[PLUG] Re: Live CD for undergrad OS lab (Rahul Sundaram)

Hi, I would suggest to Install a Linux Distribution on the computers in the lab rather than using a live CD, which is not manageable. The problem that will arise is the Directory Maintainence, but can be done by providing a global Username Password say for example Username : Student And

[PLUG] Floating Point arithmetic in the Kernel

Hi, Can anybody please tell me the reason as to why floating point arithmetic is not very convinient in kernel code as against user code? -- Regards, Ashutosh Adkar -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List:

Re: [PLUG] Floating Point arithmetic in the Kernel

On 8/18/07, Ashutosh Adkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can anybody please tell me the reason as to why floating point arithmetic is not very convinient in kernel code as against user code? Its mostly for efficiency reasons. -aditya --

[PLUG] Re: Flash player mozilla

Hi all, I had used Adobe's implemention of flash with firefox it did work sometimes but it crashed too often for my comfort. I have been looking forward to the 2 free flash implementations which are in the making, one is gnash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnash the other one is swfdec

Re: [PLUG] Floating Point arithmetic in the Kernel

On 18-Aug-07, at 7:16 PM, Ashutosh Adkar wrote: Hi, Can anybody please tell me the reason as to why floating point arithmetic is not very convinient in kernel code as against user code? Did you watch 'Matrix' movie? / Integer calculations are much more faster than floating

Re: [PLUG] Floating Point arithmetic in the Kernel

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] Floating Point arithmetic in the Kernel

Hi, --- Ashutosh Adkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody please tell me the reason as to why floating point arithmetic is not very convinient in kernel code as against user code? Latency is not accepted in kernel code: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg07127.html SK --

Re: [PLUG] Re: Live CD for undergrad OS lab (Rahul Sundaram)

Hi, --- Piyush Deora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest to Install a Linux Distribution on the computers in the lab rather than using a live CD, which is not manageable. The problem that will We have a Linux lab ,with NFS + NIS, so thats not the problem. I wanted to give live cd, so that

Re: [PLUG] Re: Live CD for undergrad OS lab (Rahul Sundaram)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Piyush Deora wrote: I would suggest to Install a Linux Distribution on the computers in the lab rather than using a live CD, which is not manageable. The problem that will arise is the Directory Maintainence, but can be done by providing a

[PLUG] Skillscamp3, Pune:Photos

Dear Friends, I have uploaded a few photos... You can check them out at http://flickr.com/photos/tasvirshare/sets/72157601542099773/ I also have started writing about yesterdays event... please keep checking... http://rsdighe.blogspot.com Rohan Dighe --