Re: [plug] Linux versus Windows: OS impact on uptime and speed

2007-05-02 Thread Jed R. Mallen
On 5/3/07, Jun Salen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Interesting read at http://blog.mon.itor.us//?p=286 It shows not only Windows and Linux but other OS's as well. wow. bsd rules. -- Jed R. Mallen | GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5

Re: [plug] My favorite text editors: JOE and GEDIT

2007-03-26 Thread Jed R. Mallen
) i never did liked point n click apps. if an editor relies on the mouse -- it's out of my list. vi is nice but i never did get the hang of it with those modes. -- Jed R. Mallen | GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 | http://jed.sitesle

Re: [plug] Turning off (the light of) a USB thumb drive

2007-03-05 Thread Jed R. Mallen
man sync. it doesn't turn off the lights but it makes sure all buffer that's supposed to be written to disk but still in memory cache (performance reasons) are actually written to the disk. i heard of horror stories about killing thumb drives by unplugging it but to date and with 3 thumbdrives i h

Re: [plug] Seamonkey-1.0.6 and Firefox-2.0

2006-11-23 Thread Jed R. Mallen
de derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite" '. So it's basically the big moz app you've been using if you've have been into netscape/mozilla before firefox and friends hit it big. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6

Re: [plug] [OT] Microsoft has acquired Mozilla Firefox

2006-11-18 Thread Jed R. Mallen
bvious :) and if you still dont believe it, try downloading it... you'll get ie7. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sitesled.com Censorship is rape. _ Philippine Linux Users&#

Re: [plug] Type of RAM command

2006-11-04 Thread Jed R. Mallen
On 11/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@cus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi guys, is there any command i can use to check what type of ram my box is running. like is it DDR or SDRAM. thanks I'm not sure is the command 'lshw' is what you're looking for. Run it as root. -

Re: browsers as download agents (was Re: [plug] update on banks that allow f/oss browsers)

2006-10-28 Thread Jed R. Mallen
ilure if you are getting huge files. :) now if only wget supports multi-server swarming... too bad the prozilla development is virtually dead. :( mozilla downThemAll! extension is good enough imho. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 htt

Re: [plug] ask ko lang

2006-10-19 Thread Jed R. Mallen
indows installation). but you can install windows first and the rest afterwards if this doesn't bother you. another tip: you can let both linuxes use the same swap partition. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sitesled.com

Re: [plug] Computerizing Philippine elections

2006-09-25 Thread Jed R. Mallen
to something in a database somewhere... hopefully secure... hopefully... -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sitesled.com Censorship is rape. _ Philippine Linux Users'

Re: [plug] webhosting

2006-09-22 Thread Jed R. Mallen
On 9/21/06, Jay Hermida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hello, can anyone suggest the cheapest webhosting here in the phils? or any quotations at all? thanks for the feedback guys. http://www.philhosting.net/ P30/mo on the basic plan (60MB...) haven't tried it tho. -- Jed R. Mallen

Re: [plug] Computerizing Philippine elections

2006-09-21 Thread Jed R. Mallen
on electronic voting. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/04/BU91811.DTL http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40141,00.html -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81

Re: [plug] New to Linux. Hello!

2006-08-24 Thread Jed R. Mallen
experiments in Ubuntu so I can eventually wean myself off Windows. Meanwhile, I surf, play games and use Photoshop in XP. try gimp. it runs on xp and nix. free too. i wonder how much photoshop costs these days. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81

Re: [plug] open source bill

2006-07-07 Thread Jed R. Mallen
why not push for just plain open source software, like plain linux, etc. and not a specific distro? like give people the choice. _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines

Re: [plug] changing default X font

2006-05-29 Thread Jed R. Mallen
gle for "fluxbox theme.cfg" or "fluxbox overlay" 2c -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sitesled.com Censorship is rape. _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Ma

Re: [plug] (OT) ML Suggestions

2006-05-26 Thread Jed R. Mallen
M dami dun... kita lahat hehe. Will somebody please... anybody... just do it.. give this guy what he's asking for.. for cryin out loud. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://je

Re: [plug] Debian versus other distro

2006-05-24 Thread Jed R. Mallen
On 5/24/06, Zak B. Elep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Jed! =) Sorry I only got to see this just now, since much of PLUG traffic lately has been of `bitter yams' :/... Huh? Where? hehe *sarcastic smile* On 5/24/06, Jed R. Mallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/23/06,

