[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Wanted: Senior Systems Engineer (3+ years)

2004-09-03 Thread Shuvam Misra
in physics or math, or - BE/B.Tech/MCA Please can you reply to me with your resume? And it would be nice if the resume is in PS/PDF/plain text. regards, Shuvam Misra -- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo

RE: [ilugd] Enterprise Software Stack across operating Systems

2003-09-30 Thread Shuvam Misra
I've I've just witnessed a hot debate in the ILUG Bombay mailing list about whether HTML mail should be banned. I protested, saying that some kinds of formatted text simply cannot be read unless you allow formats other than plain text. Most others didn't agree; they appeared to be purists who

Re: [ilugd] Re: two questions

2003-09-30 Thread Shuvam Misra
Please keep these jokes outside this list. If you feel that u need to post jokes, then at least mark it as such in the subject line, so that our time is not wasted reading totally useless stuff. Personally, a bit of humour once in a while is welcome. I've been here a few months now, and I

Re: [ilugd] Re: Openoffice 1.1 RCs and other publishing questions

2003-09-30 Thread Shuvam Misra
let's have a digital publishing+imaging mailing list on linux-delhi. we discuss digital typography, design, I vote for this with both my hands I would like such a list, of course (it's part of our daily office work, dammit! :)) but I'd also like to extend the scope to include so-called

Re: [ilugd] Openoffice 1.1 RCs and other publishing questions

2003-09-29 Thread Shuvam Misra
. PDF are usually considered low resolution of what you will be getting. They are only good for previewing. Not necessarily. I think a lot depends on the fonts. PDF files were created (IIRC) to assist creating online formatted documents

Re: [ilugd] Re: Openoffice 1.1 RCs and other publishing questions

2003-09-29 Thread Shuvam Misra
Dear Sandip, Another question. The art of document layout and document styles in publications seems to be diffrent profession altogether. Is there any resource which can be looked at to find out more about this field? Huge field, many hundreds of years old. I had the fortune to learn some

Re: [ilugd] Re: Openoffice 1.1 RCs and other publishing questions

2003-09-29 Thread Shuvam Misra
very good question indeed, sandip. the art of document layout, *incorrectly* called desktop publishing, is a specialised profession altogether. the art is called 'typography'. We usually use the word typography to refer to the art and science of font design, and typesetting to refer to the

Re: [ilugd] Openoffice 1.1 RCs and other publishing questions

2003-09-29 Thread Shuvam Misra
i tend to disagree on some issues here. PDF has commoditized postscript, and bridged the 'digital divide' between the advanced users and beginners. as a macintosh user since 1984 i can tell you ... Very interesting. Many things here I didn't know. Thanks. :) I don't have first-hand experience

Re: [ilugd] Re: Openoffice 1.1 RCs and other publishing questions

2003-09-29 Thread Shuvam Misra
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Graphic_Design/Typography/?tc=1 and http://www.microsoft.com/typography/users.htm Will any Microsoft information repository on any generic (i.e. not Microsoft proprietary) subject be any use? I'd almost expect their typography section to be filled with how

Re: [ilugd] Re: Openoffice 1.1 RCs and other publishing questions

2003-09-29 Thread Shuvam Misra
dpi is *not* ppi. ppi is *not* lpi. lpi is *not* dpi. Okay, please explain. By popular demand, if a population of two is large enough for you. :) I would have used dpi and ppi totally interchangeably. Shuvam ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [ilugd] Setting up a FAQ and resource archive manager

2003-09-24 Thread Shuvam Misra
We already have the LAP twiki setup. Twiki can be used to handle more than one sites. Why cant we save time and link to a new twiki repository? Fine with me. Shuvam ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] Mindmeld knowledgebase instead of FAQ

2003-09-23 Thread Shuvam Misra
LL this is GPLed, and could perhaps be looked at as an LL alternative to a usual FAQ that dot the internet on linux LL topics anyways. LL http://mindmeld.sourceforge.net/mmsf/index.php Rather avoid patented technology that is only available on the goodwill of the

