On 16 Aug 01 at 21:01, Pablo Manalastas wrote:
> A few months later, I visited Jonathan Marsden at Asian
> Theological Seminary (street parallel to Timog) with a box of
> diskettes, and copied all eight or ten diskettes of the SLS
> (Soft Landing System) distribution from his portable PC.
I was luckier. I visited his office in Karuhatan, Bulacan (boy was FEBC a
big compound -- and I got to see physcally FEBnet)...I was able to copy the
distribution with the help of laplink and my trusty Compaq Contura 386...
That was sometime 2nd or 3rd quarter of 1993. Immediately after that, I had a
running system at home on a 4 MB 386DX. Only installation took about 12 hours
-- as I didn't know I had to enable the swap file -- compilation did take such
a long time for a new kernel..
> In 1994, I attended the Cebu Internet conference, when Ph.net
> (the Philippine education domain) connected to the Internet
> for the first time. Immediately after the conference, I made
> sure that I got a copy of the IP addresses of all the important
> sites (Linux archives in particular). On Good Friday 1994, I
> was back in Ateneo QC, downloading the latest available Slackware
> distribution from sunsite.unc.edu. There were no nameservers at
Yes I remember that -- I was luckily at home with a dial-up system, I was able
to connect to DLSU servers and was downloading the same set of distribution...
I didn't know Doc Mana was doing the same thing we could have split the
work...
> that time for Ph.net, and our only connection was via San Carlos
> in Cebu. It is a good thing the San Carlos sysads did not
> password the root account, since they were still intoxicated by
> the success of the Cebu conference. Also Ritchie Lozada promised
...I hacked the server during the break in the conference, changed the root
password, but was kind enough to give the sysads the new password...
It did help that the computers were DEC Alphas...which I am too familiar with.
Of course I did gain some pogi points with the account executive (the girl in
yellow who's name escapes me now...I shall recall later...) from CEC, -- they
were the ones who loaned the DEC alpha to San Carlos...
>
> So it turned out on Good Friday 1994 that I must have been the
> craziest the person in the Philippines to want a complete Linux
> distribution and to actually download the latest release from the
> Internet.
Guess again...I guess both of us were...
> At about this time, also, I registered at the Linux counter.
> I must have been the first in the Philippines to do so.
I registered much much later...
> After the Cebu conference, the schools were busy setting up their
> internet connections. Linux boxes were being put up all over the
> place, to be used as Internet servers. We almost came to the
> conclusion that (1) UP sysads must be love-starved, since they
> named their servers after sexy models, (2) Ateneo sysads must be
> drinkers, since they named their servers after beer-house food,
> and (3) DLSU sysads were not creative, since they named their
> servers vax1, vax2, vax3, etc. DLSU also used Linux boxes but I
> am not sure if they called them linux1, linux2, etc.
It only proves that DLSU people know how to count...
And yes..they do have linux1, linux2 all the way to linux15 or 16...
anyway...linux1 is also ccslinux, linux2 was the webserver and ftp server (ftp
server later migrated to vax3...then back to linux4...
ASTI people, because of proximity to the UP Computer center, named their
servers after supermodels as well...
> This choice of names for Ateneo servers must have been disappointing
> to the Jesuits, who must have secretly wanted to name them ignacio,
> francisco, ricci, faura, etc. It is hard to break tradition, so
> the names pusit, sisig, inihaw, stuck.
Anyway, in defense of DLSU, there were several other schools that used DLSU as
role models... that is...as I recall, SLU and UST also named their servers
sequentially...(correct me if I'm wrong)...
UPLB named it after their natural resources -- e.g. makiling, mudspring...
> In 1994 or 1995, we met at McDonalds New Frontier and drafted the
> objectives of the Philiipine Linux Users' Group (PLUG). The
> named PLUG was coined by Kelsey Hartigan Go.
1994.
The first 5 members were --
Doc Mana (President)
Kelsey (Vice-President)
Xenos/Eric (Treasurer)
Rommel Feria (PRO)
Sammy Mallare (Secretary)
> And so that was how it was in the early days. I could be wrong,
> but we are mere humans ...
so far so good...
_
Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph
To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
