Re: [ilugd] M$ Excel to Open Office Calc Migration

2008-11-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I have found Gnumeric to be a better substitute for Excel. manoj -- Take a lesson from the whale; the only time he gets speared is when he raises to spout. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D0

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
no. Full details on support are here: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodPort manoj -- Did you know that clones never use mirrors? Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/>

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Mio are linux-friendly and are well supported in Amarok (in > addition to Rhythmbox) I use an ipod (the older video ipod) with the free software from rockbox. The added benefit I get is that it can play ogg, so I do not have to pander to non-free codecs. manoj screenshot: http

Re: [ilugd] Open Office 3.0 Online

2008-10-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
, Yahoo > Mail, Flickr etc. which are all closed source? Just curious? Who is "we", kemo sabe? I think it matters, me. But then, I don't use the services you mention. manoj -- One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India

2008-10-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, Oct 11 2008, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: >> >>What _is_ the basic issue here? >> >>manoj > > Manoj, > > Try to catch my point: "You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of > self-righteousness, and I won't kill you,

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India

2008-10-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
In that case, could you please translate for him? I find it somewhat hard to understand his run-on prose, and I truly can't see what valid points he might be raising. What _is_ the basic issue here? manoj -- You're not an alcoholic unless you go to the meetings.

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India

2008-10-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
nouncing that this issue is resolved by courts > and FSF. Since very likely most of these people think there is no ambiguity in Red Hat having the right to protect it';s mark, and no ambiguity in that there is no GPL violation, they have not taken any steps to resolve the non-ambi

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
. I think this is a good thing. So greg's slides did have a positive effect. manoj -- The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
> http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml > I am not sure how current it is, but Manoj can clarify that. It is a > rather poetic display of the clash between FSF's and Debian's > interpretation of what freedom should be. :) Debian's points do matter

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
other things in north carolina, and I haven't seen him around in years, so I suggest you look instead at /usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.2 I'll see if I can fix that. manoj -- Mix's Law: There is nothing more permanent than a temporary building. There is nothin

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 01 2008, Atanu Datta wrote: > On Wed, October 1, 2008 9:33 pm, Manoj Srivastava said: >> I have no idea why the FSF does what the FSF does. I also >> believe that the FSF distributes non-fre software, but that is another >> discussion. > > Sorry

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 01 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > On Wednesday 01 October 2008 22:22:11 Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> >> So, it is software that helps to provide a service. That >> piece of software is non-free. I think that matters. >> >> Whether the

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
hat runs and manipulated bits. If it is not free software, it is like any other free to use closed source software. And having the major original pieceof software Ubuntu writes being closed source matters, whether it is or is not a daemon. Free software is not about it being free to

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 01 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote: > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> And if you think that the Free software awareness Ubuntu has brought >>> doesn`t qualify in being in Free software ecosystem , Then my friend

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 01 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote: > > It`s not a *SOFTWARE* it`s a *SERVICE* You mean there is not software that provides the service? If there is, is that software not non-free? manoj amused now -- Watch all-night Donna Reed reruns until your mind resembles o

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 01 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote: > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Manoj Srivastava > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 01 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote: >>So, a project that handles only a fraction of the packages >> Debian does (only a co

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
ce. That means the license it is distributed under is not one that is deemed free software. Google for launchpad free license or the ilk to see what this is all about (shouldn't you have done that before posting?) manoj -- Phasers locked on target, Captain. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAI

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 01 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote: > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As Manoj has pointed out, there is probably a problem right now, and he >> might be right about it. My take is that it is not always an >> inte

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 01 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > Manoj has a point in Ubuntu having problems fixing patches upstream. It > might be true, but certainly not intentional. Ubuntu's benevolent > dictator - Mark talks about Ubuntu's perspective of the pr

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 01 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>&

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
way. The translatoin folks tell me that there have been no contributions from BOSS to the internationalization efforts for Debian. Again, a disclaimer: this is hearsay, and I have not personally looked at BOSS. manoj -- A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: >> >> >>There is nothing that requires it, no. But then, we are not >> tal

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>It is said that all the users are testing the software. What is >> the point of having testers when the benefit is not passed on upstr

