Re: [ilugd] Has INTEL been taken over by m$ or is it a market-manipulation tie-up ??

2013-01-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/25/2013 05:51 AM, Sudhir Gandotra wrote: Hello, Yesterday I found that Intel is not making any motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop. For the sake of completeness, its worth pointing out that intel is exiting the entire desktop mobo / kit business. - KB

Re: [ilugd] Has INTEL been taken over by m$ or is it a market-manipulation tie-up ??

2013-01-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/25/2013 08:12 PM, Inder singh wrote: Oh, You touched the thorny nerve. I have faced and felt pity on a Dell Laptop with UEFI. What laptop ? What problem ? Did it not have a legacy or a bios fallback mode ? - KB ___ Ilugd mailing list

Re: [ilugd] Contact points for CentOS users in India

2013-01-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
, and one of the goals here - but lots, if not most, of the people opt out of me posting this info publicly. If you can help change that, or bring in some stories that we can publish it would be awesome. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ

Re: [ilugd] Contact points for CentOS users in India

2013-01-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 01/10/2013 12:38 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: I'm trying to put together something of a user-story and need to talk with people who have used, and continue to use CentOS at scale in India. Any pointers would be appreciated. thanks for all the contacts offlist guys; there are some super

Re: [ilugd] Contact points for CentOS users in India

2013-01-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/11/2013 03:46 AM, Satish Kr Malanch wrote: Very stable 100% reliable similar to Debian and rhel. For a server purpose i will strongly recomend it. Using this as a mail ,file,ftp,dns ,nating and proxy server from last 4 years without any issue. Thats good to hear :) -- Karanbir Singh

[ilugd] Contact points for CentOS users in India

2013-01-10 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi guys, I'm trying to put together something of a user-story and need to talk with people who have used, and continue to use CentOS at scale in India. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks, -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219

Re: [ilugd] Multiple installable distributions on a USB

2012-12-09 Thread Karanbir Singh
the installer of that distribution? I have a raspberry_pi with a 64gb sd card that holds the repos; setup with dhcp + tftp and cobbler, it lets me install a bunch of things over pxe ( the client machine needs pxe - although everything I see these days has that, even laptops ) -- Karanbir Singh

Re: [ilugd] [Commercial] Seriously talented dev-ops engineer to run the whole stack

2012-11-07 Thread Karanbir Singh
That makes two of us, having had a look around, it does not appear to have had any sort of code audit. I'd be keen on keeping an eye out for that ( or even instigating one ) -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Yahoo IM: z00dax

Re: [ilugd] sudoers - how do we manage it?

2012-10-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/16/2012 09:09 AM, Yashpal Nagar wrote: Hi All, I'm looking for a Open Source tool which can only manage /etc/sudoers. Now http://augeas.net/ -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG

Re: [ilugd] kernel programming training

2012-06-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
in Linux -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http

Re: [ilugd] Recommendations for .in domain name registrar

2012-04-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
at ( and even if not doing wonky stuff ) their legal policy and what your recourse might be. then mostly come to the conclusion that they all suck. Massive market gap for a registrar that mostly does the right thing most of the time. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org

Re: [ilugd] Recommendation for low-end Android phones

2012-01-05 Thread Karanbir Singh
requirements ... ) -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219| Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] error witth rpmbuild

2011-11-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/23/2011 04:07 AM, PANKAJ KUMAR wrote: %define _topdir/root/net-snmp %define name net-snmp %define version5.6.1.1 Name: %{name} is that really the entire spec file ? you are missing lots of things.. a %files section would be good to get going. Take a look at this :

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Best pre-paid 3G option in Delhi

2011-07-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/15/2011 03:32 AM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: - get an android device that has proper tether support Skipping Android 2 for now due to its pathetic battery management -- all reports indicate that Android 3 is going to be way better in that arena, so will await its presence in the

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Best pre-paid 3G option in Delhi

2011-07-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 07/14/2011 03:41 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Right, so now: which Linux-compatible data card? I presume it makes sense to buy your own data card and use the telco's SIM in that? I think the age of the data card is now gone, the options worth considering : - get an android

Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 05/27/2011 12:01 PM, Vivek Kapoor wrote: There's an IMAP feature called IDLE which enables detection of incoming emails. So, as soon as an email comes, the client is intimated instantly that works for imap clients that support this sort of functionality. however, BB do not use imap

Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 05/27/2011 01:16 PM, Vivek Kapoor wrote: I may have been a bit unclear. By referring to the IMAP client, I wasn't referring to the device itself. I was referring to the Blackberry Internet Service which the service providers such as Vodafone and Airtel provide to their blackberry customers.

Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 05/27/2011 05:12 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: he also says that the expected poll frequency in the Jan 2010 BIS I meant pre Jan 2010 - KB ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Question about SWAP and tempfs

2011-04-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/26/2011 03:03 PM, Manish Kumar wrote: It's no hard and fast rule that swap space should be 2xRAM size. Thats partially true. The idea of 2xram came from the linux-2.2 kernel VM and how things were handled in those days ( and I suspect before then ); Having 2xram actually made some of

Re: [ilugd] Monitor Broadband usage

2011-03-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 03/26/2011 10:52 AM, Abhinav Sahai wrote: I have an Airtel broadband at home. As per Airtel's FUP even unlimited plans come with a 25GB cap on the usage.Even though i am on that plan since 8 months, since past 2 months after some 20 days i get a mail from airtel saying that my limit has

Re: [ilugd] Meeting with Colin Charles?

2011-01-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/28/2011 08:05 AM, Gora Mohanty wrote: Hi, Colin Charles is in town, and was interested in meeting up with people. Say Hi to him from my side! - KB ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] Server is hacked, pl. advice

2010-12-03 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/03/2010 06:26 AM, abhishek jain wrote: can anyone here suggest me what should i do, i am not sure how user1 logged into server, further what does the command perl udp.pl 92.114.6.32 0 22 mean which eats up 99.7% of CPU . You have already had a lot of good advice here, I'll add a few

Re: [ilugd] Xen: Dom0 vs guest disk buffer/cache

2010-11-30 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/29/2010 11:13 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: I am configuring a Xen host with 4-5 guest VMs and have a question about allocation of memory for buffer and cache. As I understand it, all guest disk IO is routed through dom0 first. Does this mean that dom0 buffer/cache is used for guest I/O as

Re: [ilugd] [...@iitd:10396] Want to start a Library for FOSS books

2010-11-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/18/2010 07:10 AM, A. Mani wrote: The best ebook format is epub (for blind people .txt may be easier to use). Kindle does not support epub. perhaps offlist if you prefer, but I would like to know why you think a storage format might have such a drastic impact on content delivery.

Re: [ilugd] [...@iitd:10396] Want to start a Library for FOSS books

2010-11-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/18/2010 07:41 PM, A. Mani wrote: perhaps offlist if you prefer, but I would like to know why you think a storage format might have such a drastic impact on content delivery. epub is a Xhtml + XML based format meant specifically for ebooks. you are still talking about the storage

Re: [ilugd] [...@iitd:10396] Want to start a Library for FOSS books

2010-11-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/17/2010 08:02 AM, satyaakam goswami wrote: I want to start a Library for FOSS books, But the basic math says this is a difficult task.. one such initiative is already on http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=131953620168994 do try to collaborate I am intrigued why there is an interest

Re: [ilugd] [...@iitd:10396] Want to start a Library for FOSS books

2010-11-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/17/2010 12:20 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: I'm old-fashioned (or maybe just old) but I still find it much easier to read on paper than on a display. It'll be a sad day when all you can get is digitised books, unless digital paper technology has advanced at least a few order of

Re: [ilugd] [...@iitd:10396] Want to start a Library for FOSS books

2010-11-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 11/17/2010 01:20 PM, Nandeep Mali wrote: I don't know but eReaders are just not for everyone yet. I don't like I dont think the ebook readers are really a 1:1 match with the reason for decline in library size's and content. Its more of a case of what content, and how its consumed.

