[ILUG-BOM] [Offtopic][Jobs] Freelance Python Developers

2015-05-19 Thread Trevor Warren
Folks, I am developing a few modelling tools and am looking for Freelance Python Developers to help out with a few backend modules. This will be a paid gig. The incumbent would need to have very strong Python development skills. Experience with Python/MySQL, Python/R would be highly

[ILUG-BOM] [ot]commodore 64 with game kit and sound maker up for grabs

2005-10-12 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Fellas, My fiance while cleaning her place just found out that among the junk(tons of it..:D) at her place we had a Commodore 64. I was surprised to see the same with a load of cassettes(games+educational) and basic programming books plus tons of other educational material. The kit was

Re: [ILUG-BOM] sending - recieving buffers over the n/w as a struct in c

2005-09-06 Thread Trevor Warren
Thanks dear. Did get the code to work earlier in the day. Trevor |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_

Re: [ILUG-BOM] sending - recieving buffers over the n/w as a struct in c

2005-09-05 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Philip Tellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to have serialize and deserialize functions for your struct that convert it into a byte stream and back. [snip] Yep, agree with you on that. Do you have any sample code that i can look at or some URL that i can read up on. Alas...what

Re: [ILUG-BOM] sending - recieving buffers over the n/w as a struct in c

2005-09-05 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Philip Tellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read the libyahoo2 sources. You can copy the serialisation and deserialisation portions if your code is GPLed. [snip] Thanks Philip. Trevor Philip |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware

[ILUG-BOM] sending - recieving buffers over the n/w as a struct in c

2005-09-04 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Fellas, Need some pointers from you folks. Am stuck with a simple issue. On the server i have a struct defined as: struct sendbuff { int count; char toprint[1]; }; My objective is to pack this buffer across the n/w and recv it on the client. count is a simple counter

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Regarding Linux configuration for LAN

2005-08-30 Thread Trevor Warren
Couple of things dear, su - and pls post the o/p of: bash# ifconfig bash# route -n You would also like to readup at www.linuxdoc.org which is an amazing library documenting howto's on most of the technical issues you will have to deal with on GnuLinux. Thanks and take care. Trevor

Re: [ILUG-BOM] FLOSS Buseness Models

2005-08-30 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Anand M R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FSF,GPL,FLOSS with people and i'm usually at a loss of words (due to my lack of knowledge in this area). [snip] Did you google. http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=enhs=YQLclient=firefox-arls=org.mozilla:en-US:officialq=floss+business+modelspell=1

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Heating Problem AMD ?

2005-08-30 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Arun K. Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) Is there any heating problem with AMD ? No, I have been running AMD64 3000+ (socket 754) on MSI K8NeoT mobo for over a year. Keep your case well ventilated and use a couple of fans. [snip] Am running an MSI mobo with an older AMD Athlon

Re: [ILUG-BOM] tcp throput v/s udp throput

2005-08-26 Thread Trevor Warren
Afternoon Dear, --- Dinesh Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kind of hybrid approach where you look at the strengths and weaknesses of both TCP and UDP and develop something called TTP (Trevor Transport Protocol!). [snip] Dinesh dear, As of now we are only progressing on the path

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Sify and Router Configuration

2005-08-26 Thread Trevor Warren
Evening Dear, Am quite confused. Why is it that not more than one m/c can connect to the internet???. Is it that the wireless router allows not more than one connection simultaenously. As for requiring for automatic authentication with the gateway you will need the router to support

Re: [ILUG-BOM] tcp throput v/s udp throput

2005-08-25 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Sir, --- Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those who do not understand TCP... [snip] Thanks Devdas for having enlightened us. If you need reliability, use TCP. If you need performance, and can sacrifice reliability, use UDP. If you want both, buy more bandwidth, and

Re: [ILUG-BOM] tcp throput v/s udp throput

2005-08-25 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologise if I appeared rude, there was no intention to be. The rules above are common protocol design rules, and should be followed. [snip] Devdas, do remember at times it would be worth building the reliability for UDP since research shows

[ILUG-BOM] any educational insitutions need floss knowledgeable canidates???

2005-08-25 Thread Trevor Warren
Evening Fellas, Am wondering if there are any educational/non-profitable institutions who would require the services of someone who knows something about FLOSS. This is on a voluntary basis. Do ctc me offline pls. Trevor |--||--| ( - /

Re: [ILUG-BOM] any educational insitutions need floss knowledgeable canidates???

