Re: [PLUG] Any Python Book for Basic to Advance

2017-01-31 Thread Manas Alekar
Try https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ by Zed Shaw. ___ plug-mail mailing list plug-mail@plug.org.in http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail

Re: [PLUG] GNUnify 2017

2017-01-31 Thread Manas Alekar
My unsolicited advice is to load all the bootstrap and jQuery components from a CDN. A lot of time if not hosting bandwidth is being wasted fetching them from gnunify.in! On Thursday, January 26, 2017 12:16 PM, Arun Khan wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 3:08 AM, Gaurav

Re: [PLUG] 3g Wifi router tuning

2013-07-24 Thread Manas Alekar
Unfortunately the fault involves 2 factors - OS and router. Maybe it's your laptop's chipset and 802.11 standard it tries to use.   I kind of solved this. Old workhorse WRT54GL came to the rescue. I upgraded its firmware from DDWRT 23 to 24 SP2 BETA and used it as a repeater bridge. Did

Re: [PLUG] A serious issue of Amazon Elastic Load Balancer

2013-05-02 Thread Manas Alekar
   I need both the feature(Client IP and Vulnerability overcome). You cannot with the current state of ELBs. One way to fix this is to terminate SSL at nginx with renegotiation disabled in front of haproxy. You will need CNAMEs managed by akamai or a route53 monitor and at least a multi AZ

Re: [PLUG] C web framework

2013-05-02 Thread Manas Alekar
Has anyone worked on any C web framework? I am trying my hands at rafters. I guess you meant Raphters? If you don't have C++, check cpp-netlib. Much more managable at scale, IMHO. Manas ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] I2C: kernel userspace drivers : using i2c-stub

2013-05-02 Thread Manas Alekar
There is no file at all created in /dev corrosponding to this device. You should start by checking if the udev rules in your distribution create i2c devices. Manas ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Creator of RSS passes away

2013-01-28 Thread Manas Alekar
 So do I read it something like this: While walking on the street, I found an unlocked door to a bar and walked in, grabbed a bottle of vodka, gulped it down, and walked out. I was caught, since I was 17. Was that vodka manufactured by people institutionalized and funded by society for the

Re: [PLUG] Tata Indicom Photon+ configuration (Olive V-ME101)

2010-12-28 Thread Manas Alekar
In /ets/usb_modeswitch.conf, I don't see any entry for the Vendor Id 201e and product id 2009 under it. Apparently I need a Vendor + Product specific MessageEndpoint (something like an address or Offset I think) and a MessageContent which is written to the endpoint. This information is

Re: [PLUG] Kernel level file calling

2010-11-19 Thread Manas Alekar
Now can I write a kernel module or any other application as a daemon, which intercepts this call and reads the contents of my file and then passes back the control to foo. Your question is not well formed. Read the data in the module? And? Even so, you don't need to write a kernel module.

Re: [PLUG] Email Tracking

2010-10-15 Thread Manas Alekar
Has anyone tried this.. https://emailoracle.com/ Your question is not even license agnostic! That plugin is _not_ under a compatible license as far as I can tell. Manas ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] best strategy for backing up small server

2010-10-14 Thread Manas Alekar
I have a small ubuntu server running for our development needs as well as file server. We are now considering to upgrade it with ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The first tenet of system administration is: if it ain't broken don't fix it. We do not have any automatic backup system for now. I want

Re: [PLUG] How to write Linux system level API for USB in QT?

2010-08-18 Thread Manas Alekar
Can any body explain how to write a system level API’s such as copy, check usb size etc in QT ? or what is way to proceed ? man statfs man open man read man write man close google crc32.c If that does not help, get a copy of The UNIX Programming Environment by Brain Kernighan and Rob Pike.

Re: [PLUG] duel boot on macbook

2010-08-18 Thread Manas Alekar
1] is it possible to have duel boot macbook [mac + linux]? if yes, is it a simple procedure? It is certainly possible. Not very difficult either. However, the only difference you will notice as a user is that you are running the linux kernel. All the GNU/ Unix user space is present on OS X.

