Re: [PLUG] Auto Shutdown PC

2008-07-14 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 15 Jul 2008 07:13:35 Sonawane Satish wrote: I was wondering if there is any software available which can Shutdown the machine properly sometime after it switches to UPS (Thanks to power failure). http://linux.die.net/man/5/upsmon.conf HTH -- Shridhar --

Re: [PLUG] FireFox 3 world Record.

2008-07-02 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 03 Jul 2008 09:42:15 Arun Khan wrote: I guess now that FF is in the Guinees book, MS will try similar PR with it's next version of IE or worse yet force IE users to download the latest :( Or they could just publish the autoupdate statistics and claim the record, even at a prior

Re: [PLUG] FireFox 3 world Record.

2008-07-02 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 03 Jul 2008 10:04:54 Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ) wrote: Arun Khan wrote: | Interesting to note that out of 8 million downloads, 7.7 million were | from the US. Netherlands with a population equivalent to that of | Mumbai/Kolkata had 442K v/s India 489K. That number from India is nice

Re: [PLUG] FireFox 3 world Record.

2008-07-02 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 03 Jul 2008 11:11:42 Chetan S wrote: Any idea which other distros pushed the final release into their streams ? archlinux for one. I am using it. and there has been an update already. -- Shridhar -- __ Pune

Re: [PLUG] Libertine fonts - common windows fonts replacement

2008-06-30 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 28 Jun 2008 12:51:06 Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: Can you give some URL from where to download these fonts. I would like to download and ask people to use on proprietory OS as well. What is the license for the fonts? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts -- Shridhar --

Re: [PLUG] Let us Discuss LinTops ( Linux Compatible Computers ) !

2008-06-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Friday 27 Jun 2008 21:11:30 aniruddh katkar wrote: I Simply Meant to say If anybody offering oss other than linux simply tell him to exclude it from the package it will lessen the price of the computer then you can install any linux you w to because the the copy of os other than linux the

Re: [PLUG] Let us Discuss LinTops ( Linux Compatible Computers ) !

2008-06-25 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2008 18:00:29 aniruddh katkar wrote: Guys are you all talking about a new platform than x86 if so then there are very few of them but not populer as x86 if you are simply prefering AMD because you need a diversion from intel but i dont think thats a good idea because intel

Re: [PLUG] Let us Discuss LinTops ( Linux Compatible Computers ) !

2008-06-24 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 24 Jun 2008 17:52:35 TOM_C_A_T Floss wrote: MNC and computer-vendors ( most of them ) were never been in favor of Linux. OK ?? don't lose faith :) things change you know.. nothing is cast in stone.. Well.. search for asus splashtop.. :) Hence, the purpose of the thread is to

Re: [PLUG] Let us Discuss LinTops ( Linux Compatible Computers ) !

2008-06-24 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 24 Jun 2008 18:28:35 TOM_C_A_T Floss wrote: Discuss with the sells person what free items you are getting as well as about octroy and vat. ( 'cause I got 3% discount because there is no octroy charged at my place ) Don't know about dell but for compaq, do ask for free goodies. My

Re: [PLUG] Let us Discuss LinTops ( Linux Compatible Computers ) !

2008-06-24 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 24 Jun 2008 18:22:04 ഓം wrote: In my opinion 3 GB RAM is wastefully high amount of memory for running Linux... Nops. Run couple of virtual machines with different versions of oracle. Then anything and everything under the sun is not enough. -- Shridhar --

[PLUG] Firmware, tainted code etc [was Re: [X-Post] [ilugd] linux-libre kernel. fork?]

2008-05-28 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
Hi, This topic has numerous aspects e.g. an open firmware allows to boost powers of wireless signals which violates FCC mandates and can cause problems. Other than burrying it in binary blob(worse than a hex dump), there is no other effective measure. More importantly, tainted kernels are

Re: [PLUG] KMail messup!!

2008-05-07 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 18:00:42 ഓം wrote: but i would be a really good feature for KDE to automagically convert old KMailRC into the new *avatar*. And if I go and ask for it in bugzilla.kde.org, they would treat it as a new feature and would be put under different category that has lower

Re: [PLUG] KMail messup!!

