Re: [Ilugc] How to run a shell script in windows

2009-12-04 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 04 Dec 2009, Balachandar wrote: I know that the shell script can automate many works in linux environment.If i want the same in windows how can i do? Is there anyway to run shell scripts in windows environment ? There is are ports of the bash/zsh/pdksh shells to the

Re: [Ilugc] Memory Test In Ubuntu 9.10

2009-12-02 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 02 Dec 2009, Hrishikesh Murali wrote: Now, when I press Esc after the computer hangs, the computer reboots. Why I am saying this is because Esc is used for rebooting the system when the memory test is going on. So, is it that the memory test is running, but I am not able to see

Re: [Ilugc] Memory Test In Ubuntu 9.10

2009-12-02 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 02 Dec 2009, Hrishikesh Murali wrote: On 12/2/09, Kapil Hari Paranjape ka...@imsc.res.in wrote: Disable graphics mode while running memtest. I switched to console mode and then tried running memtest86+. It's working :) I guess its a bug in the graphical mode of grub2. Thank

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (dd - split a file into multiple pieces with bad internet uploads)

2009-11-30 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Long ago I sent a patch to add resume feature to scp(1) One alternative to these suggestions is to use 'rsync' with the '--partial' flag. Who knows, if two blocks of your file are the same then you may even save on bandwidth compared with

Re: [Ilugc] cp command

2009-11-26 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Sagayaraj wrote: How to copy the specific files only in cp command in RHEL 5 or all linux flavor? Ex i've 1000 files in a folder, i want to copy only 715 files olny in that folder to paste other place. what command using for that..waiting for your prompt reply.

Re: [Ilugc] How to generate a GPG fingerprint for my name ?

2009-11-25 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Balachandar wrote: I noticed that many peoples are listed their GPG Fingerprint for their name in mails.I want to know how to create one for my name.I googled about it.But couldnt find information about this.Thank you. The GPG fingerprint is not for the name

Re: [Ilugc] IBM and the indian debacle

2009-11-24 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, anirudh singh shekhawat wrote: IBM should not support open source if they cant simply stick to it ^^ in a simple student's competition. Really? You want IBM to _stop_ supporting open source just because some suit somewhere in this

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (script - record input and output from

2009-11-24 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Suresh Kumar wrote: How about logging the ssh operations. will script command works? I mean, 1) Login to another linux box using ssh 2) doing some operations (ran some commands) How do i log this using linux command (script) Did you try the obvious method? $

Re: [Ilugc] command completion

2009-11-20 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, steve wrote: (*) for the curious and the cautious -- bash-completion complements the regular tab completion feature of bash by 'intelligently' completing arguments, for eg: only directories would show up after a 'cdtabtab' and only pdf files listed with a

Re: [Ilugc] command completion

2009-11-19 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Vamsee Kanakala wrote: If you're using bash, hit ctrl+r and start typing the first few chars, hit enter once to copy the command, again to execute. Also look at what 'Esc+Tab' does for you. Sometimes that is what is wanted --- to re-use an earlier command with

Re: [Ilugc] gmail backup on debian

2009-11-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Raja Subramanian wrote: I want to back up my gmail account mails to my local debian box. Preferably something that can also save gmail labels. I can setup squirrel mail to read-only access the locally available email. I use offlineimap for accessing my gmail

Re: [Ilugc] Brazen OpenBSD advocacy

2009-11-17 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Interestingly one has Rajni and the other Gauthami. ;) You realise, of course, that you may be under risk from copyright lawyers who might ask how you obtained these copyrighted images! Kapil. --

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (cygwin - POSIX environment on Windows)

2009-11-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Senthil Anand wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 08:43 +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: You can install Cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com Whenever I am forced to use Windows I do this. Another option would be Interix which now called Subsystem for Unix-based

