Re: [plug] Switch Off #NoBrownout

2015-04-26 Thread Daniel Escasa
, but that'll happen when the gencos' plants go down, 10 days from the reported reduction. The ERC should then alert the public about the projected shortfall so we can all shut down non-essential appliances, postpone e.g., ironing, machine-washing, etc. *Daniel Escasa* Technologist. Writer and Editor

Re: [plug] ffmpeg / avconv

2015-04-21 Thread Daniel Escasa
to look at the docs more closely. *Daniel Escasa* Technologist. Writer and Editor. Shakespearean actor http://google.com/+DanielEscasa http://ph.linkedin.com/in/danielescasa http://www.twitter.com/silverlokk http://facebook.com/silverlokk The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I

Re: [plug] ffmpeg / avconv

2015-04-21 Thread Daniel Escasa
Stumbled upon this: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Create%20a%20video%20slideshow%20from%20images Yeah, I should'a looked over the docs more closely. *Daniel Escasa* Technologist. Writer and Editor. Shakespearean actor http://google.com/+DanielEscasa http://ph.linkedin.com/in/danielescasa

Re: [plug] auto-display of a jpeg file behind a php script

2015-04-17 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Holden noong Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:16 AM: FYI, in Mindanao daily brownouts have started last week. If I remember rightly, the DOE issued warnings as late as 4Q last year. Maybe even earlier. *Daniel Escasa* Technologist. Writer and Editor. Shakespearean actor http://google.com

Re: [plug] auto-display of a jpeg file behind a php script

2015-04-17 Thread Daniel Escasa
I don't know if I should be bothered that the expected and actual demands have been coinciding. *Daniel Escasa* Technologist. Writer and Editor. Shakespearean actor http://google.com/+DanielEscasa http://ph.linkedin.com/in/danielescasa http://www.twitter.com/silverlokk http://facebook.com

Re: [plug] auto-display of a jpeg file behind a php script

2015-04-15 Thread Daniel Escasa
the server. Firefox 37.0.1 Zorin GNU/Linux v9 7-year-old Lenovo ThinkPad SL400 PLDT DSL Still, I've posted the link to Facebook and Google Plus, and put in a short explanation. *Daniel Escasa* Technologist. Writer and Editor. Shakespearean actor http://google.com/+DanielEscasa http

Re: [plug] downloading a php result

2015-04-05 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ko noong Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 10:27 AM: Sometimes you don't need a script :) Let me correct myself. You'll still need a script for changing the date and hour parameters in the URL *Daniel Escasa* Technologist. Writer and Editor. Shakespearean actor http://google.com/+DanielEscasa

Re: [plug] downloading a php result

2015-04-02 Thread Daniel Escasa
,, 18,4361.7,,,51920.13,, 19,5050.8,,,56180.15,, 20,5148,,,55239.16,, 21,5234.5,,,54377.99,, 22,5352.8,,,53303.8,, 23,5186.6,,,55145.97,, 24,4915.6,,,49970.37,, One other thing: I was too lazy to set an output file with -O *output-file*. Sometimes you don't need a script :) *Daniel Escasa

Re: [plug] Raspberry Pi

2012-02-29 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Anuerin noong Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:36 PM: I would like to buy 5 if its really in the $25 range. One or two will be used as HTPC, and the rest as play err test machines. :) It's 25 *GBP*, or about US$35. Good luck getting one. I understand the first batch has already sold out. I just

Re: [plug] Raspberry Pi

2012-02-29 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ko noong Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:05 PM: It's 25 *GBP*, or about US$35. Ah, apparently, there's a model B that's $35, and a model A that's $25. The latter drops the ethernet and USB ports. Still in manufacturing and will be available soon. That one should go even faster than the model B (see

[plug] Linux drives a cadillac

2011-11-06 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://geekbeat.tv/geekbeat-tv-309-ctia-2011-cue-cadillacs-customizable-display-system/ -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph Twitter page at

Re: [plug] Jar file

2011-05-16 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni John noong Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:10 PM anyone here know how to run jar file on text mode without X. I have no option of installing Xwindows on the machine. sample i have setup.jar and i need to run it on cli only. any ideas. tnx In fact, your .jar will run in text mode unless it

