On Sun, 3 May 2009 19:45:29 -0700 (PDT)
Michael Tinsay wrote:
>
> I still see a lot of the big banks use the iSeries for their core
> banking applications. BPI still use mainframes, I believe. A lot of
> the ATMs I see are unix-based.
Most of the ATMs I see are based on OS/2 I think. An ATM
Well, that's exactly the architecture that I was describing. Thank you
very much for spelling it out very clearly for everyone's edification.
What I have been thinking of is that using pipes for communication may
be less efficient than using traditional IPC primitives such as a
message queue or sh
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:11:42 +0800
John Peter Loh wrote:
> I was thinking ArchLinux (and FreeBSD). He he. Like I said, too much
> to ask.
In practice what you really get when you buy an Oracle license isn't so
much the right to simply use the software as the right to ask for
support from Oracle
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:59:46 +0800
Orlando Andico wrote:
> However, just like a Benz S500, there are people whose needs and
> requirements are beyond our comprehension (I've never seen the inside
> of a Benz S500, so I'm sure it has features which I don't know I
> need!!! but which some people wou
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:07:16 +0800
"Johann Vincent Paul Tagle" wrote:
> I know about port forwarding, but is it possible to also forward
> based on actual hostname being accessed? I have a machine with 1
> public address, and I have virtual machines in that box. Currently
> each VM has a specif
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:48:02 +0900
"Slim Joe" wrote:
> I know Gnome keeps its own keyboard mappings. But for
> fixing it in plain X, I think you have to modify some
> locale files under:
>
> /usr/share/X11/locale/
>
> In particular take a look at the output of:
>
> ls /usr/share/X11/locale/*/Co
I've been playing around with the compose key and it seems to be neat
enough for those times when you want to type stuff such as á and other
stuff that doesn't appear on a normal US-layout keyboard. I'm trying
to find out how to add non-standard compose key sequences,
specifically, I want to bind
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:56:40 -0700 (PDT)
Ludwig Isaac Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone here have experience in rsync'ing large amount of
> data (nearly 40+ GB)? I would like to know the limitation of rsync
> before doing it.
You should have no problems. I routinely rsync large qua
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:14:19 +0800
"El Toro La Casa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That article ignored the fact that there are other free UNIX-like OSes
> like the free BSDs.
Well, there's a reason why the BSDs are far less popular than GNU/Linux
wound up becoming. IIRC, they got tied up in lega
I can't believe that anyone who has had even marginal exposure to
Free/Open Source software would be unware of the massive anti-software
patent sentiment held by all of its most ardent supporters. The
existence of software patent law is the bane of all Free Software, as
the presence of even one pa
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:16:44 -0700 (PDT)
Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In my Yahoo blog, I reposted Gideon Guillen's article on connecting
> your Linux laptop to the Internet, using a 3G phone. I have added
> other important details, in an attempt to make the connection process
>
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:11:51 +1200
Gerald Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> cool. that's what the problem was. and i think dido might benefit
> from that too. it seems that the drive *does* honor the regioncode
> in firmware. i did notice that in windows this switching regioncode
> message po
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:51:00 +1200
Gerald Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If it matters, I'm in New Zealand and I think the DVDs have some sort
> of Australia/New Zealand region coding. I'm able to watch the DVDs
> on my wife's windows partition, but I'd like to view it in linux
> (either o
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:47:23 +0800
"Miguel Paraz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But I can't accept why Intel put VT only in the E6xxx and above, while
> AMD made its virtualization feature available on the lowliest X2 3600+
> (or even lower?) Maybe because VT only makes sense with 4 MB L2 cache?
Odd
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 21:41:34 -0800 (PST)
Nelson Serafica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I also change NETMASK to 255.255.255.0 but error still appears.
> Please note that I can ping 310.4.20.1. I have Google that
> 255.255.255.255 is not usable except as loopback.
Are you sure you have that right? 3
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:24:51 +0800
"Roger Filomeno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Btw kannel does not scale
Really Roger. Our own experience shows otherwise, and that of other
Kannel users on their mailing list corroborates our own. We once ran a
mobile app using Kannel on an old dual processor P-
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:23:56 +0800
"Orlando Andico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's rather strange. I don't use WeRoam, rather I use Smart 3G,
> which I understand is the technology underlying WeRoam. So long as I
> have a 3G or 3.5G signal, the performance is quite acceptable. Kinda
> like a
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:03:43 +0800
Elijah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> Anyone here tried out PLDT's weroam on their linux laptops?