Re: [Ilugc] archiving/sharing mail for future reference

2009-11-15 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Satheesh Kumar wrote: We need to archive certain individual mails so that it shall be available for future reference for any within the organization. i.e the user should be able to send the mail (along with the attachments), this mail has to be published as web

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (cksum utility in OpenBSD)

2009-11-15 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: In fact the RSA algorithm is based on this message digest algorithm but I don't think many people recognize this fact. Which RSA algorithm? RSA encryption does not require a message digest algorithm. The RSA signature algorithm usually

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (cksum utility in OpenBSD)

2009-11-15 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Mano wrote: On matters mathematics I would trust Dr. Kapil more than anyone else on this list! Never (at least almost never) _trust_ someone else's mathematics. The whole point of mathematics is that if it is correct you should be able to verify things for

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (cksum utility in OpenBSD)

2009-11-15 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Basically RSA relies on the NP complete problem of prime number factorization and Diffie Hellman relies on discrete log problem. First of all, I should clarify that my aim is not to try to prove anyone wrong. However, when a statement is

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (cksum utility in OpenBSD)

2009-11-15 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Sorry for the duplicates. The connection here is very poor and though the mail was sent, I received an error message so I sent it again! Kapil. -- ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the

Re: [Ilugc] Linux for older people

2009-11-13 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, This is probably getting OT. However, ... On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: nothing to beat MSI WIND netbook which comes with opensuse - everything works out of the box, and a huge number of applications are there. costs 17K. The Acer is _lighter_ which may may a

Re: [Ilugc] qt in debian sid

2009-11-07 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 08 Nov 2009, Abishek Goda wrote: I am using debian sid and I tried upgrading qt for a python-qt based app. since the upgrade qt has been segfaulting. one mistake i did is not noting what versions of qt were there before the upgrade. Have you checked with

Re: [Ilugc] How to generate /dev/ttyACM port

2009-11-03 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 04 Nov 2009, Sudhir Gandotra wrote: In my system, I do not have /dev/ttyACM (0 to 4) ports. Tata broadband photon usb needs this port. How do I create/generate this port ? If you run udev and your system autoloads the module cdc-acm then this device node will be automatically

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (nail/mutt/mail - send mail from UNIX command line)

2009-11-03 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 04 Nov 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Gilles Chehade is developing a SMTPD implementation but it will take around 6 more months I think. For now please stick to Postfix or Sendmail. Both are bad. Postfix does not have a good license and sendmail is too complex. Exim of

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (nail/mutt/mail - send mail from UNIX command line)

2009-11-03 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I almost decided not to respond to this but later thought that someone might confuse restraint with acquiescence! On Wed, 04 Nov 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: For now please stick to Postfix or Sendmail. Both are bad. Postfix does not have a good license and sendmail is too

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (ssh port forwarding)

2009-10-29 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: LOCAL port forwarding: $ ssh -L 1234:127.0.0.1:4321 61.1.1.2 ^^^ local portion will forward the local port 1234 to 6.1.1.2 4321. This is almost true. The correct statement is that this

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (gcc -Wall -g options)

2009-10-26 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: In RPM based distributions, the build system generally creates a separate debug/debuginfo package that you can install to get the debug symbols rather than recompile anything. ... and later ... Debian and derivates don't do this yet but

Re: Subject: Re: Subject: Re: [Ilugc] [TAMTRANS]

2009-10-24 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: However, the reality is that those who are going to be using a computer will at some point or the other have to invent new words ^^ for disk, internet and so on because there are no

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (wcalc - the great grandfather of all console calculaters[math tool])

2009-10-24 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: wcalc is a command-line calculator designed to accept all valid mathematical expressions. It supports all standard mathematical operations, parenthesis, brackets, trigonometric functions, hyperbolic trig functions, logs, and bool‐ ean

Re: [Ilugc] .a-language-tip-a-week. test run [ LANGUAGETIP - basic overview ]

