Re: [ilugd] backing up large weekly data

2007-07-31 Thread Vipul Mathur
On 8/1/07, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Decent 500GB IDE drives are going for about Rs. 5K, which takes care of > 8-10 months of storage. If you really care for the data, buy two, and > make a software RAID array out of them. Agreed. In fact I would suggest that you make the 500GB RAI

Re: [ilugd] usb-disk in happy hunting grounds. please help

2007-07-31 Thread Naresh Narang
--- Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > after a few days, reconnected the drive today. > it made some grunting noises that alarmed me, > and sure enough, folders and files are missing, or > icons changed. > unmounting it safely does not work anymore. 'df' > shows me the device > is unmo

Re: [ilugd] backing up large weekly data

2007-07-31 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: > what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month? > dvd discs have come down in price, but some of the data-files are > individually larger than 10gb (home video) and cutting and storing > sliced versions ac

[ilugd] backing up large weekly data

2007-07-31 Thread Tanveer Singh
On 8/1/07, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:14 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: > > dear all, > > > > what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month? > [...] > > Decent 500GB IDE drives are going for about Rs. 5K, which takes care of > 8-10 months

Re: [ilugd] backing up large weekly data

2007-07-31 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:14 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: > dear all, > > what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month? [...] Decent 500GB IDE drives are going for about Rs. 5K, which takes care of 8-10 months of storage. If you really care for the data, buy two, and make a

Re: [ilugd] backing up large weekly data

2007-07-31 Thread vivek khurana
--- Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dear all, > > what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb > of data per month? > dvd discs have come down in price, but some of the > data-files are > individually larger than 10gb (home video) and > cutting and storing > sliced versions acr

[ilugd] backing up large weekly data

2007-07-31 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month? dvd discs have come down in price, but some of the data-files are individually larger than 10gb (home video) and cutting and storing sliced versions across discs is rather inelegant. hard-disks have come down to app

Re: [ilugd] Bug in RPM or ??

2007-07-31 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ,--[ On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 07:47:10PM +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: | >> Which version of RPM and Yum are you using? | | > $ rpm -q yum | > | > yum-3.2.1-1.fc7 | | You should consider updating to yum-3.2.2-3. There were a lot of | bugfixes rec

Re: [ilugd] Bug in RPM or ??

2007-07-31 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
>> Which version of RPM and Yum are you using? > $ rpm -q yum > > yum-3.2.1-1.fc7 You should consider updating to yum-3.2.2-3. There were a lot of bugfixes recently. Cheers, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu ___ ilugd mailingli

Re: [ilugd] usb-disk in happy hunting grounds. please help

2007-07-31 Thread Linux Lingam
> > Did you try connecting your device to a machine which > has usb 2.0 based bus ? Try connecting to a non legacy > hardware, your drive could be in pretty much good > shape or may require repartitioning at max. Thanks vivek for the response. alas! i just got fedup with the whole thing, decided

Re: [ilugd] Bug in RPM or ??

2007-07-31 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ,--[ On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 03:36:45PM +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote: | | > I'm running Fedora 7 on AMD64 architecture CPU and installed a package | > "free

Re: [ilugd] Anyone with an experience of CDS invenio

2007-07-31 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 01:22 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: > > Sudev Barar wrote: > > > On 27/07/07, Andrew Michael Lynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I will set it up again. Maybe we can have a comparison of various > > >> other digital library software at the next ILUGD meet. ?? > > welcome to t

[ilugd] AGBM, and ILUG-Delhi elections at 2pm, Sun. 5th Aug., JNU

2007-07-31 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hi, Sorry for the delay in sending this out, though all registered members for whom we had a valid mailing address should have received a paper notification of the annual general body meeting of the ILUG-Delhi society. The meeting will be held at 2pm, Sun., 5th Aug., at the JNU Bio-Informatic

Re: [ilugd] Bug in RPM or ??

2007-07-31 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote: > I'm running Fedora 7 on AMD64 architecture CPU and installed a package > "freeciv" via "yum". "freeciv" requires "libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0()(64bit)" > which no package currently provides it on my system. So my question i

Re: [ilugd] Bug in RPM or ??

2007-07-31 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ,--[ On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 03:11:38PM +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: | > I'm running Fedora 7 on AMD64 architecture CPU and installed a package | > "freeciv" via "yum". "freeciv" requires "libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0()(64bit)" | > which no package curr

Re: [ilugd] Bug in RPM or ??

2007-07-31 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ,--[ On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 03:05:32PM +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: | [...] | Can you check a yum deplist for freeciv along with yum provides | libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 ? Is this related to some particular repository | you have added ? I've

Re: [ilugd] Bug in RPM or ??

2007-07-31 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
> I'm running Fedora 7 on AMD64 architecture CPU and installed a package > "freeciv" via "yum". "freeciv" requires "libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0()(64bit)" > which no package currently provides it on my system. So my question is, > why 'rpm' installed a package without installing all its dependencies ? > O

Re: [ilugd] usb-disk in happy hunting grounds. please help

2007-07-31 Thread vivek khurana
--- Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > bought a 120gb usb-ide external hardisk last month. > formatted it with the fat32 filesystem, connected it > to my ubuntu feisty, and > backed up some heavy files on it. > at the end of each session, ensured i properly > unmounted it before > disconne

Re: [ilugd] Bug in RPM or ??

2007-07-31 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote: > I'm running Fedora 7 on AMD64 architecture CPU and installed a package > "freeciv" via "yum". "freeciv" requires "libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0()(64bit)" > which no package currently provides it on my system. So my question i

Re: [ilugd] Shiver me timbers!

2007-07-31 Thread PJ
Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > microsoft has a very clearly thought out strategy with regard to > 'piracy' - hook em on the illegal stuff, and after they are hooked, > get em to pay. Which is why they dont raid educational institutions, > computer training institutes and pr

[ilugd] Bug in RPM or ??

2007-07-31 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm running Fedora 7 on AMD64 architecture CPU and installed a package "freeciv" via "yum". "freeciv" requires "libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0()(64bit)" which no package currently provides it on my system. So my question is, why 'rpm' installed a package w

Re: [ilugd] Shiver me timbers!

2007-07-31 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 31-Jul-07, at 12:35 PM, PJ wrote: > Henry Chesbrough has an insightful look at why piracy is generally > good for MS > in India. microsoft has a very clearly thought out strategy with regard to 'piracy' - hook em on the illegal stuff, and after they are hooked, get em to pay. Which is w

Re: [ilugd] MS submitting licenses for OSI approval

2007-07-31 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 31-Jul-07, at 10:31 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: > What do you folks think of this? MS is planning to submit 2 > licenses to > the OSI for approval as Open Source licences. great news - interesting to see whether: 1. if the licenses are returned for rectification, whether MS will rectify them

Re: [ilugd] MS submitting licenses for OSI approval

2007-07-31 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On 7/31/07, Shiv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raj Mathur writes: > > > > > What do you folks think of this? MS is planning to submit 2 licenses to > > the OSI for approval as Open Source licences. / > > Hi, > Looking further, it appears that there is a whole website/blog dedicated to > Open

Re: [ilugd] MS submitting licenses for OSI approval

2007-07-31 Thread Shiv
Raj Mathur writes: > > What do you folks think of this? MS is planning to submit 2 licenses to > the OSI for approval as Open Source licences. / Hi, Looking further, it appears that there is a whole website/blog dedicated to Opensource at M$ called Port25 (http://port25.technet.com). The

[ilugd] Shiver me timbers!

2007-07-31 Thread PJ
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jul2007/id20070725_504325.htm?campaign_id=yhoo Henry Chesbrough has an insightful look at why piracy is generally good for MS in India. I suspect most of the people on the mailing list knew it already, and see it as the main reason why linux has been r