Re: [plug] Resuming a failed mail transfer

2016-07-24 Thread Mark David Dumlao
tocols - but thats because we have the luxury of thinking about the problem after years of real world testing. They simply were never factored into email protocols and its not easy to add them in now. > > Greetings, > > Obet > > On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:26:40 +0800 > Mark David Du

Re: [plug] Resuming a failed mail transfer

2016-07-23 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Jul 21, 2016 18:35, "Roberto Verzola" wrote: > > > Why not just upload the file somewhere that supports upload resume then > > just email the URL. Most FTP servers, and cloud storage, services like > > Dropbox or Google Drive, supports resuming of interrupted transfers. >

Re: [plug] your own root server, anyone?

2016-07-08 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Is there really any more to it than 1. install bind* 2. configure it to be "authoritative for ." 3. add entries for com, org, etc...? * or whichever your favorite dns server is It would probably be less interesting to setup the root server itself than it is to setup the app / process that

Re: [plug] OT: Tor Network Blocked?

2013-04-14 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sun 14 Apr 2013 11:05:49 PM PHT, Holden Hao wrote: Folks, Anybody know if ISPs are blocking Tor in the Philippines? The link below shows a dramatic drop of Tor connections from the Philippines. The sudden drop happened in April last year.

Re: [plug] PHL Cybercrime Law: Say goodbye to torrent and file-sharing

2012-10-05 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Oct 5, 2012 10:32 AM, Rafael R. Sevilla d...@imperium.ph wrote: So when do we take out our Guy Fawkes masks and start marching on Malacañang? Remember, remember, the 5th of November? _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List

Re: [plug] MISSING: 1.6GB in root

2011-11-24 Thread Mark David Dumlao
This often happens when there is a deleted file that is still open. Technically, the space is inaccessible from du because the filename is gone, but the space is not yet free from the filesystem because some program is using it. Common culprits are log files in /var/log that have been rotated but

Re: [plug] Database Best Practices

2011-04-18 Thread Mark David Dumlao
As I recall you can use MySQL's own permissions system to limit to the table / column level what a user can do. Obviously you'll want the credentials of your public web server separate from the internal one. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Brian Baquiran brianbaqui...@gmail.comwrote: Depends

Re: [plug] desc...@gmail.com has shared: Why GUIs suck, revisited

2011-04-05 Thread Mark David Dumlao
The CLI/GUI thing tends to hit the nerves of certain users because typically, developers will only produce one, or produce one and neglect the other, so saying that they each have their own place is often only true /in theory/. In practice, you often have little choice about the one to use and can

Re: [plug] Nokia's Platform Is Burning

2011-02-28 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Weren't they /always/ just another handset manufacturer? Phone fanboyism is a relatively recent invention, and I don't think Nokia ever got into that. On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Andres Montiel, CUA kyut...@gmail.com wrote: I think Nokia will just become another handset manufacturer like

Re: [plug] Backing up Ubuntu with 200++ GB worth of files

2011-01-29 Thread Mark David Dumlao
As much as possible, treat your OS backups separately from your data backups. That's because your data tends to change much faster than your OS, and losing / restoring one doesn't really affect the other that much. That being said: mondorescue/clonezilla - make a bootable CD for your OS

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

2010-07-06 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Holden Hao holden...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, Is there a mailing list for technopreneurs that are doing business using FOSS?  I am interested to find such a list because I believe the learning and sharing potential of such a group would be great.  I know that a

Re: [plug] OpenVPN Scenario

2010-05-27 Thread Mark David Dumlao
As I understand it, your tunnel has been created. Did you configure the networks to route packets through the tunnel? On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:20 PM, fluxbox kago...@gmail.com wrote: I was able to setup the server and the client can connect to it. But I cannot ping or connect to the server to

Re: [plug] How Comelec/Smartmatic will cheat the elections

2010-05-04 Thread Mark David Dumlao
There's also this EERILY SPECIFIC ERROR http://www.rickycarandang.com/?p=533 On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Jeoffrey Lim jeoffrey...@gmail.com wrote: Would be hard to do that and highly unlikely- the cost, man-power, time and complexity of operation. In a single province they have to zero

Re: [plug] Samba

2010-04-26 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Hi Arnel, There might be some files for you to copy over from /var/lib/samba, /var/cache/samba, /var/spool/samba, and optionally /var/log/samba. 2010/4/26 Arnel Pastrana arne...@gmail.com: Eric, Hi.. Yes I have everything there... no problem with that.. i copied that already but, there are