2005-08-25 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 25 Aug 2005 3:38 pm, Trevor Warren wrote: have been volunteering my services for years - but no takers so far. Vested interests have been too powerful [snip] :D. Very sweetly said. You did whatever you did in good intentions

Re: [ILUG-BOM] tcp throput v/s udp throput

2005-08-25 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And why would _your_ reliability implementation not face the same issues? [snip] It will and who says not. After at times not thinking in the stereotype approach helps..:D Actually, it depends on the requirement. Implementation is a detail.

[ILUG-BOM] you would have checked out OpenSuSE ny now....

2005-08-25 Thread Trevor Warren
FYI. http://opensuse.org/index.php/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org Trevor |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_

Re: [ILUG-BOM] tcp throput v/s udp throput

2005-08-24 Thread Trevor Warren
--- chirag radhakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a rule of thumb UDP is better for reliable networks and TCP for unreliable ones. Generally LAN are reliable and WANs are unreliable(actually reliability depends on what your backbone is ). [snip] Would just like to know as to whats the

Re: [ILUG-BOM] tcp throput v/s udp throput

2005-08-24 Thread Trevor Warren
Hello there, --- Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: packets. The point to note is (and you probably know this) that the choice of transport shouldn't be based on the raw speed you can achieve but the requirements your application has. [snip] My requirements are

Re: [ILUG-BOM] tcp throput v/s udp throput

2005-08-24 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Dear, --- Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi You mean like eat your cake and have it too :-) Like someone else pointed out, UDP is quite safe to use on LANs these days. We rarely ever see UDP packets being discarded on a LAN these days. But if you use UDP, you still need some

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [JOB] L.A.M.P Programmer needed

2005-08-22 Thread Trevor Warren
JTD, Cmoonwhy are you so tough on pple. Let them make mistakes dear. So what even if he asks for pple with 16years in php???. Its his requirements. If its met or not thro this advt is another question. Am not trying to police noone. But i think this place needs to chill out and let ppe

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Maharashtra signs MOU with M$

2005-08-22 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Dear, You will need to setup and NGO capable of imparting training to National Informatics Centre nationwide if you would like to instill some confidence in them enabling them to develop apps on FLOSS. Till then...lets not keep criticising and look at the upsides of it all.

[ILUG-BOM] gpl3 in the offing

2005-08-15 Thread Trevor Warren
FYI. Its time for the geeks to get back to the discussion table. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1847826,00.asp Trevor |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ |

[ILUG-BOM] open BI

2005-08-15 Thread Trevor Warren
FYI http://openi.sourceforge.net/ Trevor |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_ \/

[ILUG-BOM] want to bash at your cmd??

2005-08-15 Thread Trevor Warren
This is for those still on the path to comeplete nirvana.:D. When you need to play around with some good old bash at your cmd. Cygwin on MS is a good bet. Been there for a long time and worth a post. http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/08/02/1929239.shtml?tid=79tid=130tid=11tid=2tid=10

[ILUG-BOM] a very old slideshow on the open development model

2005-08-14 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Fellas, Was browsing through businessworld.com and found a very old slideshow on the development aspects of OpenSource/FreeSoftware. Wonderfully done with decent illustrations and above a very useful link that can be integrated into your FLOSS marketing campaign.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Maharashtra signs MOU with M$

2005-08-12 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Anand, Most decisions taken by beaureaucrats at the higher position in the govnmt are without a perspective on FLOSS. Just like if we asked you to deal with the same issue you would pretty much biased towards making choices on the FLOSS front. What drives such MOU's anand dear is

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: jukebox+remote+lcd integration on the mp3jukebox

2005-08-10 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Rajesh Rajani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Trevor, Look at the projects and the store. http://www.mini-itx.com/ [snip] Thanks Rajesh, interesting stuff. Trevor Apologies if this link has already been posted. Regards, Rajesh

[ILUG-BOM] dealers for the via itx

2005-08-08 Thread Trevor Warren
Fellas, For all those who would like to procure the Via-ITX based boards...read on. Priya seems to be the only one in bombay who stocks them. Ctc Sunil at 56663100 and get your ITX-Board and Cabinet from them. Trevor |--||--| ( - /

Re: [ILUG-BOM] cant get the via-itx for the embedded mp3 player

2005-08-07 Thread Trevor Warren
--- nadarajan poniah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you actual reason was because you wanted to learn how to build a Linux embedded system, maybe yes. But even then, you would be better off getting a real embedded board with a MIPS or ARM cpu like something from ncoretech, beta comptronics

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux compatible motherboard...

