Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction!! | Office , Excise CAD

2008-12-27 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 1:16 AM, jtd j...@mtnl.net.in wrote: No. But you really suck. Noticed the distinct lack of a smiley. No? heck never mind. Bah...and you think I care for your remarks? :) Explain how exactly is SAMBA/CIFS better than a M$ share. Stability ooh...my

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction !!!

2008-12-27 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Nagarjuna G. nagar...@gnowledge.org wrote: The possibility of virus in a Unix machine is possible in only one condition: all the applications are running as super user. But, this situation actually defeates the very idea of a multi-user design. Not really. You

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Kernel 2.6.27.8 = Goodbye IDE?

2008-12-25 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Rony gnulinux...@gmail.com wrote: My system is Etch and the kernel was downloaded from kernel.org using the F (Full source) link. Commands used were... dumb question... did you copy over your current .config to the new kernel's source tree before you actually

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction!! | Office , Excise CAD

2008-12-24 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Sachin Gopalakrishnan mai...@sachingopal.com wrote: There can never be a replacement for the crap that is M$office. Even a brainless moron cant write such crap. There are at least two SUPERIOR alternatives Openoffice and Koffice. I'm not sure who said that

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction!! | Office , Excise CAD

2008-12-24 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:53 AM, jtd j...@mtnl.net.in wrote: ???. Samba /CIFS works better than M$ network share. However you Ooh my boat is t3h bigger than you're boat. I rock. You suck. Right? :) Explain how exactly is SAMBA/CIFS better than a M$ share. And how EXACTLY is a SAMBA / CIFS share

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction!! | Office , Excise CAD

2008-12-24 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Mehul Ved mehul.n@gmail.com wrote: Why not setup virtual machine so that anyone from the network can access it? gee whizz why didn't I think of it? :) So what virtualization package are you talking about? What network are you talking about? Oohh how do you

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction!! | Office , Excise CAD

2008-12-24 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Rony gnulinux...@gmail.com wrote: Networking between host and guest machines is a big pain. It is not good for production. It wasn't ever a big pain for me. All it took was setting up a bridge and N tun/tap interfaces. Its not very difficult to follow

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction !!!

2008-12-23 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Neelesh Gurjar neel@gmail.com wrote: They got addicted to Linux now. :) yey...what joy...what encouragement...yey look at us...we're a cult... iff someone didn't understand, the last line was full of dry sarcasm. People say that Linux is not user

Re: [ILUG-BOM] cannot set resolution to 1440x900 on Debian Etch

2008-12-22 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Balachandran Sivakumar benignb...@gmail.com wrote: If you could read my mail fully, I just said I didn't have any issues with Debian for any of my my new hardware. Did I anywhere mention that Debian supports everything under the sun. It didn't support

Re: [ILUG-BOM] cannot set resolution to 1440x900 on Debian Etch

2008-12-22 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Anurag anu...@gnuer.org wrote: What is ridiculous is your language and tone. There are polite ways to express your views. Seems politeness is not in these days. Extremists are getting all the attention. Especially on this list ;) -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] cannot set resolution to 1440x900 on Debian Etch

2008-12-22 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Kartik Mistry kartik.mis...@gmail.com wrote: I will be not Outraged when New User(s) in my office called me everytime when their so called bleeding edge panel hanged 10 times in a day and lone Debian users smiles to them. I'm just going to blow past this

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Kernel 2.6.27.8 = Goodbye IDE?

2008-12-22 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Rony gnulinux...@gmail.com wrote: I have twice compiled kernel 2.6.27.8 from source. During make it You're short on details. How did you compile the kernel from source? What did your config look like? Which distro are we talking about? Did you use the vanilla

Re: [ILUG-BOM] cannot set resolution to 1440x900 on Debian Etch

2008-12-21 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Praveen A prav...@gmail.com wrote: *snip* The reason why you don't see new packages in sid right now is because it lenny is frozen. *snip* had done some background reading than screaming 2.6.27 is not available in sid and hence sid must be older than

Re: [ILUG-BOM] cannot set resolution to 1440x900 on Debian Etch

2008-12-20 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 2:40 AM, Praveen A prav...@gmail.com wrote: No. I was explaining to the right person, who did not do proper homework to understand why debian unstable did not have 2.6.27 kernel. So what you're saying is basically the SAME that I've said. Debian is BEHIND Ubuntu in terms

