Re: [ilugd] Re: [LIG] [OT] Sarovar, Fairplay, Apple

2004-04-16 Thread Viksit Gaur
Hey! > No. If you want to protect your music don't protect > the people who > write software -- prosecute those who use the > software to perform > illegal acts. > True. Brings to mind the RIAA suing that 12 year old girl though! Brianna Something, from NYC. > Remember -- it's not the tool that

Re: [ilugd] Re: [LIG] [OT] Sarovar, Fairplay, Apple

2004-04-16 Thread Viksit Gaur
> > This is actually a gray area - while Free Software > is about *creating* > gray area and not stealing ideas from others, some > times it becomes > imperative that a proprietary technology is made > available to the > public(through a Free software ofcourse) when the > technology becomes >

Re: [ilugd] Re: [LIG] [OT] Sarovar, Fairplay, Apple

2004-04-16 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Viksit" == Viksit Gaur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Viksit> Hmm.. Just some thoughts.. Viksit> I'm totally with the "Freedom to create and distribute" Viksit> tag. But, what if you think from the corporate viewpoint? Viksit> Su

[ilugd] Re: [LIH](fwd) [SECURITY] [DSA 431-2] New perl packages fix information leak in suidperl

2004-04-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [4/17/2004 12:07 PM] Raj Mathur : | [Please upgrade Perl -- Raju] urgent only if you use suid-perl srs -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFAgNHpRB4r9e3t77kRAnnNAKCG2/YUYuMc2WQVEM6clY5QQMeVWACg00Uu eA+IRURowfD

[ilugd] (fwd) [SECURITY] [DSA 488-1] New logcheck packages fix insecure temporary directory

2004-04-16 Thread Raj Mathur
[Please upgrade if you have logcheck installed on any distribution -- Raju] This is an RFC 1153 digest. (1 message) -- Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

[ilugd] (fwd) [SECURITY] [DSA 431-2] New perl packages fix information leak in suidperl

2004-04-16 Thread Raj Mathur
[Please upgrade Perl -- Raju] This is an RFC 1153 digest. (1 message) -- Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 431-2] Ne

Re: [ilugd] Re: [LIG] [OT] Sarovar, Fairplay, Apple

2004-04-16 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Viksit Gaur wrote: Suppose my company (i dont work for any, btw :) has spent a million bucks in developing and promoting a technology, would I like it if someone was to develop something which circumvents my security measures and possibly eat into or even trivialize my profits? This is actually a

Re: [ilugd] Re: [LIG] [OT] Sarovar, Fairplay, Apple

2004-04-16 Thread Viksit Gaur
Hmm.. Just some thoughts.. I'm totally with the "Freedom to create and distribute" tag. But, what if you think from the corporate viewpoint? Suppose my company (i dont work for any, btw :) has spent a million bucks in developing and promoting a technology, would I like it if someone was to dev

Re: [ilugd] Re: [LIG] [OT] Sarovar, Fairplay, Apple

2004-04-16 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Raj Mathur wrote: sdg> I don't seem to understand what Apple really wants - on one sdg> hand it leaves open gaping holes in its DRM scheme[1] - and Gaping holes? Apple should be credited with giving the least restricted DRM scheme possible for providing content! They are probably the most

Re: [ilugd] Re: [LIG] [OT] Sarovar, Fairplay, Apple

2004-04-16 Thread Sudev Barar
On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 09:18, Raj Mathur wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > "sdg" == Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > sdg> Hey, Looks like Apple has unleashed it's lawyers upon > sdg> sarovar.org for hosting fairplay. > sdg> http://saro

Re: [ilugd] Gentoo Installation

2004-04-16 Thread Vijay Thakur
Dear Bhaskar, I am use celeron,mercury 810e motherboard with 40 gb hdd and 128 RAM. I am getting error : /proc/splash file or directory not found (not as mentioned earlier. I will try as you told me. Is there is not fui based installation of gentoo like red hat, fedora core or caldera... mail

[ilugd] Re: [LIG] [OT] Sarovar, Fairplay, Apple

2004-04-16 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "sdg" == Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sdg> Hey, Looks like Apple has unleashed it's lawyers upon sdg> sarovar.org for hosting fairplay. sdg> http://sarovar.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=474 No, I don't agree with th

[ilugd] [HUMOUR] A web server with depression?

