Re: [ilugd] Multiple installable distributions on a USB

2012-12-10 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 10 Dec 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 12/10/2012 12:29 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: The subject more or less says it all :) I use grub2 for booting off of a USB/SD-Card and the following are a few of the relevant entries what I have in /boot/grub/grub.cfg Thanks, that's

Re: [ilugd] Multiple installable distributions on a USB

2012-12-10 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 11 Dec 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 12/10/2012 09:15 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: On Monday 10 Dec 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 12/10/2012 12:29 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: The subject more or less says it all :) I use grub2 for booting off of a USB

[ilugd] Multiple installable distributions on a USB

2012-12-09 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
The subject more or less says it all :) I want to be able to take a, say, 16GB USB pendrive and put multiple distribution install ISOs onto it. Is there a utility that will do this, create a nice boot menu that allows you to select the distribution of your choice, and then run the installer

Re: [ilugd] [Commercial] Seriously talented dev-ops engineer to run the whole stack

2012-11-07 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 07 Nov 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: [snip] Please do check: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.telephony.yate/6082 It is not a fork of Asterisk like the OpenPBX.org which eventually turned into FreeSWICH; whereas the FreeSWITCH again is a completely re-written

Re: [ilugd] Database Management My Sql

2012-11-07 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 07 Nov 2012, Raakesh kumar wrote: Dear All, I am working on a project which is live for some gaming purpose. My problem is, one of my table size has gone beyond my imagination and it records nearly 1 lack per day which is making database searching very slow. We have allocated a

[ilugd] Nominate your free software heroes

2012-10-31 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/nominate%2dyour%2dfree%2dsoftware%2dheroes The nomination window for the 15th annual Free Software Awards is open. Now is your chance to show some love for your favorite free software hero or an inspiring project that uses free software or free software

Re: [ilugd] Private IP in Public Network

2012-10-09 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 09 Oct 2012, Nirmalya Lahiri wrote: Hi everyone, today I have discover a critical network infrastructure which is almost impossible. I believe very few people have seen this before. The story is in my office we have leased internet connection with static IP from TATA

Re: [ilugd] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2012-09-28 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 28 Sep 2012, LukramDebendro Singh via LinkedIn wrote: LukramDebendro Singh requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: Added: http://wiki.linux%2ddelhi.org/cgi%2dbin/twiki/view/Main/DoNotTrustMeWithYourPersonalData -- Raj -- Raj Mathur ||

Re: [ilugd] ExpEyes experiment design contest for students

2012-09-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Thursday 27 Sep 2012, Pramode C.E wrote: Please check out: http://recursive-labs.com/contest/expeyes/ This is a good opportunity for students to contribute to an innovative open hardware (and Free Software based) project from India! You know, this sounds like a really cool initiative.

Re: [ilugd] A Gnome Text Editor Joke

2012-09-19 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 19 Sep 2012, Anupam Jain wrote: Gedit? Remind me to murder you the next time we meet. Must... stop... these... atrocities... -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is

Re: [ilugd] A Gnome Text Editor Joke

2012-09-19 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 19 Sep 2012, Anupam Jain wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Wednesday 19 Sep 2012, Anupam Jain wrote: Gedit? Remind me to murder you the next time we meet. Must... stop... these... atrocities... Really? I

Re: [ilugd] ILUG-D activity in last 7 days

2012-09-01 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 01 Sep 2012, Arun Khan wrote: Please help with understanding this report. On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:10 AM, nkap...@webrachna.com wrote: Fri 31-Aug-2012: ILUG-D activity in last 7 days: = New/recent events: 0 Total

[ilugd] Xen/VirtualBox/Intel IOMMU HOWTO

2012-08-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, Treated myself to some new hardware as advance Eid/Diwali/Christmas/New Year gift, and was trying to install Xen and get virtual machines running on that. The path was long and arduous, and is still not complete, but some of my experiences on the way are documented in:

Re: [ilugd] Xen/VirtualBox/Intel IOMMU HOWTO

2012-08-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 20 Aug 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 08/20/2012 01:37 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Treated myself to some new hardware as advance Eid/Diwali/Christmas/New Year gift, and was trying to install Xen and get virtual machines running on that. The path was long and arduous

Re: [ilugd] Xen/VirtualBox/Intel IOMMU HOWTO

2012-08-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 20 Aug 2012, Vikas Rawal wrote: Covered are: - Basic Xen setup - Compiling and installing a custom kernel for the i915 GPU Hung issue - Extracting a disk image from a VirtualBox VDI - Creating and running a Xen DomU with the image Very well explained. Thanks. I was

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-10 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 10 Aug 2012, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: Raju Mathur said on Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:02:00AM +0530,: 2. Boot into root. I won't tell you how, there are enough pointers on Will moving #5 above this help? Sure, my principles are for sale, but only if the bid amount is appropriate!

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-10 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 11 Aug 2012, Raakesh kumar wrote: I have reinstalled ubuntu again as going in recovery mode and doing those changes didn't work for me. @Balwinder Sir, I know i had made a mistake by doing so. But i was just doing a kind of experiment but without properly surfing about that...

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu sudo command problem

2012-08-09 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 10 Aug 2012, Raakesh kumar wrote: Today i changed the permission of my /etc directory and it's sub directories and files using sudo nautilus. And now my everything including servers and all have stopped working. When i type sudo anywhere to use it shows an error as - sudo:

Re: [ilugd] Qmail Help

2012-08-01 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 01 Aug 2012, Vijay Thakur wrote: Hello All Friends, I have configure Qmail server by following the steps from : http://www.qmailtoaster.com in my Centos 5.6 Server. All is working fine in LAN as per the given steps at Qmail Toaster. Now I want to access my mail server globally

Re: [ilugd] Network install disk image

2012-07-23 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 23 Jul 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 07/23/2012 10:22 AM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Can you suggest a utility or web page instructions for installing a pre- built Linux disk image over the network? We have a bare machine with PXE and a server with a Linux disk image

Re: [ilugd] Reliance Data Card on Centos 6‏

2012-07-23 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 24 Jul 2012, dhyanendra chauhan wrote: Please find the help guide of Reliance Data Card on Centos 6‏ http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/zte-ac2627-usb -modem-not-working-in-fedora-9-a-795499/ yum install tcl Looks good. However, one small issue:

[ilugd] Network install disk image

2012-07-22 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, Can you suggest a utility or web page instructions for installing a pre- built Linux disk image over the network? We have a bare machine with PXE and a server with a Linux disk image. Need the flow to get this image onto the bare machine's disk. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur

Re: [ilugd] Network install disk image

2012-07-22 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 23 Jul 2012, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:22:43 +0530, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) raju@linux- delhi.org said: Can you suggest a utility or web page instructions for installing a pre- built Linux disk image over the network? We have a bare machine with PXE

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Development lead needed

2012-07-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Forwarded message. Please contact Suman directly if you're interested. -- Raj From: Suman Saraf sumansa...@gmail.com To: Raju Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org Date: 2012-07-20 2:26 PM Some of my friends have incorporated a software company which focuses on software for Energy Trading, Energy

[ilugd] The 31 Flavors of Fun Experiment

2012-07-12 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
The 31 Flavors of Fun Experiment http://webpath.net/31-flavors Summary: Todd Robinson, completely un-assisted, will to attempt to create, and release, a complete desktop operating system each and every day for the period of 31 days, to demonstrate the huge advantages of using open source

[ilugd] History

2012-06-12 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Was rummaging around my hard disk today and happened to find these pics of a meet-up in Dilli Haat in November 2006. Enjoy! http://images.kandalaya.org/gallery2/v/raju/ilugd-20061117/ Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG:

