Re: [ilugd] 21 monitor in portrait mode?
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: In addition, the 80-character limit on code is a reasonable limit, both for the reason pointed out above and because length of lines of code varies a lot, with typical ones being short. For instance, on analysing ~30,000 lines of code I'd written (not including 0-length lines and comments) I find the following: Maximum length: 129 Minimum length: 1 Median length: 18 Mean length: 23 Std deviation: 21.5 (well, you can expect that to be high) So looks like even if I don't wrap at 80, the median and mean line lengths are likely to be between 20 and 30. Can I please have that 4:3 monitor now? :) Personally, I use a vertical split emacs window with Inconsolata 12pt font on a 22 1680x1050 screen. This gives me *two* 80 col wide windows side-by-side. Works like a charm for multi-file coding (is there any other kind left?) and diff etc. Not to mention the Inconcolata beauty! :-) A similar setup should work for a 21 monitor with appropriate font point size. ~Vipul -- Vipul Mathur FOAF: http://vipulmathur.org/foaf.rdf#VM ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are the facts as of now according to the official sources of Opensolaris. a) CDDL is an OSI approved licensed. b) The majority of OpenSolaris code is released under CDDL (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing/) c) At present, the OpenSolaris source base is not enough to bootstrap an entire system (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/general_faq/#whatis) d) A part of the OS is still distributed under a binary licence - code, not firmware blobs. At present, Opensolaris is a+b+c which none of the Linux distros are. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/no_source/ mentions the following which are currently not available as source (some which are not even planned to be made available as source): * Xsun server * TrueType font engine for Xorg server * Man pages I leaving out some which are evidently not owned by Sun. Some of us believe that a+b+c is not enough to call the distro as a FOSS distro (it is on the way there, but not yet there). Also, please stop making the case that CDDL being OSI compliant makes the whole distro OSI compliant - even the OSI team would have serious reservations if such misrepresentations are made. Please do not make incorrect comparisons with Linux distros, where non-essential packages are binary only and not installed in most distros by default. So let me get this straight: (1) With Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora etc. I can install and run a 100% FOSS system without needing any non-free binaries. (2) For hardware etc that *requires* non-free binaries / blobs, I have the option of *not using* that hardware, while still using the rest of the 100% FOSS system. (3) With OpenSolaris (at the moment at least) I need to agree to use a non-free binary just to install the system. Right? If so, I am happy using U, D, F, et al. without the non-free parts, and ignoring OpenSolaris for the time being. ~Vipul -- Vipul Mathur vipul [at] linux-delhi.org ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] eeepc.in any users here?
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but the MiLeap looks like something the Dog dragged in from the bin outside. And it has a keyboard from hell. It's like something designed by the wannabe Industrial design, who - since he didnt make the admission criteria for the NID, decided he'd try coal and mining engineering for a laugh. Haha! Nice one Karanbir. I had a brief look at the Eeepc [1] and MiLeap [2] some time back. IMHO, the 7 screen is barely usable, and the keyboard does not seem to be built for heavy use. However, for someone who needs a cheap, ultralight laptop, maybe for presentations or as a travel companion, these might be worth their money. [1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/vipulmathur/tags/eeepc/ [2] http://www.flickr.com/photos/vipulmathur/tags/mileap/ ~ViM -- Vipul Mathur vipul at linux-delhi.org ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] [OT] Why would someone put a TTL of 60s on a DNS record ?
On Jan 11, 2008 4:55 PM, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found that www.intel.com has TTL of 60s, and in my view TTL of 60s should be suitable for records with frequently changing IPs, e.g. for DNS records maintained by DynDNS users who're on dynamic IPs. Hmm...? Note in your dig trace that the 60s TTL is for the CNAME record pointing www.intel.com to www.intel.com.edgesuite.net. Now edgesuite.net is an akamai service AFAIK. The purpose of keeping a very short TTL, as far as I see, is to prevent downstream DNS servers from caching it for a long time (obviously). This would typically be done if the record gets updated frequently... but hey, akamai is known to do weirdly interesting stuff! ~ViM -- Vipul Mathur vipul at linux-delhi.org ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Linux RAID issues (was) Re: Linux graphic PC!
[snipping] On Jan 4, 2008 11:25 AM, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/125471/comments/4 (4th comment, root NOT on raid but booting into initramfs) How have others Linux RAID experience in recent Linux distros been? created raid1, hdd-crashed, failed the bad disk, array running in degraded mode. I can't recall clearly if Feisty busyboxed me when I rebooted after the hdd-crash. The behaviour documented in the bug seems to be crazy from the point of view of people who do not have KVM / physical access to their servers. I would be interested in knowing when this bug manifested itself for the first time, maybe we should pin mdadm to the last sane version, until this gets resolved. ~ViM -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Planet ILUGD is down?
