Re: [ILUG-BOM] Open Standards policy finalized--major victory for the FOSS community

2010-11-12 Thread Chetan S
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:16 PM, steve st...@lonetwin.net wrote: Hi, On 11/12/2010 06:50 PM, jtd wrote: On Friday 12 November 2010 17:39:52 Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:  The open standards policy has been finalized and it incorporates  many of the suggestions made by the FOSS community in

Re: [ILUG-BOM] zte wireless data terminal installation and configuration in ubuntu

2009-07-04 Thread Chetan S
Beware, there must be a hidden cap. somewhere. TataIndicom and Reliance made similar announcements about unlimited transfer when they introduced their high speed CDMA wireless service in Mumbai.  They backed out of that claim with an * foot note (10GB/month cap or something like that). :)

Re: [ILUG-BOM] zte wireless data terminal installation and configuration in ubuntu

2009-07-03 Thread Chetan S
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Kussh Singhkussh.si...@gmail.com wrote: I was able to use the internet thru the zte wireless data terminal thru ubuntu (and in windows) but the speeds were very low-- much lower than advertised and half of the usual 256Kbps dsl connection. All in all it looks to

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Visual Source Safe from Ubuntu

2009-06-26 Thread Chetan S
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Pravin Dhayfuledhayf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need to access Visual Source Safe from Ubuntu. Are there any VSS client application for ubuntu (apart from executing that vss exe through wine)? Check this page for migrating from VSS to SVN.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] which method is more efficient to implement for any file editor?

2009-03-09 Thread Chetan S
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:46 PM, sachin puri readsac...@gmail.com wrote: I wish to know why does vim create a new file in case 1. Wouldn't it be a costly operation, especially in case of large files? Not really if the swap file only records the changes / operations to the original in the swap. A

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Any experiences with fs other than ext3?

2009-02-12 Thread Chetan S
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] abhishek.amber...@gmail.com wrote: Hello LUG Members, I want to try XFS on my home system. I have read some articles saying XFS is faster than Ext3 but Less reliable than it. So, I would like to read your experiences about FSs other

Re: [ILUG-BOM] mplayer from java

2006-01-19 Thread Chetan S
On 1/19/06, Puneet Lakhina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i am sorry if you dont think this is relevant to the list... but i thought i could get help here... I have a java application from which i am tryin to execute mplayer... Runtime.getRuntime.exec(mplyaer -fs myfile.mpg); when i

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Automated Encryption

2005-11-17 Thread Chetan S
On 11/16/05, Sushant Gulati [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello everybody, I am experiencing a proble related to encryption. can u suggest some encryption method which if used with shell scripts, needs no user input and can be fully automated, eg. methods where user doesnt hav to type in the

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Multimedia in Linux

2005-11-17 Thread Chetan S
On 11/16/05, Rony Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will yum be the end of all my linux installation woes? Thanks, Rony. yup. C -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Multimedia in Linux

2005-11-17 Thread Chetan S
On 11/17/05, Hardik Dalwadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's dumb autocompletion. Smarter autocompletion autocompletes Nothing is dumb in linux. It depends on how you configure it. package names, command options, hostnames, etc.. and not just file names. Can you just share how to do this.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Help on GUI Tools

2005-11-15 Thread Chetan S
On 11/14/05, Philip Tellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometime on Nov 12, SK cobbled together some glyphs to say: On 11/9/05, Gopi K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are glade and gtk+ different?? No certainly not... but also has hooks for gnome development. I found even KDevelop / QT

Re: [ILUG-BOM] cyber crime

2005-10-27 Thread Chetan S
On 10/26/05, Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/10/05 19:39 +0530, Chetan S wrote: yup. While it qualifies as spam itself I would say that the news reported are good. Spam is about consent, not content. Devdas Bhagat right. The contents are good the consent was absent hence

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Unattended execution of Bash script in Linux from Windows

2005-10-20 Thread Chetan S
On 10/19/05, Varadarajan V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to automate all of this i.e., from loging in to FC4 till the execution of the Bash script. Use REXX or if you are more comfy with ssh then setup ssh via cygwin and then store your XP public ssh key on the remote linux machine to enable

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] MTNL Triband

2005-10-04 Thread Chetan S
On 10/4/05, Dinesh Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whoa. I haven't heard of Airtel landlines in Mumbai! I am talking about the suburbs. Are you sure they are in Mumbai? I have read a lot of good things abour Airtel DSL on broadbandforum.in http://broadbandforum.inand I really hope that they

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Trying to use expect to automate the Sify Login process...

2005-09-25 Thread Chetan S
On 9/24/05, Dinesh Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 September 2005 09:52, Sanket Medhi wrote: Hello, People who are using Sify as their ISP have just gotten lucky as I have finally been able to automate the whole login/logout process using Expect. Now, I can login/logout

Re: [ILUG-BOM] problem with kernel compilation

2005-09-19 Thread Chetan S
On 9/20/05, Nikhil Prabhakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RAMDISK: image too big!(38180/8192blocks) VFS:cannot open root device hda9 or unknown block (0,0) please append a correct root=boot option kernel panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on unknown - block(0,0) Apparently you've tried to enable

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Dependencies

2005-09-15 Thread Chetan S
On 9/15/05, Puneet Lakhina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IS there a command that i can use that can recursively check for all dependencies a particular piece of software requires Assuming you are using Fedora/Redhat you can use apt4rpm or yum to resolve such dependencies and generally handle your