[plug] Bizarre Cathedral 95 -- especially for Debian users

2011-04-20 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/bizarre_cathedral_95 -- Shared via RockMelt _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

Re: [plug] Year of Linux (Unix) | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online

2011-03-04 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Gary noong Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:04 PM: 'Beg indulgence, would the list know how to contact Mr. Rom Feria, author of the article? Is he a member? He should still be here, you know him as Rommel Feria. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software

Re: [plug] Turorial Fee

2010-11-25 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Geruel noong Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:29 PM: Thanks for the input guys.. exceprt for this one --- GMG? What was that for? That's a bit rude to say to someone. We are now in what we say professional levels unless you are still in college to give a responce Whether you're in college or

Re: [plug] Linux in Schools

2010-09-30 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Holden noong Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:40 PM: Google for CICT's iSchools Project on the Philippine side.  It has been going on for some time. CICT ischools open source gave me more meaningful results. In particular, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=580752 -- CICT to computerize

[plug] Linux in Schools

2010-09-29 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/linux_in_schools.php?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed:+GregLadensBlog+(Greg+Laden's+Blog) Significant excerpt Many of the large-scale adoptions of Linux in education have been overseas - Russia, the Philippines, Spain, Macedonia,

[plug] How to generate and update ODF spreadsheets without OpenOffice

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/how-generate-and-update-odf-spreadsheets-without-openoffice -- includes a short but informative description of the OO.o Calc format. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com)

Re: [plug] Image backup-and-restore

2010-04-22 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Victor noong Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:33 PM: the above suggestion may not be economical if source [devname] is too huge. and in such case, i use manual linux commands such as: fdisk mount source and target partitions cp -aRf source target You may run into permission issues here.

[plug] How to get married the apt-get way

2010-04-18 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.lessaid.net/fun/apt-get-wife.png -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph Twitter page at http://www.twitter.com/silverlokk If we choose being kind over being

[plug] Open Source Initiative's take on IIPA

2010-03-09 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.opensource.org/node/511 In case you've been out of the loop, a coalition of intellectual property proponents has recommended putting countries on the IPR watchlist for promoting open source -- in particular, Indonesia. The OSI has put out a paper, rather belatedly IMHO. In any event,

[plug] iFreeTablet

2010-02-05 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.ifreetablet.com/indexEN.php -- a Debian-based touch-enabled (dunno yet about multi-touch) tablet. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph Twitter page at

Re: [plug] Canonical picks open-source leader for COO

2010-02-05 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ko noong Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 12:44 AM: http://blogs.computerworld.com/15546/canonical_picks_open_source_leader_for_coo?source=rss_blogs !!! Spoiler alert -- it's Matt Asay, VP at Alfresco. So much for the spoiler alert: Sent to you by Silverlokk via Google Reader: Canonical

[plug] Open source game console – build your o wn games

2010-01-15 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://shanzai.com/index.php/bandit-gadgets/media-players/597-open-source-game-console-build-your-own-games -- for whatever it may be worth. It was supposed to have been released in late 2008, delayed due to various problems, and now apparently ready to go. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT

Re: [plug] my first distributed script

2010-01-10 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Winelfred noong Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:45 PM: i have approximately 130GB or two weeks of MP4 video recorded daily from 4am to 9:30pm this holiday break.  the resolution is 640x480. (from up in the aurora province mountains where the generator runs only 4 hours a day, powering the

[plug] Mark Shuttleworth: My new focus at Canonical

2009-12-20 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/295 -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph Twitter page at http://www.twitter.com/silverlokk If we choose being kind over

[plug] A 5-year-old girl installs Ubuntu

2009-11-30 Thread Daniel Escasa
Choice quote: “Hey, if you just press Enter, it usually works out. http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/The_Un_Scary_Screwdriver, or http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/88/the-un-scary-screwdriverhttp://www.gnomejournal.org/article/88/the-un-scary-screwdriver for the direct link. -- Daniel O. Escasa

[plug] Linux Got Game: Blob Wars ( Blob And Conquer)

2009-11-27 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.junauza.com/2009/11/linux-got-game-blob-wars-blob-and.html -- another blog entry from our GNU/Linux user in Bohol. Story was picked up by Free Software Daily (http://www.fsdaily.com). His ratings: Sounds and Graphics: 6/10 Gameplay: 8/10 Total: 7/10 and, from a comment that begs to