2008-05-06 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 19:16:19 ഓം wrote: Upon setting KMail to periodically check your mails automatically, it royally messes it up.. 2 years back I found it was messed up. So had disabled it. Now when I found everything on Mandriva 2008.1 working to satisfaction I remember my old pain...

Re: [PLUG] KMail messup!!

2008-05-06 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 20:14:33 ഓം wrote: Using KMail 1.9.9 KDE 3.5.9 The problem is serious. I enabled periodic fetch for just one account of few worth checking.. and it started fetching mail every 10 seconds when the interval was set to 9 minutes.. When I tried to disable it now it does

Re: [PLUG] KMail messup!!

2008-05-06 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 20:14:33 ഓം wrote: The problem is serious. I enabled periodic fetch for just one account of few worth checking.. and it started fetching mail every 10 seconds when the interval was set to 9 minutes.. When I tried to disable it now it does not work... compare to

Re: [PLUG] OSI Board Member from Pune !!

2008-04-15 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 15 Apr 2008 19:04:30 sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: We now have a new OSI board member from Pune !! Harshad Gune from SICSR has been elected as a board member of OSI. Read the press release here: http://opensource.org/pressreleases/board-election-2008.htm Congrats !! अभिनंदन :)

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Swap partition size

2008-03-23 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Sunday 23 Mar 2008 18:06:34 Devendra Laulkar wrote: Because to a person who is just trying out linux by allocating 5-6GB of hard disk space, 2GB does matter a lot :) The person is already taking some effort and trying out a GNU/Linux distro. He/She is already making space of 6-7 GB just to

Re: [PLUG] Linux + XP dual boot

2008-03-20 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 20 Mar 2008 13:37:02 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 20-Mar-08, at 1:13 PM, ഓം wrote: I searched up and found this interesting link.. http://www.hccfl.edu/pollock/AUnix1/Partitioning.htm nice read - now if I could only find that article that specifies what goes where in the / -

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Swap partition size

2008-03-20 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 20 Mar 2008 13:42:25 Devendra Laulkar wrote: Problem with no swap is that, when you do run out of RAM on a rainy day, your computer just locks up for some time and an application gets killed of to make space. Having swap space makes the computer slow down, but it gives some time to

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Swap partition size

2008-03-20 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 20 Mar 2008 21:22:09 शंतनु महाजन (Shantanoo Mahajan) wrote: How about having loopback mounted file to be used as swap instead of whole partition? This way you can increase/decrease the swap size. You can have multiple swaps. And since swap will be used occasionally, it

Re: [PLUG] Linux + XP dual boot

2008-03-19 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 20 Mar 2008 09:34:01 ഓം wrote: Even without changing distribution upgrade can have problems and clean install is always recommended. In which case having separate home gives you a lot of rope to play with anything...(upgrade or cleaninstall) If a distro. has problems upgrading,

Re: [PLUG] Linux + XP dual boot

2008-03-19 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 20 Mar 2008 10:20:37 ഓം wrote: I had to clean install Mandriva 2008, since upgrade did not work well... SO what do we say about most user friendly Man Drake :-? Since you didn't quoted my mail, I don't know if you were replying to my reply but I assume you are. Well, I abandoned

Re: [PLUG] Linux + XP dual boot

2008-03-19 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 20 Mar 2008 10:52:55 ഓം wrote: I think you were the first on PLUG to advocate Mand? and looks like leader has gone far ahead of army of soldiers... I am no leader. I just posted my experiences then. I liked KDE and then RedHat didn't have good enough KDE, so I might have

Re: [PLUG] installing geda

2008-01-29 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 29 Jan 2008 23:46:19 Prasad Mehendale wrote: I have geda software in iso image format in a CD supplied by a magazine. I am unaware of the installation procedure, any pointers? You could try mounting the iso in loopback mode in an existing directory and check the contents. # mount

Re: [PLUG] opensouce alternatives..

