Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
Whats the difference between an 802.11b adapter an access point? The 802.11b adapter is a wireless LAN card and an access point is the wireless equivalent of a switch. Best regards, Vikram Ranade ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] Question about the ILUGD society

2005-09-26 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Monday 26 Sep 2005 11:14 am, Saurabh Nanda wrote: Is the registration country-wide? It's strange that, before us, there wasn't a society called Linux User's Group all througout India. AFAIK a society can only be registered in a particular registration sub district. If you want countrywide

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-26 Thread Mayank Jain
On 9/26/05, vikram ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the difference between an 802.11b adapter an access point? The 802.11b adapter is a wireless LAN card and an access point is the wireless equivalent of a switch. cost wise? Which one would make for a more logical choice? All i need

Re: [ilugd] [LIH]WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-26 Thread Sudev Barar
On 9/26/05, vikram ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sudevji, I assume that you are using ubuntu.I have ubuntu on my notebook and the [SNIP] Thanks Vikram for step by step. Sudev Barar Learning Linux ___ ilugd mailinglist --

[ilugd] No Community in the Licenses - digression from Where is the Community

2005-09-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi This is regarding the digressed thread of Where is the Community and the many different elements of disucssion. Here are some replies Ram wrote : Call is social responsibility, call it a *request from the community* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Sounds more like dictating a social *duty*.

[ilugd] Slackware 10.2

2005-09-26 Thread Sukrit K Mehra
hI aLL, I am looking for Slackware 10.2. I'm based in Noida and my office is in Sector 16. My number is 9312026470. Regards Sukrit -- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

[ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread nitin gupta
Hello, This is Nitin Gupta, one of Silent but active member of this Community. As i mentioned in the mails before, me and my company Xaprio Solutions is completely shifted to linux from a long time now. We are doing just fine, using FC4, but its very very slow. We are on P4 2.8GHZ with 256mb

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread nitin gupta
Hello, First of all thanks a lot for relying, were you present at the recently held freedel event? No I wasn't. Very nice of you , why dont you share about your experiences at the next meet. I would love to, but i haven't attended any meet before so not sure about it. |We are doing

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-26 06:49:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am generally working on 3-4 applications simulatenously including Evolution, FireFox, BlueFish, Gaim and some other small softwares, which i think is retty normal. Get more RAM. -- ams ___

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread nitin gupta
hmmm... More Ram, Do you guys think, shifting to Ubuntu or Slackware will do? Is this the problem with FC4 or with the applications i runs or just with the RAM ?? Thanks :) Regards, Nitin Gupta CEO Xaprio Solutions http://www.xaprio.com/ http://www.xaprio.com/forums/

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Pankaj kaushal
nitin gupta wrote: hmmm... More Ram, Do you guys think, shifting to Ubuntu or Slackware will do? Is this the problem with FC4 or with the applications i runs or just with the RAM ?? I use ubuntu with 256 MB ram no probs. P. -- Alas, even today there's little worth thinking and saying

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread nitin gupta
--- Pankaj kaushal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use ubuntu with 256 MB ram no probs. Do you use heavy applications with it? Also, Will i be able to get all the packages for it? Regards, Nitin Gupta CEO Xaprio Solutions http://www.xaprio.com/ http://www.xaprio.com/forums/

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-26 Thread Naresh Narang
--- vikram ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the difference between an 802.11b adapter an access point? The 802.11b adapter is a wireless LAN card and an access point is the wireless equivalent of a switch. On a side note, if you are going to buy wireless, you should buy the one

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-26 07:04:33 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More Ram, Do you guys think, shifting to Ubuntu or Slackware will do? No. Speculation won't help you to solve performance problems. Identify the problem before trying to solve it. And switching distributions is, in general, not going to

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Tushar Shah
Hi, Just use X not the whole GNOME/KDE .It will save u on some RAM . I tried this sol with my older comp it seems to be helpfull but I never actually measured the amt of extra RAM I made available by doing so and whther is actually did inc the RAM to other apps :). Bye TShah On 9/26/05, nitin

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
I have the 802.11g standard router from linksys and when i got it a year and a half ago,it cost me about Rs.6000 (i imported it). A similar model now costs around Rs. 3000 or so now...I dont have the current prices but this is a ballpark figure. Hope this helps. Best regards, Vikram Ranade

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Raj shekhar
in infinite wisdom Sandip Bhattacharya spoke thus on 09/26/05 22:02: * Disable all unnecessary services, That reminds me - wasn't there some issue in FC where the LANG was set to utf8 and the locate fired off through cron would suck up the cpu. Maybe setting LANG to en_US should help ? Not

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Saurabh Nanda
* Disable all unnecessary services, Yes... That's THE most important factor why linux on the desktop runs slow... you probably dont need portmap, atd, sendmail, sshd, etc. etc stop service you don't need! Nandz. -- http://nandz.blogspot.com http://foodieforlife.blogspot.com

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread vivek khurana
--- nitin gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, First of all thanks a lot for relying, were you present at the recently held freedel event? No I wasn't. Very nice of you , why dont you share about your experiences at the next meet. I would love to, but i haven't attended

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Monday, 26 Sep 2005 22:22, Raj shekhar wrote: in infinite wisdom Sandip Bhattacharya spoke thus on 09/26/05 22:02: * Disable all unnecessary services, That reminds me - wasn't there some issue in FC where the LANG was set to utf8 and the locate fired off through cron would suck up the

[ilugd] Slow FC4

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
I've been messing with FC4 for a few days now...and it seems a little sluggish to me...compared to FC3or am I just imagining it? Overall the installation was also very odd.it refused to boot after i completed installation Simply gave a blank screen after loading modulesI did a hard