2004-04-16 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
http://forum.pinkgoblin.com/viewtopic.php?p=325#325 :) - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya sandip (at) puroga.com Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Work: http://www.puroga.comHome: http://www.sandipb.net GPG: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3

[ilugd] CD distribution at April Meet

2004-04-16 Thread Tarun Dua
Hi All, Linux Delhi Monthly meetings provide an ideal setting for exchanging/distributing CDs at reasonable prices. Latest distributions of Fedora, Debian, Mandrake etc and bootable desktop distributions like Knoppix are in great demand. Also specialized distributions like iMoviex, Dynebolic, F

[ilugd] ILUG-D activity in last 7 days

2004-04-16 Thread nkapoor
Fri 16-Apr-2004:: ILUG-D activity in last 7 days: = New events:2 Total events:24 - What:ILUG-Delhi pre-flashmob supercomputer meet When:Sun, Apr 11, 2004 - 01:00PM Where:BB/3G D

Re: [ilugd] Esetroot in a cron job???

2004-04-16 Thread Rishabh Manocha
Hi and thanks for the reply. I have issued xhost + on my machine(i am on a single user machine).However i cannot know if it will work until the hour passes by.I will keep you updated. I had another question.Right now it seems like everytime i start X i will have to do xhost + for the script to work

Re: [LIH]Re: [ilugd] Single port diff IPs

2004-04-16 Thread Yashpal Nagar
Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: Ah... I have used this Redir long, long ago, before I discovered Iptables. I had even patched it to add a lot of features like multiple redirections per invocation, a configuration file to read the redirections from, a daemon mode (and for completeness, an inetd mode to

Re: [ilugd] Re: Linux on laptop experience of a newbie (was) Re: ILUGD April 2004 Meeting

2004-04-16 Thread Viksit Gaur
Hmm .. saw this a bit late. Isntt the very fact the FSF wants you to use "GNU/Linux" and not "Linux", indicative of the control they wish to excercise over our freedom to choose? -- vik = -- Viksit Gaur http://www.viksit.com me[at]viksit.com viksit[at]linux-delhi[do

Re: [ilugd] Gentoo Installation

2004-04-16 Thread Bhaskar Dutta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>> On Friday 16 Apr 2004 5:43 pm, VT said: VT> VT> Dear Friends, VT> VT> VT> VT> I am using R.H.9, Fedora Core 1, PCQlinux 2004 from Last onet year. I want to install the Gentoo Os. After booting from the CD of Gentoo I a

[ilugd] Re: ILUGD April 2004 Meeting

2004-04-16 Thread Tarun Dua
Tarun Dua wrote: > The following speakers have volunteered to talk > 1. Raj (which one?) : A talk on introduction to Linux, GNU and Free > Software Philosophy > 2. Vivek Khurana (Debian) > 3. Ritesh Raj Sarraf : Debian philosophy,latest developments and key > features > 4. Nirendra Awasthi : Locali

[ilugd] Gentoo Installation

2004-04-16 Thread Vijay Thakur
Dear Friends, I am using R.H.9, Fedora Core 1, PCQlinux 2004 from Last onet year. I want to install the Gentoo Os. After booting from the CD of Gentoo I am getting a error on that /proc/splashimage file not found. After that the installation process stopped. Tell me the solution so i can

Re: [ilugd] Esetroot in a cron job???

2004-04-16 Thread Bhaskar Dutta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>> On Friday 16 April 2004 09:47, RM said: RM> Hey guys, RM> I use Esetroot to set the background for my Desktop.I use openbox as my RM> window manager on a debian sid 2.6.4. RM> I wrote a small perl script to change my RM> backgr

Re: [ilugd] Single port diff IPs

2004-04-16 Thread Yashpal Nagar
Sanjeev "Ghane" Gupta wrote: Yashpal Nagar wrote: Dear Linux fans, I have a peculiar requirement, i want different-different IPs(binded to same interface) to forward ica connections to different-different hosts. :) let me write it more clear. e.g 192.168.168.1 ---> port 1494 -> Real IP host

[ilugd] about Gmail

2004-04-16 Thread Pankaj Kaushal
Since announcing Gmail two weeks ago, Google Inc. has been forced to defend the planned Web-based e-mail service against accusations that it may violate users' privacy. In the face of the criticism, Google has begun to express a willingness to be flexible about how it offers the service. full