Re: [ilugd] [Commercial] Anyone here looking for an ecommerce / web expert for a contract position

2012-05-31 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Thursday 31 May 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 05/31/2012 10:43 AM, abhishek jain wrote: PS: I believe posting this with commercial tag is allowed here, If not, suggestions welcome, Also please suggest me more ways / locations i can post on for this. Better register as a

Re: [ilugd] [Sort-of-OT] List Windows installed software

2012-05-28 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 28 May 2012, Ravi Kumar wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Ashish SHUKLA ashish...@lostca.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) writes: On Sunday 27 May 2012, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) writes: I need

Re: [ilugd] Configuring sendmail in VPS Server

2012-05-28 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 28 May 2012, Gaurang Aggarwal wrote: The errors are not shown now as I uploaded hostname to fully qualified hostname . I am curious , is there any way to allow web applications to send the mails faster as the time it takes to send the email is about 6- 8 seconds . Is it just the

Re: [ilugd] Configuring sendmail in VPS Server

2012-05-28 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 28 May 2012, Gora Mohanty wrote: On 28 May 2012 22:48, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Monday 28 May 2012, Gaurang Aggarwal wrote: The errors are not shown now as I uploaded hostname to fully qualified hostname . I am curious , is there any way to allow

Re: [ilugd] Configuring sendmail in VPS Server

2012-05-28 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 28 May 2012, Gora Mohanty wrote: On 28 May 2012 23:27, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: [...] [snip] Should normally not be needed, as all the webapp has to do is to hand off to sendmail/postfix. However, this might be a problem if the webapp is sending

Re: [ilugd] Configuring sendmail in VPS Server

2012-05-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 27 May 2012, Gaurang Aggarwal wrote: Hello , As Raj said I exactly used : tail -f /var/log/mail.log while sending a email from the web application May 27 12:17:33 uni2versity sendmail[13521]: q4R8GXih013521: to= m...@gaurang.me, ctladdr=cont...@skilledinterns.com (33/33),

[ilugd] [Sort-of-OT] List Windows installed software

2012-05-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, I need to pull out data from some Windows desktops to put into an asset management system. I can install NSClient++ or equivalent on the Windows machines -- NSClient++ preferred, since then I can use the same for monitoring the boxes with OpenNMS too. Is there some easy way to get

Re: [ilugd] Open Source Mesh VPN

2012-05-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 28 May 2012, Arjun Venkatraman wrote: Looking for an open source vpn tool that can set up mesh networks. Hamachi is nice but its limited by license. OpenVPN doesnt seem to support mesh It does: see Can I use a web browser as an OpenVPN client? on

Re: [ilugd] Configuring sendmail in VPS Server

2012-05-26 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 27 May 2012, Gaurang Aggarwal wrote: Hello guys, I have this VPS having Debian installed . I used apt-get remove sendmail to first , remove the sendmail and then apt-get install sendmail to install it again . But now , I have my websites taking awfully long time to send emails .

Re: [ilugd] From where I can download desktop/laptop version of Linux?

2012-05-22 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 22 May 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 05/22/2012 08:37 AM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: If you want to do the research, go to one of the sites other users have pointed you to, test out each distribution and stick to the one that suits you. If you're too lazy, just use

Re: [ilugd] How to Immediately Pause Printing in Linux?

2012-05-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Please don't hijack threads. On Tuesday 22 May 2012, sanjay gupta wrote: i do not have any exposure on linux besides having 22 years of experience, please let me know from where i can download desktop/laptop version of linux, i am general secretary at acta, amritsar and i want my friends here

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Fwd: Training requirements for Linux

2012-05-11 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Forwarding without prejudice. Please contact Prabir directly if you're interested. Regards, -- Raj -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Fwd: Training requirements for Linux Date: Friday 11 May 2012 From: prabir prab...@gmail.com To: Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org With