Re: [ILUG-BOM] bash 'cd' problem

2005-08-31 Thread Chetan S
When the script is executed, it gives the pwd as /opt and the ls lists the contents of /opt. But when I execute pwd from shell, it gives the directory from where I executed the script. remove the intial #!/bin/sh and try running the script as # . script-name to run the commands in the current

Re: [ILUG-BOM] bash 'cd' problem

2005-08-31 Thread Chetan S
source command does the right thing. but then what is the problem when i execute it with ./ subshell. Not all changes in subshell reflect to parent shell. Try referring Advanced Bash Scripting guide for more answers. regards, C -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Downloading Knoppix in Sify Broadband

2005-08-08 Thread Chetan S
What you need is a download manager, which is basically what FlashGet is. There are many other download managers, wget being the favourite of most linux users. Its available for windows too. :) http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html Since you have started using FlashGet, you can continue

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux based browser

2004-08-29 Thread Chetan S
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:45:59 +0530 (IST), Philip Tellis IIRC, .mht is a microsoft proprietary format. Don't use it. Last I looked at it , .mht file looked like a common mail (had sender fields etc ) ... it uses mime and is pretty much human readable unlike usual proprietary formats like

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: [Commercial]Wanted Linux Hacker

2004-08-11 Thread Chetan S
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:17:05 +0530, Rajesh Rajani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I guess we are all going off on the wrong foot here. Everyone is. Right from Anil to others who want us to be tolerant ? And just so that I'm not left out, am wrong too. Oh and just so that we can have a little

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Compressing CD-ROMS

2004-08-03 Thread Chetan S
[snip] I have a lot of files, which are ranged from 735mb to 1.5 gigabytes. I´d like to burn each of those files to a single cd, but they exceed the capacity of every cd(700mb max). 2. Compress the ones that are data files or databases: but if I use zip software, in order to read em from

Re: [ILUG-BOM]

2004-08-02 Thread Chetan S
I'm back with another query for a BSP.NFS mounting. wb. Kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 00:ff Is'nt it linux's most feared error ? And the panic word doesn't help much =) What is this 00:ff and what is wrong with /dev/nfs? Funnily I remembered a tech-support query joke

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Meeting Agenda

2004-07-17 Thread Chetan S
I would love to hear something on hibernation of Linux. I have tried swsusp command on 2.6.5 kernel, but I guess I am crashing the system rather than suspending the system. Has someone configured hibernating a system? I did. It freezes on loading X and thats tricky at best. The rest

[ILUG-BOM] sorry for hijacking the prev thread.

2004-07-17 Thread Chetan S
Sorry guys, for hijacking the prev. thread from Nikhil. I happened to read the swsup bit in that and blurted. :-) C -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Temperature monitor

2004-07-15 Thread Chetan S
Has anyone used any CPU temperature monitor on Linux? I am googling but there seem to be hardly any. google again. this time for lm_sensors and gkrellm C -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Gentoo anyone ?

2004-07-12 Thread Chetan S
Recently installed gentoo and it seems to be really great. Is anyone using gentoo on this list ? Are there any caveats to consider while using it ? yeps. a gentoo fan right here. no probs yet. absolutely none. check their forums, superb and hyperactive. Watch those optimiser flags and make

Re: [ILUG-BOM] HTML Mail Issue

2004-07-11 Thread Chetan S
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:28:07 +0530, Sachin Rase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Rajesh , me too. How bout a second round of poll to decide this ? AFAIK the last one decided to send warning to html mailers ? But i think in our mailing list we prefer TEXT mail over HTML mail and we do

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Sorry for quad post

2004-07-11 Thread Chetan S
Andy wrote : [snip] Chill mate...! Why four times the same reply? Gmail not working at your end? :-)) We are getting your message fine... [snip] sorry dude... didn't know about that.. but gmail still shows only 1 sent mail. Guys did it really go thru thrice , er, frice ??? ;) C --

Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Building a root filesystem

2004-07-03 Thread Chetan S
On 3 Jul 2004 07:49:43 -, Raseel Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually Arjun, the problem is that Karim's book doesn'= t not explicitly teach the building of the root filesystem. Let me get this right. You are trying to get a specific file/directory hierarchy and not develop a

Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: GNU Toolchain

2004-06-29 Thread Chetan S
On 29 Jun 2004 11:54:42 -, Raseel Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Hey Chetan, I found this at : http://kegel.com/crosstool/current/patches/glibc-2.2.2/glibc-manual-stdin.texi-1.127.patch and it is serving my purpose perfectly. The only problem is i have no idea how im gonna

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: GNU Toolchain

2004-06-26 Thread Chetan S
there are some nifty conf bugs when u try to work with an old tool chain. You would do better hunting for solutions on google / dev-lists of glibc glibc is notorious in not getting compiled. more so than gcc itself. Thats why the tons of patches from redhat et al. C --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GNU Toolchain

2004-06-25 Thread Chetan S
On 25 Jun 2004 05:37:33 -, Raseel Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building the GNU toolchain for a= i386 platform, specifically , with my host machine being PIII(i686) However, Im getting erros while make ing . Has anyone actually compiled= a GNU toolchain for an i386

Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] GNU Toolchain

2004-06-25 Thread Chetan S
On 25 Jun 2004 12:09:19 -, Raseel Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for CVS, I'm no good with = that. Well you don't have to know cvs to browse gentoo-cvs. They have web-based cvs browsing at this url : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi Then again from looking at the error

Re: [ILUG-BOM] limiting size of files served by Apache

2004-06-25 Thread Chetan S
Will try that out. Trying to achieve exactly what I said ... not allowing users to put unreasonably large files for download on their websites. why can't you run a script to do that file-size checking on the server ?? whenever an addition is made to any user directory u might do exactly that.