Re: [plug] disable write disk caching

2010-04-12 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Linux Cook linuxc...@gmail.com wrote: hi! Im trying to permanently disable disk write caching (WC) on my debian box using sdparm. I can succesfully disable it but after a while it goes back to enable again. Sounds like you want to do this either in a boot

Re: [plug] building packages in parallel

2010-03-18 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Heh, reminds me of portage. You could write a makefile that includes all of them, then run make with -jN, where N is the number of parallel builds you want. On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Allister Levi Sanchez allister.sanc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi PLUG gurus, I'm building an application

Re: [plug] building packages in parallel

2010-03-18 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Zak B. Elep zak...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Allister Levi Sanchez allister.sanc...@gmail.com wrote: However, this will build the packages in a series and takes too long for me, so I want to be able to build in parallel, with the

Re: [plug] Need help on OpenVPN

2010-03-01 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:58 AM, jan gestre plugger.l...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Pete, Long time, no see, anyways, I've several site to site VPN tunnel and need not configure anything on the client whether it's windows or linux, the only time I have to install and configure a VPN client is if the

Re: [plug] Database replication strategies

2010-02-20 Thread Mark David Dumlao
, DELETEs, in general, will cause you trouble, because there's no way for the offline server to know that such and such items aren't supposed to exist anymore. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: Multiple entry points for data? That seems to imply

Re: [plug] Database replication strategies

2010-02-19 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Multiple entry points for data? That seems to imply a cluster rather than database replication. mysqldump, raw data replication, replication are all premised on there being an authoritative server. You can't just use those if the nodes are equal - what will happen if 2 sites update the same data?

Re: [plug] Code Review

2010-02-03 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Danny Ching dlcco...@gmail.com wrote: But seriously, using the Kawasaki protocol makes the automated elections no better than manual elections with regard to preventing cheating. Since dagdag bawas is still possible at the municipal or provincial level. And

Re: [plug] Code Review

2010-02-02 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:53 PM, fooler.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, These jamming devices only works for wireless protocols (eg. GSM GPRS). Comelec have the option to use kawasaki protocol to transport signed data to the next level :- For a moment there you had me look it up on google. __

Re: [plug] Code Review

2010-02-02 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Holden Hao holden...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:53 PM, fooler.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, These jamming devices only works for wireless protocols (eg. GSM GPRS). Comelec have the option to use kawasaki protocol to transport signed data to the

Re: [plug] mounting RAID0 hard disk to newly installed server

2010-01-28 Thread Mark David Dumlao
You moved it from an old server to a new one. By any chance, did you use xfs, jfs, or some nonstandard filesystem on your old server? Perhaps you don't have the appropriate xfs/jfs tools installed on your new one just yet. Or perhaps you used LVM before? On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Mike A.

Re: [plug] mounting RAID0 hard disk to newly installed server

2010-01-28 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Try an `lvscan` to see if your logical volume is detected. Then mount the appropriate /dev/mapper/... device instead of the bare /dev/md0. On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Mike A. mikea...@gmail.com wrote: I believed it's in LVM On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Mark David Dumlao madum

Re: [plug] mounting RAID0 hard disk to newly installed server

2010-01-28 Thread Mark David Dumlao
...@gmail.com wrote: I believe it's not detected.. running lvscan gives me this:  ACTIVE            '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [27.44 GB] inherit  ACTIVE            '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01' [3.94 GB] inherit On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: Try

Re: [plug] command to put a dot infront of each line in a file?!

2010-01-20 Thread Mark David Dumlao
while read line; do echo .$line OUTPUTFILE done INPUTFILE Just make sure INPUTFILE and OUTPUTFILE are different, otherwise that will enter an endless loop. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:13 PM, david t. asuncion, jr. daveasunc...@gmail.com wrote: I must admit that I asked this question some years

Re: [plug] Mobile broadband recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Nexus Droid anonydr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'm looking for a back-up to my main DSL connection, which has a tendency to conk out at certain critical moments. Given a choice of prepaid wireless broadband products by Globe, Smart and Sun(?), can anybody give a

Re: [plug] All ubuntu computer laboratory : need help

2010-01-11 Thread Mark David Dumlao
My google-fu gives me this: https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/samba-dc.html (for the server end) https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/likewise-open.html (for the client end) I haven't actually read the above (especially haven't tried likewise-open yet). On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at

Re: [plug] What OS' were used in the recent spate of gov't websites being hcked?

