Re: [PLUG] What is up with PLUG mailing list these days?

On Saturday, 2 December, 2023 12:05:40 AM IST Amarendra Godbole via plug-mail wrote: > I don't have a firm date to visit Pune (are all of you in Pune?), but > expect it to happen around the general elections. If everyone is up > for it, we should meet up. I'd definitely like to say hello to you,

Re: [PLUG] What is up with PLUG mailing list these days?

On Thursday, 30 November, 2023 10:57:13 AM IST Mayuresh via plug-mail wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 09:00:42PM -0800, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > > I stay here for nostalgia, and I believe many do so too. Pretty sure > > Sudhanwa is lurking around here somewhere too... :-) > > Yeah. We should

Re: [PLUG] I wish, I knew this when I started with Vim

On २७/११/१९ ९:२५ म.उ., Mayuresh wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 10:35:58AM +0530, Gaurav Pant wrote: >>Long time no see of use of abbr. > > And the poster too... When was last that Shridhar posted? :) long time I guess, at least a year. Good to see you too. -- Regards Shridhar

Re: [PLUG] I wish, I knew this when I started with Vim

On २६/११/१९ ९:२१ म.पू., Tejas Sanap wrote: > On Mon 25 Nov, 2019, 10:37 PM Shridhar Daithankar, < > ghodech...@ghodechhap.net> wrote: > >> IME the situation is not that rosy. People cannot read/write a single >> line of code, if they don't have an IDE. They don't under

Re: [PLUG] I wish, I knew this when I started with Vim

On २५/११/१९ १०:३७ म.पू., Mayuresh wrote: > With due respect for benefits of IDEs, they also make programmers blind to > the underlying system. They just don't want to leave the cosy comfort of > their IDE once they get used to it and never get a chance to learn and > master the underlying

Re: [PLUG] How to take pg dump by excluding more than 1 schema?

On शुक्रवार, १९ एप्रिल, २०१९ १:३६:५८ म.उ. IST Amey Abhyankar wrote: > Hello, > > I have postgresql 9.x DB. > I want to take backup of 1 DB. > How to take backup from cmdline/bash using pgdump command? > I can not take backup using pgadmin or dbeaver UI due to some issues. > > I can use = pg_dump

Re: [PLUG] service in systemd not starting custom java app after rebooting RHEL 7.4

On गुरुवार, ५ जुलै, २०१८ ४:४५:४६ म.उ. IST Amey Abhyankar wrote: > [root@app-01 amey]# systemctl status app1.service > ● app1.service - app1 service >Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/app1.service; enabled; vendor > preset: disabled) >Active: failed (Result: resources) since Wed

Re: [PLUG] service in systemd not starting custom java app after rebooting RHEL 7.4

On बुधवार, ४ जुलै, २०१८ २:४२:१३ म.उ. IST Amey Abhyankar wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to create a service inside /etc/systemd/system & it's > softlink in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants but it's not > helping. > > After system reboot, if I do ps -ef |grep -i javaapp it's not

Re: [PLUG] Get the source code used in your Mercedes Benz car

On रविवार, ४ सप्टेंबर, २०१६ १०:११:१३ म.पू. IST Gaurav Pant wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 4:31 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar > > > > wrote: > >> Looks like all Mercedes Benz cars use Free/Open source

Re: [PLUG] Need information on Linux Compatible Laptops

On Thursday, June 18, 2015 10:46:55 AM Pravin Dhayfule wrote: Hi, Gone are those days when we could get Laptops free from pre-installed OS. These days none of the new laptops in India are available with/without OS. All offer Windows 8.x as mandatory OS. I do not want to take the pain of

Re: [PLUG] NSA considers Linux Journal an extremist forum?

On Sunday, August 31, 2014 05:01:59 PM Mayuresh wrote: On a lighter note: Watch out, even PLUG mailing list might be monitored by the big brother! You might be in trouble if any post offends them! The safe assumption is that goes for everything electronic thats not on paper. -- Regards

Re: [PLUG] Still no _good_ devnagari terminal in sight?

