Re: [ilugd] [fosscomm] Migration to GNU/Linux: Suggestions needed

2013-01-15 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 1/10/2013 9:45 PM, Mohit Singh wrote: Can we replace Rational Rose with something FOSS? What are you using Rose for at the moment? Your later comment about Doxygen being unsuitable is a little confusing, as that's a documentation tool and not intended for modelling. If you are looking

Re: [ilugd] October 2012 Meetup

2012-10-01 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 10/1/2012 1:52 PM, Andrew Lynn wrote: [snip] eth3 - Taj - Xen and Puppet. Since there seem to be a few people interested in this talk (I'm pleased!), I feel I should mention the scope - I'm no expert on any of these technologies, but I've been playing with them for a few years and I feel

Re: [ilugd] October 2012 Meetup

2012-09-30 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
Hi, If there is interest, I'd like to do a short (30min) talk on my experiences with Xen and puppet (debian-focused). -Taj. ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Xen/VirtualBox/Intel IOMMU HOWTO

2012-08-24 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 8/20/2012 6:08 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: [snip] I haven't done any benchmarks, but subjectively speaking Xen seems much, much faster than VirtualBox. Much cleaner too -- once the hypervisor starts, there're no user-level processes hanging around for vistualisation assistance. Each

Re: [ilugd] [A bit Off Topic] Dictionary Text File

2011-06-14 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 14-Jun-11, at 5:58 PM, Amar Akshat wrote: Hello Folks, I am in the process of writing a Dictionary based Password Generator Script. So it will, randomly select any word from dictionary, and it will tweak random letters in the word. And a few more operations as per policy. I am

Re: [ilugd] Web-based LDAP management on Debian

2011-05-10 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
I've looked into a few of these apps now, so I thought I'd provide a status update for those who are interested. One of my core requirements (which I foolishly neglected to mention earlier) was the ability to allow non-admin users to log in and change their passwords via the web

[ilugd] Web-based LDAP management on Debian

2011-05-07 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
Hi all, I am looking for a web-based frontend to manage an LDAP-based user and host database. There are a lot of options out there, but ideally: 1. It should come prepackaged on debian and be well-maintained and up to date. 2. Shouldn't be a MANAGE EVERYTHING front-end - I'd like to

Re: [ilugd] Web-based LDAP management on Debian

2011-05-07 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 07-May-11, at 4:29 PM, Abhishek Kumar wrote: [snip] Try jxplorer used it a lot 5-6 years back when working with CA. pretty handy tool and would suffice your requirements. Thanks for the pointer. It looks like a good thick client tool, but I'd prefer something with a web UI. -Taj.

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

2010-11-30 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Wednesday, December 01, 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: [snip] However, if its blockdev - domU (eg. a logical vol, or a physical disk ) you wont get any filesystem level caching on the host, but there might still be an opportunity to run with seriously high device buffers ( if you so desire and

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

2010-11-29 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
Hi all, 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 well, and guest buffer/cache is

Re: [ilugd] LVM and ext3 size relationship

2010-11-16 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 11/17/2010 10:57 AM, Rakesh Kumar wrote: [snip] Great to know this because i have never seen this ever. But i want to know one thing that when i studied this, found that we keep this size bigger because of metadata. And if it is correct metadata will increase with the size of PV and VG then

Re: [ilugd] LVM and ext3 size relationship

2010-11-13 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 13-Nov-10, at 12:39 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: [snip] He wanted a formula. He has not got a formula. Here's a formula: y = x * 1.0158 Explanation: I decided to check the ext3 overhead empirically, since I not keen to delve into the resize2fs sources. I've attached a simple

Re: [ilugd] LVM and ext3 size relationship

2010-11-13 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
I keep forgetting that attachments are scrubbed. Script is available at: http://sirtaj.net/projects/fscomp.py -Taj. ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] LVM and ext3 size relationship

2010-11-12 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 08-Nov-10, at 4:16 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: [snip] I'd like some assistance in understanding the relationship between the size of an LVM2 logical volume and ext3. While nobody appears to have an answer to my question (if a good answer exists), I did some more hunting

Re: [ilugd] LVM and ext3 size relationship

2010-11-08 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 09-Nov-10, at 12:57 AM, Rakesh Kumar wrote: [snip] First of all i would suggest you to go through some good tutorial on it. Thereafter i would add that LVM is basically something which is very helpful when you are running out of disk capacity. And it allows you to expand the disk size

[ilugd] Grub help - drops to prompt

2010-09-22 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
Hi all, I have a NC10 netbook running FC12 that stopped booting correctly after a grub update. On system startup it drops to the grub prompt. At this prompt, simply typing configfile /grub/grub.conf causes it to bring up the menu correctly and everything continues normally from there.

