Re: [PLUG] Icara broadband

2004-09-14 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:32:57 +0530, Debajit Adhikary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alternative broadband providers in Pune are (1) Reliance (The last I heard, they're operational in the Deccan Any idea about the speeds/price/MB limits/coverage areas for Reliance? I thought they were in some beta

Re: [PLUG] SuSE 9.1 hangs frequently

2004-10-13 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Amit Karpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had very bad experience about SUSE 9.1 . it is buggy ( Its my personal opinion no flames ) . And I feal it is See http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#id2878006 Have you tried finding a solution by configuration options like ACPI,

Re: [PLUG] Internal modem support linux?

2004-10-14 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:00:21 +0530, Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Turbo linux can support internal modem, is it possible that Mandrake 10 can support internal modem? Hi, Do you mean internal WinModem or Software Modem ? If so then find out your modem brand and search

Re: [PLUG] Linux on Centrino?

2004-09-27 Thread Vishal Rao
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:03:12 +0530, Aditya Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any information regarding running Linux (prefferably 2.6) on Centrino processor Laptops. Any problems regarding compatibilty, any known You could try out the new Mandrake 10.1 (RC1) it will be released

Re: [PLUG] New BSNL internet phone charges.

2004-10-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:34:43 -0700 (PDT), Shinil Payamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now if only someone could launch true broadband to our homes The Govt recently announced the 'broadband policy'. See http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=4385 They define broadband as min 256 kbps and

Re: [PLUG] New BSNL internet phone charges.

2004-10-20 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Vivek J.Patankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I fail to understand, how does really cheap broadband make Free Software more popular? Enlighten me! If you want enlightenment (in more ways than one), try downloading it from enlightenment.org using a 56-kbps dialup modem connection. Then, if

Re: [PLUG] New BSNL internet phone charges.

2004-10-20 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Satish K. Pagare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vivek J.Patankar wrote: He'll use the additional bandwith downloading more MP3's. pr0n and mp3s :) May be 0.02% might get used for open source development. In india it might be 0.0002% :) Yes its possible broadband wont achieve anything

Re: [PLUG] New BSNL internet phone charges.

2004-10-20 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Vivek J.Patankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Point taken. But I'm still sceptical about the idea that development will increase with the intensity of an *explosion*. OK, touche! I take it back. Maybe explosion was not an accurate choice of wording 8-P But let me give you one statistical

[PLUG] KDE Performance Tips

2004-10-20 Thread Vishal Rao
Hi, I just came across this while (reading my www.bloglines.com account) http://dot.kde.org/1098137711/ which links to http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Performance%20Tips (Theres a quick veiled jab in there at people who swear by 'lightweight' UIs like WindowMaker, XFce etc) Cheers,

Re: [PLUG] Internet on SuSE9.1 and something to learn from M$ too!(originally and wrongly: New BSNL internet phone charges)

2004-10-25 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Kaustubh Gadkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with BSNL dialup. I get about 2.7-3.5 KBps download speed :-( That sounds about right for BSNL (and 56k Pune modem dialups in general) ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today!

Re: [PLUG] Connecting To Net Using SuSE 9.1.

2004-10-25 Thread Vishal Rao
--- A G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Btw. Kapil, the SuSE you gave me is too good. Except for the internet, I am using Linux full time to listen to songs and watch movies and open my MS Office files. Another 'Linux-on-the-Desktop' success story! Is this the same person who said he was just an

Re: [PLUG] Internet on SuSE9.1 and something to learn from M$ too!(originally and wrongly: New BSNL internet phone charges)

2004-10-27 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Clifford D'Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note that the 56 kbps you are talking about is 56 kilo BITS per second and the 7 he is talking about is 7 kilo BYTES per second. 1 BYTE = 8 BITS so, 7x8 = 56 kilo BITS. Yes, 'bits' is lowercase 'b' and 'bytes' is uppercase 'B' (usually).