On Saturday, November 30, 2013 04:36:10 PM Praveen A wrote: 2013/11/30 Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net: I would like to experiment with this on konsole. Can you recommend a fixed width devnagari font to try with? I searched but raghu/lohit etc don't have fixed width font

Re: [PLUG] Still no _good_ devnagari terminal in sight?

On Saturday, November 23, 2013 10:35:34 AM Mayuresh wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:00:09AM +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: NCST had http://www.cdacmumbai.in/projects/indix/screenshot/ncst-term.shtml which I do not know if they still support and maintain. Mentioned about that in

Re: [PLUG] Would stopping support for XP backfire on Microsoft?

On Friday, November 29, 2013 07:35:55 AM Mayuresh wrote: One may suspect, Microsoft itself is throwing XP vulnerabilities in the open to intimidate users into buying its newer versions. yes because microsoft has financial incentive to sell the new versions and their biggest problem is not FOSS

Re: [PLUG] Online storage options?

On Monday, November 18, 2013 07:02:21 PM Mayuresh wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 09:31:10AM +0630, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: After your mail, I did a quick search and it seems, 500GB dedicated server is about 10-11K/- INR per month. See if thats within your budget. That could be bit higher

Re: [PLUG] Online storage options?

On Monday, November 18, 2013 09:02:51 AM Mayuresh wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. Please see below. Amazon S3? Sounds good, though NetBSD driver seems challenging as per my web search. -- OR -- Buy a web hosting service with your desired storage with ssh option. You may have to

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Tata Communications broadband - escalation contacts?

On Monday, April 08, 2013 08:07:08 AM Mayuresh wrote: It's alright that for higher bandwidths wired will remain a better medium. For personal use I am content with less than 1mbps (say 512-750kbps etc) as long as it is consistent. I think its a coverage issue. In some areas it is

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Tata Communications broadband - escalation contacts?

On Saturday, April 06, 2013 09:02:23 AM Mayuresh wrote: (With TCom restoring the connection, I have at least 9GB left which will expire soon! Any creative ideas on how to utilize them?! E.g. I tried things like continuously talking on voip when driving from office to home to consume the

Re: [PLUG] Creator of RSS passes away

On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:40:15 AM Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activis t-dies-at-26.html RIP Aaron Swartz. Sad to know that he committed suicide at such

Re: [PLUG] [ilugd] Shocking and Sad news.

On Thursday, December 13, 2012 05:03:03 PM Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: FYI This is really really sad. We lost a great FOSS evangelist and a good friend. -Sudhanwa Oh.. I remember him from LIG/LIG/LIP days a decade or so ago.. RIP Raj.. -- Regards Shridhar

Re: [PLUG] Sad demise of our dear KG (Keneth Gonsalvas)

On Saturday 04 Aug 2012 12:44:55 AM Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: This is really sad news. Keneth was in touch with the Pune FOSS community and actively participated in the FOSS events like GNUnify, Pycon etc. happening in Pune. He was well known for his FOSS activities, his blog entries and

Re: [PLUG] flash on firerfox to stop?

On Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:15:09 AM Mayuresh wrote: Poor users. Do they have a choice? Just tried gnash 0.8.10. no luck with those few youtube video that still needs flash and some of the other sites I tested briefly. no choice for users, sadly.. -- Regards Shridhar

Re: [PLUG] flash on firerfox to stop?

On Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:41:09 AM Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 02/25/2012 10:22 AM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: On Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:15:09 AM Mayuresh wrote: Poor users. Do they have a choice? Just tried gnash 0.8.10. no luck with those few youtube video that still

Re: [PLUG] flash on firerfox to stop?

On Saturday, February 25, 2012 11:01:31 AM Mayuresh wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:22:08AM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: no choice for users, sadly.. Worse for BSD users - no chrome either as yet. Currently Linux-flash plugin works fine on BSDs through Linux emulation layer. Do

Re: [PLUG] flash on firerfox to stop?