On Oct 5, 2007 2:05 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anant Narayanan wrote: http://planet.linux-delhi.org/ gives an empty directory index. Any update on this? Who is maintaining this now? planet.linux-delhi.org is down for more than three months now. Whats up? If a volunteer to maintain is all that is required, I am willing to maintain it. ~ViM -- Vipul Mathur vipul.mathur[at]gmail.com http://www.vipulmathur.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] western digital blocks file-sharing on networked HD
On Dec 11, 2007 11:19 AM, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i hope we have a spokesperson from western digital at the feb 2008 version of freed.in for a debate on this. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7136069.stm What a completely brain-dead idea. What jumps out at me most from that article is the line The ban operates regardless of whether the files are copy-protected, or a user's own home-produced content. What rubbish! Why would anybody in their right minds buy such a thing? How is their networked drive better than any other NAS solution? Relevant comment thread from slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=382097cid=21605217 So someone is already going to use the box as a subversion server running Linux :D ~ViM -- Vipul Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] AMD+Linux
Hi, On 10/28/07, Karthik Ramgopal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] You just have to install the Nvidia proprietary binary drivers for 3D acceleration with the onboard Geforce 6100 graphics (To run compiz/beryl/compiz fusion etc also you need to do this). I have the M2M-MX board, just watch out for this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/151168 It affects anyone using the nvidia-glx-new driver package in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy). The workaround (works for me) is to increase the video framebuffer size in BIOS to = 128MB. ~ViM ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] cheap trick with multiple gmail accounts for concurrent logins
On 9/8/07, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] can anybody please recommend me another, and more elegant way of concurrently logging-in via the web to multiple gmail accounts? I use the Gmail Notifier addon/extension for firefox. It sits in the bottom-right of the browser and keeps checking multiple gmail accounts on regular intervals. A counter indicates number of unread messages. Hovering over the icon gives details. ~ViM ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] Lenovo, Novell partner to offer Linux on the ThinkPad
Lenovo, Novell partner to offer Linux on the ThinkPad By Eric Bangeman | Published: August 06, 2007 - 10:18AM CT ThinkPad customers will soon have a new configuration option, as Lenovo and Novell have announced that the popular laptops will begin shipping with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED) preinstalled. Although the ThinkPad has been certified for Linux for some time, this marks the first time Lenovo will ship a laptop with Linux preinstalled—while providing both hardware and OS support. Novell will provide software updates directly to ThinkPad owners, however. Read more at: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070806-lenovo-novell-partner-to-offer-linux-on-the-thinkpad.html ~ViM ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu Freezing on Boot
Once, when you have booted, try upgrading to the latest kernel. An apt-get update followed by apt-get install linux-image-generic should do it. ~ViM ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] backing up large weekly data
On 8/3/07, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this mania for backing up is much worse than the sin of not backing up at all. Usually when you lose data that has not been backed up, apart from the initial shock, it turns out to be a very good thing in the long run. So before spending that one lakh on multiTB Raid 15, just think: Is there no way I can replicate/reconstruct this data if it is lost? You've got to be kidding. How do you replicate/reconstruct thousands of photos taken over years, carefully categorized and tagged. Videos taken on family vacations / stage performance by family members... recordings of music composed by you... need I go on? Of course, not *everything* is worth backing up, but that is up to the individual to decide. I would say that the need for a solid backup strategy in home setups is about the same, if not more, than in corporate environments. Of course the backup solution needs to be appropriate for the need, so low-budget and technically sound solutions based on FOSS and inexpensive storage devices is the way to go. ~ViM ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] backing up large weekly data
On 8/1/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Decent 500GB IDE drives are going for about Rs. 5K, which takes care of 8-10 months of storage. If you really care for the data, buy two, and make a software RAID array out of them. Agreed. In fact I would suggest that you make the 500GB RAID 1 setup your primary data storage partition. This would give you protection against a single disc (out of the two 500GB) failing. Increased read performance will be a side effect! You additionally require off-disk backups if you want to protect against accidental deletion / file system corruption. rsync is the way to go, as always. As Gora said, to what extent you go in the backup game depends on how paranoid you are about your data. -- Vipul Mathur vipul.mathur[at]gmail.com http://www.vipulmathur.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Explanation
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:57:39AM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 23-Oct-06, at 11:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All your base are belong to Tux It means: You have no chance to survive make your time. explanation is more obscure than the question ;-) It means tux has conquered you Somebody set up us the tux. ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Wing_%28translations%29 PS: Yes, I still lurk here, occasionally :-) -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org http://www.vipulmathur.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] TV streaming over LAN
