[plug] Speedcast + Linux

2006-11-05 Thread Chris GM
Hi list,Anyone remembers using the speedcast satellite network? I'm going to do a test withthem in handling a Linux network. Can anyone relay their experience with speedcast if any. I have my own experiences with them in the past but I want to compare notes, especially doing it in Linux.regards,Chr

Re: [plug] gNewSense

2006-11-05 Thread Zak B. Elep
On 11/6/06, Jerome Gotangco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Of course, if your motherboard doesn't support a free BIOS (LinuxBIOS for example), then you are not yet truly free...ahh the complexities of freedom. Umm not to mention that it's not really free at all if you have to buy hardware, instead

Re: [plug] gNewSense

2006-11-05 Thread Jerome Gotangco
gNewSense removes the binary blobs of software that are essentially non-free so if you are going to use it in a laptop, chances are, your wifi will not work because the driver is non-free (ipw2200 for instance). If you are using it on a desktop, the chances of it to work out of the box would be hi

Re: [plug] gNewSense

2006-11-05 Thread Rom Feria
I use Ubuntu but there are others build on top of Ubuntu like gNewSense as Nexenta. I urge you to try both -- specially Nexenta OS - Ubuntu userland on Solaris 10 kernel! Explore DTrace (which will also be in Mac OS X 10.5 code-named Leopard), Zones, self-healing, etc. All the Solaris buz

Re: [plug] Problem with OpenOffice Writer?

2006-11-05 Thread john garcia
kindly upgrade the version 1.1.4 open ofc. On 11/3/06, Roberto Verzola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A user of Writer shared this problem with me: he loaded an MS-Word .doc file using his OpenOffice version 2, and saved it on a diskette still as a .doc file. He went to another machine with a versio

Re: [plug] gNewSense

2006-11-05 Thread john garcia
my be you try ubuntu bro. On 11/4/06, Rom Feria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What do you guys think? It is based on Ubuntu/Debian. I am downloading it as I type and will try to install it on Parallels and VMWare Fusion. :) Cheers! _ Philippine Linux

Re: [plug] A problem on Ubuntu Edgy Eft

2006-11-05 Thread Marvin T. Pascual
Hello Zak, On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 12:57 +0800, Zak B. Elep wrote: > On 11/6/06, Marvin T. Pascual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been using Ubuntu Edgy Eft AMD64 on my laptop for weeks until > > yesterday I found out that some of my files inside my ~/Desktop > > directory have changed. This i

Re: [plug] Gentoo vs. Slackware

2006-11-05 Thread Rafael Sevilla
On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:45:54 +0800 Andy Sy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * One concern of mine is that if I go Gentoo, how much of > the educational value of managing my own dependencies will > I lose? > Gentoo handles dependencies very well for the most part, the only problem is that upgradin

Re: [plug] A problem on Ubuntu Edgy Eft

2006-11-05 Thread Zak B. Elep
On 11/6/06, Marvin T. Pascual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been using Ubuntu Edgy Eft AMD64 on my laptop for weeks until yesterday I found out that some of my files inside my ~/Desktop directory have changed. This is the first time I encountered this weirdness and hoping someone from this mai

[plug] A problem on Ubuntu Edgy Eft

2006-11-05 Thread Marvin T. Pascual
Hello all, I've been using Ubuntu Edgy Eft AMD64 on my laptop for weeks until yesterday I found out that some of my files inside my ~/Desktop directory have changed. This is the first time I encountered this weirdness and hoping someone from this mailing list can shed some light to my problem. -

Re: [plug] CNet LAN card

2006-11-05 Thread Harvey Diaz
On 11/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why is that CNet LAN card with DAVICOM chipset are not detected in Ubuntu6.06. I tried with the same brand LAN cards, but still they are notdetected.I tried Realtek LAN cards, they are detected...no problem. Anybody, please help me on this?hi

Re: [plug] Team SFD'06 Philippines wins new IBM server

2006-11-05 Thread thad
is that at P570 server:) On 11/5/06, Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/6/06, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a bit old, but I'd like to congratulate the SFD'06 team, > especially UnPLUG for a job well done - we won the the "Best plan for > FOSS deployment

Re: [plug] Nagios

2006-11-05 Thread Jon C. Viardo
For first timers yes, but after some tweaks here and there I'm sure you'll get the hang of it. =) tip: try reading its documentation, it helped me a lot. jon Froilan Romualdo wrote: Is there anybody using Nagios for their network system? Is it really difficult to install and configure?

