Re: [plug] MacBuntu?

2011-06-09 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Ramil Galib wrote: > I think I read that before that Shuttleworth is using Mac as a > yardstick for Ubuntu. > So it's no surprise that Ubuntu becomes more and more Mac-ish. With every update I hate the Ubuntu interface more (because I can't work with Macs, my bra

Re: [plug] ext4 missing space?

2011-02-15 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Bopolissimus Platypus Jr wrote: > so there's close to 20GB unaccounted for.  Has anyone experience with > something like this?  any hints? Never mind, solved. I just rebooted. Likely some process had created some huge file, the files had been remov

[plug] ext4 missing space?

2011-02-15 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
Hi all, I'm using a client's Fedora 13 (Goddard) machine and the home partition is: /dev/mapper/vg_xxx40825-lv_home on /home type ext4 (rw). df says: /dev/mapper/vg_xxx40825-lv_home 33672984 31152488 810008 98% /home However, cd /home sudo du -s . says (ignoring permission denied on my .gvfs

Re: [plug] SSH port forwarding to encrypt database connection

2010-10-20 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Philip Morales wrote: > fleet wide? what does "fleet" mean in this context? are the users actually on cars or trucks? how stable is the internet connectivity like? if the connectivity isn't stable, will ssh automatically reconnect when it loses and regains conn

Re: [plug] Intel ATOM Mobo + Linux

2010-08-31 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:29 PM, th3g33k wrote: > I dropped them a note and haven't gotten any reply yet. They have an > online purchase option for other countries though (Ironic Plugs). That's par for the course. It seems like they're not interested in selling. Or maybe wholesale or OEM demand

Re: [plug] Intel ATOM Mobo + Linux

2010-08-31 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:07 PM, John Homer H Alvero wrote: > Talking about plug computers, > > http://www.ionics-ems.com/plugcomputer.html > > That one got ./-ed few days ago. It turned out, they are Philippine > based. Anyone got one of these from ionics already? Need feedback. I was in email c

Re: [plug] Cannot run processes as regular user

2010-06-25 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Bopolissimus Platypus Jr wrote: > It looks like the problem has to do with the custom kernel.  When I > use a kernel I built I can't run programs as a regular user.  When I > use the kernel that comes with the tonidoplug, I can.  It's confusin

Re: [plug] Cannot run processes as regular user

2010-06-19 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
Thanks all, for playing. I've switched over to my NSLU2 for what the tonidoplug was doing, so am now able to test things out. It looks like the problem has to do with the custom kernel. When I use a kernel I built I can't run programs as a regular user. When I use the kernel that comes with the

Re: [plug] Cannot run processes as regular user

2010-06-17 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
Hi Zak, On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Bopolissimus Platypus Jr wrote: >> How about your memory usage at the time?  Maybe its the OOMkiler? No, I don't think so: r...@tonidoplug:~# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:514000

Re: [plug] Cannot run processes as regular user

2010-06-17 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Zak B. Elep wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Bopolissimus Platypus Jr > wrote: >> strace doesn't help much.  e.g., when I do:  "#strace -ff sudo su -u >> tiger bash" at the end all I get is: >>

Re: [plug] Cannot run processes as regular user

2010-06-17 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
Hi Gideon, On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Gideon N. Guillen wrote: >> I have a tonidoplug (ARM plugcomputer, running ubuntu jaunty) that >> I've broken somehow.  I can ssh to it as root, but I can't ssh as a >> regular user nor (once in as root) can I sudo, su or login as a >> regular user. > >

Re: [plug] Cannot run processes as regular user

2010-06-16 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
Hi rosel, On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:42 PM, k0l0s0s wrote: > Try to check the sshd_config if the following parameter is set: > >  AllowUsers    root > > This will limit to only allow root access on the ssh service. config for sshd > can be be found at /etc/ssh/sshd_config no, that's not there.  

Re: [plug] Cannot run processes as regular user

2010-06-16 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Bopolissimus Platypus Jr wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Brian Baquiran > wrote: >> Is the system running in single-user mode? > > No it isn't: > > r...@tonidoplug:/etc# runlevel > N 2 > > and anyway in sin

Re: [plug] Cannot run processes as regular user

2010-06-16 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Brian Baquiran wrote: > Is the system running in single-user mode? No it isn't: r...@tonidoplug:/etc# runlevel N 2 and anyway in single user mode, the daemons won't start. they're running here though (openvpn, dnsmasq, squid, sshd). tiger -- Gerald Timothy Q

[plug] Cannot run processes as regular user

2010-06-16 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
Hi all, I have a tonidoplug (ARM plugcomputer, running ubuntu jaunty) that I've broken somehow. I can ssh to it as root, but I can't ssh as a regular user nor (once in as root) can I sudo, su or login as a regular user. I boot from a USB drive, so it's not a big deal, technically, to just make a

Re: [plug] Code Review

2010-02-08 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Drexx Laggui [personal] wrote: > In the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (http://www.ACFE.org), > we often credit a researcher named Donald Cressey for his work in the > 1950's that gave a remarkable insight on how the criminal mind works. > Mr. Cressey came

Re: [plug] determine window geometry

2009-01-19 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
2009/1/20 eric pareja : > xwininfo cool, that's perfect eric. Thanks. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com gqui...@qsr.com.ph bopolissimus.li...@gmail.com Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Usually, a very large amount of work goes into

[plug] determine window geometry

2009-01-19 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
Hi all, Is there a general way to determine the geometry of a window in X? What I'm looking for is something that always works in gnome. I like to have my windows all set up in a standard way (e.g., 3 terminals on a screen, sizes and location just-so, xchat windows also open and just so, email fu

Re: [plug] pldt mydsl dhcp on linux?

2006-10-09 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On 10/10/06, Jubert Ledesma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you have gotten the new pldt dsl modem, a small box, which is set as a bridge already. OK. It's an alcatel modem (not at home, so i don't have the model number). You no longer get a username and password for an account compared to older

Re: [plug] pldt mydsl dhcp on linux?

2006-10-09 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On 10/10/06, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bopolissimus Platypus Jr wrote: > pppoe is not required I find that hard to believe if it really is their Plan 999 (that sounds like a bad movie btw ;). The PLDT MyDSL residential plans always use PPPoE from what

[plug] pldt mydsl dhcp on linux?

2006-10-09 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
Hi all, I just got PLDT mydsl (the 999 plan) installed last night. It works fine with my brother-in-law's windows computer. However I am not able to get an IP when I do dhclient eth0 pppoe is not required (nor do i know what my auth credentials for that would be since it just isn't needed).

Re: [plug] better incremental file sync than rsync?

2005-10-13 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On 10/14/05, Ariz C. Jacinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > here's what i did before. i created a script on the source to check what > has changed since and store it in a log file. then i used > that log file on the destination as a reference for rsync or scp. that way, > sync will start only after

[plug] better incremental file sync than rsync?

2005-10-13 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
Hi all, There is a specific scenario where rsync doesn't do as good a job as I'd like.  This is not to bash (no pun intended) rsync.  I'd just like to ask if there is a better alternative. The scenario is as follows: 1.  slow bandwidth between source and dest 2.  unstable bandwidth between sourc

[plug] playing mp4?

2005-09-23 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
Hi all, I just downloaded a few episodes of nerdtv from cringely's site (www.pbs.org/cringely), the latest episode is with Bill Joy.  Linus' episode is scheduled for sometime in November.  the files are mp4, though, and while i can see the videos, i can't hear any sound in xine, mplayer, vlc, to

Re: [plug] SSH Bruteforce Activity

2005-07-28 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On 7/29/05, Gideon N. Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'yon nga lang, hindi na pwede maka-access ng ssh using kahit anong pc. > For example, nasa bakasyon ka aat emergency, kailangan i-access mo > yung server. Kung dati pwede mong gawin 'yon sa internet cafe, pero > 'pag selected hosts lang pwe

Re: [plug] Re: lightweight desktop wars

2005-07-27 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On 7/27/05, JC de Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OT: anyone know of an app that can read/write .xls files? Outside of > OO.o, I mean. gnumeric. much thinner than openoffice. still a bit fat, but very nice. if i only need to read/write .xls, i use gnumeric. abiword for word documents. hav

[plug] kannel sendsms from php question

2005-06-27 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
hello all (for those on the ph-mobileapps list, sorry for the crosspost), i'm working with kannel and a GSM modem. I'm able to successfully send sms out (push, through http://[host]:13013/cgi-bin/sendsms?) with a browser. I can also do it through php (using fopen, so i do something like: $i

[plug] high kjournald on ext3

2005-06-16 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
hi all, I'm working on a RH 7.3 box (i know, i can't upgrade, it has to stay that way) that has the filesystems configured to use ext3 (nothing i can do about that either, i'd use reiserfs, if i had a choice, or maybe jfs/xfs). i'm doing something very disk intensive (postgresql inserts) and i'm

Re: [plug] Calling All C Programmers Out There

2005-04-29 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On 4/29/05, Dean Michael C. Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 15:49 +0800, Mhac Janapin wrote: > Is this project in any way connected to the Chikka content provider here > in the Philippines? Are they in any way connected to this project? no, as far as i know xevuz is not c

Re: [plug] Calling All C Programmers Out There

2005-04-29 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On 4/29/05, Cha Gascon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, my gaim version is 1.2.1-4.el4. > > But chix_gaim README file says it should work with 1.1.2 -> 1.2.0 on Debian. I haven't got it working with 1.2.x either. i have it working with an older version of gaim that was built from source

Re: [plug] LGU and FOSS

2005-04-28 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On 4/29/05, Greg Igaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whew! This post is looong. but good. thanks for that. you could probably rework it a bit and have it published in the inquirer or something you know. something to counter the ng khai's of the world. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://

Re: Gmail Posts and Mailing List Traffic

2005-04-24 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
On 4/25/05, Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [1] http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6588&ctx=en:match Hi jijo, I *did* used to see my own posts in gmail. but that's because i had filters set up and if [plug-misc] or whatever was in the subject, it would add