2005-08-06 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Dinesh Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey people, My friend wants to buy a Linux friendly motherboard. The dealer is giving him the following options: 1. MSI RS480M2 for AMD64 2800+ [snip] Go for the MSI-AMD combo. Am using it for the last 2+ years with my AMD Athlon and never

Re: Re[2]: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player

2005-08-05 Thread Trevor Warren
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.plutohome.org/ [snip] Fundu stuff JTD. Let me know about any other projects on the lines of pluto. Thanks and take care. Trevor rgds jtd |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - )

[ILUG-BOM] cant get the via-itx for the embedded mp3 player

2005-08-05 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Fellas, With inputs from the gurus on this ml and from Sherlock, i have decided to make use of the Via-ITX board for the MP3 player on which i will connect a 64MB IDE Flash for the Shrinked Operating System and an LCD Display along with a Remote via the serial/Paralell connectors.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player

2005-08-04 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Mukund Deshmukh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VIA makes ITX mini board, which is as good as regular mobo but small in size. It also has 5.1 Dolby sound output , hardware MPEG4 and much more. [snip] Do you know of a vendor in bombay where we can procure the same???. Any ctc nos.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player

2005-08-04 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Dinesh Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: running WinXP SP2. It had 256MB Shared DDR RAM and I think it had the ASUS A7V400 MX mobo. The performance was very good. [snip] Tried gnu/linux on it???. Trevor Regards, Dinesh. |--||--| ( - /

Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player

2005-08-04 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Mukund Deshmukh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/spearhead/mini-itx/ Warm Regards, [snip] Thanks a million for the link mukunji. Trevor Mukund Deshmukh, |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \

Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player

2005-08-03 Thread Trevor Warren
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: U can load uclinux on some models. http://www.ipodlinux.org/ Or buy some taiwnese clones at about 7k. But u still cant beat the combo in my previous mail. [snip] Agree with you on this JTD. Trevor rgds jtd

Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player

2005-08-02 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Dinesh Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fits well within Rs.1 ;) Though its an overkill for an MP3 player... [snip] Yep, but hows the Sempron over all. Any issues with the Sempron?. Trevor Regards -- Dinesh A. Joshi |--||--| (

RE: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player

2005-08-02 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Amol Hatwâr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better still, for the people that work with logic-levels and electronics, here's a neat project that uses the STA013 chip from ST Microelectronics... http://www.pjrc.com/tech/mp3/sta013.html [snip] Thanks for the wonderful link dear. The cost of

[ILUG-BOM] rate oss

2005-08-01 Thread Trevor Warren
FYI fellas. http://news.com.com/Rating+system+to+evaluate+open-source+software/2100-7344_3-5813206.html?tag=st_lh Trevor |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ |

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 2 hard disks and formatting

2005-08-01 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Ninad Bapat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The P1 Pc is detecting it as Primary master and Primary slave. Even FC3 recognises it as hdb. [snip] Thats great for a start. My problems 1.I do not remember what filesystem I have created on D2 although FC3 shows some partitions. I am unable

Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player

2005-08-01 Thread Trevor Warren
--- vaibhav samant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why go pounds ??? Apna desi Simputer costs only about 10K, and has an inbuilt MP3 player. Unless ur idea is to learn making ur own MP3 player [snip] For the price of a simputer i would be able to purchase a complete headless x86 box based

[ILUG-BOM] [ot]opensource beer

2005-07-31 Thread Trevor Warren
FYI. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4718719.stm Trevor |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_

[ILUG-BOM] [ot]cableTV+linux+wireless

2005-07-31 Thread Trevor Warren
Afternoon Guys, Have been trying to find someone who can help me bridge a solution for me wireless needs. At home we have a x86 box with gnu-linux on it and am planning to have a combo card fitted on it. The Co-Ax for the cable TV will terminate on it. From here i will want to transmit these

