Re: [ilugd] [OT] Android trouble?

2012-04-16 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Sudev Barar sba...@gmail.com wrote:

 Irritating messages keep jamming the screen on prepaid Airtel connection
 regarding data usage and balance.

 Any way to stop them?
 Sudev

I wish there was a way
Nothing to do with Android here.
Once you near your free usage quota(80% of whatever), you start getting
redirect to this airtel smartbytes page, prompting you to buy additional
usage, even if you do not want Additional usage.

Its a scam, in trying to get you to buy quota which you may not need.
For example, I had 3GBs left, and 2 days in my current cycle, yet, it
became a pain to surf due to frequent redirects.
I composed a very long post on a forum, and it was lost due to this silly
thing.
Airtel is becoming airhell.

Now I am on broadband connection (DSL). I think they would be doing this
across all their internet services.
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[ilugd] Open source Web Server load monitoring tools

2010-03-10 Thread Tanveer Singh
Hi,
We have a website running vbulletin and some other stuff. The number of
visitors is huge, and our quad core 16GB RAM dedicated server is feeling the
load. The web server is lightspeed
Poking around on vbull forums revealed that most big boards run on 2 server
config
1. Database server
2. Front end Web server.
We are on single server. Sometime back we were on apache, and loads were
very high, after moving to lightspeed, things improved, but looking at the
growing web traffic, we would need to go with dual server, with one database
server running mysql, and vbull frontend etc., on the other server.
But before me make this plunge, we want to make an informed decision about
whats consuming what load.
Is the RAM the bottleneck, or is it CPU, if its CPU which process is eating
CPU, how much is mysql process consuming etc., etc.,

So we were thinking that we run a simple monitor software which dumps some
graphs etc., over a period of one week, where we can compare the real time
traffic vs CPU load graphs etc., and which process is memory intensive,
which is CPU intensive blah blah.
Any pointers to some easy to configure stuff?

regards
Tanveer
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Re: [ilugd] Open source Web Server load monitoring tools

2010-03-10 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Sudev Barar sba...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 10 March 2010 16:36, Tanveer Singh w...@tanveer.in wrote:
 [SNIP]
  But before me make this plunge, we want to make an informed decision
 about
  whats consuming what load.
  Is the RAM the bottleneck, or is it CPU, if its CPU which process is
 eating
  CPU, how much is mysql process consuming etc., etc.,
 
  So we were thinking that we run a simple monitor software which dumps
 some
  graphs etc., over a period of one week, where we can compare the real
 time
  traffic vs CPU load graphs etc., and which process is memory intensive,
  which is CPU intensive blah blah.

 Munin?


Munin is looking good, however, it looks like  pain to setup, well I will
experiment with it and see!
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[ilugd] Need help about /proc/pid/status

2010-02-22 Thread Tanveer Singh
We have a process which is using a lot of memory, and memory usage is
increasing as it runs. To do some profiling I wrote a perl script which cats
/proc/pid/status every 100 seconds.
I am now interested in the memory related fields. I understood some fields,
but some I did not.
Can anybody help me which field(s) is the most relevant for me,
Here is sample output
VmPeak:  8755844 kB
VmSize:  7121544 kB
VmLck: 0 kB
VmHWM:   8271248 kB
VmRSS:   6643780 kB
VmData:  7107696 kB
VmStk:88 kB
VmExe:  2568 kB
VmLib:  2916 kB
VmPTE: 13716 kB

regards
Tanveer
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Re: [ilugd] DoT wants verification of Internet users online

2009-10-27 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:34 PM, PJ pee...@hotpop.com wrote:

 Nishant Sharma codemarau...@... writes:

 [from the news]
  Aiming at preventing the misuse of Wi-Fi connectivity by unauthorised
 users,
 the department of
  telecommunications has directed all telecom service providers to
 implement an
 online centralised
  authentication procedure for Internet subscribers.

 Sounds like a reaction to one of the Bombay attacks where an American had
 an
 open wifi that was used to send a terrorist message by a bomb conspirator.

 I am with the decision. Its excellent. Going by the fundamental right of
equality this should be enforced for everybody. So you should no longer be
allowed to put a letter in the letter box without verification.
All post should be registered post.
Since people can speak and communicate, before uttering a word, police
verification should be done too!
 Welcome to 1984
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[ilugd] Efiling IT returns on linux?

2009-07-28 Thread Tanveer Singh
Has anybody tried opening the XLS from income tax department on a linux
machine on openoffice 3.0?
Or does that work only on windows?
Tanveer
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Re: [ilugd] [HELP] How to count number of process

2009-07-24 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Sudev Barar sba...@gmail.com wrote:

 I have made a script that starts netcat repeatedly in listen mode. Once
 incoming data is started the script fires off another NC instance and
 previous NC process then dies when data string ends. I want to count how
 many netcat processes were launched during a particular testing period.

 One option is to build a counter before firing up each instance of netcat.
 Any other method? I would not like to touch the netcat launch script right
 now.

 -

ps -aef and then use grep/awk etc., to get your fix? This will work if you
want to count number of netcat processes active at any given time.
For duration, fire ps -aef twice, once at beginning and once at the end of
duration. GET the PIDs, and then count PIDs for second ps which were not
there in first ps.
For example Time  T
It gives you 4445,4446,4447
Time T+D
It gives you 4447,4449,4450
So 4447 was there beforehand, so you ignore that, and your result is 2
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Re: [ilugd] [HELP] How to count number of process

2009-07-24 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Chirag Anand anand.chi...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Sudev Barar sba...@gmail.com wrote:

  I have made a script that starts netcat repeatedly in listen mode. Once
  incoming data is started the script fires off another NC instance and
  previous NC process then dies when data string ends. I want to count how
  many netcat processes were launched during a particular testing period.
 
  One option is to build a counter before firing up each instance of
 netcat.
  Any other method? I would not like to touch the netcat launch script
 right
  now.
 

 If this is what you're looking for: `ps -aef | grep netcat | wc -l` ?
 But this will give you one extra result, as `grep netcat` will also be
 counted as another running process. You can make necessary  modifications
 to
 it and get the correct result. Hope that helps.

