[plug] Fwd: Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) released!

2012-04-26 Thread Zak B. Elep
buntu Release Team, Kate Stewart -- ubuntu-announce mailing list ubuntu-annou...@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce -- Zak B. Elep  ||  zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1  F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D

[plug] Ubuntu-PH 12.04 Release Party

2012-04-23 Thread Zak B. Elep
going as well as talks from our local Ubuntu heroes! -- Zak B. Elep  ||  zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1  F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searc

Re: [plug] Disk preventive maintenance

2010-09-24 Thread Zak B. Elep
All the more you need backup in the first place. Define your upgrade plan, then get the resources you need for backing up, then simulate an upgrade on a less critical server (or a dummy machine built just like the real ones.) And BTW, looks like you'll need some sort of continuous backup strategy c

Re: [plug] Lost menus

2010-09-21 Thread Zak B. Elep
Just take care and not add a space between the period and gconf :-P On Sep 21, 2010 6:10 PM, "Dong Calmada" wrote: > Yes. Go to your home directory and enter this command: rm -Rf .gconf > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 6:07 PM, [C]hicken [G] od < > iamthechicken...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> it appears mi

Re: [plug] best UTM appliance-type or software-based

2010-09-16 Thread Zak B. Elep
Unified Threat Management. > Pardon the ignorance, UTM? > > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:52 AM, gregorio wrote: > >> Hello guys, >> >> I need your recommendation and estimated pricing on the following: >> >> >> 1. best UTM appliance-type >> 2. best UTM software-based >> 3. best free software-based U

Re: [plug] Telnet thru a socks5 proxy

2010-08-16 Thread Zak B. Elep
I remember using Dante for this... There is another tool but its name escapes me at the moment. On Aug 17, 2010 12:05 PM, "charkee" wrote: Hi, Can anybody show me how to telnet to a host from a linux box thru a socks5 proxy? I've been doing it on putty in a windows box but still trying to figu

Re: [plug] Solaris ZFS or Linux BTRFS ?

2010-08-14 Thread Zak B. Elep
I'm probably making Btrfs my root fs once squeeze comes out; or when I re-sync with sid... On Aug 15, 2010 1:24 PM, "Drexx Laggui [personal]" wrote: 15Aug2010 (UTC +8) I think I'll go with Linux BTRFS instead of the Solaris ZFS. How about you here in PLUG? BTRFS is more promising than ZFS in

Re: [plug] Linux Phones in the Market

2010-08-08 Thread Zak B. Elep
I'm one. Haven't done any hacks yet (writing this reply on it even) but probably will do soon. What apps would you guys recommend for pidgin-like im client? On Aug 9, 2010 2:29 PM, "JP Loh" wrote: Hi Allister, Thanks for the links! I got to flash my phone yesterday. It's not as hard and risky

Re: [plug] Linux Phones in the Market

2010-08-05 Thread Zak B. Elep
gt;> I'll try it when I find the time. > > Hi JP, > > Please post notes when you do. :) Got mine just now :3 Will be playing with it shortly. -- Zak B. Elep  ||  zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1  F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D ___

Re: [plug] Checking a block device

2010-08-03 Thread Zak B. Elep
s that > the block device is not formatted. > > Thank you, Zak! ;-) No prob! :) > Now, whether or not the block device contains already any file(s) or > directory(ies) other than the lost+found directory for the ext2/3/4 > filesystem. That would probably make creativ

Re: [plug] Checking a block device

2010-08-03 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Marvin Pascual wrote: > Hello all, > > How can I check if a block device (partition) has one or any or all of > the following characteristics: > > [1] raw > > [2] has content > > [3] formatted > > but without actually moun

Re: [plug] OT: Mailing list for FOSS Business Owners

2010-07-06 Thread Zak B. Elep
ne aspect (albeit the most visible) of FOSS. Still, it would be great to hear how companies are doing in their Linux projects (whether getting their feet wet with it or developing/integrating solutions for either internal/commercial purposes.) -- Zak B. Elep || zakame

Re: [plug] Unix/Linux Perl CGI and Excel (a bit OT)

