Re: [ilugd] [OT] Must See - The Worlds Largest Windows Error Message

2006-03-09 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2006-03-09 13:17:47 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is hilarious and fairly embarrassing for Microsoft ! I think it's boring, clichéd, and irrelevant; and that Microsoft cares even less than I do. -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] Others: Very Cool Tool to convert Images to HTML

2006-01-28 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2006-01-28 15:02:50 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dont mean to pick nits but your subject made me very interested in something that is converting images to HTML [...] indeed such thing exists. http://www.text-image.com/convert/ As it happens, I'm working on something that can be

Re: [ilugd] Gnome-Dictionary does not not work offline

2006-01-27 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2006-01-27 15:19:12 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its there someother option of locally getting the databases making it pretend that its working online ??? Certainly. Go to http://www.dict.org and download one of the free dictionaries there, and run the dict server on your local computer

[ilugd] [OT] vernacular (Re: Seeking help for IT initiative for vernacular)

2006-01-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2006-01-05 13:03:47 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The word 'vernacular' is a generic, insulting term, historically used by former colonial masters. It literally means 'languague of the slave or servant' and is derogatory. Vernacular could be applied for any non-English language. Just

Re: [ilugd] DNS setting for the DNS-Server :- How to resolve any request to a Fixed IP address

2005-12-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-12-13 08:28:06 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my purpose is not to black list any hosts or domain , my plan is to have like this any clients giving any request gets directed to a url Use an HTTP transparent proxy instead of messing with name resolution. -- ams

Re: [ilugd] [COMMERCIAL]: Require Python,html+forms developer

2005-11-03 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-11-04 12:23:03 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: strangely enough, no one can fulfill this experience qualification as django was first made available about 5-6 months ago and hasnt even been released yet For that matter, PostgreSQL 8.0 was released less than a year ago. -- ams

Re: [ilugd] *nix Internals

2005-10-24 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-10-24 12:40:06 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody suggest a good reading/ decent book for UNIX Internals? The Design of the Unix Operating System, Maurice J. Bach. Unix Internals: The New Frontier, Uresh Vahalia. -- ams ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] 17 plasma/lcd monitor recommendations

2005-10-24 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-10-24 12:33:35 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will still be disappointed with the 19 LCD's. Well, I can live with 1280x1024... but I can't find anyone who has the 19 LCDs at all. The best I've managed so far is a 14250/= quote for a SyncMaster 713N (17). If you got some extra

Re: [ilugd] [OFF-Topic] MTNL health mela

2005-10-24 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-10-25 09:30:45 +0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly: You do need good health to work on Linux for long duration. Instead of trying to justify a totally inappropriate posting by means of increasingly ridiculous arguments, I suggest you cut your losses and let the matter slide. --

Re: [ilugd] 17 plasma/lcd monitor recommendations

2005-10-23 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-10-18 00:54:42 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, but that's a CRT monitor, and I already bought a LCD/TFT :) What did you get, where, and for how much? My SyncMaster 172s died last night, and although a Samsung engineer is supposed to be visit later today, I might just decide to

Re: [ilugd] 19 plasma/lcd monitor recommendations

2005-10-23 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-10-20 20:27:51 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The price for the Samsung and LG 19 LCD's in Nehru Place is Rs. 25,500. Got any specific vendors in mind? The couple of people I called up don't seem to have any 19 LCDs in stock at all. -- ams

Re: [ilugd] 17 plasma/lcd monitor recommendations

2005-10-17 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-10-17 20:35:22 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look at Samsung Syncmaster 798MB Plus. http://www.samsung.com/in/products/monitors/CRTMonitors/17magicbrightrange/798mbplus.asp?page=Specifications But that's a CRT, not an LCD. (Looks pretty slick, though.) This seems to be the

Re: [ilugd] Find out Developing Studio like as MS-Visual Studio

2005-10-15 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-10-14 18:06:55 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We r using Qt Programming tools. And if u r a developer u know better this is not a user friendly software, we want developing facilities like VC++ or VB. these r user freindly softwares. (Please do us the favour of typing whole words,