 --

You missed his question. He does not want to know how many netcats are
running, he wants to know that between time T and time T+Delta how many
netcats were fired.
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Re: [ilugd] How to format an external harddisk..........having FEDORA installed in it.

2009-07-02 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Inder Bagga breakmyc...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi guys, i 've got an external harddidk having 160 GB capacity. I've
 installed fedora inside with just 2 gb of space. and now rest of space
 become useless. as windows os can't detect the drive so it's difficult for
 me to format the disk. I've tried to delete it's partition using windows
 bootable disk..but before openinf of partition window...some
 hardware error occured every time.please help

 -


Download some took like gparted. It will come as a .iso Burn to CD, and boot
from CD with the external HDD plugged in.
Select this HDD in GPARTED, and then format it the way you want.
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Re: [ilugd] A little gift - Gaurang

2009-06-22 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Gaurang Aggarwal sko...@skoost.com wrote:

 Gaurang Aggarwal belongs to Skoost and sent you a little gift.

 Click below to collect your gift:
 http://www.skoost.com/fun?ilugd%40lists%2Elinux%2Ddelhi%2Eorg/20267730/5

 One question for list admin, how did the from address from skoost.com got
approved. If I send a mail from any arbit address to ilugd, it gets
rejected, But in this case its being allowed?
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[ilugd] Slightly OT, Laptop DVD writer

2009-06-19 Thread Tanveer Singh
I have a dell Inspiron E1505, which has a DVD writer by Toshiba. It works
fine under linux. But recently it went bad and DVD or CD writing has gone
for a Toss.
Therefore I need to buy a new one.
Buying a Laptop DVD writer is expensive, I have heard quotes ranging from
2800-4500.
However ordinary DVD writers are for 800-1000rs.
I was thinking
Get a SATA writer and get an external casing. there are 2 downsides
1. External power supply
2. Will it work with linux

Second option is to look for something which runs entirely of USB requiring
no power source.

However the problem is that does such stuff work with linux. I use distros
like SLAX or Puppylinux and not the mainstream ones.

Tanveer
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Re: [ilugd] Personal invitation from pratipal singh

2009-03-18 Thread Tanveer Singh
2009/3/18 pratipal singh pratipalthesar...@gmail.com:
 Personal invitation from pratipal singh
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Sure we will all be there. Food is free, right?

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Re: [ilugd] Wrong disk size when partitioning

2008-12-01 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Any idea why this could be happening?
Hi Raj,
I have faced the exact same problem. My drive was being recognized as
80GB instead of 160GB, and not matter which software, which OS I tried
same issue.
Then I stumbled on to stuff like HD tools etc.,
This is a small boot disk which you can use at startup, and it boots
into its own kernel. There you manually write the partition table.
Take a note of the figures printed on the drive, and write them down.
Then when you boot in the CD, manually write the partition table.
For my western digital HD data lifeguard is available
http://support.wdc.com/download/downloadxml.asp

There are man by others for example hitachi
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#FeatureTool

Ideally gparted should be able to repair a corrupt primary partition table.

There is another tool called
http://www.ptdd.com/edit.htm
So you write down your end cylinder number etc., and manually fill in the data.

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Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Amit Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi,

 We know that lots of corporates use Linux on their servers.

 Of late, due to various reasons, corporates are using Linux for desktops as 
 well.

 Where can i get the list of such companies, in Delhi NCR, who have migrated 
 to Linux Desktops.

All companies in VLSI domain, and in EDA domain use Linux desktops for
their technical staff. Managers get windows.

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[ilugd] 'Newbie' Linuxes have me stumped!!

2008-09-25 Thread Tanveer Singh
I was running Linux inside virtualbox. Naturally, my choice was
gentoo, since I have been a gentoo fan and know my way around pretty
much.
Based on reviews etc., I decided to try ubuntu. the prime driver was
source code compilation issue in gentoo. Every big package takes hours
to compile! A big headache.
So I thought, why not go to the world of apt-get, and try  Kubuntu
(KDE man here).
Well I was able to install, and then completely get lost. I understand
they have dumbed down everything, but I can't seem to get anything to
work.
dpkg-reconfigure xorg, gives me xconfiguration, but I can just set
keyboard etc., there. There is no way to set up my display to
1280x800, like I had in gentoo!
I can manually try mucking around with xorg.conf, but that breaks
things and X itself does not start.
I have come back shaken from ubuntu experience, I think I will go back
to my oldest distro, mandriva, hopefully they will let me retain
enough control!

Did anybody of you who came from hardcore linux environment feel
lost in a modern distro?

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Re: [ilugd] 'Newbie' Linuxes have me stumped!!

2008-09-25 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:02 PM, gajendra khanna
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg should allow you to do the reconfiguration.

 If the xorg.conf has the display you want (maybe not the default one) you can
 change it with the kde utility krandrtray.
I did that, its asks me for keyboard and all, and then finishes, and
writes xorg.conf without any display info at all.
I think I am going to mandriva. Will install that today and see.
With 256MB of ram OpenSuse is just dying.

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[ilugd] Automatically setting display.. A roadblock

2008-09-23 Thread Tanveer Singh
I used to have this in my .cshrc
set DISP = `who am i | sed -e s/(// -e s/)// | awk '{printf %s,$6}'`
setenv DISPLAY {$DISP}:0.0

This works as long as I am on X server 0
So my local machine is alpha and I login to beta, I would have a
DISPLAY set to alpha:0
The problem is what if my local machine X was started with startx --
:1 and not startx
Then also it would set it to alpha:0, though the correct usage would be alpha:1
Is there a way of automatically doing that?

regards
Tanveer

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Re: [ilugd] Automatically setting display.. A roadblock

2008-09-23 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1


 I think this will be insecure, unless you're using XAUTH and other form
 of ACLs provided by X, and X11 Forwarding via OpenSSH is the recommended
 way to do this in my opinion, where you don't need such ugly hacks :D
 . For more information, RTFM ssh(1).

ssh? I am not using ssh. The box I am logging onto is via rsh.  For
ssh its simple, no DISPLAY nonsense, just do ssh -X and it works
 And what if you're logged-in at :1 and want to work at :0, hmm...?
Nope, I don't want to do that.
All I want is this
Suppose I do a startx -- :1 on alpha
My X server starts
I open xterm and do a rsh -l username beta
When I login on beta, my display should be automatically set to alpha:1
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Re: [ilugd] Can we code in Hindi ??

