Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Norbert P. Copones
On Fri, February 9, 2007 3:35 pm, Ariz Jacinto wrote: > speaking of Adaptec RAID controllers, you might want to listen > to an OpenBSD song regarding their frustration with Adaptec > driver development. > > "Hackers of the Lost RAID" > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38.mp3 > > Lyrics:

Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Ariz Jacinto
Hi fellow BSD user and welcome to our GNU/Linux Mailing List! i appreciate your effort on providing a quality link to support your argument. BUT i'm not quite sure if you really read the document you've just provided which clearly emphasizes ___Fake___RAID, a Hardware RAID emulation usually done

Re: [plug] OT: how much salary intended for a Systems Linux Administrator

2007-02-08 Thread John Homer Alvero
Most of the figures i think are overstated, some are remarkably low. What about our own online poll/survey? We don't have to put names. I'm also interested how much/less are the others getting. Ideas? On 2/9/07, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: according to this link, a CEO/SVP/AVP/

Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Jimmy Lim
On 2/9/07, Gideon Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: By "can't handle", do you mean Linux can't just use the RAID functionality but can use it as a regular SATA controller? If that's the case, why would you want to use the inferior built-in RAID when the software RAID is much much better. Le't

Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 14:32 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > Disclaimer: I've been using NetBSD since version 1.6.5 - it did suck My bad... 1.6.2 :D Introduced to me by my former colleague at work. It was much faster in boot-time compared to the typical Linux install at that time, stable, and

Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 23:39 -0800, Ariz Jacinto wrote: > seriously, i don't think this thread is about who's better than the other. > it's about correcting the __disinformation__ against both GNU/Linux > and *BSD (unfortunately, he's not giving any justice to it). i think some > of us have zero tol

Re: [plug] OT: how much salary intended for a Systems Linux Administrator

2007-02-08 Thread Orlando Andico
according to this link, a CEO/SVP/AVP/Director is worth anything from 40k to 75k with an average of 50k a month. programmers max out at 34k (managerial). and software engineers max out at 27k. these are already the "5 years + experience" types. with these figures... it would seem that 1) jobstr

Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 13:09 +0800, Jimmy Lim wrote: > Well majority of the SATA-RAID available sucks, and Linux can't even handle > it. There's a grain of truth here even at present SATA RAID support in Linux, while relatively stable, still has a lot to be desired in terms of implementing sup

Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 11:39 +0800, Jimmy Lim wrote: > On 2/8/07, Ariz Jacinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > fyi, both soft updates and journalling __does_not_guarantee__ that > > _no_data_will_be_lost_. =D > > Unless if you're server is running without UPS. Does your server > running wi

Re: [plug] centos 4.4 - how to install xfce

2007-02-08 Thread Gideon Guillen
On 2/9/07, Joey S. Eisma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: how do you install xfce and then remove gnome as window manager on centos4.4? Run the following as root: yum groupinstall XFCE-4.2 -- Gideon N. Guillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine L

Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Gideon Guillen
On 2/9/07, Jimmy Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well majority of the SATA-RAID available sucks, and Linux can't even handle it. By "can't handle", do you mean Linux can't just use the RAID functionality but can use it as a regular SATA controller? If that's the case, why would you want to use t

Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Norbert P. Copones
> in any aspect? does linux have carp? does linux do pfsync? does linux have > pf? yes it does have iptables. but have you considered comparing the two? > i have also read a thread in the linux kernel mailing list that linux is > lagging behind freebsd in terms of wireless drivers. iirc andrew mort

Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Norbert P. Copones
> in any aspect? does linux have carp? does linux do pfsync? does linux have > pf? yes it does have iptables. but have you considered comparing the two? > i have also read a thread in the linux kernel mailing list that linux is > lagging behind freebsd in terms of wireless drivers. iirc andrew mort

Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Jimmy Lim
Well majority of the SATA-RAID available sucks, and Linux can't even handle it. On 2/9/07, Gideon Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What sucks is that the built-in RAID is slower, sometimes less reliable, than Linux's Software Raid. -- Gideon N. Guillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Norbert P. Copones
On Thu, February 8, 2007 6:58 pm, Ariz Jacinto wrote: > look, you can't just tweak the filesystem on the other and then leave the > other on its default! you also have to disable the equivalent feature on > Ext3 (journalling). =D i think he uses the same machine on his small benchmark. hmm disab

Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Norbert P. Copones
On Wed, February 7, 2007 9:16 pm, Dean Michael Berris wrote: > I had been developing a C++ application back then which used Berkeley > DB and had been developing with the target platform being FreeBSD 5. I > had to check why I was getting extreme corruption rates on the BDB > databases, and low and

Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Gideon Guillen
On 2/9/07, Jimmy Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fact: Some built-in SATA-RAID now a days is not supported on Cent-OS, therefore you have to do software raid just to use it. Ouch! that sucks! What sucks is that the built-in RAID is slower, sometimes less reliable, than Linux's Software Raid. -

Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Jimmy Lim
On 2/8/07, Ariz Jacinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: fyi, both soft updates and journalling __does_not_guarantee__ that _no_data_will_be_lost_. =D Unless if you're server is running without UPS. Does your server running without UPS? look, you can't just tweak the filesystem on the other a

[plug] centos 4.4 - how to install xfce

2007-02-08 Thread Joey S. Eisma
hi! i have two guest OSs (win2k3/winxp) on my notebook. i only have 512MB memory and 40GB HD. i intend to minimize the install space and/or memory consumption as much as possible, to start with, i'd like to install/use xfce instead of gnome/kde. how do you install xfce and then remove gnom