[ilugd] Streaming video

2012-03-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, Anyone know a package that will let me stream WebM (or, failing that, Flash) video to a browser with remote functionality (Pause, Forward, Rewind, Play, etc)? Pure FOSS solutions only, please. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG:

Re: [ilugd] Streaming video

2012-03-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 21 Mar 2012, Vivek Kapoor wrote: On 03/21/2012 06:30 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Anyone know a package that will let me stream WebM (or, failing that, Flash) video to a browser with remote functionality (Pause, Forward, Rewind, Play, etc)? Pure FOSS solutions only

Re: [ilugd] looking for laptop for Ubuntu (Rs. 25K)

2012-03-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 20 Mar 2012, Vikas Upadhyay wrote: [snip] Another thought, can an Android tablet (costing not more than Rs 20K), replace a laptop which serves above mentioned requirement? If yes, any suggestion ? Even though a dev environment was announced for Android today, doubt if it's a great

Re: [ilugd] looking for laptop for Ubuntu (Rs. 25K)

2012-03-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 20 Mar 2012, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: On Tuesday 20 Mar 2012, Vikas Upadhyay wrote: [snip] Another thought, can an Android tablet (costing not more than Rs 20K), replace a laptop which serves above mentioned requirement? If yes, any suggestion ? Even though a dev

Re: [ilugd] Firefox Google extension

2012-03-12 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 12 Mar 2012, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Hmm, there's another option: switch completely to duckduckgo.com, which has cruft disabled and privacy enabled by default anyway. I tested with a few sample queries and the DDG and Google results seem to be comparable. However

Re: [ilugd] Postfix: Black-listing email addresses/domains

2012-03-11 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 11 Mar 2012, Gora Mohanty wrote: On 11 March 2012 21:31, Ashish SHUKLA ashish...@lostca.se wrote: Or you can also use greylisting daemon, esp. spamd[1] (only works on *BSD) or postgrey/policyd (or other greylisting software) for postfix. Thank you: This looks almost exactly

Re: [ilugd] Firefox Google extension

2012-03-11 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 12 Mar 2012, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Google seems to have optimised its pages for wide screens, with a toolbar on the left, search results in the middle and previews on the right. Earlier I used to have a Firefox extension called OptimizeGoogle, which would reorganise Google

Re: [ilugd] [Webdev] Do you want to own an iPad with a free 3G feature

2012-03-02 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 02 Mar 2012, tashi samphel wrote: You must check with your bank whether it allow you to make on-line international transaction with their debit card or not. I used my credit card to purchase the software. Using the above technology you can also enjoy Internet connection on your Linux

Re: [ilugd] [Webdev] Do you want to own an iPad with a free 3G feature

2012-03-02 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 03 Mar 2012, Gora Mohanty wrote: Heh! Was thinking the same thing, but had refrained till this post. I concur: Supporting crappy iPads or Nokia, or what have you is hardly of interest on this list. IMHO, this is true even if the tools used for such support are FOSS. That's an edge

Re: [ilugd] Shell Script Query

2012-02-28 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 29 Feb 2012, shailesh kumar wrote: Dear All, I am shailesh. Just need small help to write a shell script. There are two tables T1 and T2 both tables one row is common. i have to filter out subIndx (common keyword),imsi,msisdn from both tables

[ilugd] [SOLVED] Re: Shell script not running as expected via crontab, runs fine manually !!

2012-02-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
between this version and the previous one. CC'ing the ILUGD mailing list so that the archives reflect the solved state of the problem. Regards, -- Raj From: Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org To: il...@frodo.hserus.net Sent: Monday, 27 February 2012 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Shell script not running as expected via crontab, runs fine manually !!

