[ILUG-BOM]New E!

2003-11-13 Thread Tahir Hashmi
, it is the 0.16.x series of Enlightenment Window Manager that used to be the default WM in RedHat Linux 6.x :) It was, and still is, the coolest piece of eye-candy you can get. -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http://www.codemartial.org I have seen The Source -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in

Re: [ILUG-BOM]AMD processor ??

2003-11-04 Thread Tahir Hashmi
Gig! Your definition of better would be quite interesting, I guess :) Oh wait! 128 MB RAM could dilute some of the interest -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http://www.codemartial.org I have seen The Source -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM]RedHat Support to end

2003-11-04 Thread Tahir Hashmi
others. Fedora is sponsored by RedHat and is a proving ground for new technology. What part of that sounds problematic? -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http://www.codemartial.org I have seen The Source -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM]problem with C

2003-10-05 Thread Tahir Hashmi
discounts. -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http://www.codemartial.org I have seen The Source -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RE: [Vote] blocking non-text messages

2003-09-29 Thread Tahir Hashmi
format but it is disabled by default. That option has to be enabled explicitly in your subscription prefs. -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http://www.codemartial.org I have seen The Source -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Vote] blocking non-text messages

2003-09-28 Thread Tahir Hashmi
to adjust with differing font sizes and styles. Also, my default background color is not white which adds to the problem when people specify background colors in their mails, which is almost always the case. -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http://www.codemartial.org I have seen

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Problem with viewing TIFF files.

2003-09-16 Thread Tahir Hashmi
with 128 MB SDRAM and on-board i810 video chipset running Red Hat Linux 9.0 and imlib-1.9.13-12. Maybe there is some gotcha with the TIFF images generated by your scanner. Try sending the smallest problematic image to imlib developers. -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] J2EE vs LAMP

2003-09-03 Thread Tahir Hashmi
, stuff that's available in J2EE is also available in C++. It's just that the former gets noticed since there's no c++.bigcorp.com. Oh, but my opinion may be biased due to my perennial rant against Java, the platform. ;) -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http://www.codemartial.org I have

Re: [ILUG-BOM] A query about LAMP setup

2003-08-29 Thread Tahir Hashmi
and AC specifications are on the DB side so it won't be too difficult to adapt it to PHP. -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http://www.codemartial.org I have seen The Source -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Package Management HOWTO

2003-08-20 Thread Tahir Hashmi
--target=i686 :D -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http://www.codemartial.org I have seen The Source -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] default owner of file

2003-07-29 Thread Tahir Hashmi
This will force all the files created inside to have their group set to the group of /home/sabu. Allow everything for the group and you won't need to su again and again. That said, it's a very bad idea to surf the net as root. -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http://www.codemartial.org I have seen

Re: [ILUG-BOM] mozila scene

2003-07-22 Thread Tahir Hashmi
. You might also like to try Mozilla Composer, BTW. -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http://www.codemartial.org I have seen The Source -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Freelance Programmer -- Offsite Position.

2003-07-10 Thread Tahir Hashmi
92 kB mail. Or maybe Mozilla Mail's Bayesian filter really works :D -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http://www.codemartial.org I have seen The Source -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] clarifications on article in NC

2003-07-09 Thread Tahir Hashmi
/sco-gnu-linux.html Since Jasubhai publications are widely read by students as well as professionals, the impact of such careless comments could be pretty significant. -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http://www.codemartial.org I have seen The Source -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Changing window manager in Gnome [was FYI: Changingorder of buttons and command hotkeys in Metacity]

2003-07-09 Thread Tahir Hashmi
using gnome-wm. I tried changing it but it still defaults back to Metacity. [Untested method] Fire up Gconf Editor. Go to desktop gnome applications window_manager and specify the path to WindowMaker as the value of default key. -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http

[ILUG-BOM] FYI: Changing order of buttons and command hotkeys in Metacity

2003-07-08 Thread Tahir Hashmi
Ctrl+shift+l to test your new setting :) * command_1 was set to allow logging off using the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combo, but I suspect it was due my prefs that I set earlier. HTH -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http://www.codemartial.org I have seen The Source -- http://mm.ilug

