Re: [ilugd] Linux command-line introduction

2009-06-24 Thread Ramkumar R
http://en.flossmanuals.net/gnulinux I'll try not to criticize the article too heavily, but there seem to be some glaring mistakes. 1. Further, you can schedule scripts to occur at a specific time or date or at the occurrence of a specific event on your computer Bad example. How does cron, at,

Re: [ilugd] Linux command-line introduction

2009-06-24 Thread Ramkumar R
Er. I'm a GNU/Linux user myself and it is in my interest to see that the community produces good work and grows. Please don't take my criticism of the Introduction section in the wrong sense- I'm not trying to be a snob and trash the pieces of work that the community produces. Ofcourse, a huge

Re: [ilugd] Linux command-line introduction

2009-06-24 Thread Ramkumar R
Thanks but no thanks *sigh* I'm not even sure what I've done to deserve this sort of hostility, and being personally attacked by Nandeep. In response to a Best wishes, I get this. Frankly, I don't know who's being the jerk. I also humbly apologize for posting the one article that I thought I

Re: [ilugd] I just uploaded a photo that I want you to see!

2009-06-15 Thread Ramkumar R
OK, enough is enough.  Go ahead and add all such spammers, knowing or not, to: http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi- bin/twiki/view/Main/DoNotTrustMeWithYourPersonalData [URL has wrapped] Fantastic idea! This is an apt punishment for spammers- put their email ids up for harvesting :) Eliminates

Re: [ilugd] How to increase /root partition size in Ubun tu 8.04

2009-05-21 Thread Ramkumar R
bash$ mkdir /new bash$ mount /dev/mapper/VG00/LogVol00 /new bash$ reboot Mounting a filesystem and rebooting will achieve nothing. What were you trying to do here anyway? grub Read the GRUB manual. I'm guessing that GRUB stage 2 is looking for a kernel that doesn't exist. You can try

Re: [ilugd] How to increase /root partition size in Ubun tu 8.04

2009-05-20 Thread Ramkumar R
Do you recommend putting / on a LVM device? No. The LVM partitions I maintain are: /home /home/music /home/video /usr /usr/local /tmp /var /root (swap) No, /boot should not be on LVM. and that is the catch. /boot in most installations is not on a separate partition. I personally hate

Re: [ilugd] How to increase /root partition size in Ubun tu 8.04

2009-05-19 Thread Ramkumar R
Is there any way I can increase /root partition's size after installation, using gparted? gparted will do this fine. Next time, consider implementing LVM to resize partitions on-the-fly. -- Artagnon (.com) ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-10 Thread Ramkumar R
What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments (created with Acrobat Professional) on GNU/Linux? Evince (the default gnome viewer) displays the yellow comment icons but does not show the text. Take this opportunity to write a patch to fix Evince to show comments. File a bug here

Re: [ilugd] Restrcting direct access to CVS repository

2009-05-10 Thread Ramkumar R
CVS is so outdated, I don't even remember using it. Consider switching to bzr, git, svn or hg. -- Artagnon (.com) Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ___ ilugd mailinglist

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: SliTaz GNU/Linux distribution - help of translating info on indian-hindu wikipedia

2009-03-05 Thread Ramkumar R
[Forwarding without prejudice.  And yes, I'm Hindi and I speak the Hindu language ;) *laughs* I'm not surprised. Even Wikipedia redirects 'Hindu' to 'Hinduism' and puts a disambigouation notice. 'Hindusim' and 'Hindi' are less ambigous terms. -- Artagnon (.com) Please avoid sending me Word

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2009-01-24 Thread Ramkumar R
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Re: [ilugd] orkut - Ramkumar has sent you a friend request

2009-01-24 Thread Ramkumar R
My sincere apologies. I wasn't paying attention to all the email IDs. -- Artagnon (.com) ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] Syncing Servers

2009-01-10 Thread Ramkumar R
My friend has two machines which he wants to use as test LAMP servers. He would also use the same machines as a mail servers. He wants to keep the two machine in sync so that if one of those fails (for any reason) the mails and LAMP business keep going on the other machine. Assuming he's