2010-07-05 Thread Zak B. Elep
::MakeMaker) or `perl Build.PL' (for those using Module::Build.) In fact, this is exactly what the local::lib[0] module does. See its documentation, particularly the bootstraping technique. You can install it straight without using the CPAN client. [0] http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?local

Re: [plug] Help in Ajax/CGI programming in Perl(OT)

2010-06-28 Thread Zak B. Elep
ink a better approach would be to have a hash that collects these info (headers and data) then pass this hash to a generic renderer function that does all the output for you in one section of code. Come to think of it, this is exactly the way Mojolicious does this (via MojoX::Renderer). -- Zak B. E

Re: [plug] Unix/Linux Perl CGI and Excel (a bit OT)

2010-06-25 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Ian Dexter R. Marquez wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 17:39, Zak B. Elep wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Ian Dexter R. Marquez >> wrote: >>> These may not be available in HP-UX, though. >> >> Hence the deps.cpantes

Re: [plug] Unix/Linux Perl CGI and Excel (a bit OT)

2010-06-25 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Ian Dexter R. Marquez wrote: > These may not be available in HP-UX, though. Hence the deps.cpantesters.org link, which has a selection of which destination OS to check deps on (HP-UX is included ;) I dunno which Perl version OP uses though. -- Zak B. E

Re: [plug] Unix/Linux Perl CGI and Excel (a bit OT)

2010-06-25 Thread Zak B. Elep
ites an Excel spreadsheet, it'd be probably a cinch to write a MojoX::Renderer for this... >:) Also, Spreadsheet::WriteExcel doesn't particularly depend on Win32::OLE (at least in the latest version.) See the CPAN dependencies chart for this.[2] [0] http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Task:

Re: [plug] Cannot run processes as regular user

2010-06-17 Thread Zak B. Elep
I > can avoid the downtime and perhaps provide some entertainment to the > people on the list, all the better :-). Also, can you provide a list of packages you recently installed? -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _

Re: [plug] Virtual Box on an Intel Atom

2010-06-01 Thread Zak B. Elep
oo far? :P Then again, I've yet to try running any virtualization (be it VBox or Qemu) on Atoms... -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lis

Re: [plug] building packages in parallel

2010-03-18 Thread Zak B. Elep
on how to do > it best? Doesn't make(1) with the -j flag fit? From the looks of your work above, that could be wrapped in a top-level Makefile for all those packages and invoke the make using -j (e.g. make -j 3 all) -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 57

Re: [plug] Database replication strategies

2010-02-21 Thread Zak B. Elep
ove, you're in the right direction; you could do a simple mysqldump/restore option semi-automated using scripts, or go for a MySQL cluster approach. -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linu

Re: [plug] Inquirer: Filipina named VP/PM of Apache Archiva

2009-12-05 Thread Zak B. Elep
mentations/book >> > > We were in Davao last Dec. 3 and yesterday for Devcon and a PSITE > event. She spoke about Maven and Open Source to students. Deng is > Zak's cousin btw. Yep, I'm so proud of her! =) She's definitely an example for our fellow Filipi

Re: [plug] Question about Perl Closure [OT]

2009-12-01 Thread Zak B. Elep
y { $self->{"y", @_[ 1 .. $#_ ] ) } 1; Granted, the Point::Closure implementation looks more complex, but on the plus side, it adds a place where one can do some parameter validation or preprocessing before anything else. Say,

Re: [plug] Invitation to the IBM Innovation Center Launch at UP-Ayala Technohub

2009-11-30 Thread Zak B. Elep
e LOL WUT I'm glad I haven't opened my PLUG mailbox for the last few days. Blissful ignorance :P (/me moves on to more interesting things, like figuring out a cheap way for doing auth for IPsec VPNs ;) -- Zak B. Elep  ||  zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1  F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _

Re: [plug] (Some) PLUGgers need introspections

2009-11-30 Thread Zak B. Elep
zero or > more occurrences of printable characters.   :)   I'm sorry but I > couldn't resist the temptation. Does it match the string "DAT ASS"? B[ -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D ___

Re: [plug] "Linux Helps Me Live a Stress-Free Life"

2009-11-12 Thread Zak B. Elep
. Perl, Ruby, Nginx, and more recently, strongSwan. Mostly had to do it because I either need a new version, or the packaged version doesn't have features or switches I need enabled. -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1

Re: [plug] "Linux Helps Me Live a Stress-Free Life"

2009-11-11 Thread Zak B. Elep
;t. The polarization came to effect inadvertently by subsequent followers to appeal with popular thought. -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing

Re: [plug] "Linux Helps Me Live a Stress-Free Life"

2009-11-10 Thread Zak B. Elep
the term `daemon' rather than something like `terminate and stay-resident programs'. :D Besides, when said daemons don't work as expected, you wouldn't probably call them using good terms, now, would you? XD -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E

Re: [plug] Security: An important Linux fix

2009-11-09 Thread Zak B. Elep
ity/2009/dsa-1928 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1929 -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Se

Re: [plug] Data Recovery

2009-11-08 Thread Zak B. Elep
evice (maybe an external drive enclosure) to do the recovery (via testdisk or other means.) [0] http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/NAS100d/HomePage -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux

Re: [plug] Data Recovery

2009-11-06 Thread Zak B. Elep
ave used testdisk[0] to restore a Win7 partition that got accidentally converted from Basic to Dynamic disk, and more recently to recover an 320GB external drive that got rm -fr * . It can run on several systems including DOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOSX. [0] http://www.cgsecuri

Re: [plug] Free, Open Source Space Simulation Game for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX

2009-10-24 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Daniel Escasa wrote: > http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/10/free-open-source-space-simulation-game.html I've heard of VegaStrike before but couldn't run it back then. Should try this on the new laptop... -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 4

Re: [plug] Weekend Linux Fun and Windows 7

2009-10-22 Thread Zak B. Elep
ling once he realizes it... -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

Re: [plug] help with domainkeys

2009-10-18 Thread Zak B. Elep
me that's either invalid or not mapping against your mail server's public IP address (e.g. reverse DNS.) Assuming that above was from the Yahoo Delivery Status Notification, what about your qmail delivery logs? -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA5

Re: [plug] Mr. Plameras Identity

2009-10-13 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Danny Ching wrote: > I CHALLENGE PLAMERAS TO REPLY TO MY LAST MESSAGE! > DID I DESERVE THE QUESTIONS REGARDING MY CREDS? > IF NOT, AN APOLOGY IS IN ORDER! Its easy to be a tough guy on the Internet. You've been trolled; just move on. -

Re: [plug] has anyone been able to put more than 14 hours into a 4.7gb dvd video?

2009-10-13 Thread Zak B. Elep
em seemed alright. -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

Re: [plug] Need help on bazaar...

2009-10-09 Thread Zak B. Elep
adly need your help on what -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

Re: [plug] Linux in the Street

2009-09-27 Thread Zak B. Elep
oughed up errors. -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

Re: [plug] The Death of Election 2010 Source Code Review

2009-09-24 Thread Zak B. Elep
e source code review itself. > > But Director Rafanan has already made his final word on the issue, and I > believe Director Rafanan's word is god's word.  May God bless COMELEC, and > may I ask, like Jesus asked, to "Father forgive them, for they know not what &

Re: [plug] Open-source at The New York Times

2009-09-16 Thread Zak B. Elep
://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-NYTProf/ -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

Re: [plug] Kahel OS. Do IT Right.

2009-09-14 Thread Zak B. Elep
gt; Technology Product on a Linux and Open Source Platform added to the >> thousands of FREE Distros already available in the community. IT does not >> explicitly want to be different or to be set apart from the rest. Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/610/ (no offense intended) --

Re: [plug] What's the plan for the coming Software Freedom Day?

2009-09-09 Thread Zak B. Elep
erings at either Bluepoint or UP. I myself won't be there however; I'm still stuck here in my little patch of paradise (in Daet ;) -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users&#x

Re: [plug] Help with Apache

2009-09-02 Thread Zak B. Elep
trouble shooting this? I don't have root access and I don't > have permission to do stuff such as rebooting the server. I can't even read > the syslog. Escalate. If your app has been monitored via an external tool (like

Re: [plug] Testing...

