LUG Meet @ KReSIT on 08-Dec-2002 @ 4:00 pm
The LUG meet for December has been scheduled on 8th December 2002 @ KReSIT, (in IIT 
Campus).
For directions to get to the venue click here http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/visit/Hey all,

Am new to the list and relatively new to Linux in general, though have been 
using it as my primary OS for quite sometime now and luv it :) I'm using 
Debian 3.0 with kernel 2.4.18 and my research interest is in the field of 
Natural Language Processing (NLP) - a subset of AI. I have my open source 
project called Mother (http://mother.sourceforge.net)

Have a few queries and would really appreciate if I could get some help on 
them :

a) Over a period of time have been trying to follow the Wine project and it's 
progress. I'm quite impressed by it. Recently I've been trying to install 
Office 97 on it using wine-20021125 and the installation fails after it 
searches for installed components. Any ideas on how to get it goin?....and I 
use OpenOffice and just wanna see if I can get this going to guage the 
progress of Wine (basically trying to see how long it'd be before I can run 
my VB based inventory software at work which is currently under development 
under Linux....then I can run Linux at work :) ). The Wine newsgroup doesn't 
seem to respond to this, however there are ppl who say Office 97 is running 
for them....if anyone here knows how then i'd appreciate.

b) I have a Realtek 8139 based NIC and it runs great. I'm using the BSES 
Powersurfer Broadband service. I get speeds similar to those I get under 
Windows and was wondering if there's tweaking I can do that'd help improve 
that. My network interface comes up during bootup as set in half-duplex 
mode....is that due to the card? or due to the network?? basically can I set 
this to full duplex? or is there any other way to significantly improve 
speeds.

c) The Konqueror file browser upon trying to unzip a .tar.gz file seems to do 
it very very slowly, for huge files, when compared to the tar utility. Is 
that a bug or is there something i should do to set it right?

d) Anyone here knows of any project (or app) that aims to bring Voice Chatting 
abilities to MSN clones under Linux.

I know the aboves quite a long list of questions.....thanks a lot in advance 
for all the help.

Bye for now


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