Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 27 July 2006 15:12, Atul Sowani wrote: In general, a good article! I would like to share my thoughts on this as an ordinary linux user. Please don't start any flame war on this, as I am not trying to make any allegations on Linux - it might just be that I am an incompetent user!

Re: [PLUG] Help on HDD

2006-07-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 27 July 2006 16:34, Nikhil wrote: Hi All ! I want to know that I have HDD having bad sectors in nearly about of 12MB. Can I use the HDD for linux OS? B'cos on windows it hangs the computer... Please tell me if there is any soln. on this If you install linux afresh, you can

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 27 July 2006 18:06, Vaibhav Kulkarni wrote: On 7/27/06, Ritesh Khadgaray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the best i can say is, slackware by design is for expert( read bsd'ish) users. That is untrue. But at the same time it is matter of perception.. Being bsd'ish is less of a problem

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 27 July 2006 14:26, Anand Nene wrote: To add to that, the pinnacle of motorsport, F1 uses Linux for its internal systems. AMD Opteron's working in a grid, comprised of several hundreds computing nodes running on linux in an attempt to advance Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Re: [PLUG] Re: This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 27 July 2006 20:35, Atul Sowani wrote: It's those generic China-made Tech-com card based on FM10 architecture. Now whom shall I contact? Please advise if you know. If we want to solve the problem, could you please post - slackware/kernel version you are using - relevant lspci

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 27 July 2006 21:44, Anand Nene wrote: On 7/27/06, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote: Duh.. any decent multitasking OS could do that.. I think you aren't aware about CFD simulation, available CFD software and hardware requirements? Sounds exactly like TPC benchmark hardware.. Just a bit

Re: [PLUG] Ethernet, ADSL Wireless connectivity on Pentium Presario

2006-07-28 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Friday 28 July 2006 12:45, Shirish Agarwal wrote: One of the other alternatives is to use my own connection where all the details are in the router itself but how do I make so tht its configured as a seperate connection from the one which is already there. One of the last

Re: [PLUG] How to get Name in Devnagri

2006-07-29 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 29 July 2006 11:29, Prashant Saraf wrote: HI all, How to get Name in Devnagri, as some of plug member shows in their listing(eg shridhar,..) How to do that . in KDE, control centre-regional accessibility-keyboard layouts, select devnagari keymap and enable it. Install unicode

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-29 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 29 July 2006 15:42, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 18:18 +0530, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote: On Thursday 27 July 2006 18:06, Vaibhav Kulkarni wrote: On 7/27/06, Ritesh Khadgaray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the best i can say is, slackware by design is for expert

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-29 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 29 July 2006 15:54, A G wrote: card. Moreover, xine and audacity stopped Wrong distro, I guess. Check a couple of other distro. You will find one which will work for your hardware. Well respects ones are knoppix, kanotix, ubuntu, mandriva, pclinuxos. Wrong advice. If everytime

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-29 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 29 July 2006 18:58, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: Try saying this to my mom then again for some it is good, for some painful. Which flavour of linux and windows can you mother install? My mom can't even double click half the time and clicks way too many times if I set up single click

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-29 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 29 July 2006 19:31, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: Which flavour of linux and windows can you mother install? My mom can't even double click half the time and clicks way too many times if I set up single click for her. everyone is different, with different level of skill/intelligence.

Re: [PLUG] SUSE Linux - PPPOE

2006-07-29 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 29 July 2006 19:27, Pratim Chaudhuri wrote: Dear Friends, I had been trying a lot to connect to DSL broadband through PPPoE. Which internet provider? Shridhar -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List:

Re: [PLUG] RE : SUSE Linux - PPPOE

2006-07-30 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Sunday 30 July 2006 01:30, Pratim Chaudhuri wrote: Hi, The Internet provider in Tata Indicom Broadband. Hmm.. OK. not the most linux-friendly one but anyways. OK, I don't know suse or yast but this is what I have in my slackware setup. - a file chap-secrets and pap-secrets in /etc/ppp.