Re: [PLUG] plug-mail Digest, Vol 54, Issue 17

2010-08-18 Thread Manas Alekar
Thank you Manas and Steve, The system call be executed from QT , I dont have idea how it would be execute in it e.g In case of Copy cmnd; You are not listening. It is not trivial to recover from errors if you make system calls. Also, a gentle reminder that replying to digests is a excellent

Re: [PLUG] Hotplug support for USB in Ubantu on Power PC based target board

2010-08-11 Thread Manas Alekar
I have recently joined this group and working on integration of HOTPLUG support for USB(i.e. detection of pen drive ) in UBANTU Linux on PowerPC based Target board. Your questions, specially the topical ones are quite confusing. Are you trying to enable HOTPLUG in the kernel? Or are you

Re: [PLUG] File content modification

2010-08-10 Thread Manas Alekar
does not work, cat try.txt | cut -d '_' -f2- | rev | cut -d '_' -f2- | rev | tr -d '_' ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] File content modification

2010-08-09 Thread Manas Alekar
cat try.txt | cut -d '_' -f2- | rev | cut -d '_' -f2- | rev Manas On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 2:38 AM, zoyd emailz...@yahoo.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Gaurav Pant gauravggs at gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/3 शंतनू (Shantanoo) shantanoo at gmail.com: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:32,

Re: [PLUG] Internet access

2010-07-24 Thread Manas Alekar
look at your routing table and you will understand the problem. i think the command is $iptable -L or something similar... route -n ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

[PLUG] Beagle Board

2010-03-08 Thread Manas Alekar
I thought embedded hardware and linux enthusiasts will find this interesting. http://beagleboard.org OMAP with ARM Cortex A8, USB, OpenGL ES, DVI-D, SD/MMC, S-Video, Stereo In/Out and yes, it already runs Ubuntu. Trivia: someone created a hobby project of a solar powered computer based on

Re: [PLUG] Looking at distros for old desktops

2010-01-09 Thread Manas Alekar
Is it recommended to remove packages from the standard desktop install of Ubuntu. I am uncomfortable with the idea because I can never know all the dependencies correctly and I don't want some library that will never be used lying around on my disk. deborphan will help Manas

Re: [PLUG] requesting help with sed...

2009-11-17 Thread Manas Alekar
I want to increment value of variables build_number and build_id by 1. Can you use awk? You will have to change the field delimiter. ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Fedora doesnt boot

2009-11-12 Thread Manas Alekar
At GRUB menu, press c. Lands you at grub prompt. Then: rootnoverify(0,0) chainloader +1 boot You might have root(1,0) as WinXP. I hope you get the idea. Be careful, although this sequence is hard to abuse, you want to tiptoe around all things boot loader and partitions.

Re: [PLUG] high cpu utilization

2009-11-09 Thread Manas Alekar
push data from one thread to another push a buffer in a g_queue which get pulled in the thd_w and used. But since thd_r is much slower then thd_w, I have to wait in thd_w again and again in a while loop polling for the data to be pushed queue from thd_r. Use select() on the queue. There

Re: [PLUG] Need RHEL5 and Oracle Enterprise Linux DVD's

2009-11-04 Thread Manas Alekar
_ New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List The two DVDs you have mentioned are not redistributable.

Re: [PLUG] Problem with installation of Linux

2009-09-09 Thread Manas Alekar
Hi Rajendra, PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device fa, VID=8086, DID=3a20 That looks like a ICH10 SATA controller. A more current distribution might help. ~ Manas ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread Manas Alekar
2. Regarding the question of MOU, I think the government would quite like to agree about shifting to free software. The main question for them is 'how'. The issue is not what software they use to train the teachers, but whether it is feasible for them to go through this process logistically

Re: [PLUG] Session capture

2009-08-28 Thread Manas Alekar
Now I want to capture all the session details from Login to Exit from the Server. You can use process accounting (acct) to do this. However, beware that these logs are not admissible evidence unless you display a notice warning the user that his or her activities will be logged. Although

Re: [PLUG] Unable to See Desktop in Open Suse 11.1

2009-08-27 Thread Manas Alekar
While booting it loads nearly 50% and then shows a strange mesh on screen and computer hangs. Press CTRL+ALT+F1/F2/F3 ... F7. Will switch you to a console (hopefully). Log in and see what Xserver logs and /var/log/messages says. ~ Manas ___ Pune GNU/Linux

Re: [PLUG] :!