2010-01-10 Thread Mark David Dumlao
The latest sample, Jan 11, says Linux / Microsoft IIS... do you think the OS or the webserver is pretending? :3 On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Jimmy Lim jimmyb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Danny, You can check that using netcraft's uptime tool (http://uptime.netcraft.net) and see for your self the

Re: [plug] tool appreciation - sshfs

2009-12-03 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Some caveats with it: - it uses scp/ssh transfer, not rsync transfer. (Is there an rsyncfs? hehe :D) - absolute symlinks - and symlinks pointing outside the ssh tree - on an sshfs should not be trusted (You can use a mount option to make it follow symlinks though). Be careful when doing recursive

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

2009-12-01 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Daniel Escasa desc...@gmail.com wrote: Choice quote: “Hey, if you just press Enter, it usually works out. http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/The_Un_Scary_Screwdriver, or

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

2009-12-01 Thread Mark David Dumlao
First of all, may I apologize for my lack of perl-fu so I may be doing this wrong. On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim ludz_...@yahoo.com wrote:    My question is $total_size is not out of scope since it is declared before find(sub.. right? Yes and no. Without strict, $total_size

Re: [plug] how to extend ethernet cheaply

2009-11-26 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 4:20 PM, plug bert plugb...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi peeps,   Can one use a layer 2 switch to extend ethernet over 100 feet?   Ganito kasi: we are planning to get a new office unit, and from the looks of it the cabling will definitely be more than 100 feet. We plan to

Re: [plug] Karmic Koala weird behavior

2009-11-01 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Erwin Olario gov...@gmail.com wrote: Karmic 64 re-formats your home folder?! Now, that aint good. That is crazy serious! am glad i read this before i do the upgrade? On 11/1/09, Anuerin Diaz ramfre...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Gideon

Re: [plug] rdiff-backup question

2009-10-20 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:39 AM, plug bert plugb...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello All,   i noticed that rdiff-backup has the --delete-older-than option; say you want to use rdiff-backup to back up mailboxes; after running the initial mirror, would it be possible to delete the initial mirror the

Re: [plug] help with domainkeys

2009-10-18 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Deeja Corpuz deeja.cor...@gmail.com wrote: Masters and gurus of Linux, I was trying to setup an email server with using a registered domain. The setup was Centos+qmail-toaster-djbdns (http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com/index.php/CentOS_4.3_QmailToaster_Install)  when

Re: [plug] Aggressive underclocking

2008-10-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Hm that's funny, I thought that *er-clocking was a hardware thing. Normally, processor speed is statically set by the BIOS on system startup, and cannot be changed while running. This is why overclockers have to set a jumper and change their multiplier on startup. However, modern processors have

Re: [plug] Aggressive underclocking

2008-10-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Slim Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just concluded that they have more or less similar ranges. My two AMD systems (AMD X2 2.5Ghz and Sempron 1.8Ghz) have a similar lowest frequency setting of 1000mhz, while my Core 2 Duo laptop downclocks to 800mhz. On the

Re: [plug] OT: company is applying for software patents, need advice

2008-10-08 Thread Mark David Dumlao
It does matter if it's a defensive patent or, for lack of a better term, a business patent. Business patents in software are potentially and unpredictably troublesome for future generations, and especially in the computer world, a generation is about 5 years young. Defensive patents are still a

Re: [plug] Non-partition FAT resize tool

2008-09-29 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Well, parted resizes the partitions by playing with the partition table of the disk itself. It doesn't really do anything to the size of the disk, so wouldn't it be sufficient to append zeroes to the end of the file, then use resize2fs to grow the partition? Where normally we do: grow physical

[plug] Forcing windows to use utf-8?

2008-09-23 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Hi, A brother of mine is playing with some CJK (chinese-japanese-korean) games and music, and it annoyed me to no end that not all characters are showing up properly between our windows and linux stuff. My setup involves a dual-booted XP/Gentoo box with all files kept in ext3 partitions. I used

[plug] Openoffice and Mail Merge

2008-09-09 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Has anyone ever, ever, ever gotten Openoffice mail merge to work? What version of openoffice does it work on and how do you do it? Is there any good free software mail merge alternative? Mail Merge (aka Form Letters) Feature that allows a single template document to produce a large number of

Re: [plug] Something wrong with SmartBro DNS ..

2008-08-10 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Looks like some ISP here hasn't patched their DNS just yet. On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Elijah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I'm not good at tracking this down but maybe someone here can help. I just started to use SmartBro and everytime I get a 404 error I get redirected to this

Re: [plug] DNS Vulnerability. Hype? Legit? Thoughts?

