[ilugd] FOSS Workshop at ABES

2008-08-28 Thread Kartik Singhal
Rather an old topic now, but still. My own experience at (and a more transparent review of) the workshop: http://techglider.com/blog/blog1.php/2008/08/27/foss-and-lamp-workshop-at-abes-by-ilug-d PS: It's a little too long, so may get boring at places (Hey, forgive me, I am still a newbie at

Re: [ilugd] Step by Step Learning Material on Linux

2008-08-28 Thread Smruti
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Prakhar Agarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Following link might be helpful for you to identify which distro to choose: http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/ Although I stumbled upon this link quite a long time after I started using Linux, I was happy that Fedora was

Re: [ilugd] FOSS Workshop at ABES

2008-08-28 Thread Sudev Barar
2008/8/28 Kartik Singhal [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rather an old topic now, but still. My own experience at (and a more transparent review of) the workshop: http://techglider.com/blog/blog1.php/2008/08/27/foss-and-lamp-workshop-at-abes-by-ilug-d All views are welcome and more important is to get

Re: [ilugd] ilugd Digest, Vol 65, Issue 34

2008-08-28 Thread Chirag Anand
looking at the Compaq Presario C797VU (~Rs 35K): http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/in/en/ho/WF06b/321957-321957-3329742-8 9318-89318-3466274-3739779.html Can't comment on the above model but my brother owns a 2 yr old Compaq laptop no hardware issues so far. On the Linux side, not been able to get

Re: [ilugd] Any experiences with Acer Aspire One?

2008-08-28 Thread Sahil Dave
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:39 AM, mikeM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had mine for about 10 days. Overall I like the machine for my purposes. The battery lasts about 2 1/2 hours, the screen is awesome, not a bit of problems connecting with the internet. I also have used my Verizon modem

Re: [ilugd] ilugd Digest, Vol 65, Issue 34

2008-08-28 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 28 Aug 2008, Chirag Anand wrote: I downloaded the driver from the ati site only. They gave me a file with .run extension and auomatically installs itself. But i had some trouble with configuring it. Had to set the resolutions, screen size etc myself through terminal. rant This is

Re: [ilugd] Buying a laptop, suggestions

2008-08-28 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 28 Aug 2008, Raj Mathur wrote: Anyone have any experience good/bad/ugly with this machine? Any other recommendations? FWIW, just saw this announcement re: Dell laptops and desktops with Ubuntu Linux available in India: http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/28450/news.htm -- Arun

Re: [ilugd] Step by Step Learning Material on Linux

2008-08-28 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
Following link might be helpful for you to identify which distro to choose: http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/ Although I stumbled upon this link quite a long time after I started using Linux, I was happy that Fedora was the result for me when I completed this particular questionaire.

Re: [ilugd] Need Suggestion about Network Monitoring software - Open source/Free

2008-08-28 Thread Yashpal Nagar
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Hakuna Matata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, we want to implement a network monitoring software in our organization. we want to monitor services like ftp/web/mysql/mssql/vmware and performance and up time of servers. i want the software to be more

[ilugd] [Announcement] OSScamp Delhi, September 2008

2008-08-28 Thread Pratul Kalia
Hi everyone /** * Welcome to OSScamp Delhi September 2008! */ OSScamp is India's biggest 'unconference' on open source. Every few months geeks and geeks-to-be come together in this celebration of open technology. The latest edition of OSScamp Delhi has been fixed for September 27th and 28th,

Re: [ilugd] ATI 200M

2008-08-28 Thread Chirag Anand
rant This is my main gripe with ATI. If they can write the driver for Linux, it follows they should provide GUI tools that simply work i.e. no messing around with xorg.conf via a text editor. /rant They have their GUI control panel but things hardly work the first time you are using it. You

[ilugd] A Basic LDAP Question

2008-08-28 Thread Anand Shankar
For large multi-site organisations, is there any norm as to how many LDAP servers (Masters + Slave) should be on the network, primary application being network authentication and authorisation. Point in perspective being, is it a good practice that every physical and geographically disparate site

Re: [ilugd] Buying a laptop, suggestions

2008-08-28 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 28 Aug 2008, Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ) wrote: The TechSpecs state that it is a IntelPro 3945ABG - so should be good to go on all distributions. To be absolutely sure - you might want to use a LiveUSB to boot it up :) Can you suggest any tool that converts a CD boot iso file to an USB

Re: [ilugd] Buying a laptop, suggestions

2008-08-28 Thread Subhodip Biswas
hi ! livecd-iso-to-disk ..its available in fedora please check with other distros . -- Regards Subhodip Biswas Fedora Ambassador West Bengal , India GPG key : FAEA34AB Server : pgp.mit.edu http://subhodipbiswas.wordpress.com http:/www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SubhodipBiswas

Re: [ilugd] FOSS Workshop at ABES

2008-08-28 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Kartik Singhal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather an old topic now, but still. My own experience at (and a more transparent review of) the workshop: http://techglider.com/blog/blog1.php/2008/08/27/foss-and-lamp-workshop-at-abes-by-ilug-d PS: It's a little too

Re: [ilugd] A Basic LDAP Question

2008-08-28 Thread Naresh Narang
--- On Thu, 8/28/08, Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For large multi-site organisations, is there any norm as to how many LDAP servers (Masters + Slave) should be on the network, primary application being network authentication and authorisation. Point in perspective being, is it

Re: [ilugd] Any experiences with Acer Aspire One?

2008-08-28 Thread Vikas Rawal
can't find the subnotebook on google, can u post a link? http://www.acer.co.in/products/product_explore_view.asp?pid=121model=Aspire%20onecid=11 Also, google for 'acer aspire one' Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org