2008-09-23 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Every common men of India want to send his child in English medium, ask him
 first !!!
 

 That's slave mentality. If we see a cowboy we look up, where as if we see a
 local farmer clad in dhoti kurta we look down. While both are farmers. 1000
 years of slavery has done some genetic mutation to us. Unfortunately we are
 discussing in English. Even if I use English for various other reasons, and
 I don't say others can't. Valuing our own system and language is not wrong.
 It rather earns respect.
Won't using hindi betraying mothertongue to a tamilian. We should code
in tamil and not hindi. Coding in Hindi is betraying mothertongue,
slave mentality

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[ilugd] Firefox 3.0 static build

2008-09-12 Thread Tanveer Singh
Hi,
I am stuck with a RH Enterprise 4.0 desktop at work. Due to very
obvious reasons, upgrading to 5 is not possible.
This leads to a big problem
Frefox 3 won't run because it wants newer pango.
Of course I can build a new pango, but that requires 500 billion other
packages rebuilt and 5 billion errors and crashes.
Its such a royal mess that I don't even want to go there again(did it
once and ended up screwing everything up, was luckily building in a
separate dir, so rm did the work

Now this poses a problem. I am stuck with firefox 2

The only way out?
Somehow get a ff3 static build for linux. Is it possible to get one? I
remember long time back when firefox was firebird, there used to be
some kind gentlemen who used to build static binaries for firebird for
all platforms.

For firefox 3.0 I am not able to find any static binary. I understand
that with static binary its going to be huge, but space is not really
a big issue.
any help please

Tanveer Singh

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Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Change of timezone City for India

2008-07-02 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 02-Jul-08, at 3:37 PM, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:

 1. Legacy Calcutta Standard Time used during the British carried over
 2. Delhi stands very close to Dili in pronunciation and spelling, and
 can be confusing.

 If it aint broken why fix it?
I concur.
Moreover Delhi has very high crime rate against women. Changing
Calcutta to Delhi would drive women tuxer's(not that there are too
many of them) away from Linux.

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Re: [ilugd] Advocacy rules (was) Re: Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-23 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 I think advocacy of a product in the process of being open sourced is
 ok. In fact should be done as more people trying out and using the
 product because it is being open sourced would
Officially, is this a FOSS list or a Linux list.
If its the latter, in that case any objection to advocacy of anything
else(which includes FreeBSD etc.) is not proper.
Internationally I have seen LUG(s) which are LINUX user groups, and
FUG(s), which are Free OSS etc,. groups.
Both cater to different things.
Not all FOSS is Linux, so if a list is advertised as a Linux Users
Group list, then the primary focus should be Linux, with passing
mention of other open source and free software projects.

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Re: [ilugd] Linux Laptop Lessons, Suggestions and Tips Needed-- Is Dell da best choice ?

2008-05-30 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Prashant Batra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 go for the 17000 one.. try it  its new and with asus motherboard.. it
 will be fine..
 i have a lenovo laptop.. it works perfectly fine with linux.. m
 completely satisfied.. waise i wont suggest u dell as some of my
 friends were not satisfied with the same..

 1. Do not top post. It breaks threads and makes discussions unproductive
2. Just because its preloaded with linux does not mean it fits his needs. .
This guy needs processing power, and good graphics, and a low end laptop
cannot provide that.
My suggestion, find out the minimum benchmark you need in performance terms,
and then choose among laptops which fit that criteria
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Re: [ilugd] What the hell? [WAS:Re: Tinyurl [WAS: Re: Fwd: Fwd: M$ Tax Refund Quest]]

2008-05-21 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Linux Linghamish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 I don't know what's wrong with this list. You people just push it too hard.

 Isnt top posting against forum rules.
Please go through the rules of this forum before posting :D
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Re: [ilugd] Tinyurl [WAS: Re: Fwd: Fwd: M$ Tax Refund Quest]

2008-05-20 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Anupam Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Tuesday 20 May 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote:
  On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:10 AM, sudhanwa Jogalekar
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  French guys consolidated a guide for this
 
  http://tinyurl.com/5ltdvl
 
  Please don't post tinyurls to lists.  A number of people (including me)
  treat all tinyurls as suspect, for a number of reasons:
 

 snip

 
  - A malicious user could post a tinyurl to a malware/infection URL.

 I thought people on a Linux mailing list would largely be immune to this!

 Thats because you think everybody on the list uses Linux while checking
their mails.. But this may not be the case!
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Re: [ilugd] Where do I get tar.gz for these libraries

2008-05-16 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wahjava.ml@
gmail.com wrote:

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  Tanveer == Tanveer Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 [snip]

   Tanveer I don't have root access. So is this possible. How to do that,.
   Tanveer currently the most stable combo I have found is running ESD.
  Amarok is
   Tanveer running fine with that.

 ALSA is the lowest-level user-space interface with sound cards in
 GNU/Linux. The drivers of sound cards implements ALSA interface. The
 sound servers exists to provide multiplexing, so that multiple
 applications can access your underlying sound devices. esd (or ESound)
 is the sound server which comes with earlier releases of GNOME, so I
 guess you're running GNOME. artsd is the sound server which is shipping
 with KDE  3.6. xine and other audio/video backends have support for
 these sound servers.

   Tanveer However if I select ALSA sound system in amarok(engine), xinelib
 cribs that
   Tanveer it cannot initialize drivers.

 Since you're running esd, thats why no other application can open ALSA
 devices atm, which why xine responds negatively.

   Tanveer So I am stuck with OSS or ESD.

 If you want to disable ESD, goto System-Preferences-Sound, and uncheck
 Enable Software Sound  mixing (or something similar option). If you want
 to instantaneously do that, 'killall esd' :)

 ALSA[1] is an extremely flexible sound system. And its plugins[2] are
 awesome.

