Re: [Ilugc] TAR security

2008-07-03 Thread Arun Khan
e out your system (presuming that you are doing this with root privilege) -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Character encoding issues

2008-07-03 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 03 Jul 2008, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > tail /usr/share/dict/words > > in Debian Etch, but I got some unreadable characters. tried "cat -v" ? -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &qu

Re: [Ilugc] which Linux distros are dying?

2008-07-03 Thread Arun Khan
dora to Debian Lenny > > recently. > > but your mail comes from billy baba Once the message goes out from our system, can we control over what platform OS it transports through? -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Ilugc] which Linux distros are dying?

2008-07-04 Thread Arun Khan
her's can reference your work. You could write an article in linuxgazette.net (like Pranesh's vim tut.) -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] re: is it correct thing to use nmap in public domain

2008-07-05 Thread Arun Khan
On Saturday 05 Jul 2008, Ravi Jaya wrote: > Dear ilugies, > > is it right thing use nmap in any one of the publc domain > > please share your opinion Would you like me to scan your network/host without your perms? -- Arun Khan ___

Re: [Ilugc] re: is it correct thing to use nmap in public domain

2008-07-05 Thread Arun Khan
On Saturday 05 Jul 2008, Saripalli Siva Prakash venkata phani wrote: > wat do you mean by correct (legal or ethical)? > part of nmap is legal Nothing wrong with the legality of the tool. But if you come banging on my door unsolicited, I reserve the right to hit you back. -- Aru

Re: [Ilugc] re: is it correct thing to use nmap in public domain

2008-07-06 Thread Arun Khan
go ahead and nmap all the sites you want. Don't be surprise if the cops are knocking on your door one fine morning. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message.

Re: [Ilugc] re: is it correct thing to use nmap in public domain

2008-07-06 Thread Arun Khan
On Sunday 06 Jul 2008, Aditya M wrote: > On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:30 PM, sivaji j.g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sunday 06 Jul 2008, Aditya M wrote: > >> > >> Don

Re: [Ilugc] how to play .dat file in Ubuntu 8.04 ?

2008-07-12 Thread Arun Khan
On Saturday 12 Jul 2008, Sri Ramadoss M wrote: > else mplayer is a good alternative. You can also try vlc player if mplayer does not work out. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject o

[Ilugc] Firefox 3 performance

2008-07-14 Thread Arun Khan
Desktop: Ubuntu 8.04 (32bit) Firefox: v3.0 (ubuntu package) I have 10 tabs open in FF, in top it comes out with the highest CPU (avg. 29%) and mem (avg. 8.0%) usage. This is not much different from what I was seeing in FF 2.0. Others getting better numbers? -- Arun Khan

Re: [Ilugc] Firefox 3 performance

2008-07-14 Thread Arun Khan
On Monday 14 Jul 2008, Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ) wrote: > Arun Khan wrote: > > Desktop: Ubuntu 8.04 (32bit) > > Firefox: v3.0 (ubuntu package) > > > > I have 10 tabs open in FF, in top it comes out with the highest CPU > > (avg. 29%) and mem (avg. 8.0%) usage. This is

[Ilugc] [xpost] xinerama dual display with Intel graphics

2008-07-16 Thread Arun Khan
on a laptop, I would appreciate if you could share your xorg.conf settings. TIA, -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [xpost] xinerama dual display with Intel graphics

2008-07-18 Thread Arun Khan
Corporation" BoardName "GeForce 8600 GT" Option "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" # this option stretches the # desktop over 2 screens EndSection -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, em

Re: [Ilugc] [xpost] xinerama dual display with Intel graphics

2008-07-18 Thread Arun Khan
On Friday 18 Jul 2008, Bharathi Subramanian wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > > In my first post, I was trying a xinerama setup using a laptop with > > it's a onboard Intel graphics chip; display 0 the DFP of the laptop > > and display 1 monitor connecte

Re: [Ilugc] reg. SUSE Linux install CD ..