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:28:13AM +0530, Vipin Jose wrote: I am a BTech CSE student and am planning to take up a TV Streaming over LAN (ethernet) for major project. Take a look at the ffserver and ffmpeg packages. I use them for TV streaming (multiple clients) on our LAN. -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org http://www.vipulmathur.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Want to Learn
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 12:32:48PM -, rahul agarwal wrote: I m a student of MCA I want to know that of what type a project is in Linux And from where I can get some offline projects so that I can work upon... Do send me some links Great, so setup a linux box for yourself and get started already! You will find oodles of projects to build-upon and contribute-to at places like: http://www.freshmeat.net/ http://www.sourceforge.net/ http://savannah.gnu.org/ http://sarovar.org/ -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org http://www.vipulmathur.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] [OT] ILUGD blogs site
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 04:12:23AM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Just some light hearted fodder for ILUGD members feeling bored at some time ... and helping them catch up with their comrades. http://blogs.lug-delhi.org Cool! Thanks Sandip. Your site needs to have rss export options. Till Drupal 4.5 has atom support, blogs.lug-delhi.org cant collect atom exports. This will probably cut off Livejournal users (I couldnt spot a RSS link in its pages). LiveJournal has both RSS (2.0) and atom feeds available for all users. For example, the feeds of my LJ are at: http://www.livejournal.com/users/vipul/data/rss http://www.livejournal.com/users/vipul/data/atom Read this FAQ for details: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=149 Hey nice work with lug-delhi.org sandeep! -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org http://www.vipulmathur.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Re: further notes on being a victim of smtp server ban
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:19:42AM +0530, mary wrote: In the long run however - we would need some kind of free mail access - where we can send mail via smtp and retrieve via imap/etc - I am trying to talk to few people to get this done - lets hope :-) This has been on my dream-list for long. What does our group think about the idea of a contributary, co-located server for members (and others who would like to join)? Some thing like by-us for-us. We configure and run it so we can have all the services we want running on it. The most immediate need is for smtp-auth. I, for one, am willing to invest my time in maintaining/setting it up, and (a humble amount) of money to keep it going. In order to work, an idea like this would need people enthu enough to contribute and use it and perhaps a few generous sponsors. What say you? -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org http://www.vipulmathur.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Looking for a good AMD board for Linux
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:57:09AM +0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] - Integrated S3 Graphics Unichrome 2d/3d I have the same graphics chip in a machine here. The drivers that are included with most common distributions don't work or are not included at all. X.org's X11 has full support for this chip though (as compared to XFree86). But till such time as X.org is integrated with a distribution, you will either have to get it and compile it yourself or stick with a basic vesa driver. Other hardware components should not be a problem at all. PS: I use Debian Sid (a.k.a unstable) More Details at: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=558 -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org http://www.vipulmathur.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Looking for a good AMD board for Linux
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:33:59PM +0800, Arindam Dey wrote: Errm, X.org is default with FC2 already. Oh it is! looks around Oops sorry, my bad then :D -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org http://www.vipulmathur.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] SMP kernel top command
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:29:35PM +0530, Yashpal Nagar wrote: I am using Redhat 8.0, smp kernel image on a HP Proliant 4 CPUs server, installation done smoothly. BIOS show me 2.2 Ghz 4 CPUs fine as intended installed. But when i see top command in linux it show me 8 CPUs, ranging from CPU0 to CPU8. [snip] Any pointers? Are these CPUs of the hyper-treading variety? A single HT CPU shows up as two CPUs in Linux. -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org http://www.vipulmathur.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] distro choice
Hi LL, On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 12:01:31AM +0530, Linux Linugam wrote: *before* we get into a distro-war, this is simple, i am considering a few more distros in different partitions of my pc. so one is debian [okay, 90% of you can relax on that send button] what about suse? are there any suse in the production pc users here? any other recommendations? If not Debian Sid, then SuSE. Have heard good reports from die-hard Slackware users... but going there is entirely up to you :-) I'd say, if you can handle (a question of bandwidth) the dist-upgrades of Debian Sid (a.k.a unstable) then go with that. Atleast try it on one of the heads of ravana ;-) I have been a full-time user of Debian Sid for over two years now and don't find any reason to look anywhere else. (Note that this is entirely an issue of my preferences.) I have also been using and maintaining a couple of SuSE systems. Started with 7.3 and am currently at 9.1. There is a good reason that SuSE is the preferred distribution for a large section of users. If you like tight integration, seamless updates, graphical setup and config tools (SuSE's YaST2 is the best I have seen in that category) and a wide variety of packaged software, then SuSE is worth it. I have had very few sour experiances with SuSE. Hope this helps. BTW: What does ravana look like these days in terms of head-occupancy? And when did you start hacking on bluetooth!? -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org http://www.vipulmathur.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[ilugd] An interview with Martin Michlmayr
