[ilugd] Online Trading Terminal in Linux

2011-10-10 Thread vikram ranade
Does anyone hove experience running an online trading terminal for the BSE/NSE and other Indian exchanges on Linux? Best regards, Vikram Ranade ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] [x-post] Scientific Linux 6.0 released

2011-03-05 Thread vikram ranade
> Read more at > > > I am downloading the amd64 iso. > > -- Arun Khan > > This download torrent is pretty fast http://www.osst.co.uk/Download/scientific/6.0/x86_64/iso/SL-60-x86_64-2011-03-03-Install-DVD.iso.torrent I find their mirrors rather

Re: [ilugd] Tally Alternatives - Gnucash , Homebank - India Localisation

2010-07-23 Thread vikram ranade
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:38 AM, vikram ranade wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:48 AM, vikram ranade >> wrote: >> > I was looking at alternates to Tally and noticed that the currency setup >> in

[ilugd] Tally Alternatives - Gnucash , Homebank - India Localisation

2010-07-23 Thread vikram ranade
,thoughts? Thanks! Vikram Ranade ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Help require

2009-10-15 Thread vikram ranade
> > i want to know is it possible if i ping to one ip my request should go on > another ip (how is it possible) > > If i understand your question correctly then no it is not possible. Could you please explain the context of the question or the situation you are facing so that members can help you

Re: [ilugd] How to connect Tata Indicom Photon +

2009-10-08 Thread vikram ranade
> > > Dont know how to do that, reading the posts here i found i need to execute > the command wvdial. > > [r...@localhost ~]# wvdial > --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0 > --> Warning: section [Dialer Defaults] does not exist in wvdial.conf. > --> Cannot open /dev/modem: No such file or di

Re: [ilugd] Any Linux Backup Solution for Windows Machines??

2009-04-29 Thread vikram ranade
h several hundred hosts being backed up. Vikram Ranade ___ 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@li

Re: [ilugd] some sony LCD tv screens use GPL and copyleft software

2009-04-24 Thread vikram ranade
> thought you'd find this interesting. > stumbled across it here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_bravia > > haven't found anyone hacking them. yet. > Its a matter of time before somee clever dude unlock's new features and hidden menu's :-) ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Syncing Servers

2009-01-10 Thread vikram ranade
event will make the secondary server the primary server (meaning that the secondary server will assume the identity of the promary and will continue to service client/service requests) Hope this helps Vikram Ranade ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd

[ilugd] Interesting Article on Server Migration with Linux

2008-09-29 Thread Vikram Ranade
http://weblog.infoworld.com/venezia/archives/018446.html Visit us at: Power Generation & Water Middle East (PG&WME)- 2008 ~ Abu Dhabi,October 26~28, 2008 Middle East Electricity Exhibition (MEE)-2009 ~ Dubai-UAE , February 8~10, 2009 ___ ilugd mai

[ilugd] Women and Linux

2008-05-01 Thread Vikram Ranade
Came across this article that caught my eye. about a linux community for women. There is even a chapter in india! (not a large group though) www.linuxchix.org/india.html ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/

[ilugd] Women and Linux

2008-04-27 Thread Vikram Ranade
Came across this article that caught my eye. about a linux community for women. There is even a chapter in india! (not a large group though) www.linuxchix.org/india.html ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.n

Re: [ilugd] Virtualization software

2008-03-22 Thread Vikram Ranade
//virt.kernelnewbies.org/KVM http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki I have used both of these with very good result on a lagre no. of guest OS's. Performance is very good (near native). Vikram Ranade Visit us at Light and Building Exhibition, Frankfurt, Apr 06~11, 2008 ___

[ilugd] [Commercial] Tape drive for sale

2007-11-20 Thread Vikram Ranade
with an offer if interested. Best regards, Vikram Ranade Visit us at ELECRAMA-2008, Mumbai, January 18 to 22, 2008 Visit us at MIDDLE EAST ELECTRICITY 2008 10th to 13th February 2008 Dubai International Exhibition Center HALLS 1,2,3,4 & Za Abeel Stand no

