Re: [ilugd] Mid-range laptop for Linux (Debian)

2010-12-22 Thread Subhranath Chunder
I've got a Lenovo Y560d with Ubuntu 10.10, and everything works pretty much out of the box. Didn't have to struggle with anything particular. Thanks, Subhranath. On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Abhinav Sahai abhinav...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Gora Mohanty

Re: [ilugd] Mid-range laptop for Linux (Debian)

2010-12-22 Thread Narendra Sisodiya
2010/12/22 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org Coming back to the matter in hand, I was planning to buy a mid-range laptop (actually someone else planning to buy me one, for reasons too complex to go into), and was wondering if you could share your experiences with laptops that are

[ilugd] How bios detects hard drive

2010-12-22 Thread Rajveer Singh
Hello Guys, I've a confusion related to hard drive detection process by system BIOS. This question may sound strange to some of you but I'll appreciate if I can get any link or lead to explore it further. As all of us know, to detect hardrive, we must need a suitable driver for hard disk in

Re: [ilugd] How bios detects hard drive

2010-12-22 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Rajveer Singh said on Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:43:25PM +0530,: I've a confusion related to hard drive detection process by system BIOS. This question may sound strange to some of you but I'll appreciate if I can get any link or lead to explore it further. As all of us know, to detect

Re: [ilugd] How bios detects hard drive

2010-12-22 Thread Chirag Anand
On Dec 22 10:43PM, Rajveer Singh wrote: Hello Guys, I've a confusion related to hard drive detection process by system BIOS. This question may sound strange to some of you but I'll appreciate if I can get any link or lead to explore it further. As all of us know, to detect hardrive, we

Re: [ilugd] How bios detects hard drive

2010-12-22 Thread vikas.v.i...@gmail.com
I encountered a similar problem, i have a computer(win98 OS - 256kb ram) and it has no usb driver in OS.I have made a live usb out of a pendrive.So i was wondering if I could use that directly to boot the linux OS in it and transfer files from there! I guess i can ,but yet to test it out. --vikas

[ilugd] Delhi/NCR FOSS meetup - call for session/presentation

2010-12-22 Thread Narendra Sisodiya
Date : 26 Dec 2010 Time : 1pm to 5 pm Venue : will be announced on 23 dec 2010 (mid day) Following are confirmed presentation * Arulalan - Python/Ruby Intro Class * Narendra Sisodiya - Roadmap for those who want to promote FOSS, success and failure of some projects so far. * This is general

Re: [ilugd] Mid-range laptop for Linux (Debian)

2010-12-22 Thread Kartik Singhal
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: http://lug-iitd.org/List_of_laptop_with_preinstalled_GNU-Linux_in_India http://lug-iitd.org/Articles/My_laptop_is_working_fine_with_linux These two links are not working. -- Kartik Singhal BTech CSE

Re: [ilugd] Delhi/NCR FOSS meetup - call for session/presentation

2010-12-22 Thread Zareef Ahmed
Hi All, I would like to do a presentation on Drupal and its future prospects. Basically I would like to address following questions/process in my presentation. 1. Why drupal is better than other CMS in general? 2. Which kind of problems Drupal developer usually face? 3. Role of a Drupal Designer

Re: [ilugd] Delhi/NCR FOSS meetup - call for session/presentation

2010-12-22 Thread Nalin Savara
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Zareef Ahmed zar...@zareef.net wrote: Hi All, I would like to do a presentation on Drupal and its future prospects. Basically I would like to address following questions/process in my presentation. 1. Why drupal is better than other CMS in general? 2.