Re: [PLUG] Distro selection

2006-08-03 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
OK, I am going to advocate slackware but I know that it cannot be in this race. So no points for pointing this out. On Thursday 03 August 2006 13:00, Aditya Godbole wrote: Hi all, I'm a bit out of touch with the latest and greatest distributions out there. I would like suggestions for a

Re: [PLUG] regarding a debugger for languages

2006-08-03 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Friday 04 August 2006 00:13, Vinayak Merwade wrote: Hi I 'm Vinayak I;m studying in SY Bcs I want to know that whether there is a debugger available in linux as we have in TurboC3 ,we use Ctrl+ F7 and F7 to keep watch As above is there any provision on linux platform There is gdb and

Re: [PLUG] sata harddisk : driver

2006-08-10 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 10 August 2006 13:58, archana acharya wrote: hello all, i would like to enquire whether sata hard disk drivres are available for linux or not. i did a bit of googling and found feww driver-downloading sites wherein drivers for seagate and few other japanese companies were

Re: [PLUG] XUbuntu

2006-08-10 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 10 August 2006 12:42, Kaisare, Kapil S. wrote: On Thu, August 10, 2006 12:07, A G wrote: I have Xubuntu 6.06 . I am running it right now, and with Firefox 1.5 running 3 tabs, three Bit Tornado instances, and Xchat in four channel, plus my trusty internet connector script, my

Re: [PLUG] How to map Virtual host in Apache Server?

2006-08-11 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 12 August 2006 10:44, Anand Kulkarni wrote: openSchoolAdmin gives you nice documentation for the deployment. You can download it from http://richtech.ca/openadmin/docs/admindoc-2.00.pdf They have given the virtual host mapping in this document, but we have not been able to do it.

Re: [PLUG] XUbuntu

2006-08-15 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 00:47, Anand Nene wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anand]$ vmstat 1 5 procs ---memory-- ---swap-- --system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si soincs us sy id wa 1 0 76864 6676 11048 16446004 316 1053 16 10 74 0

Re: [PLUG] XUbuntu

2006-08-16 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 14:19, Anand Nene wrote: Shridhar wrote: This is stock KDE desktop. Not at my end. Its optimised for performance but its an older version too. 3.1 + 2.4.21-0.13 (custom) No OO etc running but skype,kates and konsoles are.. What are you doing? Where does all

Re: [PLUG] i need encryption library

2006-08-22 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 15:09, Arindam wrote: I need an encryption library in C/C++ on linux. openSSL Use Botan.. It is lot simpler to start with.. openSSL API hurts eyes... And tutorials are too sparse.. too much hunt-on-your-own and a man page writing style that makes you jump like

Re: [PLUG] Compiling KDE software under Suse 10.1

2006-08-23 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 11:17, Udayraj wrote: Hello List! I recently switched from FC4 to OpenSuse 10.1. I used GNOME desktop on FC4, now I am using KDE on OpenSuse. Suse's KDE is very different than FC4's I downloaded some software sources from kde-apps.org like kmysqladmin, when I try

Re: [PLUG] Re: Using TC editor In Linux

2006-08-30 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 31 August 2006 01:06, Archis Gore wrote: I feel vi beats them all when it comes to one-file C progs! I have developed small to medium to large size projects in C/C++ and here are my observations - letting an IDE maintain your makefiles is almost always a mistake. Creating makefiles

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 --

Re: [PLUG] Does FC5 not have drivers for SATA disks?

2006-09-02 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Sunday 03 September 2006 10:33, Rajeev Joshi wrote: HI, I have a PC with MSI K8V motherboard, and FC5 doesn't recognise the SATA disk on my PC? what should I do? Try modprobe sata_via and see if /dev/sda1 appears HTH Shridhar --

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] 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] [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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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

2006-10-29 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
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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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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: 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: 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: [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: [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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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.

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