[ilugd] need 64-bit distro

2005-09-27 Thread hassath
Hi, I need to know if anyone has any Linux distros for EM64T/AMD64? I already have Ubuntu, looking specifically for FC4, and also interested in anything else available. Also, does anyone have K12 LTSP 4.4.1.? Location not a consideration, I can have it picked up from anywhere in

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-27 Thread nitin gupta
so now you owe one talk about Your Experiences with Webdev and Gnu[Linux] at the next meet ;-) I would love to, but haven't attended any meet before so a bit hesitated and not sure :( Also I am just 22 years and don't think have that much to share with all ya giants there. Kind Regards,

Re: [ilugd] No Community in the Licenses - digression from Where is the Community

2005-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: At 2005-09-26 15:46:09 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Community license provides a free version of Community Server that can easily be upgraded to a commercial license. BTW, this seems like an entirely coincidental use of community. It's not even clear to me

Re: [ilugd] need 64-bit distro

2005-09-27 Thread Sudev Barar
On 27 Sep 2005 11:35:31 +0530, hassath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, does anyone have K12 LTSP 4.4.1.? Location not a consideration, I can have it picked up from anywhere in Delhi/Noida/Gurgaon. Avalable for both 32 bit and 64 bit CentOS as well as k12. Can you pick up fom Faridabad? --

Re: [ilugd] Solution - MS-TNEF WINMAIL.DAT Attachments and LINUX

2005-09-27 Thread Sudev Barar
On 27 Sep 2005 06:05:17 -, bimal pandit Dear Sir, Bimal, Lovely input. Thanks. Generally I find any one just appending a file without any specific subject line or even iota of covering text is more than likely to be spammer or even worse virii infected host. My advise to users

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-27 Thread nitin gupta
--- Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our youngest speaker was all of 14!! No one is a giant and as to attending a meet all you do is show up and that is just about it. No one is going to ask you for some secret password or anthing like that!! Hello, Telling passwords is not a big

Re: [ilugd] No Community in the Licenses - digression from Where is the Community

2005-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: At 2005-09-26 15:46:09 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ams wrote: Now I'm confused. I'm still confused. I'm afraid I'm finding your argument a bit difficult to follow, and I'm not even quite sure whether you're being sarcastic or not. Nevertheless: with

[ilugd] Commercial: Requirement for Linux Developer

2005-09-27 Thread Kuldeep Singh Tomar
Hi Guys, We have requirement of 2-3 person who has at least 2-3+ years of good experience in: 1. Development in C++/Java/PHP/Perl 2. Exposure to Database(Mysql/PostgreSQL) 3. Exposure to Web Servers 3. Linux Administration experience 4. Should be good team player 5. Telephony Exp. will be

Re: [ilugd] Where is the community?

2005-09-27 Thread Sharninder
I don't remember offhand if Cray has contributed anything, but did you know that the NSA (the US National Security Agency) was responsible for the development of SELinux? Not only did they contribute it back, most distributions ship with it these days.- Thanks - thats education

Re: [ilugd] Where is the community?

2005-09-27 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-27 03:17:48 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank the NSA, not NASA !! These two are very different organisations. Thank them both, but NASA merits a whole lot more thanks. NSA's SELinux is a dwarfed by NASA's contributions one way or another. -- ams

Re: [ilugd] Giving up on scratched CDs and ejecting mounted CDs

2005-09-27 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-27 15:11:19 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly, could anyone please tell me what's the philosophy behind 'locking' the CD-ROM tray when a CD has been mounted. So that you can't eject a mounted CD. Why can't I eject a mounted CD? Because the VFS would be unhappy if mounted

Re: [ilugd] Giving up on scratched CDs and ejecting mounted CDs

2005-09-27 Thread Saurabh Nanda
Because the VFS would be unhappy if mounted media suddenly disappeared from under it (and was potentially replaced with something different). That applies to all mounts, not just CDs. But doesn't the VFS already handle such situations with USB pen drives and to some extent with network file