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [ot]cableTV+linux+wireless

2005-07-31 Thread Trevor Warren
Thanks for writing in dear. --- Rony Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your requirement is hardware related. You will have to split your rf signal to satisfy both inputs. [snip] This is achieveable. And obtaining an Active RF splitter should be possible from the open market right??. There

[ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player

2005-07-31 Thread Trevor Warren
Evening Fellas, Am looking to build an MP3 player based on Gnu-/linux. This would be based essentially on one of the embedded processor architectures either the MIPS or the x86. The whole issue is as follows, i have a 25x25rms amplifier at my residence and would like to have an mp3

Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player

2005-07-31 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Dear, --- Rony Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can manage without a remote, how about a 512MB or 1 GB pen drive with mp3 headphone output? Connect that to your 25x25 amp. Is it one of those Phillips amp circuits? No need for any comp. to be on. [snip] There is a huge

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [ot]cableTV+linux+wireless

2005-07-31 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Rony Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can scout around in Lamington Road and one of the old and reasonable priced shops for Cable and Satellite Equipments is Channel Master in Proctor Road cross lane. He is an ideal shop for genuine DTH equipment too. [snip] Thanks a million dear.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player

2005-07-31 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Dear, --- Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if it will meet your requirements, but, you can check out LART, worth 230 UK pounds: [snip] Thanks for the link dear. Have looked at lart earlier but these are really expensive to obtain here in india and we might just find

Re: [ILUG-BOM] A project idea

2005-07-02 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Nikhil Marathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a quite simple and basic idea i had today. Some of you may have noticed that when oss developers are releasing it they have to put in a lot of time to design a proper website for it. So if we could have a bunch of [snip] Nice idea

Re: [ILUG-BOM] List usage guidelines

2005-06-26 Thread Trevor Warren
Fellas, The list guidelines seem fine. I very strongly feel it should encompass acceptance of FLOSS related dicussions too. You will agree with me that we have long outgrown just being a *only* gnu-linux mailing list. This seems to be a very important aspect left out. Over all job

Re: [ILUG-BOM] linux is costly!

2005-06-26 Thread Trevor Warren
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact i have stopped talking price with customers (i collect the M$ tax u see) and focus on a zillion other things which shreds everything that billy baba and 2000xp chors can throw. [snip] No worries JTD, as long as we have IIM babus running commercial

Re: [ILUG-BOM] linux is costly!

2005-06-25 Thread Trevor Warren
:D. Such FUD is part of its campaign to counter the FLOSS attack. Geez, this coming a month after i have seen an enterprise with 500+ MS machine bite the dust due to virus attacks for patches released mmonths ago. The management folks and analysts who come up with such reports forget that its

Re: [ILUG-BOM] linux packet drops

2005-06-22 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I suggest a RAID 10 setup with 15000 RPM SCSI disks instead? Alternatively, ask Sourcefire for what hardware they would recommend with Snort. If you have ooldes of old machines lying around, Distributed FileSystems might help..:D. Trevor

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux

2005-06-22 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Venkatesh Hariharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, it requires a special kind of personality to build a community around open source software and the ability to collaborate and inspire trust in others is essential. That's why Linux is where it is. [snip] Yep, But with Free

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Help For Internet

2005-06-19 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Dinesh J Dalvi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: google.com, real.com etc. and some site are working fine. I have not installed firewall. Pls. help me to sort out this problem. [snip] Can you pls do a nslookup sites_which_you_cant_reach and let us know what you see. Thanks and take care.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Stress testing software

2005-06-09 Thread Trevor Warren
You should have a look at www.opensta.org. Open Performance testing tools. What are you looking at testing?. Trevor |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Want to work on a open source

2005-06-03 Thread Trevor Warren
Evening Dear, Probably you would like to look at www.freshmeat.net and www.sourceforge.net which hosts most of the top opensource/free software projects. Take your time and your pick too. Trevor |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Morals and Ethics

2005-05-29 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: keep it on list - i for one am enjoying it [snip] No offence meant. But just cause we do not see eye to eye on an issue however frivilous it may be we choose to take it offline. In days when as a group we learnt.we did toy around with

[ILUG-BOM] [ot][commercial]Fwd: Requirments At Avaya Pune

2005-05-26 Thread Trevor Warren
Fyi luggers Trevor Requirements Job Title:OS Support and Maintenance Engineer Job Category: Software Development Testing Payscale Group: STA Business Group: Enterprise Communications Group (ECG) City (Non-US): India - Pune Country:India

[ILUG-BOM] [ot][commercial] For other Unix admins....!!!!