On Thursday, February 23, 2012 07:12:31 PM Mayuresh wrote: http://www.cio.in/news/adobe-linux-users-get-chrome-or-forget-flash-23015201 2 Not a welcome news. May be not.. shrug-and-move-ahead may be? These days it is easy enough to call somebody and tell them that their site does not work

Re: [PLUG] Linux loses its luster as a darling among developers

On Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:13:48 PM Mayuresh wrote: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221678/Linux_loses_its_luster_as_a_d arling_among_developers Don't know how one arrives at such numbers and what they mean to whom. A race between 5.6% and 7.9% is irrelevant since that leaves

Re: [PLUG] ITR filing w/o proprietary s/w

On Monday 29 Aug 2011 12:01:30 AM Mayuresh wrote: While above option is open, I'd still invite technical suggestions on feasibility to extract the computational and validation rules embedded in those Excels to help write utilities of our own - or at least manually apply them and create the

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

On Saturday 16 Jul 2011 12:57:24 PM Mayuresh wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:43:44PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: And since you are dabbling, can you try pc-bsd? is it the fedora of BSD world? I want to try it but don't have much time of that. To the extent I understand pc-bsd

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

On Friday 15 Jul 2011 6:50:40 PM Mayuresh wrote: File system support: I wanted home directory to be same on all 3 distros. It was on ext3 to start with. Neither of the BSDs had an ext3 driver. ext2 driver worked fine on FreeBSD, though NetBSD showed very strange errors and could not

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

On Sunday 03 Jul 2011 5:15:51 PM Mayuresh wrote: The ports organization made by FreeBSD seem technically very attractive though. Must be the same with Linux flavors you mentioned. Just for completeness, in archlinux, you have 3 repos. core,extra, community. Testing for each is separate repo.

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

On Sunday 03 Jul 2011 5:15:51 PM Mayuresh wrote: Secondly, I'd like to try to have same home directory on both Linux and FreeBSD. Is it possible? I could probably tweak the uids to be same for a login on both the systems, though I find that FreeBSD doesn't seem to care about uid. It just shows

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

On Friday 01 Jul 2011 8:13:32 PM Mayuresh wrote: I don't intend to start any BSD/Linux or anything vs anything flame. There is ample material on such comparison on the web some of which I have browsed through. If somebody has used any of the BSD systems (FreeBSD or NetBSD), I'd have just

Re: [PLUG] Blackberry row, what about gpg encryption

On Saturday 14 August 2010 19:43:12 Mayuresh wrote: If it is taking Indian Govt for granted and give in to pressure from others, that's definitely not acceptable. On the contrary, did this happen because other Govts settled for something less than what GoI is asking for? We don't know. My

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Re: Government Sponsored Vendor lock

On Wednesday 28 July 2010 10:49:00 Mayuresh wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:21:11AM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: Thats a long winded way.. I think some bad publicity and public pressure would help it better. Some thing like MKCL does not test their sites under alternate browser

Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

On Thursday 29 July 2010 10:45:07 Amarendra Godbole wrote: There are other problems - most of the h/w vendors in India have no you mean corporate assemblers? policy to refund license cost if you decide not to have Microsoft software on the machines. In US and most of the EU nations, you can

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Re: Government Sponsored Vendor lock

On Tuesday 27 July 2010 00:46:39 शंतनू wrote: On Monday 26 July 2010 10:24 AM, Mithun Shitole wrote: Engineering, Diploma etc. admissions processes are online. The website for it is dte.org.in . Unfortunately Technical board doesn't seems to care about users who don't use IE. When

Re: [PLUG] internet access problem

On Tuesday 27 July 2010 00:29:02 Sagar Belure wrote: Try using OpenDNS IPs 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 in resolv.conf google dns 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 is another option. -- Regards Shridhar ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Re: Government Sponsored Vendor lock

