[ILUG-BOM] ADMIN: Notice to all indiatimes.com users

2004-07-20 Thread Philip S Tellis
All indiatimes.com users please be aware that your mail server is extremely unreliable and bounces mails regularly. Almost all indiatimes users' subscriptions have been automatically disabled because of excessive bounces. You are hereby requested to change your email service provider. No

Re: [ILUG-BOM] coffee day snaps uploaded

2004-04-03 Thread Philip S Tellis
Nice. Wish I could have stayed till the end, but bags had to be packed. What time did you leave finally? Philip -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Can Kopete replace GAIM and XChat?

2004-03-30 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Amit Upadhyay wrote: Your articles are generally very interesting, but they get lost in mails. I have created a blog at ilug-bom-blogspot.com, and will be Better would be to use something like bloglines to just grab the rss feeds from the original websites themselves. No

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Having fun in next GLUG Meet? Slug Fest?

2004-03-29 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Dinesh Shah assembled some asciibets to say: Let us have a slug fest in our next GLUG meet. Last date for nomination : 5th April 2004. Let's just have it this Saturday - 3rd April. We'll decide teams on the spot. Philip -- Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RE: Having fun in next GLUG Meet? Slug Fest?

2004-03-29 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Vivek J. Patankar wrote: saturday 4PM... Cafe Coffee Day (which one?), confirmed? Carter Road Bandra West. To get there from: Bandra station: bus nos: 220, 221, 214 going towards Khar. The bus stop is opposite CCD Khar station: same buses, going towards Bandra

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Release Candidate 3 of OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 is ready for download.

2004-03-26 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Krishna Dagli wrote: getting all application to show the same number of printers and that too in the same order across all application, without hacking each of the configuration/rc files of each appliaction? Not in Gnome at least. KDE has very good printer integration

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Old thread

2004-03-25 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Trevor Warren wrote: We have close to 700 members on this list Krishna. Do let us know which 810 actually. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] READ ... problem

2004-03-23 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Linux User wrote: the file descriptor fd is the same one that was used to download. now all that i am doing is reading from it again to Please don't top post. Show us what you're doing with the fd. Philip -- Reinhart was never his mother's favorite -- and he was an

Re: [ILUG-BOM] READ ... problem

2004-03-23 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Linux Power wrote: what is n declared as ? Why are you wasting bandwidth? -- The onset and the waning of love make themselves felt in the uneasiness experienced at being alone together. -- Jean de la Bruyere --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] read PROBLEM [ code ]

2004-03-23 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Devdas Bhagat assembled some asciibets to say: /* * The OP should tell us why he/she is using read and write instead of * fread and fwrite, or perhaps rename to move the file instead */ irrelevant. fread/fwrite won't work on file descriptors. They require FILE

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Academic FLOSS (Was: GLUG Meet?)

2004-03-22 Thread Philip S Tellis
On 22 Mar 2004, Venkatesh (Venky) Hariharan wrote: What can we do to make the LUG meets more interesting and generate greater participation? Would be good to hear from the list members. When the members were few, the meets were frequent. People were in it to *exchange* ideas. Today people

Re: [ILUG-BOM] READ ... problem

2004-03-22 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Linux User wrote: Now when i copy...i.e when i try to read from this downloaded file n = read(fd,buff,sizeof(buff)); n is always 1 where is buff declared? what is it declared as? do you have code like this: char buff[1024]; foo(buff); void foo(char *buff) {

Re: [ILUG-BOM] SITE DOCUMENTATION

2004-03-22 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Mar 22, Sachin assembled some asciibets to say: Can someone send me the sample of site documentation for reference. I huh? manje kai? -- Knowledge, sir, should be free to all! -- Harry Mudd, I, Mudd, stardate 4513.3 --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows is more secure than Linux out of the box

2004-03-22 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Mar 22, Trevor Warren assembled some asciibets to say: Proven: Windows is more secure than Linux out of the box Aha, warmups for the big release on the 1st. Philip -- The best way to preserve a right is to exercise it, and the right to smoke is a right worth dying for. --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows is more secure than Linux out of the box