Thanks!
your post gave me direction to go and debug
And what I found?
The KDE system locks the sound system for 60 seconds after doing anything
with it, so no other applications can  use it.
thats why after any system bell kinda event, I had this silly problem crop
up in amarok.
I went to kcontrol and disabled the kde sound system.
In amarok I selected alsa sound system, and everything is rocking now
Thanks!

One question though, in windows if application A is playing something, and I
start application B which plays some other sound, I usually hear a mix of
both through the speakers, can such a thing happen in linux too?
Just speculating.
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Re: [ilugd] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-14 Thread Tanveer Singh


   IANAL, TINLA.

 Ack.

 -- Manish


 IANAL, but from whatever I have seen from the Europe case, and MRTPCs
notices served to companies, you do not have a case in consumer court at
all.
A vendor has the right to sell bundled stuff. For example Big Bazaar can
sell rice bundled with  washing powder. you cannot refuse washing powder and
claim refund.
however, if Big Bazaar was selling rice with washing powder of a certain
brand only, and forcing you to sign a usage agreement, then it would become
a valid case to MRTPC.
I suggest you make a complaint to MRTPC, A MRTPC notice to Lenovo should
shake their boots.
Meanwhile try to get a story posted on slashdot.
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Re: [ilugd] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-14 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 [snip]

   Meanwhile try to get a story posted on slashdot.


 in the days of sincere and professional journalism,
 newspapers and magazines would get their journalists to get on the
 phone, and/or chase down legal experts, and industry experts, to get a
 multi-dimensional, unbiased, investigative report, with citations,
 references, documentation, and basically, hard-nosed journalism
 at-work.

 Express Computer, LinuxForYou, PCQuest, DataQuest, PCWorld, Chip, Digit
 The Hindu, Times of India, Hindustan Times, Economic Times...

 i *wonder* who among them understand the news-worthiness of this
 story, and appreciate the due-diligence and persistence required to
 handle this story?

 freedom of the press
 is not too different
 from freedom in software.

 or is Lenovo or microsoft or placeholder more important as an advertiser?

  Its the official policy of most major newpapers/magazines not to post
anything against advertisers. So unless there is a major court case and
convictions etc., the story will not be published.
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Re: [ilugd] Where do I get tar.gz for these libraries

2008-05-13 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

  On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Tanveer Singh wrote:
Googling suggested that libxine-dev and libxine-dbg should be built
 and this
will fix this random problem.
However googling for these 2 libs turned up packages, either red-hat
 or
debian etc.,etc.,
I am unable to find source tar.gz for these libs.
any idea, where to get source tar.gz for libxine-dev and libxine-dbg
 etc.,

 Does this help?
  http://hg.debian.org/hg/
  http://xinehq.de/index.php/releases

 -- Manish

Nope.
First link does not have anything, and second link has xine-lib which I
installed from source.
I need libxine-dev and libxine-dbg
Is libxine-dev a part of xinelib? If so, is there any special configure
option. I didn't find any.

Tanveer
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Re: [ilugd] Where do I get tar.gz for these libraries

2008-05-13 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Tanveer Singh wrote:
  On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Manish wrote:
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Tanveer Singh wrote:
  Googling suggested that libxine-dev and libxine-dbg should be
 built
   and this
  will fix this random problem.
  However googling for these 2 libs turned up packages, either
 red-hat
   or
  debian etc.,etc.,
  I am unable to find source tar.gz for these libs.
  any idea, where to get source tar.gz for libxine-dev and
 libxine-dbg
   etc.,
  
   Does this help?
http://hg.debian.org/hg/
http://xinehq.de/index.php/releases
  
   -- Manish
 
  Nope.
  First link does not have anything, and second link has xine-lib which I
  installed from source.
  I need libxine-dev and libxine-dbg
  Is libxine-dev a part of xinelib? If so, is there any special configure
  option. I didn't find any.

 README in win32 directory of xine-lib-1.2 and
 http://xinehq.de/index.php/faq#AEN72 seems to suggest that it is.  But
 then I never built anything this big from sources.

I build everything from sources. I guess I have to try and look at
./configure options.
Anyways I am amazed that I can easily download rpm and .deb packages for
libxine-dev and libxine-dbg individually, but can't do the same for
tar.gz...??
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Re: [ilugd] Where do I get tar.gz for these libraries

2008-05-13 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Tanveer Singh wrote:
   I build everything from sources. I guess I have to try and look at
   ./configure options.
   Anyways I am amazed that I can easily download rpm and .deb packages
 for
   libxine-dev and libxine-dbg individually, but can't do the same for
   tar.gz...??

 I did look at configure options and tried searching xine-devel as well
 for clues with no luck.  May be it's because I do not understand xine
 architecture.

 Perhaps you could use sources extracted from deb package using
 dpkg-deb -x?


I have tried that route once on another package(on my home ubuntu system).
Its too much weep.
I guess I will head on the freenode and bug the xine channel guys. Normally
I have seen that  asking on specific IRC channels, you get an answer
quickly.
Meanwhile I think I am getting a phd in building kde.
I had to copy the libacl.la to a private dir, change the path to .so for
libattr(its in /usr/lib instead of /lib but libattr.la says its in /lib).
Then I had to do a sed s:/lib/libattr.la:/private/dir/libattr.la:g on all
the kde .la files in my $KDEDIR to build it.
Redhat enterprise sure comes with some quirckyness.
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Re: [ilugd] Where do I get tar.gz for these libraries

2008-05-13 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Tanveer Singh wrote:
   Meanwhile I think I am getting a phd in building kde.
   I had to copy the libacl.la to a private dir, change the path to .so
 for
   libattr(its in /usr/lib instead of /lib but libattr.la says its in
 /lib).
   Then I had to do a sed s:/lib/libattr.la:/private/dir/libattr.la:g on
 all
   the kde .la files in my $KDEDIR to build it.
   Redhat enterprise sure comes with some quirckyness.

 All the best!

 Just one question: apart from the fun of it how maintainable is this
 setup?  Do you document/script each step to be able to repeat later?
 That's two questions, oh well.

