Re: [ilugd]: [OT] Re: : 20Apr ILug Meet

2003-04-03 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Ambar Roy wrote: You forgot mandatory pizza breaks, swapping of essential manly jokes, bashing M$ whenever context permits(or doesn't), collective wondering of whether ILUGD is still a society or not, redhat bashing, debian worshipping, CD swapping (phew), listening

[ilugd]: GPG Key Management

2003-04-02 Thread Dhruv Gami
Hello Everyone, I've recently been experimenting with GPG and created a nice gpg key for my email. Sent off my public key to some of my friends and have been interacting with some of them secretly. Its quite a nice feeling to know its secure. I have a few queries though : 1. How safe is

[ilugd]: Is it possible to run office software directly from server???

2003-04-02 Thread Dhruv Gami
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:55:14 -0800 (PST) From: linux romeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible to run office/group ware software from web on thin client like SoftMaker Office anywhere but it should

Re: [ilugd]: GPG Key Management

2003-04-02 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Edwin wrote: I would like to know your experiences with GPG. I have been trying PGP on windows. I downloaded GPG which I think is a command line version, but cannot figure it out. I think the only documentation I found is very poor. Well, i've had a *very* good

Re: [ilugd]: LINUX Training

2003-03-26 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Raj Mathur wrote: Well, in a sense the `please stop flooding the list' mails are also flooding the list :) May be a better idea to contact the person concerned through private e-mail and tell him/her to desist. And let's beat up Ambar -- the cause of all this trouble --

Re: [ilugd]: t-shirts

2003-03-26 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Shehjar Tikoo wrote: Still looking for someone to print them in bulk, checked out clydes and the other shop at palika , but both are only importing them from thailand. Will find out from my college mates who got T-shirts printed for our college/course. They weren't too

Re: [ilugd]: taking backup on DAT DRive (fwd)

2003-03-23 Thread Dhruv Gami
Chithirai sent his reply to me by mistake, instead of the list. Here's his message. Gami -- Forwarded message -- From: Chithirai Selvan.R Alias Vimal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dhruv Gami [EMAIL PROTECTED] u can use tar command in Shell prompt..other option KDAT in KDE for taking

Re: [ilugd]: get complete designed website

2003-03-23 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Yuvraj Mathur wrote: DEAR FRIENDS I HAVE GOT A FEW SCRIPTS AND A FEW SOFTWARES THROUGH WHICH I CAN DESIGN WEB PAGES INSTANTLY. IF YOU DESIRE TO GET ONE OR MORE THAN JUST CALL ME AT 011-25107233. 1. Kindly refrain from writing mails in ALL CAPS. It seems like you're

[ilugd]: license for the mailing list

2003-03-23 Thread Dhruv Gami
Hello Everyone, i was just wondering what the default license is for the messages written onto mailing lists. Are people free to use the material provided in the messages sent to the lists, or do we need to take permission from the author(s) in order to use their text (whether opinions or code

Re: [ilugd]: taking backup on DAT DRive

2003-03-22 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, yogesh anand wrote: Dear all, i need to backup my linux mailserver and firewall to tape drive.can any one tell me ,how to use DAT DRIVE(tape drive)in linux 7.1/2. Wainting for the response. www.google.com is your best friend. Go bug them with the keywords backup

Re: [ilugd]: user access

2003-03-22 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Sanjeev Kulshreshtha wrote: Hi Friends I am running a cyber cafe and now i decide not to use Microsoft product as I decide to use license free software. A very wise decision, i'd say. I have just installed Red Hat Linux 8.0 distributed by PCQuest. THIS wasn't too

[ilugd]: Minutes of the Meeting

2003-03-22 Thread Dhruv Gami
Hello Everyone, We had quite a wonderful meet today, thanks to the great organising skills of Arshad Siddiqui and his friends at Jamia Hamdard. The meet started around 2:30 pm ( not too late, compared to some of the other meets ). Since both Gagan and LinuxLingam did not turn up, the

Re: [ilugd]: Minutes of the Meeting

2003-03-22 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Gagan Grewal wrote: Since both Gagan and LinuxLingam did not turn up, the pre-decided agenda So, the situation was infact troublesome for me to be at the meet. Hey Gagan, relax. You don't have to give explanations. You DID mail in advance to let us know you'd not be

Re: [ilugd]: I want to learn a new programming language, Which one??