2009-08-24 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > Ping. Pong. -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph

Re: [plug] Microsoft contributes to Linux kernel

2009-07-29 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Andy Sy wrote: > Gnome terminal overrides bash's ALT-F for example, > and under Mint/Ubuntu's terminals, I really miss > auto-copy-on-text-highlight. Disable the menubar, and alt-* should now work. I get peeved with this too. -- Zak B. Elep

Re: [plug] compromised and/or failing hardware, mounting an LVM partition elsewhere

2009-07-29 Thread Zak B. Elep
an into a similar episode too; I used my Debian netinst CD to boot under rescue mode and it just found the LVM VG, proceeding to map it, and allowing me to just select which of the disks I need to mount as /. -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD

Re: [plug] date picker using Perl

2009-07-20 Thread Zak B. Elep
o be part of an application? -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

Re: [plug] Command Line help, how to add a . on the start of each line?

2009-07-15 Thread Zak B. Elep
GNU sed definitely does in-place stream editing. Old Unix-style sed (including Plan 9's version) doesn't, though. Still, I'm glad to see different ways of solving the same problem. As always, even outside of Perl, There's More Than One Way To Do It ;) -- Zak B. Elep || zak

Re: [plug] Command Line help, how to add a . on the start of each line?

2009-07-14 Thread Zak B. Elep
look like this... > > .sex.com > .blahblah.com > .weak.com > > How can I do that with one line of command in Linux? Here's a Perl one-liner: $ perl -pi.bak -e 's/^/./' porndomain.acl The original file is saved at porndomain.acl.bak, in case it is botched. --

Re: [plug] Code Review & Linux SysAdmin of Election 2010 Computers, Part 2

2009-07-12 Thread Zak B. Elep
this is all supposed to be 'automated', are all the machines to be deployed using and automatic configuration management system (like CFEngine or Puppet) so possible preconditions like those above could be declared and verified? Again, just braindumps. :D -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

Re: [plug] Converting vmware to Virtualbox 3

2009-07-11 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > Actually I'm now running a 64bit gentoo vmdk on virtualbox 3. As long as you > have 64bit hardware with vmx cpu flags virtualbox is good to go. Same here, running a Debian 64-bit VM inside a Win7 32-bit host. --

Re: [plug] Converting vmware to Virtualbox 3

2009-07-10 Thread Zak B. Elep
s://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMagazine/HowTo/Switching_From_VMWare_To_VirtualBox:_.vmdk_To_.vdi_Using_Qemu_+_VdiTool -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List h

Re: [plug] Routing

2009-07-01 Thread Zak B. Elep
e address of the web server instead, are those servers real physical servers (fully separated from each other) or are these in a single VPS (with the IPs assigned to virtual network interfaces?) -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D __

Re: [plug] Postfix (Mail Relay Server) messages treated as SPAM in YAHOO and MSN

2009-06-10 Thread Zak B. Elep
nce a lot of basic VPS servers are used for mail exchange. In my case, even with a handful of IPs, my VPS provider was very accommodating to the change, doing it almost immediately after filing a request for it. -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD

Re: [plug] CentOS 5.3 port 21 open which should not be

2009-06-07 Thread Zak B. Elep
reports of well-known FOSS projects. Debian comes to mind: in fact they do have some guidelines in their Securing HOWTO[1] and their IRP for the 2003 compromise at wiggy's.[2] [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch-after-compromise.en.html [2] http://www.wiggy.net/

Re: [plug] CentOS 5.3 port 21 open which should not be

2009-06-07 Thread Zak B. Elep
dering >> if this is bug from Centos. > > it is not a bug.. your system was hacked.. you cannot use any > applications (eg. netstat, lsof, etc) in your system as the hacker > already modified those... I concur, as all those outputs show. Take that system out of your network now. --

Re: [plug] CentOS 5.3 port 21 open which should not be

2009-06-07 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Iris Lames wrote: > If my ftp problem does not bind to any service, I feel relieved. But then > again, the question is "what caused my ftp to be open?".  I'm now wondering > if this is bug from Centos. Just wondering, what does `iptables