On Wednesday 28 July 2010 09:38:54 Mayuresh wrote: Don't know whether a PIL (public interest litigation) is a way to awaken the system. Thats a long winded way.. I think some bad publicity and public pressure would help it better. Some thing like MKCL does not test their sites under

Re: [PLUG] What are the most viable backup options for linux

On Thursday 22 July 2010 10:56:32 Abhijit Bhopatkar wrote: On Thursday 22 July 2010 08:59 AM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 16:07:07 Chaitannya Mahatme wrote: @Sudhanwa Jogalekar : Well now Ubuntu has been my only OS for months now, considering Madriva is a remote

Re: [PLUG] What are the most viable backup options for linux

On Thursday 22 July 2010 20:13:39 शंतनू wrote: On Thursday 22 July 2010 11:51 AM, आदित्य लघाटे wrote: On 22 July 2010 10:56, Abhijit Bhopatkarb...@devslashzero.com wrote: On Thursday 22 July 2010 08:59 AM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 16:07:07 Chaitannya Mahatme

Re: [PLUG] rsyc/scp stalls arbitrarily

On Thursday 22 July 2010 19:01:53 Mayuresh wrote: Would appreciate any help in this regard. strace? -- Regards Shridhar ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] What are the most viable backup options for linux

On Wednesday 21 July 2010 16:07:07 Chaitannya Mahatme wrote: @Sudhanwa Jogalekar : Well now Ubuntu has been my only OS for months now, considering Madriva is a remote possibility. You could use btrfs snapshots on the backup disk. That handles incremental part of it. Rest is just

Re: [PLUG] ITR e-filing on Linux

On Thursday 27 May 2010 18:49:20 Mayuresh wrote: Income tax department provides MS Excel based software (Excel sheets) for preparing income tax returns on this page: https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/portal/individual_huf.do They state MS Excel as a system requirement for using this.

Re: [PLUG] Suggest a webhost for database centric webpage

On Tuesday 06 April 2010 17:36:18 Tarun Dua wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Mithun Shitole mithu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to host a website in which its database can grow over years to GBs ( 2-3 GB). I don't require bigger file storage capacity (100 MB is enough) and yes I

Re: [PLUG] Suggest a webhost for database centric webpage

On Tuesday 06 April 2010 20:50:21 Tarun Dua wrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: Its cheaper. Compare a dreamhost plan with any indian hosting and you will see. Yahoo! Small Business India isn't cheap enough for shared hosting

Re: [PLUG] Suggest a webhost for database centric webpage

On Wednesday 07 April 2010 10:49:47 म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: When connectivity gets down ( tel net ) USka *कटी पतंग* हो जाता है। yes and that rare enough. Philosophically speaking death is one such rare occasions, which very few prepare to face despite everyone knowing that it is inevitable

Re: [PLUG] What is each distribution best for?

On Sunday 28 March 2010 09:42:01 Mayuresh wrote: An aside. Although I like to follow such surveys out of curiosity, I think one flaw with such surveys is, majority of respondents who participate would not have tried out various options (of distros or window managers or apps - whatever the

Re: [PLUG] accounting and excise billing on Linux

On Thursday 25 March 2010 10:03:25 Prashant Shah wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Sarang Lakare sarang.lak...@gmail.com wrote: What about online accounting softwares? If there is no online alternative to Tally yet, then there is a great business opportunity there :-) I know many

Re: [PLUG] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

On Monday 15 March 2010 07:17:53 Vishal Rao wrote: Follow-up (with lotsa ubuntu sudo love): vis...@thunderbird:/media$ sudo mkdir btrfs vis...@thunderbird:/media$ sudo mkdir ext4 vis...@thunderbird:/media$ sudo mount /dev/sda7 btrfs vis...@thunderbird:/media$ sudo mount /dev/sda8 ext4

Re: [PLUG] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

On Saturday 13 March 2010 14:38:34 Vishal Rao wrote: Which distro and version are you using? I have downloaded F13 alpha (the KDE amd64 live CD) planning to install it this weekend, so if btrfs is reasably easy/stable to use I will go for it ! archlinux x86_64. There is no version to it :) --

