PLUG (Philippine Linux User’s Group) 2nd Quarter FREE Seminar Series Thursday March 16, 2006
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The Philippine Linux Users’ Group is inviting everyone to attend the PLUG 2nd Quarter Free Seminar series scheduled on the 8th of April 2006 at Asia Pacific College, Makati City, from 9AM to 5PM.
Tentative topics and speakers include:
1) Ruby on Rails, by Cyril Ucron David. Discussion and application building using the popular Rails framework by 37signals. Cyril Ucron David is one of the founding members of UPStrat Inc, an upstart development firm using Ruby and Rails.
2) GPL 3.0, by Atty. Bong Dizon. Salient points in the newly released GPL 3.0, explained in layman’s terms. Atty. Dizon is a corporate lawyer specializing in copyright and intellectual property laws.
3) Press Relations, by Gary Mercado. How to deal with the press, how to conduct oneself in an interview, how to explain Linux to the layman, and other tips.
4) Technopreneurship, by Jay Bernardo and/or Richie Cruz. How to build a business plan around a technical idea, how to get funding, how to bring it to market. Jay Bernardo and Richie Cruz are professors at AIM.
For more info send mail to : plug@lists.linux.org.ph
Tux-ing your pod! Thursday March 16, 2006
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Getting bored with your Ipod? After obsessively and compulsively arranging your music database, dressing each files with picture albums and meticulously labeled it with its proper artist and album. You now realized that it’s all what your ipod can do – play music (unless you have the ipod with video).
Here is the good news, open source linux people didn’t let the number one mp3 player to survive without a hack. Yup, it’s ipod with video linux style. As long as your ipod has a screen (sorry for shuffle users), it can play movies. Yes, you heard it right if you have the earlier generations of ipod up to the minis, ipod photo and nano you can play movies.
Now I can play movie clips on my 2 Gb Ipod Nano. Boots to Apple OS or IpodLinux.
If you want to risk your babies out you may want to check this site : http://ipodlinux.org
Please read the caveats in the website before installing linux to your pods. The Ipod linux OS is still under major development and still have a lot of promise to fulfill.
Here are some of the pics of my nano playing Black Eyed Peas’ My Humps (sorry for the low res cam!) :
