RE: [ilugd] Next Meet

2004-03-30 Thread LinuxLingam
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 14:13, Rahul wrote: LINUX For You is ready to offer the venue again :-) Rahul Chopra first of all, thanks so much rahul for the venue for the march issue. worked out really well, and the facilities were excellent and much appreciated. and thanks for the repeat offer.

Re: [ilugd] Next Meet

2004-03-30 Thread LinuxLingam
ankur rohatgi, am reading your emails on how you're tweaking and customizing your box with eyecandy and animated effects and... hey!*please* step forward and give us a short, litle, talk, and demo of this at the next meet. it sounds like an amazing amount of fun. please... :-) LL

[ilugd] evolution tip: LL to LL

2004-03-30 Thread linuxlingam
dear all, have successfully managed to create two shell scripts, that automatically mount and unmount LL's RH8 home directory into LL's fedora. works great. but the two shell scripts can only be run by root, manually. any way of running these two shell scripts automatically as root without

[ilugd] PIRATE act

2004-03-29 Thread LinuxLingam
PIRATE Act Introduced in Congress http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/27/1927252 [0]certron writes Xeni Jardin has written a story for Wired about the Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act of 2004 aka [1]the PIRATE Act. It and another related bill are

[ilugd] un-minutes of the March meet

2004-03-29 Thread LinuxLingam
dear all, since i haven't seen any minutes of the meet, am posting the post-meet minutes in reverse chronological order, as a mind-numbing exercise... [grin] 11:00pm: Cafe Coffee Day in Saket starts toggling their lights, as a discreet signal to Ilug-d to call it a day. We've been slurping on

Re: [ilugd] access LL to LL

2004-03-28 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 16:05, .jareeN. wrote: The solution given to you is correct. Why the above is happening is that you need to make yourself the owner of you home directory. Do this once in the home directory of the distribution you have made the change and it will work. BYE neeraj,

Re: [ilugd] Re: access LL to LL

2004-03-28 Thread LinuxLingam
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 02:03, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: I think a better solution would be to hack the kernel on your Fedora box in order to transparently remap the UID and GID to those used on the RH8 system, so that the filesystem permission checks work as you want. ouch! a) don't know how

Re: [ilugd] RFID tags in US$ and Euro

2004-03-27 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 22:31, Arjun Asthana wrote: yeah. The 900 MHz 3W can pick you up (credit card size RFID passive tag) at over 10 ft. Most of the anti theft devices are either magnetostrictive (called acoustic) or magnetically switched on/off. They are inexpensive and do not carry any

[ilugd] last call: meet at 2pm today

2004-03-27 Thread LinuxLingam
just a reminder to please come to the meet today at 2pm, [and note my absence despite my best intentions . . . ] :-) LL ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] Scribus document samples?

2004-03-26 Thread LinuxLingam
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 17:54, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: A query for those ppl using scribus around here. Can you point out to me one extensive scribus based document on the net? One that can show a lot of what is possible using it? Secondly, how does scribus compare vis-a-vis Adobe

[ilugd] cracking md5 for evidence of poor security

2004-03-26 Thread LinuxLingam
okay guys, a few months ago we started a bizarre discussion on how any key could be compromised theoretically. the thread died immediately ah well, so here's an interesting project out to show md5 is insecure (!) the webpage starts by listing a few leading top banks, services etc., that

[ilugd] RFID tags in US$ and Euro

2004-03-26 Thread LinuxLingam
RFID tags can be used to track anything and everything, for your care, comfort, and safety. yeah, right. people are setting of RFID sensors ('you stole something') at shopping malls and elsewhere, because even their US$20 currency notes and Euro currency notes contain RFID tags for 'tracking.'