[PLUG] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

Hi, Just wanted to share an interesting experience I had today. Check http://ghodechhap.net/btrfs.performance.txt -- Regards Shridhar ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] regarging swap space

On Tuesday 23 February 2010 14:03:18 Owais Lone wrote: If you have more than 2 gigs of RAM, don't use swap. That's it. If you have less than 1 GB, use 1-2GB of Swap. Actually a 512MB of swap is recommended no matter how much RAM you have. Linux just behaves better(I know its anecdotal/no hard

Re: [PLUG] regarging swap space

On Tuesday 23 February 2010 19:54:50 Mayuresh wrote: A 32 bit processor can address maximum of 4GB of virtual memory. So if you have 2GB RAM, you can use at the most 2GB of swap. (How much you'd like to is still a different question.) I believe on 32 bit processor each process can have 4GB RAM

Re: [PLUG] Linux Awareness Event in MIT (Intechxication)

On Thursday 18 February 2010 12:25:38 Abhishek Sharma wrote: I would firstly like to thank everyone for there inputs on how to organize a Linux Event. After lots of brainstorming and thinking in college,and considering the little exposure of student crowd into Linux .I have planned to keep

Re: [PLUG] problem with mdv 2010

On Wednesday 17 February 2010 16:04:03 म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: Everything just works pufect.. till we change to ext5 of-course! There won't be any ext5. btrfs is coming up next. and if you are using ext4, make sure that you use auto_da_alloc otherwise in case of power failures, lots of files

Re: [PLUG] Suggestion or Ideas for including LINUX based event(competition) for a College EVENT

On Monday 15 February 2010 22:26:24 Abhishek Sharma wrote: If anyone could suggest any ideas or thoughts over what this LINUX event could be.(There are many events like C prog Competition, JAVA etc, or quizes) We need to have something similar in context to LINUX or maybe someone could

Re: [PLUG] Good folder syncronization utility

On Tuesday 09 February 2010 11:44:29 Kapil Agrawal wrote: I need to syncronize my folders on my ubuntu box with a remote server, so that I can access these from any location. I can only access that server through ftp. Please suggest if anyone has experience using such utility. What all

Re: [PLUG] about unicode

On Thursday 04 February 2010 12:49:58 virsen saste wrote: While entering devanagri character ' क' i am getting ascii value 2325 but I want to convert it into ascii value of character 'k' i.e 107 How should i do that? I doubt ascii has value 2325 but you have to create a map(in C++) or similar

Re: [PLUG] psql: ident authentification failed for user username error in postgresql....

On Saturday 30 January 2010 09:04:45 Shreerang Patwardhan wrote: If the db connection has succeeded, then are'nt the tables beeing displayed in the db in pgadmin? What I mean is why are the table entries not been displayed below the database entry in pgadmin? I guess you have to ask on

Re: [PLUG] psql: ident authentification failed for user username error in postgresql....

On Friday 29 January 2010 09:38:48 Shreerang Patwardhan wrote: shreer...@ubuntu:~/Shapefiles/06001_Alameda_County/tl_2008_06001_arealm$ psql -d testdb -h localhost -p 5432 -U postgres Welcome to psql 8.3.9 (server 8.4.2), the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. testdb=# psql -d testdb -U

Re: [PLUG] psql: ident authentification failed for user username error in postgresql....

On Thursday 28 January 2010 13:45:29 Shreerang Patwardhan wrote: Can you be a bit more clear about what you wish to say? I am unable to understand. which part? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/auth-methods.html#AUTH-IDENT

Re: [PLUG] psql: ident authentification failed for user username error in postgresql....

On Wednesday 27 January 2010 22:17:49 Shreerang Patwardhan wrote: shreer...@ubuntu:~/Shapefiles/06001_Alameda_County/tl_2008_06001_arealm$ psql -d test_db -U postgres -f import.sql *psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user postgres* Need help!!! ident auth authenticates the

Re: [PLUG] Devanagari unicode: composite letters ( जोडाक्षरे ); latex

On Friday 15 January 2010 21:57:27 Mayuresh wrote: Isn't it strange to leave such core things as font rendering to applications rather than them being at system level? Can't there be a common system-wide component to do that? I think this is more to do with fonts. In konsole when I select

Re: [PLUG] How to intall oracle9 on rhel5

On Wednesday 06 January 2010 10:58:29 Kalpak Garud wrote: Sir/Madam, Please tell me how to install oracle 9i on rhel5 and which type of rpm packages required. Also tell me installation procedure. Oracle installation guide covers it nicely. 9i is old though, consider usijng 10gR2 -- Shridhar

Re: [PLUG] Some sites which simply don't show on my Ubuntu desktop

On Wednesday 09 December 2009 14:17:31 Manish wrote: I am generally happy with my switch to Ubuntu few months ago. But I am quite annoyed with few issues that I am not able to resolve. I am not able to open few sites, typically Wordpress blogs, ICICI websites, and many https websites. I can

Re: [PLUG] keyboard recognition failed at logging prompt

On Tuesday 08 December 2009 13:09:43 rakesh zingade wrote: I am facing a keyboard related problem, I had installed xft, xrender, libxaw7 libxaw6 for supporting a flowchart software installation. But after reboot the OS won't recognize my keyboard, I am getting logging screen (init 5) but I

Re: [PLUG] Unicode, malayalam and microsoft

On Sunday 15 November 2009 23:34:39 Devendra Laulkar wrote: Question, How does the process of standardising Unicode work in the first place ? Do we have a government committee (and sub-committees for each language) which deliberates on various issues ? According to the article, an ISO

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva 2010

On Friday 13 November 2009 11:00:47 म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: i upgraded my laptop's Mandriva 2009.1 to 2010 and upgrade worked smooth. This is in contrast to past 2-3 experiences when a clean install was essential because upgrade process did not work smoothly. Good to know that. Its one feature

Re: [PLUG] calculator software in Linux

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 13:41:27 Suraj Swami wrote: Hi, I am an engineering student. And I was thinking if there is any software for calculator which could have functions like matrices, solving quadratic equations. Or basic that stores past calculations and ans. Try GNU R or octave.

Re: [PLUG] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

Hi, I think linked in recently enabled a feature to send invites to gmail contacts. I guess the OP has plug email in his gmail contacts and it blindly came thr. This being an automatic idiocy, has to be dealt automatically. and pl. don't let linkedin use your gmail address book. It may send

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

On Tuesday 08 September 2009 06:52:28 Sriram Narayanan wrote: When it comes to huge organisations with inertia, corporate or otherwise, such things matter. +1 to that. Reliability and stability matter a lot indeed. If you use a stable distro like RHEL/CentOS 5, which has guaranteed

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

Hi, Sorry, its a long rant... On Tuesday 08 September 2009 06:58:36 Aditya Godbole wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Manas Alekarmaale...@gmail.com wrote: I hate to say this, but would can we recommend that the government go the FOSS way with a clean conscience? Nautilus still breaks

Re: [PLUG] IMAP server directory setting in kmail

On Wednesday 05 August 2009 05:59:45 Kaustubh Gadkari wrote: Hi, I am trying to setup kmail to retrieve email from an IMAP server. When I do, kmail downloads the entire contents of my home directory. I kmail downloads content of your home dir. or to your home dir. tried this in Thunderbird

Re: [PLUG] IMAP server directory setting in kmail

On Wednesday 05 August 2009 09:44:04 Kaustubh Gadkari wrote: The IMAP account that I am trying to setup is for my department email. When I setup kmail, it downloads the entire contents of my department account's home directory. I did find a fix for this: I had to configure the personal

Re: [PLUG] running tally on linux

On Thursday 09 July 2009 19:35:42 jayant ogale wrote: hi, when advocating for linux o.s.,in the business world, all the time, i am facing the question of running tally on linux. i was listening to the news of tally coming with a linux version.[but i do not think so]. so i can think of two

Re: [PLUG] joomla install

On Wednesday 08 July 2009 09:26:58 abhi wrote: *All i want is get Joomla installed and running.* Have you enabled mysql extension in php.ini? -- Shridhar ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] A humorous tribute ...

