Re: [ilugd] Join ICONS community: A new Internet informational portal from APNIC

2005-09-27 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-28 16:38:08 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > To join the ICONS community please go to: > >http://icons.apnic.net/ Just how many times does this need to be announced? -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://

[ilugd] Join ICONS community: A new Internet informational portal from APNIC

2005-09-27 Thread Kapil Chawla
Dear Members & Friends, APNIC launched a new information portal called 'ICONS'. This site will provide the Asia Pacific Internet community with a forum to exchange information and links about a variety of networking topics such as routing, network security, IXPs, and DNS. We would appreciate it i

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-27 Thread nitin gupta
--- Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OP was shirking and hence: > 1. You are the community > 2. If you benefit from Linux make sureother can too > 3. Attending also builds mentorship - You get help > and you help other > 4. Choose a topic you would like o speak on and put > it onlist when

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread vikram ranade
Yeah thats a normal practice to make sure that the notebook gets clean DC power and not some electrical noise induced by nearby "electrically noisy" appliances Best regards, Vikram On 9/28/05, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > Yep. It's a ferrite bead for RF noise suppression. >

Re: [ilugd] Giving up on scratched CDs and ejecting mounted CDs

2005-09-27 Thread bimal pandit
Dear Sir, ---SNIP- Thus, one can't unmount the CD cuz it's supposedly busy, and one can't eject the CD cuz it's mounted. The only solution being a reboot. ---SNIP- use "umount -l " also could use "fuser" to identify

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday, 28 Sep 2005 00:03, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > At 2005-09-27 21:33:10 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > or better still this one - the black cable (USB one) > > http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/a70/a70_package.jpg > > Yep. It's a ferrite bead for RF noise suppression. > >

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-27 Thread Sudev Barar
On 9/27/05, Raj shekhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in infinite wisdom [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thus on 09/27/05 12:44: > > aah I thought that the secret password was "Beer" > > The secret password is "drinks are on me" usually followed by "@#" :-) > -- Yes yesy you can say drinks are on me.

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-27 21:33:10 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > or better still this one - the black cable (USB one) > http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/a70/a70_package.jpg Yep. It's a ferrite bead for RF noise suppression. -- ams ___ ilugd mailin

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 9:33 pm, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote: > or better still this one - the black cable (USB one) > http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/a70/a70_package.jpg > > Karunakar go to sleep -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Guntupalli Karunakar
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:29:36 +0530 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 1:49 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>> My canon A70 used to work with such a cable, but not with a > >>>straight cable (which doesnt have the blob). this ca

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-27 13:32:16 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I too do the same, but one Q I have wrt to the camera cable usually > the cables coming with the camera have a cylindrical blob at the > camera end, how much does it affect usage? & what is it for? That's most probably just a ferrite bead

Re: [ilugd] Giving up on scratched CDs and ejecting mounted CDs

2005-09-27 Thread Mayank Jain
On 9/27/05, Saurabh Nanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # considering your cdrom is mounted somewhere on /mnt/cdrom > > lsof | grep cdrom > > > > kill -9 > But even this solution is a workaround! The CD driver should give up > after some time and throw an error! Cant say what's the default read

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 4:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > he has been asking about his blob for the last six months - i hope > > someone puts him out of his agony soon :-) > > maybe you Kuranakar should post (make available ) a digital image of > his blob - it might help. an image of the dissec

Re: [ilugd] Giving up on scratched CDs and ejecting mounted CDs

2005-09-27 Thread Saurabh Nanda
> # considering your cdrom is mounted somewhere on /mnt/cdrom > lsof | grep cdrom > > kill -9 I've tried killing the process (say cp) but that doesn't solve the problem. I'll try this as well. But even this solution is a workaround! The CD driver should give up after some time and throw an error

Re: [ilugd] Giving up on scratched CDs and ejecting mounted CDs

2005-09-27 Thread Mayank Jain
On 9/27/05, Saurabh Nanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus, one > can't unmount the CD cuz it's supposedly busy, and one can't eject the > CD cuz it's mounted. The only solution being a reboot. # considering your cdrom is mounted somewhere on /mnt/cdrom lsof | grep cdrom kill -9 -- regards, ma

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 1:49 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> My canon A70 used to work with such a cable, but not with a >>>straight cable (which doesnt have the blob). this cable only works >>>for cameras showing up as USB storage. >> >>Again no idea - does the same c

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 1:49 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >  My canon A70 used to work with such a cable, but not with a > > straight cable (which doesnt have the blob). this cable only works > > for cameras showing up as USB storage. > > Again no idea - does the same cable do the battey charging

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Guntupalli Karunakar wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:08:43 +0530 > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I know you must be speaking from experience ;). Yes a friend blew up his Ninon d70 because he connected his camera to a faulty USB port and boom Rs 15 kn went up in smoke.