Re: [ilugd] Linux on IBM R51 Laptop

2005-10-14 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-10-14 15:20:40 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning to buy IBM R51 laptop . Is anybody using it and give me Linux compatibility /general feedback http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html is your friend. It's also the first hit for R51 Linux on Google. -- ams

Re: [ilugd] 17 plasma/lcd monitor recommendations

2005-10-11 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-10-10 23:02:32 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any recommendations for one which isn't mind-blowingly expensive and gives a decent resolution? I have a Samsung SyncMaster 172s which runs at 1280x1024. I quite like it. When I bought it, it was the only 17 LCD I could get a firm quote

Re: [ilugd] tar -cvf

2005-10-03 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-10-03 17:54:42 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tar: error exist delay from previous error ^^ So what is the previous error? -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] Mailing list stats

2005-09-30 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-30 12:03:12 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could, im waiting for some hosting place and clear out some bugs. will email you after the cleanup. will you host? Sure, no problem. -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] Mailing list stats

2005-09-28 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-28 19:30:34 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Quoted text snipped. Must... reduce... noise level!] Very nice. Thanks. Do you feel like sharing the code you used to derive these statistics? I wouldn't mind running it against a couple of other lists I'm on. -- ams

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] 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] 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 for

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

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 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] 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] 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] Where is the community?

2005-09-25 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-25 12:34:28 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: however, the moment you bring the Free Software part of FOSS into the picture you are implicitly acknowledging that the freedom aspect of software is at least as important to you as the technical aspects. Maybe's it's being called FOSS.in

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-25 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-26 06:44:23 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can WiFi network be setup between two centrino laptops without any other WiFi instrastructure? Of course. iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-25 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-26 10:53:29 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Continuing with the same thread, what all hardware do i need to connect my Wifi laptop to my desktop linux pc (void of any wifi device)? An ethernet cable. ;-) You can get PCI 802.11b adapters, but I don't know how much they cost. I'd

Re: [ilugd] Where is the community?

2005-09-24 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
Now I'm confused. At 2005-09-24 12:39:26 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is that cliched statement of freedom - ones freedom ends when it begins to affect anothers [...] they are not (rather should not be) free to choose to *not contribute* Why not? And what are you saying they should

[ilugd] more mail mangling (was Re: DNS settings)

2005-09-24 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-25 00:51:10 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: view internal { match-clients { 10.1.0.0 http://10.1.0.0; }; recursion no; /* this is the default */ zone . { type hint; file named.ca http://named.ca; OK, so what is it that's doing the http://every.thing.with.dots thing? -- ams

Re: [ilugd] mysql error while starting [...]

2005-09-23 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-23 18:06:44 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting this error while trying to start mysql. [...] Any pointers. When you don't understand an error message, ask Google about it. Chances are that other people have had the same problem. In this case, a quick search for can't

Re: [ilugd] Where is the community?

2005-09-23 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-23 16:35:27 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does Cray / NaSA and the likes actually give to the community - will they give their source code - ever. I have my doubts - so then what is their stake ? NASA has contributed a *lot* to Linux. Donald Becker's work at NASA is how

Re: [ilugd] (fwd) [foss.in] Get involved *now*!

2005-09-22 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-22 13:25:15 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: though i'm relatively new to the gnu/linux world i feel there are community members who need to have an introspection why they are part of this community at all. philosophy is what drives this community according to me I'm afraid *you*

Re: [ilugd] Help with Defoma (Installing Hindi fonts in Debian)

2005-09-21 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-21 12:03:07 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TrueType Fonts on Debian XFree86 4.x Systems And it does not mention 'defoma' anywhere! I wonder why that is. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/defoma says: «Defoma, which stands for DEbian FOnt MAnager, provides a

Re: [ilugd] Help with Defoma (Installing Hindi fonts in Debian)

2005-09-20 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-21 01:04:16 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: defoma-hints Can't locate FreeType.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at (eval 3)

Re: [ilugd] Help with Defoma (Installing Hindi fonts in Debian)

2005-09-20 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-21 10:14:53 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So install FreeType.pm Which package is supposed to have it? No idea, but it belongs to the Font::FreeType Perl module, which you can get from the CPAN. And, why should this file suddenly disappear? No idea. It seems somewhat

