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

2008-05-21 Thread Michael Cole
Gary you wrote this last week... the core reason of which, imo, is the lack of an agenda. A REASON. Now i see a reason, that something has to move... On Wednesday 21 May 2008 12:13:00 pm Marvin Pascual wrote: Touch Solutions is willing to help revive the PLUG but they are still waiting for

Re: [plug] What Do You Wanna Learn From A PLUG Meet?

2008-05-21 Thread Ryan Ching
Hi Gabriel, If you are looking for alternative for the two softwares: I would suggest GIMP for photoshop, they almost have the same set of features you can use. You can also try Blender for 3D images. For the editing tool, you could try eclipse IDE (this one I am using) or amaya or mozilla.

Re: [plug] What Do You Wanna Learn From A PLUG Meet?

2008-05-21 Thread eric pareja
hi ryan, i think gabriel's point is not just knowing what he can try out, but rather, he is suggesting topics for possible presentations during a meet up. we can easily find out the equivalents of proprietary software in the free software world using insert name of preferred search engine here

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

2008-05-21 Thread Gabriel H. Mercado
that's not even a good reason enough Mike. Truth to tell, if it was just a matter of getting sponsors I can do that with my eyes closed. I hope that doesn't sound too forward, it's just the truth. Getting corporate sponsorship for a 126 (as of today) member org full of IT professionals is a no -

Re: [plug] What Do You Wanna Learn From A PLUG Meet?

2008-05-21 Thread Rommel Asibal
agree with eric... its all in the details... stuff like... * doing simple things like configuring your wireless network * steps in setting up editors like eclipse, etc so they work * examples in using gimp * changing your keymap to dvorak (hihihi) * using linux to dominate the world On Wed,

Re: [plug] MOM suggestions

2008-05-21 Thread Xander Solis
For the remote management part you can try Webmin (http://www.webmin.com/), for the event monitoring and escalation, you can use openNMS(http://www.opennms.org). On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:40 PM, netfilter9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean like Micro$oft operations manager. On 5/20/08, Brian

[plug] LPI Certificate

2008-05-21 Thread Louie Miranda
Guys, san kayo kumuwa nang LPI Certificate? Meron pa ba ung sa UP dati? -- Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.axishift.com Security Is A Series Of Well-Defined Steps chmod -R 0 / ; and smile :) _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG)

[plug] Decrypting encrypted entry in mysql

2008-05-21 Thread Nelson Serafica
Does anyone knows how to decrypt an entry in the mysql that was encrypted? Former programmer set an entry in a certain table but he set it encrypted. Now, I need to get those info but since it was encrypted, don't know how to reverse it. Bad thing programmer was also resigned I'm trying to

Re: [plug] LPI Certificate

2008-05-21 Thread Federico Sevilla III
Hi Louie, You may be interested in checking out this post: http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20080426.032013.93017a7c.en.html Cheers! On 5/21/08, Louie Miranda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, san kayo kumuwa nang LPI Certificate? Meron pa ba ung sa UP dati? -- Louie Miranda ([EMAIL

Re: [plug] Decrypting encrypted entry in mysql

2008-05-21 Thread Xander Solis
Hi Nelson, Just an idea. The encrypt() function is a 1 way hash. You may just create a password change page that selects the crypted value of the password, against the supplied crypted password supplied by the actual user: Then insert the new crypted password back to the database. example

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

2008-05-21 Thread Orlando Andico
If I may venture a possibly unwanted opinion... The value proposition of PLUG for me in the early days was being able to learn from others. The kapihan / kwentuhan / etc. was never a factor. Now it seems to me that there isn't much learning going on anymore. Maybe I'm getting old. But the people

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

2008-05-21 Thread Brian Baquiran
--- Orlando Andico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody posts really interesting technical discourse anymore. Or maybe it's just me. It's not just you. -- Cats just don't feel safe on a moving bicycle, no matter how much duct tape you use... _

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

2008-05-21 Thread Federico Sevilla III
On 5/21/08, Brian Baquiran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Orlando Andico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody posts really interesting technical discourse anymore. Or maybe it's just me. It's not just you. It's not just just you. ;) ... but also :( -- Federico Sevilla III F S 3 Consulting

Re: [plug] MOM suggestions

2008-05-21 Thread andrelst
netiq. it should be okay... since mom from microsoft is just a rebranded/licensed from netiq anyways. -- regards, Andre | http://www.varon.ca On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:40 AM, netfilter9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean like Micro$oft operations manager. On 5/20/08, Brian Baquiran [EMAIL

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

2008-05-21 Thread Orlando Andico
One thing I'm thankful for is company-internal mailing lists. :-) They fill the role of PLUG for me now.. On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Brian Baquiran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Orlando Andico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody posts really interesting technical discourse anymore. Or maybe

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

2008-05-21 Thread wyu
Hey we are still around ;-) Sent via BlackBerry from Smart -Original Message- From: Federico Sevilla III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 21:26:05 To:Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion Listplug@lists.linux.org.ph Subject: Re: [plug] PLUG meetups (was Re:

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

2008-05-21 Thread Pietro Calingasan III
Here are some of my guesses why the discussions here are kind of... bland: * People are busy with their day jobs * There are lots of app-centric forums where people post. * The same thing with specific lists (Distros, services) * IRC is still alive (freenode) * Other local forums (with FOSS

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

2008-05-21 Thread Zak B. Elep
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 flamewars now, it appears. Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B.