2003-03-21 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Anand Shankar wrote: I want to learn a new programming language, Which one?? Any suggestions? Perl !!! (http://www.cpan.org) regards, Gami To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in

Re: [ilugd]: (fwd) Meeting Saturday, March 23, 2003

2003-03-21 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Raj Mathur wrote: Venue: Committe Room, Ground Floor, Library Building, Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi-62 Ahem, how far would this be from the Convention Hall where the Women's meet is going on ?? ;) regards, Gami

Re: [ilugd]: Newbie :Problem with internet connection - hotwire

2003-03-20 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Manoj Kumar Nair wrote: My ISP is 'Hotwire' and have a night package with them (starting 11:00 pm). The problem is they are using Authentication - a user name and password to log into the network. They provided me with a dialer for windows, but no support is provided by

Re: [ilugd]: Newbie :Problem with internet connection - hotwire

2003-03-20 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, vivek wrote: i've seen the hotwire client at one of my friend's place. it is NOT 24online, and they've provided some crap VB application to do the authentication. don't think they're competent enough to make a linux app, and also their connection though gives good speeds

Re: [ilugd]: CAD

2003-03-18 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, LinuxLingam wrote: is there anyone out there who would like to start working/developoing QCAD further? this could be another project we could initiate at linux-delhi under the gpl. Well, i know nothing about CAD and the software etc. But if someone can sit and explain

Re: [ilugd]: Meeting

2003-03-18 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Gagan Grewal wrote: I also have an idea for a project. I am not sure abt this but AFAIK a Concurrency Library for C++ doesn't exist. The basic idea is to encapsulate LWPs inside Objects ... Lalit Seth and I are willing to take this up. More volunteers Could you please

Re: Re: [ilugd]: FREE LINUX Training

2003-03-17 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Amit Goel wrote: The first batch has started and will be finishing by next month. Annuoncement will be made for next batch soon. -- Amit Hi Amit, Could you kindly form a separate mailing list / web based form for such registrations/replies ? It would take a LOT of load

Re: Re: [ilugd]: FREE LINUX Training

2003-03-17 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Amit Goel wrote: first Batch. And I don't think that is too much. I never asked anyone to reply on the list rather provided my email address for replies. It is time that we should educate newbies on list usage rather then asking people to stay off the list. In fact I did

Re: [ilugd]: Any Meeting Today??

2003-03-16 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, LinuxLingam wrote: venue? raj was mentioning jamia university, IIT delhi maths deptt we could request, and someone last month was mentioning another place in/near CP. speak up and where you guys prefer to meet. IIT seems fine. Though CP would definitely be much better.

[ilugd]: Re: Help with setting up school lab in Colombia

2003-03-16 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Nishikant Kapoor wrote: I am a school teacher administrator, interested in improoving my 0 knowlege of linux, I am not a systems ingeneer or so, a windows flat plain user, but very much interested in helping our school teachers and students to get closer to

[ilugd]: Returned mail: User unknown (fwd)

2003-03-16 Thread Dhruv Gami
Great ! Now how do we contact this guy ??? Regards, Gami From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Returned mail: User unknown - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Transcript of session follows -

Re: [ilugd]: Meeting

2003-03-16 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Raj Mathur wrote: I'm proposing that we have our March meeting on Saturday, March 22. Sunday is the World Cup final, and I believe some people like to watch cricket. Saturday seems good ! Venue: Unless there's a drastic issue, Jamia Hamdard

[ilugd]: Re: [PLUG] tuxedo.org games (fwd)

2003-03-14 Thread Dhruv Gami
Kindly update your bookmarks. tuxedo.org has now moved to catb.org --Gami -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 17:11:27 -0500 From: Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PLUG] tuxedo.org games Jeff

Re: [ilugd]: Dump M/C (Help)

2003-03-01 Thread Dhruv Gami
On 1 Mar 2003, Arshad H. Siddiqui wrote: i want 2 run Linux on Server and use it wth few Dump M/c without Hard Disk and without processor. You're looking for LTSP (www.ltsp.org) though im not sure if u can have dumb terminals without processors. Anyone else got any comments/information

[ilugd]: .asc files

2003-03-01 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, gaurav daga wrote: How to open .asc file?? .asc files are plaintext ASCII files, which usually contain the signatures of the mail sender (when used in context of email). Also, please take out some time and read through the mailing list guidelines

[ilugd]: worldmap and irc courses (fwd)

2003-03-01 Thread Dhruv Gami
Hi guys, volunteers required to give talks on #debian on IRC. These talks are held every saturday on irc.freenode.net, and are an excellent way to learn about various topics. The next two weeks are on 3d software. visit www.linuks.mine.nu/irc/ for more details on these talks. The guy is also

Re: [ilugd]: whither linux-delhi?