An interview with Martin Michlmayr, the leader of the Debian Project: http://www.pctechtalk.com/view.php?id=3230 quote tb: Why is the latest stable version of Debian outdated? And why is this idea with several releases? Any purpose to announce outdated versions as stable and currently usable as unstable/testing? MM: Debian has traditionally had very slow release cycles. One reason for this is that Debian has often been used for servers. As it is being used increasingly for desktops, our release cycle is not adequate anymore. We know about this and are working on implementing faster release cycles which will meet the needs of server and desktop users. Another reason why Debian is often slow with release is that our system is very large. We have more than 10,000 packages and support 11 architectures. However, we are working on solutions which will allow faster release cycles. In this process, we are moving away from a feature based to a time based release. This will ensure predictable releases. /quote Debian moving to a time based release cycle! Now *that* is what I call news! Has anyone else heard anything about this? -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org http://www.vipulmathur.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Distribution CDs for Red Hat 9 Linux distribution available :)
Hi Sandip, Long time no C ( by me ;-) ) Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: [snip] Whenever a distribution ISO is offered for download, the ISO creators also include an MD5SUM checksum for people to verify both the authenticity and integrity of the image. This is a check against: 1. Somebody distributing malware in the name of the original CD 2. Problems in the download which can corrupt the CD image. [snip] Now the problem is that the whole process of copying of CDs from one media to another, introduces artifacts in the image which cause the CD image to start differing from the original downloadable image. The results show in wildly different md5sums of the first generation and second generation copies. [snip] So a volunteer CD distributor like me have no way to find out whether a difference in Md5sum is because the image is corrupted or because the copying process modified the image in some harmless way. Have faced this problem many times before. I solved it by rsyncing the .iso dump to the original .iso file on a known authentic server, whenever I extracted it from a CD with tools such as dd or cdrdao. Works peacefully! For the uninitiated, rsync is used here to download only the difference bytes between the remote (correct) .iso image and the local (damaged) .iso dump. -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org http://vipulmathur.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] font rendering
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 04:22:06PM +0530, LinuxLingam wrote: could someone please try out this sub-pixel rendering, especially on fonts less than 9 points, and bigger than 96 points, and share with us the results? Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't sub-pixel rendering supposed to make a difference only on LCD displays? -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] apt-get
LinuxLingam wrote: am trying to upgrade the qt on my installation. so, i run # apt-get upgrade qt i get a list of packages with unmet dependencies. these packages have nothing to do with qt and i don't want apt-get to touch them. i just want apt-get to upgrade qt with all its directly relevant files. what's the way out of this dep-hell madness? Do # apt-get install qt That will make sure qt is the newest version available. apt-get upgrade tells apt to upgrade all installed packages to the newest ones available. :-) -- Vipul Mathur vipul [at] linux-delhi.org ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] apt-get
LinuxLingam wrote: Do # apt-get install qt That will make sure qt is the newest version available. hmmm.. does not solve the problem, see below for output. how to resolve this? # apt-get install qt [snip] E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). apt-get usually makes sensible suggestions :-) # apt-get -f install -- Vipul Mathur vipul [at] linux-delhi.org http://vipulmathur.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] [long] top posting, thread hijacking and other evils
replies are very hard to find at the bottom of a long (15 lines) message. A variation of this form of quoting is where the reply is included below the message, while all signatures are left below the reply. This serves the added purpose of increasing the cruft at the bottom of the thread. * Interleave posted replies In this case, replies are interleaved with the original message, so for instance, a message that contains three points, would have the reply split into three portions, each included immediately after the relevant point. In this case, the person replying must take the effort to separate out points, deleting irrelevant lines, and in some cases summarising ideas. It is perhaps for this reason that most people choose not to employ this method. On the plus side, anyone joining the thread late, or reading a single message on the mailing list archives will have the entire thread in front of him, with each question answered immediately below. Trimming of content helps keep the signal to noise ratio (S/N) high. Interleaving is most useful when used in conjunction with trimming of content and summarisation. The variation found with bottom posted replies is also found with interleaved replies, and reduces the S/N ratio somewhat. * Closing remarks This article isn't meant to tell people what quoting style they should use, but merely to state the pros and cons (according to me at least) of each method. You may choose for yourself. I've tried to cover all points that have been brought