Re: [ilugd] Linux + AMD support

2007-11-01 Thread Vikram Ranade
> > Just waiting for the open source RadeonHD to mature. I am tired of AMD's > promises and continually disappointing fglrx releases. So stick with Nvidia > for now. > > > Try using the envy install script.works for both nvidia and ati ___ ilugd ma

Re: [ilugd] Linux + AMD support

2007-11-01 Thread Vikram Ranade
> Do gigabyte boards go well with AMD..?? becoz i am getting a lot of Nvidia > options in that. > > Yes I have had some good experiences with Gigabyte and AMD. I have used them for 3 gaming machines. Vikram ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux

Re: [ilugd] Linux + AMD support

2007-10-31 Thread Vikram Ranade
Manmohan Sethi wrote: > Hi Vikram, > > I am planning to purchase a Compaque Presario Notebook V6608AU next week. It > has AMD Turion 1.9 GHz processor, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M intergrated > graphics with upyo 287 MB TAG, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, etc.. I would like to > use linux with it but I am no

Re: [ilugd] Linux + AMD support

2007-10-31 Thread Vikram Ranade
Manmohan Sethi wrote: > Hi Vikram, > > I am planning to purchase a Compaque Presario Notebook V6608AU next week. It > has AMD Turion 1.9 GHz processor, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M intergrated > graphics with upyo 287 MB TAG, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, etc.. I would like to > use linux with it but I am no

Re: [ilugd] Linux + AMD support

2007-10-30 Thread Vikram Ranade
>> On 10/27/07, Vikram Ranade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi sahil, >>> I've been using Linux on AMD exclusively for soem years now. >>> My latest board was an Asus M2N -SLI with an nvidia chipset >>> works flawlessly on Fedora

Re: [ilugd] Looking for How-to to do Live Stock figures on Intranet

2007-10-27 Thread Vikram Ranade
Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > Hmm where are you going to get it from?? Y! ?? > > Have a look at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/183 > > I know that this is not exactly what you are looking for, but would > give some clue... > > I can get quotes for Indian companies (NSE) using this.

Re: [ilugd] Linux + AMD support

2007-10-27 Thread Vikram Ranade
Sahil Dave wrote: > > I wanted to know whether any of you guys are using AMD and are there any > issues in the LInux + AMD combination, becoz i have heard that AMD keeps > some of its features closed and so doesn't go very well with linux.. > Hi sahil, I've been using Linux on AMD exclusively fo

Re: [ilugd] [Gaming] Open source FPS games

2007-10-17 Thread vikram ranade
Hello All, Just to keep the linux FPS gaming options discussion alive and not get diluted I did some more searching and found some more games that very pretty decent for FPS addicts :-). http://www.sauerbraten.org/ http://assault.cubers.net/ http://www.alienarena.org/ Sauerbraten and Assault cube

Re: [ilugd] [Gaming] Open source FPS games

2007-10-11 Thread Vikram Ranade
Anant Narayanan wrote: > > > P.S. Many thanks to Vikram for pointing us to UrbanTerror, I was/am an > avid Counter-Strike fan myself, and this really gets me my fix ;) > > Anytime! I understand the pain that you must have endured playing CS on Linux :) Vikram _

Re: [ilugd] [Gaming] Open source FPS games

2007-10-08 Thread Vikram Ranade
er-strike source available for linux. > i know some guys who play CS regulary with a dedicated server > thru a freeware VPN software --> Hamachi (also available for linux). > > i'll definitely try the games u have pointed out, and let u know if more > guys are interested.

[ilugd] [Gaming] Open source FPS games

2007-10-08 Thread Vikram Ranade
Dear All, I had the chance to explore the world of opensource first Pe#rson Shooter (FPS) games this weekend and i was amazed to experience the quality of games out there! Back in my windows days I was an avid Counterstrike player.So much so that i went through the pain of playing Counterstrike

[ilugd] [Gaming] Open source FPS games

2007-10-08 Thread Vikram Ranade
Dear All, I had the chance to explore the world of opensource first Pe#rson Shooter (FPS) games this weekend and i was amazed to experience the quality of games out there! Back in my windows days I was an avid Counterstrike player.So much so that i went through the pain of playing Counterstrike