Re: [ILUG-BOM] cannot set resolution to 1440x900 on Debian Etch

2008-12-19 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar benignb...@gmail.com wrote: I have used Debian without any issues for any new hardware. May be you don't link Debian Oh really? Can you give me some facts? I'll throw a fact at you. Try installing Etch on a C2D machine running

Re: [ILUG-BOM] cannot set resolution to 1440x900 on Debian Etch

2008-12-19 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org wrote: Hmm? Since Ubuntu snapshots Debian unstable at some pointm and then proceeds to fall behind until release and the next sync, I don't think this is entirely accurate. Wrong! :) I'm running Debian Unstable and

Re: [ILUG-BOM] cannot set resolution to 1440x900 on Debian Etch

2008-12-19 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Praveen A prav...@gmail.com wrote: Dude, you don't get it :-) Debian testing is frozen and only packages that *normally* go to unstable are those which are expected to be released with lenny. You won't get any newer kernels in unstable before lenny is out of

Re: [ILUG-BOM] cannot set resolution to 1440x900 on Debian Etch

2008-12-18 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Rohit V Bhute rvbh...@gmail.com wrote: boot with Debian Lenny this time and get it going (and I will do my work before asking here :-) ); then make it the main OS on the machine. Do you just have the habit of *not* thinking before you type? Lenny is frozen (

Re: [ILUG-BOM] cannot set resolution to 1440x900 on Debian Etch

2008-12-18 Thread Dinesh Joshi
Rohit, Lets summarize what you said, you were an Ubuntu user. Your bluetooth didn't work so you thought, oh well, lets switch to debian because it'll solve all your issues. You claim you did your homework. I say you didn't. You wanna know why I say that? Its simply because you went ahead and

Re: [ILUG-BOM] cannot set resolution to 1440x900 on Debian Etch

2008-12-16 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:59 PM, rohit bhute rvbh...@gmail.com wrote: I gave up and went back to Ubuntu 8.10. The graphics were correctly detected. This seems just to be a case of latest drivers being available in Ubuntu. Dont you dare complain. Did you take the time to actually understand

Re: [ILUG-BOM] hard-disk queries

2008-12-16 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:07 PM, rohit bhute rvbh...@gmail.com wrote: Is a HDD failure imminent? Yes. Next time do your homework before asking questions whose answers are readily available all over the internet. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] System set up for Studio on Linux

2008-12-06 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Easwar Hariharan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: snip Please suggest a Distro which also has a large hardware compatibility. Distros don't differ much on account of hardware compatibility because they use the same kernel,what may differ is the version of the

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ISPs Messing with TTL

2008-10-19 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Mandar Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lets restrict the discussions on this mailing list to technical issues Are you the owner / moderator of this list? The name of this list reads GNU/Linux Users Group. Yes, believe it or not GNU is a part, a LARGE part. GNU and

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Interesting points about privacy with Google Crome

2008-09-04 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:38 AM, jtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no privacy for anything that you send thru an intermediate service provider unless it is strongly encrypted. You think that MTNL/TATA/whoever cant snoop on your data / voice /sms. While there are established legal

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Mumbai Meet

2008-06-24 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:49 PM, krishnakant Mane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all. there are a few points on which I would surely like to comment. firstly I *TOTALLY AGREE* with JTD that nothing should be given for free. I and Nagarjun did experience this last year in an exhibition in

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Smart kiosks as an extention to manned counters.

2008-06-19 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:41 AM, jtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Old hat that comes to India when everbody gets tired of it. Old wine in new fancy bottle = cellphone as payment system. No need to buy any card. All the rage in Nokialand, where you can buy everything using a cellphone. If only

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Port mapping in linux

2008-06-02 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Nikhil Marathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the following situation: A windows based program that lacks proxy support is on my secondary computer, which is connected to the internet *through* the primary (linux) one. Now in windows I use AnalogX's

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fedora 9 DVD

2008-05-21 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Easwar Hariharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nopes,he's not,he's at BARC.But I am! :) For everyone's info, I'm at HBCSE, Mankhurd. Next to BARC. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux Piracy