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Firefox Release Parties in India

2004-10-27 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Sumeet Madhukar Moghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We could do that under the banner of the PLUG, with the participating One thing that we can do is burn a few CD's of firefox, and install If I'm not mistaken, Firefox is most popular on Windows (under 5 MB download) due to all the hoopla

Re: [PLUG] Linux Success Stories

2004-10-28 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:04:33 +0530, Kedar K Koppikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a tip to impress your friends and of course show off Linux :-).Always carry 2 cd's (Knoppix and Geexbox), they always come in handy (yes for problem solving as well). OMG! Geexbox looks so cool! I gotta

Re: [PLUG] yahoo messenger hangs help

2004-10-29 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Kaustubh Gadkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 27 October 2004 02:44 pm, linux lover wrote: in mozilla but messenger hangs Is it possible that you have a firewall rule that blocks ymessenger? Hey, did Yahoo block third party IM clients? I am unable to connect to Yahoo with

Re: [PLUG] error on sending mail

2004-10-30 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Devendra Laulkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get this messg for all of my posts. So don't worry. Are you using KMail 1.6.1 (on KDE)? Which KDE version? Is it possible KMail is the culprit which triggers this 'message held' response from the PLUG list?

Re: [PLUG] GNU GPL

2004-10-30 Thread Vishal Rao
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:08:17 +0530, Devendra Laulkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To rephrase the question, Is there any folder which is guaranteed to contain the GNU GPL on any Linux system. On the CDROM or installation source directory root you should find a 'COPYING' file. On the installed

Re: [PLUG] Geexbox problems...

2004-10-31 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Devendra Laulkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is not the right forum to post reg this, but just wanted to ppl. to know that geexbox has problem booting on Intel boards. Nothing to do with Serial ATA or anything right? Or try disabling DMA in BIOS? Tried posting on Geekbox forums

Re: [PLUG] Internal Modem detected but........

2004-11-01 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Shantanoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, tone dialing is supported by all BSNL lines in India. Pune for sure. All exchanges in Pune support tone dialing. BTW, can I ask how Funnily, I have 2 BSNL phone lines at home (from the same exchange office) in Hadapsar and the one I use for the net

Re: [PLUG] Internal Modem detected but........

2004-11-02 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Shantanoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two ways to use Tone Dialing: 1. There is a switch somewhere on the the telephone device, which selects Pulse/Tone 2. In pulse mode, press '*' before you dial number. Did you check both of them? AFAIK, BSNL's all exchanges in Pune are

Re: [PLUG] Slack 10 and Sony DSC-P150

2004-11-09 Thread Vishal Rao
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:01:09 +0530, Dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I i remember correctoly, there are different modules to support the type of USB, and i can only see UHCI module enabled, the other method is USB-OHCI, possibly that is the reason why you are not being able to access the

Re: [PLUG] Slack 10 and Sony DSC-P150

2004-11-09 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Kaustubh Gadkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you are using 2.6 with slack but then slack is known to be a 'server' kinda setup not for desktops 8-P Stick with Mandrake! Hmm.. Kaustubh OK OK ('Hmm..') I get the hint... __ Do You

[PLUG] FireFox optimised builds at MOOX.ws

2004-11-09 Thread Vishal Rao
Hi, I saw this link on the slashdot user discussions about FireFox 1.0 ... http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/ I'm downloading the 'M3' FireFox 1.0 build optimised SSE2 (P4 / AthlonXP etc) now Cheers, Vishal -- Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at its end madness and chaos lie. --

Re: [PLUG] Fedora Core 3 Available!

2004-11-10 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 23:32:58 +0530, Sumeet Madhukar Moghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the Fedora home page == Fedora Core 3 is now available from Red Hat and at distinguished mirror sites Already in the middle of downloading it! I should have it by Saturday if no network or power problems

Re: [PLUG] FireFox optimised builds at MOOX.ws

2004-11-10 Thread Vishal Rao
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:39:37 +0530, Clifford D'Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/ I'm downloading the 'M3' FireFox 1.0 build optimised SSE2 (P4 / AthlonXP etc) now M3 will not work for Athlon XP (No SSE2, support only SSE) Right, sorry, SSE2 is on Athlon64

Re: [PLUG] Custom TAGS for TIFF image files

2004-11-11 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 02:50:27 +0800, Santosh Balan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was heartening to know that someone in Pune has this expertise. HAHA I wouldnt call it 'expertise' but thanks! I cannot give you the code I wrote because it belongs to my employer ;-) Its just a few lines anyway and

Re: [PLUG] Off Topic: Hi-speed Internet Cable Connection.