Re: [plug] Debian versus other distro

2006-05-24 Thread Jed R. Mallen
faster than old times (think of grabbing just around 50kB of pdiffs rather than 3 megs or so of compressed Packages lists.) Hopefully Ubuntu Eft gets this soon... Is this only on sid? Thanks. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A

Re: [plug] Debian versus other distro

2006-05-24 Thread Jed R. Mallen
If I can "throw myself on the grenade" so to speak just to stop this flame war I'll do it. But I don't have any idea where to start. Guys... this discussion is not going anywhere... and you know it. And hey, this is PLUG, a friendly mailing list :) __

Re: [plug] Debian versus other distro

2006-05-22 Thread Jed R. Mallen
y could have thought that. So my bad :) Best, -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sitesled.com Censorship is rape. _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lis

Re: [plug] Re: linux desktop distro

2006-05-16 Thread Jed R. Mallen
HER LINUX DISTRO, bakit hindi nalang ninyo ilagay ang oras at pondo niyo sa ibang bagay? Anyway tax naman natin yun. Wala rin palang mangyayari. A standard linux? Sounds scary :) You're missing the whole point dude. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54

Re: [plug] linux desktop distro

2006-05-16 Thread Jed R. Mallen
machine. in fact my distfiles is more than 7gb now. i think on his specs, its better to go for a binary based distro (like debian). yes. i agree completely. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sitesled.com Censors

Re: [plug] linux desktop distro

2006-05-16 Thread Jed R. Mallen
c. etc. and the fact that he has a minimal disk space. 10 gb? ok na un a. big enough for any distro. ganun ba kalaki pag install gentoo? di naman.. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sitesled.com Censorship i

Re: [plug] Debian versus other distro

2006-05-16 Thread Jed R. Mallen
Didn't know that would generate a flame :) My bad. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sitesled.com Censorship is rape. _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) M

Re: [plug] Debian versus other distro

2006-05-16 Thread Jed R. Mallen
yes, but just on a desktop. I'm just a hobbyist. Servers hrm... OpenBSD? (v3.9 is out :) -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sitesled.com _ Philippine Linux Users' Grou

Re: [plug] linux desktop distro

2006-05-16 Thread Jed R. Mallen
et a good system running for you. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sitesled.com _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.

Re: [plug] changing uppercase paragraph to lowercase in vi

2006-04-05 Thread Jed R. Mallen
On 4/6/06, Jed R. Mallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/6/06, Jed R. Mallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/6/06, jhuniepi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i have a paragraph which is all in capital letters. i want to change > > > it in lowecase

Re: [plug] changing uppercase paragraph to lowercase in vi

2006-04-05 Thread Jed R. Mallen
On 4/6/06, Jed R. Mallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/6/06, jhuniepi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i have a paragraph which is all in capital letters. i want to change > > it in lowecase letters. does anyone know here how to do that in vi > > editor? coz im

Re: [plug] changing uppercase paragraph to lowercase in vi

2006-04-05 Thread Jed R. Mallen
nmn kabisado yung lahat ng functionalities ng vi. > any ideas? > > TIA :%s/./\L&/g -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sitesled.com _ Philippine Linux Users&

Re: [plug] (no subject)

2006-04-05 Thread Jed R. Mallen
On 4/5/06, Ignacio Antonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > please remove me from the mailing list... https://lists.hosting.qsr.com.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sit

Re: [plug] subtracting dates in bash script

2006-04-05 Thread Jed R. Mallen
[ "`find $FILE -mmin +10`" ] then echo "$FILE is more than 10 minutes old" else echo "$FILE is a youngster" fi x-- end snip --x Hope this helps. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sitesled.com

Re: [plug] OT: OLD USED COMPUTERS

2006-04-03 Thread Jed R. Mallen
ade lessons for their instructors. > > Let me see what I can come up with after we try to sell the machines. > Maybe you should try selling to schools. How much is one unit? Thanks. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA

Re: [plug] for back up...

2006-04-02 Thread Jed R. Mallen
-backup.sourceforge.net/ - bash based, maybe cygwin can run this. http://www.flexbackup.org/ hope this helps. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sitesled.com _ Philippine Linux User