[plug] A New Game Comes To Linux And It's Not A FPS

2009-11-20 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=NzcwNw -- FPS?? In any case, it bills itself as a puzzle action game. (Later) FPS -- First Person Shooter. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com)

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

2009-11-12 Thread Daniel Escasa
Ehem. Going back to the blog post, one of the commenters there claimed he loved Linux but cited the need to compile software that's not in the repo, then the source doesn't compile. He also mentioned some hardware issues, but those are not relevant because Fr Stephen's running Ubuntu on a Mac. I

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

2009-10-24 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/10/free-open-source-space-simulation-game.html -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph Twitter page at

[plug] Robovie-PC

2009-10-13 Thread Daniel Escasa
This is on-topic because it runs Linux :) http://www.vstone.co.jp/robot/roboviepc/ -- English translation courtesy of Google at http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hphl=enjs=yu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vstone.co.jp%2Frobot%2Froboviepc%2Fsl=jatl=enhistory_state0= -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT

Re: [plug] COMELEC SUED (Was: The Death of Election 2010 Source Code Review)

2009-10-12 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Oscar noong Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:17 PM: Source code review will never be tolerated.Not as a method for acceptance testing in Software Engineering. Where in the world is that happening when you simply want to know that what you entered is religously recorded and is not corrupted?

Re: [plug] COMELEC SUED (Was: The Death of Election 2010 Source Code Review)

2009-10-12 Thread Daniel Escasa
Holy cow!, are we dealing with a split personality here, someone who's answering his own messages? On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Oscar Plameras oscarplame...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe, just maybe your just one of those pretenders. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Oscar Plameras

[plug] Who sez GNU/Linux is too hard...

2009-10-06 Thread Daniel Escasa
especially for senior citizens (the likes of Pablo Manalastas excluded g)? -- http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/10/twisting-path-to-linux.html -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at

Re: [plug] PH Webhosting

2009-10-03 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Jan noong Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 10:02 PM: I'm only surprised that no one mentions dotPH It's partly political :) In brief, dotPH is, as you may know, the .ph country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) registrar, and the administrator Joel Disini is far from popular in the Internet community.

Re: [plug] Embedded Linux Group

2009-09-28 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Migz noong Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:49 PM: In light of current events... am thinking how our embedded devices can serve as infrastructure, like portable servers. Like if we can hook Something like this? http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/tis_beagleboard_and_dlp_pico_projector.html

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

2009-09-28 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Kelsey noong Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:56 AM: If the machines runs Linux, so it's under GPL? If so, aren't any modifications to OS GPL's too? Yes, but technically, the manufacturer isn't distributing the software in the same way that other FOSS is distributed and therefore they don't have

[plug] $300 tablet runs Ubuntu Linux on AA batteries

2009-09-26 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/NorhTec-Gecko-Info-Pad/ -- expected to ship in November so specs subject to change. Still something to look forward to. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com)

Re: [plug] Microsoft's vision of the future

2009-09-18 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Richard noong Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:33 PM: Reality trumps vision.  Demo in TED March 2009 of Sixth Sense from the MIT Media Labs. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html More at http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/ . The hardware costs

[plug] For gamers: Plonk now OpenPlonk

2009-08-05 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2009/08/clonk-open-sourced-and-free-gamer.html -- contains links to other open-source games. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph

Re: [plug] AlwaysInnovating touchbook

2009-08-03 Thread Daniel Escasa
https://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/info.htm -- took some time, but they're now shipping, at first to pre-orders, and they've had some production problems, resulting in backlogs. Furthermore: quote We have received so many requests from around the world, we have decided to start accepting

Re: [plug] Android development (was re: Some Ubuntu desktop + compatible smartphone questions)

2009-07-31 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Miguel noong Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:17 PM: here's another high end Android development device, from Creative: http://www.zii.com/Developer/SDKProducts.aspx Drat, no Philippines in the drop-down list of For use in: countries. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer

Re: [plug] Code Review SysAdmin of Election 2010 Computers

2009-07-16 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni fooler noong Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:42 AM: furtheremore, they need to replace their PCOS' gprs (2G) modem to HSDPA (3.5G) modem as this modem have a backward compatibility and fallback with gprs, edge and gsm networks... And areas with no GSM signal may be reached through some

[plug] And we wonder why GNU/Linux fails at marketing?