2008-07-18 Thread Arun Khan
ll's community version) is free check out www.opensuse.org. I would suggest that you evaluate a couple of distros before deciding on one. A lot of folks have tried Ubuntu desktop (www.ubuntu.com) and are quite happy with it. Fedora (community version from Redhat), Mandriva (www.mandr

Re: [Ilugc] [xpost] xinerama dual display with Intel graphics

2008-07-18 Thread Arun Khan
On Friday 18 Jul 2008, Bharathi Subramanian wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > > > Bit confused. Are you talking about Twin Display (What is see in > > > laptop screen and external screen is same) or Xinerama (combine > > > both screens into single big

Re: [Ilugc] [xpost] xinerama dual display with Intel graphics

2008-07-18 Thread Arun Khan
posted my solution to *all* the lists. Please read my posts to this thread in this list as well as the other lists where you are a member and you will find the answer. HTH your specific query. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Ilugc] [xpost] xinerama dual display with Intel graphics

2008-07-18 Thread Arun Khan
red in a hurry so we accepted whatever was on his shelf. I am sure PCI-xpress versions with dual DVI ports are available at add'l cost. Ideally, I prefer this 'coz most LCD panels today come with DVI/VGA ports, using the DVI ports gives a brighter and sharper image

Re: [Ilugc] ERP software

2008-07-18 Thread Arun Khan
(Java) 3. OpenTaps 4. Apace Open for Business Project <http://ofbiz.apache.org> 5. WebERP ... Choice of the platform depends on the vertical market. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: [Ilugc] Handling Pen drive in Linux

2008-07-19 Thread Arun Khan
nted the file manager. I believe there was an autorun.inf which copied a whole bunch of .exe in my home directory. It was like Whoa! The point is that some of the virii have started recognizing a Linux desktop and use Linux utils to install themselves. Fortunately, they were

Re: [Ilugc] Handling Pen drive in Linux

2008-07-19 Thread Arun Khan
On Saturday 19 Jul 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > 6. Disable autorun for all removable media types. (how to do this?) In Gnome, disable autorun: Nautilus>Edit>Preferences>Media>Software - Do Nothing. HTH, -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscrib

Re: [Ilugc] Handling Pen drive in Linux

2008-07-19 Thread Arun Khan
On Saturday 19 Jul 2008, Mehul Ved wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is pretty much standard now. When you pop in the drive > > Gnome/KDE pop up file managers with the drive mount on > > /media/. > > I believ

Re: [Ilugc] Acer server problem

2008-07-19 Thread Arun Khan
either provide binary blob of the drivers during install process or upgrade to latest RHEL or try CentOS 5.2 (equivalent of RHEL5.2) in case you want to retain RHEL compatability with other packages. HTH -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL

Re: [Ilugc] Re: pendrive handling

2008-07-19 Thread Arun Khan
fied by uid/gid. These could be different on different machines for the same "string" name. You need to write a small shell script to restore ownership when you move the pen drive across systems. HTH, -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [E

Re: [Ilugc] Compatibiltiy issue of Seagate External Hard drive with Linux.

2008-07-21 Thread Arun Khan
e mega size hard disks have had higher failure rate. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (UNIQ)

2008-07-21 Thread Arun Khan
ove duplicate lines. Indeed, uniq has other useful options. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Re: 2.6 SMP kernel -- dual core opteron processor -- irqbalance(?) - only one CPU busy always

2008-07-22 Thread Arun Khan
he distro. If it is RHEL or Novell/SuSE you can contact their tech support for help. You can also investigate if AMD has any Linux support channel for systems using their CPU. Do you have the luxury to boot the system using the latest kernel using a custom built kernel? At a minimum, scan through

Re: [Ilugc] knowledge base

2008-07-24 Thread Arun Khan
tter yet, did anybody face this situation before? your advice > would be most valuable. I am proposing eGroupWare's functionality to a client (although his KB is at much smaller scale). -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAI

Re: [Ilugc] Intel switches from Ubuntu to Fedora for Mobile Linux

2008-07-25 Thread Arun Khan
ould be a good feature to recommend > to the "dpkg" maintainers. Hopefully, the ubuntu will push this feature. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] DNS sec issue affects home users

2008-07-28 Thread Arun Khan
he query packets to the DNS servers configured into instead? -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Urgent help needed

2008-07-29 Thread Arun Khan
rash. I used RHEL4 and Ubuntu 7.10. I have used the same swap disk partition shared amongst multiple Linux distros (Ubuntu, CentOS, openSUSE) and I have had no problems. Are you hibernating one Linux distro A and then rebooting to another Linux distro B? -

Re: [Ilugc] how to boot from external usb hdd

2008-08-04 Thread Arun Khan
t the OS, installed on external HDD"? Most modern motherboards have the option of booting from local hard disk, CD/DVDROM, Floppy, network, USB. My two year old Intel mobo has all these options. How old is your motherboard? See if Intel has a BIOS update

Re: [Ilugc] how to boot from external usb hdd

2008-08-04 Thread Arun Khan
tils that come with Fedora 9 and other distros? From what I have observed on a friend's laptop, the Vista disk manager will allow shrinkage upto 50% or thereabouts of the disk space. This is a lot of disk space waste if you are keeping Vista for occassional use.

Re: [Ilugc] Clarification - PPPOE and OS - Connecting to Internet

2008-08-06 Thread Arun Khan
connected" option, from it's end it does not disconnect. Of course, it has no control if the service provider drops the connection. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] [OT] Power over Ethernet (PoE) adapters - product suggestion

2008-08-06 Thread Arun Khan
/1A in, b) RJ45 LAN in (from switch), and output A) RJ45 LAN out (ethernet+dc power). If you have used or know of such a beast please share make/model. TIA, -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the

[Ilugc] [commercial] [jobs] Linux Sys. Admin (in Mumbai)

2008-08-08 Thread Arun Khan
In your email mention "JobID 0807-01 Linux Sys. Admin." in the subject line, include your: a) Resume/CV (pdf format preferred), b) current and expected salary, c) 2 references, Thanks in advance. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [E

Re: [Ilugc] Please Help Me ... Its urgent

2008-08-10 Thread Arun Khan
line like yours then ... The Tata Indicom USB dongle and Linux has been discussed in many forums. Did do any search to find the solution? A Google search "tata indicom usb modem linux" gave me a solution in the 2nd page. <http://ubuntuforums.org/showth

Re: [Ilugc] Changing Splash image in Fedora

2008-08-12 Thread Arun Khan
s "recycling" is the same. Coming back to your question, take a close look at the "splashimage=" line. To change the splashimage, you will have to replace the filename with the splash image of your choice. -- Arun Khan ___ To

Re: [Ilugc] how to debug ltsp pxe boot problems

2008-08-17 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 14 Aug 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > client is only saying searching for dhcp server .. KG, have you solved the issue? If so, please document the steps viz. the gotchas missing in the LTSP docs. -- Arun Khan ___

[Ilugc] Mailman config for one to many postings

2008-08-17 Thread Arun Khan
; bit only for those members in the "set." The above works but I was wondering if there is another way of achieving the above. I did go through the mailman configs but nothing caught my eye. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PR

Re: [Ilugc] ISO GIves Go Ahead To OOXML

2008-08-17 Thread Arun Khan
ISO/IEC International Standard after > > appeals by four national standards bodies against the approval of > > the document failed to garner sufficient support. > > does this mean that odf is no longer a standard? or are there 2 > standards? ODF is already an accepted ISO stand

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (GROUPADD)

2008-08-18 Thread Arun Khan
usermod -G grp1,grp2,grp3 user > > > > or one can use gpasswd too. > > or editing /etc/group yes, but if and only if you know exactly the changes to be made. the preferred method would be to use the utils included in the system. -- Arun Khan

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Folder encryption command in SUSE

2008-08-19 Thread Arun Khan
ived and visible to the *public* on the 'Net. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Virtualization

2008-08-20 Thread Arun Khan
host) operating system". VM has been there on mainframes for a long time (the Big Iron has a layer of "base" OS to host multiple instances of guest OSs). Only in the past few years, with advances in desktop CPU arch. and lower memory cost, it has come to commodity PC hardware. --

[Ilugc] Linux on Intel Atom CPU based systems ...