2008-05-20 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I needed a Debian/Ubuntu/Mandriva DVD to install on my sisters new laptop. So I went around hunting for a LFY magazine for the free DVD. On my way I cam across a pirated CD stall at andheri station and was surprised

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fedora 9 DVD

2008-05-17 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Vinod Raghavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: every one Does any one have fedora 9 DVD. yep. i've the ISO at work. Bring your media i'll make a copy for you. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Internet n/w in Etch GUI

2008-05-08 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Rony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Etch myself so I was surprised at this problem. Dig was working instantly. Same with pinging google's ips. Ftp downloads in terminal took place in a jiffy. It was the http connections that failed. I feel it was some

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Internet n/w in Etch GUI

2008-05-05 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 5/5/08, Rony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here the net is the simple triband modem. However during install, since I had all the DVDs I chose to not use any mirror and the entire installation was off-net. Does that lock up the OS from the net in any way. It should not, at least in theory. No

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux compat Printer

2008-04-14 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 4/14/08, jtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Print load is moderate. I require good color print for the occasional printed brochure. Any recommendations? My experience with Samsung has been great. They officially support Linux, they have the drivers, everything. Quality wise Samsung rocks :)

Re: [ILUG-BOM] error: bind-9.5.0-25.1.b2.fc8.src.rpm cannot be installed

2008-04-10 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 4/10/08, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thats ok - he got the reply from Hyderabad list, so they get the prize - next time he asks, make sure you reply fast. huh? -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] error: bind-9.5.0-25.1.b2.fc8.src.rpm cannot be installed

2008-04-10 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 4/10/08, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the OP usually posts his questions to several mailing lists - and gives a prize for the first mailing list to answer correctly. In this case ilughyd won - better luck next time ;-) whatever... btw does anyone have an idea if Kenneth's

Re: [ILUG-BOM] error: bind-9.5.0-25.1.b2.fc8.src.rpm cannot be installed

2008-04-09 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 4/9/08, Agnello George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i don't understand what Header SHA1 digest: BAD Expected means ?? can any one help me out here !!! I think source RPMs are meant to be compiled first and then installed. So that could be one explanation or the other is that you've got a

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Avoid Intel motherboards

2008-03-24 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you mean you are running without a kernel? I know this is a sensitive topic but can we focus on the discussion and _not_ on the terminology? You and I ( and everyone on this list knows ) that: Rony's GNU == GNU/Linux

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Avoid Intel motherboards

2008-03-24 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 3/24/08, km [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even BIOSes compiled with MS compilers. yyaaack! Can someone point to a list of vendors who do that.. i would avoid them _As Far and Long As Possible_ I believe this would tell you if your BIOS was compiled using a Microsoft compiler: dmesg | grep MSFT

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Avoid Intel motherboards

2008-03-21 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:22 PM, jtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Afaik the intel chipsets have relatively pathetic 3d. Your AFAIK is _wrong_. I've been using Intel's onboard graphics card and have been able to seamlessly run all 3D applications / games / whatever... Oh yes lets not forget the

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Avoid Intel motherboards

2008-03-21 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 3/21/08, km [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm.. that simply means.. if i need to buy a laptop for graphics purposes, Intel would still be the best bet at my current space-time coordinates :D exactly! I've experienced that whatever laptop one buys, if it has an Intel Chipset, then it rocks! :)

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Your Industry profile

2008-03-21 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 3/20/08, Agnello George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SO SORRY!! THIS IS A BIG MISTAKE ON MY BEHALF !!! DIDN'T KNOW IT TOOK ALL MY ADDRESSES IN MY ADDRESS BOOK!! THERE IS NOTHING I CAN DO TO REVERSE I DO APOLOGIES AGAIN !! You should've known better. Its okay. But don't use uppercase.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Avoid Intel motherboards

2008-03-20 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Arun Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any particular brand mobos for the AMD cpus? Well we have HCL machines at our lab. High end AMD64 X2 CPUs. Not sure the brand of the motherboard, it doesn't have drivers. We struggled to get DRI to work properly. As opposed to

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Avoid Intel motherboards

2008-03-20 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:18 PM, jtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it is HCL not AMD. ALWAYS if you want good service get a small vendor. The big guys are full of hype n hotair and outsource everything to the small guys minus the profit. All the money you pay is just to cover jazzy ads about

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Avoid Intel motherboards

2008-03-20 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Dinesh Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right blame HCL for the lack of drivers. The driver issue we face is simply because the open source drivers dont work well and the proprietary NVidia ( now merged with AMD ) work like _ _ _ _. This system doesn't seem

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Avoid Intel motherboards

2008-03-18 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Rony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone of you is planning to buy a system or a new motherboard then avoid Intel original ones like plague. They take more than a month to simply pick up boards in warranty and their communication channels are pathetic. My

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [ Cross Post ] Google Summer of Code '08

2008-03-18 Thread Dinesh Joshi
Hi Pradeepto and all GSoC followers. I have to comment on this, rather critically. On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: almost taken for granted in KDE GSoC. Knowledge of Qt/KDE/PyQt framework and programming is a definite ( huge ) plus. If you are

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Harddisk woes!

2008-03-04 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 12:16 PM, jtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my experience never buy the latest high capacity drives. Two sizes smaller - usually abt 1.5 yrs after launch - last very long. So far the ones that are purchased immediately after launch have always failed early. Well I

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Bluetooth Support Linux

2008-02-24 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 2/24/08, Rony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I am planning to buy a usb-bluetooth device from Lam. Road, that's compatible with Linux too. What are the devices used by you and how easy is it to setup and use? On the net BlueSoleil does not have any Linux drivers for download.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Propagating GNU / Linux in schools

2008-02-13 Thread Dinesh Joshi
Thanks everyone! Sorry, couldn't reply to this thread earlier as I was ill. I took all suggestions into account ( well atleast those which came in before my scheduled lecture ). The lecture was very well received. The Freedom aspect, 3D games on Linux, Music, Chat Messenger, and other facts

[ILUG-BOM] Propagating GNU / Linux in schools

2008-02-06 Thread Dinesh Joshi
Hello all, I've been invited to give a lecture on Linux ( technical + philosophical ). I want to enlighten them on the virtues of F/OSS. If any of you guys are into Linux related education / propagation activities then please let me know what might be the critical points that one must cover.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Propagating GNU / Linux in schools

2008-02-06 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Feb 6, 2008 3:43 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06-Feb-08, at 3:17 PM, Dinesh Joshi wrote: I've been invited to give a lecture on Linux ( technical + philosophical ). audience? 9th standard school students. English as well as Marathi medium. -- Regards, Dinesh

Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to configure 2 CPUs on Fedora

2008-02-04 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Feb 3, 2008 12:47 PM, Neelesh Gurjar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Xeon Quad core processor server. And I have attached one more same processor to that motherboard. So now I have two processors on one motherboard. I have already installed Fedora Core4 on that. But after attaching new

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Announce] Linuxchix Mumbai Meetup

2007-12-28 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 12/27/07, Barkha Khatri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few Linuxchix.org.in members are meeting up in Mumbai on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at Cafe Coffee Day, Dadar. Meeting is open for everyone interested to join Linuxchix India. More details have been put up on the wiki.[1] Ahem...are guys

Re: [ILUG-BOM] how to block yahoo chat and gtalk from squid proxy

2007-12-16 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 12/16/07, vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cant understand this no DMZ policy ? DMZ is DeMilitarized Zone. Any machine put in this zone is accessible directly from the outside world. No packets are filtered by the firewall and the machine is completely exposed. Please be more

Re: [ILUG-BOM] unable to configure two gateways

2007-12-16 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 12/3/07, Agnello George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now is have one client with ip 10.0.0.5 , when i try to ping 10.0.0.5 ( following is the result ). I am neither able to ping 10.0.0.1 from my client machine ( 10.0.0.5 ) . My firewall is stoped and SElinux is disabled. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#

Re: [ILUG-BOM] how to block yahoo chat and gtalk from squid proxy

2007-12-16 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 12/16/07, vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup I know what is DMZ, so why not put machines in dmz ? We use it often to keep servers seperate from rest of the network. What i cant understand from your sugestion is Why not put any machine is DMZ ? DMZ is meant for exposing machines to

Re: [ILUG-BOM] how to block yahoo chat and gtalk from squid proxy

2007-12-15 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 12/13/07, Agnello George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i block a client from accessing yahoo chat My current set ups is as follows -- have a firewall and behind it have a proxy server running on port 3128. now to block yahoo chat access i did the following in my squid.conf I'm a little

Re: [ILUG-BOM] S/W to record data from GPS to PC

2007-12-10 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Dec 8, 2007 11:29 AM, H. S. Rai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some students made GPS, which has display on LCD and serial port. Now they want to record data in a file on PC. For this can you suggest software, preferably platform independent and FOSS. They'll need to write a program to interface

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Help reuired

2007-12-10 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Dec 4, 2007 12:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am facing problem in sending mail from client end getting error SMTP server not responding checked it found that at server end (qmail) cpu utilization is high like avarage above 75 % with load average is also more than 2 also found spam db

Re: [ILUG-BOM] volunteers for Teacher Training Programmes

2007-11-30 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Nov 26, 2007 6:19 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as a fallout from the NRC-FOSS meeting in Mumbai, requests for Teacher Training Programmes and installation of FOSS in labs have started coming in. Typically, TTPs will be for one or two days, and the teachers will be trained

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Cron help needed

2007-11-23 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 11/23/07, shishu naik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to know how to use shell script in cron to automate my tasks. please give me a clear picture.. I have created a crontab for root user but the script is not running... Hey I fixed your problem!! The solution was soo simple! :) --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [INFO] Remote Administration using Libre Software.

2007-11-21 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 11/21/07, Rony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jtd wrote: On Tuesday 20 November 2007 21:46, Rony wrote: From one station, the user can monitor other desktops and have discussions with other users without having to be physically present at their terminal. Picture quality is excellent.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to host a website on a dynamic IP was MTNL Triband Query

2007-11-20 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 11/20/07, jtd wrote: On Tuesday 20 November 2007 21:37, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: On Monday 19 Nov 2007 10:38:34 jtd wrote: Not so fast. Wait for sometime for the server stats to update. Rest assured both sides are billed - u for upload, your friend for download - atleast when i checked

Re: [ILUG-BOM] MTNL Triband Query

2007-11-11 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On 11/10/07, Aman Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Im using MTNL's Triband service for accessing the Internet at home . I have never requested a static ip address from MTNL, however whenever im connected to the Internet, I see that my ip address is constant , something like 192.168.1.x

Re: [ILUG-BOM] performance hit for LAMP server

2007-11-03 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 02:12 +0530, Mehul Ved wrote: If I remember right, he said the same is working fine from outside. Give me a logical explanation as to what is wrong? -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Announce: November 2007 GLUG meet at HBCSE

2007-11-02 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 23:42 +0530, mukesh yadav wrote: I stay at santacruz. i have never been to mankhurd. so can you give a bus no. 355Ltd. It'll take a long time. Better option is to take a train to wadala. From there cross over to harbour line. You've got trains to panvel with a frequency of

Re: [ILUG-BOM] performance hit for LAMP server

2007-11-02 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 15:13 +0530, rohit bhute wrote: Yes. However, before I take it upstairs (for the admins to start fiddling with Squid - I'm just the junior web dev), there are some points I feel that take Squid out of the picture and ask me to look at the LAMP server. tsk tsk. okay,

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Problem configuring yum and webcam in fedora 7 on acer 4710z

2007-11-02 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 17:39 +0530, Vidyadhar Bhise wrote: Internet connection on my laptop is taken from my windows xp desktop. and i am a newbie with linux. Please guide to restore yum and also regarding the webcam. thank you. Get your machine to HBCSE. Someone will take a look at it. I'm

Re: [ILUG-BOM] QEMU/VIRTUALBOX on ubuntu 7.10: UPDATE

2007-10-31 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 15:08 +0530, Abhishek Daga wrote: Now trying to install QEMU on a 7.10 desktop edition AMD64. Is your requirement strictly QEMU / VirtualBox? Are you open to Xen? Also, with QEMU ensure that you install kqemu mod. It makes a hell of a difference. If you're one of the

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Need Help on Linux Clustering

2007-10-20 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 17:50 +0530, Neelesh Gurjar wrote: Please tell me if you want anything else See JTD's reply to your post. Reply to my questions. And DONT start a new thread. Reply to the earlier posts to keep the continuity. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need Help on Linux Clustering

2007-10-19 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 02:22 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: On 10/19/07, Dinesh Joshi wrote: I think he tried his best to explain the problem he has at hand. From what I can guess, he probably doesn't know much (anything?) about Lack of knowledge doesn't exempt anyone from asking for help

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need Help on Linux Clustering

2007-10-18 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 19:23 +0530, Neelesh Gurjar wrote: I work in NGO. They are migrating from windows to Linux. They can't spend so much money on servers. Oh yes one more thing. Linux is FREE as in Freedom and not as in Free Beer. Just because some versions are charged $0 doesn't mean that it

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need Help on Linux Clustering

2007-10-18 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 19:23 +0530, Neelesh Gurjar wrote: I work in NGO. They are migrating from windows to Linux. They can't spend so much money on servers. They have around 50 PCs. So I want to setup cluster on 2-3 PCs or more than that for setting up server. I am excepted to get their

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Talk for free using jaxtr?

2007-10-12 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 23:33 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: Strange, I didn't get the original mail. probably your spam filters are very active ;) -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Tata Indicom Broadband @ Linux box

2007-10-02 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 08:26 +0530, Pradeepto Bhattacharya wrote: Don't know if this is worth adding into the wiki. Maybe it should be, My my...another bakra falls prey to TATA Indicom ;) ( Not a flamebait :) ). BTW, the way you login to TI is dependent on the way they provide you

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] [Announce] Yahoo! Bangalore Open Hack Day

2007-09-19 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 06:46 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: I hereby propose that the list rules be amended to include hacking (other than ethical hacking) as a subject worthy of discussion herein. Hacking is inherently ethical. Cracking is unethical. There is no such thing as ethical hacking

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Open Office Solution Required

2007-09-11 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 20:57 +0530, Rony wrote: It is not hilarious when M$ Office multi-user license will be procured, in the new machines that will be supplied, due to the critical nature of the work. I don't expect buggy packages to be available on repos even after newer versions are out.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] postfix question !!!

2007-09-11 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 17:48 +0530, Agnello George wrote: what is the difference between SMTPD server and smtp client ??? What is the difference between Apache and Firefox? The same difference is between smtpd and smtp client ;) -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Open Office Solution Required

2007-09-11 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 00:03 +0530, Rony wrote: What I do is tell the client about libre software and in many cases they are willing to give it a shot. I don't interfere too much with their choices as they have to use it ultimately for all their daily work, not I. My purpose is to introduce

Re: [ILUG-BOM] How-to: Configuring Kate to compile C, C++, Java programs

2007-09-09 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 18:55 +0100, Roshan wrote: (Wonder, if this could get into KDE docs of Kate as well, Docbook programmers around? ;) /Yes, too much !)) I'm working on Docbook right now. I would be more than happy to help ya out. Lemme know what you need. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] BoF meet anyone?

2007-09-06 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 12:08 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 06-Sep-07, at 1:05 AM, Dinesh Joshi wrote: I distinctly remember when I came here as a newbie and posted a question. It was you who told me not to top post. I didn't know what it was, so I read up on it and modified my

Re: [ILUG-BOM] BoF meet anyone?

2007-09-05 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 19:19 +0530, Philip Tellis wrote: I applaud Roshan :) You people should be ashamed of themselves. A poor n00b makes one mistake and everyone goes yapping and yapping and yapping his question was answered in a separate thread, however, it is also the list's

Re: [ILUG-BOM] BoF meet anyone?

2007-09-03 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 18:25 +0100, Roshan wrote: Check if you have the include files (such as stdio.h in the /usr/include directory. Also, it is likely you don't have build-essential package installed on Ubuntu. (Which version of Ubuntu?) sudo apt-get install build-essential should

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RHEL which works on intel g965ry and above m/bs

2007-09-01 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 05:54 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: afaik only FC7, Mandriva spring and latest gentoo work on this board I use FC6 on that board. Needs some kernel parameters to get it going. The list archives has my installation report. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] installing fedora 7 through LAN

2007-09-01 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 14:38 +0530, mukesh yadav wrote: hi, i want to install FC 7 in my college PCthe problem i'm facing here is that in my college's LAN there is only one computer which got Combo Drive.. and i want to install it in another PC. I have heard thet we can install

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RHEL which works on intel g965ry and above m/bs

2007-08-31 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 08:41 +, amit453d wrote: Hello, I would like to know which RHEL linux works in Intel G965RY and higher motherboards. I have tried to install RHEL WS v4 in Intel G965RY m/b but it was not installing , giving error reated to PCIe and hanging there. PLz

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Best Desktop Linux distro.