2012-02-26 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 27 Feb 2012, Amit Sharma wrote: #!/bin/bash # Script to check exim mailq at a specified interval echo `date` /adminscripts/logs/eximcount echo `exim -bpc` /adminscripts/logs/eximcount First of all, why the needless complexity? You can just: date /adminscripts/logs/eximcount

[ilugd] [HUMOUR] Fwd: Funny Indian names

2012-02-10 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Funny Indian names Date: Friday 10 Feb 2012 From: Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org To: Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org Indian names and their meanings Atul -- studies too hard Anuj -- annoys everyone Anoop -- can't get anything done Swapnil -- keeps

Re: [ilugd] [HUMOUR] Fwd: Funny Indian names

2012-02-10 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 11 Feb 2012, Nagarjuna G wrote: 2012/2/11 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Funny Indian names Date: Friday 10 Feb 2012 From: Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org To: Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org Indian names

Re: [ilugd] Laptop for Fedora any recommendations?

2012-02-07 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 07 Feb 2012, abhishek jain wrote: I am Planning to purchase one Laptop with Fedora on with intel Core i3 + 2 GB RAM, any recommendations on model? Should i prefer Dell or HP? or else. I recently bought an HP 430 w/ 4GB RAM, i3, 500GB HDD pretty cheap (~34K with FreeDOS). Works

[ilugd] [Humour] Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game, Visual Studio 2010

2012-01-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game, Visual Studio 2010 By Peter Bright Microsoft has jumped onto the free-to-play bandwagon with its latest game, a text-driven adventure called Visual Studio 2010. The innovative new game marries the traditional interactive fiction

Re: [ilugd] Looking for an Android Developer for App Dev Contract

2011-12-28 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 28 Dec 2011, Arjun Venkatraman wrote: [snip] A SIP client that can : 1. Forward incoming calls on a GSM/CDMA (GSM only will do, but CDMA only will not) line to a SIP number at a proxy on the same LAN Wouldn't that be illegal without a VoIP licence in India? Regards, -- Raj --

Re: [ilugd] Looking for an Android Developer for App Dev Contract

2011-12-28 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Thursday 29 Dec 2011, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Saurabh Jain saurabh.j...@gmail.comwrote: Within the same LAN, it is legal. You can transfer incoming PSTN lines over IP to any point within your network. You can even transfer over WAN to an office in

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Looking for Perl Programmers

2011-12-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 21 Dec 2011, Nishikant Kapoor wrote: Hello all, Well, well, look who popped up out of the woodwork! Good to see you, Nishi, tell us more about where you are and what you're up to. For those who came in late, Nishikant is the person who single-handedly built a web portal system

Re: [ilugd] Comparison of txt2tags and other light mark-up Languages

2011-11-11 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 11 Nov 2011, A. Mani wrote: (In French) http://fgallaire.flext.net/comparaison-langage-balisage-markup-lightw eight-leger-txt2tags-pandoc-docutils-asciidoc-deplate-stx2any-aft-mar kdown-textile/ Surprised that Emacs org-mode, which does excellent export to HTML and LaTeX (PDF) is

Re: [ilugd] Perl SVN help required

2011-11-08 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 08 Nov 2011, Vikas Upadhyay wrote: Need help in Perl SVN. [snip] Using commands like “svn co url” or using perl modules for the same. What does the expert here think, which one is the better idea ? I'd go with the Perl module, since that is independent of command-line vagaries.

Re: [ilugd] Perl SVN help required

2011-11-08 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 08 Nov 2011, Vikas Upadhyay wrote: Could you please suggest some particular one which helps me perform the basic svn operations ? Being new to Perl ans SVN both, I am finding it a difficult to choose the right one(s) at http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/module/SVN/ The lack of proper

[ilugd] [ANNOUNCE] A Debate on the UID Project

2011-10-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
NSS and EDLC, IIT Delhi present A Debate on the UID Project Date: 2 November 2011 Venue: IV LT3, IIT Delhi Time: 5.30 – 7.30 pm http://web.iitd.ac.in/~arjunghosh/uid/uid.html All are welcome; participation is free. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org

Re: [ilugd] [Ilugc] Steve Jobs Exposed, Wanted To Destroy Android

2011-10-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 21 Oct 2011, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: Only Linux and open source does not have such controversies. And a bunch of idiots were going after the life of RMS for criticizing dictator from Cupertino. I think 2011 was important ... Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Libya and *Cupertino*. While one

Re: [ilugd] Hello everybody!

