Re: [plug] photoshop in Edunbuntu!

2007-05-02 Thread david t. asuncion, jr.
On 5/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Mhac Janapin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: guys. please help me! I'm collecting all Linux distros (Latest: Redhat, Ubuntu, Slackware, mandriva, Suse, Centos, Mephis, Debian, gentoo, etc.). And since I dont have permanent internet broadband

Re: [plug] Compatible budget laptops today?

2007-05-02 Thread GOvvin
Or shop around and bring a liveCD of your favorite distro with you. On 5/2/07, fooler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Elijah Alcantara [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List plug@lists.linux.org.ph Sent: Tuesday, May 01,

[plug] smtp forwarding woes

2007-05-02 Thread jan gestre
hi guys, our smtp/pop3 service is hosted outside the company and we have a helpdesk system wherein it sends email to internal users regarding their current task, however we are experiencing some problems lately, all mails sent by the system e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... is not

Re: [plug] Compatible budget laptops today?

2007-05-02 Thread Danny Ching
Personally, I use an MSI Mega Book S270 (AMD Turion64, ATI Radeon Express, 1 GB RAM, LAN/WIFI/BT/Modem, 3 USB ports, 1280x800 screen, 4lbs). Everything works, except card reader (i've tried Mepis/Ubuntu and FC6 on it). Although Fedora needs to download and install a lot of closed source stuff.

Re: [plug] Compatible budget laptops today?

2007-05-02 Thread Jubert Ledesma
Im using Mandriva 2007 for IBM thinkpad r50e. Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 22:17 +0800, Elijah Alcantara wrote: Hi group, I'm in a budget right now so I'm looking for a laptop within the 25-35k range, but preferably within 25-30k. I've been checking out pccorner's

Re: [plug] AMD64 on a lowend machine

2007-05-02 Thread List Mail
On 5/1/07, Cocoy Dayao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05 1, 07, at 5:12 AM, List Mail wrote: I've done some reading on the Net over the advantages of using a 64-bit Linux distribution. The main conclusion I've reached is that using an AMD64-flavor of LInux makes absolute sense only with high-

Re: [plug] AMD64 on a lowend machine

2007-05-02 Thread List Mail
On 5/1/07, Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 05:12 +0800, List Mail wrote: My question is, do I suffer from a performance penalty if I use AMD64 Linux on a low-spec computer? I'm thinking of installing Ubuntu AMD64 7.04 on a computer with a Sempron 3000+

Re: [plug] Linux XP

2007-05-02 Thread List Mail
On 5/2/07, Lloyd Martin T. Yong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, Has anyone here ever tried Linux XP? Is it stable? would you recommend it to use as desktop OS? thanks! If your Russian is good why not ;-)? Linux XP appears to be a KDE-based Linux distro with the infamous Start button (in

Re: [plug] AMD64 on a lowend machine

2007-05-02 Thread Cocoy Dayao
On 05 2, 07, at 8:50 PM, List Mail wrote: My goal is simply to future-proof my setup. So it's okay if I don't see any immediate benefit from going 64-bit. My main worry is if I will suffer a performance penalty under my current setup. Are the hardware requirements of 64-bit Linux similar to

Re: [plug] Compatible budget laptops today?

2007-05-02 Thread Elijah Alcantara
Thanks for the input. Can anyone vouch for the durability of an Acer? or those other not so well-known brands? I'm thinking of picking an Acer n lang because may pre-installed linux na ... Elij _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List

Re: [plug] Compatible budget laptops today?

2007-05-02 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Elij noong May 3, 2007 12:01 AM: Thanks for the input. Can anyone vouch for the durability of an Acer? or those other not so well-known brands? I'm thinking of picking an Acer n lang because may pre-installed linux na ... I'm working on a project that has assigned me an Aspire 5570Z

Re: [plug] rsync backup script

2007-05-02 Thread eric rosel
--- Gerald Timothy Quimpo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 05:40 +0800, jan gestre wrote: i found a rsync backup script that will perform a 7 day incremental backup of the /home directory but the example is based on a remote server,. my scenario is that the /home

Re: [plug] rsync backup script

2007-05-02 Thread thad
I use dirvish for disk-based backups, it's also based on rsync. Been using it for a year now (give or take a few days), it has saved my hide a lot of times during that time. Restoring a single file is as easy as a few taps on the enter key (in mc). There are even scripts for automating daily

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

2007-05-02 Thread Jun Salen
Interesting read at http://blog.mon.itor.us//?p=286 It shows not only Windows and Linux but other OS's as well. Thanks, junji aisalen.webpress.com Linux Registered User #253162 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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 75A3 |

Re: [plug] Linux XP

2007-05-02 Thread Lloyd Martin T. Yong
If your Russian is good why not ;-) ? Linux XP appears to be a KDE-based Linux distro with the infamous Start button (in place of the usual K. Interestingly, its cloning of the WinXP look and feel may well be legal in Russia, which has (or has had) poor trademark laws. Ever heard of Windows 99?

Re: [plug] Compatible budget laptops today?

2007-05-02 Thread eric rosel
--- JM Ibanez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mhac Janapin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have abused a HP Compaq Presario V2000 with PCLinuxOS 2007 and it works real nice, especially the Beryl 3D. But it has issues with Ubuntu. It would boot OK, but hangs during Gnome startup. So I have to

s270 and Linux (was [plug] Compatible budget laptops today?)

2007-05-02 Thread GOvvin
Are you experiencing the dreaded White Screen of Death? I recently did a clean install to Feisty from Dapper and I'm experiencing a lot of WSODs on my setup. I'm not using ATI's proprietary driver. The card reader still doesn't work on Linux (but I got an external USB reader, so it's not a big

Re: [plug] rsync backup script

2007-05-02 Thread Ariz Jacinto
magnetic tape backups are still needed for compliance purposes although i wouldn't recommend depending your job _solely_ on it. reminds me of the days that we almost have to endure more than a week of downtime for the tape restoration to finish (while crossing our fingers against the possibility