Re: Removing cablenet LAN slows down system WAS [ILUG-BOM] D-Link GLB-502T slowing down Ubuntu Edgy?

2007-01-06 Thread jtd
On Saturday 06 January 2007 13:29, Rohit V Bhute wrote: I had plugged in the GLB-502T to check out its web interface (haven't got my ADSL connection activated yet :-( )and I found my system becoming *lazy*. The modem's not to blame. I find that removing the LAN connection is the culprit.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Opensource for a Small Manufacturing unit

2007-01-06 Thread jtd
On Saturday 06 January 2007 00:53, Sachin G Nambiar wrote: Hi, Am going to work in a small manufacturing unit with a T.O. of around 9cr. Currently they do have a few desktops(un-networked) with pirated copies(based on discussions i doubt they know the difference and i want to change that) of

Re: Removing cablenet LAN slows down system WAS [ILUG-BOM] D-Link GLB-502T slowing down Ubuntu Edgy?

2007-01-06 Thread Rohit V Bhute
jtd wrote: pppd??. You dont run anything to connect to an adsl ethernet. perhaps your mta is not configured. Umm, right now my machine is configured to use Pacenet. So its running PPP. From my terminal: copy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux|grep ppp|grep -v grep root 3198 0.0 0.1 2768

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Opensource for a Small Manufacturing unit

2007-01-06 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 05/01/07 21:48 -0800, Koustubha Kale wrote: --- Laxminarayan G Kamath A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Requirements: Tally software Tally is available on Linux. Also your accountants and Auditors will be really happy if they have tally. Its a sound investment for a company of any

Re: [ILUG-BOM] wold domination - Roadmap

2007-01-06 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 05/01/07 23:58 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: On Friday 05 January 2007 22:39, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: On 1/5/07, Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me? I would attack the business desktop market. That's much easier to deal with, does not have patented codec and multimedia issues,

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Next Monthly meet?

2007-01-06 Thread Mukund Deshmukh
GPS is a tool that merely provides you coordinates of your current location. You can use your gps coords to extract info about your current location from a GIS server. Most common is name of the location. Knowing your coords 31.62004 74.87638 does not really tell you that u are at the golden

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Next Monthly meet?

2007-01-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 06-Jan-07, at 2:10 PM, Mukund Deshmukh wrote: location. Knowing your coords 31.62004 74.87638 does not really tell you that u are at the golden temple Amritsar. Are there any public map server which translate co-ordinate to location / map for Indian Region? google maps? or google

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Opensource for a Small Manufacturing unit

2007-01-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 06-Jan-07, at 2:27 PM, Devdas Bhagat wrote: Given that Tally breaks the 400+ year old principles of double entry accounting, I am not going to call it a sound investment. but supports desi double-entry ;-) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Next Monthly meet?

2007-01-06 Thread jtd
On Saturday 06 January 2007 14:10, Mukund Deshmukh wrote: GPS is a tool that merely provides you coordinates of your current location. You can use your gps coords to extract info about your current location from a GIS server. Most common is name of the location. Knowing your coords 31.62004

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Opensource for a Small Manufacturing unit

2007-01-06 Thread jtd
On Saturday 06 January 2007 15:00, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 06-Jan-07, at 2:27 PM, Devdas Bhagat wrote: Given that Tally breaks the 400+ year old principles of double entry accounting, I am not going to call it a sound investment. but supports desi double-entry ;-) Given the new RTI

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Opensource for a Small Manufacturing unit

2007-01-06 Thread Koustubha Kale
--- jtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is varicad free / open source? Doesn't seem to be from their site atleast. With warm regards Koustubha Kale __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Next Monthly meet?

2007-01-06 Thread jtd
On Saturday 06 January 2007 15:01, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 06-Jan-07, at 2:10 PM, Mukund Deshmukh wrote: location. Knowing your coords 31.62004 74.87638 does not really tell you that u are at the golden temple Amritsar. Are there any public map server which translate co-ordinate to

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Opensource for a Small Manufacturing unit

2007-01-06 Thread jtd
On Saturday 06 January 2007 15:09, Koustubha Kale wrote: --- jtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is varicad free / open source? Doesn't seem to be from their site atleast. No it isnt. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] wold domination - Roadmap

2007-01-06 Thread Koustubha Kale
Whats the reason Apple is not becoming a OS vendor and letting people like Dell sell its OS X? With warm regards Koustubha Kale __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Next Monthly meet?