2005-05-26 Thread Trevor Warren
FYI luggers. Trevor Company :KANBAY Position : UNIX ADMINISTRATORS Skills: 3yrs to 6yrs experience as a UNIX administrator with exp. in UNIX Shell

Re: [ILUG-BOM] LINUX on AMD Athlon 64

2005-05-26 Thread Trevor Warren
thinking of it. But I wanted to be doubly sure that whatever I load into it runs for sure. Richard [snip] If you one of the techy types ready to apt get get_my_freaking_package then debian is for you else for eye-candy stick to rhel/suse. You may also try out FreeBSD/Solaris 10 which

[ILUG-BOM] any material on clusters

2005-05-26 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Luggers, Anyone has some good reading/presentation material on: Software for building and using clusters * High Performance Computing Software (Beowulf/Scyld, OSCAR, OpenMosix...), including special mention of specific groups of projects such as Single System Image systems

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Multiple distros

2005-05-26 Thread Trevor Warren
We having a distro shootout or what?. Anyways, the most imp like Dr. Shahrukh also mentioned is to be aware of the boot loader config. Keep one main gnu-linux partition as bootable, do not re-write the mbr for any other distro you install. Copy the kernels from all your new installs to the

Re: [ILUG-BOM] SquidGuard vs DansGuardian

2005-05-26 Thread Trevor Warren
Get yourself some super fast storage with Squid. Content Filtering for a large set of users can send your caching for a toss. How many users are you doing filtering usnig the squid filters. I once had a nightmare with my 500+ users and a caching-content filtering setup. Have given up on

Re: [ILUG-BOM] (OT)Linux Bazar shuts down

2005-05-22 Thread Trevor Warren
The same process applies to freesoftware. Free software companies rely on lowering the entry barrier - ideally no barrier. Closed software companies must affix a price to their product this cost is a balance between an entry barrier and profitability. The entry of free software has

Re: [ILUG-BOM] A little piece of computer history for sale

2005-05-21 Thread Trevor Warren
What did you run on this baby?. What were the applications one used those days. Trevor |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/

[ILUG-BOM] [ot][commercial]Fwd: A leading GNU/Linux Systems house is expanding, looking for GNU/Linux engineers to join our team.

2005-05-21 Thread Trevor Warren
FYI folks. Trevor --- Youhan Mubaraki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 16:03:14 -0700 From: Youhan Mubaraki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Youhan Mubaraki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mazda Technologies, A leading GNU/Linux Systems house is expanding,

[ILUG-BOM] A little piece of computer history for sale

2005-05-17 Thread Trevor Warren
FYI luggers. http://hardware.newsforge.com/hardware/05/05/17/1528245.shtml?tid=68tid=59 Trevor |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org |

[ILUG-BOM] need revolution os and code movie cd

2005-05-17 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Luggers, Does someone have the The Code and Revolution OS movie cds. I have lent my The Code movie to a great pal and never got them back. Me offers 2 blanks and a coffee for anyone who can lend me the same pls. Take care and have a great day all. Trevor

[ILUG-BOM] cissp/cisa study material[ot]

2005-05-13 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Guys/Gals, Any idea about the CISA/CISSP exams and where i can lay me hands on some cisa/cissp study material. Thanks and take care. Trevor |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - ) /~\ / In the Enterprise

Re: [ILUG-BOM] party time...low cost pcs to hit the stand

2005-05-11 Thread Trevor Warren
Shanti bhuva...!!!. The despicable person in me decided to take a long hike and stop yapping crap.:D. Trevor |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org |

Re: [ILUG-BOM] party time...low cost pcs to hit the stand

2005-05-11 Thread Trevor Warren
Whatever can be done to reduce the cost of affordable computing be it Free Software / Open Source / Closed Softwaremarket forces will see its adoption. Trevor |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - ) /~\ / In the

[ILUG-BOM] party time...low cost pcs to hit the stand

2005-05-10 Thread Trevor Warren
FYI. http://news.com.com/AMD+debuts+low-cost+Net+device/2100-1042_3-5430689.html?tag=nl Trevor |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Restrict Access to Oracle