Re: [ilugd] Re: [LIG] RFID tags in US$ and Euro

2004-03-26 Thread LinuxLingam
[fyi: Radio frequency identification tag=RFID. ] On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 01:32, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: LinuxLingam wrote: RFID tags can be used to track anything and everything, for your care, comfort, and safety. yeah, right. [snip] It gets better.[snip] http://news.com.com/2100-1008

[ilugd] sco throne

2004-03-25 Thread LinuxLingam
argh! this is so funny! http://freshmeat.net/projects/aquasco/?branch_id=48908release_id=155352 :-) LL ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

RE: [ilugd] Re: [ilugd-announce] ILUGD Monthly Meet 28th March, 2004

2004-03-23 Thread LinuxLingam
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 05:36, Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva wrote: 15 minutes is infinitely more than zero. I concur! Even 2 mins is infinitely more than zero. :-) touche. Very true honorable LL Ji... But can we actually manage the show in 15 mins??? I don't think so... maybe not, but let's fit

Re: [ilugd] Java + OpenOffice.org 1.1.0

2004-03-23 Thread LinuxLingam
this java support under OO is a bi*ch to install if you don't do it during the time of installation of OO. i faced the same problem too. and also made to hop around the sun website to download java support files. i finally did manage to find a complete howto on this, for OO, should you have

Re: [ilugd] ilugd Digest, Vol 12, Issue 56

2004-03-23 Thread LinuxLingam
[huge, crunchy, snip] dear rajeev singh, on behalf of the whole mailing list, i would like to profusely thank you for forwarding us an ilug-d digest in your mail. 20kb of it. may we know by what blessing do we deserve this? ?? LL ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] How to do Real audio, video streaming through Mplayer or XMMS?

2004-03-23 Thread LinuxLingam
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 10:54, Rajesh wrote: I was trying to listen to BBC radio broadcast and Video on the internet. try vlc, or VideoLanClient. it does all of the above and more for me. two words: kicks ass. :-) LL ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] How to do Real audio, video streaming through Mplayeror XMMS-Helix works.

2004-03-23 Thread LinuxLingam
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 20:41, Rajesh K. Jha wrote: Thanks, I tried Helix and now I can listen to the streaming audio at least in the real audio and video format. Inspired by LL's suggestion, I had tried to install the VLC but I ran into trouble. It started asking me to install mozilla

[ilugd] access LL to LL

2004-03-23 Thread LinuxLingam
dear all, two partitions, assume: hdc7 contains RedHat8 hdc9 contains Fedora in each, i have /home/LL/ for the same-named user, LL, for each release. when i am under Fedora, i have mounted hdc7 as follows: /mnt/RH8 okay, so while logged in as the user LL under Fedora, I wish to access the

Re: [ilugd] Re: [ilugd-announce] ILUGD Monthly Meet 28th March, 2004

2004-03-22 Thread LinuxLingam
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:39, Raj Shekhar wrote: Akshay Lamba wrote: Okay who is volunteering for a introductory note, it will be good if we give regular guyz a rest(Raj, Kishore, LL, etc). I can give an introduction to the GNU project, Free Software philosophy and Linux, if no one

Re: [ilugd] Digital Photo Management

2004-03-22 Thread LinuxLingam
sourceforge lists several dozen photo gallery software. what you are looking for, is a photo-cataloguing software. i do remember a very good and powerful one running a huge creativecommons site with thousands of images. that's the one you want. you can search by keywords and other

RE: [ilugd] Re: [ilugd-announce] ILUGD Monthly Meet 28th March, 2004

2004-03-22 Thread LinuxLingam
Geee! Do you think that 15 mins would be enough for a newbie to understand the technojargon + flamewars + netequitte flames :-o or to shed *off* their nervousness... 15 minutes is infinitely more than zero. :-) look, let's get the ball rolling in this direction. its a process of

RE: [ilugd] Re: [ilugd-announce] ILUGD Monthly Meet 28th March, 2004

2004-03-21 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 02:24, vivek khurana wrote: - Would intro to security tools (nessus, nmap, ntop) / common services (proxy - squid, IDS - snort, firewall - iptables) be ok? Just an intro to the tools and quick method of setting one up using webmin. ya it seems good if you also

Re: [ilugd] Anyone interested in these distro's?