2009-10-23 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Making an assertion of intent like this: On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Obviously I don't want to get into an argument. ... is incompatible with *strong* assertions like this: All scripting languages...by that I mean *all* scripting languages allow dynamic typing

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (lua programming - Python like scripting language [ Part II ])

2009-10-22 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Ashok Gautham wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape ka...@imsc.res.in wrote: Or you could always use socat. A simple echo over UDP could be implemented as follows:  $ socat - UDP:loopback:2000,bind=:2000 This was just a simple

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (lua programming - Python like scripting language [ Part II ])

2009-10-21 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Before that in case any of you wondered this is how you would run it. $ lua echosrvr.lua In another terminal $ lua echoclnt.lua hi will get printed on both sides as the text will be echoed back thro' the UDP socket. Or you

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Anthoni Shogan wrote: If a person cannot top post to a Free and Open Source list, I really don't understand what is the kind of freedom we talk about all the

ML Noise and Community (Was Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali)

2009-10-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, A long response to Anthoni Shogun's query about why we don't just ignore bad postings in this list. FOSS is largely a _community_ activity. If people behave badly with the community then even great ideas, coding or philosophy cannot excuse them. If you don't believe me then see the

[Ilugc] Handling mailing lists - part 1

2009-10-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Since handling mailing lists was referred to in my earlier mail here is part 1 of a tutorial on handling mailing list traffic. I hope other parts will be written by others. 1. If you subscribe to many mailing lists then learning to filter your incoming mail is a must. If you use a shell

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-17 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Varrun Ramani wrote: Wish you all a very happy deepavali(not :) diwali )! I just was enlightened by my professor with some info i had no idea about. I think every Indian ought to know this! *Significance of Diwali* I see ... and this is relevant to ILUG Chennai

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (uniq - find non repeated lines in input)

2009-10-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Roshan Mathews wrote: IIRC, another idiom was, ... | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | ... Actually ' sort | uniq ' is so common that there is ' sort -u ' Kapil. -- ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with

Re: [Ilugc] Downloading frame based sites with wget

2009-10-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Varrun Ramani wrote: Does anyone know a hack/workaround/FOSS that would solve my problem? Contact the web site maintainers and ask them for a copy? This is a public institution after all! Regards, Kapil. -- ___ To

Re: [Ilugc] Help With OpenVPN

2009-10-12 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Hrishikesh Murali wrote: I have the VPN server running successfully on 192.168.1.1 and the clients are connected to it (192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3). If all the computers are on a common ethernet segment why are you running a VPN between these machines in addition

Re: [Ilugc] Help With OpenVPN

2009-10-12 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Raja Subramanian wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Hrishikesh Murali fnk...@gmail.com wrote: In VPN parlance, what you are asking for is a full mesh VPN topology where any VPN site/network can communicate to any other site/network in the mesh directly. Most

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu Repository

2009-10-03 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 03 Oct 2009, Kannan wrote: Like in Fedora, i want to copy all the dvd packages to my directory want to use that repository using apt-get tool. I use 'approx' (with Debian but it also works with Ubuntu). This creates an entry in '/etc/inetd.conf' for a server running at .

Re: [Ilugc] An article bashing C

2009-10-02 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 03 Oct 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/C_is_for_Crap.html Even though the title is horrible, the article is worth reading for the detailed information the author provides on what he considers are the weaknesses of C. Even though I/O has been

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

2009-10-01 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 01 Oct 2009, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: From: Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org Never say never. There has been quite a few demonstrations otherwise available on the web. Feel free to look them up. Again, it comes down to the algorithm used. If the algorithm used in

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

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

[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] .a-tip-a-day (diff - differences between text files line by line)

2009-09-28 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: $ diff file.txt file-modified.txt Generally, one should prefer the command $ diff -u file.txt file-modified.txt The reason is that this maintains the _context_ information of the differences as a result: - the diff is more human

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: Proprietary Tender by NIC for SC