On Thursday 18 June 2009 17:20:26 Mayuresh wrote: http://www.junauza.com/2009/06/15-mythical-and-humorous-facts-about.html http://www.junauza.com/2009/03/25-mythical-and-humorous-facts-about.html So RMS is Chuck Norris of software? :P -- Shridhar ___ Pune

Re: [PLUG] slackware lilo and window manager

On Wednesday 17 June 2009 00:49:12 Prasenjit Giri wrote: I just want to know how to change the lilo to MBR and to start the window manager -- btw, i have checked the black window manager during installation. - boot from cd/dvd - mount the installed partition somewhere say /mnt/disk - chroot

Re: [PLUG] Sharing of Swap Space

On Sunday 07 June 2009 20:10:31 Prasenjit Giri wrote: I was thinking to get a look into the three distro: Lenny, Fedora 11 and Slackware. After doing 3 partition of 20 GB can I use 1GB swap space common for these three ? Yes. That should be possible. -- Shridhar

Re: [PLUG] Visual diff and patch tool

Hi, On Saturday 23 May 2009 19:46:21 Devendra Laulkar wrote: I would like to know how people manage their diff's and patches. By hand :) and using version control makes it easier. Longer version :- I have got a patch from a developer for a small project that I work on. However, the patch is

Re: [PLUG] Any open-source software for documentation.

On Thursday 21 May 2009 14:20:32 Suraj Swami wrote: Hello , I am looking for an open source software by which the employees of my company can do documentation work of their research work. Some of the features that I am looking for as follow. The employ can enter all details about the

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Reliable and cheap linux hosting solution

On Wednesday 18 March 2009 12:40:02 Anand Saha wrote: The site I am planning to host would not be a very high traffic site, moderate traffic. May be a couple of Gigs of data transfer per month (will have photo gallery), and will need around a Gig of disk space for the time being. Go dreamhost

Re: [PLUG] command line http authentication

On Wednesday 11 March 2009 11:26:31 Mayuresh wrote: A security pandit would not opt for such an authentication scheme to start with. :) Thanks. That qualifies me to use such a connection! My remark was meant for the ISP setting it, not you :( -- Shridhar

Re: [PLUG] command line http authentication

On Wednesday 11 March 2009 10:18:34 Mayuresh wrote: Surprisingly both haven't bothered making use of those randomly generated strings on every visit to the page to force the user to login using browser. That's good for us though security pundits may perhaps feel otherwise. A security pandit

Re: [PLUG] command line http authentication

On Sunday 08 March 2009 00:32:37 Pradeep Dalvi wrote: You are probably looking for the script below. 1. Open the login page in browser 2. View the page source 3. Find out form tag 4. Check for input fields 5. Get the form action url 6. Fill in all fields below 7. Add the script into

Re: [PLUG] How to Install Oracle 9i in RHEL5......

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 19:05:33 Mohan Kanade wrote: Dear All, Please tell me to install oracle 9i in RHEL5.I have some knowledge about RHEL5. but i dont know how to install the same.Thanks. Just follow the install guide. It is some 30 pages long and takes good part of half a day

Re: [PLUG] 64-bit Linux - Is it worth the switch ?

On Tuesday 20 January 2009 17:01:40 Mandar Vaze wrote: Came across this article about Go 64-bit with Windows 7 : http://i.gizmodo.com/5133771/why-you-should-go-64+bit-with-windows-7 The article above says if you have less than 4GB RAM, stay 32-bit, does it hold true for Linux as well ? Nah..