2004-03-21 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 03:17, Bhaskar Dutta wrote: [snip] Place: North Campus, Delhi Univ. Cost: $ 0.02 Media: Get your own if possible ( i have limited moser baer cd-r's) yaar! hindi mein, is that Rs nine or rs ten? that's a massive 10% difference in price for a complete operating

Re: [ilugd] Re: March meeting ILUGD - Linux Security for Newbies and Professionals

2004-03-21 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 15:09, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: At 2004-03-19 16:24:13 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: br3. Setting up IPSec on Linux : by AMS(Abhijeet Menon Sen) ^^^ (Abhijit Menon-Sen) I've been rather sick, so I may not be able to give this

[ilugd] font rendering

2004-03-21 Thread LinuxLingam
dear all, just a short note to share with you that yesterday, while zealously playing with my spankin' new kde under pcqlinux/fedora, okay, let's make that gnu/pcqlinux/fedora, :-) i went to the control centre, clicked on fonts, and toggled around with the settings of font anti-aliasing. oops!

Re: [ilugd] font rendering

2004-03-21 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 17:00, Vipul Mathur wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 04:22:06PM +0530, LinuxLingam wrote: could someone please try out this sub-pixel rendering, especially on fonts less than 9 points, and bigger than 96 points, and share with us the results? Correct me if I am wrong

Re: [ilugd] Re: [ilugd-announce] ILUGD Monthly Meet 28th March, 2004

2004-03-20 Thread LinuxLingam
here is what i propose: 1) every ilug-d meet begins with a 15-minute introduction to gnulinux for newbies and even wannabies. each time, a new guy from our group delivers this presentation, in his or her own style and interpretation. the assumption will be is that the target audience for this

Re: [ilugd] Re: [ilugd-announce] ILUGD Monthly Meet 28th March, 2004

2004-03-20 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 01:00, vivek khurana wrote: Okay guyz, LL has volunteerd to give introductory note in this meet. Which topic LL ?? It will be great if you can give an intro on security. nope. i volunteer to speak on nothing. have already delivered a more than fair amount of talks

Re: [ilugd] Linux For DEC Alpha

2004-03-19 Thread LinuxLingam
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 19:13, Shivkumar Jagannath wrote: Hi, I stumbled across a coupla DEC Alpha server machines in my office that no one wants to use. [snip] I want to install Linux (any distro ) on both of them holy wow! that's cool. two of 'em! anyways, contact vipul mathur on this list.

Re: [ilugd] Re: Re: Linux help for checking versio

2004-03-19 Thread LinuxLingam
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 22:08, Raj Shekhar wrote: [snip] And neither should the Micro$oft $hared $ource License be confused with GPL. As of November 2002, Microsoft's Shared Source program (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/default.mspx) offering is actually a collection of

Re: Re: [ilugd] [Possible -OT][crosspost] Is linux miltary grade

2004-03-18 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 09:32, Arjun Asthana wrote: Dear Kishore, Naw, you are wrong. Only good followers can be good leaders. Also, things have changed over the years ;-) [snip] this thread ends here. bye. ciao. peace. oneworld and all that LL

Re: [ilugd] Suitable Venue needed: Linux Delhi Meet Postponement

2004-03-18 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 11:07, Tarun Dua wrote: Hi All, The Linux Delhi March Meeting will not held on 21st March as I am unable to find a suitable venue. The plan is now for 28th March, 2004. will the tee-shirts be there? LL ___ ilugd mailinglist

Re: [ilugd] Re:MIlitary Grade Software

2004-03-18 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 15:43, Arjun Asthana wrote: The QA standards are still more strict for Space. The Martian Buggy used Z80 processor, which is long dead (about 20 years) in commercial world. er.. the Z80 is one of the most successful processors in the world, and is hardly dead in the