[ilugd] Setting up a FAQ and resource archive manager

2003-09-23 Thread Shuvam Misra
Dear all, Do the people managing the ILUGD server have resources/time/etc to set up any of these systems? If yes, we can begin collecting material on it, once it is set up. If this is not available, I'll have to look around in Starcom to get this done on our server. I think this question is the

Re: [ilugd] Mindmeld knowledgebase instead of FAQ

2003-09-22 Thread Shuvam Misra
this is GPLed, and could perhaps be looked at as an alternative to a usual FAQ that dot the internet on linux topics anyways. http://mindmeld.sourceforge.net/mmsf/index.php Sounds good. For whatever it's worth, I feel that an interactive information gathering tool (where junta can actually

RE: [ilugd] Verisign Plays the M$ way

2003-09-19 Thread Shuvam Misra
Dear Tarun, The issue of technical problems cropping up due to this also looks exaggerated to me. Clearly, any danger to SMTP servers can not be a concern as they would probably add wildcards for A type record and not MX records. I can't understand the full impact of this problem because I'm

Re: [ilugd] Verisign Plays the M$ way

2003-09-19 Thread Shuvam Misra
As such, I do not accept (spam?) from [EMAIL PROTECTED] With this change, nosuchdoamin.com will seem to exist. The rest is left as an exercise to the reader ;-) The rest is bigger than the bit you've chosen to highlight. :) Shuvam ___ ilugd

[ilugd] Strange behaviour of device files on diskless Linux

2003-09-19 Thread Shuvam Misra
Dear all, I saw some very strange behaviour of device files on Linux recently, thanks to a colleague. Can partly explain it, after all these years working with Unix, but my explanation has holes. I'll explain the phenomenon not as I experienced it, but in brief, so that you don't have to

Re: [ilugd] auto-startup a script, apps, *after* runlevel5

2003-09-19 Thread Shuvam Misra
then, i google-searched, and discovered i need to have a hidden script file, .xinitrc in the home directory, which would do the trick. the file did not exist, so i created it. i tried this, and it did not work either. finally, i re-googled and discovered a hidden .xsession file needs to be

Re: [ilugd] auto-startup a script, apps, *after* runlevel5

2003-09-19 Thread Shuvam Misra
before i get into another twisted spin of checking out various permutations, is the .xinitrc file supposed to be a shell script, with the #!/usr/bin/bash line as the first line and the relevant commands following, with the file chmodded to execute, or is it supposed to be a plain file

Re: [ilugd] Re: ssh and tunneling

2003-09-08 Thread Shuvam Misra
so whenever i need to check whether my webpage looks fine (or maybe post it on the net for a few hours) i just ssh to this server, and ask anyone to check this web link !! Umm. So do you or do you not have a real IP from your cable wallah .. if yes then what about running the webserver in

Re: [ilugd] Blocking yahoo msn

2003-09-03 Thread Shuvam Misra
My fiat is based on the Carrot Stick concept, the carrot being I let the user livi in peace. I am reminded of the ancient jungle proverb: talk softly but carry a big quiver full of Bandar poison arrows. If every sysadmin had the power to disturb the peace of his user, the world's systems would

Re: [ilugd] Statically linked Vs Module

2003-08-29 Thread Shuvam Misra
Rootkits typically install loadable modules to intercept process listings and filesystem calls and enable them (the rootkits) to hide their processes and files. All toward the objective of making the rootkit more difficult to detect. Got it. These will not help in gaining initial access, but

Re: [ilugd] How do I do streaming video on Linux?

2003-08-29 Thread Shuvam Misra
You may check the following sites: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg/ http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net http://cserv.sourceforge.net Thanks Narsingh. Will do. Someone else had already suggested mpeg4ip (I guess the ip represents Intellectual Property?), and I checked it. It's interesting,

[ilugd] How do I do streaming video on Linux?