2009-08-25 Thread Manas Alekar
I am working on Hadoop! I have setup a cluster of few machines. Now with the usage of Hadoop, I am developing a file system(distributed). For this data transfer, i want to use SCTp protocol. So, how to approach and what are the pre-requisites.? Are you using Hadoop? Or are you developing

Re: [PLUG] help for setup of virtual machine

2009-08-17 Thread Manas Alekar
he is on a very tight budget and cannot afford to setup multiple pcs, so he know wants to know whether he can use Virtualization on fedora 11 and setup multiple systems using KVM. I am guessing by KVM you might mean attaching multiple LCDs and keyboards to one machine. If that is what you

Re: [PLUG] Cannot run c-icap server after installation

2009-08-07 Thread Manas Alekar
This same error occurs for /usr/local/c-icap/bin/c-icap --help Try this at the prompt: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH :/usr/local/c-icap/lib /usr/local/c-icap/bin/c-icap --help ~ Manas ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Exceed, Exceed OnDemand, VNC

2009-07-30 Thread Manas Alekar
I need to use XWindow based applications on my Linux servers from my Windows/Linux desktop. NX Client. ~ Manas ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] How to configure xorg.conf

2009-07-26 Thread Manas Alekar
I could not figure out what I can change to get the same desired effect on Kubuntu. Please see the xorg.conf files below. I will appreciate it if someone can help me out here and tell me how I can configure xorg.conf so that I can use 1024x768. From your pastebin files, here is what you

Re: [PLUG] [OT/commercial/x-post] Looking for professional help to integrate LDAP auth (Mac OSX, Linux and Windows XP)

2009-07-19 Thread Manas Alekar
I have not tried sudo but users defined in the openLDAP Directory can login into the OSX box over the network (ssh us...@hostname). Try clearing DirectoryService preferences. Manas ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] file locking

2009-07-16 Thread Manas Alekar
What is the best way of forcing a file to be opened by only one process at a time? You might be interested in mandatory file locking via setgid. Mount using option mand and then use lockf. There are pitfalls, though. Manas ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group

Re: [PLUG] [OT/commercial/x-post] Looking for professional help to integrate LDAP auth (Mac OSX, Linux and Windows XP)

2009-07-16 Thread Manas Alekar
PS - I have already tried openLDAP (on Linux), works with Linux desktops, OSX clients see the LDAP server but do not authenticate from the graphical login window. Can you sudo using openLDAP? If you can, try clearing DirectoryService preferences. Manas ___

Re: [PLUG] Joomla install(solved)

2009-07-14 Thread Manas Alekar
And it was very easy tweak that was supposed to be done so that the installer recognized MySQL support. Can you tell us what the symptoms, diagnosis and cure are? Someone else can find it useful, you know? Manas ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] How to recover GRUB on MBR

2009-07-06 Thread Manas Alekar
(snip) Ya, my bad. Got confused. When booting from a CD mounting will be required. Also, install_device should be disk name as you have said. (snip) I agree, but not totally. We're here to help, and not *merely* say RTFM. Saying RTFM is not at all a bad thing. IMHO, getting someone

Re: [PLUG] dot chm files not opening

2009-06-30 Thread Manas Alekar
I am using Xubuntu 9.04. Could any one help me regarding the problem I am facing with .chm files that do not open in Linux. I have tried opening the files with wine, firefox and opera. None of these worked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help

Re: [PLUG] Question: NTFS partition recovery through Linux

2009-06-23 Thread Manas Alekar
Sorry to be so un-adventurous. But I would like to remind you that there might be professionals who understand more about hard-disks that might be able to help. One such gentleman is on Karve Road, behind Kavre's ice cream shop. Just don't turn the laptop on, lest you destroy more data. Manas

Re: [PLUG] Sharing of Swap Space

2009-06-07 Thread Manas Alekar
Linux can use swap space to hibernate. If you plan on using a common swap space you cannot hibernate your distributions and start another. ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Ghost Images for Edubuntu

