Re: [ilugd]: Is it possible to run office software directly from server ???

2003-04-03 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
On Friday, April 04, 2003 1:11 AM [GMT+0800=SGT], Ambar Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can run MS Office from a MS Windows 2000 Server running terminal services. You will only need to install the MS terminal services client on your windows boxes. In fact you can run a large number of

Re: [ilugd]: [OT] Re: : 20Apr ILug Meet

2003-04-03 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
On Friday, April 04, 2003 10:24 AM [GMT+0800=SGT], Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sandip == Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sandip [snip] Sandip P.S. (wondering) Are ppl sending me to phuket or not? Sandip (running) Yeah, only we found an even better

[ilugd]: [COMMERCIAL] Tracking latency

2003-04-01 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Sirs, I am in Singapore, and we need to get our India office connected to an app on our Singapore server. The critical issue here is not bandwidth, but latency. I need to select an ISP, in Gurgaon, for this. I need help. Could those of you with linux machines please # Trace the path, with

Re: [ilugd]: LINUX Training

2003-03-26 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Raj Mathur wrote: Dhruv Is there any way to configure mailman (thats what lin-del Dhruv uses??) so that announcements made by certain people have Dhruv reply-to set as their personal mail address ? Or any Dhruv other way to do this ? Maybe the original poster can set Dhruv

Re: [ilugd]: unsubscribe

2003-03-26 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: I am willing to make a bigger sacrifice for our beloved LUG members. I volunteer to go to thailand personally to get these T-shirts printed(funded by ILUGD cash ofcoz). Heard they are quite cheap in and around Phuket. ;) Kids, kids, as always, you do not optimise

Re: [ilugd]: Re: : license for the mailing list

2003-03-25 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003 3:55 AM [GMT+0800=SGT], supreet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't explicitly state and assert your right to that text, lawfully it would be public domain AFAIK No. This is not something I can argue over, it is the law. Wether we agree or not makes no

Re: [ilugd]: Re: : license for the mailing list

2003-03-24 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
supreet wrote: Though copyright should be with author. Until explicitly part of text, any text is considered public domain after public rendering. Considered by whom? Not the law. Public Domain is a very specific concept. -- Sanjeev

Re: [ilugd]: I want to learn a new programming language, Which one??

2003-03-21 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: Umm Perl believes the author should have control over what he writes rather than the Language setting the restrictions. So perl does not have a validating reference compiler? And it guesses my intent how? I am not qualified to judge which is better, but as a

Re: [ilugd]: I want to learn a new programming language, Which one??

2003-03-20 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
On Thursday, March 20, 2003 9:14 PM [GMT+0800=SGT], Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to learn a new programming language, Which one?? python. Unlike perl, python can be read, often even by the authour. Or maybe lisp. -- Sanjeev, who knows neither.

Re: [ilugd]: Re: [draft] open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-14 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Raj Mathur wrote: Our two resident economic and policy experts, Ghane and Ajit have also effectively spoken out against increase in taxation. I am not arguing the case on the grounds that it causes an increase in taxation, much as I like the idea. I am arguing that taxation is a sovereign

Re: [ilugd]: some clarifications sought on excise

2003-03-13 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
LinuxLingam wrote: hi all, a colleague raised an important issue. excise is levied on products manufactured in india. customs is levied on products not manufactured, and hence imported into india. Customs may be levied on services as well, and may be levied on exports as well. The word

Re: [LONG] [LIG] Re: [ilugd]: [draft] open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-13 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
LinuxLingam wrote: dear sanjeev, thanks again, for your insights and responses. so your responses confirm what i had been thinking: taxation in absolute terms is supposed to be on the principals you mentioned, but the overall reality forces of democracy, uruguay, gatt, WTO, bring in a

Re: [LONG] [LIG] Re: [ilugd]: [draft] open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-13 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
LinuxLingam wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2003 06:58 am, you wrote: LinuxLingam wrote: why is software not yet taxed for excise? Sorry, my last reply talked about *customs* on Software. Software is not taxed for excise because of a very simple reason. Software is a service, not a product.

Re: [ilugd]: why excise?