2008-08-08 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Jerome Gotangco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Gabriel H. Mercado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a specific patch procedure or update lang? The patch was issued weeks/months before the full disclosure as Kaminsky was already working

Re: [plug] Windows Vista forced in HP/Compaq Laptops

2008-07-26 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Oh wow. Are you sure that the manager/sales guy understood your position? Is it possible that they thought that your ubuntu was some sort of pirated operating system or something like that? Also, you said the manager instructed the salesperson to make a call. Make a call to whom? And was that guy

Re: [plug] St. Paul's College goes Microsoft

2008-07-10 Thread Mark David Dumlao
There is a naive class of Linux support who don't take OS migrations as seriously as they would, say, network equipment migrations, and so we end up with problem cases like this. The fact is that Operating Systems are likely to be a class more complicated than network equipment migration is often

Re: [plug] Linux Swap

2008-07-09 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Orlando Andico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt that's a real SSD. Probably flash inside as well. Swapping on flash doesn't sound like a good idea due to limited number of read/write cycles. Better run with no swap at all. Memory is cheap these days. Vista

Re: [plug] Linux Swap

2008-07-08 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:41 AM, greek ordono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Thanks for all your suggestion, I'll just go for higher memory if nfs/nbd will not workout. Or, you could remember, 2-4gig usb flash disks are much cheaper now than they used to be. ;) -- thing.

Re: [plug] linux on the corporate desktop

2008-06-21 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 4:42 PM, eric pareja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maenard, what are these features in MS Word that are lacking in OOo? I am wondering what these lots are. I'm sort of insulated from these because I do not really use a wordprocessor that much. I think the most important one,

Re: [plug] linux on the corporate desktop

2008-06-18 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 6:02 AM, eric pareja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, i know this is a topic that gets regurgitated every now and then, but that's the whole point of this post. i'd like to hear what people think about this now, how much things have changed since the last time this

Re: [plug] recovering cyrus imap inbox

2008-06-18 Thread Mark David Dumlao
I worked with Jan on this mail server before, and I know that tech. Sorry Jan, wracked my head over this one too. Mail is particularly hard to recover via filesystem undeletion, since the mails are scattered as individual files in a directory tree. Deleting removes all hierarchy information from

Re: [plug] Build-Essential Equivalent?

2008-06-17 Thread Mark David Dumlao
In yum, there are what we call package groups. I don't know how they are supposed to be better than virtual packages, but I think it's the development package group that you might find useful. try doing yum grouplist and yum groupinstall for more info. On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:03 PM, david t.

Re: [plug] Regex Help

2008-06-11 Thread Mark David Dumlao
some questions/ notes 1) is ABC123 the whole line? If not, ^ and $ are not needed. 2) It's not clear what expressions you plan to catch. Do you mean 1-3 letters (regardless of case), followed by 1-3 digits OR a range having 1-3 digits as well? 3) here's my shot

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

2008-06-08 Thread Mark David Dumlao
the code will always speaks for itself... Well in this point, actually, you can't guess someone's distro just by the $9 in his awk. __ __ *runs* -- thing. _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List

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

2008-06-05 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 1:55 AM, andrelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cmon guys, you are making this over complicated :) Quoting the filename is the key here. $ ls -lQ | egrep ^- | awk -F\ '{print $2}' how's this? ls -QF PATH|grep -v '\\(/\)\|\(@\)\|\$' 1) makes ls tell you what the file

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

2008-06-05 Thread Mark David Dumlao
oops! turns out the parens weren't needed ls -QF |grep -v '\/\|@\|\$' On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Mark David Dumlao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 1:55 AM, andrelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cmon guys, you are making this over complicated :) Quoting the filename

Re: [plug] ${0##*/}

2008-06-03 Thread Mark David Dumlao
It's a shell script, not a C program. Unless you're writing a specifically low-level system utility (at which point you could do better by picking a lower level language), meant to be looped hundreds to thousands of times, the difference in using basename and the bash built-in is too small to be

Re: [plug] ${0##*/}

2008-06-02 Thread Mark David Dumlao
ugh. Sounds like an ugly snippet i used to write for something. I showed it to someone, he frowned (or I imagine he did, I looked at his face through an internet forum), and told me to just use basename instead. cmd=`basename $0` is more understandable. On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:15 PM, fooler

Re: [plug] usb flash drive eraser.

2008-06-01 Thread Mark David Dumlao
The moment it said I/O error on the sudo, the deal seemed pretty much sealed to me. Back up and get a new one? -- thing. _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives:

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

2008-05-30 Thread Mark David Dumlao
There's always meebo for chatting. -- thing. _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

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

2008-05-23 Thread Mark David Dumlao
So did anything happen? On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Michael Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok so who ever is up to it, I am going to be at token once again, Phone number is 09173555157 if you get lost. I have a purple Long Sleeve shirt on today, Black Slacks. I will arrive about 6:30