2009-09-25 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Roshan Mathews wrote: Hence, if they want Macs, then that's what they get. If that choice means that others are forced to buy Macs too, then you complain, else it's just none of your business. Imagine the furor if they put out a tender saying that they only want

Regarding mail and chat clients (Was Re: [Ilugc] SFD Photos NEW!!] )

2009-09-24 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, pavithran wrote: You guys wont believe I also prefer using my own id p...@pavithran.org Its just a matter of mail client which is stopping me from using it . Perhaps you meant this posting as a joke but then I didn't get it! :-| I prefer a web based mail client

Re: [Ilugc] Facinating songs about Linux?

2009-09-23 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Senthil Anand wrote: I want audio and video songs that tells about the pride of linux,FOSS or opensource. Since Unix was not about audio or video but about text (!), here is a nursery rhyme from the time when Unix was a small child:

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS equivalent tool for the Teamviewer

2009-09-23 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Ravi Jaya wrote: *The Problem Statement. * The primary objective is the desktop sharing, I need to share/access the LInux Desktop from the Windows as well as from the Linux box. The source and destination systems are wired across the Internet. Any pointer or

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (figlet - create ASCII art text)

2009-09-23 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: How do you draw a cat? Take a pencil and draw on a paper. How do you draw a chair? You pull it and sit down. :-) Nice! Similarly you draw ASCII art with figlet. But only ASCII characters, not arbitrary lines and drawings. $

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (bc - interactive calculator)

2009-09-22 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: $ bc Also note: $ bc -l which is required if you want to use things like sine, cosine, etc. Regards, Kapil. -- ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (bc - interactive calculator)

2009-09-22 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape ka...@imsc.res.in wrote: Hello,  $ bc -l which is required if you want to use things like sine, cosine, etc. This is driving me mad Kapil. Sorry! ;- I agree that the math

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. xargs command

2009-09-21 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Roshan Mathews wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape I got the same results which leads me to suspect that the original tip is faulty. The tip may not be faulty. Perhaps you should try it and then make a pronouncement! You could do

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. xargs command

2009-09-21 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Roshan Mathews wrote: This is interesting. Indeed. $ find -name *.h | xargs nano Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM doesn't screw up anything, doesn't start $ find -name *.h | xargs emacs -nw emacs: standard input is not a tty doesn't screw up anything, doesn't start

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. xargs command

2009-09-20 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Venkatraman S wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: is a simple way to edit all files under /etc recursively including directories. This is better. $ find /etc -type f | xargs vi Also, when i

Re: [Ilugc] Freedom Bucket : A Bucket for Open Standards

2009-09-19 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, narendra sisodiya wrote: Freedom Bucket : is a idea coined by me to make a special directory in Linux based system which will contain on Open Format files like png for images, ogv , ogg for video and audio. The idea is nice. Here are some remarks: 1.

Hacker Ethics (Was Re: [Ilugc] I will take care)

2009-09-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: In fact if you ignore the rebirth theory, then there is really no motivation for people to be ethical and moral...but I digress as usual. ;) I think that many hackers go by the ethics of Enlightened Self-Interest.

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (DOS2UNIX) ((tag: odoc, linux))

2009-09-17 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: In the shell do this. $ jot 50 1 50 An alternative for bash users is echo {1..20} This can be taken further with things like echo file{1..20..2} And so on. Look at the section on Brace Expansion in the bash man page for more

Re: [Ilugc] query about virus attack on UNIX / LINUX environment

2009-09-17 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Cryptography requires randomness in everything. Crypto alone cannot solve security problems. I will take a different fork here from what Girish said and add that programs alone cannot ensure security for a computer system. A good system

Re: [Ilugc] total failure to find a netbook with linux

2009-09-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Mehul Ved wrote: Would it really be the case? From what I am aware, most manufacturers will load the Windows machines with trial software from *reputed* vendors, which lowers the cost of the machine setting back some of the higher cost. So, now the machine isn't

Re: [Ilugc] total failure to find a netbook with linux

2009-09-15 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, varadarajan narayanan wrote: May be you may find this interesting ! http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2009/06/netbook-for-developing-countries.html Someone else also had a similar idea. Check this out http://www.norhtec.com/products/gecko/index.html In so many

Re: [Ilugc] wanna being with lxde

2009-09-13 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 09/13/2009 07:11 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: On ubuntu this is not easy to do. Many standard system services are tied to gnome. So the basic ubuntu-desktop pseudo-package depends on a number of gnome/gtk packages. So, what's

Re: [Ilugc] total failure to find a netbook with linux

2009-09-12 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, Vamsee Kanakala wrote: In consolation, you might at least have a good light-weight os to install: http://bit.ly/rZX2q. easy peasy looks cool, and I love their homepage :) This looks very much like a re-theming of Ubuntu Netbook Remix. It is not very clear from

Re: [Ilugc] How to find the OS installed date?

2009-09-12 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Rajesh Pandian M wrote: p.s:there would be a cleaner way than this definitely :-) If you used the Debian installer while installing the system (which is the usual way of installing a fresh system) then you would have log files in /var/log/installer/ that provide

Re: [Ilugc] Restrict users commands

2009-09-09 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 09 Sep 2009, Govi wrote: I want to restrict users normal command.i mean specified users must use only below command, 1. Make rbash the user's shell using change shell. 2. Set the PATH to something like /usr/local/rbash/bin echo PATH=/usr/local/rbash/bin

Re: [Ilugc] Obama and Linux

2009-09-08 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 08 Sep 2009, Aanjhan R wrote: Tyrants - Google gives me the following synonym (a cruel and oppressive dictator ) While I do not approve of tit-for-tat, consider how the proprietary software industry throws around the word pirate! Imagine he speaking on them creating the next

Re: [Ilugc] Issue Installing Fedora 11

2009-09-04 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 04 Sep 2009, Amit Dey wrote: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) atkbd.c Unknown key pressed ( translated set 2, code 0x29 on isa 0060/serio0) atkbd.c Use 'setkekycodes e059

Re: [Ilugc] Key Bindings

2009-09-03 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 03 Sep 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjapeka...@imsc.res.in wrote: Overall, I have found that messing around with loadkeys is only useful if you _only_ use the Linux console. Even in that case it is better to define key

Re: [Ilugc] Key Bindings

2009-09-02 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 03 Sep 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Set it to string F1 = \033[[ls -l\n This looks wrong. I think it should be string F1 = ls -l\n The additional Esc+[+[ seems to be unneccesary. Obviously this done not work in xterms. I never got that to work. The above key sequence

Re: [Ilugc] netbook recommendations

2009-09-01 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 01 Sep 2009, Immanuel wrote: My experience: Overall I find HCL system a good buy with linux for me. Could you please mention the precise model and specs? If you can specify in which Tata Chroma you got it (which city), that would be nice too! It sounds like a very nice netbook

Re: [Ilugc] face as password

2009-08-31 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: If your entire ID mechanism relies on this compromised biometric code, then the person will have to be locked out of the system - because the person cannot change their finger / iris print once they become public knowledge. Bruce Schneier

Re: [Ilugc] netbook recommendations

2009-08-31 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: I want to buy a netbook - cheapest possible. Any recommendations for a linux compatible one, and where is the best place in Chennai to buy from? Almost any netbook that is available in Chennai today: 1. can run with Ubuntu Netbook Remix

Re: [Ilugc] netbook recommendations

2009-08-31 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: what about this: http://www.techgadgets.in/laptop/2008/04/acer-aspire-one-laptop-offers-mobile- internet-solution-in-india/ The date of the entry is the problem. This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 at 7:12 am and is