2011-10-13 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hey, that's a cool post. Of course, I don't necessarily agree that being 50+ limits you from doing anything much (OK, may avoid running the full marathon), but more power to your dabbling, and more power to your inspirations :) Regards, -- Raj On Thursday 13 Oct 2011, Balwinder S Dheeeman

Re: [ilugd] CentOS 5.6 ( Multiple Problems )

2011-10-06 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Thursday 06 Oct 2011, Kristen Eisenberg wrote: I am using CentOS 5.6 on my VPS , and I am having multiple problems . 1. /etc/init.d/httpd reload Reloading httpd: [FAILED] [root@ip-1-- /]# /etc/init.d/httpd start Starting httpd:

Re: [ilugd] CentOS 5.6 ( Multiple Problems )

2011-10-04 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 05 Oct 2011, Gaurang Aggarwal wrote: c/init.d/httpd restart Stopping httpd:[FAILED] Starting httpd: (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address

Re: [ilugd] SSH KeepAlive with Switched Networks

2011-09-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011, Saurabh Sharma wrote: I’m on a LAN [in office] connected to remote server over SSH [using gnome terminal], now I've to go over for a meeting on another floor along with my notebook. I switch on to mine office WLAN with a descent 90+ signal strength, Network manager

Re: [ilugd] SSH KeepAlive with Switched Networks

2011-09-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: I’m on a LAN [in office] connected to remote server over SSH [using gnome terminal], now I've to go over for a meeting on another floor along with my notebook. I switch on to mine office WLAN with a descent 90+ signal strength, Network manager

Re: [ilugd] SSH KeepAlive with Switched Networks

2011-09-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: You probably mean to run screen in ssh, i.e. screen on remote end? Otherwise with screen to run your ssh in, instead of using GNOME terminal's pty, you're using screen's pty, with nothing changed at the network interface level. Er, right! Run

Re: [ilugd] [ANNOUNCE] Android-India mailing list

2011-08-31 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 29 Aug 2011, Mehul Ved wrote: On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:26 AM, abhishek jain abhishek.netj...@gmail.com wrote: there is no way to check usage until the bill is handed over. Where there are enough software tools available on android to measure and warn you about your data

Re: [ilugd] [ANNOUNCE] Android-India mailing list

2011-08-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 28 Aug 2011, abhishek jain wrote: may be because the call rates have dropped and VAS bill is larger than the phone call bill (at least for me). Heh, so true. OTOH, after finally inserting the SIM into this phone (which took two days due to sheer laziness in transferring contacts

Re: [ilugd] [ANNOUNCE] Android-India mailing list

2011-08-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 28 Aug 2011, abhishek jain wrote: Beware of 3G plans, i bought a 100MB plan from airtel, i mistakenly used 196 MB, i was charged Rs. 100 for first 100MB and 1400 for next 96 MB and more so they dont alert on overuse :( , there is no way to check usage until the bill is handed over.

[ilugd] [ANNOUNCE] Android-India mailing list

2011-08-26 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, Having purchased an Android phone, thought an India-specific Android mailing list wouldn't be a bad idea. So whether you're an Android user, hacker, developer or just curious, hop over to: mailto:indroid-requ...@lists.linux-delhi.org?subject=subscribe For the moment, anything

Re: [ilugd] Wiki help required

2011-08-12 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 12 Aug 2011, Gora Mohanty wrote: 2011/8/12 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org: To save possible duplication of effort, I have already sent Raj a list, off-list. Thanks to both people who sent lists (Gora Mohanty and Andrew Lynn). If you're still feeling adventurous, you

