Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

2005-09-24 Thread anandsha
- Original Message - From: Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 24, 2005 9:49 am Subject: Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads On 9/23/05, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how many folks here have read the fine print in the latest of Acer's Sub 40k

Re: [ilugd] Where is the community?

2005-09-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: At 2005-09-23 16:35:27 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does Cray / NaSA and the likes actually give to the community - will they give their source code - ever. I have my doubts - so then what is their stake ? NASA has contributed a *lot* to Linux. Donald

Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

2005-09-24 Thread Guntupalli Karunakar
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 23:21:01 +0530 Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how many folks here have read the fine print in the latest of Acer's Sub 40k notebook ads. They bundle Linux on them, and mention at the bottom in small print, something like this: The linux that is

Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

2005-09-24 Thread Sudev Barar
On 9/24/05, Guntupalli Karunakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 23:21:01 +0530 Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how many folks here have read the fine print in the latest of Acer's Sub 40k notebook ads. They bundle Linux on them, and mention at the

Re: [ilugd] Where is the community?

2005-09-24 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
Now I'm confused. At 2005-09-24 12:39:26 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is that cliched statement of freedom - ones freedom ends when it begins to affect anothers [...] they are not (rather should not be) free to choose to *not contribute* Why not? And what are you saying they should

Re: [ilugd] Where is the community?

2005-09-24 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Saturday, 24 Sep 2005 12:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Call is social responsibility, call it a *request from the community* Sounds more like dictating a social *duty*. This, however, is from the view point of a community versus corporate - where the community is the large amorphous

Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

2005-09-24 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Saturday, 24 Sep 2005 13:50, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote: my cousin studying at IIT bought one on bank loan yesterday from acer mall in NP. it had some linpus linux, kernel boots ur just dropped into a root shell, with two partitions hda1 (linux) hda2 (windows). there was no linpus CD

Re: [ilugd] DNS settings

2005-09-24 Thread Animesh Singh
Evening Abhinav, FYI, view internal { match-clients { 10.1.0.0 http://10.1.0.0; }; recursion no; /* this is the default */ zone . { type hint; file named.ca http://named.ca; }; zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa { type master; file 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.zone; }; zone 10.101.10.in-addr.arpa { type master;

[ilugd] more mail mangling (was Re: DNS settings)

2005-09-24 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-25 00:51:10 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: view internal { match-clients { 10.1.0.0 http://10.1.0.0; }; recursion no; /* this is the default */ zone . { type hint; file named.ca http://named.ca; OK, so what is it that's doing the http://every.thing.with.dots thing? -- ams

Re: [ilugd] IPTABLES QUEUE

2005-09-24 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't think it to be that simple and easy for you (or anyone else) to move GPL code to Solaris. rrs Anand Kapoor on Friday 23 Sep 2005 23:17 wrote: Hello, Does anybody know the Solaris 10 equivalent (ipf) of the Linux iptables QUEUE target

Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

2005-09-24 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Saturday 24 Sep 2005 11:39 wrote: I do'nt remember which is the exact model, but I had to give a blast to the sales person from one of these Acer shops who came to my office for a demo. I was shocked to see that the said Linux

Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

2005-09-24 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Sunday 25 September 2005 04:02, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: [snip] Hope this helps most of you guys arguments about XXX company is bad because they shipped linux without configuring it. Sorry no, it doesn't help us. If the machine is shipped effectively without an OS, they should say so

Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

2005-09-24 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sirtaj Singh Kang on Sunday 25 Sep 2005 05:26 wrote: On Sunday 25 September 2005 04:02, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: [snip] Hope this helps most of you guys arguments about XXX company is bad because they shipped linux without configuring it.

Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

2005-09-24 Thread Sudev Barar
On 9/25/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] Something which is preferred by you isn't at all preferred by me. When I bought my laptop, it came shipped with Mandrake Linux, which I'm sure you like, but wasn't my preferred choice. So what do I do, say that the company Which

Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

2005-09-24 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sudev Barar on Sunday 25 Sep 2005 06:47 wrote: On 9/25/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] Something which is preferred by you isn't at all preferred by me. When I bought my laptop, it came shipped with Mandrake Linux, which

Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

2005-09-24 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sandip Bhattacharya on Saturday 24 Sep 2005 22:15 wrote: On Saturday, 24 Sep 2005 13:50, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote: my cousin studying at IIT bought one on bank loan yesterday from acer mall in NP. it had some linpus linux, kernel boots ur