2008-01-15 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 15 Jan 2008 13:23:43 Rohan Dighe wrote: I was wondering if someone has seen a comprehensive list (somewhere on the web) which describes various alternatives to closed source softwares. I did some google'ing but i could not get anything fruitful. I was basically interested in

Re: [PLUG] Request to help me get through Blank Display after initial startup.

2008-01-14 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 15 Jan 2008 10:15:00 chetan surana wrote: But after all services started display went blank and no login screen appeared. I even waited for 15min after that but nothing happened. Is any out there who knows what the problem is? How to get out of it? Probably display is misconfigured.

Re: [PLUG] Open Source Application Sharing Solution

2008-01-13 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 12 Jan 2008 16:24:48 Ashutosh Adkar wrote: Is there any real open source application sharing solution? What exactly is application sharing? Across machines, across accounts, read-only viewers? The description is insufficient and ambiguous. I have searched but

[PLUG] A nice read

2007-12-21 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
http://glomek.blogspot.com/2007/12/unix-makes-computer-science-easy.html Shridhar -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information:

Re: [PLUG] Compiling Software from the source code.

2007-12-20 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 20 Dec 2007 11:19:58 Meghanand Acharekar wrote: What are the advantages of compiling software from the source code over using binary packages. Typically you can configure features in the build such as plugins or support for a third party library. One can also tweak the

Re: [PLUG] Cheat Sheet / Quick Start Guide

2007-12-18 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 18 Dec 2007 15:17:41 Devendra Laulkar wrote: Thanks. Please check the new v1.0 version that I just uploaded. Few suggestions. - Can we have a DTP section? Something where inkscape can go? It is included in image editor which is not so correct but I don't work in graphics regularly.

Re: [PLUG] Cheat Sheet / Quick Start Guide

2007-12-18 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 18 Dec 2007 18:35:20 Rahul Sundaram wrote: श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote: - A mention that linux has flash player too. This suggestion is willing to be erased for the spirit of FOSS.. ;) Not necessarily. Gnash and swfdec are Free software flash players. Tried gnash but it did

FOSS Flash player [was Re: [PLUG] Cheat Sheet / Quick Start Guide]

2007-12-18 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 18 Dec 2007 18:51:40 Rahul Sundaram wrote: Which version was this? You really should be using the very latest one to get a feel of improvements since the codebase has changed pretty heavily over time. 0.8.0, then-latest. Current latest is 0.8.1. I Dont know about swfdec though.

Re: [PLUG] Cheat Sheet / Quick Start Guide

2007-12-08 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 08 Dec 2007 16:38:37 Devendra Laulkar wrote: Any replacement for Tally ? Gnu Cash ? May be kmymoney(kmymoney2.sourceforge.net) but my knowledge of accounting is not good enough to judge them. And one hard thing to replace about tally is that it can do indian taxes. Makes it pretty

Re: [PLUG] OT Anybody experiencing DNS issues with BSNL broadband since 17th Morning?

2007-11-16 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 17 Nov 2007 09:51:18 Devendra Vidhale wrote: I use OpenDNS servers for my machine. The DNS servers of my ISP are real slow. Try these addresses- Use a caching DNS. I use dnsmasq which is bundled with slackware. maradns is another simple option. It make casual browsing a lot more

Re: [PLUG] Celeron vs Pentium + linux reco?

2007-10-30 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 30 Oct 2007 19:25:17 Makarand Mhaiskar wrote: any recos for the linux distro? -for a relatively nub (dabbled with redhat 7 last) -need an easy installer (for dual boot) -need AMP (preferrably out of the box) gimp so what say? Slackware.. :) Shridhar --

Re: [PLUG] Please sign the petition against Microsoft's Office OpenXML becoming an ISO standard

2007-10-30 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 30 Oct 2007 20:35:14 Aditya Godbole wrote: Wasnt MS shown the door earlier? Or is this something new brewing up? I think their request for fast track movement of standard was denied. The routine process is still taking place. Shridhar --

Re: [PLUG] Celeron vs Pentium?

2007-10-25 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Friday 26 Oct 2007 10:31:45 Makarand Mhaiskar wrote: i would like to know your *experience, not just opinion* of using celeron (or sempron for that matter) for not-so-heavyweight development. pls also share ur experience with AMD processors. do they really get hot?? I *had* celeron once(

Re: [PLUG] how to change default behavious of konqueror

2007-10-24 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 24 Oct 2007 18:00:19 ಓಂ wrote: How do I change the default Mandriva page it tries to open in konq.? I could not find the setting anywhere in konq.. In location bar, type about:blank and save profile. In konq, you could have a different home page for each profile.. :) Shridhar

Re: [PLUG] how to change default behavious of konqueror

2007-10-24 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 24 Oct 2007 18:12:01 श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote: On Wednesday 24 Oct 2007 18:00:19 ಓಂ wrote: How do I change the default Mandriva page it tries to open in konq.? I could not find the setting anywhere in konq.. In location bar, type about:blank and save profile. In konq, you

Re: [PLUG] Computer slows after some time

2007-09-25 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 25 Sep 2007 18:58:15 Vikas Garud wrote: The process table shows about 100 processes, used memory about 1,000,000KB and free memory, about 2 KB. Swap - about 1,980,000KB used and about 120,000 KB free. It also shows the process with update-status with maximum system % -

Re: [PLUG] NFS monitored mount

2007-09-24 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Monday 24 Sep 2007 22:40:22 Aditya Godbole wrote: Actually just blindly mount works too. It gives a warning which you can ignore but at the end share is guaranteed to be mounted :) Blind mount wont work. It will get mounted again on the same mountpoint. NFS does that? WOW! Shridhar --

Re: [PLUG] NFS monitored mount

2007-09-24 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Monday 24 Sep 2007 21:55:47 Shantanoo Mahajan wrote: Its better not to use it blindly. I have seen a situation where two different devices were mounted on the same mount point. Now that you have reminded, I have seen this too but in a different way. A postgresql installation had database

Re: [PLUG] Memory Usage

2007-09-20 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 19 Sep 2007 23:51:36 Ajay wrote: Hi, I have a RHEL 4 server. It has 12GB RAM, when I issue a free command it shows 11GB as used. But I don't think so the proceses are using such a huge amount of memory since the sum of memory used by all the processes in ps -aux command is not

Re: [PLUG] Floating Point arithmetic in the Kernel

2007-08-18 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 18 Aug 2007 20:08:12 Shantanoo Mahajan wrote: Integer calculations are much more faster than floating point calculations. Generally, integer calculations are necessary and sufficient for the things done in kernel code. But if you really required floating point, you can always do

Re: [PLUG] source code of echo command...

2007-07-28 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 28 July 2007 15:24, sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: I dont think so. try echo * and see the results. According to you, it should give *. Actually it gives a list of files in the pwd. Both of you are correct. The * expansion is performed by the shell. So the arguments of program are

Re: [PLUG] how extent the /var size in Linux web server

2007-07-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Friday 27 July 2007 17:36, sunil varpe wrote: necessry directory. Even i want to know how i can extent the size of /var One could suggest you parted or something but editing partitions on the fly could dangerous in some situation.. Proper approach to this problem is to use LVM. Google

Re: [PLUG] Free Softwares for School

2007-07-09 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Monday 09 July 2007 11:32, Nishit Dave wrote: Still, my primary suggestion is to unequivocally suggest Edubuntu (or any of your favourite distributions having an education flavour, if you have a good point, but it will only fracture the original one). It may have proprietary drivers, but

Re: [PLUG] Problem with C++ and shared libraries.

