Re: [ilugd] Startup programs with su privileges

2008-06-16 Thread PJ
Pratul Kalia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is something I have been battling for long. How can I set a program to start using superuser privileges, when my computer boots? Lets say I want a daemon to run the time I login, but it needs superuser privileges to work properly. If i just add

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Load balancing router

2008-06-16 Thread Vivek Kapoor
Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 26 May 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: [snip] I've seen a couple of SMC barracuda ADSL routers that will handle dual links and do some failover stuff. I'd guess you already had modems for those links ? That helps. Finally found the

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Load balancing router

2008-06-16 Thread Raj Mathur
On Monday 16 Jun 2008, Vivek Kapoor wrote: Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 26 May 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: [snip] I've seen a couple of SMC barracuda ADSL routers that will handle dual links and do some failover stuff. I'd guess you already had modems for those

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Load balancing router

2008-06-16 Thread Vivek Kapoor
On Mon, June 16, 2008 2:10 pm, Raj Mathur wrote: Well, the situation changed when the chap told me that his wife would be the one who would manage the router. So in the end it turned out to be simpler to get her to unplug the cable from one router and put it into the other one, rather than

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Load balancing router

2008-06-16 Thread Shashidhar Bhat
Vivek Kapoor wrote: On Mon, June 16, 2008 2:10 pm, Raj Mathur wrote: Well, the situation changed when the chap told me that his wife would be the one who would manage the router. So in the end it turned out to be simpler to get her to unplug the cable from one router and put it into the

Re: [ilugd] OT: ahoo toolbar spyware...

2008-06-16 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
+++ Nalin Savara [13/06/08 21:43 +0530]: Hi Folks... My Mozilla browser earlier had a Google search toolbar--- and suddenly, overnight, it got replaced by a yahoo! toolbar-- without my doing anything. I dont have any yahoo messenger on this comp; nor did I ever consent to adding a yahoo toolbar.

Re: [ilugd] BBC on Microsoft standard stalled

2008-06-16 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
+++ Yashpal Nagar [12/06/08 17:18 +0100]: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the ol' beeb mentions india and three other countries... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7445956.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6291124.stm Another interesting

Re: [ilugd] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:29:29 +0530 Angad Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Sun Campus Ambassador program is alligned towards the same goal. Sun has hired 500 campus ambassadors in universities all over the world to promote open source technologies. [...] With all due respect, and speaking

Re: [ilugd] Review of workshop at IPEC, June 7th

2008-06-16 Thread Prakhar Agrawal
So... which of the dates suit you ? On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Prakhar Agrawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gora, a) Yes.. you are right ... Pilani is around 200 kms away from Delhi. b) Our college reopens in August after the summer vacations So we shall be looking at

Re: [ilugd] Notetakers Annotators in Linux

2008-06-16 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Saturday 14 June 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [snip] I use a paper pad - it is exactly like a real paper pad (in fact it *is* a real paper pad) - and I have enough kingfisher pens to last me a lifetime. How do you do backups? -Taj. ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Notetakers Annotators in Linux

2008-06-16 Thread Parthan SR
Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [snip] I use a paper pad - it is exactly like a real paper pad (in fact it *is* a real paper pad) - and I have enough kingfisher pens to last me a lifetime. How do you do backups Xerox copy? Carbon paper?

Re: [ilugd] Review of workshop at IPEC, June 7th

2008-06-16 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:36:36 +0530 Prakhar Agrawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So... which of the dates suit you ? [...] Sorry, was away on a family medical emergency till today, and have not made any more progress on this front. We will need to get dates for other potential workshops, call for

Re: [ilugd] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Angad Singh
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With all due respect, and speaking only for myself, please stop your constant astroturfing for Sun Microsystems. Not that Sun is not doing good things in open source, but as your major contribution in this newsgroup seems

Re: [ilugd] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:33:04 +0530 Angad Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Dear Angad, I have read through your follow-up, and am admittedly not quite sure what to think at the moment. Given that this has become largely off-topic for the list, I would suggest that we take this discussion to

Re: [ilugd] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Angad Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With all due respect, and speaking only for myself, please stop your constant astroturfing for Sun Microsystems. Not that Sun is not doing good

[ilugd] Content Management Tool

2008-06-16 Thread saurabh vadhera
Hello Folks I need your Suggestion in selecting a Enterprise level Content Management Software , Considering that Iam not a developer or coder by profession . and yet i wanna design a powefull enterprise level portal . These are the few which I came across : Joomla , Drupal , Mambo , typo3 .

