Re: [ilugd] high-end linux laptop?

2008-11-20 Thread Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह)
Niyam, On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dear all, > > everyone focusses on 'cheap' or 'low-cost' linux laptops, especially netbooks. > what i'm looking for is the opposite: > the top-most, high-end laptop in the market, that ships with gnu/linux > pre-ins

[ilugd] high-end linux laptop?

2008-11-20 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, everyone focusses on 'cheap' or 'low-cost' linux laptops, especially netbooks. what i'm looking for is the opposite: the top-most, high-end laptop in the market, that ships with gnu/linux pre-installed, or has the market forgotten that gnu/linux is also about performance? i don't care if

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-20 Thread Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह)
Dear Narendra, Thanks a lot for long list of complains. :) Keep them coming. let me respond to your points in-line. On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:11 PM, narendra sisodiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > @Dinesh , Better to ask, what are the problems in FOSS adaptations. > > Adaptation of Linux is not f

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-20 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, My thoughts below: --- On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:11 PM, narendra sisodiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | ### Only so called Techie students from CS use Linux. \-- Because there is a misconception that only CS/IT have to use computers for all their work. The division of departments in "academi

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-20 Thread narendra sisodiya
@Dinesh , Better to ask, what are the problems in FOSS adaptations. Adaptation of Linux is not fast and not up to the expectations. My observations are not good 1) Linux and FOSS are not much popular.. ### I will love to put up posters at Nehru Place, provided somebody volunteer for design. #

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2008-11-20 Thread Domain Admin
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Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-20 Thread balwant singh
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Amit Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > We know that lots of corporates use Linux on their servers. > > Of late, due to various reasons, corporates are using Linux for desktops as > well. > > Where can i get the list of such companies, in Delhi NCR, who h

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-20 Thread Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह)
List, On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/21 Amit Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Of late, due to various reasons, corporates are using Linux for desktops as >> well. >> >> Where can i get the list of such companies, in Delhi NCR, who have migrated >

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-20 Thread Sudev Barar
2008/11/21 Amit Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Of late, due to various reasons, corporates are using Linux for desktops as > well. > > Where can i get the list of such companies, in Delhi NCR, who have migrated > to Linux Desktops. You can go better by asking how many desktop users. In my group t

[ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-20 Thread Amit Sharma
Hi,   We know that lots of corporates use Linux on their servers.   Of late, due to various reasons, corporates are using Linux for desktops as well.   Where can i get the list of such companies, in Delhi NCR, who have migrated to Linux Desktops.   regards, amit Add more friends to your

Re: [ilugd] Data xfer rates from flash disk in Feisty

2008-11-20 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Sharad Birmiwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A shot in the dark: BIOS have this option called something like > "Enable USB legacy support". Having it enabled sometimes does not Or may be it was having disabled that screwed up the booting thing. Either ways, it's w

Re: [ilugd] Data xfer rates from flash disk in Feisty

2008-11-20 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
A shot in the dark: BIOS have this option called something like "Enable USB legacy support". Having it enabled sometimes does not allow you to boot into Linux (don't ask me why, this used to happen on my old laptop). Try disabling it. It might force Linux to recognize the port as USB 2.0? Sharad

Re: [ilugd] Data xfer rates from flash disk in Feisty

2008-11-20 Thread Arun Khan
On Friday 21 Nov 2008, Nalin Savara wrote: > > What kinda comp are you using Parijat ? Is it a laptop by any chance > ? If it's a laptop-- then often, all the USB ports are not USB-2-- > sometimes in laptops, one or more ports are USB 1 or USB 1.1 -- maybe > it's for for older USB keyboards, mouse

Re: [ilugd] Data xfer rates from flash disk in Feisty

2008-11-20 Thread Nalin Savara
Hi Parijat, Group, Please see my reply embedded in quoted text. > > >>> hdparm -tT /dev/YOUR-DRIVE > >>> > >> > >> /dev/sdd1: > >> Timing cached reads: 1664 MB in 2.00 seconds = 831.30 MB/sec > >> Timing buffered disk reads: 18 MB in 3.15 seconds = 5.72 MB/sec > hmmm.. even I have seen

Re: [ilugd] Data xfer rates from flash disk in Feisty

2008-11-20 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/20 Parijat Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> After mounting the disk see output of >>> hdparm -tT /dev/YOUR-DRIVE >>> >> >> /dev/sdd1: >> Timing cached reads: 1664 MB in 2.00 seconds = 831.30 MB/sec >> Timing buffere

Re: [ilugd] Data xfer rates from flash disk in Feisty

2008-11-20 Thread Sudev Barar
2008/11/20 Parijat Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> After mounting the disk see output of >> hdparm -tT /dev/YOUR-DRIVE >> > > /dev/sdd1: > Timing cached reads: 1664 MB in 2.00 seconds = 831.30 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 18 MB in 3.15 seconds = 5.72 MB/sec > The last is not good at

Re: [ilugd] Data xfer rates from flash disk in Feisty

2008-11-20 Thread Parijat Garg
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/19 Parijat Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > so from flash to ubuntu desktop. I suspect that the disk is being mounted > as > > a USB 1.1 device. The dmesg output doesn't seem to say that though. > Inlined > > is the dme