up in the past. If I've missed anything out, feel free to add to this. I have not, however, gone deeply into the details, but the reader may refer to the list of links later on in this message. Also note that this is *not* a poll. I am not soliciting comments on which quoting style is better. * Further reading http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html to the point http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/gey_stv0.htm excuse the background colour http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/gey_chr0.htm top posting and blind users (and yes, excuse the background colour) http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/top-posting.html talks about top posting http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/bottom-posting.html and bottom posting http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html perhaps a little fanatical, but a few good points Also check google for quoting mail and news -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- Vipul Mathur http://vipulmathur.org/ vipul [at] linux-delhi [dot] org ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[ilugd] Re: Possible additional feature for the list
amit soni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it not possible to have a forum + email list ? I mean instead of storing the archives like archives if they can be pushed to a forum (which I guess are easily indexed in search engines)? It seems people are not listening... or maybe someone should speak louder ;-) GO TO http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi PLEASE Sincerely, how many of us have actually been using gmane? If the reasons for having a forum are those I quoted above, then gmane has been serving our purpose for many months now. Anyone around remember that linux-delhi actually tried a full php-nuke at some point in time? The nuke fizzled out. BTW: I am posting this from gmane.org itself. Please everyone take a look at it before carrying this forum thing further... -- Vipul Mathur vipul [at] linux-delhi [dot] org ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Information needed about Debian Sarge
Hi Sandip! Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Aaargh! You expect me to do a complete upgrade over network? I dont live in US dude! What about in amchi Dilli! I have been using Debian unstable full-time since July now and am extremely happy with it! Agreed that here I've very few download constraints--sitting on 5 2Mbps lines :-D I do a apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade daily to stay on the bleeding edge. I tried this as an experiment first to see how often things break. They do break but not very often. I would say that unstable is the most updated gnu/linux distribution I have used, provided you have a means to keep up with the updates. It is recommended that you run stable as you are most likely to get support for it from debian peers. Testing is also supported. but if you No. Testing is for me .. even though the Debian site make ominous statements that even the testing doesnt have support. True there are no security updates for testing or unstable, but that is just because they upgrade the packages themselves to a higeher version rather than backporting a security patch like in stable. Stable is THE way to go for servers where you may not need bleeding edge stuff, but IMHO unstable is the one cut out for desktops (atleast for people like us ;-) Any clue as to which year in this millenium, the sarge is going to be stable? ;) Who knows? ;-) Okay I have tried and tested an alternate installation strategy and it works great. I get the latest knoppix CD (knoppix = debian testing/unstable + some important stuff from experimental and elsewhere, like XFree86 4.3...). Then I install knoppix to the hard disk using the knopix-install script. This gives us a packed (rather heavily so) desktop with everything you want in it! Then I just edit the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to unstable and do a apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade. The first time requires a bit of fighting but after that its smooth sailing. I agree that this gives a bulky installation with stuff you may never need... so its your choice whether you want to go from bare-bones to what you want (traditional woody-sid way) or thin-down a bulky install to what you want (knoppix-sid way). PS: So what are you up to these days? I miss being in Delhi :-( -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] network not reachable
Ajit Ranade wrote: [snip] however when i ping, i get a correct name -- IP number transation, but get a message network is unreachable. ifconfig shows eth0 is up, and netstat shows network is up. so i think the network is unreachable, because ping (and also apt-get) is unable to get through the proxy server. same fate for fetchmail. Post the output of /sbin/route -n -- Vipul ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Update on Debian.org servers
A post on debian-security-announce finally talks about the post-mortem of the recent server compromises. http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2003/msg00212.html Here is the abstract: Recently multiple servers of the Debian project were compromised using a Debian developers account and an unknown root exploit. Forensics revealed a burneye encrypted exploit. Robert van der Meulen managed to decrypt the binary which revealed a kernel exploit. Study of the exploit by the RedHat and SuSE kernel and security teams quickly revealed that the exploit used an integer overflow in the brk system call. Using this bug it is possible for a userland program to trick the kernel into giving access to the full kernel address space. This problem was found in September by Andrew Morton, but unfortunately that was too late for the 2.4.22 kernel release. This bug has been fixed in kernel version 2.4.23 for the 2.4 tree and 2.6.0-test6 kernel tree. For Debian it has been fixed in version 2.4.18-12 of the kernel source packages, version 2.4.18-14 of the i386 kernel images and version 2.4.18-11 of the alpha kernel images. -- Vipul Mathur vipul [at] linux-delhi.org http://vipulmathur.org/ ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