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
t close source, but unlike the rest of the free software world, they make no effort to feed any changes back upstream. manoj -- Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Progr

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > On Tuesday 30 September 2008 06:18:32 Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> And Ubuntu's effort in feeding back patches to Debian have >> not really impressed the Debian developers that much (apart, perhaps, >> from those b

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
rts or fixes are passed long. -- The notion of a "record" is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card. -- Dennis M. Ritchie Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > On Tuesday 30 September 2008 06:14:31 Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> >> I don't think that anyone is arguing that canonical, and >> ubuntu, do not provide a useful product, nor that the product they >> provi

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India print Magzine India

2008-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
asserting that Red Hat does not own the mark RHEL. manoj -- If God wanted us to have a President, He would have sent us a candidate. Jerry Dreshfield Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
employed by Canonical tend to continue working with Debian. In any case, most people contributing to Debian have a day job anyway, so Debian work is rarely affected by ones employer. manoj -- If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some. Ben Franklin Manoj S

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
all. Ubuntu is where it is because of >> it's community. > > Absolutely, and the technical community around Ubuntu is called Debian. And Ubuntu's effort in feeding back patches to Debian have not really impressed the Debian developers that much (apart, perhaps, from th

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
ser feedback (positive or negative), and code changes, back upstream. I can't say I am impressed by canonical's efforts in that arena. manoj -- Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. Clement Stone Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
oing into 2.6.27 _now_. And how few of them come from caonical/ubuntu folks. manoj -- Q: What's a WASP's idea of open-mindedness? A: Dating a Canadian. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Microsoft To Give Away Developer Tools To Students For Free

2008-02-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
s free software proponents, the freedom aspect is the relevant benefit, the cost reduction is often an insignificant side effect. manoj -- When the sun shineth, make hay. John Heywood Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 496

Re: [ilugd] free vs paid operating systems

2008-02-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
he worst the 'net has had to throw at them. I strongly suggest you look at Eric Raymond's essay on how to ask questions intelligently; the answer you get would be far more useful. manoj -- Someday somebody has got to decide whether the typewriter is the machine, o

Re: [ilugd] free vs paid operating systems

2008-02-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
, up to whatever value you feel you want to derive from Linux. I can let you feel like you are using a OS worth a crore, if you want. manoj -- As of next Thursday, UNIX will be flushed in favor of TOPS-10. Please update your programs. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http

Re: [ilugd] [request for help] A social movement wants to build a dynamic website

2008-01-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Faced with a similar option, my team has come up with plone, rather than joomla or drupal, as the solution. It certainly deserves looking at. The following are some of the articles/sites that lead us to our decision; YMMV. manoj http://m.odul.us/2007/09/02/plone-vs

Re: [ilugd] OLPC Crisis: Customer Data Lost

2008-01-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
t? Sorry, I find it very hard to buy your excuses. manoj -- Sic transit discus mundi From the System Administrator's Guide, by Lars Wirzenius Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F2

Re: [ilugd] Linux webcam

2008-01-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:12:41 +0530, Sriram J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 1/14/08, Manoj Srivastava > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:43:32 +0530, Sriram J >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> > Does the

Re: [ilugd] Linux webcam

2008-01-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
estion by scratching your itch. This is how we get free software to start with. manoj -- An American's a person who isn't afraid to criticize the president but is always polite to traffic cops. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024

Re: [ilugd] Help needed to locate online resource: Royalty Free Photos

2007-12-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
w these pictures, since my device, my laptop, as the trusted computing hardware, and has a fully encrypted hard drive, and uses mandatory access controls to enforce security policy. If these are DRM features (I can make sure that only authorized people can see documents on my machine)

Re: [ilugd] amarok on ubuntu wants to initialize ipod

2007-12-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 13:47:58 +0530, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> I have an IPOD. I use the free rockbox software on it (I did have to >> build a cross compiling tool chain on my machine). Plays oggs. Works >> as a 60GB USB key. What more can one ask? >

Re: [ilugd] amarok on ubuntu wants to initialize ipod

2007-11-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
-friendly and less > DRM-friendly company. I have an IPOD. I use the free rockbox software on it (I did have to build a cross compiling tool chain on my machine). Plays oggs. Works as a 60GB USB key. What more can one ask? manoj -- "Someone's been mean to you! Tell me who

Re: [ilugd] Help needed to locate online resource: Royalty Free Photos

2007-11-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
you stated misses the mark by a mile. manoj -- Pardon this fortune. Database under reconstruction. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C _

Re: [ilugd] (no subject)

2007-11-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html If you want more detailed answer, and quickly, contact me offline and I'll give you a break on my consulting rates, which usually start at $250/hour. manoj -- A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.