2007-01-06 Thread jtd
On Saturday 06 January 2007 15:18, jtd wrote: On Saturday 06 January 2007 15:01, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 06-Jan-07, at 2:10 PM, Mukund Deshmukh wrote: location. Knowing your coords 31.62004 74.87638 does not really tell you that u are at the golden temple Amritsar. Are there any

Re: [ILUG-BOM] wold domination - Roadmap

2007-01-06 Thread Dilip Khanolkar
On 1/6/07, Koustubha Kale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the reason Apple is not becoming a OS vendor and letting people like Dell sell its OS X? as per my knowledge till apple doesnt let other people like dell sell the apples pc's or laptops they wont be selling the os to anyone --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] wold domination - Roadmap

2007-01-06 Thread Koustubha Kale
--- Dilip Khanolkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/6/07, Koustubha Kale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the reason Apple is not becoming a OS vendor and letting people like Dell sell its OS X? as per my knowledge till apple doesnt let other people like dell sell the apples pc's or

Re: [ILUG-BOM] wold domination - Roadmap

2007-01-06 Thread jtd
On Saturday 06 January 2007 15:32, Koustubha Kale wrote: Whats the reason Apple is not becoming a OS vendor and letting people like Dell sell its OS X? They would be writing drivers all day for new hardware that changes every qtr. -- Rgds JTD --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] wold domination - Roadmap

2007-01-06 Thread Gabin Kattukaran
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 02:31 -0800, Koustubha Kale wrote: --- Dilip Khanolkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/6/07, Koustubha Kale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the reason Apple is not becoming a OS vendor and letting people like Dell sell its OS X? as per my knowledge till

Re: [ILUG-BOM] wold domination - Roadmap

2007-01-06 Thread Koustubha Kale
--- jtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 06 January 2007 15:32, Koustubha Kale wrote: Whats the reason Apple is not becoming a OS vendor and letting people like Dell sell its OS X? They would be writing drivers all day for new hardware that changes every qtr. I am NOT trying to

Re: [ILUG-BOM] wold domination - Roadmap

2007-01-06 Thread jtd
On Saturday 06 January 2007 16:24, Koustubha Kale wrote: --- jtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 06 January 2007 15:32, Koustubha Kale wrote: Whats the reason Apple is not becoming a OS vendor and letting people like Dell sell its OS X? They would be writing drivers all

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Next Monthly meet?

2007-01-06 Thread Roshan
--- Mukund Deshmukh wrote: Are there any public map server which translate co-ordinate to location / map for Indian Region? If google earth / google maps doesn't do it well, *probably*, the following URL won't do more good. (I assume, they are using the same API's) http://www.mapmyindia.com/

[ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Koustubha Kale
Hi, I have a Linux server working very well. It consists of a lot of software like qmail and stuff which I downloaded and compiled. And also a lot of configurations, users etc. during reinstall if I just use the distro ( CentOS in this case) I would spend a lot of time again to get the server in

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread jtd
On Saturday 06 January 2007 17:20, Koustubha Kale wrote: Hi, I have a Linux server working very well. It consists of a lot of software like qmail and stuff which I downloaded and compiled. And also a lot of configurations, users etc. during reinstall if I just use the distro ( CentOS in this

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Koustubha Kale wrote: Hi, I have a Linux server working very well. It consists of a lot of software like qmail and stuff which I downloaded and compiled. And also a lot of configurations, users etc. during reinstall if I just use the distro ( CentOS in this case) I would spend a lot of time

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Opensource for a Small Manufacturing unit

2007-01-06 Thread Saswata Banerjee Associates
Devdas Bhagat wrote: On 05/01/07 21:48 -0800, Koustubha Kale wrote: --- Laxminarayan G Kamath A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Requirements: Tally software Tally is available on Linux. Also your accountants and Auditors will be really happy if they have tally. Its a sound

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Koustubha Kale
--- jtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 06 January 2007 17:20, Koustubha Kale wrote: Hi, I have a Linux server working very well. It consists of a lot of software like qmail and stuff which I downloaded and compiled. And also a lot of configurations, users etc. during reinstall

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Koustubha Kale
--- Dhawal Doshy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to sort of image it so I can reinstall it painlessly if it crashes. Or I can install it on some other server so as to replicate the setup. What are the best ways to do this? (Apart from using commercial Imaging or Disaster

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Opensource for a Small Manufacturing unit

2007-01-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 06-Jan-07, at 5:55 PM, Saswata Banerjee Associates wrote: Given that Tally breaks the 400+ year old principles of double entry accounting, I am not going to call it a sound investment. Huh ? Tally works with double entry accounting. Where did you get the idea that tally does not follow

Re: [ILUG-BOM] wold domination - Roadmap

2007-01-06 Thread Philip Tellis
Sometime Today, KK cobbled together some glyphs to say: Whats the reason Apple is not becoming a OS vendor and letting people like Dell sell its OS X? elitist nature. apple software is too cool to run on non-apple hardware (those were approximately the words of Jean-Louis Gasée). Things

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Next Monthly meet?