Re: [plug] [OT] Hosting a DNS

2009-06-03 Thread Zak B. Elep
virtual environments.) To achieve redundancy though, I set up an EveryDNS account to use their servers as secondary DNS, which I then set as the main lookup servers through whois. -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D ___

Re: [plug] Change SMTP port of Postfix / Dovecot

2009-05-05 Thread Zak B. Elep
purpose: nullmailer[0] and masqmail[1] come to mind. [0] http://freshmeat.net/projects/nullmailer/ [1] http://prog.marmaro.de/masqmail/ -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Li

Re: [plug] Change SMTP port of Postfix / Dovecot

2009-05-03 Thread Zak B. Elep
tps://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix If done correctly, you shouldn't need any modification to your scripts (if they are using the good old sendmail interface, that is; if they're talking directly to foreign SMTP servers via standard ports, that is another matter ;) Good luck! -- Zak B.

Re: [plug] dpkg uninstall/purge problem

2009-04-14 Thread Zak B. Elep
buntu/+source/runit/+bug/320702 (bug in postinst script for chroot environment). Except in that case, appending `exit 0' fixed it (due to the fact that the script began as `set -e', e.g. exit immediately if any command/builtin returns a non-zero status.) -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1

Re: [plug] dpkg uninstall/purge problem

2009-04-13 Thread Zak B. Elep
rsion in ubuntu; can you post what version of runit you're using, and the corresponding prerm script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/runit.prerm) if there's one (there is no prerm in stock Debian FWIW.) -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _

Re: [plug] Corporate contributions to free software

2009-04-10 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Andy Sy wrote: > It was a smart move but provoked by the desire to survive > and not out of any "goodness of the soul". See > http://www.google.com/search?q=ibm+jews+hitler Godwin wants a word with you. :P -- Zak B. Elep || zakame.net

Re: [plug] Corporate contributions to free software (Pablo Manalastas)

2009-04-03 Thread Zak B. Elep
patents department, which subsequently justified porting the system to a PDP-11 and building the ancestor of nroff. Contrast this with Plan 9, where AT&T tried to market and failed: where Plan 9 could have innovated uniform resource access significantly, the hazards of paying a hundred or so dolla

Re: [plug] Xaprb: 50 things to know before migrating Oracle to MySQL

2009-03-30 Thread Zak B. Elep
ing the rate at real time, as opposed to other similar (Web) services like speedtest.net. Now that I main OpenBSD, I use iftop instead, though I miss iptraf's other features. I only once met Gerard, at the 2005 LinuxWorld. If I ever meet him again, I'd buy him a beer or two for his grea

Re: [plug] hi..

2009-03-29 Thread Zak B. Elep
2009/3/30 Salvador III Manaois : > RTFM, no? Man pages online? =) > > ...badz... April Fools is still a couple of days away, OP is too early... -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org zak...@ubuntu.com || zak...@spunge.org || zak...@mor.ph 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787

Re: [plug] Xaprb: 50 things to know before migrating Oracle to MySQL

2009-03-22 Thread Zak B. Elep
lous or Sauerbraten (if you don't do Team Fortress 2 or Left4Dead...) -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org zak...@ubuntu.com || zak...@spunge.org || zak...@mor.ph 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine

Re: [plug] Simple but Nutty Perl Problem (I think I'm blind)

2009-03-15 Thread Zak B. Elep
dBin (http://perldoc.perl.org/FindBin.html): use FindBin; use lib "$FindBin::Bin"; # Find modules in the script's directory use My::Module; (b) using local::lib (http://search.cpan.org/dist/local-lib/): use local::lib; # Find modules in "~/perl5" (c) setting the PERL5

Re: [plug] Simple but Nutty Perl Problem (I think I'm blind)

2009-03-09 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Alec Joseph Rivera wrote: > Hi Ludwig, > > Perl has a B module and your module clashes with it. Try: > > $ perl -I'.' x2.pl Yes, Perl has the B:: namespace for modules that implement "backends", hence the name. see `per

Re: [plug] A Better Way of Doing This in Perl?