Re: [ilugd] Is GNU/Linux undestood as Red Hat by the most

2004-03-16 Thread LinuxLingam
On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 01:49, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [snip]but I'd like to know through this list with all the people that,Is it so that GNU/Linux is mostly termed as Red Hat here, particularly in India. nope. gnulinux comes

Re: [ilugd] pcqlinux2004

2004-03-16 Thread LinuxLingam
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 22:13, vivek wrote: and also, is the font rendering different from redhat 9 or mandrake 9.2 distros? okay, so i need mandrake cds so can install it too. [grin] i saw the screenshots at freetype.org, didnt impress me much as i already have the same in mandrake 9.2

Re: [ilugd] pcqlinux2004

2004-03-16 Thread LinuxLingam
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 20:42, Viksit Gaur wrote: Might you be facing problems with KDE being super un-responsive to context menus? nope. tested it out for you. I've got this problem where right clicking on any item does pop up a menu, but neither ESC or a click outside makes it close.

Re: [ilugd] pt seen and noted

2004-03-16 Thread LinuxLingam
On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 20:51, pg smh wrote: hi there, got the point that u r making , but note that this was the first event for the institute of this scale as far as the IT field is concerned and myself being a part of it, i'll call it an event for us and being a linux user i tried to made

[ilugd] workstation filth

2004-03-16 Thread LinuxLingam
okay guys, the bottom (!) is true whether you use windoze or gnulinux. henceforth all emails from me will be squirted to you while i am perched on my throne. :-) LL Lifting The Lid On Computer Filth http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/16/0223220 There's a story over at BBC News

RE: [ilugd] not able to play mp3 using xmms on fedora

2004-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 16:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manoj Thakkar (WT01 - EMBEDDED PRODUCT ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS) Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 11:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ilugd] not

Re: [ilugd] Festival at LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, DELHI

2004-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 16:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The annual cultural cum technical festival TATVA 2004 of LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, DELHI was held on 13th March,2004. It was a mega event held at the institute's campus attracting participants from various reputed

RE: [ilugd] not able to play mp3 using xmms on fedora

2004-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 17:45, Jasmeet S. Virdi wrote: $How to use winamp on fedora I diddn' find any binaries for linux of $winamp You wont be able to use winamp on fedora, cos it needs wine/winex and I don't think fedora ships with either. There are many players which can play mp3 for you,

Re: [ilugd] Multimedia on RHL

2004-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 19:28, D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida wrote: Hi, I was looking for some Video player / Audio players for RHL 9.0. I found that Chip March, 2004 CDs had some Linux stuff, but they seem to have missed quite a lot of rpms.[snip] Also, that he has lots of bandwidth and can

[ilugd] pcqlinux2004

2004-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
there it sits, in yet another parition on my pc. yes, pcqlinux2004. is it cool, or is it cool? man! this distro really rocks. pcq had done a great job with its compilation. the features are impressive, but the eye-candy is even more. this is the first linux distro i've used so far, that has

Re: [ilugd] pcqlinux2004

2004-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 20:42, Viksit Gaur wrote: Might you be facing problems with KDE being super un-responsive to context menus? hi! barre-finger dude! :) i had a strange problem, but only erraticaly. if i click on the K menu, the system seems as if it is frozen. a few clicks arounhd, or

Re: [ilugd] pcqlinux2004

2004-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
posting to the mailing list: On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 22:53, Viksit Gaur wrote: LinuxLingam wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 20:42, Viksit Gaur wrote: [snip] i had a strange problem, but only erraticaly. if i click on the K menu, the system seems as if it is frozen. a few clicks arounhd, or even

Re: [ilugd] pcqlinux2004

2004-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 01:10, vivek khurana wrote: --- LinuxLingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is the first linux distro i've used so far, that has excellent rendering of fonts on-screen. thanks to the latest freetype2 and stuff. hmmm. has pcquest added this, i belive