Re: [ilugd] Giving up on scratched CDs and ejecting mounted CDs

2005-09-27 Thread Saurabh Nanda
> Because the VFS would be unhappy if mounted media suddenly disappeared > from under it (and was potentially replaced with something different). > That applies to all mounts, not just CDs. But doesn't the VFS already handle such situations with USB pen drives and to some extent with network file

Re: [ilugd] Giving up on scratched CDs and ejecting mounted CDs

2005-09-27 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-27 15:11:19 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Firstly, could anyone please tell me what's the philosophy behind > 'locking' the CD-ROM tray when a CD has been mounted. So that you can't eject a mounted CD. > Why can't I eject a mounted CD? Because the VFS would be unhappy if mounted

Re: [ilugd] Where is the community?

2005-09-27 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-27 03:17:48 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thank the NSA, not NASA !! These two are very different organisations. Thank them both, but NASA merits a whole lot more thanks. NSA's SELinux is a dwarfed by NASA's contributions one way or another. -- ams __

Re: [ilugd] Where is the community?

2005-09-27 Thread Sharninder
>> >> I don't remember offhand if Cray has contributed anything, but did >> you >> know that the NSA (the US National Security Agency) was >> responsible for >> the development of SELinux? Not only did they contribute it back, >> most >> distributions ship with it these days.- >> > > Thanks -

[ilugd] Giving up on scratched CDs and ejecting mounted CDs

2005-09-27 Thread Saurabh Nanda
Hi, Firstly, could anyone please tell me what's the philosophy behind 'locking' the CD-ROM tray when a CD has been mounted. Why can't I eject a mounted CD? Additionally, is there some way with which I may eject mounted CDs? Secondly, when the kernel encouters an I/O error while accessing a scratc

[ilugd] Commercial: Requirement for Linux Developer

2005-09-27 Thread Kuldeep Singh Tomar
Hi Guys, We have requirement of 2-3 person who has at least 2-3+ years of good experience in: 1. Development in C++/Java/PHP/Perl 2. Exposure to Database(Mysql/PostgreSQL) 3. Exposure to Web Servers 3. Linux Administration experience 4. Should be good team player 5. Telephony Exp. will be plus(i

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Guntupalli Karunakar
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:08:43 +0530 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > > > > > > Most of the newer ones will let you do that (as others have > > observed), but even the ones that don't can often be used with > > gphoto (or digikam or whatever). And for cam

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi Vikram, --- vikram ranade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wanted to get hold of a 2~5 Megapixel one for work > and I need this to work > By working well i mean that i should be able to > mount it as a regular USB I tried Olympus C-500 Zoom. It's a 5 MP camera with 3X optical zoom. It is recogn

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > > > Most of the newer ones will let you do that (as others have observed), > but even the ones that don't can often be used with gphoto (or digikam > or whatever). And for cameras that use a removable SD/CF/whatever card, > you can always just get a cheap USB card reade

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > > Most of the newer ones will let you do that (as others have observed), > but even the ones that don't can often be used with gphoto (or digikam > or whatever). And for cameras that use a removable SD/CF/whatever card, > you can always just get a cheap USB card reader.

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-27 Thread Raj shekhar
in infinite wisdom [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thus on 09/27/05 12:44: > aah I thought that the secret password was "Beer" The secret password is "drinks are on me" usually followed by "@#" :-) -- Raj ShekharY!IM : lunatech3007 blog : http://rajshekhar.net/blog home : h

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-26 11:13:07 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Was curious if there are any digital camera's that work out of the box > with linux. http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php > By working well i mean that i should be able to mount it as a regular > USB drive thru a USB connecto

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sudev Barar wrote: > > Our youngest speaker was all of 14!! > No one is a giant and as to attending a meet all you do is show up and > that is just about it. No one is going to ask you for some secret > password or anthing like that!! aah I thought that the secret password was "Beer" ram > -- >

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vikram ranade wrote: > 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

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

2005-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > At 2005-09-26 15:46:09 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>ams wrote: >> >> >>>Now I'm confused. > > > I'm still confused. I'm afraid I'm finding your argument a bit difficult > to follow, and I'm not even quite sure whether you're being sarcastic or > not. Nevertheles