2004-12-20 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Sneh, There isn't anyway you can perform blocking of hosts by using host.allow/deny since they are only to be used with applications compiled with/configured with support for tcp_wrappers. Read the xinetd/inetd docs for more info. As amish suggests your options are to look at

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Cheapest Laptop

2004-12-11 Thread Trevor Warren
Saswata, Toshiba-IBM-Acer could be good options to look at. I can vouch for the in-capability and unprofessionalism at Zenith to be able to cater to customer problems. As for Zenith, he just gets the whole laptop in a CKD form from Taiwan to his plant in goa, gets out the screw drivers and

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Cheapest Laptop

2004-12-10 Thread Trevor Warren
Hello JTD, With IBM jettisioning it's PC division things don't look too good for other manufacturers too but luckily as i hear laptops are a different story. Let me forewarn you that i am not in anyway an advocate for classy brands but in this case it pays to safe than be sorry. IBM and Dell

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Cheapest Laptop

2004-12-10 Thread Trevor Warren
you cut the hype and present the facts pls. Trevor --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 December 2004 08:24, Trevor Warren wrote: Hello JTD, With IBM jettisioning it's PC division things don't look too good for other manufacturers too but luckily That should free

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Redhat enterprise support

2004-11-14 Thread Trevor Warren
Hello Komal, As Indians we are ill-aware of our rights and get taken for a ride time and again by those who hand us down shoddy deals. Towards availaing any kind of support i should request you to check what is it that you would like the vendor to provide for the $$$ you are ready to pay

[ILUG-BOM] online monitoring of log files on gnu-linux, aix and hp-ux

2004-11-03 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Guys/Gals, Me has an urgent need of advice from your end. Hoping for some pointers. For one of TCS's client we have configured Nagios and a host of other GPL'ed applns top aid him in Network Monitoring as part of a very large project. This last problem has me stumped. In my

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 2 cpus instead of one

2004-10-30 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hyperthreading. Two cores on a single die. [snip] Very true. Also, the older kernels used to have not so efficient queue management with respect to Hyper threaded cpu's. Atleast, that was what i learned. Only in the later (2.4x and 2.6x)kernels has

Re: [ILUG-BOM] hdb2 not mountable : super block inconsistent

2004-10-20 Thread Trevor Warren
Fellas, The drinks are on me...tell me the place where we can catch up. We can have a glug-beer meet. All beers on the house but the place will have to be someone elses...:D Trevor = |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - )

Re: [ILUG-BOM] OT Granjo -was hdb2 not mountable

2004-10-20 Thread Trevor Warren
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Off to Goa (Bagga) today ;-). recommend a place where i can pick up one? [snip] Wines are best if picked up from Margaon market. Do not buy any fancy vines from Chateau Indage. The following is what i strongly recommend: White Wine : Granjo(Vinicola) Sparkling

Re: [ILUG-BOM] hdb2 not mountable : super block inconsistent

2004-10-20 Thread Trevor Warren
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They mostly use a package called tiramisu which works with fat and ntfs, afaik that is the boundary of their universe. at least one of the guys in andheri doing recovery jobs never heard of ext2. [snip] I will check out the refridgeration part. Can you lemme

Re: [ILUG-BOM] hdb2 not mountable : super block inconsistent

2004-10-19 Thread Trevor Warren
Thanks for writing in Erle, I did get the HDD and connected it to my machine. It seems like the HDD has bad sectors. Now, even a fdisk -l refuses to work with innumerable io errors. Will have to bury the poor one. Am trying to recover the data on it. Any ideas???. It has am ext3

Re: [ILUG-BOM] hdb2 not mountable : super block inconsistent

2004-10-19 Thread Trevor Warren
Philip, Nice link there. Am trying to figure out how to go about..since the disk seems to have bad sectors. Even a fdisk -l gives io errors. You think this can work out???. Also, i do not have an extra disk and this partition is a 35GB one. Sheesh.how worse can it get. Trevor

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Investigating Accidents

2004-10-19 Thread Trevor Warren
Great idea, But how do we help ya. Trevor = |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Tape drive on Linux

2004-10-19 Thread Trevor Warren
Hello Komal, If it's a SCSI tape device try the following to create and archive: on Gnu-Linux -- tar -cvf /dev/st0 /path/to/dir on AIX -- tar -cvf /dev/rmt0 /path/to/dir man tar for more info. HTH Trevor = |--||--| ( - / Scaling

