Re: [ilugd] Strange issue with network card on Ubuntu 8.04

2008-12-20 Thread Dinesh Shah (દિન શાહ/ िनेश शाह)
Mani, On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Mani A It could be flacky hardware or the r8169 is not quite the correct driver for the NIC. His hardware is NOT OK. I have the same NIC, it works perfectly on that driver in all Linux and Kubuntu. Checked lspci -vvv too. I am reasonably sure that the

[ilugd] Strange issue with network card on Ubuntu 8.04

2008-12-18 Thread Dinesh Shah (દિન શાહ/ िनेश शाह)
H! All, This on-board gigabit ether net gives strange problem. It works most of the times but at times it does not work. Distro: Ubuntu 8.04 (I am not upgrading/changing distro, it ain't broken, wont fix. ;-) ) Kernel Version: Linux matrix 2.6.24-18-generic #1 SMP Wed May 28 20:27:26 UTC 2008

Re: [ilugd] Strange issue with network card on Ubuntu 8.04

2008-12-18 Thread Dinesh Shah (દિન શાહ/ िनेश शाह)
Arun, On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Arun Khan kn...@yahoo.com wrote: On Friday 19 Dec 2008, Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) wrote: This on-board gigabit ether net gives strange problem. It works most of the times but at times it does not work. Realtek? I have saved one PCI Realtek NIC

[ilugd] [X-Post] Hall of Shame: MTNL TrustLine

2008-12-15 Thread Dinesh Shah (દિન શાહ/ िनेश शाह)
Please look at this page. http://selfcare.mtnl.net.in/trustline/ http://selfcare.mtnl.net.in/trustline/Class2IndvProcedures.htm They should be put on Hall of Shame for their platform/browser requirement. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1:

Re: [ilugd] [OT] MS leads the way -- again!

2008-12-10 Thread Dinesh Shah (દિન શાહ/ िनेश शाह)
Raj, On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I know MS-bashing isn't in great taste, but this one is too good to resist. Was going through the blog of one of the MS chaps in India and this one entry caught my eye:

Re: [ilugd] M$ Excel to Open Office Calc Migration

2008-11-25 Thread Dinesh Shah (દિન શાહ/ िनेश शाह)
Narendra, 2008/11/25 narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Your experience in both tool. ? I have opened many XSL files in OO.o in past. It has worked in most part. If the the sheet does not have many external links and too much Excel specific formulas you should be OK. * Any comparison

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-20 Thread Dinesh Shah (દિન શાહ/ िनेश शाह)
List, On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/11/21 Amit Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Of late, due to various reasons, corporates are using Linux for desktops as well. Where can i get the list of such companies, in Delhi NCR, who have migrated to Linux

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-20 Thread Dinesh Shah (દિન શાહ/ िनेश शाह)
Dear Narendra, Thanks a lot for long list of complains. :) Keep them coming. let me respond to your points in-line. On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:11 PM, narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @Dinesh , Better to ask, what are the problems in FOSS adaptations. Adaptation of Linux is not fast

Re: [ilugd] high-end linux laptop?

2008-11-20 Thread Dinesh Shah (દિન શાહ/ िनेश शाह)
Niyam, On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear all, everyone focusses on 'cheap' or 'low-cost' linux laptops, especially netbooks. what i'm looking for is the opposite: the top-most, high-end laptop in the market, that ships with gnu/linux pre-installed,

Re: [ilugd] HowTo: access SFTP only ( exclude ssh shell )

2008-10-10 Thread Dinesh Shah (દિન શાહ/ िनेश शाह)
H!, On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:43 AM, tuxdna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found two solutions: 1. configure a user for login inside a chroot jail ( allowing ssh access ) -- the user can have shell access but inside chroot jail only 2. use rsssh ( http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/ ) for scp/sftp

[ilugd] Interesting Article... Few comments there should go a long way

2008-10-07 Thread Dinesh Shah (દિન શાહ/ िनेश शाह)
Which Business Desktop OS? Windows or Linux Microsoft Windows has been the ideal choice for the desktop because of its simplicity, ease of use, good application and hardware support and also because it's easy to pirate. Over the years we've also seen the emergence of Linux as the new desktop OS

[ilugd] [XPost] Why I think Foss.in/2008 is missing its target..

2008-10-07 Thread Dinesh Shah (દિન શાહ/ िनेश शाह)
With his his 'Omelette Post' about FOSS.IN/2008 Call for Participation, Atul Chitnis, the FOSS.IN team 'leader' indeed sent an strong sign. For those who aren't aware of it, FOSS.IN is the longstanding major FLOSS event in India and, still (just like our beloved Debconf) only run by volunteers.

Re: [ilugd] help with setting up ubuntu on dell vostro 1310

2008-09-14 Thread Dinesh Shah (દિન શાહ/ िनेश शाह)
Vikas On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Vikas Rawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please explain what does this command do. I tried and it worked. But only once. I updated the packages. But then I put pci=routeirq in the menu.lst, so that it will be called at boot. But next time it does