Re: [PLUG] X.org Composite extension

2004-12-17 Thread Sagar Gokhale
> Has anyone tried the Composite Extension with the x.org X11 implementation? I > was trying that out on Suse 9.2 and while I was able to get amazing eyecandy > straightaway, under Gnome/XFCE, the extension itself brought my system, an > Athlon XP 2800+, with a GeForce3 GPU to its feet. Has anyone

Re: [PLUG] Distro query

2004-12-17 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
Reply inline. > Chip has Gentoo Which stage ( 1 or 2 ) does chip carry? > What say debian sarge packages not up to fedora 3 or Suse 9.2 . They are distributing only the 1st dvd. A lot of packages are available ( 6600 or something close ), but a lot of devel packages are on the 2nd dvd. So if

Re: [PLUG] X.org Composite extension

2004-12-17 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
On Friday 17 Dec 2004 4:52 am, Sumeet Madhukar Moghe wrote: > Has anyone tried the Composite Extension with the x.org X11 implementation? > How did you enable it? This is what I added to xorg.conf : Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enabled" EndSection. It says Extensions is not a valid

[PLUG] (OT) Google suggest

2004-12-17 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Have you tried google suggest (currently in beta). Many people probably have tried it already. check it out here : http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en just type in character by character for search and see how it autocompletes and shows the no of pages available. And this is a list

[PLUG] A good read about gcc

2004-12-17 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/features/gcc/ Shridhar -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PR

[PLUG] Petition Regularization of Broadband Services in India

2004-12-17 Thread Warren Brian Noronha
You can sign it here: http://www.petitiononline.com/trai/petition.html To: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India To, The Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Dear Mr.Chairman, We, the customer of so called "Broadband" services provided by the so called "Broadband" I

Re: [PLUG] X.org Composite extension

2004-12-17 Thread Sagar Gokhale
> How did you enable it? This is what I added to xorg.conf : this is a gentoo howto, but apart from the package emerge stuff, its pretty useful. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency > Section "Extensions" > Option "Composite" "Enabled" > EndSection. are you sure you have x.org

Re: [PLUG] Distro query

2004-12-17 Thread Sagar Gokhale
> > If one wanted to go a little away from the rpm well trodden path > > where would one go ? > My opinion, slackware. could not resist the temptation... had to say something... :) in my opinion, apt or portage are simply the best package managers out there. i dont have much experience with slackwa

[PLUG] Broadband @ Rs 500 from Jan 15

2004-12-17 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Broadband @ Rs 500 from Jan 15. check this out. http://in.rediff.com/money/2004/dec/17broadband.htm It may take some more time to actually start in Pune. I think they are registering people already. /me rethinks about finalising on new connection :-) -Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!

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] Petition Regularization of Broadband Services in India

2004-12-17 Thread Warren Brian Noronha
On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 8:44 am, Vishal Rao wrote: > 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 mon

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

2004-12-17 Thread Vikas Garud
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 8:44 am, Vishal Rao wrote: > ... 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

Re: [PLUG] Broadband @ Rs 500 from Jan 15

2004-12-17 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 00:55:41 +0530, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Broadband @ Rs 500 from Jan 15. Hi, There was an article in the Times of India (Pune edition) this Saturday Dec 11 titled "BSNL announces broadband" Some bits from there: "Initially, it will start with a hi-spee

Re: [PLUG] X.org Composite extension

2004-12-17 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
> > Section "Extensions" > > Option "Composite" "Enabled" > > EndSection. > > are you sure you have x.org 6.8 (or above)? No. I have x.org 6.7. Kaustubh -- Footnotes are for things you believe don't really belong in LDP manuals, but want to include anyway. -- Joel N. Weber II discu

Re: [PLUG] Broadband @ Rs 500 from Jan 15

2004-12-17 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
> It may take some more time to actually start in Pune. I think they are > registering people already. > The article makes no mention of Pune at all. They've only mentioned Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. So I guess we'll have to wait for some time more. Kaustubh -- '

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

2004-12-17 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
> > What i can do is i can get one of my lawyer friends to write up a proper > petition listing down all of these things. or if we can we will modify the > existing petition. Can something similar be done for the always-on part? I have an iqara connection and they face a link failure every second

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

2004-12-17 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:17:15 +0530, Kaustubh Gadkari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can something similar be done for the always-on part? I have an iqara Hmmm... I think thats an unrelated issue... level of service... TRAI and the ISPs already know about "always-on", but there is no mention about qu

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

2004-12-17 Thread adityabhelke
Subject: [PLUG] Petition Regularization of Broadband Services in India You can sign it here: http://www.petitiononline.com/trai/petition.html To: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Signed it. I urge other Pluggies to sign it too !! Aditya.B -- _

Re: [PLUG] (OT) Google suggest

2004-12-17 Thread Vishal Rao
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:49:56 +0530, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried google suggest (currently in beta). Many people probably > have tried it already. Yup, tried it. And many people are very amused by the fact that if you start by typing in 'F' then the top suggestion

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

2004-12-17 Thread Warren Brian Noronha
On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 8:55 am, Vishal Rao wrote: > 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

[PLUG] preparing for RHCE

2004-12-17 Thread sushilkumar deshmukh
hi, I am working as system support engineer & preparing for RHCE certification appearing for examination in next week. I have got enough handson on linux machine. But troubleshooting problem i really didn't get enough time. i also came to know that there is change in the pattern of examination, I