2003-02-27 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, LinuxLingam wrote: 1) should linux-delhi.org be allowed to promote such software? *only* a vote by all members can decide this. so let's stop discussing, and start voting. i The question here, as has been raised before, is how does one define promote? According to

Re: [LONG-short] Re: [ilugd]: Linux based Software

2003-02-27 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Anand Shankar wrote: Should the ilugd not discuss following: 1. Use of Oracle on Linux Platform: Because it is proprietary SW and does not help freedom 2. Samba: Because it has no relevance without MS-Windows OS, again a proprietary product, and does not help

Re: [ilugd]: Re:Helping India's economy

2003-02-25 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Raj Shekhar wrote: I have written a paper Using Free Software in E-Governance which examines why India should use Free Software in e-governance. You can find the paper at http://geocities.com/lunatech3007/writing-index.html Please feel free to copy and further distribute

Re: [ilugd]: Helping India's economy

2003-02-21 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Arjun wrote: However, I am majorly looking at (i) The service providers butting in on paid basis. This requires locating Linux sys-integrators and service providers hence a request to all the ilugd members and LFY for locating them. They can

Re: [ilugd]: Helping India's economy : A Free/Libre Open SourceSoftware promotion scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Arjun wrote: sysadmins. Create a CD which will meet all the requirements of class IX, X, XI,XII syllabii. Help schools have atleast one system administrator. Teachers may be interested since quite a few are sick of kids

[ilugd]: Just a thought

2003-02-18 Thread Dhruv Gami
Hello everyone, This mail is specifically for those who have attended today's meet, or any other meet in recent times. I have noticed that some people, knowingly or unknowingly, tend to promote their professional services during discussions. It may have the advantage of people getting to

[ilugd]: Minutes of Meeting (16-Feb-2003)

2003-02-18 Thread Dhruv Gami
Hello everyone, here are the minutes of the meeting held on feb 16, 2003, at IIT Delhi. There were about 20 people present at the meeting, and we generally discussed various topics like kernel 2.6, M$ bashing, etc etc. More specifically, we heard about the Arjun's efforts in Naval Public

[ilugd]: Just a thought (fwd)

2003-02-16 Thread Dhruv Gami
Hello everyone, This mail is specifically for those who have attended today's meet, or any other meet in recent times. I have noticed that some people, knowingly or unknowingly, tend to promote their professional services during discussions. It may have the advantage of people getting to

[ilugd]: Minutes of Meeting (16-Feb-2003) (fwd)

2003-02-16 Thread Dhruv Gami
Hello everyone, here are the minutes of the meeting held on feb 16, 2003, at IIT Delhi. There were about 20 people present at the meeting, and we generally discussed various topics like kernel 2.6, M$ bashing, etc etc. More specifically, we heard about the Arjun's efforts in Naval Public

Re: [ilugd]: need some help in configuring my .emacs

2003-02-13 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Sandeep Nanajkar wrote: Hi, I have started using emacs -nw (not Xemacs)of late, can some one send a sample of his .emacs ...so that i can configure the color coding (for java,c,C++ - modes) you might want to try out 'jed'. its based on emacs, and is an excellent

Re: [ilugd]: Meeting place for Monthly meetings in center of Delhi

2003-01-19 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Prateek wrote: Sandip Bhattacharya writes: This sounds wonderful to me!!! ... and I am sure the folks this side of yamuna would feel the same about it. couldnt agree more...!! But what about the equipment and stuff we might need, for burning CDs, talks and

Re: [ilugd]: Procmail

2003-01-16 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Vikas Gandhi wrote: Has someone used procmail. I need to know its basic utility. Can some one pls guide me. Putting it very politely, RTFM. Procmail is an autonomous mail processor, it can be used to use filters on your incoming mails. 'man procmail' should help u.

Re: Re: [ilugd]: Re: Multibooting ....

2003-01-15 Thread Dhruv Gami
On 14 Jan 2003, Abu M. Muttalib wrote: Thats waht I was planning to do earlier. But Dhruv ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) had droped a mail asking me to send this stuff in the mailing list only. Thats why its there. Wish i'd known what you had in mind ;) I thought it would be a couple of pages of

[ilugd]: CD Mailing list

2003-01-08 Thread Dhruv Gami
Guys can we please move all conversations regarding CDs and their acquisitions to the CD mailing list ? to subscribe to the CD mailing list, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subscribe as the subject. Plus, can anyone on Linux-delhi tell me who's coordinating the CD list ? regards, Gami

Re: [ilugd] Multibooting between win98/Win2K/Linux

2003-01-03 Thread Dhruv Gami
On 3 Jan 2003, Abu M. Muttalib wrote: I hav e prepared a multibotiing machine for me running a total of seven OS es. These were amongthem. I would like to definitely help u in this regard. U can call me at9811315027 after9 PM

[ilugd]: Re: An idea : love it or hate it !

