Re: [Ilugc] Twisted Installation Error

2009-09-30 Thread S.Ramaswamy
> > > >>> import Crypto > >>> import twisted.conch.ssh.transport > >>> twisted.conch.ssh.transport.RSA > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'RSA' > > twisted.conch.ssh.transport clearly has no attribute RSA. You can confirm

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Of course, that is a good thing. The utility is powerful but I > don't like it. It should have been way more simpler and friendlier > and still powerful. Write such a (simpler and user-friendly) utility or at least design one! People crit

Re: [Ilugc] Twisted Installation Error

2009-09-30 Thread S. Senthil Anand
>> >>> import Crypto >> >>> import twisted.conch.ssh.transport >> >>> twisted.conch.ssh.transport.RSA >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "", line 1, in >> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'RSA' >> >> twisted.conch.ssh.transport clearly has no attribute RSA. You can >> c

Re: [Ilugc] Twisted Installation Error

2009-09-30 Thread sudharsan s
What are you trying to do ? I am trying to install Twisted... Perhaps you can paste a few more lines of the code that you are trying to run. i still didnt start to write applications.. i am still at initial stage.. Installation.. -- (¨`·.·´¨) Always `·.¸(¨`·.·´¨) Keep (¨`·.·´¨)¸.·´ Smiling! `·.

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > C is neither easy to write nor easy to read! > > Quite the other way around. C is a very structured language. And there are almost no rules in 'C'. You can assign an char to a integer, integer to a char. Do a unstructured goto like in

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 30 Sep 2009 2:12:18 pm Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > You can take the following 'C' program as an example. Write the same in > perl and enjoy the gunk that comes out. > > int > main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) > { > __write(1, "hello world\n", 12); > } what does this program do?

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Wednesday 30 Sep 2009 2:12:18 pm Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > > You can take the following 'C' program as an example. Write the same in > > perl and enjoy the gunk that comes out. > > > > int > > main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)

Re: [Ilugc] Twisted Installation Error

2009-09-30 Thread S.Ramaswamy
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:03 PM, sudharsan s wrote: > What are you trying to do ? > > I am trying to install Twisted... > > Perhaps you can paste a few more lines of the code that you are trying to > run. > i still didnt start to write applications.. i am still at initial stage.. > Installation..

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape > wrote: > >> C is neither easy to write nor easy to read! >> >> Quite the other way around. C is a very structured language. And there are > almost no rules in 'C'. You can assign an

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 30 Sep 2009 2:23:16 pm Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 Sep 2009 2:12:18 pm Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > > > You can take the following 'C' program as an example. Write the same in > > > perl and enjoy the gunk that comes out. > > > > > > int > > > main(int argc, char **argv,

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/30/2009 02:29 PM, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > The equivalent program in perl would be > #!/usr/bin/perl > print "hello world\n"; > > (just two lines instead of 5 lines in the 'C' program. But an strace on both > show > the C programs does the same job with 23 system calls > the perl program

[Ilugc] Re: [OT] Best Comedy about M$

2009-09-30 Thread NavTux
varadarajan narayanan writes: > > 2009/9/28 Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் gmail.com> > > > The Cheif reporter responded. > > FYI > > > All of you are always welcome. > > > > HI ! > > I did my bit ! > > *வாசகர் கருத்து* >''கம்ப்யூட்டர் பயன்பாட்டில் > மைக்ரோ சாப்ட் நிறுவனத்தின் உதவி இல்லாமல் > எதுவும

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread steve
On 09/30/2009 02:29 PM, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Manvendra Bhanguiwrote: [...snip...] e.g. You can take the following 'C' program as an example. Write the same in perl and enjoy the gunk that comes out. int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) { __wri

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Sure and writing in assembly language will probably use even few sys > calls. However I think the focus is on the wrong place in this argument. > Programmer's time is often more valuable than machine time. > > Agreed. However it depends on

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, steve wrote: > > Come dude ! ...that's a lousy argument and you know it. I, myself, prefer > python to C and C to perl ...but won't ever look at number of syscalls to > defend my preference. > I deal with sites that do more than 3 million visitor per day. And I ha

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 30 Sep 2009 2:51:15 pm Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > > Sure and writing in assembly language will probably use even few sys > > calls. However I think the focus is on the wrong place in this argument. > > Programmer's time is often more valuable than machine time. > > > > Agreed. However

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 30 Sep 2009 2:59:43 pm Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, steve wrote: > > Come dude ! ...that's a lousy argument and you know it. I, myself, prefer > > python to C and C to perl ...but won't ever look at number of syscalls to > > defend my preference. > > I d

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread steve
On 09/30/2009 02:59 PM, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, steve wrote: Come dude ! ...that's a lousy argument and you know it. I, myself, prefer python to C and C to perl ...but won't ever look at number of syscalls to defend my preference. I deal with sites that

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > for that matter facebook handles more than that a day - so does youtube - > they > use python servers. I believe that they are getting bang for their buck. As > are google, yahoo, livejournal ... none of them use C. As some one > remark

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:19 PM, steve wrote: > -- I won't ever defend my preference of language /solely/ by citing the > number of syscalls that a final executable needs at runtime. > > It's a free country and that's your choice. It never will be mine. As long as I can write something faster and

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread steve
On 09/30/2009 03:41 PM, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:19 PM, steve wrote: -- I won't ever defend my preference of language /solely/ by citing the number of syscalls that a final executable needs at runtime. It's a free country and that's your choice. It never will be m

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:53 PM, steve wrote: > > the C programs does the same job with 23 system calls >> the perl program takes 160 system calls to just print the line "hello >> world" >> on screen >> > > The intent of reply was to point out that ... > > the C programs does the same job with

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread steve
On 09/30/2009 04:04 PM, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: I never did speak about comparing number of syscalls to the appropriateness of a language. ORLY ? > > How easy you find a language, depends on how you learnt it and how much > passion you have for it. For me 'C' is like poetry. Just do an strace

Re: [Ilugc] Twisted Installation Error

2009-09-30 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:17 PM, sudharsan s wrote: > Hi Luggies.. > I am new to twisted environment i started with the Book  Twisted Network > Programming EssentialsBy Abe Fettig , Publisher O'Reilly.. Twisted is event programming with Python. Learning events is hard. Thank God finally someone

Re: [Ilugc] Twisted Installation Error

2009-09-30 Thread Venkatraman S
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Girish Venkatachalam < girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Learning events is hard. > Eh? I presume you mean 'debugging' events is hard. -V- ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:11 PM, steve wrote: > On 09/30/2009 04:04 PM, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > >> >> I never did speak about comparing number of syscalls to the >> appropriateness >> of a language. >> > ORLY ? > > > > > How easy you find a language, depends on how you learnt it and how much >

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I apologise for offending people and igniting a flamewar. However, I could not prevent myself from writing the following long response. :-( On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > I am sorry about that. I honestly wanted to have some meaningful > conversation and my point was only

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Best Comedy about M$

2009-09-30 Thread senthilraja P
2009/9/28 Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் > Hello Friends, > > The Cheif reporter responded. > FYI > > 2009/9/28 rangarajpandey > > > Hi! > > > > This is Pandey, Chief Reporter, Dinamalar. > > > > Thank you very much for your feed back. > > > > This is the simple message: > > > > Contribution of right pr

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Prem Kurian Philip
From: steve >>If you *really* want to go that way and do a 'relevant' one-to-one >>comparison, you have to include the number of syscalls being made by gcc >>when compiling your code to binary ...which is essentially what the perl >>interpreter is doing for you for 'free'. > the C programs does

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Roshan Mathews
I had told myself to leave when things get flamy, but this is hard to walk away from, so just a few words. (Muhahahaha..) On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > That is certainly true. There are indeed a large number of good > programs written in C --- however, even those

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread steve
On 09/30/2009 06:52 PM, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: From: steve If you *really* want to go that way and do a 'relevant' one-to-one comparison, you have to include the number of syscalls being made by gcc>>when compiling your code to binary ...which is essentially what the perl>>interpreter is d

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > > While your intentions were honourable, your remark was about speed > and efficiency and number of syscalls --- none of which has anything > to do with reading/writing C! > It does have. The flexibility of writing in C is that I can

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > It does have. The flexibility of writing in C is that I can further reduce > the syscalls. It gives me so many ways to manipulate my environment. On a > server like a mail server which is processing few million mails a day, > choice betwe

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Manvendra Bhangui > wrote: > > It does have. The flexibility of writing in C is that I can further > reduce > > the syscalls. It gives me so many ways to manipulate my environment. On a > > server like a ma

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > Yes. > That's quite interesting. Where was this, if you don't mind sharing that. I haven't written much C at work, and I guess I've never seen much industrial C either then. Never would have expected to be hovering right near assembly.

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/30/2009 06:52 PM, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: > Ultimately, yes, it does come down to the number of instructions which are > executed by a platform for performing a single function. No one in their > right mind will argue that a program written in C wouldn't be faster than > the equivalent pro

[Ilugc] Language metrics (Was Re: .a-tip-a-day patch etc.)

2009-09-30 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Since naming specific languages seems to activate the sensitive spots, I will restrict myself to "abstract nonsense" here. There are a number of terms that are used when measuring (programming) languages. Sometimes these are called "language metrics": 1. Popularity: The number of people

Re: [Ilugc] Language metrics (Was Re: .a-tip-a-day patch etc.)

2009-09-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/30/2009 10:06 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Hello, > > Since naming specific languages seems to activate the sensitive > spots, I will restrict myself to "abstract nonsense" here. > > There are a number of terms that are used when measuring (programming) > languages. Sometimes these are

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Manvendra Bhangui > wrote: > > Yes. > > > That's quite interesting. Where was this, if you don't mind sharing > The spamassasin example was at Sify. At that point we were hit by spam and virus specifically

Re: [Ilugc] Language metrics (Was Re: .a-tip-a-day patch etc.)

2009-09-30 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Since naming specific languages seems to activate the sensitive > spots, I will restrict myself to "abstract nonsense" here. > Oh, please be specific. Trying to be PC means you don't get much done anyways. The ultra-sensitivity her

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > The spamassasin example was at Sify. At that point we were hit by spam and > virus > specifically targeted at Sify. And the servers were just not able to cope up > with the load. One night of frantic coding and the spamassasin was replac

[Ilugc] Re: How to callculate the memory occupied by a c program when it is executing

2009-09-30 Thread Mohan R
Balachandar wrote: > HI luggies, >I have some optimized c code snippets. I want to know how much memory it > takes before and after optimization.Is there any tool for it?? > Another, http://valgrind.org/ Thanks, Mohan R ___ To unsubscribe, email

Re: [Ilugc] How to callculate the memory occupied by a c program when it is executing

2009-09-30 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Balachandar wrote: >   I have some optimized c code snippets. I want to know how much memory it > takes before and after optimization.Is there any tool for it?? There are many tools to choose from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_debugger Valgrind is a p

Re: [Ilugc] How to callculate the memory occupied by a c program when it is executing

2009-09-30 Thread steve
On 09/30/2009 11:10 AM, Balachandar wrote: HI luggies, I have some optimized c code snippets. I want to know how much memory it takes before and after optimization.Is there any tool for it?? Hmm, in my enthusiasm to participate in a flame, i forgot to reply to this, although i did have a

Re: [Ilugc] doing EEE final year project in PYTHON

2009-09-30 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:54 PM, jemenisuresh wrote: > we are studying final year EEE. > > in my collage we use the MI POWER software for power system analysis tools, > Real time zooming facility Multi layer support for single line diagrams. > > this software cost is around 2.75lakes for few syst

Re: [Ilugc] How to callculate the memory occupied by a c program when it is executing

2009-09-30 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 05:40 +, Balachandar wrote: > HI luggies, >I have some optimized c code snippets. I want to know how much memory it > takes before and after optimization.Is there any tool for it?? insert getrusage() in your code man getrusage(2) -- Manvendra Bhangui http://www.ind

[Ilugc] How to Contribute?