2003-08-28 Thread Shuvam Misra
Dear all, We have a requirement from an associate company. They are involved in distance education over VSATs; they _live_ off streaming video. They are quite tech-savvy in terms of using high-compression high-quality streaming video. This company is also very pro-open source, primarily because

Re: [ilugd] The NSE PRISM story at linux-delhli meet

2003-08-26 Thread Shuvam Misra
Dear LL, really impressive stuff, shuvam. we would really love to hear you give a small presentation on this at the next linux-delhi meet, to be held tentatively on 21 september 2003, sunday. venue to be decided. time: 2pm to 5:30pm. so you take the first slot, for 35 minutes, with a small

Re: [ilugd] antivirus for sendmail mail server, urgent

2003-08-25 Thread Shuvam Misra
Shuvam == Shuvam Misra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shuvam We have been recommending Interscan Viruswall from Trend Shuvam Micro for our clients, for the last four years and Shuvam more. This is a commercial product, with at least four Shuvam listed resellers in India. Go

[ilugd] The NSE PRISM story in Express Computer

2003-08-25 Thread Shuvam Misra
-- NSE Case Study -- * Linux stars in Mission: Critical Linux is growing out of Unix's shadow and handling mission-critical tasks on its own. The National Stock Exchange recently replaced a Unix-based system for risk management with a Linux-based one and saved a

Re: [ilugd] Sendmail - How to redirect mail - TO: address

2003-08-21 Thread Shuvam Misra
Either use a .forward file in user's home directory or create an appropriate virtusertable entry. After creating an entry in virtusertable you need to run the make in /etc/sendmail and restart sendmail. I prefer the former method. I have a feeling that neither will work. In fact, the .forward

Re: [ilugd] Pine config

2003-08-21 Thread Shuvam Misra
Does anyone have any idea about where to specify the from: name in Pine configuration. There is a field for specifying the From Domain and the Display name, but not the from name. Eg, my mail goes from Dname [EMAIL PROTECTED], there are options to specify Dname, and Domain but not Rname.

Re: [ilugd] Re: Time Lag in Linux...

2003-08-19 Thread Shuvam Misra
My machine is a stand alone one and is not connected to LAN or internet.. SO i cannot use a time server to sync the time Also i changed the CMOS battery only recently Well, worst-case, I've seen faulty motherboards which have a malfunctioning clock. On one or two occasions, the only

Re: [ilugd] Re: Time Lag in Linux...

2003-08-19 Thread Shuvam Misra
OK... some background about my application We develop s/w and hardware for a small, indegeneously developed telephone exchange . The main call processing s/w runs on a i386 PC which is connected to the exchange through some properitary h/w to the main exchange. All the events are

[ilugd] Re: Linux vs Microsoft (on the database support)

2003-08-14 Thread Shuvam Misra
Dear Tarun, We too are constantly facing these questions of Microsoft versus open source alternatives with our clients. In response, I find that most members of the open source advocacy community I meet are still repeating arguments which we all used four years ago, like stuck records. Thought

[ilugd] Office Depot Aids Monopoly

2003-08-14 Thread Shuvam Misra
Interesting article about how Microsoft is extending its monopoly control over the PC market. It's interesting how devious and indirect these attempts are... I had to actually read through the full article to figure out how the Designed for Windows XP logo can be used by Microsoft for monopoly

Re: [ilugd] anyone has spammers list???

2003-08-14 Thread Shuvam Misra
i need a list of well known spamming sites for my institute's new mail server. can anyone help me? the new mail server runs the courier imap server with qmail on RH 9.0. you could try to integrate relays.ordb.org into qmail. This is basically a list of servers on relay and locks such

[ilugd] The Mimail worm story: from the IEEE CS

2003-08-04 Thread Shuvam Misra
This message came to me because I am a member of the Computer Society of the IEEE. It appears that the virus-warning spurious messages are affecting them too. This is an interesting wrinkle to the PC-based worm story. Shuvam -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 18:39:53