Re: [ilugd] Meeting on 21st

2010-10-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/19/2010 06:31 AM, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: Time : 21st Oct 2011, 5pm to 7pm Venue : Delhi Haat, Navdanya Stall aggh! shame I will miss it ( only get into Delhi that weekend, for a few days ) - KB ___ Ilugd mailing list

Re: [ilugd] Job in Linux Administration

2010-09-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/28/2010 04:32 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: It depends on how a person gets the RHCE certificate. Most of my friends and known persons, just do a crash course on How to crack RHCE? for 5 days and win the exams. Thats just sad. It would be interesting to see what the course developers at Red

Re: [ilugd] Job in Linux Administration

2010-09-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/28/2010 08:25 PM, Gaurav Mishra wrote: Few piece of advice which may help in getting experience and exposure when a fresher is looking for a job. ... all good points, I just want to add another one : - Look at and join the usergroups / mailing lists / forums for applications that you

Re: [ilugd] Job in Linux Administration

2010-09-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 09/27/2010 07:06 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: But i am a fresher. I am working on LINUX platform for the last 2 and half years. So will i get a job in Open source or not, is there a chance? The answers are here. http://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/how-to-get-a-linux-admin-job/ Thats

Re: [ilugd] How to get wifi on visit to Delhi

2010-09-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/19/2010 10:06 PM, Llywelyn Owen wrote: I will be visiting Delhi in the next week or so to work on the Games coverage for a fortnight. I plan to bring my Linux Netbook to keep on top of my email. Some of my sad Windows using colleague want to do the same. We've been told that wifi is either

Re: [ilugd] Linux installation server

2010-09-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/13/2010 11:48 AM, Narender wrote: Hi i want to setup a linux installation server for quick build of linux machines in network. what i found on google was Kickstart and cobbler. https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6747/ Cobbler is used by a lot of people, in

Re: [ilugd] kernel: cciss: fifo full errors

2010-08-31 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/31/2010 11:07 AM, Lukram Debendro wrote: I am supporting RHEl 5 linux servers and we have few servers on Linux kernel version 2.6.18-92.el5 which are showing the following error: kernel: cciss: fifo full I have checked several blogs but unable to get any solution. Please let me know in

Re: [ilugd] (no subject)

2010-08-31 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/30/2010 04:07 PM, abhishek dubey wrote: Sir how can i help you. suggest me something i am ready for it. auto-detecting video geometry changes and auto-adapting the present settings for that change could use some love. is that the sort of thing you had in mind ? - KB

Re: [ilugd] Calling all Apache Solr/open-source search engine users in Delhi/NCR

2010-08-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/21/2010 12:30 PM, Gora Mohanty wrote: whether these are available on the weekend). As a plus point (for some), the office is right across the highway from the Howzzat micro-brewery. is'nt that reason enough to invalidate the other option :) - KB

Re: [ilugd] Calling all Apache Solr/open-source search engine users in Delhi/NCR

2010-08-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi Gora, On 08/18/2010 05:09 PM, Gora Mohanty wrote: Please follow up to this message, ideally with a brief description of any work that you have done in this area. Hopefully we can arrange a meeting for this weekend, else for the next. I am not usually in the target geographic area

[ilugd] Gpl test

2010-07-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi guys, Just wondering if there has been any gpl test in the indian courts or if anyone has been brought up in the courts for gpl violation. - KB ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Where can I buy a Linksys SPA3102 VoIP Adapter?

2010-04-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/21/2010 03:57 AM, Nishant Prakash Kashyap wrote: Terminating VoIP to PSTN is still illegal here. But people can use it(ATA Adaptor) if suppose they have taken a US/Canada VoIP Connection and will use it an telephone. This is interesting, in that it implies I Can extend an iax trunk from

Re: [ilugd] Where can I buy a Linksys SPA3102 VoIP Adapter?

2010-04-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/20/2010 07:03 PM, gurteshwar singh wrote: Hi, I am looking for a Linksys SPA3102 adapter. I called a few places in Nehru Place, only one said he could procure it in a week. All of them seem to have the Linksys PAP2T adapter readily available. If you know some place I might find it, please

Re: [ilugd] 21 monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/16/2010 09:16 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: so if you could get a pivotdisplay equivalent today, you could dont all 22 inch Dell displays do this today ? all the 1920x1200 capable ones definitely do ( I've seen the 2407 sidemounted, as well as 2709 ones ). There are a bunch of samsung

Re: [ilugd] Hardware RAID card where status can be monitored from CentOS and Debian

2010-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2010 01:02 PM, Tarun Dua wrote: Any recommendations for hardware RAID cards which can be monitored for RAID health from CentOS and Debian. Also any experience in actual perfomance improvement with hardware RAID cards over software RAID. I am intending to run RAID 10. any 3ware made =

Re: [ilugd] Hardware RAID card where status can be monitored from CentOS and Debian