2009-06-05 Thread Manas Alekar
Hi Deepak, Given the problem with ghosting installations, you might be interested in a different approach. Booting of PXE and installing is a good option. However, it might take effort to acquire and implement that knowledge. A slightly easier learning curve is available with Kickstart. Last I

Re: [PLUG] Open source Gateway Firewall

2009-05-12 Thread Manas Alekar
You can setup a linux box and configure iptables. As you need 150 users I will recommend buying a bix with good quality motherboard and a good quality LAN card, preferably a card that supports 1Gbps. Should we be asking him the b/w available upstream on the gateway/ firewall? - Manas

Re: [PLUG] How to make a window executable software from linux

2009-03-23 Thread Manas Alekar
. -- Manas Alekar maale...@gmail.com ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Linux Based Proxy Firewall solution

2009-03-19 Thread Manas Alekar
Address: 64.233.161.104 Tada! -- Manas Alekar maale...@gmail.com ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] O'Pun Suse 11.1

2009-03-16 Thread Manas Alekar
wins simply because 1 is better than 2. -- Manas Alekar maale...@gmail.com ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Problem with dll's

2009-03-12 Thread Manas Alekar
you don't need 32 bit M/C. you can install 32 bit OS on 64 bit OS. that should do the needful. I just wanted to chip in that Shantanoo has assumed 64bit machine to mean amd64 or x86_64. ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] networking problem in OpenSuse 11.1

2009-03-12 Thread Manas Alekar
I have BSNL broadband wich is share via a hub. Internet is running fine on both Pcs. In win networking works fine. Is this a hub or is it a router? The kind, for example, Linksys sells. If it is the later, it might not allow machines to talk to each other till you fiddle with some

Re: [PLUG] Asynchronous Notification

2009-03-10 Thread Manas Alekar
For that I used fasync method. kill_fasync() called in interrupt handler of gpio. If the IRQ handler is getting called correctly, then check whether the userspace handler has a policy of dropping pending signals when the handler is getting executed. Can you print out logs at the

Re: [PLUG] Request for conducting a Workshop

2009-02-27 Thread Manas Alekar
I conduct training program and workshop on Linux System Administration and other open source Package/Languages. Are these workshops on a non-profit budget? Manas -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List:

Re: [PLUG] accounting software under Linux

2009-01-15 Thread Manas Alekar
I think we should all appreciate that neither the domain specific knowledge or the usability research of makers of Tally is being matched by other accounting softwares. TCS tried to replace Tally, but failed because it just did not cut the same grade. It is interesting that we cannot appreciate a

Re: [PLUG] Logical partition

2008-12-31 Thread Manas Alekar
Your extended partition (/dev/sda2) is only 16 gigabytes long and is full. So, it cannot Maybe I have the thing by it's tail here but, wouldn't the extended partition size show up as the sum of logical partition sizes ? Curious, Manas --

Re: [PLUG] Installation with Quad core Processor.

2008-12-30 Thread Manas Alekar
I have Intel Quad core 2.0 processor with Intel original board. Now any one help me, which linux flavor work with configuration of different server? I used to run 2 racks full of such machines (blades) on CentOS. No hickups. HTH, Manas --

Re: [PLUG] Logical partition

2008-12-30 Thread Manas Alekar
I have 2 HDD's on a Dual core P-35 chipset with 2GB RAM. The diagnostic information people need to help you can be obtained as: r...@machine:# fdisk -l If you can post the output of 'fdisk -l', some of us can chip in. Cheers, Manas --

Re: [PLUG] Logical partition

2008-12-30 Thread Manas Alekar
I would use cfdisk to create a logical partition (sda9) and set the partition type to FAT32/NTFS. Then reboot into windows and format the partition. - Manas -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List:

Re: [PLUG] What is this please?

2008-12-08 Thread Manas Alekar
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: A good Virus scanner on non-linux platform caught these in the rpm packages kept there...

