Re: [plug] Linux Swap

2008-07-10 Thread Gerald Quimpo
On Monday 30 June 2008 15:46:17 greek ordono wrote: Has anyone here tried to use swap over network? What are the disadvantages for this kind of setup? it's slow. don't do that. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bopolissimus*blogspot*com

[plug] xfce4-terminal force to foreground?

2008-07-08 Thread Gerald Quimpo
Hi all, I've set the gnome preferred terminal to xfce4-terminal. I've also bound it to a key sequence (actually, a keystroke, the windows key) so that it's easy to open a new terminal. I have just one problem though. Very often (although never when there are no other open windows) when I

Re: [plug] video issues, hardy heron

2008-06-10 Thread Gerald Quimpo
On Tuesday 10 June 2008 13:22:47 Jerome Gotangco wrote: Officially, we refer to it as 8.04 LTS and that's what we do once the development version is released. If people like to refer to the codenames, no one is stopping them (some actually find them cute). I find it easier to remember. tiger

Re: [plug] Plug meetup photo

2008-06-02 Thread Gerald Quimpo
On Monday 02 June 2008 18:00:07 Pablo Manalastas wrote: Here is an account (with photo) of the PLUG meetup at Robinsons Galleria on Friday, May 30, 2008: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/prmanalastas?cq=1p=247 that's cool. also, given that this is a filipino group, something that's likely to

Re: [plug] Internet Cafe Project (born from the PLUG meet ideas thread)

2008-05-30 Thread Gerald Quimpo
On Friday 30 May 2008 22:27:50 joebert jacaba wrote: Unfortunately no. The project is untouched for a long time now. I have not tried gyach-improved but have gyach-enhanced which is much more antiquated. I tried making it work on gutsy but to no avail. Library problems. Last time i saw it

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

2008-05-21 Thread Gerald Quimpo
On Thursday 22 May 2008 01:45:53 Orlando Andico wrote: One thing I'm thankful for is company-internal mailing lists. :-) They fill the role of PLUG for me now.. which is OK if you're working for a large company with many geeks. i expect most people here are not in that situation. tiger --

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

2008-05-21 Thread Gerald Quimpo
On Thursday 22 May 2008 01:51:28 Zak B. Elep wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Pietro Calingasan III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we need more flamewars to ignite the passion? (I hope not :) Btw, what happened to #plug at the local IRC server? The CompSci list is the place to be for

Re: [plug] Building the Open Source Portfolio (was Re: Help for Job Hunters)

2008-05-10 Thread Gerald Quimpo
On Sunday 11 May 2008 05:20:31 Michael Tinsay wrote: Does one have to contribute code to be said to be a contributor to a FOSS software? bug reports, documentation, time (e.g., website improvement), money :-) etc, are all contributions. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [plug] DVD unreadable in linux, perfectly readable in Windows

2008-04-17 Thread Gerald Quimpo
Hi Cedric, (and apologies to dido (in private email, dido, see below). On Thursday 17 April 2008 16:30:40 Cedric Paul Alberto wrote: #sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh yeah, i'd done that. no joy. If you get messages that the css key can not be found you may set the

Re: [plug] DVD unreadable in linux, perfectly readable in Windows

2008-04-17 Thread Gerald Quimpo
On Thursday 17 April 2008 21:48:06 you wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:11:51 +1200 I know all about regionset. However, I don't want to bake my drive into Region 4 just so that I can watch the Evangelion DVD my sister gave me! ah, that's right. and that I can change it to a different region

[plug] DVD unreadable in linux, perfectly readable in Windows

2008-04-16 Thread Gerald Quimpo
Hi all, I've got several DVDs (all original, one disney cartoon and two BBC nature documentaries) that I can't view in Linux. They work very well in Windows. There are scratches on the disney DVD, but the BBC documentaries have very few scratches. Does anyone know why this happens? On

Re: [plug] Home Workstation RAID Setup Ideas?

2008-04-14 Thread Gerald Quimpo
On Monday 14 April 2008 22:55:37 Miguel Paraz wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Michael Tinsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should put your VM images in the striped disks, especially if the VMs are heavy in disk IO. They aren't that heavy yet. Main requirement is to separate the

Re: [plug] Home Workstation RAID Setup Ideas?

2008-04-14 Thread Gerald Quimpo
On Tuesday 15 April 2008 01:11:09 Michael Tinsay wrote: You may not need reliability now, but it's a step ahead of Murphy. hehehe, yeah, i was going to say. you may not need reliability now. but you will. and it'll be at the worst possible time. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo [EMAIL

Re: [plug] LABEL=/var

2008-03-31 Thread Gerald Quimpo
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 15:15:00 Sir June wrote: as i mentioned earlier, my linux box RH AS2.1 came up with only the root partition mounted. i got console access only. no ssh. no services are running. i run fdisk -l and i got the list of my partitions. i manually mounted /var /usr /tmp