Re: [ilugd] problem

2005-09-19 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-18 22:05:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RPC: Can't encode arguments The password has not been changed on Server Name passwd: Authentication token manipulation error what could be the problem how can i solve this I asked Google about 'Red Hat RPC: Can't encode arguments',

Re: [ilugd] problem

2005-09-19 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-19 11:32:30 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like a lot of people have had the same problem. A quick look didn't turn up a definite solution But try using yppasswd instead of passwd to change the password. cf. http://eeek.borgchat.net/lists/pam/msg03584.html In general,

[ilugd] postgres optimisation

2005-09-19 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
Would anyone be interested in a PostgreSQL optimisation talk? At, say, the next monthly meeting? -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] postgres optimisation

2005-09-19 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-19 20:03:36 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be interested! OK, that's two people. Just big enough to be an audience. :-) Here's what I'm going to use to make the slides for my presentation: (And many thanks to Sirtaj for pointing me towards it.)

[ilugd] kernel code management

2005-09-18 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
Hi. At 2005-09-18 08:41:31 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to understand how linux maintains its repository with the support for multiple platforms and contributions coming from all over the world. The simple answer is that Linus works really hard (as do the subsystem

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu CD from Freedel

2005-09-17 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-17 23:38:13 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't 'sudo' ask for a root password? No. It asks for your own password. -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] SAP DB

2005-09-09 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-09 14:40:16 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Maintenance /tension free(got 2 be better than m$ sql ) and stable 2) Handle Large no of inserts and db size 3) ANSI 92,99 compliant 4) No locking issues (which m$ sql is famous for ) I recommend PostgreSQL http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [ilugd] ILUG-D activity in last 7 days

2005-09-09 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-09 20:10:01 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = New downloads:1 Total downloads:79 - 1. Category: Author:Mayank Agarwal

Re: [ilugd] Freedel blog update

2005-09-09 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-10 02:42:50 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have also created a new theme for the site. Do take a look! It looks very good. Thank you. By the way, FLOSS is Free/Libre and Open Source (or F/L/OS Software, depending on whom you ask). Either way, the About the site box on the right

Re: [ilugd] Running Webserver from home

2005-09-08 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-08 15:05:30 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On airtel or hathway ? Airtel. care tell me briefly how to go about it ? I don't know what to tell you. I just installed Apache and started it and it worked, more or less. -- ams ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] freedel creative

2005-09-07 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-08 03:58:04 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all of the talks above are therefore focussed on the newbie, even technophobic, out-for-fun accidental tourist that lands at the ficci auditorium. Just for the record: any technophobic, out-for-fun accidental tourists that land at the

Re: [ilugd] virtual hosting directory structure

2005-09-05 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-05 10:33:11 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the best practices for directory structure for hosting multiple domains? I tend to use directories like /var/www/www.foo.com, where the files are owned by whichever user the domain belongs to, and often with a symlink from the

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-05 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-05 00:53:14 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth's: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Interesting. In my copies of all of Kenneth's message headers, I see the Content-Transfer-Encoding is not 8bit, but base64

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-04 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-04 19:00:36 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but the point is, how long should we pander to CLI ppl? Don't be silly. The point is about fixing one specific problem. Your MUA is sending (as far as I can tell) properly-encoded UTF-8 text in a perfectly acceptable fashion. If Raju's MUA

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-04 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-04 20:29:41 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth's mail composition client does not line wrap UTF8 messages properly -- the whole message is one long line, which is why my mail client doesn't render it properly. When I decoded the base64 body of his messages, I did not get one

Re: [ilugd] SoftRSA token

2005-09-02 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
(Inappropriate References dropped so as to create a new thread.) At 2005-09-01 22:52:33 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can any body help me to install and implement software based RSA token. Maybe, if you can explain what a software based RSA token is. -- ams

Re: [ilugd] moinmoin and mediawiki

2005-08-31 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-31 16:31:35 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dude, please fix your quoting and formatting. I haven't been able to read a single mail by you to the list so far! That's... weird. They've all looked fine to me. -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist

Re: [ilugd] Call For Papers: ILUGD event in September

2005-08-27 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-28 00:08:17 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In that case, it may be worthwhile to organize a Lightning Talks session [...] kick-ass idea. Why, thank you. Here are some suggestions for lightning talks Well, if the schedule is over-subscribed already, something would have to

Re: [ilugd] First-cut talks shortlist

2005-08-26 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-26 12:36:06 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MD5: 231803b0c33a110c9a8ae05369ff084f talks-stripped.sxc Is http://www.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/anCMS/download.cgi?action=downloads the right place to be looking for it? And if so, is the approval process manual? Because I can't find it.