Re: [ilugd] Cannot upgrade ubuntu from fiesty fawn(7.04) to Gutsy Gibbon(7.10)

2007-11-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:31:41 +0530, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wednesday 14 November 2007 21:00, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> [snip] Debian Installer. Could you provide some details? If you did >> get an empty file, I would like to see under what circum

Re: [ilugd] Cannot upgrade ubuntu from fiesty fawn(7.04) to Gutsy Gibbon(7.10)

2007-11-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:16:21 +0530, Kazim Zaidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 14/11/2007, Manoj Srivastava > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you've quoted in one of your posts in the same thread, there's a > choice between "variety of choices" a

Re: [ilugd] Debian vs Ubuntu user-friendliness

2007-11-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:20:02 + (UTC), pj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > To which Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Err. I am not sure why you think so -- no one is going around >> attacking other people. > You were certainly dripping with

Re: [ilugd] Cannot upgrade ubuntu from fiesty fawn(7.04) to Gutsy Gibbon(7.10)

2007-11-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
menting I live in Tennessee, USA. manoj -- May you die in bed at 95, shot by a jealous spouse. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C ___

Re: [ilugd] Cannot upgrade ubuntu from fiesty fawn(7.04) to Gutsy Gibbon(7.10)

2007-11-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:51:08 +0530, Shamail Tayyab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Nov 14, 2007 2:23 PM, Manoj Srivastava > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that i am not that skilled as much as you are, though i think > i can answer all the queries, and still can

Re: [ilugd] Cannot upgrade ubuntu from fiesty fawn(7.04) to Gutsy Gibbon(7.10)

2007-11-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
ow, this is my personal opinion, maybe they want a raw > distro! Frankly, I think this is just plain old FUD. I think that user friendliness has also rests in the choices offered; and the ojly users to be friendly to are not the novice ones. Every single thing you have s

Re: [ilugd] Cannot upgrade ubuntu from fiesty fawn(7.04) to Gutsy Gibbon(7.10)

2007-11-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:23:53 +0530, Kazim Zaidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 13-Nov-07, at 8:13 PM, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> > Could you please elaborate? Do you have specifics in mind >> > where Debian is either "purist friendly" or not "us

Re: [ilugd] how to get latest created file

2007-11-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
or me. If you want the output to be easier to parse, and to ignore . and .., use: % ls -t | head -n 1 manoj -- You can drive a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryph

Re: [ilugd] Cannot upgrade ubuntu from fiesty fawn(7.04) to Gutsy Gibbon(7.10)

2007-11-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
laborate? Do you have specifics in mind where Debian is either "purist friendly" or not "user friendly", but a Debian derivative has markedly different behaviour? manoj -- "Stan and I thought that this experiment was so stupid, we decided to finance it ourselves

Re: [ilugd] Alsa stopped working

2007-10-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
difference is significant, but my sound is working -- and we seem to have intel sound chips. manoj -- Wake up and don't be careless, but lead a life of well-doing. He who follows righteousness lives happily in this world and the next. 168 Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

Re: [ilugd] Online activity declining in linux-delhi/linux-india

2007-10-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
with free software, though. manoj -- You are not dead yet. But watch for further reports. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C __

Re: [ilugd] Alsa stopped working

2007-10-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
es to detect the sound cards on your system and writes a suitable configuration file for ALSA. It will try to guess what GNU/Linux distribution you’re running, and will act accordingly to the standards of that distribution, if specific support is available. manoj -- Don't you wish

Re: [ilugd] quickie! which blog-engine for foss cc-license + more?

2007-10-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
ect of common human error. The case Kenneth might have been making is that Python is one such language, and PHP is not. Knowing what I do about PHP, I find that thesis plausible. manoj -- "Aww, if you make me cry anymore, you'll fog up my helmet." "Visi

Re: [ilugd] quickie! which blog-engine for foss cc-license + more?