2008-12-08 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi: > >> Message: 2 >> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 11:53:07 +0800 >> From: "Zak B. Elep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim

Re: [plug] Cross Platform CGI (in Perl) Development?

2008-12-07 Thread Zak B. Elep
o `use lib' instead, or local::lib. Ideally however, you don't want to jump through these hoops; you might want to try looking at making your Windows Perl setup as equivalent to the Unix setup instead. If you're a heavy CPAN/CPANPLUS user, you can try Strawberry Perl (which recentl

Re: [plug] A Better Way of Doing This in Perl?

2008-12-07 Thread Zak B. Elep
r split(): split /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT split /PATTERN/,EXPR split /PATTERN/ split EXPR is taken as a scalar, and when not present, the default scalar $_ is assumed to be split. -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [plug] backup system to ISO image

2008-09-23 Thread Zak B. Elep
level.) There's also the upcoming Foundation,[4] but it has yet to be presented at USENIX. [0] http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/vbackup.html [1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/venti/venti.html [2] http://old.igmus.org/code/ [3] http://0xcc.net/pdumpfs/index.html.en [4] http://swtch.com/~rs

Re: [plug] Forcing windows to use utf-8?

2008-09-23 Thread Zak B. Elep
___< > > Any ideas on playing with windows? Have you used Microsoft AppLocale?[0] That should provide the environment needed to correctly read the code-paged runes in your Japanese software into the right UTF-8 characters. [0] http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/apploc.aspx --

Re: [plug] Mark IPW2100 driver as broken in linux kernel.

2008-09-21 Thread Zak B. Elep
do understand Evgeniy's side though (4 years sitting on such a situation would probably get to anyone's nerves, especially when said device is fast becoming obsolete.) [0] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/21/51 [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/21/164 -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame

Re: [plug] Tagalog might be disabled in D-I for Debian Lenny

2008-09-20 Thread Zak B. Elep
't really been updating my own Debian packages. Probably when the dust settles later this year will I pick up more time for packaging again. Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [plug] Tagalog might be disabled in D-I for Debian Lenny

2008-09-20 Thread Zak B. Elep
rier.eu.org/weblog/2008/09/19#di-freeze-lenny7 I've just submitted updated translation PO files for D-I to bubulle. There were only a few new msgstrs so I took the liberty of translating them. -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [plug] socket programming

2008-09-05 Thread Zak B. Elep
i was able to use it for > quite some time. any significant comparison for those who have also done > socket programming in other languages, like C/C++? If you're doing it on Perl, consider porting it to use POE.[0] [0] http://poe.perl.org -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.

Re: [plug] test mail

2008-08-01 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Junix Gaspar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Either no one is asking/replying or something is wrong. Something is right. People are finally doing RTFM first, ask questions later. ;-) -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL

Re: [plug] Running Python within Vim editor

2008-07-28 Thread Zak B. Elep
equivalent (and more robust) shebang.el[1] library. [1] http://harts.net/reece/emacs/shebang.el -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D

Re: [plug] outsourced virtual private servers with "C-Panel" or other similar features

2008-07-10 Thread Zak B. Elep
http://www.mabuhayhosting.com [1] http://www.wsservers.com -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Li

Re: [plug] Perl's Learning Curve

2008-06-20 Thread Zak B. Elep
eing the only guy to use it in a mostly Ruby shop ;). For my personal site, its the standard language (no Ruby or Python as much as possible) and I try to push back to the CPAN with new modules in the works. -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EM

Re: [plug] Perl's Learning Curve

2008-06-20 Thread Zak B. Elep
e. I used "Learning Perl" to learn > the language because > it is systematic, (easy to read linearly, and with exercises), and it > immediately encourage good > practice such as "use strict". > > It seems that O'Reilly books are getting fewer, an

Re: [plug] Perl's Learning Curve

2008-06-19 Thread Zak B. Elep
of computer books in Philippine > bookstores are DECREASING > each year. Feel appalled about it > I don't really see it decreasing; rather I see the same books on the shelves for several years already, even when some of them are pretty much obsolete already. Still, some ol

Re: [plug] Build-Essential Equivalent?