Re: [ilugd] First-cut talks shortlist

2005-08-26 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-26 14:26:27 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will try to find a place for an HTML -- anyone up to it in the meantime? Sure. If you send me the file, I can upload a PDF somewhere. -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] First-cut talks shortlist

2005-08-26 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-26 14:51:00 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. If you send me the file, I can upload a PDF somewhere. http://www.toroid.org/misc/talks-stripped.pdf Text appended. -- ams Workshops - Postfix MTA, Spam, Virus and Phishing control Devdas Bhagat SysAd Monitoring

Re: [ilugd] First-cut talks shortlist

2005-08-26 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-26 16:07:36 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More details? Probably the full title of the talk? (I have no details, I just converted the file.) What's Pantoto? http://www.google.com/search?q=pantotobtnI= What's FES? Foundation for Ecological Security. http://www.fes.org.in --

Re: [ilugd] Call For Papers: ILUGD event in September

2005-08-26 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-26 02:46:33 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has a sufficient number of talks been short-listed? Over-subscribed is the only way of putting it. In that case, it may be worthwhile to organize a Lightning Talks session and invite people whose talks didn't make the shortlist to

Re: [ilugd] D00d3tt3z on ILUG-d - Solution suggestions

2005-08-24 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-24 11:33:08 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Men women have differences which should be resepected. Move on. Move on is exactly what women are doing, and they don't seem any worse for it. Remember that we're having this discussion because someone asked specifically why women don't

Re: [ilugd] D00d3tt3z on ILUG-d - Solution suggestions

2005-08-24 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-24 12:29:51 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of taking potshots at me, could you actually list out such disrespectful behaviour on the mailing list which causes such a less number of women to participate online? Certainly. There have been several instances of such behaviour

Re: [ilugd] D00d3tt3z on ILUG-d?

2005-08-23 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-22 23:20:30 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No more social cause statments from me. :) Excellent. Thank you for your cooperation. -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Trouble connecting to DataOne in Ubuntu 5.04

2005-08-23 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-23 15:20:35 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/test # cat /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider plugin rp-pppoe.so eth0 noauth defaultroute user X usepeerdns Put debug in that file and look at the log messages when you run pppd. If you compare that to the same

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Oryx Mailstore 0.97

2005-08-23 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-23 04:32:18 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.oryx.com/mailstore/0.97.html Speaking of indexing mail archives, has anyone tried Oryx? I'd love to hear your feedback if you do try it. It's come a long way since Arnt's talk about it at the meeting many Sundays ago. -- ams

Re: [ilugd] D00d3tt3z on ILUG-d - Solution suggestions

2005-08-23 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-22 10:30:29 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suggestions about what to do next: a) The talk idea was good - In fact, it needn't be one person coming down to talk on Gender issues on public mailing lists and/or take in perspective of the greater socio/political aspect. After some

Re: [ilugd] D00d3tt3z on ILUG-d?

2005-08-22 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-19 13:32:33 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the prevailing atmosphere??? Right. I can answer that question better now, mostly by having studied the responses in this thread. Let's have a look, shall we? 1. Denial. What's wrong with the atmosphere, dammit? 2. Proof-by-anecdote that

Re: [ilugd] D00d3tt3z on ILUG-d?

2005-08-22 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-22 02:48:17 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where by women can accept men as they are and STILL come forward and make a difference rather than be in the stand and comment. Which nicely removes all responsibility from you, and allows you to say, with a straight face, that the problem

Re: [ilugd] D00d3tt3z on ILUG-d?

2005-08-22 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
Just one quibble in isolation: At 2005-08-22 15:33:13 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sigh. See how difficult being politically correct all the time is? Sandeep, it's not about being politically correct. At all. Ever. Everyone thinks political correctness is ridiculous, including women,

Re: [ilugd] D00d3tt3z on ILUG-d?