2007-10-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
ople to be irritated by your antics, start by following guidelines: do not top post. If you must attack something, attack the idea, not the man, as Marcus Tullius (cognomened cicero) would say. manoj -- The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one

Re: [ilugd] quickie! which blog-engine for foss cc-license + more?

2007-10-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
s -- which makes you sound, to put it mildly, childish. Damn. I broke my rule about ignoring top posters -- perhaps, looking at the quality of the content, there is a reason to have the ignore-top-posters rule. manoj -- It's hard to argue that God hated Oklahoma. If He

Re: [ilugd] quickie! which blog-engine for foss cc-license + more?

2007-10-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
editor, commit the changes to my favourite distributed VCS, and the blog entry appears automagically. People should try ikiwiki + git. my blog is at: http://www.golden-gryphon.com/blog/manoj/ which has a totally different look and feel from the minimalistic: http://ikiwiki.info

Re: [ilugd] UTS release version mismatch

2007-10-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
on: > "2.6.17" > Please correct this.' > please help Please try running make-kpkg clean, and re-try. If it still does not work, send me full logs (man script) manoj -- QOTD: Y'know how s'm people treat th'r body like a TEMPLE?

Re: [ilugd] cheap trick with multiple gmail accounts for concurrent logins

2007-09-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
run X clients on host tiamat from host glaurung. #!/bin/sh if [ `hostname` == "glaurung" ]; then xauth extract - $DISPLAY | ssh tiamat /usr/bin/xauth merge - ssh tiamat "DISPLAY=glaurung:0 ${1+"$@"} & " fi manoj -- Every reform is only a mas

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
lien to > create debs, and then install using dpkg. > Not an elegant solution and a big comment on Ubuntu's package updating > policies. Would it not be simpler to just grab Debian Sid's packages instead? manoj -- poverty, n.: An unfortunate state that p

Re: [ilugd] backing up large weekly data

2007-08-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
t the meanings commonly given to that word; you are not really exercising freedom; you are just mis-communicating, and in the process, giving the audience a false impression of the status of the Linux kernel. Imagine if I have redefined all the words I use, and the paragraph above m

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-07-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
ee software was born. manoj -- Any woman is a volume if one knows how to read her. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-07-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
ee software was born. manoj -- "If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?" - David Gilbert Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F2

Re: [ilugd] GPL/BSD (yet again)

2007-05-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
ividual code offering. The synergy and innovative riff can't be accomplished unless there is free sharing of ideas and code -- think of it as a LASER pumping action. Any individual atom giving off a photon is nothing as compared to the number of photons that result from zillions of pass

Re: [ilugd] Freed 2007 - Thoughts on the name?

2007-05-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 07 May 2007 15:31:24 +0530, Pankaj kaushal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > All you guys are fucking imbeciles. My goodness. Such a perfect example of looking into a mirror. manoj -- It's bad enough that life is a rat-race, but why do the rats always have

Re: [ilugd] GPL/BSD (yet again)

2007-05-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 7 May 2007 13:45:28 +0530, Raj Mathur said: > This is an important point, and I'd like to clear this misconception > about the GPL: > On Monday 07 May 2007 12:37, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> [snip] The original statement did not make this distinction. Had you >

Re: [ilugd] GPL/BSD (yet again)

2007-05-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 07 May 2007 11:32:36 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya said: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> I am not sure I am convinced by these statements. As a developer, I >> fail to see how the GPL helps me any less than the BSD style licenses >> do -- unless you assume that all develo

Re: [ilugd] GPL/BSD (yet again)

2007-05-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
statements. As a developer, I fail to see how the GPL helps me any less than the BSD style licenses do -- unless you assume that all developers want to squirrel code away and make loads of money off other people's work. Is there any other way that the BSD is better for develop

Re: [ilugd] Freed 2007 - Thoughts on the name?