Re: [ilugd] LTSP - What is this beast

2004-03-14 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 12:51, avnathan wrote: As regards thin clients many people are pessimistic about it. Further, among dedicated windows terminals, the linux ones apparently inferior in technology when compared to the Windows-based ones as i read from a review. I am not sure thin clients

Re: [ilugd] apt-get

2004-03-14 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 10:55, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: One too many forced RPM install made. :) and several more things that RPM doesn't know about, either. ;-) this because that's just the way things are when you work with different types of source files. my system went into this state

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Latest on spam from indiatimes

2004-03-13 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 10:20, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Great! Now I got another spam mail from indiatimes, this tiems it is trying to sell me a recipe CD. The bottom of the mail reads: Since India has no anti-spamming law, we follow the US Unsolicited Electronic Mail Act of 2000, [snip]

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-13 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 12:43, Raj Shekhar wrote: i visited the cauce india site. couldn't figure out what is a PIL though i read thru their pages. PIL == Public interest ligitation. I am not sure how to go about doing this, I will have to do some research how exactly it works in our

[ilugd] apt-get

2004-03-13 Thread LinuxLingam
am trying to upgrade the qt on my installation. so, i run # apt-get upgrade qt i get a list of packages with unmet dependencies. these packages have nothing to do with qt and i don't want apt-get to touch them. i just want apt-get to upgrade qt with all its directly relevant files. read thru

Re: [ilugd] apt-get

2004-03-13 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 02:20, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: The package created by who ever has dependency for some other libraries which aren't updated on your system. Along with qt, those libraries also need be updated. That is what rpm (apt-get, in your terms) is crying about. er... no. when i

Re: [ilugd] apt-get

2004-03-13 Thread LinuxLingam
Do # apt-get install qt That will make sure qt is the newest version available. hmmm.. does not solve the problem, see below for output. how to resolve this? apt-get upgrade tells apt to upgrade all installed packages to the newest ones available. :-) # apt-get install qt Reading

Re: [ilugd] apt-get

2004-03-13 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 03:37, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To the extent I'm aware, RH doesn't provide dselect, so better use yum(I'm not sure if you'll want that) or follow the simplest option of downloading the rpms and upgrading. Please let us

[ilugd] TCPA? get worried

2004-03-12 Thread LinuxLingam
wonder how many of you are aware of this? its impact on linux will be significant to say the least. the parallel thread on battling spam at linux-delhi looks pale by comparison. guys, we do need to do something. http://www.againsttcpa.com/what-is-tcpa.html LL

Re: [ilugd] substitute for corel draw

2004-03-11 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 09:15, Sudev Barar wrote: use sodipodi, or inkscape, with sketch. and cinepaint. [SNIP] Thanks LL. you are welcome. in a few days will also publish a series of tutorials on these software, under the FDL, so you can point these to people too. That is the point. The

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-11 Thread LinuxLingam
[snip everything] :-) to cut a long story short, irrespective of how they harvest email ids or phone numbers or personal data, how can we exercise our need for privacy, rather than begging to have it back? action plan, anyone? you can't digitally black list telemarketeers, right? my demands to

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-11 Thread LinuxLingam
here's a great example of unsolicited stuff. but then, i wish i had the same position of strength to fight back ;-) U.S. Army Warns Microsoft To Back Off http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/11/0053239 [0]declan writes My CNET News colleague Ina Fried has written an interesting

[ilugd] georgeMichael offers free music on internet

2004-03-11 Thread LinuxLingam
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/36178.html george michael says he will offer free music on the internet. wow! LL ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] substitute for corel draw

2004-03-11 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 17:37, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: LinuxLingam wrote: sodipodi, inkscape, and sketch together please. else they'll shy away, and don't make it a complete replacement. then it works. I am a bit confused of the difference between these programs. Could you