[plug] console via serial

2008-05-21 Thread Sir June
Hi, I had connected a terminal server on my linux box via serial, so i can have remote access in-case ethernet goes down. it worked but 2 days ago found i am not getting the login prompt when i try to connect through it. it just hang out in the air. ps -ef shows: root 11071 10

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

2008-05-21 Thread Orlando Andico
I'd say #1 is the major reason. For me at least, Linux is no longer my hobby. So i have no motivation to experiment with it. Heck, I've used Windows as a desktop for the past 18 months!!! before that, I was a pure Linux desktop guy. I really miss the old days. Yes William, you're still here, but

Re: [plug] Decrypting encrypted entry in mysql

2008-05-21 Thread Edel SM
hello, On 5/21/08, Nelson Serafica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: insert into radcheck (username,attribute,value) values('$data[1]','Password',encrypt('$data[5]')) $data[5] will be hashed by unix crypt() if its called by mysql encrypt(). this is normal if your attribute is crypt-password. you

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

2008-05-21 Thread fooler mail
On 5/21/08, Orlando Andico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say #1 is the major reason. i think the major reason is that you already know *most* of it as it goes along with the time... so it just simply show your age... hehehehe but i still believe every post here is an interesting topic for

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

2008-05-21 Thread Orlando Andico
Yeah BSD is better than Linux is quite a troll. :-D My employer's religion prohibits me from pushing anything other than Linux. OTOH I want to try out Solaris x86 (as Migs has already done for quite some time now...) you can get Sun Studio 12 for free as well (beer), so no need to hang out with

Re: [plug] Decrypting encrypted entry in mysql

2008-05-21 Thread fooler mail
On 5/21/08, Nelson Serafica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone knows how to decrypt an entry in the mysql that was encrypted? Former programmer set an entry in a certain table but he set it encrypted. Now, I need to get those info but since it was encrypted, don't know how to reverse it.

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

2008-05-21 Thread fooler mail
On 5/21/08, Orlando Andico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah BSD is better than Linux is quite a troll. :-D hehehehe My employer's religion prohibits me from pushing anything other than Linux. yeah i understand... hehehehe but what i like with my new employer is that windows, bsd and linux has

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

2008-05-21 Thread Miguel Paraz
Same for me, reason #1. My work now has nothing to do with Linux. When I'm chilling at home, it's on my Ubuntu PC... but that's only on weekends. But, I don't hack on it much. I just use it as a desktop. I haven't found the spare time and inclination to hack on the different kvm OS images I set

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

2008-05-21 Thread Miguel Paraz
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Orlando Andico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I may venture a possibly unwanted opinion... The value proposition of PLUG for me in the early days was being able to learn from others. The kapihan / kwentuhan / etc. was never a factor. Now it seems to me that

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

2008-05-21 Thread Edel SM
On 5/21/08, fooler mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Migs how are the slowlaris and javagal going on? hehehehe javagal wow bago sakin ang word ah. hehehe.. -- edel _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List

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

2008-05-21 Thread Brian Baquiran
One of the wonders of Linux today is that it just works! I'm working from home on an old PC I installed Ubuntu on, and were it not for my need to code I would probably never need to open up a terminal session. My fiancee uses it as well, and she doesn't know a thing about *nix/Linux. I think the

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

2008-05-21 Thread Ariz Jacinto
i also noticed that a number of people (3-8, 40-60s) are using ubuntu for surfing the web using old/modest laptops. parents even sell their OLPCs[1] once their kid is tired of it. and for those in between, Linux laptop is no longer the cool thing but it's the one with a fruit sign on it :-) but

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

2008-05-21 Thread Allister Levi Sanchez
Hi, On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Brian Baquiran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the wonders of Linux today is that it just works! I'm working from home on an old PC I installed Ubuntu on, and were it not for my need to code I would probably never need to open up a terminal session. My

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] Decrypting encrypted entry in mysql

2008-05-21 Thread Nelson Serafica
I'll be transferring users to other server and need the password to create them. I believe shadow is one way round so there's no change to decrypt it. I have created a script so it will be a snap once I have the password. When adding a user, password was also recorded in mysql database but the

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

2008-05-21 Thread Gideon N. Guillen
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 21:45:53 Pietro Calingasan III wrote: Here are some of my guesses why the discussions here are kind of... bland: [snipped] May I also add: * A Google search is good enough to answer most questions, including the interesting topics. -- Gideon N. Guillen [EMAIL

Re: [plug] MOM suggestions

2008-05-21 Thread netfilter9
thanks for the infos. On 5/21/08, andrelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: netiq. it should be okay... since mom from microsoft is just a rebranded/licensed from netiq anyways. -- regards, Andre | http://www.varon.ca On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:40 AM, netfilter9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean

Re: [plug] LPI Certificate

2008-05-21 Thread Luisito G. Trinidad
hi sir louie, you may try this link. https://www1.lpi.org/en/register.html or this https://www.lpi.org/eng/certification and i think examination for LPI is on June 7, 2008.. hope it helps! o kaya po contact Ms. Myra Jill Siason at landline no. 920-9556 / mobile no. 0906-472-7390 or email to

[plug] OOXML is dead!

2008-05-21 Thread Marvin Pascual
For more information, kindly visit http://tinyurl.com/5scd9l Marvin _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

Re: [plug] OOXML is dead!

2008-05-21 Thread Michael Cole
On Thursday 22 May 2008 12:43:11 pm Marvin Pascual wrote: For more information, kindly visit http://tinyurl.com/5scd9l Marvin Its only a press release, and support ODF, yes how much and how well... Then they will, break it like the HTML standards, or other standards that they have promised to