The mailing list went all quiet last week and I thought it was a lull, but apparently it really is down, as a message I posted was not read by Migs when I asked him about it. Am waiting for it to go up again, but until then, the best I can do is publish [...]
I'm writing this with assumptions on how this latest Ubuntu might appear to newbies primarily because of our long term plan to create a distribution for local internet cafes. In this respect, I'm hoping to create a one - size - fits - all (or as many as possible at least) distributable, bootable image that [...]
Note: In lieu of PLUG's website, which is still to be reestablished, I am posting herewith notes of our meeting last 11.09.07 at Bo's Coffee Robinson's Galleria.
The following attended the meeting (loosely referred to as 'the group' below):
Ryan S. Ching ryan.s.ching@gmail.com
Victor E. Mendoza vicmendoza@gmail.com
Paolo Alexis Falcone pfalcone@free.net.ph
AC Perdon acperdon@gmail.com
Ian Sison ians@qsr.com.ph
Joebert Jacoba joebertj@gmail.com
Mark Achanzar mark@mymegamobile.com
Gabriel [...]
I spent waaaay too much time trying to get the Davicom USB NIC to work on Xubuntu 7.04 on Phoebe (my laptop. I name my PCs after funny sitcom characters. The others are Tobias and Kramer.), as detailed here, and finally gave up. First, it was difficult trying to get Make to run in the [...]
By a stroke of luck I managed to score a cheap, small and good condition IBM 600e, a PII with adequate horsepower for minor coding and quite importantly, writing. It's got Xubuntu now, and I've found out a battery repack will cost approximately Php1,600 and I think it'll be good to go. I won't post [...]
If you entered Pisces-iscariot on your browser, or otherwise clicked a link going to Pisces-iscariot, please don't adjust your sets. This is now my new blog, which I've moved to partly to separate my personal blog from the Exchange.ph domain and partly to practice the eventual migration of the Exchange.ph domain and subsequent websites to [...]
After hours of this:
I finally got this:
Which led to this:
Erwin Oliva wrote today about how an RP Software Association opposes the Open Source Bill, here.
I expect a great deal of mud slinging to start from either side. What would be good though, is for both to start stating examples of either's strengths, instead of long winded statements heavy on hypothesis, such as "...imposing restrictions [...]