Re: [ilugd] Grub help - drops to prompt

2010-09-22 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 23-Sep-10, at 3:50 AM, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: [snip] [I hope you're aware that grub (legacy) expects configuration (menu.lst or grub.conf) to be in /boot/grub, and assuming your /dev/sda1 or (hd0,0) is mounted as /boot in fstab(5), then I hope you've /boot symlink (pointing to .) present

Re: [ilugd] Laxmicharan Samineni would like to add you as a friend on Skoost

2010-04-20 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 20-Apr-10, at 6:35 AM, Laxmicharan Samineni wrote: Abhinav Sachdeva We have a mutual friend on Skoost and I'd like to add you as my friend, Laxmicharan Samineni. It's a sad state of affairs that this feeblemindedness is so par for the course now that it rarely warrants a comment.

Re: [ilugd] Laxmicharan Samineni would like to add you as a friend on Skoost

2010-04-20 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 20-Apr-10, at 4:52 PM, Anil Seth wrote: [snip] I do not know about this site, but I suspect that more often than not, it comes under 'social engineering'. The frequency and variation of these invites (esp. from well-known sites like linkedin) suggests that that's not what this is. Much

Re: [ilugd] Notetakers Annotators in Linux

2008-06-16 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Saturday 14 June 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [snip] I use a paper pad - it is exactly like a real paper pad (in fact it *is* a real paper pad) - and I have enough kingfisher pens to last me a lifetime. How do you do backups? -Taj. ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Convert man pages to hyperlinked doc?

2008-05-01 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: [snip] Man!!! As if loving man pages was a pre-requisite for loving the OS!!! It's not just man. I also hate apropos. Amd I think GNU /bin/yes is buggy and lacks important features. -Taj. ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Convert man pages to hyperlinked doc?

2008-05-01 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 30-Apr-08, at 10:03 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: I am here to destroy my little cred as a long-time unix-lover with a single statement: I really don't like man pages. don't tell me you have stopped wearing a hair shirt and no longer

[ilugd] Convert man pages to hyperlinked doc?

2008-04-30 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
I am here to destroy my little cred as a long-time unix-lover with a single statement: I really don't like man pages. -- rant, please ignore - They are sometimes nice as a reference, terrible as tutorials, and very bad for searching for specific pieces of information when you don't know

Re: [ilugd] Convert man pages to hyperlinked doc?

2008-04-30 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: [snip] man2html[1], konqueror already does this, when you do, man:ls . I'm aware of that, and yes it's a pretty major improvement from reading the page in a terminal, but it still doesn't do TOC or hyperlinks of any kind. I grok the

Re: [ilugd] [OT] My dilemma

2008-03-05 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Puneet Lakhina wrote: [snip] Moreover since I work in the software business, supporting piracy would be a disservice to my own profession and its profits. This is the key. It has nothing to do with profits, but of plain respect. Even if you are an open source

Re: [ilugd] [x-posted] potentially-damaging news: Apple 'buys' CUPS

2007-07-12 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
IANAL FWIW On Thursday 12 July 2007 11:28 pm, Linux Lingam wrote: can we expect several more of such similar 'hostile' take-overs of GPL-ed software where a lead-programmer essentially has the right to revoke the GPL license for whatever motivations? It's not possible for anyone to

Re: [ilugd] [commercial] American company seeking Asterisk consultants

2007-07-03 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 12:26 am, das wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:46 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: Since you found it necessary to mention it, is there something special about your being an American company? Should we all fall down in awe? Maybe because they are proclaiming beforehand

