[ilugd] Re: Shift key now subject of $10M lawsuit

Raj Mathur wrote: [Cross-posted] Don't know whether to laugh or cry when reading this! SunComm, who make a copy protection mechanism for audio CDs, is suing a student who has revealed how to bypass the copy protection mechanism: by the complex process of holding down the Shift key when

[ilugd] Re: Shift key now subject of $10M lawsuit

If anything those guys should be thanking the kid for exposing such a huge security hole. Kinda stupid of those people to let something like this to remain in their copy protection system. Anuj ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] Shift key now subject of $10M lawsuit

Don't know whether to laugh or cry when reading this! SunComm, who make a copy protection mechanism for audio CDs, is suing a student who has revealed how to bypass the copy protection mechanism: by the complex process of holding down the Shift key when inserting the CD into the drive! The

[ilugd] TUG2002 presentations {Typography, fonts, TeX etc]

Hi friends, you must go to this page: http://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents23-1.html - these are the presentations and papers at TUG2002 conference and will give a pretty good idea of TeX and its future. it also includes my article. Amitabh

Re: [ilugd] Re: Shift key now subject of $10M lawsuit

If anything those guys should be thanking the kid for exposing such a huge security hole. Kinda stupid of those people to let something like this to remain in their copy protection system. IMHO the users who use such a stupid copy protection system deserve what they get. They clearly bought

[ilugd] yahoo groups

Hi, I wanted to check out, bang linux discussion group/mailing list on yahoogroups and found out to my utter surprise, that I am not able to view it. After some googling, i saw posts on india-gii about the issue. I want to know from dear group memebers, if i could ask my ISP (mtnl in this case)

Re: [ilugd] Re: Shift key now subject of $10M lawsuit

IMHO the users who use such a stupid copy protection system deserve what they get. They clearly bought into marketing hype and definitely didn't verify properly if the claims are valid. It also looks like that this system won't work with newer versions of windows or on windows machines where the

Re: [ilugd] yahoo groups

I wanted to check out, bang linux discussion group/mailing list on yahoogroups and found out to my utter surprise, that I am not able to view it. After some googling, i saw posts on india-gii about the issue. I want to know from dear group memebers, if i could ask my ISP (mtnl in this case)

Re: [ilugd] Re: Shift key now subject of $10M lawsuit

Ambar == Ambar Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If anything those guys should be thanking the kid for exposing such a huge security hole. Kinda stupid of those people to let something like this to remain in their copy protection system. Ambar IMHO the users who use

Re: [ilugd] yahoo groups

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 14:31, Ambar Roy wrote: I don't think that any ISP will unblock yahoo groups for you. What you can do, and what most people seem to be doing is to find a open proxy server and use that for your web surfing. I guess that is called theft of bandwidth. -Tarun Dua

[ilugd] tool to create htpasswd users

is there any tool that can create users with htpasswd, and modify the httpd.conf file? Or will I have to go for web hosting control panels? Mani ``Try to understand everything, but believe nothing!'' ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ilugd] Nice study of speed comparisons between Python, perl, java, C++

http://www.flat222.org/mac/bench/ -- Sandip Bhattacharyahttp://www.sandipb.net sandip at puroga.com Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd. http://www.puroga.com ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] yahoo groups

I don't think that any ISP will unblock yahoo groups for you. What you can do, and what most people seem to be doing is to find a open proxy server and use that for your web surfing. I guess that is called theft of bandwidth. There are tons of free anonymous web based proxy servers. Search

Re: [ilugd] Re: Shift key now subject of $10M lawsuit

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 14:50, Raj Mathur wrote: OTOH, the sheer stupidity of the copy-protection mechanism developed by SunComm is still moot :) Good news. I just read in the dailyprincetonian that they are not suing John Halderman. The reason the CEO gives is that he does not want to stop

[ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

We have a customer application on oracle. They want to crate a small footprint version of it to be sold at a cheaper price. I want to suggest that Postgres could be the right choice of database for that as it is close to oracle in its sql syntax and hence porting should be simpler. Can anybody

[ilugd] Linux CD-Roms

HI, Does anyone have some newish distro (with Xfree 4.3 and beyond). Any distro will do ... RedHat, Mandrake and the likes. Would prefer if someone has updated CDs of the Debian unstable tree (First three-four should be enough) Or Slack (9.x ?) Regards Sukrit PS: Am in Mayur Vihar (else there

[ilugd] MS.NET CDS INSTALLABLE ON SOLARIS REQUIRED

HI, I WANT CDS OF MS.NET WHICH R INSTALLABLE ON SOLARIS AS THE CDS WHICH I HAVE R INSTALLABLE ON THE WIN 200 SERVER OR THE MICROSOFT OS . IF ANYONE HAVING THESE CDS PLS CONTACT ME at :[EMAIL PROTECTED] BYE MANAV Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online.Post your profile.