2004-03-22 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Linux Power wrote: only 2 things are possible. 1. the writer is on crack 2. another microsoft paid propoganda or number 3: you did not read the article. -- Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] CVS vs MKS vs DOMINO

2004-03-18 Thread Philip S Tellis
On 18 Mar 2002, milo wrote: i need to use a document/version control system. The alternatives that i have are CVS, MKS and Lotus Domino. I know that CVS being a free add subversion to your list. It's from the apache guys, and solves many of the problems faced by the others. See their

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Why linux operates my H/D at 33MHz PIO????? :-(

2004-03-18 Thread Philip S Tellis
Ok, I don't know how this turned into a thread on grub.conf, but getting back to the subject... Many IDE controllers are buggy, and can corrupt your hard disk if you use DMA. To protect against this, linux uses PIO by default. If you're sure that your IDE controller does not have this bug,

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GLUG meeting.

2004-03-16 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Nagarjuna G. wrote: Please check, if we follow the norm, the meeting should be on 11th april. venue at CDAC Bandra is available. check with philip on this. I cannot make it in April. -- You will be the victim of a bizarre joke. --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] (why bother with) Changing the subject line

2004-03-15 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Mar 13, Venkatesh (Venky) Hariharan assembled some asciibets to say: line also? That way, those browsing the archives would get to find info they are looking for faster. A more appropriate subject line I've found that on this list, no one really cares about people who would browse

[ILUG-BOM] stuff for the lug meet

2004-03-15 Thread Philip S Tellis
I've done this: http://www.livejournal.com/users/bluesmoon/58667.html on my machine at home, and if the lug meet isn't too far away, I can show people how it's done. Philip -- Your mode of life will be changed to EBCDIC. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] stuff for the lug meet

2004-03-15 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Amish Munshi wrote: That will be great. Finally there is someone ready to give a seminar. I can aleast think of a arranging for a meeting now. I will require a PC on which the kernel can be recompiled, and also a net connection to download all patches. If this can be

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GLUG meeting.

2004-03-15 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Amish Munshi wrote: 2. BootSplash Configurations- Philip. Note that this is subject to the meeting being held in March. -- You have a tendency to feel you are superior to most computers. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] LUG Meet

2004-03-12 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Nagarjuna G. wrote: training centre. on the second sunday of April which is 11th. If you 11th April is Easter. -- All generalizations are false, including this one. -- Mark Twain -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

RE: [ILUG-BOM] loggin in yahoo thru GAIM from behind a proxy

2004-03-11 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Mar 10, Sthitaprajna assembled some asciibets to say: works. As does ayttm(though I have issues sending messages to people who are invisible in yahoo) Maybe you did not select the Allow Offline Messaging button - it's sole purpose is to send offline messages/messages to people

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Speeding up Linux adoption

2004-03-11 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Mar 11, Biju G C assembled some asciibets to say: What ever IE do achievable in Mozilla. See pojects at http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm I don't think so. Things that IE can do that Mozilla cannot: - run viruses - allow remote users to gain access to your system (some

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Graphics Tablet

2004-03-09 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Maz Kamran assembled some asciibets to say: Configuring such hardware is difficult I guess and if someone has done it, it would help me make the decision. I've never worked with a graphics tablet before, but if you live close enough to me, I'd like to try. Seems interesting.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Speeding up Linux adoption

2004-03-09 Thread Philip S Tellis
On 9 Mar 2004, Venkatesh (Venky) Hariharan wrote: * Getting Internet Explorer working (natively?) on Linux (This will be of particular help in increasing the penetration of Linux in banks since many banking applications, though browser based, are optimized to

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Running TATA- EX NexGen from linux box

2004-03-06 Thread Philip S Tellis
on the subject (see below)? you've even included that irrelevant message in its entirety. repetition will cause you to be put on moderation. - Original Message - From: Philip S Tellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Organizing Gif images to html

2004-03-06 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Mar 6, Maz Kamran assembled some asciibets to say: I have a directory of say 300 small images ( as gif files). Now I want to convert this into a series of HTML pages. Is there an automated way to do it? Exactly what do you mean by convert gif to html? -- A black cat crossing

Re: [ILUG-BOM] New member introduction

2004-03-05 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Feb 9, Famolaya Berrymore assembled some asciibets to say: I have just moved to mumbai from goa,was looking for such a list.Found Welcome to Mumbai and to the list. I ask only that you read and follow the guidelines that were sent to you when you joined this list. Philip --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Root Login for FTP

2004-03-04 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, I R Veejay wrote: I wanted to know if it is possible for root to login using FTP. I know yes. read the docs. it would be unsafe for us to give you information without you understanding all the consequences, so, read the docs. I don't have ftpd installed, so can't tell

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Sound Card Configuration problems with HP d330 desktop

2004-03-03 Thread Philip S Tellis
[snip 2 lines of reply] [snip 63 lines of quoted text] 3.17% new content in the message. -- A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. -- Groucho Marx -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] problem booting redhat linux 9

2004-03-03 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Configuring Kernel Parameters [OK] After this system just hangs boot from your installation CD in rescue mode (linux rescue), and then check your /var/log/messages file. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Urgent openings for Linux, php professionals

2004-03-02 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, subramanian assembled some asciibets to say: Please mention the following details in your resume and send it as a word doc file. Please explain your reasons for forcing linux users to use proprietary, closed and undocumented file formats like

[ILUG-BOM] quoting formats - for everyone to read

2004-03-02 Thread Philip S Tellis
I'm bringing up this issue again because I see a trend here. What exactly do different quoting methods achieve? [quoting is the process of including the original message in your reply with some form of quote character, like for example marking the text as quoted, and a reply lead in like On

Re: [ILUG-BOM] blocking serial port

2004-03-01 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Manasi Shah wrote: script. I would like to block the serial port, whenever every fork of the scrip is using it. in short i wud like to serialize the requests You can use file locks. Any process which cannot get the lock will block (sleep) until it does. If you don't want

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Info on SAPDB

2004-02-29 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, kishor bhagwat assembled some asciibets to say: This isnt a AskJeeevan list! ;-) arrhhh me hearties. he's back! -- Xerox never comes up with anything original. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] NMLUG [Navi Mumbai Linux Users Group] created! but not needed

2004-02-29 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Clinton Goveas assembled some asciibets to say: Navi Mumbai is a really far off place especially with relation to to where current Mumbai LUG meetings are held. In my opinion, it is Most Mumbai lug meets are held at Mankhurd - which is on the border between Mumbai and Navi

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Training on GTK+ with C/C++ or Perl

2004-02-29 Thread Philip S Tellis
On 1 Mar 2004, vaibhav samant wrote: I wish to learn GTK+ with C/C++ or perl. Vaibhav, did you try searching on google for the same? You'll get the best resources from there. -- Perceptions rule the universe. -Bene Gesserit Saying -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Login Problem

2004-02-28 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Feb 27, rajendra thanekar assembled some asciibets to say: I have registered on your site but i am not able to login into your system to download the files. Please look into it and reply. What the heck are you talking about? -- All assassins had a full-length mirror in their

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need help on multi OS booting.Urgent.

2004-02-28 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Rohit assembled some asciibets to say: Now my problem is that i have installed windows 98 first then win xp then windows 2000 with boot options of all three.I installed debian woody 3 on hda8 and then redhat linux 9 on hda9.Now after installing redhat linux 9 The boot loader

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need help on multi OS booting.Urgent.

2004-02-28 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Rohit assembled some asciibets to say: How do i do that,what addition do i have to make in windows 2000 boot loader and how do i make it default bootloader.Do i have to uninstall google. -- HOST SYSTEM RESPONDING, PROBABLY UP... --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Mumbai_GNULinux Group GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai

2004-02-26 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, sameer shinde assembled some asciibets to say: Even I don't know abt any Linux Gr. existing in Navi Mumbai. Not Navi Mumbai, north mumbai, ie, Virar side. -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to restrict access to perticular useto browse dir contents !!

2004-02-25 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Dilip M assembled some asciibets to say: For example, i want some user A to see only /home/username Even he should not be able to do cd /,or cd /tmp ot ls -l / etc man bash, look for RESTRICTED SHELL. (bash -r or rbash) -- You need tender loving care once a week - so that

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Anyone used a GNU/linux based Answering Machine software? Anyrecomendations?