Re: [ilugd] Little endian big endian problem

2007-05-19 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Saturday 19 May 2007 6:01 pm, Simon fgc wrote: Hello, I am using Mips 32 target and i use below structure typedef struct packet_t { unsigned int length; unsigned short int value; unsigned id; union { struct { unsigned int p1;

Re: [ilugd] Little endian big endian problem

2007-05-19 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
I am guilty of providing poor advice. First: On Saturday 19 May 2007 7:07 pm, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: p] #define USB_ENDIAN_32(X) \ | uint32)(X) 0xff00) 24) \ | (((uint32)(X) 0x00ff) 8) \ | (((uint32)(X) 0xff00) 8) \ | (((uint32)(X

Re: [ilugd] ILUGD functioning [WAS: Re: The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007]

2007-02-08 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Thursday 08 February 2007 7:36 pm, Anupam Jain wrote: [snip] we have established that my allegations were not really so, I stand by whatever I said fully because I did not see a public discussion on this topic *before* the event. It may have been due to valid reasons Look I haven't

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-06 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
Rahul, As someone who had no stake in LA for the last few years I guess my opinion on this is moot, but I wanted to ask: On Tuesday 06 February 2007 10:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] accelerate the adoption of Linux/OSS amongst customers, and customers like to hear the stories of both

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-05 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Monday 05 February 2007 11:37 pm, Manoj Srivastava wrote: [snip] I have absolutely no interest in earning money from my free software endeavors, and I know loads of people who share my sentiments. Indeed, this seems to be the dominant viewpoint of the Debian developers, based

Re: [ilugd] WRT54GL

2007-01-08 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Monday 08 January 2007 2:14 pm, Abhinav Gupta wrote: [snip] WRT54G v5 runs vxworks (not Linux) by default but it's flash'able [2], the VxWorks Killer has been made [3]. Just do it with extreme care otherwise you will end up bricking your router unit. WRT54G now costs around 2600 INR in

Re: [ilugd] WRT54GL

2007-01-08 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Monday 08 January 2007 6:39 pm, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: [snip] I had been talking about WRT54GL though. My router is having a 200 MHz CPU with 16MB RAM. Yes. Did you get it in India or the US? If in India, from where did you get it? -Taj.

[ilugd] Crossings

2006-12-13 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
Congratulations (commiserations?) to ILUGD member Vikram Ranade, who is becoming married as I write. -Taj. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] Crossings

2006-12-13 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Thursday 14 December 2006 6:16 am, Sudev Barar wrote: On 14/12/06, Sirtaj Singh Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Congratulations (commiserations?) to ILUGD member Vikram Ranade, who is becoming married as I write. -Taj. +1 Poking fun at Taj---Do you get married or become married

Re: [ilugd] foss.in

2006-11-08 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 3:44 pm, Shehjar Tikoo wrote: Kishore Bhargava wrote: Any ILUGD'ers going to foss.in this year. Have not seen the final list yet but don't remember seeing too many talks from here. I am going. Me too, along with Kapil and Supreet. -Taj.

Re: [ilugd] How can i store email directly to a database?

2006-07-27 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Thursday 27 July 2006 15:15, Amit Sharma wrote: Hi, How can i store emails into database like Oracle. There is nothing like Oracle. However if you are willing to use Postgresql (I am) then: http://www.archiveopteryx.org/ -Taj. ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] cvs help

2006-02-01 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 15:56, Raj shekhar wrote: [snip] - You need to run apache to run svn It's very possible to run svn over ssh, though I haven't personally used this. - I keep hearing (no first hand experience) the berkely db where it keeps the metadata keeps getting corrupted,

Re: [ilugd] KDE rules

2006-01-02 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Sunday 01 January 2006 20:20, Raj Mathur wrote: [snip] I'd switch to amarok from XMMS, except I can't find a balance control anywhere. Since my speakers are at not both at the same distance from where I sit, that's absolutely essential for me. And no thanks, I don't need the volume

Re: [ilugd] KDE rules

2006-01-02 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
[snip] I decided to just sneer at those who keep telling me how I should listen to music rather than either (a) solving the problem or (b) telling me it can't be done. Damn all user-interface-design gurus who, instead of adding a feature the user wants, tell the user how s/he should ideally

Re: [ilugd] KDE rules

2006-01-02 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Monday 02 January 2006 22:11, Raj Mathur wrote: [snip] That was the worst analogy it has been my misfortune to stumble across in the Happy New Year. I'm a bit disappointed with it; I was so upset about being called a usability guy that I rushed it a little. Give me a couple of months and I'm

Re: [ilugd] testing...no mail from ilugd since the morning

2005-11-26 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Saturday 26 November 2005 13:07, Raj Shekhar wrote: | MAIL | |_BOX__|__ The greatest tragedy of people moving to proportional-font mail readers is that ASCII art just doesn't work right any more. Email without ASCII art is bereft of soul. -Taj.

