[ilugd] Advice on buying a laptop and reclaiming M$ tax

2008-04-21 Thread Manish
Hello, I am on the lookout for a laptop that plays nice with Linux and have zeroed in on three choices: Lenovo Thinkpad R61 [1], Dell XPS M1330 [2] and Sony Vaio CR [3]. I am not sure how compatible they are with Debian. Some web-search does suggest that almost all of them can be made to work

Re: [ilugd] Advice on buying a laptop and reclaiming M$ tax

2008-04-21 Thread Pawan Sood
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am on the lookout for a laptop that plays nice with Linux and have zeroed in on three choices: Lenovo Thinkpad R61 [1], Dell XPS M1330 [2] and Sony Vaio CR [3]. I am not sure how compatible they are with Debian.

Re: [ilugd] Advice on buying a laptop and reclaiming M$ tax

2008-04-21 Thread Yashpal Nagar
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Pawan Sood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am on the lookout for a laptop that plays nice with Linux and have zeroed in on three choices: Lenovo Thinkpad R61 [1], Dell XPS M1330 [2] and

Re: [ilugd] Advice on buying a laptop and reclaiming M$ tax

2008-04-21 Thread Manish
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Yashpal Nagar wrote: Asus Eee PC 900 seems to be a great deal if you really serious about Linux as the OS value for money. First, I thought it's kinda like a toy and then I found out that people installed Debian on this and that it runs Firefox and

Re: [ilugd] Advice on buying a laptop and reclaiming M$ tax

2008-04-21 Thread Manish
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Pawan Sood wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Manish wrote: Hello, I am on the lookout for a laptop that plays nice with Linux and have zeroed in on three choices: Lenovo Thinkpad R61 [1], Dell XPS M1330 [2] and Sony Vaio CR [3].

Re: [ilugd] Advice on buying a laptop and reclaiming M$ tax

2008-04-21 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Yashpal Nagar wrote: Asus Eee PC 900 seems to be a great deal if you really serious about Linux as the OS value for money. First, I thought it's kinda like a toy and then I

Re: [ilugd] a list discussing the ICT policy for education

2008-04-21 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 19 Apr 2008, Nagarjuna G. wrote: Those of you who would like to take active role in shaping the ICT policy of India, please join this group and voice your opinions. This group has members from various

Re: [ilugd] Advice on buying a laptop and reclaiming M$ tax

2008-04-21 Thread Mani A
Re: [ilugd] Advice on buying a laptop and reclaiming M$ tax Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Yashpal Nagar wrote: Asus Eee PC 900 seems to be a great deal if you really serious about Linux as the OS value for money. First, I thought it's

Re: [ilugd] Advice on buying a laptop and reclaiming M$ tax

2008-04-21 Thread Mayank
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Mani A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re: [ilugd] Advice on buying a laptop and reclaiming M$ tax Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Yashpal Nagar wrote: Asus Eee PC 900 seems to be a great deal if you really serious about

Re: [ilugd] a list discussing the ICT policy for education

2008-04-21 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 22 Apr 2008, sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Why Google? It won't let me join the group unless I have a Google account, and it won't let non-Google-members view archives, etc. I presume increasing

[ilugd] Sharing network load over multiple ssh tunnels

2008-04-21 Thread Navjot Kukreja
Hi I access the internet by establishing an SSH tunnel to one of multiple hosts, and using dynamic port forwarding(SOCKS) on my computer. I would like to do some load sharing over the multiple tunnels that I have, effectively increasing the speed that i get. Is there a way that I can configure an

Re: [ilugd] Sharing network load over multiple ssh tunnels

2008-04-21 Thread Mayank
If I've understood your problem correctly then you have a machine which can access internet using SOCKS servers running on multiple machines. --Socks Server on Machine A || Your Machine