2007-01-06 Thread Philip Tellis
Sometime Today, j cobbled together some glyphs to say: google maps? or google earth? No maps. Only satellite imagery. google maps has had maps of Indian cities for about one month now. No driving directions yet, but one ways and landmarks are marked out. -- Every nonzero finite

Re: [ILUG-BOM] wold domination - Roadmap

2007-01-06 Thread jtd
On Friday 05 January 2007 15:03, jtd wrote: also companies like google would not want to be held hostage and will take steps to mitigate the codec disaster. First Shot?. Perhaps just testing. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8392/53/ -- Rgds JTD --

[ILUG-BOM] Commercial: Job Opening

2007-01-06 Thread Krishna Dagli
Hi, We at Infotech Financials Pvt. Ltd are looking to hire persons having work experience of 6 months to 2 years in Java. Candidate should be proficient in JSP (Java Server Pages) and any RDBMs. Candidates with knowledge of IBM-DB2 will be given higher preference. To know more about Infotech

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Balachandran Sivakumar
On 1/6/07, jtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a What are the best ways to do this? (Apart from using commercial Imaging or Disaster Recovery software.) I have a similar but a different problem. I need to install Debian GNU/Linux in a lab of about 50 computers.Is there any possiblities of

RE: [ILUG-BOM] Opensource for a Small Manufacturing unit

2007-01-06 Thread Nikhil Parva
On 06-Jan-07, at 8:37 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: Requirements: Tally software do you mean 'financial accounting software'? If so, you would have to roll your own How many clients are there in total? Using thin clients will be a good option for the users. Also, the users

Re: [ILUG-BOM] wold domination - Roadmap

2007-01-06 Thread Rony
Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: On 1/5/07, Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me? I would attack the business desktop market. That's much easier to deal with, does not have patented codec and multimedia issues, and gives bigger returns faster. And that is really much more difficult to penetrate,

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Festival... talking in Hindi and Marathi

2007-01-06 Thread Rony
Frederick Noronha wrote: [From http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers ] Priti and team: Congrats! It's nice to have Festival in Indian languages. Just what is needed. Hope this news will be shared with all the GNU/Linux user groups and others interested. (Have sent it to ILUG-Goa

Re: [ILUG-BOM] D-Link GLB-502T slowing down Ubuntu Edgy?

2007-01-06 Thread Rony
Rohit V Bhute wrote: I had plugged in the GLB-502T to check out its web interface (haven't got my ADSL connection activated yet :-( )and I found my system becoming *lazy*. [snip] Removing the router and plugging in the cablenet LAN brought things to normal. Another thing there seems to

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux Friendly Vendors (wold domination - Roadmap)

2007-01-06 Thread Rony
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 05-Jan-07, at 5:22 PM, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: However what drops from the desktop winds up in these gizmos. so all gizmos are moving up from 16 to 32 bit. And linux has a very definte advantage. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6087894103.html which again

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Dinesh Shah
Dear Terrence, On 1/6/07, jtd jtd at mtnl dot net dot in wrote: You can use gnu software in every imaginable commercial way subject to not violating the gpl. I do. My god! You violate GPL? Such a sacrilege and you are publicly admitting it!. :-) -- Rgd JTD With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Rony
Koustubha Kale wrote: I am looking for a way to image a working server into a installable CD set. Which can be carried around, installed somewhere else easily etc. Any OSS for doing this? You don't need to install any special packages. You need to learn the procedure for taking

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GLUG-BOM Wiki is down?

2007-01-06 Thread Anurag
Sometime on Saturday 06 January 2007 08:34, Roshan said: So was there some sort of an attack on the wiki? Has it been blocked by admins? The disk is running 100% full on one of the servers. Apache should be running now. Anurag -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Opensource for a Small Manufacturing unit

2007-01-06 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 06/01/07 17:55 +0530, Saswata Banerjee Associates wrote: snip Huh ? Tally works with double entry accounting. Where did you get the idea that tally does not follow double entry accounting ? One of the few things about double entry accounting I remember is that deletion was not allowed. I

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 06/01/07 17:59 +0530, Balachandran Sivakumar wrote: On 1/6/07, jtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a What are the best ways to do this? (Apart from using commercial Imaging or Disaster Recovery software.) I have a similar but a different problem. I need to install Debian

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GLUG-BOM Wiki is down?