2003-03-13 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Ajit Ranade wrote: i am going to wade into this discussion. but only a bit. For those who came in late: Ajit was a Prof of Economics at IGIDR, Bombay, then worked with some think-tank in Delhi, and is now at ABN Amro as some big-shot thinker ;-) He knows economics, he understands the

Re: [LONG] [LIG] Re: [ilugd]: [draft] open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-11 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
LinuxLingam wrote: thanks for your response. (what's your name, btw?). Sanjeev Gupta, although the nickname ghane stuck many years back in college. your response is quite insightful and made me learn and look from a new angle. Thank you. I hang around with economists, bankers, and people

Re: [ilugd]: yipee: bootCD plays video+films+music called Movix2

2003-03-07 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Raj Mathur wrote: Actually I have Debian Woody 3.0r1 7-CD set here, thanks to Supreet and IIT who provided the bandwidth. I'll check out how one can get updates (there're tons available). Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a simple way to take (say) Woody Jan 2003 CDs, download only

Re: [ilugd]: [draft] open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-07 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
On Friday 07 March 2003 03:52 pm, LinuxLingam wrote: 14) finally, as a statement of leadership and values, india must adopt freedom-based software that is being proposed to the UNICEF to be declared as a world-culture heritage. Cite? -- Sanjeev Gupta

Re: [ilugd]: Internet Dialup configuration problem

2003-03-04 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Raj Mathur wrote: More to the point, the second time you hit an IP you get it from your local named instead of having to go to the 'net each time to do a lookup: the first call puts the IP in named's cache and the second time onwards uses the cached IP. With Windows, the winsock layer caches

Re: [ilugd]: Linux for SME and SOHO :::: Low cost Linux ePC launched : home and office edition

2003-03-03 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Arjun wrote: Dear Friends, eSys launches ePC. Its a VIA C3 800 MHz processor with 128 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD, 56K modem etc without monitor. OS is RH 7.3 pre-installed but without CDs. HT page 15, 02 Mar 2003. Hi, Back in Oct or so, I had asked on the list if

Re: [LONG-short] Re: [ilugd]: Linux based Software

2003-02-27 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Raj Mathur wrote: If there's an angle I've missed, please feel free to bring it up. Raj, have your views changed over the last 3 years? You were not, IIRC, so FSF-ish. I use the phrase GNU/Linux when I refer to Debian, but that is because that is what the Authors named it. I call Raj Raj,

Re: [ilugd]: Linux based Software

2003-02-26 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Raj Shekhar wrote: Please remember that were it not for RMS, GNU, GPL Linux would not have existed. True. I use Debian GNU/Linux myself. However, this is a slippery slope. I prefer to call it Debian GNU/BSD/SVR4.2/T-Baum/ARPA/Buffer Overflow/Linux. Please give credit where due, if it were

Re: [ilugd]: Is anybody using sendmail from their PCs ?

2003-02-26 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Raj Mathur wrote: Why would you say that? If you mean the Dial-Up List (DUL), I personally feel that I should have the right to use any legal means to send mail from my PC that I want. People blocking mail from dial-up connections is an infringement of that right. Note: I do not use DULs

Re: [ilugd]: ORACLE 8i/9i CDs LINUX BASED

2003-02-06 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Surjo Das wrote: Hi, I have Oracle 8.1.6 and Oracle 9.2.0 for Red Hat Linux with me. If you are interested, contact me offlist. As far as Vineet's concern about software piracy is concerned, Oracle 8i / 9i for Linux is available as a free download. Great. So you are an Oracle mirror?

Re: [ilugd]: ORACLE 8i/9i CDs LINUX BASED

2003-02-05 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See the language used by this guy. I may bring it to the notice of this guy that oracle 8i/9i (linux based) both are freeely available for download and if I ask someone to supply it to me in order to save cost of my telephone line and time then is it a crime ? Yes.

Re: [ilugd]: ORACLE 8i/9i CDs LINUX BASED

2003-02-05 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Moreover, I treat Mr.Raj Mathur and the concerned personnel of ILUGD as the only competent authorities to issue such instructions and nobodyelse. Beware, Gurdeep is obviously Raju trying to grab control of ILUGD as the Evil Dictator ;-) -- Sanjeev

Re: [ilugd]: dishnet dsl modem connection

2002-12-30 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
vivek wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 15:07, Bishan Singh Kochar wrote: i want to shift my aztech dsl modem from win2k to redhat linux 8.0 ... my ISP is dishnet... how do i connect and configure it on my linux box.? will it work ? do i need some drivers? i was in touch with dishnet regarding