2004-11-11 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:45:55 +0530, Shridhar Daithankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.relianceinfo.com/Infocomm/Broadband/broadband_individualstariffplan.html Hi Shridhar, Does reliance have any download quotas? Im interested in their 256 kbps and maybe the 512 kbps plans assuming they

Re: [PLUG] Off Topic: Hi-speed Internet Cable Connection.

2004-11-12 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:13:27 +0530, Kaustubh Gadkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 November 2004 02:39 pm, kapil pendse wrote: By the way, how is Iqara's service? Bad. And I haven't got my connection yet! They promise a connection in 10 working days. Its been 15 days since I

Re: [PLUG] BSD.

2004-11-17 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Kaustubh Gadkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 5.2.1. The size is 906 MB i.e 2 cd's. Isnt that an 'unstable' version? The new 'release' version starts at 5.3 if Im not mistaken __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best

Re: [PLUG] One Week On, Firefox Nudges Towards Five Million

2004-11-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:29:37 +0530, Sumeet Madhukar Moghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The open source browser Firefox has surpassed four million downloads in just over a week according to the spreadfirefox.com web site. Hi, Does that include downloads from mirrors?! What about examples like me

Re: [PLUG] using kmail with gmail

2004-11-25 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:51:48 +0530, kapil pendse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried using TLS encryption and LOGIN authentication for port 465..that didn't work Then I tried SSL and LOGIN with port 587, this didn'/t work either! Hi, You mentioned TLS with port 465, did you try TLS with port 587

Re: [PLUG] using kmail with gmail

2004-11-26 Thread Vishal Rao
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:27:20 +0530, kapil pendse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried number of combinations, but to no avail... Hi, I didnt see 587/TLS/PLAIN in your list of cominations only 587/TLS/LOGIN (but you did mention you listed only some combinations)... And yes, Thunderbird 0.7.3 works

Re: [PLUG] Plug WebSite / FF.

2004-12-01 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:00:07 + (GMT), A G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The homepage is not FF complient. http://www.plug.org.in/ By FF you mean Firefox? How is it not compliant? Which version are you checking against? I'm using FF 1.0 (the moox.ws win32 pentium4 optimised build) and it

Re: [PLUG] Plug WebSite / FF.

2004-12-02 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:40:36 +0530, Kaustubh Gadkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The frame info doesnt render properly. I went to the above url. The frame rendered correctly. I'm using Firefox 1.0PR. Ya, other people are also saying WFM in the bug report you posted too... WFM==Worked For Me ( I

[PLUG] TB 1.0 RC1 and OOo 1.1.4rc

2004-12-02 Thread Vishal Rao
Thunderbird 1.0 release candidate 1 and OpenOffice 1.1.4 release candidate are out. Yes, you probably already knew that, but I just felt like some idle chit-chat 8-P this morning... TB 1.0 RC1 info at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1020843 and see

Re: [PLUG] OO Distribution.

2004-12-06 Thread Vishal Rao
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 04:04:01 + (GMT), A G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to start using OO and also distribute it OOo 1.1.3 (Win32) came with this month's PCQuest. Do you want to copy it from me? -- Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at its end madness and chaos lie. --

[PLUG] Redhat Linux in 13 Indian languages

2004-12-06 Thread Vishal Rao
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/04/12/03/0457205.shtml?tid=110tid=106 -- Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at its end madness and chaos lie. -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List

Re: [PLUG] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Amit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it that mandrake 10.1 dvd is only 756 MB when the 3 CDs are about 690 MB each? -Amit Maybe the mirror you saw the DVD file on is still in the middle of uploading it! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail -

Re: [PLUG] MS cracks Firefox

2004-12-07 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 12:14:35 +0530, Sumeet Madhukar Moghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it doesnt. It takes me to buydomains.com. Thats where I always end up Maybe its just me thats infected with the M$ virus. (Im using FF 1.0 custom moox.ws Win32 build) maybe www.moox.ws embedded a trojan or

Re: [PLUG] The kernel paging

2004-12-10 Thread Vishal Rao
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:25:36 +0530, Mandar BANDEKAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know how paging takes place in GNU/Linux. I know that demand paging happens but how exactly does that take place Hi, Just to add to your question my own questions, to which kernel version and architecture

Re: [PLUG] Petition Regularization of Broadband Services in India

2004-12-17 Thread Vishal Rao
Hi, I've signed it. Can you also mention in (modify) the petition the practice of limiting your downloads to a monthly/annual quota in MBs which defeats the purpose of broadband anyway? Many providers limit your download to 200-300 MB per month. That will preclude me from downloading ISOs of

Re: [PLUG] Petition Regularization of Broadband Services in India

2004-12-17 Thread Vishal Rao
Hi again, I've signed it and mentioned the quota limit thing in my comments but I was wondering if you can modify the petition to include it in there. Another thing is the title says Regularisation (yes i know its with a 'z') and if any TRAI people read it they might mistake it for Regulation :-)

Re: [PLUG] Troubleshooting XP - Fedora 2 crossover cable connection.

2004-12-26 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 18:59:51 +0530, Kaustubh Gadkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can ping only from fedora, unable to ping from XP. Is the connection in win xp firewalled? If it is, try removing the firewall. or, rather than the firewall on the xp side, could it just be that linux

Re: [PLUG] Troubleshooting XP - Fedora 2 crossover cable connection.

2004-12-26 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 05:18:55 -0800 (PST), Manas Ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Win XP Prof (no SP2): IP: 192.168.0.10 Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 No gateway No DNS Fedora Core2: IP: 192.168.0.11 what if you put the fc2 ip as the default gateway for xp? but maybe xp can already contact

[PLUG] Software patents in India?

2004-12-27 Thread Vishal Rao
Our very own bain_online (Abhijit Bhopatkar) submitted this Slashdot story which just made the front page... http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/12/27/1323237.shtml?tid=155tid=17 -- Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at its end madness and chaos lie. --

Re: [PLUG] Software patents in India?

2004-12-28 Thread Vishal Rao
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:54:03 +0530, Vishal Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our very own bain_online (Abhijit Bhopatkar) submitted this Slashdot story which just made the front page... http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/12/27/1323237.shtml?tid=155tid=17 Visit gnu.org or fsf.org, they've got

[PLUG] BSNL Broadband rates announced (possibly)!

2005-01-08 Thread Vishal Rao
Someone on orkut posted this link http://forums.tech-arena.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5028 but you have to signup... or see http://ironbox.org/~vishal/broadband/ (tomorrow) for the image First thing I can say... WOOHOO! There is even UNLIMITED downloads till June 30th. And I will take up

[PLUG] IBM opens it's patent-portfolio to Open Source

2005-01-10 Thread Vishal Rao
You might have seen the Slashdot (leads to NYTimes online) story? Interesting to see the recent previous couple of posts to PLUG about patents... 8-P http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/01/11/0445242.shtml?tid=136tid=155 -- Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at it's end madness and chaos

[PLUG] Electrical Engineering Comes to KDE with KTechLab

2005-01-11 Thread Vishal Rao
See http://dot.kde.org/1105351518/ -- Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at it's end madness and chaos lie. -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information:

[PLUG] Who will sign-up for BSNL's new DataOne broadband service?

2005-01-14 Thread Vishal Rao
Hi, Anyone here interested or planning to sign-up for BSNL's new home plans for DataOne ADSL 2+ broadband? Any info on how to connect Linux? Will it be a DHCP IP or some problematic dialup procedure? Just curious, since Im also thinking about getting the 512k (5gb) or 1mbps (10gb) connection

Re: [PLUG] Who will sign-up for BSNL's new DataOne broadband service?

2005-01-15 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:40:32 +0530, Devendra Laulkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to dampen your spirits, but maybe ppl will have to wait 1-2 months. A few lucky ones will get a call within 2-3 days. Already one of my friend has got one. No problemo, it may actually be a good thing to wait a

Re: [PLUG] Who will sign-up for BSNL's new DataOne broadband serv ice?

2005-01-17 Thread Vishal Rao
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 02:23:18 -0500, Sharninder Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I the only one thinking that the bandwidth limits are a big turn off !!. They don't have any unlimited type plan even for the corporated. Hi, did you get the URL about the online petition?

Re: [PLUG] Who will sign-up for BSNL's new DataOne broadband service?

2005-01-17 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:11:32 +0530, Sudhanwa Jogalekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps: I got a call today and they actually checked something on the line for broadband connection. thats to fast...for BSNL to respond... lol, yea, i think we'll just have to help ourselves with the connection in

Re: [PLUG] fc3 kernel panic

2005-01-17 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:24:22 +0530, ranjit bhonsle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 22:21 -0800, shardul vyas wrote: Hi Ranjit and Shardul, I don't mean to step on any toes or be patronising but are you guys using FC3 because you like/want to or are enthusiastic about trying it

Re: [PLUG] Who will sign-up for BSNL's new DataOne broadband service?

2005-01-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:54:41 +0530, Aditya Laghate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S: One last concern, when they are providing the A-DSL line over the same twisted pair of copper cables, can we actually reach a speed of 1Mbps?? Technically yes, but practically looking at the state of affairs and

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu - Lots of it

2005-01-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:31:24 +0530, Aditya Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could not figure out how to make copies of CDs in Gnome (there is no KDE or any other window manager). oops, no KDE, then im out hehe, will stick with mandrake for the foreseeable future! i love the luser-friendliness

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu - Lots of it

2005-01-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:53:51 +0530, Aditya Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vishal Rao wrote: oops, no KDE, then im out hehe, will stick with mandrake for the foreseeable future! i love the luser-friendliness of mdk 8-P Or you could do what I've done. I added the Sarge CDROMS, removed

Re: [PLUG] A request to all IQARA subscribers and future users of Broadband

2005-01-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:10:03 +0530, Aditya Laghate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A request to all IQARA subscribers: While we are bombarding the poor sod with emails, could we also suggest that he not just *match* BSNL's offerings but *surpass* them? What if in a few months Reliance launches some

Re: [PLUG] A request to all IQARA subscribers and future users of Broadband

2005-01-19 Thread Vishal Rao
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:09:23 +0530, Aditya Laghate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and make sure do not write a polite mail!!! excuse me, did you say do NOT write a polite mail? maybe thats why he/they dont respond if you write rude/crass emails to them what a waste of energy it will be even

[PLUG] Now Bharti Broadband?!

2005-01-19 Thread Vishal Rao
Not too detailed/specific, mentions Maharashtra but not Pune... See http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/jan/19bharti.htm -- Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at it's end madness and chaos lie. -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users

Re: [PLUG] A request to all IQARA subscribers and future users of Broadband

2005-01-19 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:53:27 +0530, Aditya Laghate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By saying do not be polite does not mean that you can write the full barakhadi of _bha_. and BTW, all my mails have been answered!! OK! haha. BTW, does anyone have emails of BSNL officials? I would like to

Re: [PLUG] Ximian Evolution Setup on RH 9 gives error

2005-01-19 Thread Vishal Rao
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:46:49 -0800 (PST), linux lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then i want to know which pop3 servers are free to configure in Evolution if there's no proxy server problem??? got gmail? 8-P i can send you an invite if you want gmail is curently offering free

Re: [PLUG] Sun Announces Open Source License for Solaris Operating System

2005-01-29 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:43:07 +0530, Vishal Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:53:53 +0530, Sudhanwa Jogalekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, Sun is rising on the Open Source skies Yes! and I hope you all have seen www.opensolaris.org (I saw this in a recent

Re: [PLUG] BSNL DataOne

2005-02-12 Thread Vishal Rao
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:03:43 -0800 (PST), Praveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone recently used BSNL DataOne broadband connection ? Any feedback's...like how's the serivice, connection. Hi, Yep, theres some discussion already in the archives... a couple of days ago I read in the Times of

Re: [PLUG] Re: Free Linux Hosting

2005-02-15 Thread Vishal Rao
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:35:21 +0530, Mukund N Rathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Free Linux hosting without any banners are available at http://www.bizhat.com (indian site) FYI, the bizhat (netfreehost) signup terms-of-service says they can place advertising at any time (item 4) and also they can

Re: [PLUG] BSNL Broadband - My experience

2005-02-20 Thread Vishal Rao
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:03:31 +0530, Sumeet Madhukar Moghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah...very exciting experience for me as wellI have an annual subscription for a 512k connection!! Yep, the annual 512k plan seems great, especially since you get 2 months free and also the modem free...

Re: [PLUG] BSNL DataOne

2005-02-22 Thread Vishal Rao
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:53:47 +0530, Sumant Kshirsagar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason I got for this was The parameters don't match. but there maybe that exchange is not equipped yet? does anyone know if hadapsar exchange is providing dataone yet? last time i went there (last month) they

Re: [PLUG] USB Pen Drive

2005-03-13 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:55:43 +0530, Aditya Laghate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just compiled the 2.6.11.2 kernel for my slackware 10. But i cannot get my pen drive working on it. I am posting the output of dmesg, if somebody has any clue please let me know. Do i need to configure the MTD in the

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-15 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:30:23 +0530, Kedar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I was just thinking what things would be nessesary to create a Ideal Desktop Linux Distro. When I say Ideal I mean that a Newbie should be able to operate it and should feel that it is more easier/as easy to operate as

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-16 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:30:23 +0530, Kedar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please let me know any comments/suggestions . Please also let me know what you would like to see in a Ideal Desktop Linux Distro. Yup, everytime a n00b comes out and asks this, the nerds go off on their PR campaigns... apt is

Re: [PLUG] linux on laptops

2005-03-19 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:03:27 +0530, Sumeet Madhukar Moghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For my money, Mandrake and Suse are the most popular distros that run laptops. yep, i use mdk 10.1 on my 2.5 yr old sony vaio works fine. although i havent tried USB or memory stick or cd writing or

[PLUG] ArkLinux has a game during install

2005-03-23 Thread Vishal Rao
I'm installing ArkLinux 2005.1 on VirtualPC right now and it has a tetris game during the install LOL PS: The forums on ArkLinux.org indicate that this aint too stable (install problems etc) so I'm worried about installing it on my home laptop... (its got XP and MDK 10.1 dual boot) Anyone got

Re: [PLUG] Kompmgr and kde, window eyecandy

2005-03-24 Thread Vishal Rao
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 03:25:22 +0530, Sumeet Madhukar Moghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KDE 3.4 adds KWin transparency support via kompmgr. Kool!! == http://bssteph.irtonline.org/kompmgr_and_kde_window_eyecandy Did anyone see the X-Windows demo (via slashdot) of wobbly windows... ? XCool ! See

Re: [PLUG] Plug members should use VOIP.

2005-03-29 Thread Vishal Rao
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:45:34 +0530, Anil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: form a group in the software like Skype. Even the people, not the members of PLUG can also contact, call the PLUG members. There will be separate how much will the bandwidth/phone cost? if it were unlimited/unmetered always-on

Re: [PLUG] Plug members should use VOIP.

2005-03-29 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:38:56 +0530, Guntupalli Karunakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it free for pc-to-pc, costs only when calling a real phone! rate for India is - ___ 0.151(which i guess is more than local/STD rates if u want to call within india).

[PLUG] /dev/null security problem?

2005-04-01 Thread Vishal Rao
See http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.security/msg/1dc38f779fca4ff?q=image+platter+solaris+unixhl=enlr=ie=UTF-8rnum=1 (saw the above posted on another lug list) I hope that unbuntu customs call memo isnt an april fool joke... -- Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at it's end

Re: [PLUG] This is not a joke. April 2005 Meeting Confirmation: Saturday 2nd April 2005 4:00 pm @ SICSR

2005-04-02 Thread Vishal Rao
On Apr 1, 2005 11:47 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Shantanoo, I expected some such kind of mail on the list. (well, not from you buddy :-( ) Is that you, Shantamo? Because of your mail, some people are already confused and sent mails again for confirmation. These

Re: [PLUG][OT] Link describing how to configure and use the CPE provided by BSNL DataOne.

2005-04-03 Thread Vishal Rao
On Apr 3, 2005 12:37 PM, Kapil D. Pendse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out: http://www.appaji.net/resource/dataone.html hehe, yea, he (appaji) sometimes shows up on #linux-india on irc.freenode.net, i saw that link on chennai LUG wiki as well... you should post it around, im sure it will be

Re: [PLUG] C Query

2005-04-04 Thread Vishal Rao
On Apr 4, 2005 12:18 PM, amey modak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have query in C. I am sorry as this may not be the right place to post query on C. Sorry, long time no C (for me), but does the fscanf() format string take REs (regexes)? -- Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at it's end

[PLUG] FYI (Fwd: FedoraForum.org designated Official Community Support Forum)

2005-04-05 Thread Vishal Rao
got this on the fedora announce list -- Forwarded message -- From: Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Apr 4, 2005 3:36 PM Subject: FedoraForum.org designated Official Community Support Forum To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FedoraForum.org has been designated the Official Community

Re: [PLUG] BSNL configuration help

2005-04-07 Thread Vishal Rao
On Apr 7, 2005 1:07 PM, sanshiv shivasharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I wanted to konw if anyone has any idea on installation n configuration of BSNL Dataone Broadband connection on Redhat Linux 9. also can I share the connection with IPTABLES ? Thanks n Regards, Sandeep hi

[PLUG] [OT] BSNL undersea cable got cut? Pune affected?

2005-04-09 Thread Vishal Rao
Hi, Anyone in Pune getting slow (or no) connections with your BSNL DataOne broadband in the last few days? My link went down (no packets much beyond the gateway) on Friday morning and was slow in the evening (seems fine today). I see online that people in Chennai and Calcutta also are facing (or

Re: [PLUG] BSNL Dataone with Linux

2005-04-19 Thread Vishal Rao
On 4/19/05, Pawar Avinash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use BSNL's broadband service, Dataone , with Redhat Linux 9. It should work without problems, assuming the service is available in your area (not too far 3km from the phone exchange / DSLAM). Other than searching through the list

Re: [PLUG] Re: plug-mail Digest, Vol 18, Issue 28

2005-04-23 Thread Vishal Rao
On 4/23/05, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried with the CLI based dial-up using the 2 different phone lines at home. it doesn't work! So be assured Rgrds Gobbledegeek Q: Has anyone tried using their username/password on someone ELSE's phone/broadband line to see if it

Re: [PLUG] [Broadband] Exatt in Pune

2005-05-22 Thread Vishal Rao
On 5/22/05, Aditya Laghate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I called up exatt yesterday, they seem to very expensive compared to Iqara and BSNL. The rates on the above site are ONLY FOR MUMBAI. Their representative is expected to visit my house tomorrow. Will keep u posted. Their 512k club

Re: [PLUG] DataOne gets slightly cheaper

2005-07-06 Thread Vishal Rao
On 7/6/05, Sonawane Satish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI BSNL has revised the rates for DataOne: Please see: http://www.bsnl.in/bsnlnews.asp?intnewsid=50603 That link's not working for me, got a working one (on the BSNL site)? -- Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at it's end madness

Re: [PLUG] Vista? Sue ms.

2005-08-04 Thread Vishal Rao
On 8/4/05, A G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even MontaVista of RTOS linux should sue MS. http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167100288 Interesting, isnt this like the third or fourth name with Vista in it...? I'm wondering why the other ones, Vista Software or whatever,

Re: [PLUG] SuSE 9.3

2005-08-10 Thread Vishal Rao
On 8/10/05, Desi Penguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Download Viraj, Do you absolutely need professional version ? coz this *might* be little different from professional version. The last question in the FAQ is nice... a polished distro compared to

Re: [PLUG] Please tell us total cost of BSNL BroadBand

2005-08-10 Thread Vishal Rao
I have the Home 1800 plan in Bangalore since end-Feb and Home 500 in Pune, since mid-March, been good so far... My Home 1800 plan with modem rental comes to about Rs 2200/- or so I think (I'm just removing my phone call charges approximately here). I got the Huawei MT 800 Smart-AX DSL modem which

Re: [PLUG][OT] BSNL revised plans

2005-08-11 Thread Vishal Rao
On 8/11/05, Sumeet Madhukar Moghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering, does that mean that usage between 0200-0800 is unmetered?. If thats true, then this is really kool!! I have a Home 1800 - 512kbps plan. If I start using the NU plan to the fullest, I can download about 30 to 35 GB in a

Re: [PLUG][OT] BSNL revised plans

2005-08-11 Thread Vishal Rao
On 8/11/05, Desi Penguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you say you can download 30GB odd, I'm assuming that you are planning to download files, music, movies, ISO etc and not streaming data, normal browsing ... No I meant all my data transfers up or down (ISOs, streaming, whatever), when I

Re: [PLUG][OT] BSNL revised plans

2005-08-12 Thread Vishal Rao
On 8/12/05, Aditya Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/11/05, Vishal Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why don't the people at BSNL realise this and just give us a decent monthly quota like 25 GB for the 512k plan, 50 GB for the 1 mbps, 10GB for the 384k and say 5GB for 256k (Rs700) plan, so

Re: [PLUG][OT] BSNL revised plans

2005-08-13 Thread Vishal Rao
On 8/12/05, Rohan Dighe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah the modem can remail ON all the time they won't charge u for your modem bieng enabled you sure? my modem does the dialling when its turned on, so it logs into BSNL with my user/pass and gives my PC a DHCP IP. the have log in and log out

Re: [PLUG] Is BSNL broadband easy to configure with linux?

2005-09-06 Thread Vishal Rao
On 9/6/05, Agtech Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Absolutely easy. More easier if you use Suse 9.3. Just follow the wizard is suse and lo!! you are done. Yep, it might be more easy (less work) if you follow some wizard in Suse or whichever distro, but if you setup your modem to do the

Re: [PLUG] BSNL DataOne question

2005-10-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/17/05, Makarand Mhaiskar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, sorry about sending this message on the PLUG list 'cuz it's not related to Linux really. I have seen DataOne related querries on the list before, so I thought I'll take a chance. Also, I don't know of any general

Re: [PLUG] Kernel Timers and Affix

2006-02-23 Thread Vishal Rao
Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at it's end madness and chaos lie. sorry, i got no clue, just saw Any pointer and NULL pointer dereference below and thot i should send you the quote above :-) On 2/21/06, Abu M. Muttalib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using Linux Kernel

Re: [PLUG] [OT] The Do Not Call Registry which doesn't work.

2007-09-09 Thread Vishal Rao
I think it's a typo by the website designer, the backslash should be replaced by forward slash (right-click, copy location, paste into address bar, replace) then it downloads the PDF fine. If I directly click the link or right-click then save link as, it appears to download the PDF but adobe

Re: [PLUG] [OT] The Do Not Call Registry which doesn't work.

2007-09-10 Thread Vishal Rao
Browser will allow %5C in place of slash. But ftp client may not. Thats the thing. Firefox (at least on Win) has a silent error (appeared to work) downloading the PDF with the backslash (%5C) when the URL is docs\blah.pdf When I changed the URL to have a forward slash be like docs/blah.pdf it

Re: [PLUG] [OT] How to install and boot 145 operating systems on one machine (including 137 Linux distros)

2007-09-14 Thread Vishal Rao
On 9/14/07, Kaustubh Gadkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=147959 Yup, FYI, this showed up on the lifehacker.com feed today... -- Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at it's end madness and chaos lie. --

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 8 Test 2 Released

2007-09-14 Thread Vishal Rao
On 9/14/07, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Official Announcement https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-September/msg2.html The Infinity theme is very nice, I hope that's the one for the final release. Once F8 is released along with openSuse 10.3 and

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