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-11 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 22:22, vivek khurana wrote: hmm.. a problem all of us face. I use a very rude approach and sometimes resorte to foul language. I know its not a good method, but it works!!! Till date i have never received a call from the company whose tele-caller i rebuffed. But again

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-11 Thread LinuxLingam
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 00:05, Raj Mathur wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 LL == linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LL [snip] LL how do i stop begging to have no junk phone calls, posts, LL emails, or sms from marketeers, and *enforce* this? Uh

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-10 Thread LinuxLingam
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 12:59, Raj Shekhar wrote: [snip] The suspicious thing was that is addressed me as Dear Linux professional. The only place I had given out that particular email ID was at LinuxAsia. Are they selling those email IDs? Has any one you got such mails too? Moral of the

Re: [ilugd] [Possibly OT] About the GNOME 'Foot' logo

2004-03-05 Thread LinuxLingam
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 20:31, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: Hi, Could anyone provide details on a company http://e-aim.com ? They seem to be using the GNOME 'foot' logo without prior permission and causing some consternation at the GNOME Foundation. [snip] i just checked their site, and am

Re: [ilugd] RAM costs

2004-02-25 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 11:57, Avinesh Bangar wrote: You might want to check PriceWatch (http://www.pricewatch.com/). google for nehru place IT hub, which lists such resources. btw, you can even find old pcs, laptops, and loads of other useful junk here that the linux community can breathe fire

Re: [ilugd] RAM costs

2004-02-25 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 12:21, Sanjeev Ghane Gupta wrote: And what does this discussion have to do with Linux at all?? The RAM is not a WinRAM, it can be used in a Linux box? ;-) -- Sanjeev [don't mess with ghane. you have been forewarned...] [g,d,r] :-) LL

Re: [ilugd] ILUG-D website

2004-02-24 Thread LinuxLingam
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 16:06, Nishikant Kapoor wrote: LinuxLingam wrote: c) the description for distributions must clearly mention that this is the forum to contact for requests for cds. I was hoping that we would have discussions about various Linux distributions under 'Distributions

Re: [ilugd] Re: ILUG-D website

2004-02-24 Thread LinuxLingam
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:48, Tarun Dua wrote: On a more serious note, Linux Delhi already having dipped into the kitty to prop up the Maharaja Tux Logo/Illustration/Mascot on its banner so it doesn't make sense to find a replacement for Linux Delhi official logo without LL volunteering to

Re: [ilugd] Re: [OT] Spy trackers in Indiatimes mailers?

2004-02-24 Thread LinuxLingam
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 22:25, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: At 2004-02-24 21:58:44 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: who else has some proactive, tangible steps on what we can do that leads to results? I suggest a mass SMS campaign to raise public awareness! -- ams funny. hey! am serious

Re: [ilugd] Re: [OT] Spy trackers in Indiatimes mailers?

2004-02-24 Thread LinuxLingam
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 22:34, Raj Shekhar wrote: [snip] But LL you are a journalist and maybe you can use your columns to spread awarness about this issue. Once the people are warned of the dangers of blatantly giving out email ids and mobile numbers, they would be in a position to make an

[ilugd] linuxdelhi logo

2004-02-24 Thread LinuxLingam
hi nishi, the logos are created in sodipodi, which is available from sodipodi.org. the software is a vector graphics authoring software (like coreldraw or adobe illustrator). the png was exported from within this software. i just opened the files here, and they work okay. if you wish, i could

Re: [ilugd] Re: ILUG-D website

2004-02-24 Thread LinuxLingam
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 08:47, Raj Mathur wrote: [snip] LL had posted some excellent guidelines for making logos onto the list some time back (toward the end of 2003). If our aspiring artists could grab those and make up a few logos that meet the guidelines, we could have a poll for one for

[ilugd] ILUG-D website

2004-02-22 Thread LinuxLingam
a) this is the thread for discussions on the new website. please reply to this for the sake of thread-devotees. b) the new site architecture reflects how ilug-d has evolved. fantastic. do we need a section on 'linux in education' in the discussions area? c) the description for distributions must