Re: [Ilugc] netbook recommendations

2009-08-31 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, varadarajan narayanan wrote: And distro makers can not support all the available netbook /laptop models. So the end user is left to tinker with the linux netbooks/laptops on their own and depend on forums or their local linux guru ! This is not totally true at

Re: [Ilugc] learning C++

2009-08-28 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: my daughter is doing state board 12th - she has C++. I thought you would have taught her some Python by now! So she would only need to translate from Python to C++ and then check for syntax errors. Are you sure that they are teaching

Re: [Ilugc] Webcam

2009-08-27 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Rajesh kumar wrote: Please Tell me some of the tools to take photo from laptop webcam The following are for USB Webcams. uvccapture luvcview guvcview Kapil. -- ___ To unsubscribe, email

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Backup Software

2009-08-12 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: You can find a lot more backup URLs in my delicious page. http://delicious.com/girish1729/backup You seem to have missed duplicity which has some nice aspects: 1. It uses cached metadata to decide what to backup. 2. It saves things as

Re: [Ilugc] How to generate SSLv3 certificate using OpenSSL

2009-08-11 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Rosario Arun wrote: $openssl ca -policy policy_anything -config ./openssl.cnf -cert certs/ca.cer -in ./requests/certreq1.txt -keyfile ./keys/ca.key -days 360 -out ./certs/iis1.cer After creating the certificate, i found its not SSLv3. How do i force the above

Re: [Ilugc] a new website

2009-08-11 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: http://ilugc.org.in Could you please enable login using OpenID? On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Bharathi Subramanian wrote: Check the ILUGC.in site demo also: See http://demo.ilugc.in/ This site seems to have a little more information than the

Re: [Ilugc] 40th anniversary of Unix approaches...

2009-08-09 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 09 Aug 2009, Sivasankar Chander wrote: There's an article in today's Hindu on the 40th anniversary of Unix. It has some inaccuracies, but is still a nice read overall: http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/09/stories/2009080952761000.htm Shameless plug: it contains some

[Ilugc] Projects in FOSS --- a world wide problem?!

2009-08-09 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Since a recent long thread here was on how difficult it is to get departments to approve FOSS projects here is are some links: http://www.piglets.org/serendipity/archives/75-Cooperation-with-higher-education-in-open-source-projects.html

Re: [Ilugc] 40th anniversary of Unix approaches...

2009-08-09 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Mohan Sundaram wrote: I'd written a mail on this earlier in a thread where NASSCOM rejecting FOSS standards was discussed. I see the reasons as being less sociological than pragmatic. My views are as under: The reasons you have given are reasonable for: (a)

Re: [Ilugc] how to log in to a remote server with ssh2

2009-08-07 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 07 Aug 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: I have libssh2 installed, but how do I log in to a remote server using it? I tried typing ssh2 on the terminal and it did not recognise the command. It sounds silly, but google did not give me an answer. libssh2 is a library for using the

Re: [Ilugc] Scheduled/Timed Suspend and Resume

2009-08-05 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 05 Aug 2009, Roshan George wrote: The reason I'm asking is that I have a Pentium D computer which acts as a file-server/DVR. Now, as everyone (except me when I bought the motherboard that only supports these) knows, these are power-hungry monsters so I intend to keep it in

[Ilugc] Mirror at iit kanpur

2009-08-04 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, The following information may be of interest. http://mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in/ Official mirror of: Arch Fedora Ubuntu. The debian mirror is functioning but is not officially listed. This info was received from Piyush Kurur of IIT Kanpur. Regards, Kapil. --

Re: [Ilugc] how to connect two internet connections into one system?

