[ilugd] Please defend Linux!

2004-01-18 Thread Ashutosh Rangnekar
Calling all LUGD members! Guys, please log on to www.blogs.chip-india.com This is a blog page started by the CHIP magazine. Under Top Articles you'll see a weblog titled Linux needs to get real, where the author who started the thread has brought out the negative points of Linux. I'm calling all

Re: [ilugd] Club bandwidth

2004-01-18 Thread Alok Sinha
Let me know what u need to get done, and we will get it fixed for you. alok sinha Gurpreet Singh Kochhar wrote: thanks can you or someone help in making a Linux machine for me (I will provide the hardware and reasonable expenses) thanks Gurpreet -Original Message- From: Sandeep Agarwal

Re: [ilugd] Club bandwidth

2004-01-18 Thread amit soni
This is like... Person 1 : I want to fly in a plane ASAP. Linux Techie : Here, take this manual. It teaches you how to make a plane. Read this one. http://lartc.org/lartc.html Hi I have 3 ISP connections - always on I want help in making a Linux box which can take inputs from 3

Re: [ilugd] Club bandwidth

2004-01-18 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
amit soni wrote: This is like... Person 1 : I want to fly in a plane ASAP. Linux Techie : Here, take this manual. It teaches you how to make a plane. Nope. It is like: Linux Techie : Here, take this manual. It teaches you how to make a plane. If you cant understand any part of the

Re: [ilugd] what career opportunity for me

2004-01-18 Thread Ambar Roy
i have done 'A' level from 'DOEACC' in july 2003. i am interested in linux application development, and from last one year i am working on linux.i can have good knowledge of 'C' and 'C++' and from last six months i am working on 'school anagement project' ('A' level project) which is on

[ilugd] ILUG-D: Help!

2004-01-18 Thread riteshgaur_net
Message from Ritesh Gaur: ##QUESTION## Hello! , I have a question (may be stupid) Without wasting yr precious time here is the problem 1. I install Linux kernel from [http://kernel.org] ver 2.6.1 2. I unpack it and don’t know, what are those amazing this I can do with it? 3. I am

Re: [ilugd] ILUG-D: Help!

2004-01-18 Thread Arindam Dey
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 01:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message from Ritesh Gaur: 4.How can I develop my own small customized operating system for academic use, using Linux kernel. 5.I want to understand lowest level of complex things of Linux OS by doing things with my hand.

Re: [ilugd] ILUG-D: Help!

2004-01-18 Thread vivek khurana
HI! --- Arindam Dey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 01:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message from Ritesh Gaur: 5. I want to understand lowest level of complex things of Linux OS by doing things with my hand. dont doit with your hand, you will not learn any thing. Get

Re: [ilugd] Mentor Required

2004-01-18 Thread Vikas Upadhyay
hi, vmware is not a freeware, may download 30 day evaluation version from their site. checked their website and got this information: $299 electronic distribution $329 packaged distribution damn costly for learning purpose is there any freeware or cheaper software available for the same

Re: [ilugd] Mentor Required

2004-01-18 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vikas == Vikas Upadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vikas hi, vmware is not a freeware, may download 30 day Vikas evaluation version from their site. checked their website Vikas and got this information: $299 electronic distribution $329

[ilugd] View the surface of Mars

2004-01-18 Thread Arindam Dey
URL may be wrapped http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/16/space.mars.java.reut/index.html The above is a CNN story about how JAVA is being used to provide the interface to control the Mars rover or something to that effect. Now the purists( Note the 4 question marks :-) may ask what

[ilugd] (fwd) [Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 426-1] New netpbm-free packages fix insecure temporary file creation

2004-01-18 Thread Raj Mathur
[Please upgrade if you use netpbm-free on any distribution -- Raju] This is an RFC 1153 digest. (1 message) -- Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: