Re: [ilugd] [LIG] Re: Where is the community?

On Sunday 25 September 2005 12:30, Raj Mathur wrote: I didn't see Atul Chitnis' response to my earlier queries in the thread he had jumped into earlier.  Either he's busy or he considers I think Atul's response is posted on his blog at http://www.atulchitnis.net I'll say this... [Fri,

Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 06:47:19 +0530 Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 I'm sure you like,

Re: [ilugd] Where is the community?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sandip == Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sandip On Saturday, 24 Sep 2005 12:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sandip wrote: Call is social responsibility, call it a *request from the community* Sandip Sounds more like

Re: [ilugd] Where is the community?

At 2005-09-25 12:34:28 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: however, the moment you bring the Free Software part of FOSS into the picture you are implicitly acknowledging that the freedom aspect of software is at least as important to you as the technical aspects. Maybe's it's being called FOSS.in

Re: [ilugd] Where is the community?

On Sunday 25 Sep 2005 12:34 pm, Raj Mathur wrote: Despite a lot of searching, I have not been able to get a clear idea of the status of the User Group in Bangalore and Linux Bangalore -- are either of them community or do they represent a single entity -- this discussion may help clarify your

Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

On Sunday, 25 Sep 2005 07:21, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: They're doing the right thing. Since it's difficult to cover every users who use GNU/Linux on laptops because most would have their own distinguished choice, it's better to ship a bare bone OS to lower the price and leave it up to the

Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

--- Guntupalli Karunakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Naah, see http://www.linpus.com.tw/ - they dont have a stripped down CLI distro product (except for embedded stuff!) Something I noticed which doesnt seem to have been mentioned is the fact that it seems both Acer and Limpus are of Taiwan

Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sandip Bhattacharya on Sunday 25 Sep 2005 14:28 wrote: On Sunday, 25 Sep 2005 07:21, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: They're doing the right thing. Since it's difficult to cover every users who use GNU/Linux on laptops because most would have their

Re: [ilugd] Question about the ILUGD society

--- Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While reading Kingsly's article recently on BLUG, it struck me that BLUG was registered as a society, but it had the word bangalore in its name. How could they get away with this name with their registrar of scoiety, while we couldn't?

Re: [ilugd] Question about the ILUGD society

Hi, On 9/25/05, Saurabh Nanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what is the ILUG-D society officially called? Just Linux Users Group as far as I know. Regards nipra Live Life Ethically ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] DNS settings

--- Abhinav Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am student of ITBHU , i had the following suituation : We have 100 subnets in our network and we have one DNS server for all of them . Now we want to configure different DNS settings for 10 subnets and different for the rest 90 . How should

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

At 2005-09-26 06:44:23 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can WiFi network be setup between two centrino laptops without any other WiFi instrastructure? Of course. iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc -- ams ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] [LIH]WiFi between two laptops

On 9/26/05, Vinu Moses [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 26 September 2005 06:44, Sudev Barar wrote: Can WiFi network be setup between two centrino laptops without any other WiFi instrastructure? In AdHoc mode, you can communicate directly between two or more wi-fi enabled laptops without

[ilugd] [OT] Time and gmail

What gives? I have synced my time with ntp.metas.ch and the clock showed 06:56 am but when I have posted the message on gmail to self it appeared with time stamp of 07:14 am? Is it that gmail / google are running offtime? Or is their time based on some other clock where their server might be

Re: [ilugd] Question about the ILUGD society

Saurabh == Saurabh Nanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ask BLUG guys. We were refused teh name citing that Delhi can be used for special cases only requirin clearance from higher authorities. Saurabh So what is the ILUG-D society officially called? Saurabh It could be that

[ilugd] Questions about GPL v3

Interesting thread about the potential dangers of GPL v3 going on at the oekonux mailing list. This is the message that started it (newer messages haven't made it to the archive yet): http://www.oekonux.org/list-en/archive/msg02814.html Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL

Re: [ilugd] Question about the ILUGD society

On Monday 26 Sep 2005 8:28 am, Raj Mathur wrote: consistency from Government of India is like expecting a hungry tiger to pass over an available deer out of compassion :) societies registration is a state subject - in tamilnadu for example, you can get town/city name in a society -- regards

[ilugd] Women in Free Software, by Fernanda G. Weiden

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050911153013536 -- Raj ShekharY!IM : lunatech3007 blog : http://rajshekhar.net/blog home : http://rajshekhar.net Disclaimer : http://rajshekhar.net/disclaimer ___ ilugd mailinglist --

[ilugd] More photos from Freedel

Hi, Toufeeq and Pankaj's pics at Freedel are up at: http://shanta.linuxops.net/~raju/cgi-bin/photo/index.cgi Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is

Re: [ilugd] [LIH]Re: [LIG] Where is the community?

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:35:27PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the issue is not entirely about free or proprietory software. People are switiching to open source for a variety of reasons - philosophy, technical, economics whatever. There is that freedom to choose an element to

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

On 9/26/05, Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for this lazy poster but need aqucik answer. Can WiFi network be setup between two centrino laptops without any other WiFi instrastructure? Pointers towards making this possible would be gratefully thanked. Continuing with the same

[ilugd] Basic Ques. : IPTABLES (FC2)

Dear Sys Admins, 1. I have seen a chain RH-FIREWALL-1-INPUT in some documentation for filter table. Actually it is a target for INPUT and OUTPUT chain. Is there any benefit to use it or simply write my rules in convetional way using iptables. 2. Second question is very basic. In /etc/services

Re: [ilugd] More photos from Freedel

Raj Mathur wrote: Hi, Toufeeq and Pankaj's pics at Freedel are up at: http://shanta.linuxops.net/~raju/cgi-bin/photo/index.cgi Dont be shy guys, they are not Pankaj's pics. They are pictures from Pankaj's camera :P. P. -- Alas, even today there's little worth thinking and saying that

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

At 2005-09-26 10:53:29 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Continuing with the same thread, what all hardware do i need to connect my Wifi laptop to my desktop linux pc (void of any wifi device)? An ethernet cable. ;-) You can get PCI 802.11b adapters, but I don't know how much they cost. I'd

Re: [ilugd] Question about the ILUGD society

We got registered as ``Linux Users Group''. I don't know how the erstwhile BLUG managed to get Bangalore into their name -- expecting consistency from Government of India is like expecting a hungry tiger to pass over an available deer out of compassion :) Is the registration country-wide?