2009-07-03 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/65877.html?wlc=1246679309 -- there's surely a lot of blame to go around, starting with Microsoft, but the Linux zealots are probably as bad, if not worse, than MS. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine

Re: [plug] LiMux: Where the Munich Linux (R)evolution is today

2009-06-29 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ko noong Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:37 AM: In the short-term, no money was saved with the change-over. To the contrary, the city had to absorb one-time upfront costs of 13 million Euros for the Linux Munich “LiMux” project, which the city’s IT department describes as an IT evolution, not a

Re: [plug] The Top 10 Most Dangerous IT Technologies

2009-06-26 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Ian noong Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:14 AM: But Trend Micro software runs on Linux servers! And they use a modified Linux kernel for their AV and gateway appliances. Ah so... To be fair, the author did simply quote from an article in vnunet, but the least he could've done was rebut it,

Re: [plug] The Top 10 Most Dangerous IT Technologies

2009-06-24 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Michael noong Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:40 AM: It is still better considering Windows was placed as #2 in the main list. B^ The author must be a Mac person. And it just occurred to me that it's a Trend Micro blog, meaning it's part of the effort to sell anti-virus software, which

[plug] Linux-based multitouch system

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.lii-enac.fr/en/projects/shareit/linux.html -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph Twitter page at http://www.twitter.com/silverlokk If we choose being kind

[plug] More from our GNU/Linux friend in Bohol

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.junauza.com/2009/06/15-mythical-and-humorous-facts-about.html -- Mythical and humorous facts about RMS. Also, http://www.junauza.com/2009/03/25-mythical-and-humorous-facts-about.html, about *the* Linus. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free

[plug] GNU/Linux user in Bohol

2009-06-08 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.junauza.com/2009/06/linux-ive-got-to-admit-its-getting.html -- was picked up by Free Software Daily (http://www.fsdaily.com), a sister site of Free Software Magazine. Is Jun Auza on this list? _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG)

[plug] kinda OT: spoof on Microsoft's Bing

2009-05-30 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.ubersoft.net/comic/hd/2009/05/grand-unveiling -- but pay special attention to the 1st comment. Or it may be the last, depending on how the site sorts the comments. Basta, it's the only comment as I write this but that could change. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and

Re: [plug] Eric Pareja (not Raymond) in Baguio

2009-05-14 Thread Daniel Escasa
I read somewhere, maybe in a blog post, that a significant number of participants at open source developer conferences tote Macs. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph

[plug] [OT] The Programming Language with the Happiest Users

2009-05-13 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2009/05/the-programming-language-with-the-happiest-users/ -- take it with a grain of salt though, because the author bases happiness on tweets. choice comment: Ignorance is bliss…and yes I’m implying perl programmers are ignorant ;) -- Daniel O. Escasa independent

[plug] Fwd: [Bukas] UPD holds first campus-wide computerized USC elections

2009-05-10 Thread Daniel Escasa
-- Forwarded message -- From: alale...@fma.ph Date: Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:18 AM Subject: [Bukas] UPD holds first campus-wide computerized USC elections To: bu...@lists.ph.net picked up from plaridel papers list --- UPD holds first campus-wide computerized USC elections

[plug] A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

2009-05-10 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph Twitter page at http://www.twitter.com/silverlokk

Re: [plug] Open Source Activity Map according to RH

2009-04-26 Thread Daniel Escasa
A reaction to the map: http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2127blogid=14 -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph Twitter page at

[plug] Linux Educational Comicbook

2009-04-25 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.montanalinux.org/more-hackett-and-bankwell.html -- includes links to the first two issues. Released under a Creative Commons license. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at

[plug] Open Source Activity Map according to RH

2009-04-23 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.redhat.com/about/where-is-open-source/activity/ -- oddly enough, we rank low on community but high on government. But then: quote Community factors include the number of applications to the Google summer of code, native language support for GNU/Linux, and number of Internet users per