Re: [ILUG-BOM] hdb2 not mountable : super block inconsistent

2004-10-19 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Animesh Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fdisk -l only reads the gemotery information of the disk ( Which is not placed on the sector ( for data information ). [snip] Luckily no HBA or SCSI controller. Its IDE. dmesg screams io error. And fdisk -l doesn't work but throws up io errors.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] hdb2 not mountable : super block inconsistent

2004-10-19 Thread Trevor Warren
--- Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:04:40 +0530 (IST), Philip Tellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometime Today, Trevor Warren assembled some asciibets to say: Luckily no HBA or SCSI controller. Its IDE. dmesg screams io error. And fdisk -l doesn't

Re: [ILUG-BOM] hdb2 not mountable : super block inconsistent

2004-10-19 Thread Trevor Warren
Philip/Vin, There is also Granjo, a fine white wine i picked up from goa last week. You think its presence will chill up the disks and cough up some life into it..:D. Trevor = |--||--| ( - / Scaling FreeSoftware OpenSource \ - ) /~\ /

Re: [ILUG-BOM] hdb2 not mountable : super block inconsistent

2004-10-19 Thread Trevor Warren
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure about this one?? [snip] My old godrej(Purchased when my parents were married, is about 30years old) refridgerator has had its own share of stuffed junk food. A samsung 40GB HDD with bad sectorsit wouldn't have expected this tho..:D.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] SSH attacks.

2004-10-18 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Asit, Good to have this info from you. Can you please run a sniffer(snort) on your n/w and let us know if you see anything else suspicious. Also, check for any later versions of SSH available and pls upgrade the same to prevent maliciouc code being executed and privelege entry gained.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Single User Mode

2004-10-18 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning Kumar, In such a situation there isn't much that one can do anyways. If physical access to the appropriate hardware in question can't be secure intrusion will always be a possibility. What is someone walked in with one of the numerous bootcd's(Knoppix) and booted through it edited

[ILUG-BOM] hdb2 not mountable : super block inconsistent

2004-10-18 Thread Trevor Warren
Morning guys/gals, Am in bit of a soup here. I have an ext3 disk at a clients place of which one of the partitions has gone kaput. Essentially they are as follows: hdb1 : /boot hdb2 : / hdb3 : Swap /boot is mountable while / isn't. I have used the knoppix rescue cd and have tried

re: [ILUG-BOM] Horrible Experience with Redhat

2004-10-02 Thread Trevor Warren
Best thingy, To stay happy, Stay away from all such crappy PR events meant to fatten their images. Calling their VP's and CEO's to give long pep talks meant to create mind share with customer such that they allow for bigger holes to be blown in their own pockets. After all these suckers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Horrible Experience with Redhat

2004-10-02 Thread Trevor Warren
dearly. [snip] To forgive is divine and to err is human. But yes, this sure speaks of RH's attitude which has always been so. After all they don't care too hoots for FSF-OS as long as they can fatten thier bottom lines. And that for a fact. Trevor Regards saswata Trevor Warren [EMAIL

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Horrible Experience with Redhat

2004-10-02 Thread Trevor Warren
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some observations for the deeply hurt, newbies etc. But then i suppose it's just me not being a zombie. [snip] Once in a while the great one wakes up from his slumber to pronounce his judgement. When do we get to see you o great one. Trevor jtd

[ILUG-BOM] {ot][commercial][jobs]Excellent Job Opportunity for Unix/Linux Developer/Sr.Developer (Perl,Unix)

2004-09-26 Thread Trevor Warren
Afternoon Sarika, Am forwarding the same and hope it will benefit someone. PN: Pls don't reply to this emails. Take all conversations offline please. Trevor Position: Developer/Sr Developer Educational Qualification: BE / B.Tech. / MCA Skills Required: Primary ( Essential

Re: [ILUG-BOM] is mandrake 10 processor specific?

2004-09-14 Thread Trevor Warren
--- (journoshiv)Shiv Kumar 91-22-28906693(phone), 9820320927(mobile) journoshiv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just read an item about Mandrake 10 for AMD. Now is the OS specially written for intel and AMD processors? [snip] They can have a different version for AMD 64bit. Not too sure if

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