2008-08-21 Thread Arun Khan
LiveUSB, grub loads with it's menu. It boots the kernel but then the system drops into an "initramfs" prompt with a busybox prompt. I have also verified the LiveUSB pen drive on my ASUS eeePC, the netbook boots with both the Live distros. Any ideas/clues what could be wrong?

Re: [Ilugc] Linux on Intel Atom CPU based systems ...

2008-08-22 Thread Arun Khan
On Friday 22 Aug 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > > The system boots from the LiveUSB, grub loads with it's menu. It > > boots the kernel but then the system drops into an "initramfs" > > promp

Re: [Ilugc] Linux on Intel Atom CPU based systems ...

2008-08-22 Thread Arun Khan
ave an external CD-DVD/ROM. I removed the USB pen drive and tried booting from the LiveCD (Linux Mint 5r1) same problem. I will also trying connecting a CDROM directly on the IDE port and see if the problem persists with LiveCDs. Thanks. -- Arun Khan ___

Re: [Ilugc] Linux on Intel Atom CPU based systems ...

2008-08-22 Thread Arun Khan
<http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D945GCLF/D945GCLF-overview.htm> and ordered a DDR2 2GB 667 DIMM. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www

[Ilugc] Fwd: [ILUG-BOM] [X-POST] [SECURITY] Hold all Fedora updates

2008-08-23 Thread Arun Khan
GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers ---

Re: [Ilugc] tataindicom usb modem with mandriva2008.1

2008-08-23 Thread Arun Khan
served for the network number and broadcast number respectively. They are not supposed to be used as host ip numbers. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the

Re: [Ilugc] tataindicom usb modem with mandriva2008.1

2008-08-24 Thread Arun Khan
On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 10:20:52 Aug 24, Arun Khan wrote: > > > > For Class C address space c1.c2.c3.0 and c1.c2.c3.255 are reserved > > for the network number and broadcast number respectively. They

Re: [Ilugc] Re : Unable to boot the GUI interface (startx) of Ubuntu 8.04

2008-08-24 Thread Arun Khan
On Sunday 24 Aug 2008, Bharath Kumar wrote: > xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libXau.so.6: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory. Hint - pls. read the above lines. Someone/thing removed the above library. Where did you get the Skype package? -- Aru

Re: [Ilugc] tataindicom usb modem with mandriva2008.1

2008-08-24 Thread Arun Khan
ast. For example a.b.c.d/24 defines a 24 bit mask, a.b.c.0 is the network id and a.b.c.255 is the broadcast. <http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_IPBasicAddressStructureandMainComponentsNetworkIDa.htm> -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAI

[Ilugc] Fwd: [ILUG-BOM] report on the stake holders meeting (Software Patent)

2008-08-25 Thread Arun Khan
ews on software patents. It will be held in Bangalore (date TBA on the ministry's web portal http://ipindia.nic.in/). -- Arun Khan -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [ILUG-BOM] report on the stake holders meeting Date: Friday 08 Aug 2008 From: "Nagarjuna G." <

Re: [Ilugc] tataindicom usb modem with mandriva2008.1

2008-08-25 Thread Arun Khan
On Monday 25 Aug 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 25-Aug-08, at 10:24 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > >> is this a convention or a rule? > > > > It is a rule. In general, the IPv4_number/no_of_bits defines the > > network id. The remainder bits define the "no of