[ilugd] Wiki help required

2011-08-11 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, We keep getting spam registrations on our Wiki. I'll be glad to remove them, but don't have the time right now to go and track down each and every one. Can someone volunteer to go through each of the registrations at: http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/TWikiUsers and

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Best pre-paid 3G option in Delhi

2011-07-18 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 18 Jul 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: its nice in that it will let 3 - 5 devices hook up over Wifi. the E585 tends to go about 8 - 12 hours of usage, before needing a charge. Couldn't find a provider-independent E585 yet, but Tirveni also did some research and came up with this one:

Re: [ilugd] What happens in BASH when you do Ctrl-C (hint, it's not simply sending a SIGINT)

2011-07-17 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 17 Jul 2011, Sharad Birmiwal wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I originally posted this question on stackoverflowhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/6624622/what-happe

Re: [ilugd] What happens in BASH when you do Ctrl-C (hint, it's not simply sending a SIGINT)

2011-07-17 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 17 Jul 2011, Sharad Birmiwal wrote: -- begin offtopic -- I tried $ /usr/lib/apt/methods/http www.yahoo.com but that didn't seem to start fetching the file. As noted already, it's probably part of the apt family and has it's own invocation method. apt developers for some reason

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Best pre-paid 3G option in Delhi

2011-07-14 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Thursday 14 Jul 2011, Vikas Rawal wrote: On a related note, anyone suggest an el cheapo mobile phone with 3G, The cheapest solution would be to by el cheapo phone (without 3G) for voice calls and use Nokia 5800 for internet. Since that will reduce the load on Nokia 5800, the battery

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Best pre-paid 3G option in Delhi

2011-07-14 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 15 Jul 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 07/14/2011 03:41 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Right, so now: which Linux-compatible data card? I presume it makes sense to buy your own data card and use the telco's SIM in that? I think the age of the data card is now gone

[ilugd] [OT] Best pre-paid 3G option in Delhi

2011-07-13 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, I was thinking of getting one of those pre-paid MTNL 3G SIMs to use for 'net access when on the road or out on work. Is there any company which is giving a better deal? Pre-paid is a must: my mobile 'net requirement is sporadic, and I don't want to have to keep paying the telco every

Re: [ilugd] Looking for a geek meetup or get together in Bangalore Linux-Bangalore chapter

2011-07-04 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 05 Jul 2011, Neeraj Narayan wrote: I had been attending the linux meetings and get together in Delhi. Now since I have been relocated to Bangalore, I would like to be familiar with the FOSS people in Bangalore. Please suggest some group or link...

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Java/Tomcat and web toolkit coders wanted

2011-06-14 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, A big-name client is looking to develop a client/server application using Java, Web toolkits and Tomcat for international deployment. They are offering decent money for a 6-8 month contract, with possibility of employment later if both parties are amenable (they have large international

Re: [ilugd] Fork Bomb and User Limit: Some Serious Concerns.

2011-06-08 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011, Ankit Chaturvedi wrote: Is there a way we can tweak the ulimit - user limit for all users. http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/security/90836-user-limits-linux.h tml - wasn't so helpful. Try 'setrlimit' to set RLIMIT_NPROC to some agreeable value. NPROC is the

Re: [ilugd] [OffTopic] Preview of the new website

2011-06-07 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 07 Jun 2011, Shamail wrote: I've been working on a project from some time, http://tunesdiary.com Its now open for preview, please have a look at it and tell me the goods and the bads. Hope you like my work. Does this have anything to do with FOSS, even tangentially? On an

Re: [ilugd] Fork Bomb and User Limit: Some Serious Concerns.