2007-06-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 27 June 2007 15:26, amol bhor wrote: 'string' does not name a type . Same error I'm getting for iftream ofstream which are required for the file operations. Try std::string, std::ofstream etc.. Shridhar -- __

Re: [PLUG] Unicode Devnagari using Linux

2007-06-25 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Monday 25 June 2007 17:14, शंतनु (Shantanoo) wrote: Could anyone give me a hint? I want to type using Unicode characters, because the older ones are incompatible, and mess up everything. OK. Whatever follows has base on KDE3.5 and slackware. It has been long since I have to modify much

Re: [PLUG] Internet Speed

2007-06-22 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Friday 22 June 2007 21:50, Nikhil Kale wrote: So can anybody know how to check the speed ofinternet connection in Linux? Try iptraf Shridhar -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List

Re: [PLUG] Microsoft says 235 of its patents were violated by F/OSS

2007-05-14 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 08:01, Ameet Gholap wrote: I think s/w patents are not recognised in India/majority of asian and european countries and hence this article is useless... Umm? How? I mean they are valid in US so there is a problem in US and free software users all around the world should

Re: [PLUG] Re: KMail related

2007-05-08 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 00:58, Shantanoo Mahajan wrote: +++ ??? [PLUG] [08-05-07 10:26 +0530]: | I am trying to manage two different kmail enviroments. Wondering if | this is posible? | | I have old (upto 5 years old) mails in | ~/Mail | folder which I have copied from my old machine. |

Re: [PLUG] Backup

2007-04-29 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Monday 30 April 2007 00:42, Shodhan Bhave wrote: is there any software/utility similar to Norton Ghost by means of which I can backup the complete system? What is a system? What OS installed or what I maintain? What about additional partitions, users, network storage etc? I think you could

Re: WARNING 2: Re: [PLUG] Tata Indicom Broadband on Linux

2007-04-17 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 00:55, Manas Alekar wrote: I just noted that sylpheed supports per-account signatures. Which other mail cleints support per-account trivia akin to this ? kmail does. Shridhar -- __ Pune GNU/Linux

Re: WARNING 2: Re: [PLUG] Tata Indicom Broadband on Linux

2007-04-10 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 17:45, Nishit Dave wrote: It's a pity we cannot configure user behaviour. Although top posting may be inappropriate in the user groups, corporate email usually requires it, as people can go down the tree to refer to conversation history. Gee thanks. Also there is

Re: [PLUG] How to request CD's/DVD's from PLUG

2007-04-02 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Monday 02 April 2007 11:38, Nawaz Patel wrote: How do I request for free software CD's provided by PLUG. I need the Fedora core 6. Can it be sent to me by courier? The CDs are available in the PLUG meeting. A mail to Sudhanwa/dexter to book a copy should be sufficient. The meeting is

Re: [PLUG] Linux based Backup software

2007-03-29 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 29 March 2007 17:22, Sanjay Pardeshi wrote: I am looking for Linux software for Backup of my Windows 2000 server data. I want backup on my Linux machine. Mount the windows partition as samba share and run a tar from within a cron job on server. Or is there something specific you

Re: [PLUG] GNU India on the Microsoft scourge in Government

2007-03-22 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 22 March 2007 19:27, Kaustubh Gadkari wrote: On 3/22/07, Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.gnu.org.in/on-corp-agreements The link does not work. Works for me. Shridhar -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users

Re: [PLUG] Re: GNU India on the Microsoft scourge in Government

2007-03-22 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Friday 23 March 2007 10:40, Desi Penguin wrote: On 3/22/07, Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/22/07, Kaustubh Gadkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DNS works for me too. I can resolve www.gnu.org.in to 158.144.44.134. I just can't get to the machine! :-) Have you tried OpenDNS ?

Re: [PLUG] devnagari keyboard layout

2007-02-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 14:05, Technical wrote: Hi all! I use devnagari keyboard layout very often with unicode fonts such as raghu, gargi etc. On mandrake 10.0 with open office 1.1.0 (where these fonts work best) , all of a sudden and with no known (to me) cause, the keyboard layout

Re: [PLUG] Editor

2007-02-25 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Monday 26 February 2007 09:56, Nikhil Kale wrote: Hello Friends, Can anybody knows, in linux is there any editor like Dream viewer Editor which is used in windows for php or html. Specially with Suse or Fedora core distribution. - Quanta in kde-webdev package -