Re: [Ilugc] tataindicom usb modem with mandriva2008.1

2008-08-26 Thread Arun Khan
routing tables go by it. > Anyway one should read the history to figure out exactly what > happened. Agreee, perhaps networking gurus here who could enlighten us? -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: [Ilugc] NIS server configuration

2008-08-27 Thread Arun Khan
icate to the slave servers. > > For eg. In Windows all the users available in the PDC will be > replicated to ADC & Child domain. > What exact problems are you encountering in your NIS setup? I would suggest a LDAP based solutions rather than NIS. It

Re: [Ilugc] apache directory browsing for authenticated users

2008-08-27 Thread Arun Khan
le itself (make sure overrides is enabled in the main .conf). Let us know if this works. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] commands are not working

2008-08-28 Thread Arun Khan
that might throw some light on what happened. In future, use an enterprise grade distro and plan your partition size i.e. tell the distro installer what partitions to use for the various sub trees of the file system. To avoid further oops/trial and error I sugges

Re: [Ilugc] commands are not working

2008-08-28 Thread Arun Khan
id it happen? -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Draft Patent Manual Meeting

2008-08-28 Thread Arun Khan
pharma/biotech industries to be announced. True, there were differing views put forth on "Software Patents" but to say the Mumbai meeting was skewed with discussion on 'software patents' is a stretch. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubsc

Re: [Ilugc] commands are not working

2008-08-28 Thread Arun Khan
network? > > It`s one of my colleague, who worked with me in this project. so your colleague messed up your system? sudo is a wonderful thing for delegation of admin tasks to one/many persons. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PR

Re: [Ilugc] foss hardware workshop at Ooty

2008-08-30 Thread Arun Khan
ca 2005). The place was 100% RH9 desktop. I was quite surprised and watched the other surfers in the cafe using the desktops. None of them seemed to have a problem navigating the desktop or the apps :) -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [

Re: [Ilugc] Linux on Intel Atom CPU based systems ...

2008-08-31 Thread Arun Khan
On Friday 22 Aug 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > Anyone tried installing Ubuntu/Linux Mint on an Intel Atom cpu based > system? FWIW, the motherboard model is D945GCLF. > An update: System setup: D945GCLF mobo, 2GB RAM, 80GB Seagate Barracuda SATA I hdd, onboard graphics, NIC, and audio.

Re: [Ilugc] connection to the server was reset while the page was loading in FF3.0 browser

2008-08-31 Thread Arun Khan
p your bookmarks.html if you so desire). Re-install fresh and let us know if your problem is solved. HTH -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] connection to the server was reset while the page wasloading in FF3.0 browser

2008-09-01 Thread Arun Khan
oving it and installing it afresh? -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] connection to the server was reset while the page wasloading in FF3.0 browser

2008-09-01 Thread Arun Khan
On Monday 01 Sep 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > On Monday 01 Sep 2008, Mahalingam Subramaniam wrote: > > hello > > sorry to say that kindly let me know as to if there is any solution > > without compromising existing F.F. setup. with thanks > > s.mahalingam > > Your pres

Re: [Ilugc] Dell Vostro 1510 Keyboard and Touchpad (Arun Venkataswamy)

2008-09-01 Thread Arun Khan
his is an OEM version that Dell most likely has tweaked to get everything to work with the hardware whereas with Linux you are trying a generally available distro. Is the model known to work with Linux (from their support forums)? You might get better mileage in the forums. --

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (FINGER)

2008-09-01 Thread Arun Khan
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2008, Bharathi Subramanian wrote: > One Day One GNU/Linux Command > = > > finger -- User information lookup program. > To the best of my understanding, current practice in sysadmin circles does not recommend finger service

Tamil translation of RMS's work (Was Re: [Ilugc] request for conducting LDD ...)

2008-09-01 Thread Arun Khan
book will be published as a copy left > work. Very commendable work. Kudos to Mr. Ramadoss. OP please start a new thread (compose new message) when you want to discuss/announce new topic. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Pg up and Pg down keystrokes patented by M$ ?