2007-05-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
h in societies that profess to embrace it -- all in the interest of the kinds of behaviour the society would like to encourage, and limitations placed on the kinds of speech that can hurt others. If you think free software is a "tainted" meaning of the word free, then free speech

Re: [ilugd] deb vs. rpm

2007-03-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
y is in effect. > btw, I also rate the ability of rpms to handle multilib and arch > specific packages to be a big plus. Debian does have arch specific packages -- and there is work going on on multi-arch, to allow mixing of 32bit and 64bit packages on the same box. mano

Re: [ilugd] deb vs. rpm

2007-02-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:12:06 +0530, Mahesh T Pai said: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: >> 2) Package relationships: The .deb format has a more nuanced set of >> relationships, incorporating recommendations and suggested >> packages, and orders p

[ilugd] deb vs. rpm

2007-02-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
cope with unseen new requirements. manoj -- You will have a long and boring life. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C ___ ilugd

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

2007-02-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
ob -- but I really get paid to analyze systems, and problem spaces, and crafting solutions for novel problems, often in research space. I am a systems architect, and a security professional, and I can often get away with open sourcing the solution I have crafted; so that components of th

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

2007-02-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:12:45 +0530, Sirtaj Singh Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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 s

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

2007-02-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
entiments. Indeed, this seems to be the dominant viewpoint of the Debian developers, based on our most recent flamewar. So no, I have not yet bought into the thesis that everyone wants to make money from free software; though I find the direction that hypothesis leads to interesting.

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

2007-02-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
? And which person who stood up to a bully was pulled down by other people? I thought lawgon was speaking about a generic belief that people versed in code tend to be shy and introverted, and shy away from confrontations (BTW, I don't buy that thesis either, given the flame wars I have wi

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

2007-02-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
and, mailagent, dist, etc., etc. So I am not sure how I can't but reject your thesis that we want to make money from our free software contributions -- unless your "we" does not include all members of this mailing list, and hence, ought to be qualified. manoj --

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

2007-02-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
ot;end-user". No question of "facing" any bully here > when we aren't even competing with anyone. > What this means is that, a lot of us don't really care if Linux has > a major market share or not. We use it because we like it; and we > don't really care

Re: [ilugd] Domain name problem

2006-12-13 Thread Manoj Kumar Mishra
Hi, Please check this http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?name=rkgec.com&type=ALL It is not able to connect your server through DNS port 53 Check the firewall Regards Manoj -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ?

Re: [ilugd] Urgently Needed A Webhost!!

2006-09-14 Thread Manoj Kumar Mishra
Hi, We are providing PostgreSQL but version is 7.3.4 Regards, Manoj Mishra Olive e-Business Pvt. Ltd. Ph: 91 11 2699 1100 http://www.oliveglobal.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sahil Dave Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 2:28

Re: [ilugd] e2fsck problem

2006-08-21 Thread Manoj Kumar Mishra
Hello Sudev, We are running hardware raid. I have rebuild the raid and the partition is ext3 Thanks Regards, Manoj -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sudev Barar Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 4:42 PM To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list

[ilugd] e2fsck problem

2006-08-21 Thread Manoj Kumar Mishra
not a directory" aborting e2fsck and it stoped. EXT2-fs: corrupt root inode, run e2fsck Can you please help me how to fix this problem Thanks Regards, Manoj ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailma

Re: [ilugd] NAS idea

2006-01-13 Thread Manoj Kumar Mishra
You can use NFS3 as NFS2 has locking issues while multiple clients accessing the same mnts, other wise no issue as NAS And can be consider of http://www.openfiler.com/ Regards, Manoj -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mithun Bhattacharya

Re: [ilugd] NAS idea

2006-01-13 Thread Manoj Kumar Mishra
Hi, The main problem with NFS is that it doesn't have common way to add users & manage disk quota. I have tried for hosting automation but it has not worked. And according to Psoft have to use NetApp ( http://www.netapp.com ) for this. Regards, Manoj -Original Message- Fro

Re: [ilugd] spam in qmail problem

2005-11-16 Thread Manoj Kumar Mishra
://spamassassin.apache.org For Spam guard http://www.enderunix.org/spamguard/ For ISOQLOG http://www.enderunix.org/isoqlog/ Regards, Manoj Kumar Mishra -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nu mail Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:40 AM To

Re: [ilugd] spam in qmail problem

2005-11-15 Thread Manoj Kumar Mishra
Hi, There is various ways to stop spam on the qmail server. You can use SpamAssassin, Install isoqlog to check which user sending how much mails, and Use spam guard. Use SMTP authentication or POP over SMTP, so that your server can't be used as open relay. Regards, Manoj Kumar M

Re: [ilugd] Contents of ilugd digest...