Re: [plug] Open Source Activity Map according to RH

2009-04-23 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Erwin noong Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:17 AM: In that case, they appear to have a short-sighted appreciation of the Google Summer Code program As I said, call to arms. The RH Activity Map tells us that PLUG still has a raison d'etre -- a reason for being. A possible activity is getting

Re: [plug] OT: 100M rewards for breaking the automated poll system

2009-04-17 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Doc Ambo noong Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:57 AM: This is where I stand firmly, and I believe that if you love your country, that you will stand with me in this. Let us force Comelec to follow this provision of the law, because that is the legal thing, it is their obligation. Do I smell a

Re: [plug] Corporate contributions to free software

2009-04-10 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Xander noong Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:35 PM: This is bordering OT, but... IMHO, not entirely because ReactOS is GPL. ReactOS aims to be binary compatible with WIndows XP. They claim that the code is cleanly reverse engineered and is GPL'ed. Last time I looked, the UI still looks like

[plug] Open-Source Automotive Hacking

2009-04-09 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://geekmyride.org/ excerpt ...there is nothing that compares to the ultimate geek factor of extending your vehicles capabilities by retrofitting your own fully customised, Linux based in-car computer. /excerpt -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free

Re: [plug] Java packages (Re: Ubuntu GNOME)

2009-04-09 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Miguel noong Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:10 PM: open-jdk-6 - sun-java-6's GPL release. Not everything made it to the GPL release, so not everything works right. (In my experience, just Swing GUI code). Since on Linux, I use Eclipse (doesn't use Swing) and Swing might not be a major loss,

[plug] Smallest full-featured Linux PC?

2009-03-19 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7216186184.html -- barely higher than three jewel cases. And yes, it's available with Ubuntu. Prices start at US$245, 1.1GHz Atom Z510, no OS, no drive, then add $55 for a 160GB hard drive and Ubuntu. Prices rise with a faster Atom and with XP (but why??? g). --

[plug] The best racing game ever runs on Linux

2009-03-10 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.handlewithlinux.com/best-racing-game-ever-runs-on-linux -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph Twitter page at http://www.twitter.com/silverlokk If we

[plug] AlwaysInnovating touchbook

2009-03-07 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/ -- drool :) And yes, it runs a special version of Linux (just the kernel, I think, so no GNU there but have to check). Not only that, but the schematics are available at http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/download/Schematics-v1-AlwaysInnovating.pdf --

Re: [plug] filename case change utility?

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni fooler noong Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 1:21 AM: ok to make you happy... ill make a utility for you :- a simple C program using recursive algorithm to traverse a tree or directory and then change to lowercase.. you can compile this either in linux or xBSD... Thanks again, bro, was happy

Re: [plug] filename case change utility?

2009-02-20 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Fooler noong Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:11 PM: as like i said... if you cant find in google.. you can find it here in plug :- To clarify, Google did give me links to utilities, but they were for Windows. Wasn't about to boot into Windows just to run those utils. the commands below

[plug] filename case change utility?

2009-02-19 Thread Daniel Escasa
Anyone know of a good utility to traverse a directory tree and change the case of filenames? I copied files from a USB stick, and they were uppercase :( I've also seen perl, bash, awk, and other scripts but they worked only on files in the current directory. I suppose I *could* edit those

Re: [plug] filename case change utility?

2009-02-19 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ko noong Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:23 PM: Anyone know of a good utility to traverse a directory tree and change the case of filenames? I copied files from a USB stick, and they were uppercase BTW, I've tried Google (ako pa :) -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer

Re: [plug] Team PinoyOpenSource - misuse of the term?

2009-02-04 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Eric noong 2009/2/5: So are they just Open Source users/consumers? Far as I can tell, they're consultants or system integrators who sell FOSS solutions to their clients. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine

Re: [plug] PDA/Phone programming platform (was: Openmoko Neo ...)