Re: [PLUG] some clarifications on GPL

2007-01-08 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Monday 08 January 2007 17:36, Yagnesh Desai wrote: Dear Mr Shridhar; My understanding is that the changes need to go back to the originator. Not necessarily. Only if the change should be merged with the mainstream. (That's how contribution to Linux Kernel went back to Linus and he could

Re: [PLUG] some clarifications on GPL

2007-01-07 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:56, Atul Nene wrote: Hi Nilesh, On 1/7/07, nilesh deo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a bit confused with the terms of GPL What i know is that if a SW is reg. under GPL and if the SW is allowed to be dwnl then the owner must also give the source code along

Re: [PLUG] Re: [OT] broadband 2007

2007-01-02 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 14:26, Devendra Laulkar wrote: Which any other player is not offering. Note that private players end up carteling together and giving you the illusion of choice. The government telecom companies have always led to lower prices IMHO. Shudder.. I still remember when

Re: [PLUG] broadband 2007

2007-01-02 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 22:16, Shantanu Kulkarni wrote: According to my study a couple of years back squid saved me around 17% of bandwidth. This for me was very helpful since bandwidth was costly then. I am not sure if that is useful for anyone's home PC. You may have to use additional

Re: [PLUG] Re: [OT] broadband 2007

2007-01-02 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 23:13, Nishit Dave wrote: Speaking of ISPs, what's up with Exatt? Their website at http://www.xbroadband.in seems to have disappeared! try exatt.com. An entire front page in flash is too much(or too less.. flash doesn't run on 64bit linux so entire thing is empty)

Re: [PLUG] C/C++ IDE for *inux systems?

2006-12-29 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Friday 29 December 2006 16:08, अभिजित भोपटकर (Abhijit Bhopatkar) wrote: Kscope is a very good source browser/editor actuallly is part kate and part cscope frontend Really good if you have large code base, or complex c++ code cscope works for c++? I thought not.. Shridhar --

Re: [PLUG] Why are students/colleges not using *nix systems

2006-12-21 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 21 December 2006 12:47, Varun Mehta wrote: Hi All, This is a thread to identify the points each one feels could be the reason why *nix systems are not widely used as compared to M$ systems. Would prefer if people would append their view as points to the list, so in the end we

Re: [PLUG] Why are students/colleges not using *nix systems

2006-12-21 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 21 December 2006 20:19, Shakthi Kannan wrote: Never heard of CDs4grabs of ILUGC? http://chennailug.org/wiki/?title=CDs_for_Grab You can start one for PLUG. No. But it sounds like good idea.. CS education in US is not the frame of reference Have you done it? I personally feel

Re: [PLUG] Virtualization using KVM

2006-12-20 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 22:32, ( अमेय पाळंदे ) Ameya Palande wrote: Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc. I am hoping to see

Re: [PLUG] C/C++ IDE for *inux systems?

2006-12-20 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 23:36, Shakthi Kannan wrote: --- श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless it is bundled with emacs tarball released from the GNU project, may be we should stop listing third party extensions. Terminology.

Re: [PLUG] C/C++ IDE for *inux systems?

2006-12-19 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 20:21, Varun Mehta wrote: Like we have eclipse as a nice IDE for Java [I know it can be used for C/C++ also], but can we have some other recommendations also for the same? For some freshers vi and Emacs are nightmares if they have already used EditPlus etc...

Re: [PLUG] C/C++ IDE for *inux systems?