2005-08-22 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-22 03:54:17 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I HAVE BEEN CATCALLED N WISTLED BY GROUP OF WOMEN UNKNOWN TO ME OH MY GOD! THOSE SHAMELESS HUSSIES! How *dare* they complain about oppression or exclusion?! Women just need to jump in and get the language barrier resolved during

[ilugd] Fwd: Oryx Mailstore 0.97

2005-08-22 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
- Forwarded message from Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Oryx Mailstore 0.97 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:48:35 +0200 (CEST) Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We

Re: [ilugd] D00d3tt3z on ILUG-d - Solution suggestions

2005-08-22 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-22 10:30:29 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing which we can very clearly disregard is the possibility that the list is not interested. Right. Enough people are interested in solving the problem that rehashing the argument will just give the disinclined more rope to waste

Re: [ilugd] D00d3tt3z on ILUG-d?

2005-08-19 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-19 17:17:31 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all my experiences, I haven't encountered any sexism towards females in areas related to computing. Not even bad jokes. I wonder if that's because you (and other people) misjudge what might actually make women uncomfortable. I'm sure

Re: [ilugd] D00d3tt3z on ILUG-d?

2005-08-19 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
Hi. At 2005-08-19 16:08:43 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But yes, I have been on this list for a few months, and have not heard anyone actually mention it as a loss- the fact that there are no 'active' women on the list. I don't know what you were expecting to see, but the subject does

Re: [ilugd] D00d3tt3z on ILUG-d?

2005-08-19 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-19 14:00:56 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the prevailing atmosphere is likely to discourage women [...] And which prevailing atmosphere is this? There's only one of 'em. But it's really difficult to express in words just why I think it's likely to discourage women (and, to be

Re: [ilugd] How to create a new linux user on the fly

2005-08-19 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-20 08:05:43 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: worst solution i've ever come up with but it should work :) I really don't think you should advocate running CGI scripts as root, let alone trying to add users based on input from untrusted clients. It's a giant security risk that's waiting

Re: [ilugd] Using Graphical Interface using ssh on networked machines

2005-08-11 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-11 12:22:04 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The good-ol' method is: host1$ xhost +host2 host1$ ssh host2 host2$ export DISPLAY=host1:0 host2$ gimp Just do host1$ ssh -X host2 host2$ gimp (The xhost is unnecessary, and the export is wrong, but the idea is exactly right. :)

Re: [ilugd] Using Graphical Interface using ssh on networked machines

2005-08-11 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-08-11 12:48:30 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eh? did I mess up something? Why is the export wrong? If you do this: host1$ xhost +host2 host1$ ssh host2 host2$ export DISPLAY=host1:0 host2$ gimp It might work (if the X server on host1 accepts TCP connections, which is now

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Fwd: assistance with Red Hat installation

2005-08-10 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
Someone I know of needs RH/Fedora installed on their new server. Contact Ashok Mehta [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you're interested. We are a media-monitoring firm and have use FileMaker Pro dbase server application as the back and front-end. The dbase server application and tables are currently

Re: [ilugd] debian 3.1 DVDs

2005-07-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
I wrote: I have 42 official DVDs of Debian 3.1, courtesy Dr. Markus Wirtz of the Open Source Press. Write to me if you want one. [...] I dropped the disks off with Kishore, and he'll be distributing them to people at the meeting this weekend. Any remaining disks will be shared between

Re: [ilugd] diff command

2005-06-02 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-06-02 13:20:30 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to make a script that could extend the diff command so that it could take in two directories with same structure and file names and find the diff between all the files in them . diff -urN -- ams

Re: [ilugd] diff command

2005-06-02 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
Oh, and... At 2005-06-02 13:20:30 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to extend it to include the subdirectories . man find ls Result cat Result | \ ls | \ -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] Kanotix

2005-05-07 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-05-07 16:46:53 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is Kanotix ? Did you ask Google? -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] TLB entries

2005-04-27 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-04-28 08:41:20 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I see the no. of TLB entries that my software is taking can I change it dynamicaly to reduce a miss ? Try cachegrind from http://www.valgrind.org -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] telnet