2009-09-30 Thread Shrinivasan T
Friends. Nowadays, we see more students are coming towards to contribute. We need to show them on how to contribute. Programming and releasing their code is a great way. But,I see most students have fear to code and they dont believe that they can do programming. We can make them to code gradua

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 30 Sep 2009 6:52:10 pm Prem Kurian Philip wrote: > A compiler is required to create the machine code just once - while an > interpreter will need to do this every time a script is done - unless you > are using pre-compilation. unless you change the code, python uses precompiled code -

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 30 Sep 2009 3:36:09 pm Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > > for that matter facebook handles more than that a day - so does youtube - > > they > > use python servers. I believe that they are getting bang for their buck. > > As are google, yahoo, livejournal ... none of them use C. As some one

Re: [Ilugc] Language metrics (Was Re: .a-tip-a-day patch etc.)

2009-09-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 30 Sep 2009 10:06:29 pm Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > 1. If we are writing for a specialised developer community, > popularity has little value. > 2. If we are writing small programs, efficiency of the running > code may not bother us at all. Also compiler efficiency is of li

[Ilugc] [commercial] nrc-foss certifications

2009-09-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, nrc-foss @ au-kbc is planning to introduce low cost entry level certifications in languages/tools like perl, php, python, ruby, mysql and postgresql - anyone interested in contributing to formulating/running such certifications, please contact me offlist. This is a commercial offer. -- reg

[Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (fortune - a game for wasting time)

2009-09-30 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
$ fortune You look like a million dollars. All green and wrinkled. $ fortune -im oscar will search for all Oscar Wilde witticisms. $ fortune -s prints only short jokes and so on. It is a game but meant for people who don't like computer games. It can serve as a nice break. If my past employe

[Ilugc] create multiple clients

2009-09-30 Thread Navaneethan
Hi luggies, I am going to create a distributed applications and also i need to show the high performance of my application,in this case i need to have more clients how it is possible to create more no of clients for apache server in same host? also i ll use the high perfor

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > I remember some time in the previous century yahoo! stated they were moving > from 'legacy C programming' to php (with a lot of reasons why they did not > choose perl) (since google had grabbed python, yahoo! could not consider > python wi

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Prem Kurian Philip
From: Rahul Sundaram >> Ultimately, yes, it does come down to the number of instructions which are >> executed by a platform for performing a single function. No one in their >> right mind will argue that a program written in C wouldn't be faster than >> the equivalent program written in any othe

[Ilugc] Invitation to view Kumsy's Picasa Web Album - SFD'09 @ Jaya Engg. College

2009-09-30 Thread Kumsy
Here is the photographs of Software Freedom Day '09 Celebrations at Jaya Engineering College on 10.09.2009. http://picasaweb.google.co.in/lh/sredir?uname=kumaran.ma&target=ALBUM&id=5386395815723965297&authkey=Gv1sRgCNXXgtC9yYKd4wE&invite=CKv08tEB&feat=email <><>_

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: | The flexibility of writing in C is that I can further reduce | the syscalls. It gives me so many ways to manipulate my environment. \-- Agreed. --- | each syscall counts and I cannot | explain the relief and the pride one feels

Re: [Ilugc] Language metrics (Was Re: .a-tip-a-day patch etc.)

2009-09-30 Thread Venkatraman S
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > actually in today's 'web2.0' world, the only mantra is turnaround time - > how > fast you get into production. Resources (with the exception of developer > time) > are cheap and plentiful, so most of the criteria applicable in the previous

[Ilugc] Mailing list guidelines: monthly reminder

2009-09-30 Thread Shrinivasan T
Mailing List Guidelines: Monthly reminder: 1. Use a proper subject line. 2. Do not troll in the mailing list Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll 3. Use [OT] for off-topic, non-technical discussions. But, don't misuse this to start flame wars or to troll in the mailing list. 4. Do

Re: [Ilugc] Invitation to view Kumsy's Picasa Web Album - SFD'09 @ Jaya Engg. College

2009-09-30 Thread Shrinivasan T
Great job. Thanks for sharing the snaps. We all missed the event. :-( It will be nice if JFC conduct the events in normal days so that many people can participate. So happy to see that JFC is rocking. Wishes for the JFC Team. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My experiences with Linux are here ht