2009-02-03 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Doc Ambo noong Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:01 PM: No. And I do not have the new HTC phone on which Android runs. Do you have it? How much does it cost? I just came from MegaMall, and infoMAX at Cyberzone has the HTC G1, for an eye-popping PhP42,500. If I recall rightly, Google is offering the

Re: [plug] Android in a VM

2009-02-03 Thread Daniel Escasa
Speaking of Android, I've managed to run it in VirtualBox although I can do next to nothing on it. I do get the desktop and I somehow strayed into a screen with all the Android icons but I can't activate any of them. When I press a cursor key, I get some error about key handing or something, and I

Re: [plug] Meet Up (Was: MSI Wind: Triple booting Ubuntu, Leopard, and WinXP)

2009-01-10 Thread Daniel Escasa
Picking up from this post, those of you with netbooks running GNU/Linux may be interested in netbook-optimized wallpapers: http://www.junauza.com/2009/01/20-really-cool-netbook-optimized-linux.html And as another aside, and slightly off-topic, the next time we meet, you'll see my ThinkPad with

[plug] Unix and Linux WebTech Humor: Bourne Shell Server Pages

2008-12-28 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2008/12/unix-and-linux-webtech-humor-bourne.html -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph Twitter page at

Re: [plug] MSI Wind: Triple booting Ubuntu, Leopard, and WinXP

2008-12-23 Thread Daniel Escasa
I don't have a Wind but I may pop in just for the company :) May bring my ThinkPad but I haven't been able to get WiFi to work with my FreeBSD so I'll have to be running ugh Vista. As an aside, Vista seems stable on this TP -- have had to reset only two or three times, and those times, I was

Re: [plug] on charitable wireless encryptions (was Re: MSI Wind: Triple booting Ubuntu, Leopard, and WinXP)

2008-12-23 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Eric noong Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:39 PM: If that's the case, what's taken the place of Print Master on Linux? i.e. easy to use desktop publishing software. I'm not sure if PrintMaster qualifies as desktop publishing in the purest sense of the word. Far as I remember, it was mainly a

Re: [plug] Mobile Computing - Best Linux filesystem configuration

2008-12-18 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Drexx noong Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:10 PM: Well, most geeks got into this a matter of experimentation. Geeks make do with what is readily available, just to prove something works for the time being. Maybe, TC-to-DC will happen in the next stage of evolution. In fact, Google gives a

Re: [plug] mac OS X leopard on Pentium 4

2008-12-02 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Jerome noong Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:27 PM: Can I install Mac OS X Leopard into some cloned Pentium 4 machine with 1GB of RAM? That would be against the terms of service of Apple At the risk of sounding pedantic, I should point out that Goyong asked if he *can* install Leopard, not if

Re: [plug] linux on the corporate desktop

2008-06-26 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Gideon noong June 23, 2008 2:41 PM: Have you tried IBM Lotus Symphony? It is based on OOo code but uses Eclipse framework, and is compatible with ODF and MS Office documents. And the word processor has outline view. It tuns on Linux, Windows, and Mac.

Re: [plug] multi-screen recommendations for Linux

2008-03-13 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Orly noong Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:50 AM: I've used a 2nd monitor with my Intel 945 notebook. It works fine, I don't see what the fuss is all about... If I'm not mistaken, Eric's asking about multiple monitors for a single box, not necessarily a laptop. And even if I *am* mistaken, I'd

Re: [plug] OT - Dvorak

2008-02-06 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Gabriel noong Feb 7, 2008 8:46 AM: maybe the question here is, anong benefit ng using devorak from qwerty? will it improve my typing speed? (I'm a slow typer and ptone to typpo) First, a background about the QWERTY layout: it was designed for typists who typed so fast on manual

Re: [plug] 3G support working on the 4G Eee

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Jun noong Nov 27, 2007 10:00 AM: I heard it from Leo Laporte who said this (4G) is what people are buying. When the 8G comes out I'm gonna feel really bad. He sounded sure... Regardless of an 8G (or higher) Eee, I myself wouldn't feel so bad if I got a 4G now. Since it's got USB

Re: [plug] Minefields Do Not Discriminate (Re: Software Patents)

2007-11-22 Thread Daniel Escasa
To be fair: 1. Because of its sheer size, Microsoft is the one of the largest targets of patent infringement suits, if not the largest. 2. I've heard of z4 Technologies as a company that built itself on dubious patents then suing alleged infringers. Still looking for my source. In any event,

[plug] 3G support working on the 4G Eee

2007-11-19 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2007/11/3g-wwan-support.html slobber -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph If we choose being kind over being right, we will