Re: [ILUG-BOM] FYI: Changing order of buttons and command hotkeysin Metacity

2003-07-08 Thread Tahir Hashmi
window. The modifiers were never sent. I know it sounds weird but it happened with RH 8 as well as 9. Prolly some Red Hat specific issue. -- Tahir Hashmi code_martial AT softhome.net http://www.codemartial.org I have seen The Source -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

[ILUG-BOM] Re: Red Hat Linux 9 booting problem (why redhat for commercial)

2003-06-20 Thread Tahir Hashmi
laugh out loud. Read the EULA and you'll come to know the extent to which you can blame RedHat or any other software vendor. It's effectively _zero_. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) code_martial AT softhome DOT net http://www.codemartial.org We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

[ILUG-BOM] Pentium based Linux machine, over 6000 days' uptime??

2003-06-06 Thread Tahir Hashmi
Hi all! http://counter.li.org/reports/uptimestats.php says that the longest running Linux machine has an uptime of an incredible 6011 days as of 2003-06-05 17:35 hrs. Two questions: 1) Since how long has Pentium been around? 2) Since how long has Linux been around? Go figure! -- Tahir Hashmi

[ILUG-BOM] Re: Pentium based Linux machine, over 6000 days' uptime??

2003-06-05 Thread Tahir Hashmi
On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 00:46:56 +0530 Manish Jethani wrote: Tahir Hashmi wrote: http://counter.li.org/reports/uptimestats.php says that the longest running Linux machine has an uptime of an incredible 6011 days as of 2003-06-05 17:35 hrs. Two questions: 1) Since how long has Pentium

[ILUG-BOM] Re: gnome/kde ?

2003-06-04 Thread Tahir Hashmi
short of improving gcc that can be done about it. Do you have a reference to back up this claim? I know virtual function invokations, exceptions and RTTI have overheads. I would like a reference in context of KDE's performance - especially if the reference covers design flaws, if any. -- Tahir

[ILUG-BOM] Re: gnome/kde ?

2003-06-04 Thread Tahir Hashmi
the design to be object-oriented in nature. -- Tahir Hashmi Compact XML Alternative - http://xqueeze.sf.net -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

[ILUG-BOM] Re: basic installation help

2003-04-02 Thread Tahir Hashmi
remain as painful. -- Tahir Hashmi http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir Compact XML Alternative - http://xqueeze.sf.net -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: use of root (was Re: [ILUG-BOM] List going ...)

2003-04-01 Thread Tahir Hashmi
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:06:25 +0530 Devdas Bhagat wrote: On 01/04/03 15:32 +0530, Manish Jethani wrote: snip # /usr/games/quake Use of root? Dangerous. He probably changed his PS1 for the sake of 1st April. If that's true... I'm sorry :p -- Tahir Hashmi http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir

[ILUG-BOM] Re: list going to the dogs

2003-03-31 Thread Tahir Hashmi
IMHO we've had enough debate on this issue and the posts now are simply rehashing what's been said earlier. I request the list admins to kindly consider the suggestions brought forward so far and arrive at some decision. -- Tahir Hashmi http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir Compact XML Alternative

[ILUG-BOM] Re: list going to the dogs

2003-03-27 Thread Tahir Hashmi
at it :) -- Tahir Hashmi http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir Compact XML Alternative - http://xqueeze.sf.net -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

[ILUG-BOM] Re: | LinuxForYou... March 2003 |quake 3 demo

2003-03-26 Thread Tahir Hashmi
works very fine... i even tried with minimum details of graphics, still it was not playable. If you have an nVidia card, use the driver provided by nVidia instead of that bundled with XFree86. The latter doesn't provide H/W acceleration. -- Tahir Hashmi http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir Compact XML

[ILUG-BOM] Re: list going to the dogs

2003-03-26 Thread Tahir Hashmi
and send an autoresponse to mails that don't contain any subject or contain taboo words like urgent or help (without 3 other words or so). But I guess this option might have been explored before. Note: These suggestions should not be taken as advocacy against freedom of speech. -- Tahir Hashmi http

[ILUG-BOM] Re: seding structure on a socket

2003-03-20 Thread Tahir Hashmi
/software/commonc++ -- Tahir Hashmi http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir Compact XML Alternative - http://xqueeze.sf.net -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