2008-06-17 Thread Zak B. Elep
useful. > > try doing yum grouplist and yum groupinstall for more info. Yup, in yum you use grouplists. Though in debian, build-essential pulls in the following packages: - libc6-dev - make - gcc - g++ - dpkg-dev So, in RHEL/CentOS you just probably need the corresponding packages, ex

Re: [plug] Version Control for Assorted but not Necessarily Related Files

2008-06-13 Thread Zak B. Elep
I make temp branches a lot. :) Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mai

Re: [plug] Regex Help

2008-06-11 Thread Zak B. Elep
ndle the second text with a > dash in it. How about '^[A-Z]{1,3}[\-0-9]+'? -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Ph

Re: [plug] Handling Newlines in Data for Unix/Linux Based CGI Programs [OT?]

2008-06-11 Thread Zak B. Elep
quot;\r\n" or "\r" as > opposed to "\n"? Hmm possibly, if you do some searching on that textarea data that sets records as text strings separated by newlines '\n'. You can always just run a filter by your data to be safe. -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spu

Re: [plug] Getting list of regular files (with whitespaces) using ls and AWK

2008-06-08 Thread Zak B. Elep
just become an issue now? -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://l

Re: [plug] configuring NRPE

2008-06-07 Thread Zak B. Elep
not sure how it relates to the OpenSSL pero when I checked the apps, > the latest is installed. You want the OpenSSL development libraries, e.g. the "libssl-dev' package. -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7

Re: [plug] [Nagios Download through APT]

2008-06-07 Thread Zak B. Elep
uses the previous Netsaint modules transparently. . Upstream URL: http://www.nagios.org/ Homepage: http://www.nagios.org/ Bugs: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Origin: Ubuntu -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [plug] Getting list of regular files (with whitespaces) using ls and AWK

2008-06-04 Thread Zak B. Elep
ile = map { basename($_) } File::Find::Rule->maxdepth(1)->file->in(getcwd); # @file contains the names of files found, even those with whitespace, without trailing './' -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7

Re: [plug] Getting list of regular files (with whitespaces) using ls and AWK

2008-06-04 Thread Zak B. Elep
use basename(1), and use the `-n' flag for xargs(1) to limit the arguments passed to basename by 1 only: $ find /path -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 basename > it is "-type f" not "-type -f" Right! Sorry about that. -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge

Re: [plug] Getting list of regular files (with whitespaces) using ls and AWK

2008-06-04 Thread Zak B. Elep
'-print', a '-print0' would be needed: $ find /path -type -f -print0 | xargs -0 some-command-to-process-list -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _

Re: [plug] nagios plugins "check_interface_table.pl "

2008-06-03 Thread Zak B. Elep
l RPM, or if you have the CPAN configured, you can grab it too via 'cpan Config::General'. Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D

Re: [plug] Is There Another Way of Sending a String via

2008-05-30 Thread Zak B. Elep
for forward/reverse domain name resolution. It helps if you have a domain name with an A record to your IP AND a PTR record from your IP's in-addr.arpa zone back to your domain name. Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [

Re: [plug] Is There Another Way of Sending a String via mailx?

2008-05-30 Thread Zak B. Elep
echo "Success" | mailx -s "Test Result" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > but it fails. Why not just use regular mail(1)? I used that here and it just worked. Besides, what was the failure saying? -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [plug] Is There Another Way of Sending a String via mailx?

2008-05-30 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there another way of doing it? I tried : > echo "Success" As in `echo "Success" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s "Did it work?"` -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge

Re: [plug] Huge Hole in Open Source Software

2008-05-23 Thread Zak B. Elep
ed in source, or even onthe website![1] [0] http://blog.zakame.net/news/openssl-remote-dsa-1571 [1] http://advogato.org/person/branden/diary/5.html . To put that in perspective, Branden is a former Debian Project Leader. -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [plug] PLUG meetups (was Re: Building the Open Source Portfolio)

2008-05-21 Thread Zak B. Elep
me -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mail

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