2009-07-29 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, kesavan (K7) wrote: here using two internet connections by using two seperate systems but i need that two net connections are connected into same one system after that connections are sharing into client systems You mean you want to use two connections

Re: [Ilugc] Gyaan on Partitions

2009-07-24 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Venkatraman S wrote: What i am looking for: - How partitions work (the technical angle and insights) - Understanding Partitions (user's perspective) - Effective partitioning techniques or methodologies On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: -How to shrink

Re: [Ilugc] MS contributing to Linux

2009-07-21 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, தங்கமணி அருண் wrote: Read : http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/20/167 This is indeed good news. At least GPLv2 is not a virus according to _some_ people in MicroSoft. Now, if only they submit some of their patents to OIN (open invention network) so that: 1. Mono/.Net and

Re: [Ilugc] Fingerprints

2009-07-17 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Ashish Verma wrote: So this means, if I want to send a document to you, I should use the below. Is the below a public key or a signature. Since it shouts out -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- it is a signature! :-) I have used openssl and the keys it generates

Re: [Ilugc] help with device mapper

2009-07-17 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, rajasekhar kuppa wrote: http://linuxgazette.net/114/kapil.html Kapil, i notice that this is a little old... are you still working with this?? do you have an upgrade of this article? Not really. The article is really about simple playing around with combining

Re: [Ilugc] Fingerprints

2009-07-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Ashish Verma wrote: I see that some of you list a key at end of all your mails. I want to know the use of those keys. Install the gnupg package and read the howto that comes with it. In short gnupg is a program to manage signing and encryption. All the actions

Re: [Ilugc] Fingerprints

2009-07-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Friday 17 Jul 2009 9:49:23 am Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: 1. You can sign documents, programs, e-mails etc. that you send out using your signing key. People who have access to your public key can verify such signatures. 2

Re: [Ilugc] web conferencing in GNU/linux?

2009-07-14 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, K.C. Ramakrishna wrote: 1. Is there a good web conferencing tool for conferencing between Linux and Windows? Our clients use gotomeeting or gomeetnow. Both of these force us to use Windows (XP) on our laptops. AFAIK, ekiga is compatible with Netmeeting. There are a

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-10 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, balachandar muruganantham wrote: Just tell us what you want? how do you want the site to be? in what way, you will get benefited from the site? Please ensure that mail generated from the site/domain is proper if you generate mail at all. It is better not to have

Re: [ilugc] chennailug.org went down or hacked?

2009-07-09 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 09 Jul 2009, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:10:40PM -0700, sky knight wrote: FYI Admin, When I tried to open http://chennailug.org im getting some Business Computer Software thing. True. But http://ilugc.in probably has what you want. There is a

[Ilugc] Unicode text rendering

2009-07-09 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Since this topic was extensively discussed in the past, perhaps people will find the following document interesting: http://behdad.org/text/ It looks like a lot of work is still required on correctly rendering Indic text. Anyone up to the challenge? Regards, Kapil. --

Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC Meet - Jul 11th 4PM

2009-07-08 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 08 Jul 2009, Bharathi Subramanian wrote: ILUGC Monthly Meet (Jul 11th):- == Time : Sat Jul 11th 16:00 IST 2009 (**4PM**) Venue: ADI-TeNeT Seminar Hall, Room No: CSD 320, Electrical Science Block (ESB), IIT-Madras. If there

Re: [Ilugc] ssh firefox

2009-07-05 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 05 Jul 2009, pavithran wrote: This is what I would like to do . I want to run firefox from a remote server . This is not an accurate description of your problem! What you really want is to access the internet via a remote computer (presumably because your local internet access is

Re: [Ilugc] problem playing mp3 (or any sound file) in FC11

2009-07-05 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 05 Jul 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Sunday 05 July 2009 11:00:44 Ashok Gautham wrote: On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Kenneth Gonsalveslaw...@thenilgiris.com wrote: amarok looks at ogg and says 'unknown' Can you verify if your ogg files are ok? Did you do this?

Re: [Ilugc] Cloud Computing

2009-07-02 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Wed, 01 Jul 2009, madireddy samuel vijaykumar wrote: Cloud computing is an emarging technology and everyone seems to have jumped onto this bandwagon. Is there some way the group could meet and discuss on this emerging technology and emerging standard in this field. There are two

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