Re: [PLUG] Problem in Kubuntu Of C Header files

2008-10-04 Thread Manas Alekar
Raseel, Try the following, once you have connected to the internet : sudo apt-get install build-essentials At the risk of igniting a old debate I want to ask you; why would you give the fellow the command and cripple him ? Kaustubh was leading him in the right direction. We harm newbies

Re: [PLUG] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-04 Thread Manas Alekar
As regards to the fact that Ubuntu has a BDFL in Shuttleworth, I think thats a boon more than a curse. I agree. Look at apple. They are a Unix. They just have Jobs to insist that OS X should not suck. Linux needed a dictator who did that. If at any point in the future the community

Re: [PLUG] I want to rewrite address bar and i use php

2008-08-04 Thread Manas Alekar
Check apache conf file. You need the directive AllowOverrides all To let your .htaccess modify documentroot setttings. -Manas -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information:

Re: [PLUG] Resolving dependencies in rpmbuild

2008-06-16 Thread Manas Alekar
Secondly, your guess about finding the devel library was spot on. What I suggested above was just an alternative. -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information:

Re: [PLUG] Linux flavour recommendation

2008-06-14 Thread Manas Alekar
The slackware suggestion makes a lot of sense. Especially considering the fact that it is the only distribution compiling packages with optimisations for i486 ! Most newer distributions will use optimisations for i686 at least which assumes pipeline structure, which simply will not work on a old

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-16 Thread Manas Alekar
One more question, totally unrelated to package managers, but relevant. When are the major distributions going to start supporting MacBooks ? ~Manas -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in)

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-16 Thread Manas Alekar
Are you sure ? The touchpad, function keys ... everything ? Also, is this with the Sulphur release ? Cheers, Manas -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information:

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-15 Thread Manas Alekar
*This is not a smart comment.* Why did Fedora chose to go the yum way instead of using apt with rpm ? Apt is quite matured. I use Fedora and Debian on a regular basis, and somehow, apt seems way mature than yum. I can understand the spirit of doing it again, and doing it in python for porting

Re: [PLUG] GUI development over linux

2008-04-25 Thread Manas Alekar
Hi, If you are familiar with perl and need to develop tools in-house, why not try perl-tk ? It has a good programming model with a decent learning curve. Besides, I don't think you will lack any functionality in tk, unless you want to do something like embedding mozilla in your application. My

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Swap partition size

2008-03-23 Thread Manas Alekar
It was just pointed out to me that my post could make me appear pro piracy. Just to make it clear ... No, I am not remotely supporting piracy. Not licensed but copyrighted music means folk music that has copyright but is distributed free of cost by a community or the artist. You can find plenty

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Swap partition size

2008-03-22 Thread Manas Alekar
Not a loopback mounted filesystem, but a swap file ? --- dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile count=whatevermkswap swapfile swapon swapfile --- You can run a bash script with a vmstat that adds new files with thresholds. But realistically, why not just give 2 GB ? Backing some music you never listen to on

Re: [PLUG] Cheat Sheet / Quick Start Guide

2007-12-21 Thread Manas Alekar
I really don't want to please the entire world with the list that I created. The flyer was created with a very specific purpose, which I believe is fulfilled. All I am saying is, that we cannot let local favouritism affect what we put on that flyer. Need to be more, neutral to hindsight

Re: [PLUG] Cheat Sheet / Quick Start Guide

2007-12-20 Thread Manas Alekar
We can go on arguing why [Insert your fav distro here] is not included in the list. Debian is not any other distro. http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major The sheer number of debian users in the world indicate that even thought it might be out of favour in PLUG as a newbie distro we

Re: [PLUG] Kingfisher - linux

2007-12-19 Thread Manas Alekar
On Dec 19, 2007 8:47 AM, Sarang Lakare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is interesting: I recently boarded a kingfisher flight and their onboard entertainment system was rebooting. Guess what, its based on linux! The bad thing was the bootup time was really lengthy ;-). It had kernel 2.6.22 I

Re: [PLUG] Need Help with Wireless configuration in Ubuntu

2007-12-19 Thread Manas Alekar
But right now when I make her try iwlist scanning is giving No Scan Results I hope you remember that unless you scan as root, only the access points with which you are associated will be shown. Cheers, Manas -- __ Pune

Re: [PLUG] A query

2007-12-17 Thread Manas Alekar
Homework. Cheers, Manas On Dec 17, 2007 9:47 AM, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vinayakk Merwade wrote: Hi Does any one know what is the meaning of a.out file created after the compilation of c,c++ program does a has any fullform Did you try searching a bit first?