Re: [ilugd]: tip on bad floppy

2002-12-21 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Ambar Roy wrote: IMHO floppies are a very big pain. I have stopped using them, unless when nescessary. Just get to my age, sonny. I have stopped doing *anything*, unless when necessary. -- Sanjeev what, you mean breathe _now_? Gupta

Re: [ilugd]: FW: linux novice

2002-12-18 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Raju Mathur wrote: Venky == D Venkatasubramanian D.Venkatasubramanian writes: [snip] Venky And while advising other people not to quibble over Venky nomenclature, you yourself spent time writing the mail, Venky instead of doing something useful. Venky Aw shucks, I

Re: [ilugd]: Member directory for ILUGD members of East Delhi

2002-12-16 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Amit Goel wrote: Where can I find a HOWTO for Starting ILUG-PunjabiBagh Road no. 67 At the http://www.punjabi-bagh-road-lug.com, of course ;-) -- Sanjeev To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject

Re: [ilugd]: RedHat 8.0 CD's

2002-11-23 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: I have all the 6 ISO's of RedHat 8.0 interested parties please contact me offlist. You would have to figure out your own means for getting the CD to Okhla Phase III and retrieving it later. No I dont want any money whatsoever for anything ;). For anything?

Re: [ilugd]: Re: : Could not connect localhost in RH 7.2

2002-11-22 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Prithu Nath wrote: Sandip, Firstly I am a part of this list for the past three years more due to academic interests. Good for you. Second wirte shorter mails and to the point, for what this list was made out to be. I agree. It also helps if you trim off people's original mails, and not

Re: [ilugd]: Linux PC

2002-10-29 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Ajith C wrote: I would like to know about Linux support for AMD Athlon and a good M/Board for it. Athlon is very well supported by gcc, which is all you need to know. Does Athlon XP makes any difference over Athlon as far as Linux is concerned? Branding issue. Higher speeds are

Re: [ilugd]: ecom copyright!

2002-10-24 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
LinuxLingam wrote: this gets even funnier. the whole modern world's approach to copyright, so-called 'intellectual property' and patents is a big farce. but who has the guts of saying out loud: the emperor has no clothes You just did, didn't you? Would you care to contrast it with the

Re: [ilugd]: How to Clear History of Commands in Red Hat Linux 7.x

2002-10-23 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Hi, Please do not run the rm command without thinking it through, even as a joke. -- Sanjeev Ajith C wrote: Hi shell cmd history is stored in ~/.history or ~/.bash_history file. Here ~ is your $HOME directory. You can edit or delete it Keep deleting : Try rm -fr * Bye

Re: [ilugd]: A proposal

2002-10-12 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
vivek khurana wrote: Hi! i am writing this mail to bring forward a proposal to start a web based magzine on computing, here at illugd. People who are interested in writing articles or who can provide us with web-space please contact me. I can provide web-space, if you require basic

Re: [ilugd]: [Fwd: Enquiry about Latex / Linux...]

2002-10-05 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Exactly the same, as long as: Your MetaFont files are the same (they will be, by default) You are on the same version of LaTex 2e, and packages Pinch of salt required here, it has been 5 years since I used LaTex, although at that time I was very up-to-date on Latex 2.09/2e and

Re: Posting to the list [WAS: Re: [ilugd]: linux power surge]

2002-10-02 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Vibhav A. Tekchand wrote: HEY ADMIN... DELETE MY ACCOUNT ON Linux-Delhi ... Sure, but the wise guy makes it even easier, see the part you have quoted in your mail. To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. -- Sanjeev

Re: [ilugd]: UPload

2002-10-02 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Nitin Chandra wrote: I have calculated in this way . (do correct me if i am wrong, and this to upload a data file..through 'ftp'???) -90% of 64kbps = 57.6 kbps. -1 MB = 1024 kb. No, 1MB = 1024kB 1Mb = 1024kb Note the case, B is Bytes, b is bits. -1024 / 57.6 = 17.77

Re: [ilugd]: linux power surge

2002-10-01 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
LinuxLingam wrote: amazing factoid: linux-delhi experienced a power surge in the month of september 2002. from a scant 29 new members in august, linux-delhi touched a mind-blowing 126 new members in the 30 days of september. and linux-delhi has touched a total of 879 members. Yet under

Re: [ilugd]: HTTP Site for Red Hat Linux 8.0 Download

2002-10-01 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
V, You may try http://mirror.averse.net/redhat/linux/8.0/en/iso/ , it is in Singapore, with pretty good bandwidth. -- Sanjeev Linx MVP Brainbench.com D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida wrote: Hi, Could anyone please point me to some HTTP Sites for downloading Red Hat Linux 8.0 downloads. All Red

Re: [ilugd]: dell says go to hell ???