Re: [ilugd] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Angad Singh
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Gaurav Mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Angad Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With all due respect, and speaking only for myself, please stop your

Re: [ilugd] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Angad Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Gaurav Mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Ok , let`s take the issues in your previous mail one by one as you replied to one of my mails which evoked the issue. 1. You

Re: [ilugd] Content Management Tool

2008-06-16 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:18 AM, saurabh vadhera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Folks I need your Suggestion in selecting a Enterprise level Content Management Software , Considering that Iam not a developer or coder by profession . and yet i wanna design a powefull enterprise level

Re: [ilugd] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Angad Singh
[snip] 2. There was no context all together in reply of my previous mail, The replies were not quoted . This is called thread hijacking, Which is against mailing list rules No comments, since this is irrelevant. The current topic is much adverse than the following of mailing

Re: [ilugd] Content Management Tool

2008-06-16 Thread Angad Singh
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:18 AM, saurabh vadhera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Joomla , Drupal , Mambo , typo3 . Please let me know whch one to head for .. I personally prefer Drupal and have been using it for the past 3 years. Drupal is powerful, it has got a very modular

[ilugd] File Repository

2008-06-16 Thread Navjot Kukreja
Hi Folks I need to setup a file repository for an internal website. Its something like an FTP server but with a web interface, with categories etc. (like download.com). I know that its possible to create this using any of the available CMSs but I don't want to learn an entire CMS for just this as

Re: [ilugd] File Repository

2008-06-16 Thread Angad Singh
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 4:47 AM, Navjot Kukreja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions on this, or a simpler way of going about this than learning to customize a CMS? - A script that I've been using is called 'Olate', with which you can provide categorized downloads to multiple users,

Re: [ilugd] Notetakers Annotators in Linux

2008-06-16 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 16-Jun-08, at 5:52 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [snip] I use a paper pad - it is exactly like a real paper pad (in fact it *is* a real paper pad) - and I have enough kingfisher pens to last me a lifetime. How do you do backups? xerox

Re: [ilugd] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Raj Mathur
Right, all those who think we've had enough of this enlightening conversation please raise your virtual hands :) Please take it off-line, folks, and let's get on with our How To Reinstall Winduhs Vistula On A Computer Whose MBR Has Been Taken Over By Linux discussions. Regards, -- Raju On

Re: [ilugd] Content Management Tool

2008-06-16 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 Jun 2008, saurabh vadhera wrote: Hello Folks I need your Suggestion in selecting a Enterprise level Content Management Software , Considering that Iam not a developer or coder by profession . and yet i wanna design a powefull

[ilugd] [XPOST] RFC - level playing field

2008-06-16 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, we would appreciate comments and feedback on this: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/playing/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] Content Management Tool

2008-06-16 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 17-Jun-08, at 2:18 AM, saurabh vadhera wrote: I need your Suggestion in selecting a Enterprise level Content Management Software , Considering that Iam not a developer or coder by profession . and yet i wanna design a powefull enterprise level portal . These are the few which I

Re: [ilugd] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 17-Jun-08, at 3:43 AM, Angad Singh wrote: were your reply is purely off context Thanks for enlightening me about the concept of 'thread hijacking'. I confess, 'I didn't know' about that rule. Agreed that it was wrong. there is no such thing as thread hijacking. There is thread recycling

Re: [ilugd] Content Management Tool

2008-06-16 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 17-Jun-08, at 4:09 AM, Angad Singh wrote: Reply offline and I'll show you some of my work (as it migh be considered promotion of some sort if I post the links here) if the source is available feel free to post here -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ilugd] List rules (was) Re: {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
1. You TOP- POSTED , that`s against mailing list rules.(You have been warned again and again) 2. There was no context all together in reply of my previous mail, The replies were not quoted . This is called thread hijacking, Which is against mailing list rules I am not sure whether we should say

Re: [ilugd] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Angad Singh
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, all those who think we've had enough of this enlightening conversation please raise your virtual hands :) +1 -- Angad Singh http://angadsingh.in http://blogs.sun.com/angad The best way to predict future is to invent

Re: [ilugd] Notetakers Annotators in Linux

2008-06-16 Thread Angad Singh
[snip] On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Mani A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have plenty of excellent open source s/w for the purpose: http://www.dklevine.com/general/software/tc1000/jarnal.htm http://www.adebenham.com/gournal/ [/snip] It's the web2.0 age and we like our data to be 'in the

Re: [ilugd] Content Management Tool

2008-06-16 Thread Angad Singh
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if the source is available feel free to post here Well they are websites, and as such, source can be available, on demand :) But I guess I should mention them, atleast to show the variety of use cases drupal can

Re: [ilugd] shabdanjali ISSUES

2008-06-16 Thread Angad Singh
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Angad Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better yet, switch to OpenSolaris! Sorry for digging the grave here (4 days is grave I guess), and not that I intend to start any other flame war, but if anyone needs it, I am open for an objective discussion of the 'why'

Re: [ilugd] List rules (was) Re: {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 17-Jun-08, at 8:11 AM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Let's not commit the classic Indian mistake that permeates every part of our social existence - lets not make rules which we know is likely to be broken and is therefore unforceable. Lets look at more realistic rules. how much to

Re: [ilugd] shabdanjali ISSUES

2008-06-16 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2008, Angad Singh wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Angad Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better yet, switch to OpenSolaris! Sorry for digging the grave here (4 days is grave I guess), and not that I intend to start any other flame war, but if anyone needs it, I

Re: [ilugd] [OT] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Arun Khan
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2008, Raj Mathur wrote: Right, all those who think we've had enough of this enlightening conversation please raise your virtual hands :) Yes, had enough of it. This is a Linux list and those wishing to promote other alternatives are welcome to start their own mailing lists;

Re: [ilugd] [OT] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Angad Singh
Yes, had enough of it. This is a Linux list and those wishing to promote other alternatives are welcome to start their own mailing lists; as a courtesy the least they can do is mark the discussion [OT] on this list. * Cough * I don't know why people are never clear about ILUG-D's

Re: [ilugd] File Repository

2008-06-16 Thread Arun Khan
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2008, Navjot Kukreja wrote: Hi Folks I need to setup a file repository for an internal website. Its something like an FTP server but with a web interface, with categories etc. (like download.com). I know that its possible to Suggest TikiWiki, it has a lot of features you

Re: [ilugd] shabdanjali ISSUES

2008-06-16 Thread Angad Singh
If you're earning money as a Sun ambassador or whatever, it's in rather bad taste to be plugging them on a FOSS mailing list, regardless of whether the software you're pushing is FOSS or not. At the very least, add a disclaimer that says that you earn money for plugging Solaris so that

Re: [ilugd] is being paid for promoting FOSS bad? [was] shabdanjali ISSUES

2008-06-16 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 17-Jun-08, at 9:35 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: If you're earning money as a Sun ambassador or whatever, it's in rather bad taste to be plugging them on a FOSS mailing list, regardless of whether the software you're pushing is FOSS or not. NRC-FOSS pays me to promote FOSS, and NRC-FOSS -

Re: [ilugd] [OT] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2008, Arun Khan wrote: Yes, had enough of it. This is a Linux list and those wishing to promote other alternatives are welcome to start their own mailing lists; as a courtesy the least they can do is mark the discussion [OT] on this list. Hmm, not sure I agree with that. I

[ilugd] [OT] the new blender movie is out

2008-06-16 Thread Parthan SR
Hi all, Maybe we missed it in the commotion of a latest bollywood movie ;) , but still, Big Buck Bunny has been released a while ago and is available for download. http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/ Its a short-feature around 10 minutes long, but is pretty cool given the fact that

Re: [ilugd] [OT] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Angad Singh
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, not sure I agree with that. I see the issues at hand as being (a) gratuitously pushing a product/service/group that has no relevance in the current context and a) In

Re: [ilugd] is being paid for promoting FOSS bad? [was] shabdanjali ISSUES

2008-06-16 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 17-Jun-08, at 9:35 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: If you're earning money as a Sun ambassador or whatever, it's in rather bad taste to be plugging them on a FOSS mailing list, regardless of whether the software you're pushing is FOSS or not.

Re: [ilugd] shabdanjali ISSUES

2008-06-16 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2008, Angad Singh wrote: If you're earning money as a Sun ambassador or whatever, it's in rather bad taste to be plugging them on a FOSS mailing list, regardless of whether the software you're pushing is FOSS or not. At the very least, add a disclaimer that says that

[ilugd] [Even more OT] Re: [OT] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Sudev Barar
2008/6/17 Angad Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] Throwing in my weight (which is considerable) in to the ring.Good discussion. Things cleared and understood or misunderstood. One thing that is always to be remembered is that LUG

Re: [ilugd] shabdanjali ISSUES

2008-06-16 Thread Angad Singh
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've yet to see a RH employee (and we do have a few on this list as far as I know) marketing any of RH's products or services here. Please note there's a difference between bringing out a strength of your company in a

Re: [ilugd] is being paid for promoting FOSS bad? [was] shabdanjali ISSUES

2008-06-16 Thread Angad Singh
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what his motives are. I know what my motives are, and they aren't monetary at all. You just want to prove otherwise, all of you and won't give up until you prove it. You are confused with your own principles and

Re: [ilugd] [Even more OT] Re: [OT] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Angad Singh
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Throwing in my weight (which is considerable) in to the ring.Good discussion. Things cleared and understood or misunderstood. One thing that is always to be remembered is that LUG is what its members want it to be. May be

Re: [ilugd] [Ilug-cal-discuss] [OT] the new blender movie is out

2008-06-16 Thread shirish
Hi all, It would be cool if people can distribute the movie alongwith some of the production files and artwork (.blend) so people can play with them. Even if people charge a reasonable something like 15-20 Rupees as replication charges its ok . -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is

Re: [ilugd] [Ilug-cal-discuss] [OT] the new blender movie is out

2008-06-16 Thread Parthan SR
shirish wrote: Hi all, It would be cool if people can distribute the movie alongwith some of the production files and artwork (.blend) so people can play with them. Even if people charge a reasonable something like 15-20 Rupees as replication charges its ok . They have released the

Re: [ilugd] Linux Training

2008-06-16 Thread RHK HK
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:25 PM, RHK HK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please advice if there is any linux Training Institute or workshop available in Delhi or other state. Regards Pls reponse at email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ilugd mailinglist --