Re: [plug] OT: how much salary intended for a Systems Linux Administrator

2007-02-08 Thread John Homer Alvero
http://myjobstreet.jobstreet.com/premium/basicSalaryReport.asp?param=||ph||ph On 2/7/07, Allen Umlas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pluggers, I just want to ask your opinions regarding the salary schemes that applied here in the Philippines interms of IT position particular on System

Re: [plug] Linspire / Freespire will be based on Ubuntu (Kubuntu)

2007-02-08 Thread Froilan Romualdo
Thanks! Ok itong news na ito! At least meron ibang option sa Microsoft OS desktop... On 2/9/07, Ariz Jacinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.linspire.com/linspire_letter.php MEPIS switched to Ubuntu before. is the DCC alliance dead? http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=50

Re: [plug] need advice

2007-02-08 Thread Roberto Verzola
On Friday 09 February 2007 7:52 am, Roger Filomeno wrote: > Have your server co-located on a datacenter to avoid power loss, fire, or > lost of internet connection. Make sure your machine is atleast configured Yes, we've gotten similar suggestions about colocation. We are considering it though we

Re: [plug] Wanted Hula Project Implementor

2007-02-08 Thread William Emmanuel S. Yu
thank you for your interest. how much time do you have? On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 18:03 +0800, jopoy solano wrote: > > > > > I'm interested. Ask your friend if it is okay that I help him > over the Internet since I live in Baguio. > > 'Jop

Re: [plug] need advice

2007-02-08 Thread Roger Filomeno
Have your server co-located on a datacenter to avoid power loss, fire, or lost of internet connection. Make sure your machine is atleast configured with RAID 3 or Duplex on Hotswap. Finally setup a mysql replication On 2/9/07, Roberto Verzola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > did you already checked

Re: [plug] need advice

2007-02-08 Thread Roberto Verzola
> did you already checked the data directory to see if the > actual .MYI (index), *.MYD (data) or *.frm (table format) > files were missing? Hi Ariz, thanks for the quick response. Here's the session: (my untrained eye can't find anything wrong...) halal:/var/lib/mysql/nocheats# vdir phones* -rw

[plug] Linspire / Freespire will be based on Ubuntu (Kubuntu)

2007-02-08 Thread Ariz Jacinto
http://www.linspire.com/linspire_letter.php MEPIS switched to Ubuntu before. is the DCC alliance dead? http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=5091 http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS2152115662.html _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG

Re: [plug] OT: how much salary intended for a Systems Linux Administrator

2007-02-08 Thread Mark Par
Hi, On 2/7/07, Allen Umlas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just want to ask your opinions regarding the salary schemes that applied here in the Philippines interms of IT position particular on Systems Administrator? Do we base on location likes cities or provinces? regardless of experi

Re: [plug] Vyatta Opens Router to Debian Application Universe

2007-02-08 Thread Ariz Jacinto
i've experienced using an OSS-based "enterprise" router and based on my observation, it can handle traffic on a medium-sized (~1000) enterprise except when the bot-infected workstations flexes its muscles hehehe. if the sales person of those devices keep on pitching about the OS's ASIC storage (A

Re: [plug] need advice

2007-02-08 Thread Roger Filomeno
see: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/myisamchk.html On 2/9/07, Roberto Verzola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, My MySQL database seems to have suffered from corruption and I'd like to ask MySQL gurus here what could have happened. Here's a log of my session: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/nocheats

Re: [plug] need advice

2007-02-08 Thread Ariz Jacinto
or perhaps, someone issued a drop table command? =) did you already checked the data directory to see if the actual .MYI (index), *.MYD (data) or *.frm (table format) files were missing? if those files still exist, then you can issue a command to repair them. if those files just vanished, you

[plug] need advice

2007-02-08 Thread Roberto Verzola
Hi, My MySQL database seems to have suffered from corruption and I'd like to ask MySQL gurus here what could have happened. Here's a log of my session: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/nocheats$ mysql nocheats -p Enter password: Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn

Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Ariz Jacinto
On 2/7/07, Keech Angelo Famorca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yumyum. Ill cough out something. linux may be ahead in performance but not in filesystem. What advanced feature of the filesystem that linux is advanced of? having more filesystems that all do the same thing with varying degress of d

Re: [plug] Wanted Hula Project Implementor

2007-02-08 Thread jopoy solano
I'm interested. Ask your friend if it is okay that I help him over the Internet since I live in Baguio. 'Jopoy Forgot to say thanks. Thanks! _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph)

Re: [plug] Wanted Hula Project Implementor

2007-02-08 Thread jopoy solano
On 2/8/07, William Emmanuel S. Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hello, i have a friend who needs help implementing the hula project for an academic institution (not ateneo). is anybody familiar with this? or willing to experiment? i believe they are willing to pay for a freelance consultant for thi

Re: [plug] Xandros 4 Home Edition - Premium Box

2007-02-08 Thread Raul Limos
Guys, thanks! We'll check out your suggestions. OT: Froilan, kumusta rin! _ 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: htt

Re: [plug] [OT] NetBSD 3.1 LiveCD r o c k s !

2007-02-08 Thread Ariz Jacinto
both soft updates and journalling are designed to solve the same problem. both have their own merits but i don't think they can be directly be compared as apples to apples. we can, however, directly compare a variety of journalling filesystems which i think would be another different "religious" d