 -- Manish
 \

Well I don't have a choice since at work I cannot get root access. Otherwise
rpm -ivh is the best option I think.
But the bright side is that I can choose what to build.
As for how maintainable is this setup, for big packages like kde etc., there
are actually no issues.
The .la problem cropped up just because of the bug in Redhat Enterprise 4.
Otherwise on a normal system, building from source is actually not tough at
all.
I used to have gentoo on my home machine.
So if you take care of all dependencies(this is done by going through the
docs) its easy work.
But building from sources sure takes time, and in the end using the package
manager is a better option.
but then if you want to go bleeding edge build from sources.
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Re: [ilugd] Linux for the geek gods?

2008-05-06 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Pratul Kalia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Recently there was a thread about Mandriva being an easy to use,
  beginner distro. And, I remember lawgon writing its not much used by
  geeks, as it isn't hack friendly? :D
  In response, let me ask the list, what distros do you recommend for
  geeks then? Someone who likes to get his hands dirty, and feels happy
  to do so? What should he/she use?

  I don't think I would want a distro that has stupid support,
  incomplete repos etc, because that's nice for hackers? (Yeah, he will
  have to solve 12 problems just to boot, and compile everything from
  source, lol)


  Suggestions?
  Pratul
No suggestions. Only one option GENTOO :D
Everything else is fake.

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Re: [ilugd] suggest a CMS

2008-05-02 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
  
On 02-May-08, at 6:40 PM, Raj Mathur wrote:
  
 Yes, yes, we all know how to judiciously edit a quote so it seems
 to be
 saying something other than the original intended meaning and then
 reply to the distorted meaning!

 However, I'm sure you'll continue asserting that Plone is
 ``hackproof''
 despite all the available evidence, so no more on this thread from me.
  
interesting how people on the losing side of an argument start
getting personal ... no more from me also

  Err..  losing side?  How come?

  BTW, I do not care who `wins' but I am curious how you arrived at this
  conclusion.
See if you both were running windows there would be no argument.
Moral of the story. Linux is responsible for rising crime rate in Delhi.
Now guys please don't kill each other, the police already has their hands full.

I know my blabbering did not make any sense, but then even both of
your blabbering is not making any sense either.
From whatever I know about software, nothing is hackproof.
As for more secure or less secure, any software is as secure as the
last vunerability.
And yes plone is more hackproof than drupal, but I don't really buy
the argument that its the most hackproof among all CMS.

But if you keep your drupal installation patched, you will be safe.

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Re: [ilugd] suggest a CMS

2008-04-30 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:07 AM, narendra sisodiya
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 *http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ This website will help you out *



  On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Mayank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:57 AM, narendra sisodiya 
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
There is no need of think on this topic,
Drupal is good for community oriented website -- I strongly suggest
   Drupal
for institute purpose over Joomla
here is a comparison chat -- this might help you in some sense,,
   
   
   
 http://www.alledia.com/blog/general-cms-issues/joomla-and-drupal-%11-which-one-is-right-for-you?/
   
I too suggest drupal.
Drupal out of the box is more difficult and does not look as good has
joomla, but room for expansion is much more, and the content
organization is more structured.

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Re: [ilugd] , Build your vocab (word power)-Get emails daily Fr.ee

2008-04-28 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:05 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  On 29-Apr-08, at 2:07 AM, narendra sisodiya wrote:

   It is asking for email  password (of yahoo or gmail ) at second
   stage to
   advertise , :( VERY BAD

  why are you replying to spam?


SO that he can get free V14GRA :D

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[ilugd] Delete thousands of folders and files

2008-04-07 Thread Tanveer Singh
I have a directory called somedir
Inside this directory there are thousands of subdirectories(20,000+)
and even more number of small files(100,000+)
If I do a \rm -rf somedir, it takes hours.
Is there a way to quickly delete this directory.
Currently I use Konqueror and it does the job more quickly, but still
its pretty slow.
regards
Tanveer

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[ilugd] Fwd: Delete thousands of folders and files

2008-04-07 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Anupam Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Tanveer Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a directory called somedir
 Inside this directory there are thousands of subdirectories(20,000+)
 and even more number of small files(100,000+)
 If I do a \rm -rf somedir, it takes hours.
 Is there a way to quickly delete this directory.
 Currently I use Konqueror and it does the job more quickly, but still
 its pretty slow.
 
   1) You can run the process in the background so that you can still do
   other work.
   OR
   2) use the --directory option which will unlink the directory even if
   it's non empty. But in this case the system will recursively unlink
   all the files the next time you run fsck and you'll have to wait a
   long time then.
 
   Basically if you want to do something NOW which expects the directory
   to not be there, go with option 2. Else stick to the usual option 1.
 
   -- Anupam
 Currently I do this
 mv somedir somedir.old
 find somedir.old -name * -exec rm -rf {} \;
 I was hoping for some quick delete kind of stuff.

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Re: [ilugd] Delete thousands of folders and files

2008-04-07 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Vikas Rawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Don't have root access, so I have to improvise.
The fastest solution which I have discovered till now is Konqueror.

  Would mv to .Trash be as fast? Deleting a file/directory on nautilus
  moves it the trash bin. I do not know what a delete on konqueror
  does. But there has to be a command line method at least as fast as a
  gui.
In Konquerer you have seprate buttons for move to trash and Delete.
As for .Trash, all this is on a separate NFS, so mv won't be fast too.
However mv on the same filesystem is instant.
SO thats why I do a mv to somedir.old, and start deleting it, and
carry on with my other work.

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Re: [ilugd] plz unsubscribe me from mailing list

2008-02-04 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Feb 4, 2008 3:16 PM, mrityu singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 its unbearable plz unsubscribe me from mailing list i did not expected such
 things from it

LOL, what did you expect? Free penguin Pr0n? :p

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Re: [ilugd] best MTA for an ISP

2007-11-13 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Nov 13, 2007 3:03 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 13-Nov-07, at 1:32 PM, मनीष wrote:

  this I will be more thankful if you will  put up your opinion on my
  queries.
 