Re: [plug] [ORG] The Future of PLUG

2007-11-05 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Orly noong Nov 5, 2007 10:25 AM: The problem with official membership is that it's a huge hassle to pay the dues! it's not the amount of the due itself, it's our Valuable Free Time being taken up by something so pedestrian as paying some dues. But the Internet has made paying

Re: [plug] [ORG] The Future of PLUG

2007-11-03 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni PG-13 noong Nov 4, 2007 5:08 AM: Carlos Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are all passionate about FOSS and Linux and there seems to be enough people in PLUG to generate funding. Personally, I wouldn't mind paying an annual membership fee to join PLUG as long as the activities are

Re: [plug] ODF group abandons file format in favor of W3C alternative

2007-10-30 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ko noong Oct 31, 2007 8:35 AM: Daniel Escasa has sent you an article from the Computerworld Web site. To view the rest of the story, copy the link and paste it into your browser window. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9044723 ODF group

Re: [plug] open source CBT program

2007-10-27 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Gary noong Oct 28, 2007 10:25 AM: hey guys Just wanna ask around if anyone knows of a good program for recording videos of what you do on your screen to make computer based training tutorials? xvidcap -- http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/ -- is one. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT

Re: [plug] [OT] Ballmer: Microsoft Will Buy Open-Source Companies

2007-10-22 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Orly noong Oct 22, 2007 5:33 PM: Thats not really true. TJ Javier has been Microsoft's MD for a very long time. I remember being interviewed by TJ years ago. Article says Rollan's the seventh country manager. Microsoft's been here since 1995, so that's seven in 12 years, about par for

[plug] Dell: Microsoft warnings haven't hurt Linux uptake

2007-10-13 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6213270.html -- and here's a raspberry for Ballmer. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph If we choose being kind over being right,

Re: [plug] plug mail tagged spam

2007-10-09 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Tiger noong Oct 9, 2007 7:36 AM: i say, for every non-spam message that goes to your spam mailbox, tag it as non-spam. it moves to the right place, and then if gmail has an adaptive filter, it'll learn. I've already gotten at least five, maybe as many as 15, PLUG messages in my spam.

Re: [plug] plug mail tagged spam

2007-10-09 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Anuerin noong Oct 9, 2007 5:51 PM: put everything together and any mail that comes from plug@lists.linux.org.ph can get a high spam score. But the the sender isn't plug@lists.linux.org.ph, it's the actual sender of the message. So gmail isn't looking at the plug address, it's something

Re: [plug] Web forum for PLUG?

2007-10-08 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Elijah noong Oct 8, 2007 9:56 AM: Where's the link? Oh, and btw, meron na ba web forums ang plug? Not that I know of. What I do remember is that we did discuss it, about three or four years ago, and decided to keep discussions on this mailing list. The major issue then was that a Web

Re: [plug] plug mail tagged spam

2007-10-08 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Lois noong Oct 8, 2007 1:40 AM: ..its getting worse. I believe it's gmail's stupid spam filter. It even marks as spam messages that I've filtered to get a label! I already brought this up in googlegroups, and one of the suggestions was to add the sender to the address book. Already did

Re: [plug] humane interface based ui?

2007-09-29 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Danny noong Sep 29, 2007 2:21 PM: http://rchi.raskincenter.org/images/e/e4/Archy-build115.tar.gz http://rchi.raskincenter.org/index.php?title=Download Isn't this the source? Yes it is, but that doesn't make it open source --

Re: [plug] advice i'm a freebsd newbie

2007-09-13 Thread Daniel Escasa
Sabi ni Nelson noong Sep 14, 2007 1:14 AM: I'm new to freebsd since this is the only one bsd running and all are Redhat Please send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], then direct your query once you're in the list. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software

[plug] Singapore Airlines puts a PC in every seat

2007-08-26 Thread Daniel Escasa
Off-topic? Not quite -- the system uses RH GNU/Linux. http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/22/Singapore-Airlines-PC-in-every-seat_1.html?source=NLC-HARDWAREcgd=2007-08-22 -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine

[plug] kinda OT: Google offers free teaching materials for computer science instructors

2007-08-24 Thread Daniel Escasa
http://www.linux.com/feature/118461 -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph If we choose being kind over being right, we will be right every time.

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