang Microsoft. what would be good is to educate the government about open source and its benefits

Re: [plug] open source bill

2006-07-10 Thread Rage Callao
On 7/11/06, Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I personally would think this is a bad idea (forcing the government to adopt open source software) and I will outline my reasons below. What I consider worse is that we're forced to adopt proprietary software just like what is happening

[plug] IBM Notes to Run Natively on Linux

2006-07-10 Thread Calen Martin D. Legaspi
from:  http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=22805 IBM Notes to Run Natively on Linux IBM is to announce Monday that its Lotus Notes desktop collaboration software will finally fully support the Linux operating system. It’s a move users have long been demanding, with those wanting to run the

Re: [plug] open source bill

2006-07-10 Thread Andre John Cruz
that is very likely to happen. it happened before already...with the www.gov.ph project. billG had a chat with GMA and suddenly the PHP-based web site was replaced by a Microsoft server :P On 7/11/06, thad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: what will be interesting if M$ LOBBY MONEY will start flowing in t

Re: [plug] open source bill

2006-07-10 Thread thad
what will be interesting if M$ LOBBY MONEY will start flowing in the congress once the deliberation is on. I hate to see the php based congress website will be replaced by dotnet.On 7/10/06, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/10/06, manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Rog

Re: [plug] open source bill

2006-07-10 Thread Dean Michael Berris
On 7/6/06, kaloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hey! i'm a legislative staff of a partylist congressman in the house of representatives. we are in the process of drafting a bill on open source, compelling the gov't to adopt open source software, among others. I personally would think this is a ba

Re: [plug] open source bill

2006-07-10 Thread Dean Michael Berris
On 7/10/06, manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Open source deserves a boost. In fact, we ought to go faterh than that. We ought to REQUIRE all government agencies to use open source applications unless there is no other choice but to use proprietary software. We should giove tax breaks for compani

Re: [plug] open source bill

2006-07-10 Thread Dean Michael Berris
On 7/9/06, Johann Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 10:01 +0800, GOvvin wrote: > Re pushing for "plain linux and not a specific distro". That isn't > also possible. Discrimination against proprietary sofwtare pa din yun Given that Windows has like 90% of the desktop OS market

Re: [plug] open source bill

2006-07-10 Thread Dean Michael Berris
On 7/7/06, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What about net neutrality? What about net neutrality? ;) Can we also shoehorn a wireless networking frequency band allocation? most probably in the 5ghz band? Open source wireless will most probably go the software defined radio route. m

Re: [plug] Creating a distro as undergrad thesis

2006-07-10 Thread Dean Michael Berris
On 7/4/06, Jay Javier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Is this feasible? What would be the complications to be expected? and the benefits? Can this be accomplished by IT students with limited knowledge in linux but is willing to learn and explore? If one customizes an existing distro, can it be co

Re: [plug] Creating a distro as undergrad thesis

2006-07-10 Thread Dean Michael Berris
On 7/4/06, Roger Filomeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So true, maybe a grid computing ready distro? Apple's G4 and macOSX says it can do this and once connected to the grid the compile time (eg for Java) goes down almost to 1/100. I'd love that to be readily available for FC.. I was about to d

Re: [plug] open source bill

2006-07-10 Thread Rogelio Serrano
On 7/10/06, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/10/06, manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Rogelio Serrano wrote: > > > Its all about power. If you have read Toffler you know what I mean. > > Good point there. I don't believe for a second that Micro$oft gives a > monke

Re: [plug] open source bill

2006-07-10 Thread jan gestre
On 7/10/06, manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Rogelio Serrano wrote:> Its all about power. If you have read Toffler you know what I mean.Good point there. I don't believe for a second that Micro$oft gives amonkey's rear-end about the success of Philippines businesses. They opnly

Re: [plug] can't type letters on scribus(edubuntu)

2006-07-10 Thread Alexander Santiago
Thank you very much sir!Now we can replace those proprietary desktop publishing appsOn 7/10/06, Michael B. Pajarillaga < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Problem with the default font (Lohit Punjabi Regular). Choose other font. From: Alexander Santiago [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July

RE: [plug] open source bill

2006-07-10 Thread Charles Yao
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of manny Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 3:28 PM To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List Subject: [plug] open source bill On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Rogelio Serrano wrote: > Its all about pow

[plug] open source bill

2006-07-10 Thread manny
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Rogelio Serrano wrote: Its all about power. If you have read Toffler you know what I mean. Good point there. I don't believe for a second that Micro$oft gives a monkey's rear-end about the success of Philippines businesses. They opnly see us as consumers and revenue sourc