Re: [plug] Nagios

2006-11-05 Thread triton
Hi Froilan, I'm also using nagios in my system. As with most open source applications, it will take some time to configure and customize. But after you finished customization, you can forget about it. You might want to try some of these frontends. I still don't have time to try them out. Maybe

Re: [plug] Nagios

2006-11-05 Thread joebert jacaba
for first time users, yes. it took me some time to figure it out. _ 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://archive

Re: [plug] Nagios

2006-11-05 Thread Jerome Gotangco
Nagios is pretty straightforward and your favorite distro might have already packaged it so installation would make it work out of the box. However, you will still have to do your configuration scripts to make the plugins work. Simple ones like Ping and SMTP/POP3 check are not difficult at all as

Re: [plug] Type of RAM command

2006-11-05 Thread John Peter Loh
Thanks!On 11/6/06, rexonf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: cat /proc/cpuinfoOn 11/6/06, John Peter Loh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> How about querying on how many cores and clock speed of the computer? I have> a remote server and I forgot its configuration. >> On 11/4/06, Salvador Junn Flores <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [plug] Online jOB: mayron ba??

2006-11-05 Thread rexonf
On 10/31/06, JALANI paner C. MONTILA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: yon bang nasa bahay lang ako tapos kahit anong job pagawa nila sa internet then bayaran nila ako.. sa tingin nyo, meron ba yon?? Meron. I have one right now. Parang contract programming. It's not something you can count on. A

[plug] CNet LAN card

2006-11-05 Thread greg
Why is that CNet LAN card with DAVICOM chipset are not detected in Ubuntu 6.06. I tried with the same brand LAN cards, but still they are not detected. I tried Realtek LAN cards, they are detected...no problem. Anybody, please help me on this? _ Ph

Re: [plug] Type of RAM command

2006-11-05 Thread rexonf
cat /proc/cpuinfo On 11/6/06, John Peter Loh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How about querying on how many cores and clock speed of the computer? I have a remote server and I forgot its configuration. On 11/4/06, Salvador Junn Flores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dmidecode is one good thing. > dun

Re: [plug] Gentoo vs. Slackware

2006-11-05 Thread Zak B. Elep
On 11/6/06, Andy Sy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've found it's actually pretty easy to determine what Slackware packages are missing by looking at the 'libXXX.so not found' error messages generated by an app and find it a painless and fun way to learn about the innards of a Linux distro. Anothe

Re: [plug] Team SFD'06 Philippines wins new IBM server

2006-11-05 Thread Miguel A Paraz
On 11/6/06, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a bit old, but I'd like to congratulate the SFD'06 team, especially UnPLUG for a job well done - we won the the "Best plan for FOSS deployment project on new server for community benefit"![1] Awesome! Too bad I missed that even

[plug] Nagios

2006-11-05 Thread Froilan Romualdo
Is there anybody using Nagios for their network system? Is it really difficult to install and configure? -- Angeles Communications (Phils.), Inc. - Angelcom System Administrator --- 1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: _ Philippine L

Re: [plug] Type of RAM command

2006-11-05 Thread John Peter Loh
How about querying on how many cores and clock speed of the computer? I have a remote server and I forgot its configuration.On 11/4/06, Salvador Junn Flores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dmidecode is one good thing.dunno if lshw can show you the same.cheers!-junn-Mhac Janapin wrote:> Hmm...> In my vo

Re: [plug] Is this possible?

2006-11-05 Thread Jon C. Viardo
You can try Innove/Globe. They have FOSS friendly servers. ;) Roberto Verzola wrote: I'm interested in this thread because HALAL has received suggestions to put its server on a Web host (or Web farm or whatever it's called). Any suggestions about companies who are FOSS-friendly? I'm stil

Re: [plug] Gentoo vs. Slackware

2006-11-05 Thread Mhac Janapin
Hi Andy,I'm a longtime Slackware user and now that I've *finally*got broadband, I all of a sudden realized that it is now quite feasible to try out Gentoo (something I've alwayswanted to do).This is indeed a noble thingĀ  to try out other distros to broaden your horizon. Are there any former Slackwa

[plug] Gentoo vs. Slackware

2006-11-05 Thread Andy Sy
Hi All, I'm a longtime Slackware user and now that I've *finally* got broadband, I all of a sudden realized that it is now quite feasible to try out Gentoo (something I've always wanted to do). Are there any former Slackware users here who have gone Gentoo (or vice versa) and do you have any comm

[plug] Team SFD'06 Philippines wins new IBM server

2006-11-05 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
This is a bit old, but I'd like to congratulate the SFD'06 team, especially UnPLUG for a job well done - we won the the "Best plan for FOSS deployment project on new server for community benefit"![1] Let's cook another good event next time! [1]http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2006/Win