by Jovie Cabais | Apr 15, 2012 | Tech Updates
Auza.Net will start its training sessions beginning Monday, April 16, 2012. Trainings will be held inside the K of C Recreation Center Building, at the Auza.Net training area. Participants coming from Bohol’s leading institutions have enlisted to join the program. These trainees will undergo sessions and will be given assignments in connection to their weekly topics. Training will end on the first week of June. Students who are interested and haven’t passed their application letters and resumes may still catch up by coming to the program’s orientation on Monday, 9:30am at the Auza.Net Training Center inside the K of C Recreation Center Building. The following students who have already taken the Applicant Assessment Test are all qualified to enroll in the training program: 1. Auza, Genesis – BISU – Bilar 2. Batangon, Marifel – ACLC 3. Borja, Debra May – UB 4. Cenabre, Ma. Sheila – ACLC 5. Clave, Welliam – ACLC 6. Comillas, Christopher – UB 7. Forinas, Miguelito – Informatics 8. Gunday, Vince – UB 9. Lanada, Charles Henry – UB 10. Lorzano III, Wenceslao – ACLC 11.Matela, Julieta – ACLC 12.Ruedas, Ken Laury – UB 13.Salabsab, Wilson – ACLC 14.Salcedo, Loriel – ACLC 15.Santos, Joseph – ACLC 16.Simbajon, Joydah – Informatics 17.Tabat, Richie Noel – TESDA – Tubigon 18.Triunfante, Johnalyn – ACLC Share...
by Jovie Cabais | Apr 15, 2012 | Tech Updates
When Auza.Net started operations in Bohol in 2005, the company immediately started promoting the use of open source software as alternative to using pirated commercial software. At that time, it was a bit hard to convince Boholano users to move to Linux and OpenOffice.Org because the user interface of most Linux distributions were not that advanced yet. This year, the Philippine Anti-Piracy Team has been cracking down small time and big time software pirates as reported on their website at www.papt.org.ph. They are catching violators from computer technicians installing pirated software to large corporations using pirated software in their main business operations. Penalties and imprisonment have been slapped to convicted violators. If your business is found using pirated software, all computers may be confiscated and used as evidence. That means your business could shutdown. It’s no surprise that piracy is prevalent with software licenses increasing the cost of a computer significantly. Take for example, a popular operating system called Windows 7 will cost about Php 4,000 to Php6,000 per computer. The popular office productivity suite called MS Office will cost about Php11,000. The graphics software called Photoshop is at least Php30,000. Compare that with computer hardware costing as low as Php 12,000 without the operating system and office productivity software. Fortunately, the Linux operating system has evolved very significantly in the last seven years. The OpenOffice.Org office productivity software is now also comparable to the commercial version. The graphics editing software called GIMP has improved very significantly also. Users have a wide array of choices of which Linux distroy they would like to install. Old computers can still be...