2006-12-19 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 08:32, Kaustubh Gadkari wrote: On 12/19/06, Gitesh Kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anjuta is good to start. But do break the comfort zone and learn vi, as its most widely available and poWerfull! Flamewar, anyone? :-) Yeah.. try copy/pasting 2 and 1/2 lines

[PLUG] Setting up encrypted file system

2006-12-08 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
Hi all, Answering query from a friend and in general reference for others and bots.. ;) On Thursday 07 December 2006 16:56, you wrote: enc filesystem ??? Links: http://www.linux.com/howtos/Cryptoloop-HOWTO/cryptoloop-introduction.shtml http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/

Re: [PLUG] Broadband (Iqara/YOU) on OpenSuse 10.1 HOWTO

2006-12-06 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 07 December 2006 10:16, Aditya Laghate wrote: I have two machines too and my ISP offers pppoe. I am advised to get a router which can do pppoe and I can be on DHCP behind the router. May be that could be an option.. Yes, having a router can save you lot of trouble of setting up

Re: [PLUG] Linux with Iqara / YOU

2006-12-03 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Sunday 03 December 2006 13:49, Anand Nene wrote: On 12/2/06, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote: 10GB download quota 10GB enough for you? :) I waste it. Never surpass past 2-3GB at the most. And that takes couple of ISOs to get there.. Otherwise 600-800MB is what I reach.. Shridhar

Re: [PLUG] Linux with Iqara / YOU

2006-12-03 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Sunday 03 December 2006 13:30, Nishit Dave wrote: On 12/3/06, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर [EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened: I pay 550/- for a month, 10GB download quota, 256kbps, 512 kbps at night from exatt. And I am happy with the plan. Couldn't have asked for more except Are you and I living

Re: [PLUG] Linux with Iqara / YOU

2006-12-02 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Sunday 03 December 2006 11:53, Nishit Dave wrote: On 12/3/06, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anything that works on pppoe at least, which has many ISPs. What exactly do you mean linux friendly? Can connect using linux? Many of them can be connected that way

Re: [PLUG] wanted printer recommendation

2006-12-01 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Friday 01 December 2006 00:18, K. Shantanu wrote: * Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061130 12:43]: HP printers work rather faultlessly with Linux. However, recently Even USB printers of HP? Yes. BTW, what is form factor? It is about size. I don't know the exact definition but if I say

Re: [PLUG] Support

2006-11-17 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Friday 17 November 2006 12:44, YAGNESH N DESAI wrote: I envy you guys in surat i am still to find a Linux user . . Other than me . . ! Be elite.. You won't be alone for long.. ;) Shridhar -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group

Re: [PLUG] Can we file PIL (Public Interest Litigation)

2006-11-13 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 11 November 2006 12:18, Aditya Laghate wrote: On 11/11/06, YAGNESH N DESAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends; PIL came to my mind 'cos of provided limited choice by Indian Service providers and manufacturers. Can one file PIL saying all the Generic Hardware vendors generic

Re: [PLUG] Digital photo selection and management software

2006-11-06 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 05:06, Kaustubh Gadkari wrote: The link you gave clearly has a Linux version. It uses Wine. Yup. My mistake. Usiogn wine classifies as linux version? I think not.. Shridhar -- __ Pune GNU/Linux

Re: [PLUG] Exatt.net Broadband

2006-10-31 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 17:08, Desi Penguin wrote: Next, called Exatt.net Their plans look amazinghttp://www.xbroadband.in/html/schemes.htm, too good to be true. Query: Has anyone used this ISP ? Any experience ? Linux support/compatibility ? I do. Speed is what they promise so are the

[PLUG] Fwd: [LIH] Ubuntu (i386) repository at IIT Madras

2006-10-29 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
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Re: [PLUG] Editor for HTML

2006-10-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Friday 27 October 2006 21:55, Nikhil Kale wrote: Hello All, Please tell me is there any editor available for html and php? on suse linux.. Try quanta. Although I cannot find it in on 5 CDs of SLES9 that I have, you might be able to find it in online repositories. And there is also

Re: [PLUG] Checking for availability of slackware linux 11.0 CDs.

2006-10-23 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Monday 23 October 2006 17:27, Atul Sowani wrote: Hi guys, I would like to know if slackware linux 11.0 CD set is available with PLUG. It's not mentioned on the PLUG website, but I am conveniently assuming that the webpage is not updated yet! ;-) If it's available, what is the price and

Re: [PLUG] Tata Indicom + (Slackware) Linux.