[ILUG-BOM] [OT][Announce] New Xqueeze Release

2003-03-18 Thread Tahir Hashmi
would also do performance testing this time. Meanwhile, I would be grateful to receive feedback regarding the development of this project. Thanks for your kind attention. -- Tahir Hashmi http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir Compact XML Alternative - http://xqueeze.sf.net -- http://mm.ilug

Re: [ILUG-BOM] VB like application in linux

2003-03-13 Thread Tahir Hashmi
;-) -- Tahir Hashmi http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir Compact XML Alternative - http://xqueeze.sf.net -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Eureka!! SM56 Internal Modem Driver Available

2003-03-06 Thread Tahir Hashmi
have a screamer of a CPU. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] how should we configure Xconfigurator in redhat 8

2003-03-04 Thread Tahir Hashmi
. A broken XF86Config file may prevent this so try moving your existing config file to some place else. If it still doesn't work, the good ol' xf86config is there. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Outline of course for Hardware Vendors.

2003-02-20 Thread Tahir Hashmi
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:26:32 +0530 (IST) Dinesh Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have thought of the following course/guideline for workshop for Hardware Vendors. [snip] 6. Introduction to basic System Administration, CLI, GUI, X, WM, DM etc. (1:30 Hrs.) I missed the comma after

[ILUG-BOM] What's new in Gnome 2.2?

2003-02-06 Thread Tahir Hashmi
Recent action like Start Documents All of this sounds great. I'm waiting for an opportunity to upgrade :-) -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

Re: [ILUG-BOM] What's new in Gnome 2.2?

2003-02-06 Thread Tahir Hashmi
On 07 Feb 2003 12:09:44 +0530 Pankaj Jangid wrote: GNOME 2.2 is really cool. Nautilus is very light now, font ant-aliasing ^^ Hmmm. Maybe now I can revert to a graphical file manager after two years of abstinence ;-) -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Redhat garbled text

2003-01-21 Thread Tahir Hashmi
. This might be a problem with fonts - there were some font updates available pretty soon after the release, IIRC. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: deleting oversized messages without fetchingthem

2003-01-19 Thread Tahir Hashmi
of message-ids etc. If you mean Object Serialization, perhaps xparam.sourceforge.net may be the answer. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Performance vs. Easibility (was deletingoversi...)

2003-01-19 Thread Tahir Hashmi
more extensive and statically typed to boot. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed -- ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Performance vs. Easibility (was deletingoversi...)

2003-01-18 Thread Tahir Hashmi
. Gnome is an example of OO design in C. C++ was born as C with Classes and the complier actually acted like a preprocessor, generating C and invoking a C compiler to compile it. Dynamic Typing: Simula, SmallTalk, Lisp, C++... -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: deleting oversized messages without fetchingthem

2003-01-18 Thread Tahir Hashmi
dated 1992 regarding this. Most of the mainstream OSes support this now. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed -- ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: deleting oversized messages without fetchingthem

2003-01-17 Thread Tahir Hashmi
. Nor do I want to pay the performance price myself, so my PC doesn't have a JVM. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed -- ___ http://mm.ilug

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RMS who is....?

2003-01-17 Thread Tahir Hashmi
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:20:29 +0530 sameer shinde wrote: Who is RMS? Some details about him. RMS's biography: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ why is he comming to India... For the promotion of Free Software - the movement he started. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux wish-list

2003-01-09 Thread Tahir Hashmi
done, response times are quick. Which is the newest version of Windows that can be installed on that machine? -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux wish-list

2003-01-09 Thread Tahir Hashmi
colours. My monitor could handle 1024x768 at 256 colours. Even with Intel 810 and nVidia GeForce 2 MX cards, Windows 2000 can't go beyond 1280x1024, while we get 1400x1050x24 with i810! -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest

Re: [ILUG-BOM] common swap

2003-01-08 Thread Tahir Hashmi
filesystem formats. Unless, of course, you choose to reformat the partition everytime you reboot! -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

[ILUG-BOM] [OT] Missing lines in email

2003-01-08 Thread Tahir Hashmi
and the Content Type is text/plain format=flowed. Did anyone else experience this, especially Sylpheed users? I'm using Sylpheed 0.8.8 -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux India Initiative