2007-01-06 Thread Anurag
Sometime on Saturday 06 January 2007 23:07, Roshan said: The mailing list thread archives are stored on the same server as that of the wiki? Over the past two weeks, the number of threads / replies have almost crossed 250. Heh no. list traffic is not the culprit :) Mail/list is done by

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Opensource for a Small Manufacturing unit

2007-01-06 Thread Sachin G Nambiar
Will GnuCash do? No it won't but thanks anyways.. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Opensource for a Small Manufacturing unit

2007-01-06 Thread Sachin G Nambiar
How many clients are there in total? Using thin clients will be a good option for the users. Also, the users can be trained on the use of Open Office and Linux based e-mail clients. Training in my own experience has been very difficult, people almost immediately seem to compare it to their

[ILUG-BOM] Windows tax refund

2007-01-06 Thread Network Accelerator
Hi, Having faith in GNU/Linux..I am not willing to use Windows on my new purcahaes of laptops preloaded this OS. Like Europe, could it be possible for India to get money back by freeing ourself from the Windows tax by returning unused Windows license on new purchase of laptop/PC? Please read

[ILUG-BOM] Assembled laptops

2007-01-06 Thread Jigneesh Patel
Hi again, Does anyone know any company into assembling laptops? Thanks, Jigneesh Patel -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

[ILUG-BOM] C programming - Processes, Threads, Plugins

2007-01-06 Thread Dinesh Joshi
Hi List, New Year greetings to all! I am working on a small project and want to learn about implementing simple plugins in C. I have already done some research on plugins. They are generally implemented using dynamic libraries ( dlfcn.h? ). My project involves taking a simple user command and

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 06-Jan-07, at 5:59 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar wrote: I have a similar but a different problem. I need to install Debian GNU/Linux in a lab of about 50 computers.Is there any possiblities of doing something like creating a image in one hard disk and installing it from that instead of

Re: [ILUG-BOM] wold domination - Roadmap

2007-01-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 06-Jan-07, at 9:10 PM, Rony wrote: What part of OO is not as good as MO? depends on your definition of the word 'good'. If you take the meaning assigned to it my the mindless hordes, then all parts of it are not as good - OO sux -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Opensource for a Small Manufacturing unit

2007-01-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 06-Jan-07, at 11:03 PM, Devdas Bhagat wrote: Where did you get the idea that tally does not follow double entry accounting ? One of the few things about double entry accounting I remember is that deletion was not allowed. I may be wrong, though. alteration/deletion of a voucher is done

Re: [ILUG-BOM] wold domination - Roadmap

2007-01-06 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Saturday 06 January 2007 14:25, Devdas Bhagat wrote: On 05/01/07 23:58 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: On Friday 05 January 2007 22:39, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: On 1/5/07, Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me? I would attack the business desktop market. That's much easier to

Re: [ILUG-BOM] C programming - Processes, Threads, Plugins

2007-01-06 Thread Roshan
--- Dinesh Joshi wrote: If anyone has links / e-books / tutorials which teaches the above using examples then please post them here. http://www.llnl.gov/computing/tutorials/pthreads/ (that's a little different, though should serve the purpose to some extent) P.S.: Anybody know a good

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GLUG-BOM Wiki is down?

2007-01-06 Thread Roshan
--- Anurag wrote: The disk is running 100% full on one of the servers. Apache should be running now. Ok. If you have some time to spare, change the wiki's front page title (from Main Page to Indian GNU/Linux User Group, Mumbai). Currently, I have added this title, just above the TOC, which

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows tax refund

2007-01-06 Thread Philip Tellis
Sometime on Jan 6, NA cobbled together some glyphs to say: Having faith in GNU/Linux..I am not willing to use Windows on my new purcahaes of laptops preloaded this OS. Like Europe, could it be possible for India to get money back by freeing ourself from the Windows tax by returning unused

Re: [ILUG-BOM] C programming - Processes, Threads, Plugins

2007-01-06 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On 1/7/07, Dinesh Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Processes 2. Threads Dig into the howtos, you'll surely get something on these too. 3. Plugins This got me started on dynamically loaded libraries. http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO.html Also, I am a bit confused

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GLUG-BOM Wiki is down?

2007-01-06 Thread Philip Tellis
Sometime Today, R cobbled together some glyphs to say: Plus, (A humble request) contribution to Linux Brochure is comparatively less now, GLUGgers, please contribute when you have some time to spare! :) I thought the brochure had been completed. IAC, Christmas vacation is over now. --