2008-09-01 Thread Arun Khan
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2008, Balachandran Sivakumar wrote: > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/31/2224217 > > How bad can its implications go ? :( This is the pits. Quite surprising that IBM has not challenged it. -- Arun Khan _

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu 8.04 manually partition problem

2008-09-02 Thread Arun Khan
world. > > Now, what should i suggest him? He should be able use CLI fdisk to delete some, if the system boots with the Ubuntu LiveCD. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu 8.04 manually partition problem

2008-09-02 Thread Arun Khan
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2008, Zico wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To the best of my understanding, x86 BIOS allow only 4 primary > > partitions per hard disk. One of the primary can be extended > > within which one

Re: [Ilugc] Happy Birthday GNU

2008-09-03 Thread Arun Khan
NU operating system is turning 25 this year, and the Free What kernel and GNU tool combo i.e. GNU Operating System does this refer to? -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of

Re: [Ilugc] Happy Birthday GNU

2008-09-03 Thread Arun Khan
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 03-Sep-08, at 4:11 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > >> The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year, and the Free > > > > What kernel and GNU tool combo i.e. GNU Operating System does this > > refer > > to? &g

Re: [Ilugc] Happy Birthday GNU

2008-09-04 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 04 Sep 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > On Wed, 03 Sep 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > > > From: John Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year, and the Free > > > > What kernel and GN

Re: [Ilugc] Happy Birthday GNU

2008-09-04 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 04 Sep 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 04-Sep-08, at 3:30 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > > To the best of my knowledge the above combo is still not ready for > > public consumption [uber geeks may disagree :)]. IMO, it should > > have been captioned GNU's 25th an

Re: [Ilugc] hi

2008-09-08 Thread Arun Khan
On Monday 08 Sep 2008, veera dv wrote: > please explain difference between umask and nmaks, what is default > value of nmask. I have come across nmask as short form of netmask. If nmask is indeed a program then man/info on respective item should give you an idea. -- Aru

Re: [Ilugc] Re: suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station

2008-09-09 Thread Arun Khan
of Intel's latest Atom cpu motherboard - works with Ubuntu 8.04.1 and openSUSE 11.0. Guess these distros have the drivers for the latest chip set. > DamnSmallLinux worked perfect. Wonderful; plus leaves plenty of space in the 10GB hdd for user data :) -- Arun Khan

Re: [Ilugc] Zimbra Vs Ubuntu Server

2008-09-18 Thread Arun Khan
naptic search for "zimbra" comes up with NULL. I have main, universe, restricted, and multiverse in my repo list. BTW, one can download the Zimbra suite for distros in RPM/DEB format from the Zimbra site. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscrib

Re: [Ilugc] Zimbra Vs Ubuntu Server

2008-09-18 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 18 Sep 2008, ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்|Sri Ramadoss M wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 18 Sep 2008, Sri Ramadoss M wrote: > > Is this generally available or only through those who are Canonical > > partn

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]data recovery form HardDrive

2008-09-18 Thread Arun Khan
l . Please define crash. Presuming that it is not detected by the BIOS your best bet is to take the disk to a reputable "data recovery" service. It is *expensive* and there is no guarantee of full data recovery. Do you not have any backup of your cr

Re: [Ilugc] doubt

2008-09-19 Thread Arun Khan
may still have to install individual KDE packages that are not part of the above. HTH, -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] FS Forum, TN (was: A CPIM Hijack of Free Software Foundation?)

