[ilugd] Reminder: FOSS meetup tomorrow

2010-12-25 Thread Pratul Kalia
Just a friendly reminder that we're having a FOSS meetup of folks around NCR tomorrow at Vivekananda International Foundation. All details here: http://lug-iitd.posterous.com/delhi-ncr-foss-geek-meetup-on-26-dec-2010 Hope to see lots of list folks! Pratul -- dum vivimus, vivamus pratul ==

Re: [ilugd] [...@iitd:10950] [Tip] Access your accounts(Gmail/Facebook.. etc., )as diff users on the same web browser

2010-12-25 Thread Ravi Kumar
Multiple account login as Google provides, is very unstable and incomplete. When I use gmail account as well as Google apps account, it breaks a lot. They will get it fixed and fully integrated with other Google services in future, but for now, I wont go for it. FireFox profile switching is great,

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed

2010-12-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Rakesh Kumar kumar3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,    One of my friend was using ubuntu 10.04. Today she tried to update my observation rule number one 1) never upgrade Ubuntu

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed

2010-12-25 Thread Narendra Sisodiya
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Mehul Ved mehul.n@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Rakesh Kumar kumar3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, One of my friend was using ubuntu 10.04. Today

[ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

2010-12-25 Thread subodh
Can I buy a Dell laptop without the Windows Operating System so that i can cut cost on that? Also it is unfare to forcefully sell windows to customer who are unware of the choices. Some step similar to European Union in case of web browser

Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

2010-12-25 Thread Narendra Sisodiya
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 11:04 PM, subodh subodh.rohi...@gmail.com wrote: Can I buy a Dell laptop without the Windows Operating System so that i can cut cost on that? Also it is unfare to forcefully sell windows to customer who are unware of the choices. Some step similar to European Union in

Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

2010-12-25 Thread Chirag Anand
I bought a Dell two years back with FreeDOS from Nehru Place showroom only. I don't know if they still sell those systems there, but you can surely contact them via their website to enquire about this. I had also called them up at their Bangalore office and they had agreed to send me a FreeDOS

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed

2010-12-25 Thread A. Mani
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: I am talking about normal user and not sysadmin type of guys (like me ) who can handle problems Most of the users who follow the package manager do not run into problems. Google search results do not

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed

2010-12-25 Thread Gaurav Paliwal
Do you have a study of the problems experienced to justify the statement? Problem 1 : think of those who use i945 and radeon chipset and upgraded to 10.10 from 10.04 on 10/10/10 .Although Ubuntu know about this bug in advance but that was not a part of so called , upgrade notes . Ref :

Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

2010-12-25 Thread Kartik Singhal
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 11:04 PM, subodh subodh.rohi...@gmail.com wrote: Can I buy a Dell laptop without the Windows Operating System so that i can cut cost on that? It's true that you can buy Dell without Windows as they do offer some models with Ubuntu installed (

Re: [ilugd] How bios detects hard drive

2010-12-25 Thread Rajveer Singh
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Ankit Chaturvedi ankit.chaturv...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Rajveer Singh torajveersi...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Chirag Anand anand.chi...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 22 10:43PM, Rajveer Singh wrote:

Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

2010-12-25 Thread Manish
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 11:04 PM, subodh wrote: Can I buy a Dell laptop without the Windows Operating System so that i can cut cost on that? As Kartik pointed out: most models without Windows preinstalled are likely to be

Re: [ilugd] How bios detects hard drive

2010-12-25 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Rajveer Singh said on Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 09:58:29AM +0530,: By going through the above points, I understood that kernel uses the drivers which gives features like udma, pagged r/w, caching etc. whereas the bios way to access the disk is restricted to specific track and sectors. So if we

Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

2010-12-25 Thread Aman Thakur
Hi subodh, This is very reasonable question. Even i wanna know if it is possible to have a laptop without windows. Some one told me that we have a that kind of choice in ACER laptops but for DELL i have now idea. So do let me know if you get the answers. Since, even i am thinking of buying a DELL

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed

2010-12-25 Thread Rakesh Kumar
On 12/24/10, Aman Thakur aman.thakur.1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rakesh, I agree with the Mahesh in his both the above messages. I think there should be a different /home partition. I don't think she would probably have different /home partition. And for fixing your broken ubuntu system, you

Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

2010-12-25 Thread Rakesh Kumar
Hi, 1: No matter whether you buy a Dell laptop with or without windows, it will support Linux in either ways. 2: Yes dell provides laptops with Linux preinstalled and definitely it will reduce cost. On 12/26/10, Aman Thakur aman.thakur.1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi subodh, This is very reasonable

Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

2010-12-25 Thread shrey sinha
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Aman Thakur aman.thakur.1...@gmail.comwrote: Hi subodh, This is very reasonable question. Even i wanna know if it is possible to have a laptop without windows. Some one told me that we have a that kind of choice in ACER laptops but for DELL i have now idea.

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed

2010-12-25 Thread Manish
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Mehul Ved wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Narendra wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Rakesh Kumar wrote: Hi, One of my friend was using ubuntu 10.04. Today she tried to update