Re: [ilugd] Year 2038

2005-11-17 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 21:37, Nitin Gupta wrote: [snip] The Year 2038 Problem My approach to this has always been that 33 years from now, one or more of the following will be true: 1. Every computer I care about will be 64bit or more 2. I will be retired and won't care 3. I'll be dead

Re: [ilugd] Limiting physical memory observing consequences...

2005-11-17 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Thursday 17 November 2005 18:16, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: [snip] Once it runs out of physical memory new request for memory would result in swap usage. If you manage to use both the physical memory and the SWAP the OS will return a error. By default the kernel also overcommits on memory

Re: [ilugd] Limiting physical memory observing consequences...

2005-11-17 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Thursday 17 November 2005 22:17, Mayank Jain wrote: [snip] What about doing this on per-application basis. The above method would limit every app to the specified number... Say, I want to limit Open Office to 100megs...? You can try playing with the ulimit command, or coerce a memory

Re: [ilugd] lug accounts

2005-10-23 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Sunday 23 October 2005 19:30, vivek khurana wrote: [snip] Firstly I think this email is unnecessarily aggressive, though I'll assume that it wasn't meant to be so. Why avsap then? If we have to make accounting web based (which i think is useless) we should consider all the available

Re: [ilugd] [LIH]Re: 17 plasma/lcd monitor recommendations

2005-10-20 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 12:27, Bhaskar Dutta wrote: I recently got this 19 LCD with a DVI cable (bought separately): http://product.samsung.com/cgi-bin/nabc/product/b2c_product_detail.jsp?eUse r=prod_id=BI19BSSB severe gadget envy Was it really only around 20k? Is there somewhere you can

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-26 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 02:27, vikram ranade wrote: yup...i believe it runs some version of linux anyway.a linksys modified version. openwrt is a nice twist dont think i'll try it though..it works and the latest firmware is securedont want to mess with it Hey, where's

Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

2005-09-24 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Sunday 25 September 2005 04:02, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: [snip] Hope this helps most of you guys arguments about XXX company is bad because they shipped linux without configuring it. Sorry no, it doesn't help us. If the machine is shipped effectively without an OS, they should say so

Re: [ilugd] postgres optimisation

2005-09-19 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Monday 19 September 2005 17:58, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: Would anyone be interested in a PostgreSQL optimisation talk? At, say, the next monthly meeting? Yes please! -Taj. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

[ilugd] Secondary DNS request for SchoolNet Namibia

2005-09-03 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
SchoolNet Namibia has deployed Linux on servers and desktops across Namibia in over 350 schools. They are looking for secondary nameservers in India. The zone files are small (around 30 lines all up) and traffic is likely to be very low (100kb per month, probably much less). If any of you are

Re: [ilugd] replication between CVS

2005-09-01 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
Thanks for the clarification, Kenneth. On Thursday 01 September 2005 10:49, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: will not be able to do what was required by the OP. A package like subversion, which retains all the best features of CVS while adding new and better features would be more suitable for the

Re: [ilugd] replication between CVS

2005-08-31 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 19:13, Manish Popli wrote: I have configured CVSup for replication..but its supports in one direction only and i want to configure it bidirection.. any one have Ide about CVSproxy..can any one help me in this issue... I have some advice that you won't like: Don't

Re: [ilugd] OT - The Mythical Man Month - Views/reviews?

2005-08-29 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
Hi, I missed the earlier parts of this thread, but I'll chime in with an opinion on this book: If you have anything to do with programming commercially, or intend to at some point, read this book. Then give it to your boss, ask him to please read it and pass it on to his boss. People who