[PLUG] Xara Extreme

2007-12-10 Thread Manas Alekar
http://www.xaraxtreme.org/ I like it. It would be great if someone who does graphics for a living / knows about such stuff made a comment. It can greatly aid conversations. Cheers, Manas -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing

Re: [PLUG] AVR simulator

2007-12-10 Thread Manas Alekar
http://www.google.com/search?q=atmel+avr+simulator+for+linux says: http://webscripts.softpedia.com/script/Scientific-Engineering-Ruby/ ATMEL-AVR-Simulator-32950.html http://www.amctools.com/atmel.htm Let me rephrase what shantanoo said for you. No. But if you are desperate ... Cheers,

Re: [PLUG] Help needed for participation in CMDA Exhibition

2007-12-10 Thread Manas Alekar
I volunteer to design and type-set the flier. Cheers, Manas -- __ 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

[PLUG] gobuntu

2007-12-03 Thread Manas Alekar
Hi, Ubuntu is becoming very popular. A few select amongst us have refused to use Ubuntu insipte of their liking for it. Why ? Principles. They don't like distributions which package non-Free software. I came across gobuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/gobuntu. I am posting this

Re: [PLUG] techically OT but not..

2007-11-06 Thread Manas Alekar
Hi Flaming Mongrels, Let us stop behaving like a pack of wolves and try to co-operate. Those who do not want to target a particular person as particularly irksome should use filters. Please engage in constructive activities. Please. The person being targeted in this thread and on the list in

Re: [PLUG] KWGR614 or WRT54GL

2007-10-23 Thread Manas Alekar
I am using a Linksys router at home. 2 Laptops and 1 PC connecting to it. All wireless. Never had any problems. Cheers, Manas On 10/22/07, Desi Penguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't have any good experience with my *wireline* router/modem from Netgear, so I would stay away. People

Re: [PLUG] KWGR614 or WRT54GL

2007-10-23 Thread Manas Alekar
1. What kind of signal strength is observed? Depends :) If you need more range, Linksys has another high power router which they claim has 8 (?) times the range. 2. Do connections drop often? No. 3. What is the typical distance? Depends. Especially on what is between you and the router.

[PLUG] PVM and other Clustering Requirements

2007-10-23 Thread Manas Alekar
Hi ! This is in response to a question by Aditya Godbole. The mail was too stale, so I figured myself better off like this. For PVM, OpenMPI and similar clustering needs, you _have_ to give Rocks Clusters a thought. http://www.rocksclusters.org Managing a 120 core cluster with 16 blades is

Re: [PLUG] Floating Point arithmetic in the Kernel

2007-10-23 Thread Manas Alekar
Sadly, there is no way to define the state of the floating point unit in the kernel. Also, the presence of an FPU is not an assumption you want to make. Lastly, it is a headache to keep a track of where you can use and FPU and where you cannot (Yes, you can use a global lock, but why incur that

Re: [PLUG] Plone Vs Joomla

2007-10-23 Thread Manas Alekar
Almost all hawkers hawkers ? 1. Powerful. 1.5. Highly functional (I don't want to go about hunting for a new CMS or writing a new plugin.) It is powerful if you mean taking load. Yes. Functional = lot of functionality available as modules or built in. Example : Event Calendar.

Re: [PLUG] Floating Point arithmetic in the Kernel

2007-10-23 Thread Manas Alekar
Related question - is there any place in the kernel where we really miss FPU functionality ? For eg. would we have better load average calculations if the kernel used the FPU ? Just a thought... Do we miss it ? No ! We could always use a bunch of integers and a taylor series instead ;-)

Re: [PLUG] Floating Point arithmetic in the Kernel

2007-10-23 Thread Manas Alekar
? On 10/23/07, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are always reasons why wise people do not want to take shortcuts :-) even when they are readily available. That may be fitting this situation... -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users

Re: [PLUG] How to Ignore Updates?