2002-10-01 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
LinuxLingam wrote: i wonder what the legal stand on this would be. i mean, the eula is supposed to be a legal and binding contract, that throws people in india into jails on a non-bailable offence. and if someone does not wish to agree and use the agreement or the software, why are refunds

Re: [ilugd]: laptop without windoze

2002-09-27 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
L, This is quite normal. I have never used the joystick port behind any of the PCs I have owned, yet no one ever offered me a discount if I took a machine without it. Their costs do not go down, which is why, if you do not accept their EULA, they will refund what you paid for the Windows

Re: [ilugd]: Upcoming Event - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Party

2002-09-10 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those appearing without snacks or money for the same shall be fed to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. Those without a towel shall, of course, be eaten by the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. -- Sanjeev

[ilugd]: Singapore Linux Conference 2002

2002-08-31 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Folks, You are invited to the 4th Singapore Linux Conference, 14-16 Oct 2002. Delegates welcome, Papers welcome. In light of the current controversy, I wish to clarify that we are the Linux Conference, and we use the term loosely. Last year, we had core members of the FreeBSD team presenting

Re: Fwd: Re: [ilugd]: (fwd) here it comes!@#$!

2002-08-30 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
as 011-6285911? What is the '0' for? I regularly call Delhi, and never dial it. You call Delhi and never dial it. Ditto for 0091-11-6285911. -- Sanjeev - Original Message - From: Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sanjeev Ghane Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:16 AM

Re: Fwd: Re: [ilugd]: (fwd) here it comes!@#$!

2002-08-28 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
From: Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 03:30 PM 8/28/2002 +0530, you wrote: - Nobody shall smoke Raj during a ilugd meet. humour No. No. Not just during ILUGD! Ghane meant throughout the year! /humour P.S. I would like a line to be added to the ILUGD mailing list guidelines,

Re: Fwd: Re: [ilugd]: (fwd) here it comes!@#$!

2002-08-28 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
From: amit soni [EMAIL PROTECTED] arre !! singapore say cig peenay thori aayega ! Aap kuch khilane-pilane ki baat to karo, phir dekho. -- Sanjeev To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject

Re: [ilugd]: (fwd) here it comes!@#$!

2002-08-27 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
From: abhay [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... but i strongly object the smoking of raj mathur and as well as one lady there. I am been following the fight over the freedom on the list (I missed the last 24 LUG meetings); and have been surprised at the vehemence on the issue. But now that Raj (and one

Re: Recall: [ilugd]: ISO image CD not bootable

2002-07-24 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
From: Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, this is not USENET, it's e-mail. Once your finger hits the `Send' key, it's irretrievable, gone, fini, end. `I shot an arrow into the air...' ;-) Ouch! Watch where you shoot, you %#$ -- Sanjeev

Re: Legal Entrappment ttempt by Wipro, was: [ilugd]: Printer Sharing.

2002-07-08 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Folks, Just a quick update: Mr Lalit Bhasin of Wipro has communicated with me off-list and clarified that although the mail was addressed by his server to me implicitly, I was not the intended reciepient of the imature tag. Although I am still confused by this, as his mail again had a

Re: [ilugd]: Hard Links Problem

2002-07-02 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
From: Kapil Sethi [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do I list all the files that are hard liked to the same content on the hard disk. ls -li filename # get the inode number find / -inum inode-number Caveats: Inode numbers are unique per-filesystem, so use -xdev -- Sanjeev

Re: [ilugd]: [OT] Volunteer an IMAP server

2002-06-16 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
for? -- Sanjeev Ghane Gupta Linux MVP Brainbench.com To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http

Re: [ilugd]: linux utilities

2002-03-12 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Try badblocks - Original Message - From: Naresh Narang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 8:17 AM Subject: Re: [ilugd]: linux utilities I think what he wanted to know was if we can detect and mark bad sectors on the hard disk. It is possible with

Re: [ilugd]: Strange problem

2002-03-10 Thread Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta
Chetan, Could you try ldd -v ./filename and see what libs it is trying to hit? And are the bulid errors compile time or link time? -- Sanjeev - Original Message - From: chetan dutta [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 12:47 AM Subject: [ilugd]: