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!! | Office , Excise CAD

2008-12-27 Thread jtd
On Sunday 28 December 2008 04:55, Dinesh Joshi wrote: 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

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

2008-12-27 Thread Mohan Nayaka
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah yeah Linux beats crap out of Windows. Whose saying otherwise? Though compatibility is an issue infact heres a bit, you can use NFS on Windows boxes with some Unix utilities for windows software. I forget its

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

2008-12-25 Thread Rony
Raj Mathur wrote: On Wednesday 24 Dec 2008, Rony wrote: [snip] Why not setup virtual machine so that anyone from the network can access it? Networking between host and guest machines is a big pain. It is not good for production. Having played around a bit with Xen

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

2008-12-25 Thread Rony
Dinesh Joshi wrote: 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

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

2008-12-25 Thread Rony
Dinesh Joshi wrote: Let me just cut to the chase and before reading my reply I'm putting in a disclaimer for everybody. I'm not a Microsoft supporter nor a hater. I'm a Linux enthusiast and a supporter of the Open Source movement / philosophy but I do not like when people go overboard

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

2008-12-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On 12/24/08, Rony gnulinux...@gmail.com wrote: Networking between host and guest machines is a big pain. It is not good for production. What part is a big pain? I have setup a couple of guests inside VirtualBox and allow them to be accessed from my LAN. I have been running a few things like

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

2008-12-25 Thread Kamal Paryani
Networking between host and guest machines is a big pain. It is not good for production. -- Regards, Rony. if you use bridge networking in vmware , there is no problem in any networking whatsoever. It is being used in many data centers for live servers for production use. regards --

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

2008-12-25 Thread Kamal Paryani
Issues has been mostly due to the cumbersome process. Suppose i have 2 linux machines and 1 WINXP; virtual machine A,B and C respectively. I want to process a document from A in C, i will have to copy from A to B and then from B to C before i actually begin work. Then i have to save and go

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

2008-12-25 Thread Shamit Verma
M$ scores in Office due to its proprietary document formats. Does OO have access to the entire document format as M$ has? Once it enters the ODF arena, it could be evaluated better against OO. Same with all other graphics softwares that use closed restrictive formats. Format for new version

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

2008-12-25 Thread jtd
On Thursday 25 December 2008 22:27, Shamit Verma wrote: M$ scores in Office due to its proprietary document formats. Does OO have access to the entire document format as M$ has? Once it enters the ODF arena, it could be evaluated better against OO. Same with all other graphics softwares

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

2008-12-25 Thread jtd
On Thursday 25 December 2008 10:31, Dinesh Joshi wrote: 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? :) No. But you really suck. Noticed the

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

2008-12-24 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Sachin Gopalakrishnan mai...@sachingopal.com wrote: Well it was cumbersome to transfer files from one computer to another and then transfer it to the virtual machine. no problems with network sharing. Besides the virtual machine hung too much due to a display

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

2008-12-24 Thread Rony
Mehul Ved wrote: On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Sachin Gopalakrishnan mai...@sachingopal.com wrote: Well it was cumbersome to transfer files from one computer to another and then transfer it to the virtual machine. no problems with network sharing. Besides the virtual machine hung too

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

2008-12-24 Thread Raj Mathur
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2008, Rony wrote: [snip] Why not setup virtual machine so that anyone from the network can access it? Networking between host and guest machines is a big pain. It is not good for production. Having played around a bit with Xen in the past few days, I'm interested in

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!! | Office , Excise CAD

2008-12-24 Thread Sachin Gopalakrishnan
Having played around a bit with Xen in the past few days, I'm interested in knowing what sort of host/guest network issues you've faced. I found the networking to work fine both ways, but then I haven't done any rigorous applications yet. Issues has been mostly due to the cumbersome

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

2008-12-23 Thread Sachin Gopalakrishnan
You are confusing your familiarity of M$ with features of OO. The two have absolutely nothing to do with each other. The OO ui DOES NOT MIMIC M$. so you really need to read the OO manuals and tuts. Put in a pivot and watch the application slow down like hell. Even if we put in a few vlookups

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

2008-12-22 Thread Sachin Gopalakrishnan
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 use ubuntu 8.04 as my desktop at home but i need excel at my workplace on my laptop. I have tried using OO (not

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

2008-12-22 Thread jtd
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 11:33, Sachin Gopalakrishnan 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 use ubuntu 8.04 as my desktop at home