2003-01-02 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Gags Grewal wrote: Well the idea is ... why don't all of us Linux users build a grid like network of our boxes running Linux and collaborate in the most ultimate manner. If you're suggesting that you're gonna take up the task of doing a feasibility study and tell us HOW

Re: [ilugd]: I am Sorry (Ref: East Delhi Member Directory)

2002-12-17 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Zareef Ahmed wrote: can i ask some queston to all of you 1. What is more important linux progress or strength(!)of ILGUD? umm i didnt quite get your question...kindly elaborate. 2. if making of smaller group is harmfull to linux drive then why not close ILGUD and

[ilugd]: IRC-Howto

2002-12-16 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Dhruv Gami wrote: Ok people. The IRC channel is up at irc.openprojects.net, port 6667, room #linux-delhi For those who dont know how to logon to IRC, read this quick howto. Start an IRC client, like Chatzilla (comes bundled with Mozilla), or ircii (for console

[ilugd]: Minutes of meeting on December 15, 2002

2002-12-15 Thread Dhruv Gami
The December meeting of India Linux Users Group - Delhi Chapter was held on December 15, 2002 at 3 p.m. at Lecture Hall, Department of Mathematics, IIT, Delhi. The meeting was attended by the following: 1. Leo Fernandez 2. Prateek Khanna 3. Dhruv Gami 4. Anand Shankar 5. Prashant Verma 6

Re: [ilugd]: ATTENTION: Linux quick migration team

2002-11-19 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, shah tushar wrote: Lastly should we come up with a small site either withing DLUG/LAP or any place where we can document our efforts(if any effort is put in ;) The ENTIRE LAP site runs on TWiKi. you're FREE to do anything you want with the site. Its meant for such

[ilugd]: ATTENTION: Linux quick migration team

2002-11-15 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, sudhir chauhan wrote: Hi Friends, I would like to join you guys, yeah ok, good idea. then what ? First of all, please go and read the mailing list guidelines. Learn how to live on the internet and talk to people there. Also, If you are really interested in doing

[ilugd]: Mailing List Guidelines

2002-11-15 Thread Dhruv Gami
This is for the new kids on the block, Kindly read the mailing list guidelines available at http://www.kandalaya.org/guidelines.html Please try to conform to the same. regards Gami PS: NO ALL CAPS MAILS...IT HURTS SANDEEP ;) To

Re: [ilugd]: Quik Reaction team: linux migration -Anybody interested???

2002-11-09 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Abhishek Kumar wrote: me too.let's have a meeting From: Abhishek Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes I do want to be a volunteer. I AM ON IT what about u ? gaurav Hi, An initiative on the same lines has already been taken and is called LAP (Linux Access Project). Please

[ilugd]: IRC room

2002-08-31 Thread Dhruv Gami
hi guys, im usually on at server: irc.openprojects.net port: 6667 room: #linux-delhi for those who havent logged onto IRC before, use an IRC client like ircii(console), or mozilla's chatzilla (GUI) and connect to the abovementioned server and then /join #linux-delhi to join the room.

[ilugd]: Meeting !

2002-08-30 Thread Dhruv Gami
Hi shonal, where is the meeting ? how about the address, and a rough directions thingy ? regards, Gami 8/30/02 10:33:00 PM, Shonal Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi guys So what have we finalised. is Sep 8 , 3 pm in the afternoon is OK for a ILUG-D Meeting.

[ilugd]: a reminder for everyone

2002-08-28 Thread Dhruv Gami
hi guys, just as a reminder, please go through the mailing list guidelines. and i suggest everyone do that. http://www.kandalaya.org/guidelines.html its not a HUGE page, and surprisingly, much of it is comprehensible. regards, Gami

Re: [ilugd]: IRC ?

2002-08-25 Thread Dhruv Gami
This was tried in Linux-India a couple of years ago. Didn't work out because while there were enough users overall, at any given time the channel barely held one or two users, and usually not even that. well, my point was that because most of the people now have those always-on kind net

Re: [ilugd]: Historic Event

2002-07-11 Thread Dhruv Gami
PS: that Trinity on the bike! PPS: and that's MY bike :) Gami To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org