Re: [ilugd] backing up large weekly data

2007-08-05 Thread Vikram Ranade
Haa,haa I would love to give a small talk on how cheap mass storage can be done with Linux and software raid (as I have done at home and work) .Count me in as long as the you don't expect a "guru" level of talk from me. I am an enthu techie at best :-). Vikram Kishore Bhargava wrote: > > With

Re: [ilugd] backing up large weekly data

2007-08-01 Thread Vikram Ranade
750 GB drives cost 11k each at Nehru Place. we've just bought a bunch of them for storage. Personally I recommend a HDD based software raid 5 array. I have 2 such arrays at home totalling 2.5TB and they have been working really well for the past 2 years. We did something similar at work with seve

Re: [ilugd] Broadband Connection

2007-07-06 Thread Vikram Ranade
Hi, Just do the wifi thing yourself. Its not worth the aggravation to explain to them.Let them do their standard setup and leave. My Experience with Airtel and MTNL is that they have no clue about anything other than their standard setup. Vikram Parijat Garg wrote: > Hey guys, > >I just spoke

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft Claims Vista Is More Secure Than Linux

2007-06-26 Thread Vikram Ranade
ed to work" in Windows. It a perception based problem, not to do with functionality of either OS. The only way to change this perception is to give training,support and then do it all over again :-) . Vikram Ranade Rahul Upakare wrote: > On 6/26/07, Surjo Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: [ilugd] In the news...

2007-06-14 Thread vikram ranade
Very cool! more press to the Linux cause. Vikram On 6/13/07, Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13/06/07, kapil dua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you noticed the name mentioned below the photograph of Sudev > > (samrat mukherjee/ cse) > > Standard industry practise to give credit

Re: [ilugd] [PICTURE] Thin Client solutions

2006-11-21 Thread vikram ranade
On 11/22/06, Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 21/11/06, vikram ranade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Very interesting. > > We got thin clients for a similar landed price from a local vendor who > > sells these.Similar wattage and size(thinne

Re: [ilugd] Please add www.airindia.com to the ILUGD hall of shame

2006-09-12 Thread vikram ranade
Seems to be working on my FC5 and Firefox 1.5.0.6 Latest plugins installed via yum (freshrpms and atrpms) On 9/12/06, Anupam Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > http://www.airindia.com/ has the following text in its footer - > "This site is best viewed at 800 x 600 resolution or

Re: [ilugd] how to access windows box

2006-08-22 Thread vikram ranade
try tightvc http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html they have the rpms for the server as well as the client for both Windows and Linux On 8/22/06, Manish Popli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have just install redhat linux 9 and want to access windows box from > this > linux box. > > pl

Re: [ilugd] drive can be shared

2006-08-19 Thread vikram ranade
I assume you have Windows XP with the Drive E formatted with NTFS. For NTFS support you will need to install the NTFS driver. There is a guide for this here ---> http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/127/63/ Incase the Drive E is formatted as FAT32 then you can mount the drive natively with the m

Re: [ilugd] Help .. help

2006-07-10 Thread vikram ranade
Why not simply take a regular board and underclock it? You can run linux off a usb disk with logging either turned off or logging on a spare usb stick. On 7/10/06, Sriram J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi , > > Can you find out some low cost board (embedded ) which runs Linux. It > should > con

Re: [ilugd] file transfer

2006-06-25 Thread vikram ranade
try using DCGUIit uses he DC++ network On 6/25/06, abhinav sahai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi all > we have a network in our college hostels, now that requires a lot of > file sharing and in fact transfer. since most of the systems use > winduhs so they use vypress chat, which has a very

[ilugd] FC5, wireless, NetworkManager issues - solved

2006-05-22 Thread vikram ranade
. Hope this helps anyone who has dual netowkr cards and has faced a similar problem. Best regards, Vikram Ranade ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org

Re: [ilugd] Defragmentation Issue

2006-02-24 Thread vikram ranade
as far as i understand, must unix filesystems donot suffer from fragmentation adversely (compared to M$ filesystems) On 2/24/06, Gurpreet Sachdeva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, > > The output of df -kh gives: > > #df -kh > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/1/hda6

Re: [ilugd] Defragmentation Issue

2006-02-24 Thread vikram ranade
5% of the volume space is reserved for root. Hence the ~3GB missing space On 2/24/06, Gurpreet Sachdeva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, > > The output of df -kh gives: > > #df -kh > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/1/hda654G 51G 0 100% / > > I bele

Re: [ilugd] Kindly Solve this Routing Problem..Give me Right Solution...