I use it on my Gentoo laptop, but I've needed to download some firmware
images from the Sierra Wireless website to get the thing to work
properly, so I
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:35:39 +0800
Tiger Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I disagree with Michael and Orly. Maybe.
Gee, Orly and I go way back (he was my senpai back in college), but do I
really sound that much like him already?
--
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:32:08 -0800 (PST)
Jun Salen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> to internet through Squid proxy server. Is it possible to connect to
> my office workstation from my home using OpenVPN with the above
> scenario using http or another.
In a word, no. OpenVPN is a true SSL VPN solutio
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 12:21:19 +0800
Michael Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You may also want to include the locales-ja
>
And something like uim-anthy and scim-uim so that you can actually do
things like, oh, maybe type Japanese text. ファイト！頑張ってね。^_^
--
What thou meanest by seizing the whole e
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:50:55 +0800
"Orlando Andico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> my understanding is that there is no 64-bit Flash plugin for Linux.
True, but there are ways around that. My Firefox about:plugins says:
Shockwave Flash
File name: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Fla
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:45:42 +0800
"Orlando Andico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is not really true. When running in 64-bit mode, the cache is
> effectively halved.
This is true, but I wonder how that balances out for CPU-intensive
code given the fact that the compiler has more registers to
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:30:51 +0800
"jan gestre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You'll be better off buying an ubiquitous Linksys WRT54G and have
> the
> functionalities that you want for a fraction of a price.
Not if he wants Squid, as he specifically mentioned. If that's really
very important to h
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:25:40 +0800
"Orlando Andico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What with Debian coming up with release names based on animals, I've
> come up with my own list of Bad Debian Names. Feel free to contribute
> :-)
I thought these sorts of names came out of Ubuntu. Debian uses names
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:12:05 +0800
"Orlando Andico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And nobody cares...
Partly because it isn't really open source, not in the true sense of the
word, as it appears the license is merely a non-commercial free as in
beer one, making it unusable for commercial developme
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:14:09 +1000
"Holden Hao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BTW, the enclosure is a generic China-made product with 2 USB jacks.
> Can anybody tell me why there are 2 jacks? I suspect this is for
> supplying power however, it works with just the main jack plugged in.
The two jack
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:31:21 -0700
prik420 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a workaround but not a good practice
>
Which is why LVM should have been used to begin with. I've found that
since Linux 2.6.10 the kernel has been capable of doing online resizing
of Ext3 filesystems. The only problem is
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:54:16 +0800
"Linux Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to install on a HW RAID. I've already created RAID-1 for
> my two HDD on a Adaptec HW Raid Controller. Do I also need to create
> RAID on OS level upon installation?
Any more information on this Adaptec HW RAID
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 17:33:30 -0400
thad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hope the features of jfs2 will be added to jfs. Its neat in
> increasing and decreasing the file system online, no need to unmount.
Plain JFS has this feature already, as do XFS and ReiserFS, at least as
far as growing a filesy
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 17:45:09 +0800
alben_alteza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have machine that is 16G Memory.
>
> I installed RHEL5 but can only see 4G or to be exact its 3369544kb
> in /proc/meminfo.
>
> How can I maximize the use of 16G memory in RHEL5 or any Redhat
> distro.
>
Use a kerne
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:55:26 -0700 (PDT)
Michael Tinsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Have you tried it on another distro? Or WinXP? Just to see if the
> card or sim is not faulty?
It works just fine on XP...
--
A person who is genuinely kind will always try to make others think
badly of hi
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:20:54 -0700 (PDT)
Michael Tinsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Are you sure you're getting a GPRS/EDGE signal?
>
How do I find out? AT+CSQ gives me a value of 21 or thereabouts, so I
am getting some kind of signal.
--
A person who is genuinely kind will always try to
I've just obtained a WeRoam kit which includes a Sierra Wireless
AirCard 775 and am trying to get it to work on my Gentoo laptop. I've
managed to configure the AirCard to the point that I can access it and
send AT commands to it using Minicom, but after this I'm essentially
stuck. I have the foll
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:50:28 +0800
Dax Solomon Umaming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was wrong when I wrote down proprietary.. I meant restricted like
> MP3 codecs.
You were right the first time: MP3 is considered a proprietary codec
thanks to the fact that Fraunhofer IIS, Thomson Multimedia, and
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:21:51 +0800
Dax Solomon Umaming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) Are P2P applications legal? I know this is a dumb question, but I
> need a professional opinion on this matter.