2003-01-07 Thread Tahir Hashmi
a long way in keeping things secure. And it goes beyond simple deletion of files and formatting of disks. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux India Initiative

2003-01-07 Thread Tahir Hashmi
* LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:36:20 +0530 Tahir Hashmi wrote: If you're talking of the protected and unprotected modes of Uh, s/unprotected/real/ The reason why real mode is no longer

Re: [ILUG-BOM] nobody knows what is .sft file extention this is my third post on list

2002-12-26 Thread Tahir Hashmi
: strings elite.sft | less on the command prompt to see whatever text is in that file. You might find a description if you're lucky. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux India Initiative

2002-12-25 Thread Tahir Hashmi
a Free Software project whose code it hijacked has come to the fore. Well, the TCP/IP stack in MS Windows is another story, which is why it is highly advisable to go for Protective Freedom through licenses like GPL. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai 12-15th of FEB

2002-12-25 Thread Tahir Hashmi
longest stay in Mumbai. 3rd time unlucky... uugh! I bet he'd be in Delhi sometime before 9th Feb and I'll miss him again :-( -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux India Initiative

2002-12-25 Thread Tahir Hashmi
of every major softwares like operating system , databases, etc. A company who likes to gain more clients will try to get such certificates from SC(here the SC organization can charge them for it). Greedy me! I smell big time opportunity to corrupt :-) -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Motorola SM56 modem not detected and depmod error

2002-12-24 Thread Tahir Hashmi
with Windows and no other OS. Your vendor might have told you that while selling it to you. Or you should have asked why it was so cheap compared to external modems. Anyway, you may consider throwing it away since it makes your CPU do it's work via Windows and that's not very good for speed. -- Tahir

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Motorola SM56 modem not detected and depmod error

2002-12-24 Thread Tahir Hashmi
?1:mss:5310:200108:bjpaplfaedbekkieepjl -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed -- ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] C and emacs

2002-12-19 Thread Tahir Hashmi
-- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed -- ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Faster Startup of apps

2002-12-18 Thread Tahir Hashmi
programs like Mozilla and Galeon support running as server processes. You could run the server process at session startup and simply modify your launchers or shortcuts to connect as clients rather than spawning new processes. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT

Re: [ILUG-BOM] A C factorial Problem

2002-12-17 Thread Tahir Hashmi
){ if(x1) return(x*factorial(x-1)); } int fff () { ; } Naturally I was expecting 1 as the answer. But I am getting the answer 720 which is 6!. Why were you expecting 1? Could you really expect any particular value from a call to fff()? -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http

Re: [ILUG-BOM] A C factorial Problem

2002-12-17 Thread Tahir Hashmi
. Or if we give a specific return then that value appears in the printf. Of course, it would. A quick look for functions and return values through _The_C_Programming_Language_ 2/e by Kernighan and Ritchie should leave no scope for doubts. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Latex... should I use it?

2002-12-14 Thread Tahir Hashmi
++ and lshort.pdf to get started. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed -- ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Registration on ILUG-Bom (was: Poll for location)

2002-11-30 Thread Tahir Hashmi
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:54:11 +0530 Vinayak Hegde wrote: Tahir Hashmi wrote: The poll for location turned out be almost fruitless. I don't think so. We decided to meet @ KReSIT. That was due to the poll. Uh, well, I meant to say the online poll for location grin. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Poll for location

2002-11-29 Thread Tahir Hashmi
that ASP variable nor did a cursory google search reveal anything for PHP/SSI. Try researching yourself. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed ___ http

[ILUG-BOM] Registration on ILUG-Bom (was: Poll for location)

2002-11-29 Thread Tahir Hashmi
, though. people can ask on the list too.) Finally, if this scheme is implemented, I would also like to suggest that the ILUG-Bom website be made a wiki that is modifiable by registered users only. Comments invited. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Mail signatures and Egos :)

2002-11-28 Thread Tahir Hashmi
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 19:39:19 +0530 Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:09:15PM +0530, Tahir Hashmi wrote: Welcome to the brave new world of community interaction over Internet. You've just proven yourself to be a kid who'd never like to learn, or an oldie who can't

Re: [ILUG-BOM] x shifts to right

2002-11-28 Thread Tahir Hashmi
an option in xf86config to specify the horizontal and vertical frequency ranges of your monitor manually, even in RedHat 8.0. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

[ILUG-BOM] Mozilla 1.2 is out. Go grabbit!