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Guntupalli Karunakar wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:08:43 +0530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know you must be speaking from experience ;). Yes a friend blew up his Ninon d70 because he connected his camera to a faulty USB port and boom Rs 15 kn went up in smoke. I too do

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 1:49 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  My canon A70 used to work with such a cable, but not with a straight cable (which doesnt have the blob). this cable only works for cameras showing up as USB storage. Again no idea - does the same cable do the battey charging ?? he

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 1:49 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My canon A70 used to work with such a cable, but not with a straight cable (which doesnt have the blob). this cable only works for cameras showing up as USB storage. Again no idea - does the same cable do the

Re: [ilugd] Giving up on scratched CDs and ejecting mounted CDs

2005-09-27 Thread Mayank Jain
On 9/27/05, Saurabh Nanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus, one can't unmount the CD cuz it's supposedly busy, and one can't eject the CD cuz it's mounted. The only solution being a reboot. # considering your cdrom is mounted somewhere on /mnt/cdrom lsof | grep cdrom kill -9 pid -- regards,

Re: [ilugd] Giving up on scratched CDs and ejecting mounted CDs

2005-09-27 Thread Saurabh Nanda
# considering your cdrom is mounted somewhere on /mnt/cdrom lsof | grep cdrom kill -9 pid I've tried killing the process (say cp) but that doesn't solve the problem. I'll try this as well. But even this solution is a workaround! The CD driver should give up after some time and throw an

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 4:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: he has been asking about his blob for the last six months - i hope someone puts him out of his agony soon :-) maybe you Kuranakar should post (make available ) a digital image of his blob - it might help. an image of the dissected

Re: [ilugd] Giving up on scratched CDs and ejecting mounted CDs

2005-09-27 Thread Mayank Jain
On 9/27/05, Saurabh Nanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # considering your cdrom is mounted somewhere on /mnt/cdrom lsof | grep cdrom kill -9 pid But even this solution is a workaround! The CD driver should give up after some time and throw an error! Cant say what's the default read timeout

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-27 13:32:16 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too do the same, but one Q I have wrt to the camera cable usually the cables coming with the camera have a cylindrical blob at the camera end, how much does it affect usage? what is it for? That's most probably just a ferrite bead for

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Guntupalli Karunakar
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:29:36 +0530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 1:49 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My canon A70 used to work with such a cable, but not with a straight cable (which doesnt have the blob). this cable only works

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 9:33 pm, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote: or better still this one - the black cable (USB one) http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/a70/a70_package.jpg Karunakar go to sleep -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-27 21:33:10 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or better still this one - the black cable (USB one) http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/a70/a70_package.jpg Yep. It's a ferrite bead for RF noise suppression. -- ams ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-27 Thread Sudev Barar
On 9/27/05, Raj shekhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in infinite wisdom [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thus on 09/27/05 12:44: aah I thought that the secret password was Beer The secret password is drinks are on me usually followed by @# :-) -- Yes yesy you can say drinks are on me...if we can

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday, 28 Sep 2005 00:03, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: At 2005-09-27 21:33:10 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or better still this one - the black cable (USB one) http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/a70/a70_package.jpg Yep. It's a ferrite bead for RF noise suppression. Weird

Re: [ilugd] Giving up on scratched CDs and ejecting mounted CDs

2005-09-27 Thread bimal pandit
Dear Sir, ---SNIP- Thus, one can't unmount the CD cuz it's supposedly busy, and one can't eject the CD cuz it's mounted. The only solution being a reboot. ---SNIP- use umount -l device also could use fuser to

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread vikram ranade
Yeah thats a normal practice to make sure that the notebook gets clean DC power and not some electrical noise induced by nearby electrically noisy appliances Best regards, Vikram On 9/28/05, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep. It's a ferrite bead for RF noise suppression.

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-27 Thread nitin gupta
--- Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OP was shirking and hence: 1. You are the community 2. If you benefit from Linux make sureother can too 3. Attending also builds mentorship - You get help and you help other 4. Choose a topic you would like o speak on and put it onlist when ever a