2004-02-24 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, S. K Rahman assembled some asciibets to say: PS: Can we have such FAQ/Howto (list specific compiled and published in the ilug-bom web site ) Any volunteers? http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/ And there's always the TLDP. -- The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Anyone used a GNU/linux based Answering Machine software? Anyrecomendations?

2004-02-24 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Anurag Patel assembled some asciibets to say: in fact, we have planned for maintaining a compilation of all the question and answers in the form of an FAQ list at this group's This plan has been around since 2001 IIRC, and several people have started and given up. I wish you

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Anyone used a GNU/linux based Answering Machine software? Anyrecomendations?

2004-02-24 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Anurag Patel assembled some asciibets to say: you are there with me na :-) no time, but you could use the site search engine to get a listing of all the answers to a given question. -- Mulder: You can get the next mutant. The X-Files: Tooms --

Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] job for perl programmers with mysql knowledge inmumbai.

2004-02-24 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, joel_divekar assembled some asciibets to say: please don't reply to a mail when starting a new thread. if you want to start a new thread, compose a new mail to the list. -- All laws are simulations of reality. -- John C. Lilly --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Commercial] PC for sale

2004-02-23 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, NAMRATA PANDEY assembled some asciibets to say: can u pls mail me cost of ur pc, i am in need of it n if find it affordable i will surely reply u back . also i would like to know can u give me intel original motherboard The hardware that makes up my PC is worth about Rs. 25000

RE: [ILUG-BOM] job for perl programmers with mysql knowledge in mumbai.

2004-02-23 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Hari Kurup assembled some asciibets to say: It is Perl not perl It is both - depending on whether it starts a sentence or not, but not PERL. Read the FAQ. -- One o'clock pee em! Hello, Insert Name Here! -- The Dis-organizer (Terry Pratchett, Jingo) --

RE: [ILUG-BOM] Setting up home network -- help needed

2004-02-23 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Aditya Laghate assembled some asciibets to say: == First they ignore you Then they ridicule you Then they fight you Then you win. -Mahatma Gandhi == sounds a lot like what's

RE: [ILUG-BOM] Setting up home network -- help needed

2004-02-23 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Feb 23, Aditya Laghate assembled some asciibets to say: Can you please let me know, what is against the rule, writing a quote as signature or a too long quote? sorry for the confusion, there was nothing wrong with your quote. I was just saying that it was a very appropriate quote

Re: [ILUG-BOM] job for perl programmers with mysql knowledge in mumbai.

2004-02-22 Thread Philip S Tellis
All commercial mails, which include job postings, MUST have a [Commercial] tag in the subject line. Please do not fail to include the same. On a side note, it's Perl and not PERL - seriously. Ask me why. Go ahead, ask me why. -- Hackers are just a migratory lifeform with a tropism for

Re: [ILUG-BOM] job for perl programmers with mysql knowledge in mumbai.

2004-02-22 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Amit Upadhyay assembled some asciibets to say: something like that. And dont' even ask me why! Ahem! It's don't, not dont' :P -- The absence of labels [in ECL] is probably a good thing. -- T. Cheatham -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] job for perl programmers with mysql knowledge inmumbai.

2004-02-22 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Trevor Warren assembled some asciibets to say: Can't we just have a set of perl scripts or just mailman who parses emails for compliancy with the list guidelines. sure, who'll write it? who'll do the work? -- Do you think there's a God? Well,

Re: [ILUG-BOM] job for perl programmers with mysql knowledge in mumbai.

2004-02-22 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Feb 22, Hari Kurup assembled some asciibets to say: On a side note, it's Perl and not PERL - seriously. Ask me why. Go ahead, ask me why. Why not? have you read the perl faq? I'll tell you why after you read that. -- We're witches and we will pay our way by curing you

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RH8.0-Remote instalaltion stops saying The Second stage of install which you have..