[ilugd] .net security

2004-02-21 Thread LinuxLingam
quite an interesting article, this: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040219.html ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] WYSIWYGet webauthoring

2004-02-19 Thread LinuxLingam
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 23:13, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: LinuxLingam wrote: quanta+ is a great web-authoring and design tool that is GPL-ed and works under linux. but it is a WYSIWYMean tool. i am looking for a WYSIWYGet tool, something like dreamweaver or golive that people on the other

Re: [ilugd] help (fwd)

2004-02-19 Thread LinuxLingam
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 23:25, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: [snip] Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT (www.researchut.com) Happy GNU/Linux user since 1998 - -- In the stands here I see a young couple who must be in love -- they're kissing on every pitch. He's kissing her on [snip] er...! please

Re: Problems of women in OSS projects (was) Re: [ilugd] help (fwd)

2004-02-19 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 14:07, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: LinuxLingam wrote: [snip] please check this out for more details: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=352609 [from sandip]: This is quite an interesting social issue. On one hand people want Internet to be suitable

Re: [ilugd] July 2004 meet coordinator (Was Re: help (fwd))

2004-02-19 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 14:20, Tarun Dua wrote: Great. We seem to have ready volunteers for everything. LL has volunteered to do the needful. 1. Convince a Girls College to host ILUGD July 2004 meet. 2. Find volunteers who are girls to give presentations on Linux. -Tarun tarun has become

Re: [ilugd] WYSIWYGet webauthoring

2004-02-19 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 13:35, LinuxLingam wrote: LL, do keep the list posted about what you find. just got an email from mary, who usually lurks on this list. pointed me to www.nvu.com which is exactly what i wanted. please check it out, this is a graphics-oriented, WYSIWYG web-design tool

Re: women-in-linux meet (was) Re: Problems of women in OSS projects (was) Re: [ilugd] help (fwd)

2004-02-19 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 15:06, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: LinuxLingam wrote: The idea is good. But I rather would like to look at it this way - if you want girls talking about linux, they have to be from technical colleges, and i dont know any girls-only tech colleges. nah! that's the other

Re: should we have forum (was) [ilugd] Re: Possible additional feature for the list

2004-02-19 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 16:15, Amit Sharma wrote: both points are valid, i am in favour of forum. 2 votes in favour of forum few hundred against it i feel :( we should have forum amit let newbies use the mailing list subscription. others could use gmane. and should you insist, go for

[ilugd] isdn H E L P

2004-02-19 Thread LinuxLingam
dear all, this is frustrating. need help. please give. thank you. ! am using redhat 8, have a micronet SP3200A pci card that gives me a 128K ISDN TA. shoved it into one of those empty slots on my pc's motherboards. checked services, and have got the isdn daemon humming in the background.

Re: [ilugd] changing the mailing list sig

2004-02-18 Thread LinuxLingam
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 11:54, Raj Shekhar wrote: [snip] To reflect the changing times and traditions can the mail admin change this to `` ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi `` if it is not too much of trouble. It seems

Re: [ilugd] slashdot for delhi

2004-02-18 Thread LinuxLingam
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 03:50, rohit sharma wrote: hi delhi-lug, i am interested in finding out if the delhi-lug will consider putting up a delhi-slashdot equivalent (see www.slashdot.org)? a) wouldn't it be better to start with a slashdot india? b) code does not run a slashdot. people do?

