[ilugd]Re: giving root privileges to a function]

given the availability of so many libraries and abstractions, why do you need to access a h/w directly? well i am still not directly communicating with hardware using java. i am making to some C functions from java that requires root privileges. =

[ilugd] Re: giving root privileges to a function

Now this looks like an interesting problem. Possible solution maybe to run the JVM in privileged mode with a security policy defined for JVM disallowing access to other system resources. -Tarun well it seems good to me, but could u just tell how to do that, as i was thinking the same but

[ilugd] HOWTO use linux box as network SWITCH...

It proven that we can use linux box as router ,.,,, can we use it as switch as well? Thanks and regards, Adarsh. - Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] Where is linux-delhi proposed Forum??

Uh, if we already have a working forum/discussion board why do we need another one? Specially if the other one costs money? Use the one Nishikant had made, save the money and buy him something nice as a token of appreciation -- perhaps a gift voucher at Amazon or something. Hmm, may I

[ilugd] New laptop advertised

An ad today in the Business section of HT sells a model of compaq (2184at) for Rs. 45k with Mandrake 9.1 ( a welcome change from Turbo Linux in many other machines like LG MyPC). Anybody here has any experience with these low end Compaq laptops? Are they worth the money? - Sandip -- Sandip

Re: [ilugd] Where is linux-delhi proposed Forum??

Uh, if we already have a working forum/discussion board why do we need another one? Specially if the other one costs money? Use the one Nishikant had made, save the money and buy him something nice as a token of appreciation -- perhaps a gift voucher at Amazon or something. Hmm, may

Re: [ilugd] Free ke distro...

A good resource to download ISO images of various Linux and BSD distros is LinuxISO.org: http://www.linuxiso.org/ Fairly good (~2.2 Mbps) bandwidth on the site mentioned by Puneet though :-) - Original Message - From: Puneet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

Re: [ilugd] OpenSource Accounts package [was]:[LIH]Kalculate

Take a look at compiere. It is a java based tool. Needs a JDBC backend. Very featureful. The Tally killer Supreet ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] [OT] JAVA User group Meeting

--- Gaurav Vaish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Vivek, Do you have any plans in specific for this meeting? I mean... as you say, the focus is on programming - what's the game plan? Well, as its the first meet, we will be deciding the game plan. We might have some demos/discussion on

[ilugd] Re: Fedora Linux Core 1

Puneet wrote: Guide: http://www.johnmunsch.com/articles/FedoraCoreGettingStarted/ Puneet, If you need Fedora CDs post a request to the cd\_at_\linux-delhi.org many of us have the Fedora Core 1 CDs available with us. Cheers!! -Tarun ___ ilugd

[ilugd] OpenSource Accounts package [was]:[LIH]Kalculate

This in context of Mukunds post on LIH. During the recent LinuxAsia2004 at Delhi my discussions with many people dropping in at The ILUG-Delhi stall is summarised as: 1: OpenSource is muft and mukt is alluring to Indian psyche. 2: Linux is ready for adoption in SME world of India business. 3: OO