Re: [PLUG] 64-bit Linux - Is it worth the switch ?

On Tuesday 20 January 2009 17:34:22 म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: OTOH, I have a dos program(yay laugh) that I absolutely must have and it only works on 32 bit slackware/dosemu. Does not work on 64 bit linux in any

Re: [PLUG] 64-bit Linux - Is it worth the switch ?

On Tuesday 20 January 2009 20:27:27 Devendra Laulkar wrote: May I enquire which processor and Distro you have found this to be true ? I had checked few 64 bit distros a couple of years back on a AMD Turion processor, and the 32 bit distro outperformed the 64 bit - esp in terms of GUI

Re: [PLUG] 64-bit Linux - Is it worth the switch ?

On Tuesday 20 January 2009 18:43:41 Pranav Peshwe wrote: Quite surprised to hear this! I've never tried 64 bit Linux. I always thought that I/O was the bottle neck and, 64bits would give me pretty much identical a performance on my desktop except may be for apps like gcc or gpg or lame. Your

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Options for hosting .in sites

On Monday 19 January 2009 10:44:24 Chetan Kumar wrote: Looking for recommendations. Specific names are expected. I use bluehost.com for a .com site and they are my first choice. As they do not host .in sites I am looking for other options. They do not host or they do not register? --

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Options for hosting .in sites

On Monday 19 January 2009 11:02:08 Chetan Kumar wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: They do not host or they do not register? Negative for both. Eh? That sounds.. well.. backwards.. anyways.. I have the domain registered

Re: [PLUG] accounting software under Linux

On Thursday 15 January 2009 15:47:45 G Karunakar wrote: Or as I heard from another accountant, its easier to cook books in tally (since it knows the rules/laws). HAHAHAHAHAHA.. I guess I would be glad that tally is not replaced by free software then.. :) I certainly wouldn't want a free

Re: [PLUG] accounting software under Linux

On Thursday 15 January 2009 18:27:58 Rahul Sundaram wrote: Shridhar Daithankar wrote: On Thursday 15 January 2009 15:47:45 G Karunakar wrote: Anyways, my small understanding is accounting is fine for whatever you put in. It falls down due to things that are not put in there, which is easy

Re: [PLUG] accounting software under Linux

On Wednesday 14 January 2009 20:03:12 Devendra Laulkar wrote: I am speculating that tally over linux was suggested since it will be one step forward - using open source in incremental fashion rather than a complete switch over - Or maybe something else (still not getting connection with

Re: [PLUG] Flash problem

On Tuesday 13 January 2009 15:48:32 Kaustubh Gadkari wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:13 AM, sourav mohanty sourav.r.moha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Problem with flash in firefox 3 and opera (Linux versions), you can go to these URLS: http://www.tatapower.com/ http://ietl.in/

Re: [PLUG] Front end for Postgres

On Tuesday 13 January 2009 17:36:01 Rajiv Gore wrote: Can some one suggest a GUI front end for entering data and taking out reports in Postgres ? How about setting odbc connection in open office and creating forms there? You could also use qt. It is easy to program and can natively connect to

Re: [PLUG] accounting software under Linux

On Wednesday 14 January 2009 09:36:20 म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:31 AM, म.हा.सा.ग.र o.s@guruvision.com wrote: Tally 9 works well under WINE on Mystriva 2008.1 so you can even try to get your CA to switch to Linux :-) i assume your CA is using licensed version of

Re: [PLUG] accounting software under Linux

On Wednesday 14 January 2009 10:17:50 म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: i assume your CA is using licensed version of windows, if not, your task will be very easy... That is a wrong solution and should

Re: [PLUG] Front end for Postgres

On Wednesday 14 January 2009 11:12:51 Vivek Khurana wrote: Hmm... what you need is a PG database and a fronting UI to generate reports. Look at FOSS based reporting solutions like ReportLab or Jasper to generate the reports from PG. You can hire a developer for about a week to do the

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