2005-04-25 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-04-25 10:07:57 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But neither stop a telnet owner to use ssh service nor stop a ssh group owner to use telnet service. Wouldn't it be simplest to just disable password authentication for your sshd, and put in authorized_keys only for those users who should

Re: [ilugd] Cannot Play DAT and some other formats

2005-04-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-04-13 12:34:13 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ mplayer - fs vdc://1 ... mplayer: No such file or directory what next ? Try vcd instead of vdc? -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] Cannot Play DAT and some other formats

2005-04-13 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-04-13 12:44:18 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Playing vcd://1. CD-ROM Device '/dev/cdrom' not found. Failed to open vcd://1 So... does /dev/cdrom point to wherever your CD-ROM drive is? If not, make it a symbolic link pointing to the appropriate block device. (See ln(1): ln -sf

Re: [ilugd] suggestion for this month's meet

2005-04-06 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-04-06 16:13:31 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meeting will be held most probaly on 3rd sunday i.e 25th April 2005. [...] so it could be 17th (3rd sunday) or 24th (4th sunday) For what it's worth, I would prefer the 24th. -- ams ___

[ilugd] Fwd: Oryx Mailstore 0.92 released

2005-03-23 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
- Forwarded message from Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pgsql-announce@postgresql.org Subject: Oryx Mailstore 0.92 released Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:36:24 +0530 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oryx Mailstore is a mail archive server

Re: [ilugd] How much RAM ? : dmesg vs /proc/memnfo

2005-03-22 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-03-22 14:10:38 +0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my opinion I must only recognise dmesg output and state that the PC has 128MB RAM. The line of dmesg output you pasted has nothing to do with the total RAM on the machine. /proc/meminfo is correct, and the machine apparently has 256MB

[ilugd] Re: How to find client's IP address (or name)

2005-03-01 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-03-01 09:17:02 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to find the IP address of the client when the client attempts to make a connection. Does anyone know how to do that? [...] struct sockaddr client; This needs to be a sockaddr_in too. rc = accept(msgSock,

[ilugd] Re: Creative dot (site down)

2005-02-14 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-02-14 14:25:28 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a few things that have come up in the recent discussions. The domainname management. The external URL's implying association with the site. Someone very conviniently sidestepped this issue. The putting up of sponsorship logo's and

[ilugd] Re: dns setup

2005-02-11 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-02-11 09:14:36 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to configure DNS on my home with two clients , to do that what should I do. You should ask Google about the DNS HOWTO. -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

[ilugd] Re: PostgreSQL + Command Line password ?

2005-02-10 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-02-10 02:04:46 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to provide password with psql command so that it will not ask for password?? You cannot specify a password on the command-line (where it would be visible to other users via ps(1)). But you may be able to achieve the same

[ilugd] Re: Urgent !

2005-02-10 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-02-10 07:58:52 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: setenv WSDIR /export/home/ws setenv PATH xx:/export/home/ws/bin setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH xx:/export/home/ws/lib That is csh syntax, not bash. In bash, you'd use export X=Y instead of setenv X Y. When I came out from the editor, I

[ilugd] Re: Bash Shell Query

2005-02-10 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-02-10 17:30:09 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As per my understanding this occurs because the variable setting script is excuted in a new BASH shell . Is there any way to make these variables available to my original script . source foo.sh -- ams

[ilugd] Re: Creative dot (with missing link)

2005-02-06 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
(Cc: list pruned.) At 2005-02-06 23:17:33 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Creative dot is accessible at http://creative.linux-delhi.org/ Warning: Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES) in

[ilugd] Re: Running commands from FTP Protocol

2005-02-01 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-02-01 13:40:54 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have any idea how to go about running system commands through FTP protocol ? Ask Google about ftp site exec. -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

[ilugd] Re: RMS travel plan

2005-01-05 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-01-05 13:28:46 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pity that RMS' visit couldn't coincide with Linux Asia 2005 Delhi (http://www.technetra.com/linuxasia2005/) on Feb 9-11. Is it too late for any changes to his itinerary? More importantly, is it too late to change the name of the

[ilugd] Re: customized linux

2004-12-22 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2004-12-22 08:57:47 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to customize the linux kernel according to my need. Can anbody guide me through the process? First, you have to decide what you need. Then you have to download the kernel source and read the instructions on how to configure it to

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