2007-06-15 Thread Manas Alekar
One easy way of doing this is to install the update :) Cheers, Manas On 6/14/07, Ameet Gholap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/6/14, Devendra Laulkar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am using ubuntu 6.06. I got a notification of updates - checked and found them to be xscreensaver related.

Re: [PLUG] How to Ignore Updates?

2007-06-15 Thread Manas Alekar
Apologies for the top posting. Cheers, Manas -- __ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PLUG] dell 1390 wireless with mandriva..

2007-05-24 Thread Manas Alekar
I do get a follwoing line in there ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready despite my being able to ping to wlan0 ip address... but not to any other external IP. The packet comes back from a level much higher in the stack than the network driver. Ex: ping can work on your wired

Re: [PLUG] Unable to mount root after kernel compilation, Kernel panic

2007-05-22 Thread Manas Alekar
You need a initrd and LVM enabled. Google for initrd / mkinitrd. Cheers, Manas -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail

Re: [PLUG] dell 1390 wireless with mandriva..

2007-05-22 Thread Manas Alekar
Do you see ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready ? Cheers, Manas -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail

Re: [PLUG] wired gentoo 2007.0 installer behavior

2007-05-22 Thread Manas Alekar
As a side note, why not write out the configuration ? $ man interfaces The least you can do it write out a small script and put it in rcS.d. $ zcat /usr/share/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz | less Cheers, Manas On 5/18/07, yogesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed gentoo 2007.0 amd64

Re: [PLUG] LAMP Help

2007-05-22 Thread Manas Alekar
Hey ! I think you should look for this video on Google videos 7 habits for highly effective text editing by Braam Moolenaar (spelling?) I hope it answers your question about which IDE is best for you. Cheers, Manas PS: No, he does not say use vim, he says why it makes sense to use a good

Re: [PLUG] Re: [geep_linux] Re: [Announce] KGit a git frontend (url fix)

2007-05-22 Thread Manas Alekar
Nice job, worked for me ... alas I no longer use git ... :( Cheers, Manas -- __ 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

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

2007-04-17 Thread Manas Alekar
I just noted that sylpheed supports per-account signatures. Which other mail cleints support per-account trivia akin to this ? Cheers, Manas -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List

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

2007-04-09 Thread Manas Alekar
Mr Webmaster, I like the idea of corresponding with members violating the guidelines on the list. Why ? Transparency. Cheers, Manas On 4/9/07, आदित्य लघाटे [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me remind you that top posting is not allowed on the list, which you have done in your last mail on

Re: [PLUG] [BSNL] Trouble with configuring BSNL connection

2007-01-14 Thread Manas Alekar
# pppoeconf Regards, Manas -- __ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing

Re: [PLUG] common package format

2007-01-14 Thread Manas Alekar
RPM -- dpkg apt -- apt Does that make sense ? :) Manas -- __ 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 [EMAIL

Re: [PLUG] How find command works ?

2007-01-14 Thread Manas Alekar
You might want to take a look at the string searching routines from 'Introduction to Algorithms' by CLR. Regards, Manas -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information:

Re: [PLUG] Microsoft-Novell pact

2006-11-27 Thread Manas Alekar
Funny. If I remember, zoyd and yours truly had spotted one similar experiment in machine learning on the PLUG list some time back. Remember the ID of the poster zoyd ? Anyways, sco1984, so how does it feel to be a bot and still be able to get under people's skins ? Manas --

Re: [PLUG] Successfully config of bipac 7000 USB ADSL modem on Slackware 11.

2006-11-22 Thread Manas Alekar
Hi, Gcc 4 has stricter checking for code syntax. It does not like labels without statements. Manas -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information:

Re: [PLUG] LFS

2006-11-22 Thread Manas Alekar
Hi, Most probably you will not be able to buila a complete distro using LFS. You will give up at an earlier stage due to lack of bandwidth / time / enthusiasm. However, it is a learning expierience. LFS can teach you things at an astonishing rate. All in all, I would highly recommend LFS. As a

  1   2   >