2010-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2010 03:10 PM, Tarun Dua wrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Karanbir Singhmail-li...@karan.org wrote: any 3ware made= 9550 card or any Areca made card from the last 3 years for SATA disks. For SCSI, I'm only really using LSI at the moment made by and sold by / as LSI. Most of the

Re: [ilugd] Open source Web Server load monitoring tools

2010-03-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 03/25/2010 04:09 AM, Ravi Kumar wrote: erm, no - you seem confused about exactly how fs cache and tmpfs works. Please enlighten me. :) this is what you said : -- Anyhow, as I know, modern servers load the content in memory, delivers it to client, and keeps the cache in RAM for

Re: [ilugd] Open source Web Server load monitoring tools

2010-03-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 03/25/2010 06:54 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: on a webserver with 128 gigs of ram, partitioning out 32 gigs for the master db, with 8gb dedicated for 4 replica instances will give you a mysql query rate thats about 21 times higher than a single mysql instance hitting disk. I actually still

Re: [ilugd] Setup terminal server

2010-03-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 03/23/2010 07:25 PM, Varun Mittal wrote: I m in jp university and i was planning to set up a linux terminal server in the college, i have taken a public ip accessible all over the college. Only problem is that i cannot make changes to the dhcp server. Please suggest a reliable way to setup

Re: [ilugd] internship with linux group

2010-03-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 03/19/2010 08:24 PM, vivek gupta wrote: whoever can help i want to know how i can utilise my summer holidays with a linux group and in mean while do my summer internship computer engg 3rd year any information is welcome thanks in advance have you considered looking up the google summer of

Re: [ilugd] [Commercial] ilug.in and ilug.org.in For Sale

2010-03-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/27/2010 06:29 AM, Sudev Barar wrote: On 26 February 2010 21:59, Nishant Prakash Kashyapnpkash...@gmail.com wrote: An opportunity for Linux community member and Indian patriots. Does anyone wants to be proud owner of ilug.in or ilug.org.in The domains are with me and is for sale. Mail me

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Now Big Brother wants your DNS...

2009-12-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi Ashish, On 03/12/09 19:43, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: Google's Anycasted Public DNS resolvers http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/index.html I was looking at this in complete amazement - sure people can work out trivially from here that all they ( google ) want from here is you click path

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Now Big Brother wants your DNS...

2009-12-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/12/09 18:13, Devendra Gera wrote: The fact that OpenDNS doesn't return a NXDOMAIN response also breaks the MySQL build (the test suite specifically). I'm sure there are other things which depend on the standard, specified behaviour which break in a similar manner. the mysql test-suite

Re: [ilugd] Question Regarding RedHat 5.4 Download

2009-11-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
. But there will be no updates, and you rish running a machine with security issues on the internet. If you just need something for free and dont need the Red Hat support - consider using CentOS instead. -- Karanbir Singh London, UK| http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax

Re: [ilugd] Unable to install RHEL 5.4

2009-10-30 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/30/2009 10:36 AM, Cool G wrote: Hello All, I'm trying to install RHEL 5.4 from DVD. During start installing process it gives error : file ncurses-5.5-24-20060715.i386.rpm cannot be opened. This is due to missing file, a corrupt package of corrupt media. Please verify your installation

Re: [ilugd] ILUGD meeting: 6.30pm, Fri., 23rd Oct., 2009, SIT, JNU

2009-10-30 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/25/2009 02:46 PM, Gora Mohanty wrote: I am requesting Karanbir to allow us to put up slides of his talk, as also of a longer tutorial that he is still working on and would need clearance for. However, these will not quite substitute for interacting directly with Karanbir at the talk. I

Re: [ilugd] I want to buy a laptop

2009-10-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/12/2009 05:07 PM, narendra sisodiya wrote: I have purchased Acer Aspire 4736z, you can checkout that it is falls under your requirement.. Just as a matter of interest, do you have suspend working on there ? and are you able to auto-suspend on display close, with auto-wakeup on display

Re: [ilugd] Cyber cafe management software

2009-10-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/09/2009 07:08 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: Suggestions welcome. based on your list, looks like an admin interface to squid might be all thats needed. - KB ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] I want to buy a laptop

2009-10-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/13/2009 01:21 PM, narendra sisodiya wrote: The only problem I faced is incorrect brightness applet - we cannot set brightness , I used it for just 7 days and I lost afterthat. erm, ok - but does Suspend to ram work ? - KB ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop

2009-08-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
out crap ) -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail

Re: [ilugd] NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop

2009-08-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
being of the project you have no decision making role to play. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http

Re: [ilugd] NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop

2009-08-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
. The dynamics change quite dramatically :) -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user

Re: [ilugd] NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop

2009-08-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
agree with you on anything, what you were saying in your emails is essentially FUD. I've only tried to point that out to you in slightly clearer terms. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux

Re: [ilugd] NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop

2009-08-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
the build scripts, makefiles and toolchain used in the conversion from source to binary format. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Antivirus and Antispyware for Linux?

2009-08-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [ilugd] Antivirus and Antispyware for Linux?

2009-08-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop

2009-08-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
of this on the Indic mailing list a while ago. Will look there as well. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org

Re: [ilugd] NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop

2009-08-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
not possible to share sources ? I can quite understand there might be licensing issues, however what are the components that are covered by these prohibitive licenses, and why are they in that state ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq

Re: [ilugd] [OT] FOSS Jobs in India - Mailing list

2009-08-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
over email. /imho -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail

Re: [ilugd] NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop

2009-08-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/20/2009 07:41 AM, Nishant Sharma wrote: I appreciate the move by CDAC and NRCFOSS to make government officials aware of FOSS and BOSS. Would be even nicer if it really was open source :) -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq

Re: [ilugd] [OT] FOSS Jobs in India - Mailing list

2009-08-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
-- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop

2009-08-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/20/2009 12:57 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote: Doesn't it have to be open source ? Isn't that the nature of the beast? GPL license in this case? Could you please point out where they post the source tree's and the build scripts ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq

Re: [ilugd] NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop

2009-08-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
was in the indic language specific work they are doing and there were no sources published for any of them correct me if i am wrong, but that work might not even be GPL licensed. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] linux.in status

2009-08-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
:) -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd

[ilugd] linux.in status

2009-08-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
this ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] dedicated server - opteron or Core2quad

2009-06-03 Thread Karanbir Singh
, is it ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [ilugd] dedicated server - opteron or Core2quad

2009-06-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 06/01/2009 06:43 AM, abhishek jain wrote: I dont plan to implement virtualization for now, but will plan that for later, i want it to be a mainly database server with heavy mysql queries and then a web server also on it, As Arun already pointed out, both are viable platforms - however for

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [fosscom] NCERT Operating System

2009-05-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
this online ? I'm specially keen on a 'download link'. This sounds like a fantastic effort! -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] beat way to install Apache + Tomcat + JBoss?

2009-05-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 05/21/2009 09:33 AM, Nalin Savara wrote: Yes indeed--- no harm trying using the RPM first-- go ahead and give it a shot. If it works ; it works. As a general rule, you should almost never waste your time doing source installs unless you have nothing better to do - or there is a direct

Re: [ilugd] beat way to install Apache + Tomcat + JBoss?

2009-05-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 05/21/2009 01:29 PM, ranjeet singh wrote: first i have to do it on fedora 10 and then on opensuse. You should be able to get everything in rpm form for fedora10, including jboss. isnt it a part of the base repo's ? I have no idea about suse. - KB

Re: [ilugd] Need some idea on monitoring softwares

2009-04-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
Amritendu Das wrote: nagios is one of the best monitoring tool. its also a near total waste of time. If you need to manage those machine machines - 2k and spread across such a diverse install base, your best bet would be to start with something like opennms and then fan out from there to

Re: [ilugd] Need some idea on monitoring softwares

2009-04-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
Smruti wrote: nagios is one of the best monitoring tool. Heard the same too. But I want to know how does it compared to HP OpenView, BMC PM(formerly Patrol), Big Brother and Zabbix. Nagios used to be a good way to do things, a few years back it was also recommended quite widely. But to be

Re: [ilugd] GSoC 2009

2009-04-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
Pratul Kalia wrote: We have 101 students this time from India. Hopefully, we'll have a full list in a couple of days. What ? only 5 people made it ? :) ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] UNSUBSCRIBE ME FROM MAILING LIST

2009-04-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
INDER BAGGA wrote: please, UNSUBSCRIBE ME FROM MAILING LIST no. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi

Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
Linux Lingam wrote: dear all, anybody has any experience in running apple's airport express under ubuntu or any other flavour? http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/ I might be missing something but isnt that just a wireless AP ? why would you need an OS take on that ? - KB

Re: [ilugd] Forking a GPlv2 project

2009-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi Gaurav, Gaurav Mishra wrote: have you actually made contact with that person ? have you given that person reasonable amount of time to respond ? What's the reasonable amount of time ?, 2 months is a good one IMO yeah, I would agree that 2 months is plenty. Specially since, as you say,

Re: [ilugd] Forking a GPlv2 project

2009-04-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
- in which case they might be very happy to move the code and the project to you and let you carry on managing it. There are quite a few projects out there that have this sort of a 'moving from person to person' situation, eg the mutt folder view patchset project, and even tinyproxy. -- Karanbir

Re: [ilugd] [X-Post] Freenode is looking for donations

2009-04-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
for the $10/yr ( or whatever it is ) that is needed to pay for the freenode.net domain though. also, I wonder what the feeling these days is about such mass crossposting on the ethical front... -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq

Re: [ilugd] Wireless on Dell Inspiron 15 (CentOS 5.2)

2009-03-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
to work quite well normally. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http

Re: [ilugd] IBM: I Believe in Mornings with the Sun

2009-03-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
for the linux specific opensource ecosystem than Sun would ever be able to or inclined to. ( typing this from my sun blade 2500, using a sun developed protocol for remote desktop's - working on solaris 10. ouch. ) -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq

[ilugd] pre-loaded with Linux h/w Vendor in Delhi

2008-12-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi, Is there anyone in the Delhi area who builds / sells desktop machines and perhaps the odd laptop pre-configured with Linux ? CentOS would be ideal since then it wont need to be reloaded / major upgrades till the user is ready, but in a pinch Mandriva / Ubuntu would work too. - KB

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft develops open-source content-management system

2008-12-10 Thread Karanbir Singh
Gaurav Mishra wrote: Great... Ohh.. Wait. It's on asp.net, So that means if i need to deploy it commercially , I need a .Net licence.(or correct me if i am wrong, I hardly updated myself on this matter) what is the state of mono-project these days ? -- Karanbir Singh : http

Re: [ilugd] google selling unlocked android G1 in india

2008-12-09 Thread Karanbir Singh
Pratul Kalia wrote: Damn, its too expensive. ($400 for phone, $25 for Android Market subscription) Damn, its on Java. Damn, I can get a Freerunner for that money :-P The one big difference in the two ( G1 and the Freerunner ) is that there are more than 5 people using the G1 ! -- Karanbir

Re: [ilugd] Kernel or Seagate Issue?

2008-11-30 Thread Karanbir Singh
by the vendor, not Seagate! -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org

Re: [ilugd] Kernel or Seagate Issue?

2008-11-30 Thread Karanbir Singh
are running within that temp and still the issue is definitely temp related - the drive is broken, rma it. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux

Re: [ilugd] Kernel or Seagate Issue?

2008-11-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
Mani A wrote: Is the latest kernel OK on this? Or is it a firmware problem? ... esp as it is apparently a cross-platform problem? A bit more info on the hardware you have, the setup you run, smartctl status etc would go a long way in even starting to look at this issue. - KB

Re: [ilugd] high-end linux laptop?

2008-11-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
, hammerhead do a lot of their work with open source stuff as well, its not all prop! -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] high-end linux laptop?

2008-11-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
- then decide on what the best course of action might be! HTH -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] high-end linux laptop?

2008-11-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
the warranty is going to be. Built?? as in? for linux environment or not? built as in - are they all plastic that will fall apart in a few months, or is it fairly reliable construction that can take a few knocks and still be working. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key

Re: [ilugd] high-end linux laptop?

2008-11-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
to be linux based - I'd think atleast someone has solved these issues. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ilugd] high-end linux laptop?

2008-11-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
Linux Lingam wrote: 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, plenty of people sell the sager/clevo variety preloaded with Linux,

Re: [ilugd] Exposing Internal Web Server to Public Network

2008-11-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
Anand Shankar wrote: The proposed scenario is that on a Web server hosted on DMZ, we have hyperlinks. If the user out on the internet clicks on these hyperlinks, the application/ webpages hosted on an internal web server (192.168.*.*) are presented to the end user. There are quite a few ways

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