2002-11-27 Thread Tahir Hashmi
environment variable to the install-dir of Mozilla 1.2 for AA rendering in Galeon too. I haven't had any issues so far (~ 30 mins). -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Mail signatures and Egos :)

2002-11-27 Thread Tahir Hashmi
in my conclusion then probably you lack knowledge. Just Googlize RFC 1855. Or wait, I'll help you a bit further. Here it is: http://marketing.tenagra.com/rfc1855.html -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need something like netsend !

2002-11-25 Thread Tahir Hashmi
to Windows systems. man talk for Linux to Linux/Unix messaging. I'm not aware of any utilities that cause pop-ups in Linux but you may try Googlizing. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Open source Vs Free software (Kerberos 5)

2002-11-25 Thread Tahir Hashmi
that anyone who extends a standard and uses it to communicate with 3rd parties must publish the full specification of the extensions. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT]gnu-linux in good stead..:)

2002-11-23 Thread Tahir Hashmi
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 05:25:26 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micro Battles Er... Trevor, http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20021118/007499.html I'm convinced that you're indeed busy these days ;-) -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir

[ILUG-BOM] MP tells Gates it prefers Linux

2002-11-19 Thread Tahir Hashmi
a free software and a monopoly. We feel that when we are putting public information out in the open, then it should not be through a proprietary software, Mr Singh told ET. /unquote -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest

Re: [ILUG-BOM] filesystem repairs on mounted systems.

2002-11-19 Thread Tahir Hashmi
filesystem on a ramdisk and (optionally) your hard disk partitions installed in some subdir of that filesystem. Try Googlizing linux rescue for more help. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Mumabi Linux tour

2002-11-16 Thread Tahir Hashmi
. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Why linux is a desktop dud !!

2002-11-15 Thread Tahir Hashmi
etc. is very shaky, as the various posts in Talkback show. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ILUG-BOM] PS to PDF: argh!

2002-11-15 Thread Tahir Hashmi
)? -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: Re[2]: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] MS Eula prohibits .NET Benchmark Disclosures

2002-11-14 Thread Tahir Hashmi
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:26:42 +0530 Saswata Banerjee Associates wrote: been complaints by AMD and *** (fogot the name of the company make the cruzeo chip) that the benchmark companies have been bullied and Perhaps you meant Crusoe chip by Transmeta? -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Economic Times Article Windows far ahead of Linux: Gates

2002-11-14 Thread Tahir Hashmi
on software. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux vs Windows as my selection.

2002-11-14 Thread Tahir Hashmi
on WinXP, the default type is Administrator and I don't remember seeing anything informing me that I'm creating the new account with admin privileges. I stumbled upon the fact when I realized that I was able to configure services even while logging in as me (supposedly a normal/power user)! -- Tahir

Re: [ILUG-BOM] PS to PDF: argh!

2002-11-14 Thread Tahir Hashmi
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:36:12 -0800 (PST) Satya wrote: On Nov 14, 2002 at 16:15, Tahir Hashmi wrote: Erm... may I suggest redoing your Resume in LaTeX? You can use the pdflatex utility that comes with tetex to directly generate PDF. That's what I have been doing. Unfortunately, I haven't

Re: [ILUG-BOM] How about a Gnu-Linux guys picnic in dec...???

2002-11-14 Thread Tahir Hashmi
don't know about Alibag, but Matheran would be rather cold. Hawaii is the best option. It's also the best option to ensure that no one attends the picnic. :-| Lets do it...wat say. Way to go, Trevor! I'll be in, provided it's scheduled after 6 December. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux vs Windows as my selection.

2002-11-13 Thread Tahir Hashmi
;-) Most of my colleagues' workstations keep rumbling as Win2k thrashes the HDD royally. On my workstation and our division's Linux server HDD noise is an occasional exception! -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish

Re: [ILUG-BOM] http://www.rediff.com/money/2002/nov/12gates.htm

2002-11-12 Thread Tahir Hashmi
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:05:42 +0530 Ravindra Jaju wrote: Oops! And we want to rope in officials for the OSS movement!? Billy dude's agents read Trevor's name in BW and did some research on his background ;-) -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux-Bom?