>
Why shouldn't they be? Just because they *can* be used to facilitate
copyright infringement doe
On Thu, 03 May 2007 16:53:50 +0800
Tiger Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hitachi is shipping their 1GB disks now, $450 ang price
> daw.
Is it still 1997? ;) Surely you mean 1TB disks...?
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:25:24 +0800 (PHT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> how am i going to mount my zip drive parallel port on my ubuntu 6.06.
> I tried restarting the system but still not detected. I tried
> "modprobe imm" and "moprobe ppa", nothing happens. my zip drive uses
> 100 mb zipdisk.
Does l
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:43:54 +0800
"Orlando Andico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pardon me, but this is the sort of self-congratulatory stuff that
> seems to permeate the F/OSS mailing lists. I think that those NOT at
> the top of the food chain do more valuable work, in aggregate, and
> produce mo
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:57:58 +0800
"Orlando Andico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One thing missing from this long discussion is "the other side."
>
> There are more Delphi programmers, or Visual Basic programmers, than
> ten generations of open-source developers put together. Guess what
> editor
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:41:39 -0400
thad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Earlier an Oracle DBA asked me to install unix2dos for AIX because he
> has problem scripts written in windows with ^M trailings. I told him
> to use vi instead, cut and insert his windows written scripts and if
> he has trailing
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:17:26 +0800
"Lloyd Martin T. Yong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i think it would be nice din but i think matching the IP address with
> the specific MAC address would be a difficult task.
So how do you make IP address assigments for your workstations? It
seems that you're
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 12:27:44 +0800
"Tito Mari Francis Escaño" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I found this affordable laptop model here in the Philippines and I
> really wish to have Linux in it. I'd like to ask the list if this
> particular model is supported before my meager budget is wasted on a
>
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:36:22 +0800
"List Mail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry if this post is trivial or off-topic but my geek credentials are
> on the line. Recently I had the chance to slip an Ubuntu LiveCD into a
> friend's computer. The computer had a direct (router-less) Smart
> Wireless
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:07:49 +1100
"Linux Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can I use CentOS-4 if I want to rebuild RHEL-4?
The only difference between those two is the branding. The good folks
behind CentOS basically took the provided Red Hat sources and rebuilt
everything, with the only change
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:25:01 -0800
"Ariz Jacinto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> anyone would like to provide some links to any linux
> distro's security advisories such as the ff ? :
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/
> http://www.debian.org/security/
> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/
> http://www.nove
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 23:25:33 +0800
"Dean Michael Berris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan Bernstein's DNS server was born out of frustration from how Bind's
> design was in his words intrinsically flawed -- and the same goes for
> qmail and other software that the good doctor has chosen to open
> s
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:59:46 +0800
Tiger Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had the impression (possibly from conversation with my brother) that
> the wifi is internal USB (how weird is that). But lsusb can't see it
> either, or I don't understand lsusb -v's output (likely, it's very
> verbose
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:26:17 +0800
Tiger Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hahaha, I wiped away windows on this box long ago and I
> bought it secondhand and with no documentation, so in
> fact I don't know what the wifi card is anymore. I'm
> considering putting windows on there just to see wh
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:03:46 +0800
Tiger Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working with a laptop that has a wifi device that can't be
> detected in linux. I'd still like to get wifi (802.11b is fine, I
> don't need anything faster) working though.
Up until kernel 2.6.18 my lap
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:15:25 +0800
"Mhac Janapin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How about using a different NS?
> dotPH's NS are good. :-)
>
> edit /etc/resolv.conf and add
> nameserver ns2.domains.ph
>
> then test it via dig.
This will only work for .ph domains obviously. DotPH's name servers
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:22:46 +0800
renlux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is not a joke!
Sure it is. This page gives it away:
http://www.msfirefox.com/firefox-full-features.html
RSS (Real Simple Sex). LOL! It's an absolutely hilarious piece of
satire though. Since the site flagrantly viol
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:44:15 +0800
"Dean Michael Berris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Imagine the Win32 runtime embedded in the Linux kernel (making it a
> tainted kernel which FWIW I don't mind at all) and all the Windows
> applications working out of the box. Consider not having to need X
> anymo
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:37:01 +0800
Andy Sy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmmm... what mechanism does Gentoo use then to figure
> out which files should get deleted when you nuke a
> package?
Portage keeps track of the files that are installed by a particular
package in its internal configuration.
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
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