2005-10-17 Thread Manoj Kumar Mishra
Re: Contents of ilugd digest..." Regards, Manoj Kumar Mishra Web Administrator ___ Olive e-Business Pvt. Ltd. B-1/H-2, Mohan Cooperative Mathura Road, New Delhi India -110044 Ph:91 11 2699 1100/01/02 Extn. 211 Fax : 91 11 2699 1110 http://www.olivegloba

[ilugd] [Commercial] Web Server Administrator

2005-10-17 Thread Manoj Kumar Mishra
CGI-Perl and Java. Person interested can get in touch with Ms. Ritu Bansal directly on the phone no.-011-26991100 or mail their resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Manoj Kumar Mishra Web Administrator ___ Olive e-Business Pvt. Ltd. B-1/H-2, Mohan Cooperative Mathura Roa

Re: [ilugd] Any common control panel for linux and windows hosting??

2005-03-21 Thread Manoj Kumar Mishra
Hi, I am using Hsphere www.psoft.net A great control panel for all OS Regards, Manoj -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of santosh dubey Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 7:43 PM To: ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org Subject: [ilugd] Any common

[ilugd] Ddos Attack

2004-11-01 Thread Manoj Kumar Mishra
Till now hosting at rackspace, but for prevent the attack rackspace is advice to take preventier which cost is 5000$ setup and 1000$ monthly fee to prevent the ddos attack for one website of 250mb space. Is there any other solution? Thanks, Manoj

Re: [ilugd] Re: sify in saket okay?

2004-09-20 Thread Manoj Kr. Gupta
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:56:37 +0530, Sriram J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Their network actually looked non-pathetic when I > > > was looking for an ISP > > > some months ago. But despite a half-dozen phone > > > calls and several email > > > exchanges, nobody from their sales team ever > > > r

Re: [ilugd] Tracking sender of email - from which city the mail came

2004-09-07 Thread Manoj Kr. Gupta
is on that ip and it will give u a fair idea of from where the mail originated. e.g. RECIEVED from 67.171.212.180 (HELO c-67-171-212-180.client.comcast.net) (67.171.212.180) by mta127.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 21:36:04 -0700 -Manoj K Gupta (MKG) __

Re: [ilugd] {OT} Anyone interested in Gmail invitations?

2004-08-31 Thread Manoj Kr. Gupta
Hi Anjali, Check your Bulk Mail Account in Yahoo, i have sent you an invite. -Manoj K Gupta (MKG) On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:57:57 -0700 (PDT), Anjali Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I would also like to have the gmail account. > >

Re: [ilugd] Video confrencing on Linux

2004-08-31 Thread Manoj Kr. Gupta
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:01:37 -0700 (PDT), satyakam goswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > has anyone tried any open source video conferencing > > software on linux. How are OSS video conferencing > > software compared to proprietory ones > last i used was gnomemeeting it was good compared to netme

[ilugd] {OT} Anyone interested in Gmail invitations?

2004-08-26 Thread Manoj Kr. Gupta
Hi All, I am having two Gmail invites to share so anyone interested please reply asap. -Manoj K Gupta (MKG) ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user

[ilugd] Urgent requirement for a Network/Linux admin

2004-05-26 Thread manoj
Anti Spam and Anti Virus on Linux environment. Person interested can get in touch with Mr.Kamal K Vikram or Ms. Ritu Bansal directly on the phone no.-011-26991100 or mail their resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ http://www.linux-delhi.org/ilugd/../cgi-bin/ilugd/news.cgi?action=showNews&nId=47 ] Than

[ilugd] [Commercial] Network/Linux admin (URGENT)

2004-05-26 Thread Manoj Kumar Mishra
d Anti Virus on Linux environment. Person interested can get in touch with Mr.Kamal K Vikram or Ms. Ritu Bansal directly on the phone no.-011-26991100 or mail their resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Manoj Kumar Mishra Web Administrator ___ Olive e-Business Pvt. Ltd. B

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