2006-10-10 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 11:39, Desi Penguin wrote: On 10/9/06, Atul Sowani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am planning to have Tata Indicom broadband connection for my PC. Unrelated to the technical part of the discussion, but I haven't heard good things about Tata indicom's broadband.

[PLUG] Don't know whether or laugh or cry

2006-10-10 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/10/stories/2006101012450400.htm -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to

Re: [PLUG] dd command for removable drive

2006-10-02 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 07:58, Rohan Dighe wrote: Inline reponses follow:- Yes it can be when you have sata disks which are sd* because of scsi emulation of sata. AFAIK, when you use dd the device should be umounted. Can you tell more about the scenario when your partition table

Re: [PLUG] ufs support on Linux 2.6.*

2006-09-14 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 14 September 2006 10:44, Arindam wrote: find / -name ufs.ko find / -name ufs*.ko find / -name u*fs*.ko rpm -ql `rpm -qa|grep kernel`|grep ufs would have sufficed.. ;) Complain to your distributor and/or build your own kernel from the srpms. I find this on my slackware-current

Re: [PLUG] ufs support on Linux 2.6.*

2006-09-13 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 19:17, Arindam wrote: should be able to do the mount. There seems to be a disconnect somewhere ... or am I missing something. In any case, is there a loadable ufs / ufs2 module for 2.6 kernel that anyone has used? Of course there is a ufs.ko which you can

Re: [PLUG] Modem Help

2006-09-12 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 11:46, Arindam wrote: I heard that some of the broadband service providers in Pune are yet to offer services in a form that is readily (or at all) usable under Linux (read non-Windows). Not sure about this as I don't have broadband at home. While this is true as

Re: [PLUG] Best Linux for Desktop Users

2006-09-12 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 19:23, Pushparajan V wrote: I dont know why guys asks this silly questions.. The best distro for desktop too depends on the choice of the user. a distro becomes best when it solves his/her particular problem. The best way to select the top OS is by reading from

Re: Use linux for what [was Re: [PLUG] Best Linux for Desktop Users]

2006-09-12 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 20:59, Pushparajan V wrote: and note that, many use *Linux*.. instead of GNU/Linux.. please.. please change.. use GNU/Linux always.. iam not an exception since i too corrected myself to use like that.. It creates respect to the GNU OS and makes users to know what

Re: [PLUG] DSL modem

2006-09-11 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 00:14, Nikhil kale wrote: Hello All, I recently taken TATA indicom broad band connection and want to configure the connection with SUSE 10.1 as well as redhat linux 9.0 disributions. I have two systems with SUSE 10.1 and Redhat linux 9.0 distributions.. Please

Re: [PLUG] DSL modem

2006-09-11 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 08:24, Kaustubh Gadkari wrote: On 9/11/06, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 00:14, Nikhil kale wrote: Hello All, I recently taken TATA indicom broad band connection and want to configure Which modem

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Dual booting Linux with Net/Free/OpenBSD

2006-09-07 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 07 September 2006 16:04, Arindam wrote: I am planning to experiment with one of the BSD flavours alongside Linux on an x86 box and I was wondering which version would be good to use - FreeBSD 5.2/4, NetBSD ??, OpenBSD ??. Any would do. In past I have made it work with free and net.

Re: [PLUG] Re: Re: separate partition for /home

2006-09-04 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 10:03, Raseel Bhagat wrote: Please post here, if you come up with a better solution. :-) Backup and restore.. Works like charm.. :) Shridhar -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List:

Re: [PLUG] separate partition for /home

2006-09-03 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Sunday 03 September 2006 12:32, Kunal Thakar wrote: Only lately did I realize that maintaining a separate partition for /home could solve my woes to a large extent. The question is that will it be necessary to remove all the hidden folders from /home like .gnome2, .gconf and all the rc

Re: [PLUG] Replacement for init

2006-09-02 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Sunday 03 September 2006 08:08, Kaustubh Gadkari wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReplacementInit There are also runit(debian packages available), cinit, initng, minit and gentoo parallel init profile(or something to that effect).. Shridhar --

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