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* LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
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On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Rajesh Deo wrote:
> ride for the user to perform the task. The user need not know anything
> about the underlying process if she is not interested. But if she is, she
^^^
aw, come on girls dont dig Linux.
Just kidding ;)
> Ans: Use two ISP blocks in wvdial, one for you, another for your
> brother. You start *your* ISP with the right command-line
> argument to wvdial. There are also gui-apps that let you do the
Can you please elucidate on this one.
AFAIK wvdial requires wvdial.conf
Now lets suppose I (the root) prepare wvdial.conf
Obviously I must know my brother's pass to configure my brother's ISP
> Forgetting about older windows release, if we consider Windows
> NT/2K/XP they all require administrative access to install/update
> softwares. As mentioned before, to the user, this is not visible. The
I guess theres a sort of pseudo administrative acc. in 2K whose user can
install software w/o administrative previleges. pls correct me if I'm
wrong
> than common ext2/3 on Linux. But did anyone care for FAT32 on Win9x,
> without journaling support or anything. It still works.
I have to agree on this one.
I had a nightmarish experience with ext2. But FAT32 is quite resistant to
power losses and stuff.
> Windows GUI runs faster because much of its functioning is within the
> kernel, note that windows GUI is a "shell" to the underlying kernel. That
Correct me: I've read somewhere ---> IE is the shell of Windows 98
> Considering state of other GUIs in the market, I believe that Linux is
> 'ready for Desktop' *if* there is a competent admin. Otherwise it is
> *still* "beta software" in this department, to this date.
very rightly said
> consumption. If MS hinders that by making it unrecognizable by
> common utilities like a browser, whose fault is it, the Linux loving users
but Microsoft is not the sole maker of Encylopedia (Encarta) , Britannica
e.g.
> student will require. Windows not only sucks but it is pathetic in its
> default install to support any kind of coding.
VBscript ?
> yours. In summary I will say use a system that gives you the best of all
> worlds, for me it happens to be Linux, it may not be the same for you. But
I'm for Linux because I know I can handle it
But I had common people and my own probs in mind while starting this
thread
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Nikhil
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