[ILUG-BOM] Hello World!

2007-04-23 Thread Omkar Raut
Hi, This is my first mail to mumbai lug! 1) Is there a good shop in mumbai to buy linux pre-installed laptop (see http://www.system76.com/ ) 2) What laptop brands are said to be most suitable for linux? -Omkar. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Multimedia support in Ubuntu and Kubuntu 6.06 6.10

2007-04-23 Thread Rony Bill
--- Rony wrote: I am now able to play VCDs with sound. My DVD freezes at the introductory text itself but that could be due to bad media or my DVD writer is country locked. I dug out my collection and found 3 dvds that were earlier kept aside as they were not for this

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Hello World!

2007-04-23 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, Welcome! --- Omkar Raut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Is there a good shop in mumbai to buy linux pre-installed laptop Just get a laptop and install a recent distro. 2) What laptop brands are said to be most suitable for linux? Any? http://www.linux-laptop.net/ http://tuxmobil.org/

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Hello World!

2007-04-23 Thread jtd
On Monday 23 April 2007 12:14, Shakthi Kannan wrote: Hi, Welcome! --- Omkar Raut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Is there a good shop in mumbai to buy linux pre-installed laptop Just get a laptop and install a recent distro. 2) What laptop brands are said to be most suitable for linux?

[ILUG-BOM] the age old question : i did rm -Rf by mistake - what do i do

2007-04-23 Thread Vihan Pandey
Hello, A lot of *nix people often wonder the answer to the age old question : i did rm -Rf by mistake - what do i do now ? Well, there are quite a few answers to the same. Thankfully there is now a simple answer (with not so headbreaking). A friend of mine tried it out on his Ubuntu box(on

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Hello World!

2007-04-23 Thread Vihan Pandey
more due to floating high voltages in a vehicle Err... in a vehicle? Me confused. Regards, - vihan -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Hello World!

2007-04-23 Thread jtd
On Monday 23 April 2007 13:25, Vihan Pandey wrote: more due to floating high voltages in a vehicle Err... in a vehicle? Me confused. Running 230v ac equipment on 230 vdc generated from 12vdc and other such muck. Then not grounding the vehicle. Lucky it was the ethernet port and not the

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Hello World!

2007-04-23 Thread Vivek J. Patankar
jtd wrote: Acer is a good bet. Acer is good as long as it doesn't have the Broadcom wireless. I have been struggling with the wireless ever since I got mine. -- Regards विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar) Registered Linux User #374218 Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) Linux

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Hello World!

2007-04-23 Thread Roshan
--- Vivek J. Patankar wrote: jtd wrote: Acer is a good bet. Acer is good as long as it doesn't have the Broadcom wireless. I have been struggling with the wireless ever since I got mine. My Dell E 1405 has a Broadcom wireless. However, there are few resources I have bookmarked, (not

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Hello World!

2007-04-23 Thread Roshan
--- Omkar Raut wrote: Hi, Hi Omkar, 2) What laptop brands are said to be most suitable for Linux? Fortunately, I found this link, while browsing for something else. http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html This should help you too. -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Hello World!

2007-04-23 Thread Rony
Omkar Raut wrote: 1) Is there a good shop in mumbai to buy linux pre-installed laptop (see http://www.system76.com/ ) 2) What laptop brands are said to be most suitable for linux? Linux that comes preloaded in laptops is a sorry excuse for linux. You will have to load a proper desktop

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Hello World!

2007-04-23 Thread Baishampayan Ghose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 April 2007 09:36 PM, Rony cobbled together some glyphs to say: 1) Is there a good shop in mumbai to buy linux pre-installed laptop (see http://www.system76.com/ ) 2) What laptop brands are said to be most suitable for linux? Linux

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Hello World!

2007-04-23 Thread Vivek J. Patankar
Roshan wrote: My Dell E 1405 has a Broadcom wireless. However, there are few resources I have bookmarked, (not read) that provide a solution to it w. r. t. Ubuntu. I've gone through a lot of stuff but any new links would be most helpful. -- Regards विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

[ILUG-BOM] Linux Based Point-of-Sale and Inventory System

2007-04-23 Thread Prashant Verma
Hi, I'm looking to customize/deploy a POS/Inventory system for a small store chain. I was wondering if anyone on the list has developed/deployed a complete POS system based on Linux and/or FOSS and how their experience turned out to be. If you did, please drop me a note at my email address and

[ILUG-BOM] Acer 2428 Fully Linux Loaded

2007-04-23 Thread Rony
Hello All, Now that the Acer 2428 is fully Linux loaded, I have written a wiki how-to at our site below. http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Acer2428_Fully_Linux_Compatible -- Regards, Rony. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Hello World!

2007-04-23 Thread Roshan
--- Vivek J. Patankar wrote: I've gone through a lot of stuff but any new links would be most helpful. Hope, the ones that I mention here are not the ones you have already visited. I was searching for Ubuntu / Kubuntu setups, so may be, this helps in some way. 1. (Was finding for my Dell E