[ilugd] WYSIWYGet webauthoring

2004-02-18 Thread LinuxLingam
quanta+ is a great web-authoring and design tool that is GPL-ed and works under linux. but it is a WYSIWYMean tool. i am looking for a WYSIWYGet tool, something like dreamweaver or golive that people on the other side of the fence use. i remember there was something, but can't find it in

Re: [ilugd] Re: Possible additional feature for the list

2004-02-18 Thread LinuxLingam
yes, i have said this earlier, and am saying it again, mairu, and others for the forum, P L E A S E go visit http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi and evaluate what sandip and kishore got rolling a few months ago. * * * if you are reading this line, it probably means you have not

Re: [ilugd] Updating linux-delhi.org website

2004-02-18 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 12:17, Amit Sharma wrote: also, can we get it redesigned please. if u want i can get the template designed by my webdesigners. hey amit! that caught my attention. do your designers use an opensource, mukt software that runs under linux, for designing web templates? am

Re: [ilugd] Options available for VB developers

2004-02-18 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 12:41, Mani wrote: Type using python. - Original Message - [gigantic snip of redundant, previous email text] try not to top post. LL ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] how many?

2004-02-16 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 23:53, Raj Mathur wrote: LL where was this? On one of the 40-foot banners opposite the seminar hall. See event pics at linux-delhi.org, 8th row, 3rd column. saw the pic. wish i had seen this earlier, or someone had pointed this to me. would have requested them to

Re: [ilugd] Kernel version

2004-02-16 Thread LinuxLingam
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 11:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: which version of redhat linux has kernel version less than 2.4.4 ? as redhat 8 has version 2.4.18 . redhat 1.x [g,d,r] LL ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] how many?

2004-02-15 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 09:23, Raj Mathur wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ``[Open Source] is a pitch for free software on solid pragmatic grounds rather than ideological tub-thumping. The winning substance has not changed, but the losing attitude and symbolism have.''

Re: [ilugd] LinuxAsia, last day

2004-02-13 Thread LinuxLingam
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 07:56, Raj Mathur wrote: And while you're there, don't forget to give a special thanks to the people who made this possible. You will get the whole list, but for now let me mention (to the best of my abilities, which are nearly 0 at 0800) those who have selflessly

[ilugd] how many?

2004-02-13 Thread LinuxLingam
so at the end of the day, what are the details? 1) how many cds, by title, got sold? 2) how many [fsf] tee-shirts sold? are you ordering more against a list? 3) any new registrants to the ilug-d mailing list? 4) how many visitors came to the stall in total? 5) the best news is that the

Re: [ilugd] file sharing between linux machines

2004-02-11 Thread LinuxLingam
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 08:12, Raj Shekhar wrote: Personally, I prefer SWAT to set up my samba.conf file. There are just too many tweaking to remember. be careful with swat. you will find on several threads, problems that were introduced rather than solved, by swat. though maybe this was in

[ilugd] howto check what's happening and why?

2004-02-11 Thread LinuxLingam
so am doing my usual stuff on the pc, nothing special, when i suddenly note a huge jump in the cpu usage, use of memory, even swap space, in the monitor graph. my pc actually slows to a crawl. frantic. is that a slurp from the net connection? i get a console to do tcpdumping, but it shows all's

Re: [ilugd] Volunteers for Linux Asia (WAS LinuxAsia2004 update)

2004-02-10 Thread LinuxLingam
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 15:28, Tarun Dua wrote: Suggestions are welcome for more Eye-Candy Demos mairu could give demo of graphics art software. Banner Niyam+Kapil you mean mairu. Posters Niyam again, mairu. T-Shirts oops! ! LL ___

Re: [ilugd] Volunteers for Linux Asia (WAS LinuxAsia2004 update)

2004-02-10 Thread LinuxLingam
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 23:10, Raj Shekhar wrote: One of my friends is here from Calcutta. He has with himself a CD of Ankur Bangla Linux, which is a live CD but in Bangla (surprise!). He said that he could do a demo of the distribution if the powers of LUGD allow him to. What do you all

Re: [ilugd] Re: CBI is logged in, checking your email?

2004-02-08 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 08:59, mary wrote: http://203.200.95.170/projects/pickpacket/pp_documents.html http://203.200.95.170/projects/ *sigh* mary just pointed us to the website of the pickpacket project, which details most of its concepts, offers an online documentation, and more, and

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