2011-06-07 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011, Amar Akshat wrote: I have been lately disturbed by my fellow novice intern admins who have been granted super user privileges. They are all trying the kiddish stuff and it upsets the environment, and more over I am unable to hang around and see what is happening and

Re: [ilugd] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-06-05 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 05 Jun 2011, Shubhneet Goel via LinkedIn wrote: Shubhneet Goel requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: Added: http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/DoNotTrustMeWithYourPersonalData And no, this is not about some Vinay -- the same mail has come to at

Re: [ilugd] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-06-01 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 01 Jun 2011, Vivek Kapoor wrote: On 06/01/2011 05:41 PM, Prakhar Agarwal prak...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Dude, it wouldn't hurt to check the email-id itself before shooting off a mail to anyone. Your friend Vinay in your contact list is saved as Vinay Kumar Gupta

Re: [ilugd] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-05-31 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 01 Jun 2011, Amar Akshat wrote: I support this, a policy can be put in place by the admins over this DL. Putting the name in a webpage (like a box of shame) also kind of discourages people to post in and join in. How exactly does putting your name on a page if you insist on giving

Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-28 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 28 May 2011, Vivek Kapoor wrote: Haha, this is interesting. BTW, wasn't the user supposed to be ram1.foo.com in your case instead of r...@foo.com? Are there two profiles created in Vodafone's blackberry interface for that user? I'm wondering that is the case: two profiles, one that

[ilugd] AnyRemote

2011-05-28 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
[Posted to http://wiki.kandalaya.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AnyRemote] * Why What do you do if you (a) use your computer a lot for watching movies and playing music, like I do, and (b) you are a lazy SOB who can't be bothered to get up from the sofa to change the volume or skip a track, like

Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 27 May 2011, krish wrote: On the other hand, if there's some internal blackberry server, then I'm not too sure about that. But ideally the procedure should be the same. If its an internal BB server, then you'll need to reset the user profiles (using BB PIN of users) or reset

Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 27 May 2011, Vivek Kapoor wrote: On a different note, what kind of issues are your users facing on Blackberry? From what I've experienced, usually the users prefer the Blackberry services provided by the service providers such as Vodafone Airtel. This means going on airtel's

Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 27 May 2011, krish wrote: Mail sent to r...@foo.com reflects immediately in the user's webmail, Outlook, couple of other mail clients, but NOT his BB. It may take anything from 15 seconds (acceptable) up to an hour (definitely not acceptable) to reach his BB. Sent from any

Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 27 May 2011, Vivek Kapoor wrote: On 05/27/2011 03:22 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: snip Mail sent to r...@bar.com reflects immediately in the user's webmail, Outlook, couple of other mail clients AND his BB. Mail sent to r...@foo.com reflects

Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 28 May 2011, Vivek Kapoor wrote: Okay. I wasn't aware of that. However, what I have seen happening with blackberry users, in Delhi, India, with both Airtel and Vodafone is that they receive mails instantly - even before they pop-up in their Outlooks and Thunderbirds. There's not

[ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-26 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, Someone have a Blackberry that they're not using and which they're willing to loan/rent out for a week or so? Clients are complaining about Blackberry issues on a mail server I've setup, and I need one to replicate and test. If not, how much would (a) a cheap Blackberry cost and (b)

Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-26 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Thursday 26 May 2011, Smruti wrote: 2011/5/26 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org If not, how much would (a) a cheap Blackberry cost and (b) someone be willing to buy it for after I've done with it? :) I am sure you must have looked, still just in case you haven't, try ebay

Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-26 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 27 May 2011, Gora Mohanty wrote: Do not have access to a Blackberry, nor an idea of what it would cost. However, depending on what issues you are facing, it might not be enough to have the handset, as it is difficult to debug on one. You could start with trying the application

Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-23 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 21 May 2011, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Yeah, I was also looking around for a command-line tool that will allow me to test authentication against PAM. Neither of the two tools I could find on the 'net (pamck and pamauth) seem to be easily available, keeping on looking

Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 21 May 2011, Varad Gupta wrote: Pls see = http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.courier.general/27589 You can replace the SQL statements with grep/awk on /etc/passwd These and other similar lines will need to be replaced = SQL=($(dosql SELECT uid,pw,mpath,mquota FROM

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