Lets start a flame war Was:[ilugd]: [TROLL] Why I don't like PHP

2002-08-25 Thread penguinhead
Sorry I am giving in to raju's troll. Perl is great or Hair Dryer Sucks If you are a Perl programmer the world will hate you. That was not a very motivational comment I got from a Perl Programmer upon confrontation of Interest in Perl. To demonstrate Perl's power I'll speak of a true

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]: Free as in Freedom - Issue needs urgent decisions !

2002-08-25 Thread Sudhir Gandotra
Hello friends, This issue needs to be discussed and decisions taken. It will be definately good not to keep this issue pending, so that the participation in the group is clearer and one knows one's limits and the limits that the group's policies impose on the discussions/topics/participation.

[ilugd]: Making Bootable CD

2002-08-25 Thread Nitin Chandra
Hi! i am looking for the link / thread ..which was previously disscussing about creating bootable CD...can i have the link pli have tried "mkbootdisk --device=/dev/scd0 2.4.7-10" and it says cannot format disk...i am usng a brand new CD-R of WRITEXi havea LG CDRW(24x,10x,40x)it

Re: [ilugd]: IRC ?

2002-08-25 Thread Gowthaman R.
i support Gami's words. situation is very different now...lets try again... gowtham Dhruv Gami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: 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

Re: [ilugd]: Free as in Freedom - Issue needs urgent decisions !

2002-08-25 Thread Raju Mathur
Hi Sudhir, I don't think it's fair to misrepresent my statements and ideas and to put words in my mouth to sell your own ideas as you have done in your mail. Since you've brought it up, here's my response: Sudhir == Sudhir Gandotra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sudhir Hello friends, This

Re: [ilugd]: Free as in Freedom - Issue needs urgent decisions !

2002-08-25 Thread Nitin Chandra
Hi! Everybody This discussion need an involvement of every one on the mail listthose who were there at the last LUG-dmeeting and those who are on the mail list.really guys...we need to have everybodys participation on this topiccuz...i support the idea where one on the people of the

Re: [ilugd]: (fwd) here it comes!@#$!

2002-08-25 Thread Prateek Khanna
BTW...we have a very good Dominoes in East Delhi...Let's do it!! - Original Message - From: Dhruv Gami [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [ilugd]: (fwd) here it comes!@#$! 8/24/02 5:14:35 PM, Shonal Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd]: Making Bootable CD

2002-08-25 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
At 04:51 AM 8/25/2002 -0700, you wrote: i am looking for the link / thread ..which was previously disscussing about creating bootable CD...can i have the link pli have tried mkbootdisk --device=/dev/scd0 2.4.7-10 and it says cannot format disk...i am usng a brand new CD-R of WRITEXi

[ilugd]: Installing Dragon Linux on IBM thinkpad

2002-08-25 Thread viksit gaur
Hi all..I've rejoined this list after maybe 2 years..so hello again! I was installing dragon linux on an IBM thinkpad 486 50 mhz 8mb ram from one of the latest PCQ cds. However after running setup, i get a swap file error and an infinite loop. Why does this happen? can someone help? it installs

Re: [ilugd]: [TROLL] Why I don't like PHP

2002-08-25 Thread amit soni
Grr... read on Just some thoughts I'd put together for a friend. Feel free to flame :-) Why I prefer Perl or PHP sucks 1. PHP is not a general-purpose programming language. No matter how hard the creators of PHP try to make it one, it started out as an embedded web-programming

[ilugd]: Red Hat 7.2

2002-08-25 Thread arun-vsnl
Hi, I'm a new member. This a request for a problem solution. The steps in my installation are as under: -1- On a 40 GB HDD, made a primary partition of 5 GB and loaded windows -2- Installed Linux; swap, / and /boot. Lilo installed. Both Windows and linux were bootable. -3- Made the mounting

Re: [ilugd]: [TROLL] Why I don't like PHP

2002-08-25 Thread Arunjeet Singh
As I've said to countless people countless times, GIVE IT TIME. PHP may not be as popular or as efficient as Perl is today, but you need to see where its coming from. Perl has a much older history yes, but it was never meant for the web per se, although it has adapted wonderfully. The fact that

RE: [ilugd]: Red Hat 7.2

2002-08-25 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Warning FAT 32 is alpha and loading stops [the cursor keeps blinking though; Just press CTRL + c, stops the Checking Filesystems part and goes into runlevel 3, I guess ;-) To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]