2004-02-19 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Dilip M assembled some asciibets to say: I have done several Redhat-7.x remote installations using NFS method. I created bootnet.img # dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/bootnet.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 When i boot machine from this floppy the installation stops showing The Second

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Repartioning the HD

2004-02-19 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Ravi Desai assembled some asciibets to say: GNUParted, since it seems to be the easiest, but when i tried to resize the home partition, it says that the partition is in use, resize aborted. This happened even when I tried to do it while logged in as root. first unmount the

Re: [ILUG-BOM] location of the bootlog

2004-02-19 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, yagnesh assembled some asciibets to say: can u pls tell me where i can find my bootlog so that i can trace the prob. /var/log also i have heard and also seen that linux by default considers my IDE as IDE-33 instead of IDE-133. pls tell me where i can edit to make it IDE-133

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RH8.0-Remote instalaltion stops saying The Second stage of install which you have..

2004-02-19 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Dilip M assembled some asciibets to say: than which version is better and FREE ? redhat 9 ? how about debian sid, or mandrake - both are supported well. there are many more to choose from, all with varying levels of support. -- Trap full -- please empty. --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] problems with 24online

2004-02-19 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Linux Power assembled some asciibets to say: after reading through the archives and searching net for all the articles i install the 24online and log in successfully but when ever i visit any internet website i get connection refused where are you located? what software are

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 24Online client problem =(

2004-02-18 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, S. K Rahman assembled some asciibets to say: If by any chance the provider has upgraded the server env (Which should be possible case) When you login to the main screen to view usage goto Download client option there you will find the Linux client download natively

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 24Online client problem =(

2004-02-18 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Dinesh Joshi assembled some asciibets to say: using 'linc'. I have downloaded the i386 RPM. But I dont know how to configure it or use it. I am a newbie :). So I was wondering if I'm not sure about the rpm, I installed from source, but it should be the same. If my

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Server Compromise?

2004-02-13 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Feb 10, Devdas Bhagat assembled some asciibets to say: you have an open relay - serious problem, solution below No. He does not have an open proxy. The HTTP error code was 405. Right you are. No idea how I saw a 200 in there. -- Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [COMMERCIAL] [JOBS] More openings at R Systems Intl., Noida office

2004-02-10 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Parul.Mathur wrote: We are looking for profiles in the skill sets mentioned below for our Noida office. Freshers need not apply. I'd suggest trimming the requirements to those that are relevant to the list. Java, C/C++, C# and .NET, perhaps VB.NET too are relevant if for

RE: [ILUG-BOM] industry-academia participation at the fsf/ilug meets

2004-02-09 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Rupali Favade wrote: I have recently joined this group. Some things to note: 1. Trim original posts when replying, include only the portion that is relevant to your reply and delete all other parts. 2. Put your reply below or interleaved (like I've done for this mail)

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Server Compromise?

2004-02-09 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Siddhesh Poyarekar assembled some asciibets to say: But I still don't know whether or not he was successful. The response code of 200 means that he was successful. If the response code is 403, it means he failed. Philip -- But this one goes to eleven. -- Nigel Tufnel --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [ OT ] [ Commercial ] immediate requirements

2004-02-09 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Sanjeev Tripurari wrote: PERL, PHP, Shell Scripting, Linux Server configuration for postfix, It's Perl, not PERL. -- Open the pod bay doors, HAL. -- Dave Bowman, 2001 -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Funding for Hosting Charges.

2004-02-08 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Amish Munshi wrote: I would like to know who is reponsible for the accounting and maintainence. pass it on to Nagarjuna. -- A clash of doctrine is not a disaster -- it is an opportunity. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Meeting on 8th February. KReSIT - IIT Mumbai.

2004-02-07 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Nagarjuna G. assembled some asciibets to say: Second, we need to raise Rs.1500/- for domain renewal due this 24th Feb. We need to discuss whether we continue with that domain or change it to org domain, which are cheaper than org.in. changing the domain - to anything - will

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Meeting on 8th February. KReSIT - IIT Mumbai.

2004-02-07 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Feb 7, Amish Munshi assembled some asciibets to say: I was also wondering if we should make the meetings a paid, we will get more serious people and we can also pay the speakers who are I don't think we should make it a pay per entry meeting. That in itself will dissuade people

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Meeting on 8th February. KReSIT - IIT Mumbai.

2004-02-07 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Amish Munshi assembled some asciibets to say: My only problem is to get speakers to speak on something, today there is no one to speak on any technical topic and the number of people interested in coming for the meet is decreasing. That reflects on the state of the community.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] eth0: Too much work in interrupt

2004-02-04 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Dilip M wrote: But i'm using D-Link's DFE-538TX,which redhat But by default,when i do 'kudzu' this n/w card gets detected as eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet RTL8139 is the chip that is used by DLink cards. Most likely you have a problem with your card. Try

Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Mysql Problem

2004-02-04 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, joel_divekar wrote: Thanks for your reply. Please note I have logged as root during the configuration process and also note there is no directory like /usr/local/mysql/data existing for me to check the permission. 1. please do not top post. 2. fix your line length 3. it

Re: [ILUG-BOM] introducing myself

2004-01-29 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Krishna Dagli wrote: And also start reading slashdot.org. :) why? what good could that possibly do? /. may be fine as a newsfeed, but the comments are just rants. -- Lay on, MacDuff, and curs'd be him who first cries, Hold, enough!. -- Shakespeare --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] spurious errr

2004-01-29 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Satish Alwani wrote: I keep getting this error for spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. i even recompiled without apic support Don't bother about it. It's a harmless message. Philip -- The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RE: Why does Linux access the HDD so much?

2004-01-29 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, linuxdev wrote: And please please don't even start about how fast mozilla-firebird opens on ur system. It's been discussed to death on /. on how much it is *not* fast while *opening* on a linux box. I don't know about the /. thread, I haven't read it, but I do know that

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Why do Viruses not infect GNU/Linux PCs?

2004-01-29 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Shiv Kumaar,91-22-28906693, 9820320927 (mobile) wrote: does this mean that i cannot open an attachment by just clicking on it? how to open a file depends on what kind of file it is. Something like a html, pdf or mp3 file may be opened safely through some other

Re: [ILUG-BOM] VIRUs funda

2004-01-29 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, BIJU KRISHNAN assembled some asciibets to say: DLL---EXE (RAM)Compiled but no check for size of compiled output. In GNU/Linux OS object/.so-binary/daemon(RAM)Compiled and checked for size of compiled

[ILUG-BOM] Re: spurious error

2004-01-29 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Jan 29, Satish Alwani assembled some asciibets to say: When i do major transfers to this box, the machine ends up hanging. Average transfer speeds in excess of 7000K or even higher than 10,000K at times. Your hang has nothing to do with the spurious IRQ7. IRQ7 is the parallel

Re: [ILUG-BOM] introducing myself

2004-01-28 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Shiv Kumaar,91-22-28906693, 9820320927 (mobile) assembled...: Am joining this mailing list so that I can learn more abt linux. welcome. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Why do Viruses not infect GNU/Linux PCs?

2004-01-28 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Trevor Warren wrote: Gnu/Linux and most other Open Operating systems have their fare share of security issues and ones that can be addressed in a very realistic fashion. It's not just GNU/Linux or even operating systems that are susceptible to this. Any

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Unable to boot the upgraded kernel

2004-01-27 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Trevor Warren wrote: Boot through the old kernel nachiketa and have the /etc/fstab edited I think his problem is more to do with lilo.conf or grub.conf than with /etc/fstab hint -- He knew the tavernes well in every toun. -- Geoffrey Chaucer --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RE: Why does Linux access the HDD so much?

2004-01-24 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, linuxdev assembled some asciibets to say: IE starts so fast in windows is because just about everything that it requires is preloaded when windows boots. On the other hand most of Actually, IE starts up fast because it has already started up. Remember that IE is the file

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RE: Why does Linux access the HDD so much?

2004-01-24 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Dinesh Shah assembled some asciibets to say: Mozilla's a bloat, a feature rich bloat...;) Well... Something is better then nothing... Still better then other bloatware. :-) But why are you bringing nothing into the picture? There are already better alternatives.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] tcp library....

2004-01-23 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, linuxdev wrote: http://www.laurentconstantin.com/en/netw/netwib/ seems good, thanks. -- Jacquin's Postulate on Democratic Government: No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] tcp library....

2004-01-23 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Shahed Moolji wrote: Sorry for this stupid question, but I am wondering what extra functionality can these libraries provide that is not provided by that standard C library ? It just provides an added layer of abstraction so the programmer can worry about doing his job

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RE: Why does Linux access the HDD so much?

2004-01-23 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Saswata Banerjee Associates assembled some asciibets to say: Perhaps someone can summarise the points you have made. They are very valid. a. Increase Swap Won't help. Swap resides on the hard disk. So it won't *reduce* hard disk usage. b. Stop services that are not

Re: [ILUG-BOM] AMC required:

2004-01-22 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Trevor Warren assembled some asciibets to say: Thought that was earmarked for philip to say...;) No, my job is to say please do not top post... so Trevor, I request you, please do not top post. -- CCI Power 6/40: one board, a megabyte of cache, and an attitude... --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Problem with setting hostname.

2004-01-21 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Rajendra Rait wrote: is that i want to change the hostname of my choice, i have tried going use the hostname command. -- no brainer: A decision which, viewed through the retrospectoscope, is obvious to those who failed to make it originally. --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Problem with setting hostname.

2004-01-21 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, q u a s i assembled some asciibets to say: use the hostname command. or edit /etc/hostname no, use the hostname command. /etc/hostname is not the only place where the hostname is stored. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Why does linux access the hhd so much

2004-01-20 Thread Philip S Tellis
, stardate 3134.0 --i0L4ZmBq023837.1074659748/bigears.ncst.ernet.in-- --i0L4ZmBr023837.1074659749/bigears.ncst.ernet.in-- ReSent-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:14:30 +0530 (IST) ReSent-From: Philip S Tellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReSent-To: Linux Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReSent-Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Why does

[ILUG-BOM] [Announce] libyahoo2 0.7.4 released

2004-01-20 Thread Philip S Tellis
It's on sourceforge, so go download it. http://libyahoo2.sourceforge.net/ Changes: auth fixed ext_remove_handler takes two parameters - the tag returned by add_handler and the client_id. Also note that I've decided to stop releasing rpms. It made no sense since anyone

[ILUG-BOM] [Announce] getmail.com 1.0

2004-01-20 Thread Philip S Tellis
Announcing the release of version 1.0 of getmail.com http://sourceforge.net/projects/getmail-com/ Getmail.com downloads email from a mail.com account. It uses HTTP to log in to your account, get the inbox listing, and download messages along with attachments. Login name, password, and maximum

Re: [ILUG-BOM] perl training

2004-01-14 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime on Jan 14, linux.lover assembled some asciibets to say: Can any one idea where can i get PERL/BASH training ? The net. Have you tried teaching yourself? That's how everyone else learnt. -- Ada is PL/I trying to be Smalltalk. -- Codoso diBlini --

[ILUG-BOM] Copyright law and definition of derivative works

2004-01-12 Thread Philip S Tellis
May be interesting to those who have to deal with the legality of the GPL and similar licences. How do we define a derivative work? http://community.linux.com/community/02/11/13/117247.shtml?tid=30tid=41 Philip -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM]

2004-01-11 Thread Philip S Tellis
Sometime Today, Shweta Aroskar assembled some asciibets to say: Sometime Today, Shw to say: didnt get what you meant i meant that there seems to be some parts of your mail either missing or garbled. this seems to be a problem with the html mail generated by rediffmail

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Problem with DNS

2004-01-08 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Rohit Ail wrote: I am a newbie in linux. I have configured DNS sucessfully. Now I ned to make it a successful dynamic DNS. Any suggestions . 1. fix your line length 2. read the dns howto -- The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of

Re: [ILUG-BOM] problemo with rediffmailo

2004-01-08 Thread Philip S Tellis
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Xterm wrote: can't we do something abt the mails coming frm people who are using _rediffmail_??? their mails get quite grabled in my mail client. They need to stop posting in HTML. There may be a setting in rediffmail that turns this off. -- Too much knowledge never

[ILUG-BOM] Debian Support for Italian Company In Bombay (fwd)

2004-01-08 Thread Philip S Tellis
Please direct your replies to the original poster below. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:47:53 +0530 From: Rufo Guerreschi rufo.guerreschi AT email.it To: linuxers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Debian Support for Italian Company In Bombay Dear Debian users of

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