2006-01-27 Thread vikram ranade
glad to hear it. Best regards, Vikram Ranade On 1/28/06, Amrik Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Dear now it's working fine, as you mentioned that check your > gateway > ip, as soon as apply the ip on the other end of the router configuration, > it > start

Re: [ilugd] Kindly Solve this Routing Problem..Give me Right Solution...

2006-01-27 Thread vikram ranade
did you set the default gateway for each of your client machines? the clients on the 192.168.1.xx side should have the default gateway as 192.168.1.2 and the clients on the 192.168.2.xx side should have the default gateway as 192.168.2.2. Best reg On 1/27/06, Amrik Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [ilugd] TV streaming over LAN

2005-12-02 Thread vikram ranade
check out http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ will give you some ideas maybe.. Vikram On 12/2/05, Vipin Jose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am a BTech CS&E student and am planning to take up a "TV Streaming > over LAN (ethernet)" for major project. Have an idea for it to be > client-server (mu

[ilugd] What reliance phone for rconnect?

2005-11-30 Thread vikram ranade
Hi all, I wanted to buy a reliance handset for connecting to the internet on my notebook. Unfortunately my notebook does not have a serial port...only USB. I know that the LG 2130 and 2030 were supported...but I have no clue of the newer models are supported. Are there any specific (newer,easily a

Re: [ilugd] APT-GET repository for RH9 and FC3?

2005-10-19 Thread vikram ranade
got it! http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_article/yum_article/node14.html thanks anyhow :-) Best regards, vikram On 10/19/05, vikram ranade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ok..any how -to's for that? :-) > Thanks a ton. > Regards, > Vikram > > On 10/19

Re: [ilugd] APT-GET repository for RH9 and FC3?

2005-10-19 Thread vikram ranade
ok..any how -to's for that? :-) Thanks a ton. Regards, Vikram On 10/19/05, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday, 19 Oct 2005 1:29 pm, vikram ranade wrote: > > Hi, > > We wanted to build an apt-get repository in our intranet for RH9 and F

[ilugd] APT-GET repository for RH9 and FC3?

2005-10-19 Thread vikram ranade
Hi, We wanted to build an apt-get repository in our intranet for RH9 and FC3 packages. Any clue where i could find a good how-to? Thanks, Regards, Vikram Ranade ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman

Re: [ilugd] 915 board

2005-10-11 Thread vikram ranade
Does it load the correct video driver? or is it running the vesa driver? Best regards, Vikram Ranade > > > Hi, > I've not really checked it, but i think, my Toshiba Tecra S2 also has > a 915 mobo & ubuntu 5.10 PR works perfect on it. > > ___

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-10-01 Thread vikram ranade
thanks :-) not got around to testing mine yet. On 10/1/05, Mail to Gants <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 29 September 2005 07:36 pm, vikram ranade wrote: > > thanks all, > > I'm going to spend some time to read thru the info that has been posted > and &g

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-29 Thread vikram ranade
thanks all, I'm going to spend some time to read thru the info that has been posted and keep everyone posted I did dig out an older sony P-xx (forgot the model name). will see how it works. Regards, Vikram ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linu

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-27 Thread vikram ranade
Yeah thats a normal practice to make sure that the notebook gets clean DC power and not some electrical noise induced by nearby "electrically noisy" appliances Best regards, Vikram On 9/28/05, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > Yep. It's a ferrite bead for RF noise suppression. >

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
> On Monday 26 September 2005 23:25, vikram ranade wrote: > > My router is a Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband Router. > > It has 4 100Mbit Lan ports as well as a DSL/WAN Port. > > works great. > > BTW I wonder if you're aware that you can run Linux

