[ilugd] web 2.0 forges ahead

2005-11-17 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi go here, Interesting discussion on the two leading contenders http://snakesandrubies.com/event/ -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க! ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.

Re: [ilugd] [OT] MTNL DSL connectivity

2005-11-17 Thread Ankur Rohatgi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/2005 12:09 PM, (Sanjay Goel) wrote: > I am using MTNL and VSNL both, But I found VSNL is much better option. > Hi, Could you elaborate a little about why you think VSNL is a better option ? Does VSNL offer dsl connectivity ? I dont

Re: [ilugd] Limiting physical memory & observing consequences...

2005-11-17 Thread Tushar Shah
Hi, You can create tmpfs and fill it and then observe the effects on processes running out of mem . http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs3.html Regards Tushar Shah -- Somedays you're the dog, and some day's you're the hydrant ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] [OT] MTNL DSL connectivity

2005-11-17 Thread (Sanjay Goel)
I am using MTNL and VSNL both, But I found VSNL is much better option. [S K Goel]On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 11:53 +0530, Ankur Rohatgi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > I am thinking about augmenting our office connectivity with the MTNL > dsl service. Does anyo

[ilugd] [OT] MTNL DSL connectivity

2005-11-17 Thread Ankur Rohatgi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I am thinking about augmenting our office connectivity with the MTNL dsl service. Does anyone have any experiences with them lately ? Their service used to pretty much suck when they launched their internet services years back but lately i hav

Re: [ilugd] What option for a 486 (win 95) machine

2005-11-17 Thread Shiv
hi, I would use the 486 as a firewall. You just need to install monowall (www.m0n0.ch/wall) on it. the entire OS fits on a CF disk (around 6 MB) "M.Balakrishna Pillai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 16:56 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > What would be a good GNU/linux

Re: [ilugd] Limiting physical memory & observing consequences...

2005-11-17 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Thursday 17 November 2005 22:17, Mayank Jain wrote: [snip] > What about doing this on per-application basis. > The above method would limit every app to the specified number... > > Say, I want to limit Open Office to 100megs...? You can try playing with the ulimit command, or coerce a memory p

Re: [ilugd] Limiting physical memory & observing consequences...

2005-11-17 Thread Mayank Jain
On 11/17/05, Sirtaj Singh Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By default the kernel also overcommits on memory allocations by apps. To turn > this off this should probably work: > > echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory > echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio > > (not 100% certain about this, pl

Re: [ilugd] Limiting physical memory & observing consequences...

2005-11-17 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Thursday 17 November 2005 18:16, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: [snip] > Once it runs out of physical memory new request for memory would result > in swap usage. If you manage to use both the physical memory and the > SWAP the OS will return a error. By default the kernel also overcommits on memor

Re: [ilugd] Limiting physical memory & observing consequences...

2005-11-17 Thread Abhay Kedia
On 11/17/05, Mayank Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wonder how apps like X, GDM, KDE/Gnome, etc would react to > "insufficient memory" problems... > > Like if before starting these heavy services/apps, if we could limit > the physical memory to say... "100 megs" on a system & then see how do

Re: [ilugd] Year 2038

2005-11-17 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 21:37, Nitin Gupta wrote: [snip] > The Year 2038 Problem My approach to this has always been that 33 years from now, one or more of the following will be true: 1. Every computer I care about will be 64bit or more 2. I will be retired and won't care 3. I'll be dead

Re: [ilugd] What option for a 486 (win 95) machine

2005-11-17 Thread M.Balakrishna Pillai
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 16:56 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > What would be a good GNU/linux OS option for a standalone 486 machine, > 32 mb RAM , currently running win 95. If you mean distribution ? Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (Potato) With regards M.Balakrishna Pillai _

Re: [ilugd] EXT3-fs error, unablet o read inode blocks

2005-11-17 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > EXT3 -fs error (device hdb6): ext3_gen_inode_loc: unable to read > inode > block _ in inode 17992 : block 360456 > inode 180012 block 360457 The only thing which can make the filesystem driver throw an error is if the ph

Re: [ilugd] Limiting physical memory & observing consequences...

2005-11-17 Thread Mithun Bhattacharya
--- Tushar Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > & specially, it would be interesting to see how they react to low > mem > > conditions, do they crash or exit gracefully or something else... > Why shud it crash ? I guess such a situation would cause lots of > page > swapping . Better a

Re: [ilugd] Limiting physical memory & observing consequences...

2005-11-17 Thread Tushar Shah
Hi, > & specially, it would be interesting to see how they react to low mem > conditions, do they crash or exit gracefully or something else... Why shud it crash ? I guess such a situation would cause lots of page swapping . Better answer can come from some who knows abt linux memory management

[ilugd] Limiting physical memory & observing consequences...

2005-11-17 Thread Mayank Jain
Hi :-) Was just replying to Ram's message when this idea struck... I wonder how apps like X, GDM, KDE/Gnome, etc would react to "insufficient memory" problems... Like if before starting these heavy services/apps, if we could limit the physical memory to say... "100 megs" on a system & then see h

Re: [ilugd] What option for a 486 (win 95) machine

2005-11-17 Thread Mayank Jain
On 11/17/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would be a good GNU/linux OS option for a standalone 486 machine, > 32 mb RAM , currently running win 95. Or, try running fluxbox window manager on it... But i doubt if u can run X server in 32 megs... but do try :-) -- regards, mak

Re: [ilugd] What option for a 486 (win 95) machine

2005-11-17 Thread Mayank Jain
Hi Ram, On 11/17/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would be a good GNU/linux OS option for a standalone 486 machine, > 32 mb RAM , currently running win 95. > any OS but would like to as GUI as possible , atleast equivalent to win 95. Try LTSP... http://www.ltsp.org/ & if y

[ilugd] What option for a 486 (win 95) machine

2005-11-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi What would be a good GNU/linux OS option for a standalone 486 machine, 32 mb RAM , currently running win 95. Uses would be data and word processing and connecting to the internet using a phone- modem connection. Users are novices with no experience in any OS but would like to as GUI as poss

[ilugd] EXT3-fs error, unablet o read inode blocks

2005-11-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi I am getting the following error on a PIII Desktop which has two HD X 20 GB and 128 mb RAM. Running Ubuntu 5.04 (Ubuntu Hoary ) Starting Ubuntu... EXT3 -fs error (device hdb6): ext3_gen_inode_loc: unable to read inode block _ in inode 17992 :block 360456 inode 180012

[ilugd] iptable modules

2005-11-17 Thread Manish Popli
I am fail to install time patch for iptables.. i have visited at http://www.lowth.com/howto/add-iptables-modules.php but i m not able to do it successful..can any one guide me how to install "libipt_time.so" under Enterprise linux AS-3 (Linux version 2.4.21-4.ELsmp ).. and iptables version is "ipt

Re: [ilugd] FOSS.IN

2005-11-17 Thread Kishore Bhargava
> Kishor ji is volunteered as our leader as per Delhi-LUG rules. Pray > tell us what we need to be prepared for. > Hopefully I am presenting a workshop on LTSP and the same can be > displayed at the stall but for the time of workshop. Hi! All, Well, I gues I opened mouth and put foot in! But sinc