2002-11-12 Thread Tahir Hashmi
. It might be that someone is interested in more than one topics being taken up simultaneously and s/he would be in a fix! Or maybe I didn't understand your point correctly? -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Lets have our own Linux Bombay 2002

2002-11-11 Thread Tahir Hashmi
you are in it, why not do it with style? You mean that? I'm all for it, yaay! -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed ___ http://mm.ilug

[ILUG-BOM] GNU/Linux India Expo 2003 ... tentative outline

2002-11-11 Thread Tahir Hashmi
, make additions/changes/deletions and even fubar it. --- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GNU/Linux India Expo 2003 ... tentative outline

2002-11-11 Thread Tahir Hashmi
can help with managing the content of PRC site once the set-up is ready. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Lets have our own Linux Bombay 2002

2002-11-10 Thread Tahir Hashmi
of the LUG, it seems quite likely that we can pull up with an event of this scale. We can even think of involving LUGs from other places and make this a national event!! -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU

[ILUG-BOM] India Gates: Mixing Business with Politics

2002-11-10 Thread Tahir Hashmi
! -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] HappyDiwali thanx to BILL to bill in BusinessWorld

2002-11-06 Thread Tahir Hashmi
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:10:01 +0530 Amol Hatwar wrote: BTW, why are we still ILUG? Shouldn't we be IGLUG? According to http://www.ilug-bom.org.in/ we're: GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai, India -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Frame a LETTER OF INTRO.....calling on 1 and all

2002-11-06 Thread Tahir Hashmi
about filling all that space up? -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Anothe M$ Halloween Document revealed

2002-11-06 Thread Tahir Hashmi
to continue in an FS/OSS environment. What do other members feel about this? -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman

Re: [ILUG-BOM] HappyDiwali thanx to BILL to bill in BusinessWorld

2002-11-05 Thread Tahir Hashmi
, Trusted Computing. Those are all the angelic gifts of Proprietary Software. And they sure are most willing to co-exist with Free Software Philosophy. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Frame a LETTER OF INTRO.....calling on 1 and all

2002-11-04 Thread Tahir Hashmi
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:45:49 +0530 Tahir Hashmi wrote: The source file is dearprincipal.txt Oops! it's supposed to be .tex -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

Re: [ILUG-BOM] HappyDiwali thanx to BILL to bill in BusinessWorld

2002-11-03 Thread Tahir Hashmi
waited for your response but Thank you and Happy Diwali to you all! -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in

Re: [ILUG-BOM] mailman [was: Spam]

2002-11-01 Thread Tahir Hashmi
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 16:44:46 +0530 Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote: On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:56:09AM +0530, Tahir Hashmi wrote: Each of us will have to tell our MUAs not to do that - rather impractical. Or there'll have to be a pattern recog that's run on all messages and systematically

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Frame a LETTER OF INTRO.....calling on 1 and all

2002-11-01 Thread Tahir Hashmi
in there. We hardly ever went into the Foundation Lab running Windows on P-Is. Believe it or not, there was just one Pentium-I server running Linux that handled upto 50 concurrent users! I don't know how much RAM was there and whether it did SMP. /Flashback HTH -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [POLL] #posting_strategies: Long lines

2002-11-01 Thread Tahir Hashmi
as to what *should* be done about these. Any suggestions? -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ILUG-BOM] mailman [was: Spam]

2002-11-01 Thread Tahir Hashmi
between alphanumerics. Obfuscation causes problems to humans too. I apologize for carelessly wording my first post about this. Something like Point 2 is what I actually meant to say. If you have problems with point 2, point 1 is acceptable to a large extent. Whatsay? -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST

Re: [ILUG-BOM] mailman [was: Spam]

2002-11-01 Thread Tahir Hashmi
with and .. Also, in the archives some things might be confusing, like ... how changing foo[at]bar[dot]com to foo[at]bar[dot]com ... (see above). My point is that this issue be resolved considering practical issues rather than on the basis of Right Thing ideologies. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http

Re: [ILUG-BOM] mailman [was: Spam]

2002-10-31 Thread Tahir Hashmi
filtering rules now. -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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