Re: [ilugd] Slow FC4

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
just a heads up. > > P.S. Have a look at Jackass way (no pun intended) of installing gentoo > in gentoo forums. that makes gentoo lot better. > vikram ranade wrote: > > will try to install gentoo (painfully slow on a PIII 750) > _

Re: [ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
sounds interesting...will check it out... anybody with experiences with a new Sony Cybershot? or the casio Exilim\ thanks, Vikram On 9/26/05, Prashant Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- vikram ranade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Was curious if there ar

Re: [ilugd] Slow FC4

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
cceptable in terms of speed of > applications. > I have AMD 64 bit processor with 512 MB RAM. > -- > Regards > Abhishek jain > > Original Message: > - > From: vikram ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:50:40 -0700 > To: ilugd@lists

[ilugd] Linux friendly Digital camera

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
y the pictures and movies off it. Anybody had good experiences with a specific model or brand that would guide me? Thanks, Regards, Vikram Ranade ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
My router is a Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband Router. It has 4 100Mbit Lan ports as well as a DSL/WAN Port. works great. Best regards, Vikram Ranade ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman

[ilugd] Slow FC4

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
milar experience? Best regards, Vikram Ranade ___ 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@lists.

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
I have the 802.11g standard router from linksys and when i got it a year and a half ago,it cost me about Rs.6000 (i imported it). A similar model now costs around Rs. 3000 or so now...I dont have the current prices but this is a ballpark figure. Hope this helps. Best regards, Vikram Ranade

Re: [ilugd] WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-26 Thread vikram ranade
Whats the difference between an 802.11b adapter & an access point? The 802.11b adapter is a wireless LAN card and an access point is the wireless equivalent of a switch. Best regards, Vikram Ranade ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi

Re: [ilugd] [LIH]WiFi between two laptops

2005-09-25 Thread vikram ranade
speeds are not the excellent and the number of systems that can connect is limited to 3 (in terms of concurrent connections.some sort of protocol limitation).This may have changed in the 802.11g standard...I remember messing with this in the older 802.11b cards and seeing this limitation. Hope

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu CD from Freedel

2005-09-18 Thread vikram ranade
System-->Administration-->Users and Groups -Show all users and groups. ;-) for the console-phobic. - Vikram On 9/18/05, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday, 18 Sep 2005 12:57 pm, saleem ansari wrote: > > In Ubuntu you dont need to go through all that! Just open up a

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu CD from Freedel

2005-09-17 Thread vikram ranade
got it! Thanks...I was seriously foxed for a while :-) - Vikram On 9/17/05, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday, 17 Sep 2005 10:10 pm, vikram ranade wrote: > > > prompted me to define a regular user profile.at no stage during the > >

[ilugd] Ubuntu CD from Freedel

2005-09-17 Thread vikram ranade
appreciated. Thanks Vikram Ranade ___ 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@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] PDF Tools in Linux - (for Ubuntu)

2005-09-12 Thread vikram ranade
Open Office to convert .doc and .xls files to pdf. Best regards, Vikram Ranade On 9/13/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > Was wondering if there are any GUI pdf software available for Linux - > that enables one to > a. Access existing PDF'

Re: [ilugd] Awesome gizmo

2005-08-11 Thread vikram ranade
Very cool :).Limited functionality though. Vikram Ranade On 8/11/05, Ankur Rohatgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi All, > Stumbled across this completely awesome toy , > http://www.projectblackdog.com/site/index.h

Re: [ilugd] Mouse Capture as flash

2005-03-28 Thread Vikram Ranade
Use vnc2swf http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ It uses a vnc server output and converts it into an swf format. You can also splice audio into it. It is platform independent (in the sense it can capture every OS that can run a vnc server). Vikram

[ilugd] Utility for checking for phyusical bad sectors in a Drive

2004-08-17 Thread Vikram Ranade
Is there any utility for checking a hard drive for bad sectors? I only know of fsck that checks the file system integrity. I want to verify if my disks have physical errors on them. Thanks Vikram Ranade ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[ilugd] Backup setups