2008-09-21 Thread Arun Khan
a new distribution > means more than creating a CD --- the creators should be giving it > long-term support. > This should not be the "foundation stone" > phenomena in the virtual world :-(. Don't quite understand what you mean by above statement. -- Arun Khan

Re: [Ilugc] Scp output

2008-09-22 Thread Arun Khan
heory is that it spawns a sub process and it writes it there > hence it is not seen the parent shells stdout or stderr. It depends, you have not revealed how you are invoking scp. At CLI, scp outputs the filename, the xfer rate, and ETA to stdout. -- Arun Khan __

Re: [Ilugc] Linux Introduction class for ELCOT Laptop users

2008-09-22 Thread Arun Khan
f08, > 90% of the projects were web apps. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Linux Introduction class for ELCOT Laptop users

2008-09-22 Thread Arun Khan
uded in the media. Did you try using Yast? There is a whole bunch of repos you can add in Yast to pull software (just like in Ubuntu). -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body o

Re: [Ilugc] Linux Introduction class for ELCOT Laptop users

2008-09-23 Thread Arun Khan
e to use linux. This raises the point are "LUG members expected to be tech. support for anything open source?" when anyone who puts out something on Linux/OSS platform w/o support for it. > So, please arrange a tutorial day. Since you have

Re: [Ilugc] [Cross Post] Ubuntu Getting Strong On Servers?

2008-10-18 Thread Arun Khan
ally, I have to come across glitches in Ubuntu server versions e.g. libraries working in 32 bit version but not in 64 bit version. For general purpose out of box server installs, I prefer Debian, CentOS (RHEL compatibility), openSUSE (Novell/SuSE compatiblity).

Re: [Ilugc] Connect Internet With Nokia N70 on Ubuntu

2008-10-22 Thread Arun Khan
> > regards > > I apologize. And I mean it. Once you find a solution, please post it (or an URL to it) to all the lists where you have sought help. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the su

Re: [Ilugc] system administration has disabled temporarily in redhat

2008-10-22 Thread Arun Khan
asswd. NB: to restore it back to /bin/bash you will have to reboot the system in single user mode and restore the login shell back to /bin/bash. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the sub

Re: [Ilugc] Connect Internet With Nokia N70 on Ubuntu

2008-10-22 Thread Arun Khan
On Wednesday 22 Oct 2008, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > > Once you find a solution, please post it (or an URL to it) to all > > the lists where you have sought help. > > > > -- Arun Khan > > Its solved! What is the solution that worked for you? There were several post

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu and Vista (peer-to-peer)

2008-10-23 Thread Arun Khan
e found winscp to be the most painless solution to copy/sync. files between Linux and Windows desktop (for networked systems). Search for wincsp and install the latest version on the Vista desktop. It is open source and free. As others have suggested, if the data set fits on a USB pendrive the

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu and Vista (peer-to-peer)

2008-10-23 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 23 Oct 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > Default gw is needed if and only if packets are going to traverse > to/from your "local" network. In your case it is not applicable. > oops, first sentence above should read: Default gw is needed if and only if packets are going

Re: [Ilugc] Connect Internet With Nokia N70 on Ubuntu

2008-10-23 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 23 Oct 2008, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > To hell with language wars... > I second the motion :) -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of

Re: [Ilugc] Hi,How to configure Samsung ML2240 in ubuntu

2008-10-23 Thread Arun Khan
it is not possible to figure out what your problem is. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Hi,How to configure Samsung ML2240 in ubuntu

2008-10-23 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 23 Oct 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > On Thursday 23 Oct 2008, Ramkumarr 27 wrote: > > HI, > >we have samsung ML-2240 monochrome printer.How can i congifure > > in Ubuntu.plz guide me > > Please tell what have you tried so far to make the printer work and &g

Re: [Ilugc] telnet not connecting

2008-10-24 Thread Arun Khan
on't understand why you want to use telnet when you can connect via ssh. Any particular reason why you want to use telnet? -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the messa

Re: [Ilugc] PPoE frequent disconnection

2008-10-24 Thread Arun Khan
s there is some kind of a hardware problem between your modem, the ADSL line, and the BSNL tel. exchange. I would suggest open a trouble ticket with your telco. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe &quo

Re: [Ilugc] Reliance Free Laptops

2008-10-25 Thread Arun Khan
e press > clips ! Read the table of the laptops/tablet pcs in the above list. Only Acer ONE lists Linux. Others are all XP. HTH. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or

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