2007-08-30 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 13:43 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: The thing is, people other than you also have likes, dislikes, opinions, points of view etc. For example, I don't know about anyone else, but I dislike the way you state your opinions. Now that's just my opinion. Flame bait?

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Best Desktop Linux distro.

2007-08-30 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 18:45 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Heh. No. It surely looked like to me. Oh I'm sorry, I just gave another opinion. That's opinion. You're not talking anything technical or objective. You're talking relative terms. Yes an opinion on the background of the microvell

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] DNS,google and MTNL triband

2007-08-28 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 21:39 +0530, Rony wrote: I think a polite constructive letter to Mr. Ratan Tata, pointing him to the low point reached by the great brand that once symbolised ethics and professionalism may help improve things in the near future. Sometimes the middle level managers do

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Best Desktop Linux distro.

2007-08-28 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 12:04 -0700, Raza Sayed wrote: One of my friends would be giving me a copy of Debian Etch . Would that be good enough ?. What are your requirements? Please tell us. What kinda work do you expect out of your linux distro? Also, over the years i've learnt that you should

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Bind and DNS Cache

2007-08-28 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 21:57 +0530, Rony wrote: Hello All, We were discussing DNS caching and the bind configuration. However, bind is a DNS server whereas we only want a DNS cache that updates itself automatically. Maybe I understood it wrong but on the net I found this link for DNS

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] DNS,google and MTNL triband

2007-08-25 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 01:17 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: Yes. Ah... :P Well I have no idea about TCS but TATA Retail services are horrible ;) ( Including TATA Motors ) -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] DNS,google and MTNL triband

2007-08-25 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 10:14 +0530, jtd wrote: Tata Indicom FWT and CDMA usbmodem works reasonably well. The FWTs have a downtime of about 3 days per year. And they actually had a tech suport guy 3 yrs back in Pune who new something about Linux. The local call center zombie would patch u on

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] DNS,google and MTNL triband

2007-08-25 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 05:30 -0400, Anurag wrote: Yeah, right. And this is the right forum to voice your opinions on TATA. Digression :P -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re:[OT] DNS,google and MTNL triband

2007-08-24 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 09:43 +0530, Mohan Nayaka wrote: On 8/22/07, Easwar Hariharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS:Has somebody experienced considerable improvement in performance after switching from MTNL DNS to OpenDNS? I have seen some improvements with openDNS, but some strangeness still

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] DNS,google and MTNL triband

2007-08-24 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 17:00 +0530, Rony wrote: When the IPTV would be down, I cross checked it with internet access and that worked. If quality of cabling is not good, its MTNL's job to rectify it. It is earning well. Why should lines go down every monsoon in spite of using jelly filled or

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] DNS,google and MTNL triband

2007-08-24 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 21:20 +0530, Rony wrote: At least you can pray for me. ;) Apologies for sounding a little overzealous but I have had horrible experiences with TATA. I'm not alone, I'm sure. So, beware of what may befall you as even God can't help you once TATA starts screwing you ;)

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] DNS,google and MTNL triband

2007-08-23 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 15:13 +0530, Rony wrote: It does not boot up and keeps trying again and again. If by chance the system is up, while watching the movie, the pic will keep freezing. Plus MTNL and IOL do not have a proper coordination between them. It was quite frustrating for our family

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 'commercial'

2007-08-22 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 12:46 +0530, Kauser Ayaz wrote: Need work done on PHP on commercial basis. Kauser Ayaz Mobile : +91 99670 36435 Please mail details offlist :) -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] DNS,google and MTNL triband

2007-08-22 Thread Dinesh Joshi
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 07:18 +0530, Rohit V Bhute wrote: Amish Mehta wrote: Yes its been so from about 2 weeks. Any site stops responding randomly. Sometimes Yahoo or sometimes Google or sometimes MSN stops. Traceroute shows problems in routing. If you disconnect and reconnect 1-2 times,

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