2004-08-17 Thread Vikram Ranade
Hello, I was just curious about the various data backup systems that are available for companies that want to keep large daily backups (400~500GB). The most widely propagated is naturally Tape Backups. We currently use DAT tapes that are painfully slow and have a rather high TCO. But I personally

[ilugd] Re:using two vga adapters

2004-08-09 Thread Vikram Ranade
Multi-head displays are supported under X. I have personally used matrox and nvidia cards in dual and triple displays. It all depends on the driver support for dual display. Both matrox and nvidia support multi-head displays. check out the nvidia site, they have a sample Xfree86config file that de

Re: [ilugd] Multiple instances of a program

2004-08-02 Thread Vikram Ranade
am > To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > Hi > > --- Vikram Ranade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > Just wondering how it is

[ilugd] Multiple instances of a program

2004-08-02 Thread Vikram Ranade
2.4 and Mandrake Linux 9.2 download edition with the kernel 2.4.22. i686. Thanks Vikram Ranade ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http

[ilugd] LTSP 4 setup files

2004-02-20 Thread Vikram Ranade
Hi . I was wondering if anyone had the LTSP 4 setup files so that I could install them from local drive rather than from ltsp.org. the downloads are kinda big...not really easy on a 56.6k. Does any distro have ltsp 4 already bundled ? thanks! Vikram __

[ilugd] Re: Forum :-D

2004-02-19 Thread Vikram Ranade
oki lets go ahead and start th phpBB based forum...but lets make sure that migration later to the other forums is not an issue. I am willing to volunteer some time for helping to set it upbut I am a newbie so my help may be limited.but I have setup a PhpBB based forum once in a LAN on windows.

[ilugd] Re: Mandrake CD's

2004-02-18 Thread Vikram Ranade
> hi Gursi want mandrake cd alsowhere and when I > can collect it from As soon as I get the CD's I will post on the list but saturday evening sounds probable. Best Regards, Vikram ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net

[ilugd] Re: Mandrake CD's

2004-02-18 Thread Vikram Ranade
> Anyone having latest Mandrake distro CD's? > Sudev Barar I will be getting them on Saturday hopefully. Mandrake 9.2. Best Regards Vikram Ranade ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

[ilugd] Secure forum

2004-02-18 Thread Vikram Ranade
http://www.vbulletin.com this is a fairly cool forum being used by many big sites http://sg.forum.lycosasia.com/ http://forums.winamp.com/ http://www.r1-forum.com/forums/ http://forums.thetechguys.com/ http://www.hardforum.com/ ..the list goes on. my favourite is http://forums.2cpu.com

[ilugd] Re: Possible additional feature for the list

2004-02-18 Thread vikram ranade
I think that a Forum is a great idea...much easier to navigate and reference older threads to some of the common problems and questions.that are put forward by members. I think that it is also a great way to increase the exposure of DLUG to others and showcase us as an active groupan

[ilugd] Linux forum

2004-02-14 Thread vikram ranade
I think that a forum is a great idea,,digging thru archived mailing lists is a pain PHPBB is a great BBS system. Why not try it? the only question is if the current website hosted on a fasat enuf server to take the traffic and load from the php scripts. __

[ilugd] Linux CD's cheap in india

2004-02-11 Thread Vikram Ranade
I found this really nice site...for getting Linux CD's cheap in india. http://linux.mejokj.com the guy is cool.just started a month ago.He also take requests for downloads.just email him the url and he will get it for you. check it out. ___ ilugd mailin

[ilugd] RE: ilugd Digest, Vol 10, Issue 47

2004-01-30 Thread vikram ranade
Yep. See: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_83111.html Please trim posts when you reply. -- Sanjeev Sorry about that...new to the whole mailing list thing..generally am more active in forums. Interesting4 of u are pretty active in the team... i belong to the 2cp

[ilugd] RE: ilugd Digest, Vol 10, Issue 45

2004-01-30 Thread vikram ranade
Slightly off topicbut do any of you do Setiathome ? or any other distributed computing project? Peace.. Vikram Ranade Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ilugd Digest, Vol 10, Issue 45 Date: 30 Jan 2004 04:56:39