[ilugd] MS.NET cds installable on solaris required

HI I want the MS.NET cds installable on solaris as the cds i have r installable only on the microsofts os .If any one has these cds pls contact me at:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bye Manav Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online.Post your profile.

[ilugd] MS.NET cds installable on solaris required

HI I want the MS.NET cds installable on solaris as the cds i have r installable only on the microsofts os .If any one has these cds pls contact me at:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bye Manav Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online.Post your profile.

[ilugd] MS.NET CDS INSTALLABLE ON SOLARIS REQUIRED

HI I have the cds of ms.net that r instalable on windows paltform but i wnat to use .net on solaris so if any one has the cds of MS.NET installable on solaris pls contact me:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] bye manav Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online.Post your profile.

RE: [ilugd] MS.NET cds installable on solaris required

I can tell you the way to install the same C.D.S. on the machine that currently has solaris. How much will you pay? :D [party at next ILUGD meeting !!] (don't tell me that you bought such an expensive and industrial class operating system as Solaris; and you have no money to spare). Tarun P.S.

Re: [ilugd] MS.NET cds installable on solaris required

this is really the worst idea of making money i have ever seen - Original Message - From: Tarun Upadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'The Linux-Delhi mailing list' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 1:50 AM Subject: RE: [ilugd] MS.NET cds installable on solaris required I can

RE: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

Hi Tarun, I think you are trying to compare a Apple with a Water Melon. But any case if you are really facing a real time scenario, please make it clear. what exactly the application you are running and how many concurrent user you are expecting to be there as concurrency is a

[ilugd] MySQL and nested queries

hi, does the latest release support nested queries ? any links to definite answers on this one ? thanks in advance sankarshan --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.524 / Virus Database: 321 - Release Date: 10/06/2003

Re: [ilugd] MS.NET CDS INSTALLABLE ON SOLARIS REQUIRED

This is second time I have seen this same mail. Please read your mail again and again until you understand it. Writing bull* in CAPS may irritate people. thanks --Naresh --- Manav Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI I have the cds of ms.net that r instalable on windows paltform but i

Re: [ilugd] MySQL and nested queries

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Re: [ilugd] yahoo groups

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 20:14, Ambar Roy wrote: I don't think that any ISP will unblock yahoo groups for you. What you can do, and what most people seem to be doing is to find a open proxy server and use that for your web surfing. I guess that is called theft of bandwidth. There are

RE: [ilugd] Postgres vs oracle

Gupreet, It is a real application. It's an OLTP appliaction for banking and credit card industry. From a concurrency point of view, I expect about 200 connections to the database in the worst case and a fifth of that on the average. however, if postgres cannot handle that kind of

Re: [ilugd] Nice study of speed comparisons between Python, perl, java, C++

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 19:14, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: http://www.flat222.org/mac/bench/ My turn to say Didn't I tell you its 'Java' ;-) -Tarun Dua ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] MS.NET CDS INSTALLABLE ON SOLARIS REQUIRED

Manav == Manav Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Manav HI, I WANT CDS OF MS.NET WHICH R INSTALLABLE ON SOLARIS AS Manav THE CDS WHICH I HAVE R INSTALLABLE ON THE WIN 200 SERVER OR Manav THE MICROSOFT OS . IF ANYONE HAVING THESE CDS PLS CONTACT Manav ME at :[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ilugd] Introspection: purpose of list (Was MS.NET CDS INSTALLABLE ON SOLARIS REQUIRED)

On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 09:50, Raj Mathur wrote: Dear Admins, Can we blacklist this idiot from ILUGD? This is the second such message he's sent in 3 days. Thanks, I wish we hear that more often. There has been a spate of unsubscribe messages to the list and I believe not all of them were