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
My router is a Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband Router. It has 4 100Mbit Lan ports as well as a DSL/WAN Port. works great. Best regards, Vikram Ranade ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

[ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
Was curious if there are any digital camera's that work out of the box with linux. I wanted to get hold of a 2~5 Megapixel one for work and I need this to work well with Linux. By working well i mean that i should be able to mount it as a regular USB drive thru a USB connector cable to copy the

Re: [ilugd] Slow FC4

2005-09-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Yes even i do too face the same problem. During installation also i was facing problem , i googled and i found that i need to enter a word before pressing enter. It is not even detecting mine in built lan card. Also i found the performance not acceptable in terms of speed of applications. I

Re: [ilugd] Slow FC4

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
hmm ..odd. I was just trying out a newer linux distro to see of there was any speed impact with a freshly bundled and relatively newer package selectioni guess not... will try to install gentoo (painfully slow on a PIII 750) regards, Vikram On 9/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
sounds interesting...will check it out... anybody with experiences with a new Sony Cybershot? or the casio Exilim\ thanks, Vikram On 9/26/05, Prashant Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- vikram ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was curious if there are any digital camera's that work out of

Re: [ilugd] Slow FC4

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
I already downloaded the gentoo 2005.1 universal CD and the 2005.1 packages Cd so the sources download should be minimal (or am I mistaken?) I plan to do the (easy) network-less install. I did try and install Gentoo once (older release) and it took ages on a slow PC even though i had a T1 net

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-26 Thread abhay
May be from Rashi Peripherals, the ASUS distributor in Delhi? Rashi Peripherals Pvt.Ltd. 312A/314 Mansarovar, 90,Nehru Palace, New Delhi 110019. 26448428, 26448429, 51618740, 51618767, 51617665 http://www.rptechindia.com/ The router is mentioned on their site so it should be available with them.

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
yup...i believe it runs some version of linux anyway.a linksys modified version. openwrt is a nice twist dont think i'll try it though..it works and the latest firmware is securedont want to mess with it On 9/26/05, Sirtaj Singh Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 26

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-26 Thread Sudev Barar
On 9/27/05, vikram ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sounds interesting...will check it out... anybody with experiences with a new Sony Cybershot? or the casio Exilim\ thanks, Vikram Generally even if the cameras do not work with photo programs you can mount them as usb drive and use them as

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Sudev Barar
On 9/26/05, nitin gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to know is there any better option for us then FC4? It should be easy as some of our team members are fairly new to it, but still Robust and Faster then FC4. Two directions to explore: 1. Look up CentOS. For running enterprise work it

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-26 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vikram == vikram ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vikram Was curious if there are any digital camera's that work Vikram out of the box with linux. I wanted to get hold of a 2~5 Vikram Megapixel one for work and I need this to work well

Re: [ilugd] Slow FC4

2005-09-26 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Monday, 26 Sep 2005 23:20, vikram ranade wrote: It detected the display as VESA...so i let that be ...because i figured that it was the safest setting. After installing, run an upgrade to the latest updates. The new 2.6.12 FC4 kernel and x.org updates seems to have solved quite a few

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-26 Thread Vivek Kapoor
On Tue, September 27, 2005 0:42, vikram ranade said: sounds interesting...will check it out... anybody with experiences with a new Sony Cybershot? or the casio Exilim\ thanks, Vikram Sony Cybershot P32. when yu connect it to Ubuntu, gThumb opens and asks me whether i want to import the

Re: [ilugd] No Community in the Licenses - digression from Where is the Community

2005-09-26 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-26 15:46:09 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Community license provides a free version of Community Server that can easily be upgraded to a commercial license. BTW, this seems like an entirely coincidental use of community. It's not even clear to me if this communityserver.org

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-26 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 02:27, vikram ranade wrote: yup...i believe it runs some version of linux anyway.a linksys modified version. openwrt is a nice twist dont think i'll try it though..it works and the latest firmware is securedont want to mess with it Hey, where's

Re: [ilugd] No Community in the Licenses - digression from Where is the Community

2005-09-26 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-27 00:39:51 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, if you can convince them that it is a good idea for them to participate more, and do more to promote freedom, that would be a good thing. But that isn't a question of obligations. The community's role is partly to create an

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread nitin gupta
Hi All, First of all, thanks a lot for helping us out. I am very very glad to see such a good response of my question. I got the problem, some memory was taken by extra services, and rest by Evolution. I think Evolution have this serious problem for guys like me who are using it for 15 hours a

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread satyakam goswami
On 9/27/05, nitin gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, First of all, thanks a lot for helping us out. I am very very glad to see such a good response of my question. I got the problem, some memory was taken by extra services, and rest by Evolution. I think Evolution have this serious

Re: [ilugd] No Community in the Licenses - digression from Where is the Community

2005-09-26 Thread Raj Mathur
ams == Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ams [snip] ams (I suspect you're not going to like this, but RMS has written ams and said now and again that the Free in Free software is ams derived from the same roots as free enterprise, and inspired ams by the ideals

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread nitin gupta
--- satyakam goswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: google Thanks, Found the Solution :) This Community Rules!! This is kinda spam here, but if you guys are intrested in Bikes or Bikers, do checkout our new website, http://www.roadrashers.com/ Thanks Again! Regards, Nitin Gupta CEO Xaprio

Re: [ilugd] Slow FC4

2005-09-26 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday, 27 Sep 2005 20:44, Komal wrote: Can you tell me what exact issues they have addressed? FC4 seems too bloated. What do you mean by a distro which is bloated? If you want a lean install, do a custom installation and select explicitly which packages you want to be installed. In most