August 30th, 2010
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Can you imagine how annoying it is to stumble upon handful of cracked Philippine-based government websites? At this day and age where information dissemination is critical to your constituents, we need competent system administrators, sturdy operating systems, and smart users.
Oh, and by operating systems, I mean free operating systems such as BSDs and Linux. All the cracked websites I’ve looked into are running Microsoft products. We’re being used as a training ground by script kiddies… how pathetic!
August 26th, 2010
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The Philippine Team will be joining the worldwide community of Ubuntu users in celebrating the Ubuntu Global Jam. An online IRC session on translations (and hopefully, packaging) is scheduled on the 27th at #ubuntu-ph while an offline meetup is scheduled on the 28th.
The offline meetup is organized by the lovely Myra Jill Siason while the venue is graciously provided by Zak Elep and the Orange and Bronze Software Labs team. The jam session will start at 4PM. So if you’re an Ubuntu user in the Philippines, sign up now at http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/309/detail/
May 6th, 2010
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The Philippines 2010 Election will be using an electronic counting machine for the first time. The Linux-powered machines were provided by Smartmatic and the ROMs are managed by (and supposedly programmed in) Ubuntu.
Yes, Ubuntu has a major role to play, albeit obscurely, in our country’s history.
May 4th, 2010
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After using Thunderbird for years, I’ve finally decided to move on to Evolution. It’s a lighter and responsive alternative to Thunderbird. Besides, the desktop and Empathy integration’s awesome, not to mention Contacts sync via Ubuntu One.
April 3rd, 2010
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The Benguet Electric Cooperative, Inc. (BENECO) is now using Ubuntu full-time under the Operations and Maintenance Department (OMD). Granted we only have 3 confirmed installs, we determined it’s the best and most effective course of action for its users. There are 2 more file (Samba) servers purportedly running on Red Hat, but I still haven’t seen it so the report remains unconfirmed.
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