 
  What Kenneth meant, I am sure, was that you would be more successful
  _in getting your queries answered_.  You got him wrong.

 actually he got me right. If I have learnt only one thing in my
 interactions on international foss mailing lists, it is the
 importance of accuracy and precision in language. Look at the replies
 given in lists by core developers of practically any project. They
 use full sentences, carefully crafted and precise. They devote
 paragraphs to answers where I have been in the habit of using
 incomplete phrases. They use capitals in the places where capitals
 should be used - I and not i. I believe this reflects the accuracy
 and precision of the language they use in coding. And in commenting
 code. Laziness is an important characteristic of a good programmer -
 but that is creative laziness - the willingness to do a huge amount
 of work to avoid writing an extra line of code. The laziness behind
 using 'u' instead of 'you' is not that creative laziness - it is
 sloppiness, which manifests itself in innumerable typos in code. The
 same sloppiness and disregard of the rules of language that manifests
 itself in sms-speak, will manifest itself in the quality of code that
 person produces. And if a person respects language and takes pride in
 using it with accuracy and precision - that will reflect in his code.
 And he will also get his queries promptly attended to ...
Very well said. As one of the moderators of a large community, I get
so many messages asking
Why don't you allow sms lingo, etc., etc.,. Sometimes I get
y dnt u llow sms. i fin dis ful eng tipi tuff
I wish people understood the importance of good language in written
communication.
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[ilugd] backing up large weekly data

2007-08-01 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 8/1/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:14 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote:
  dear all,
 
  what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month?
 [...]

 Decent 500GB IDE drives are going for about Rs. 5K, which takes care of
 8-10 months of storage. If you really care for the data, buy two, and
 make a software RAID array out of them. Splurge on another Rs. 1.5K
 for a good USB/IDE interface, and you have instant access to the
 stored data.

 Regards,
 Gora
Isnt something like Amazon S3 more reliable, if the data is critical.
Its auotmatic using shell scripts and cron jobs.
Cost for such data would come to around 15$/month if your total
storage online is around 60GB
Thats around 600rs/month or around 7200/year which is the cost of a
500GB HDD and iits very very reliable.

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Re: [ilugd] Broadband Connection

2007-06-28 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 6/28/07, vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi! Parijat,
  Welcome to delhi dude...

 --- Parijat Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I am planning to install broadband (yep, there still
  are people who
  don't have broadband at home) and am wondering which
  ISP provides the
  best service. I also need to setup WiFi at home. Do
  these
  service-providers help set that up too?
 
  Kindly advise.

I am a WIFI user(since my router went bust few days back, its rather
like I was a user).
I have Airtel 999 256kbps unlimited connection, which defaults to
512kbps at night.
They gave me a modem(with ethernet port) which I used to connect to my
Netgear router and then surf the web on my laptop.
I also have experience with BSNL(I am in noida, so no MTNL). BSNL
exchange was 500mts away from my house so I could go there and
literaly force or 'entice' the linemen to come when there was a
problem.
After airtel I need to call just their support, and within 24 hours
somebody is ready to come to my doorstep.
As for router WRT54G is not good but GL is good as are GS etc., Since
all you get is max 512kbs its immaterial whether the router does
54Mbps or 5Mbps.
Buy the cheapest you can get. My router fried because the UP state
electricity board decided to compensate for all the power cuts by
giving 350 Volts.

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Re: [ilugd] ILUGD functioning [WAS: Re: The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007]

2007-02-09 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 2/9/07, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 On 09-Feb-07, at 10:42 AM, vivek khurana wrote:

   Anupam, KENNETH, Gora, Sriram, Anant, Mahesh T. Pai,
  Vivek Khurana
   Sab log kyu bandwidth kha rahe ho?
   Why are you wasting bandwidth and web space on
  useless discussion.

 not useless - the only useless thing here is your post


Your inter-personnel skills never cease to amaze me :p
Make that 2 useless posts now :D
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Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-06 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 2/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Dear Members of the Community

 I regret the delay in posting our 'side of the story' w.r.t. Microsoft at
 LinuxAsia 07. Here's our attempt...
 snip snip snip


The event needed money and they were paying lots. Call a spade a spade.
If they weren't paying this huge mail wouldn't have been there, right?
M$ ideology is exactly opposite of Linux ideology, so its like Smirnoff
sponsoring the Alcoholics Anonymous meet.
My 2p

regards
Tanveer Singh
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Re: [ilugd] performance of tata indicom data card?

2007-01-11 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 1/11/07, Anurag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Sometime on Thursday 11 January 2007 15:38, G Karunakar said:
  what speeds say inside a building (where say mobile signal is half
  strength?)..

 well, the speeds drop dramatically deep inside buildings, from slow to no
 signal depending on distance from tower and all that.

  they have a cheaper option of plug-2-surf, basically a CDMA
  usb  modem.. donno how well that would work.. I was thinking to opt for
 usb
  option than the card... could hav my custom knoppix  use on any
  laptop/pc.. dont remain tied to requiring laptop.

 sounds like a good idea.


A reliance phone costs  1100rs for the basic model  and I get around 80kbps
with reliance phones connected via  cable(150rs) or Bluetooth.
I guess USB mdoem is expensive at around 5000rs.
You could try that route too
regards
Tanveer
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Re: [ilugd] WRT54GL

2007-01-07 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 1/8/07, विवेक ऐय्यर விவேக் ஐய்யர் Vivek Iyyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 1/8/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 19:55 -0800, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote:
  [...]
 
  Sounds great. What is the ball-park cost? I was considering buying a
  wireless router.
 
 Cost about 4K in delhi .
 cheers
 Vivek


Isn't WRT54GS the better option. Its WRT54GL +  Speedbooster tech, linux
based but better performance.
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[ilugd] Linux friendly laptop(USB) TV tuner

2006-11-27 Thread Tanveer Singh
I am going to purchase a USB TV tuner for my Laptop from Nehru Place,
I am wondering which brands do they offer and will they work with Linux?
Dont want to pick up a windows only brand.
Pinnacle Internal TV tuner card works on linux, but could not find much
about brands like Gemini etc., which are sold in Nehru place in this
category(USB TV Tuner).

thanks
Tanveer
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Re: [ilugd] Suggest the best link for perl Scripting

2006-05-16 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 5/16/06, Manish Popli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi All

 well i m totaly new in perl Scripting and i want to use it in my Unix
 Environment.
 welcome for ur suggestion for the best way (Doc ) to start it.

 Though i have rich Ex. in Unix administrationbut I m biggner in perl
 scripting.


Though nothing beats the books(Orielly and WROX),
http://www.perlmonks.orgis a good place to start. You can also visit
cpan.perl.org etc.,
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Re: [ilugd] replicating a directory structure with links to all the files at origin

2006-05-14 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 5/14/06, Sharad Birmiwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 i'm a little lost about what you wasnt to do myself but lndir might help
 (comes with x.org, i think!).

 creates directory structure like some specified directory and creates
 symlinks in them to all the files.

Exactly what ?I need! Since the original database is all accessible on the
same server(its a NFS dir), each user can probably use it to create symlinks
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[ilugd] replicating a directory structure with links to all the files at origin

2006-05-13 Thread Tanveer Singh
Hi,
We have a testcases directory structure. It consists of lots of directories
and files.
Since lots of people work on those files, everybody right now copies all the
files and directories to own home dir and then works with that,.
The files in the dir structure are never created but the softwares run
generate some files etc., with are unique to the owner.
So what we want is somehow create the directory structure in the users home
dir. This will be without any files and only soft links to original files
will be there. So the person can run his testcases and they will work like
normal testcases as links to files are there. This way all users wont need
to use so much disk space.

For example the original directory strucure is something like
parent
|
dir1  dir2   dir3file1 file2 file3
| |
dir11 dir12 dir21 dir 22 file21
|
and so on.
One way of doing this was
1. Use find comand in a script with the option -d. and create directories in
the users home
2. Use find command in script with -f option and then create soft links.
this seems like a kludgy way, and would require some advanced scripting. Any
other way you people can suggest.

One thing to note here that the directory structure should be replicated as
it is at the source because the programs look for paths relative to a
BASEDIR which each user can set according to his/her wishes.
Having such an arrangement will make things good as we will not waste disk
space.

About the job of creating directories, its not very complicated.
I just have to
1. cd to the parent dir
2. Use find command and get all dirs in a file
3. append makedir -p and to starting, cd to the target place and create dirs

the file part is a little tougher because now have to work with ln.
So Any other way you guys can suggest? Maybe linux has an utility which can
do this in one go, that would be great!

thanks
Tanveer
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[ilugd] using nested exec in find command

2006-04-19 Thread Tanveer Singh
Hi,
I am using the find command like this

find somedir -name somaname -exec find {} -name somefile \;
This works fine. Now I want to add another exec to the seond find
i.e.
find somedir -name somaname -exec find {} -name somefile -exec grep
some string  {} \;
But it does not work
I tried using \; \; in the end too. Any help?

Tanveer
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Re: [ilugd] Require 64bit Linux OS

2006-03-09 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 3/9/06, Tushar Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,
  This seems to be slightly off-topic of this thread but why
 shouldnot 32 bit stuff  run on 64 bit ? If any one can lead to any
 pointers or a correct google query it will be great :)
 Regards
 Tushar



Should not? No why here. 32bit stuff runs fine on 64bit systems.
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Re: [ilugd] Require 64bit Linux OS

2006-03-07 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 3/8/06, Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 07/03/06, Vaibhav Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  well using a 64Bit OS will be very tough for u.
  softwares based on 64 Bit are aren't availble much.My friend installed
  Ubuntu 64Bit but had to install 32Bit again due to unavailability of
  softwares.
  i suggest u to stick on 32Bit presently.

 I suggest you get better friends... ;-)
 Which softwares that are available in 32bit Ubuntu did not run in
 64bit one? The only area where you will find problems is running flash
 on browsers and that is due to the fact that Macromedia has not got
 around to releasing 64bit version. There is OpenFlash project, but I
 will admit it does not work very well...yet!

Flash is not that much of a problem. I run firefox in 32bit mode so I can
use all plugins. Rest everything runs 64bit. But then I use a more 64bit
friendly distro(gentoo). Since precompiled 64bit applications are rare,
gentoo flow works fine.
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Re: [ilugd] usb mounting

2006-03-05 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 3/5/06, Raj Shekhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 in infinite wisdom Shiv spoke thus  On 03/05/2006 06:58 PM:

  hi,
top-posting is one thing
  however, as far as the non-english part goes, I think its time we
  climb outta our colonial slumber and encourage people to use native
  language. roman hindi like the one ankit was trying to use is quite
  ok. The indian army uses it to a large extent (part of the colonial
 legacy).

 I get a lot of emails everyday (150-200 would be a close figure).  As
 such, I can say with confidence that people find it easier to read
 emails that are written in plain english, i.e. without using sms lingo
 or trying to write roman hinglish.  As far as the part about colonial
 legacy goes, yes, I find it easier to read english rather than hindi.
 If anyone starts writing in hindi (and thunderbird will have no problems
 in showing such emails), I will simply pass over that email.

About the native language stuff, people here have lots of native languages.
So people suggesting - Get out of colonial hangup should write their mails
in all 15 languages specified in the constitution so as mails are understood
by all of us. The orignal poster can take the lead and start sending out his
mails in 15 languages :D
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Re: [ilugd] utility for measuring the total downloads

2006-02-01 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 2/2/06, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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 Abhinav Jain wrote:

  Is there any utility on linux/win which can measure the total download ,
 I
  have an ISP (BSNL/Tata Indicom) which allows me to download only 500MB
  (according to some plan) and I need to keep a check on the download I
 have
  made.

 vnstat ?

I use vnstat and have now found it to be accurate for tx. Is it true
generally or something wrong with my settings?
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Re: [ilugd] Connecting to VPN in office

2006-01-14 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 1/13/06, Nishant Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi Tanveer,

  How to do it in Linux. Is there a ready VPN client

 You can use vpnc. The only issue is that re-keying is
 not supported. So, your VPN is connected for 8 hrs at
 a stretch and then you will have to reconnect it.

 regards,
 Nishant


I tried using VPNC. But got confised at what all to give. In windows I just
give a username and password. I trid kvpnc also and in the connection type I
filled in PPTP. But apart from  my company server IP it also has network
etc., fields which are not there when I configure connection for windows.
Any HOWTO available for the same?
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[ilugd] Connecting to VPN in office

2006-01-12 Thread Tanveer Singh
Hi,
Our office has a VPN IP address. In windows I clicked on create a new
connection tab, gave the IP and created connection. Just have to give my
username and password.
How to do it in Linux. Is there a ready VPN client by which I can just give
that IP address and username and password and be on the office network?
Tanveer
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Re: [ilugd] Linux and Laptops -- Help required

2006-01-11 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 1/12/06, Saurabh Nanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,

 I'm planning to purchase a laptop, which would be my new Linux box. I have
 a
 lot of questions which I am listing below. It would be great if anyone
 could
 help me with them -

 o I read some articles about Linux running into troubles with Intel
 Centrino
 based laptops -- especially the WLAN card. Can someone give me a first
 hand
 account?
 o Other factors remaining the same, there's a difference of about Rs 10k
 between Celeron-M and Centrino based laptops. Is the gain in performance
 worth the cost?
 o AMD Sempron Mobile or Celerom-M?

o AMD Turion-64 or Centrino?
 o Other than the Acer Aspire series, are there any AMD based laptops
 available in India?
 o From where can one get Lenovo R-Series in India? I couldn't find them on
 the website.
 o Acer, Compaq, Zenith, Lenovo, Dell -- any first hand experiences wrt
 reliability, after-sales support, etc?
 o Any specific recommendations or reviews of the laptop(s) that you have
 purchased

Depends on your budget. The AMD turion is the most value for money and 64bit
performance is great. I think in india all you will get is Acer if you want
AMD. Sony/lenovo etc., do not sell AMD based notebooks in India region
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Re: [ilugd] Script for Interrupted power supply

2006-01-10 Thread Tanveer Singh


 
  I can't say anything about ur script.But if you r using APC ups you can
  use
  apcsd software for monitoring them.



I have a APC ups with USB. So I am wondering wether I can use it in linux.
Currently the daemon starts but cant talk to the UPS inspite of me following
the HOWTO. Any tips of pointers?
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Re: [ilugd] KDE rules

2006-01-02 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 1/2/06, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Taj == Sirtaj Singh Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Taj [snip]
  I decided to just sneer at those who keep telling me how I
  should listen to music rather than either (a) solving the
  problem or (b) telling me it can't be done.  Damn all
  user-interface-design gurus who, instead of adding a feature
  the user wants, tell the user how s/he should ideally be doing
  what s/he wants to do!
 
  Here's your share: *sneer* ;)

 Taj It's like sneering at people who tell you that cigarettes and
 Taj coca cola will kill you. Sooner or later you just have to
 Taj face up to the fact that your lifestyle is at best
 Taj inefficient, and at worst, just plain stark raving WRONG.

 That was the worst analogy it has been my misfortune to stumble across
 in the Happy New Year.

You very well deserved that :D.
And yes it can't be done. I suggest you tell the amarok folks, put in a
feature request(Most kde fellows are open to feature requests)
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Re: [ilugd] KDE rules

2006-01-01 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 1/1/06, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Raj == Raj Shekhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Raj in infinite wisdom nipra spoke thus On 01/01/2006 04:44 PM:
  Hi, No flame war intended(though I'll not mind one ;-). Just
  found a good article on KDE and why it rules.
 
  http://www.terra.es/personal/diegocg/kde/

 Raj I agree with his assessment of amaroK. It simply rocks.  I
 Raj tried it out today and I am hooked to it.  Much better than
 Raj rhythmbox

 I'd switch to amarok from XMMS, except I can't find a balance control
 anywhere.  Since my speakers are at not both at the same distance from
 where I sit, that's absolutely essential for me.  And no thanks, I
 don't need the volume control in my mixer :)

 dont be such an old monk ;), use kmixer for your balance needs :D
And if you look at the K3B intergration with amarok(CD burning etc.,) along
with other features, this is a small disadvantage!
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Re: [ilugd] D-Link 502-T with Ubuntu 5.10

2005-12-01 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 12/2/05, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 Hope this helps, feedback welcome.


I guess for a newbie, rather than going into bridge mode and using pppoe
client on system, we can simply put the comp in ethernet mode and let the
router do the pppoe. Using rp-pppoe etc., runs into issues many times.
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Re: [ilugd] D-Link 502-T with Ubuntu 5.10

2005-12-01 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 12/2/05, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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  Tanveer == Tanveer Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Tanveer On 12/2/05, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Hope this helps, feedback welcome.

 Tanveer I guess for a newbie, rather than going into bridge mode
 Tanveer and using pppoe client on system, we can simply put the
 Tanveer comp in ethernet mode and let the router do the
 Tanveer pppoe. Using rp-pppoe etc., runs into issues many times.

 You're right, at least about the comparative complexity of using PPPoE
 vs routing modes.  However, using PPPoE (on the host) does have the
 following advantages:

 1. You get a routable IP and, if you really want, can expose services
 to your friends on the Internet.  For instance, you can put up files
 for downloading on your Apache web server and give people the IP to
 download them from temporarily.


Agreed, but I think by the time he gets to this level, he can go the pppoe
way

2. You control the connection.  I use the 590NU (night unlimited)
 plan, where MTNL requires me to restart the connection at midnight and
 0800.  If I use the router mode, I have to physically switch the 502T
 off and on.  OTOH, with host PPPoE mode I have a simple cron entry
 that does the switching (poff; pon) automagically at 00:05 and 07:58,
 with me blissfully asleep.


You can reboot the modem by a script too! Check out vinuthomas.com

3. In general, i prefer to have control over my connections rather
 than some piece of hardware about which I know next to nothing.  To
 take an example, in host PPPoE mode, the 502T is inaccessible from the
 Internet, and people cannot exploit any weaknesses in it.  In router
 mode, however, the 502T is exposed to the 'net and potentially
 vulnerable to exploits.


No its not. All you have to do is block all connections  from outside world.
Simple. then computers only on the ethernet side can connect. Infact you
have a  hardware firewall router sitting, which is more powerful than
anything else :D

regards
Tanveer
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