Re: [Ilugc] Openoffice Problem

2009-04-05 Thread Arun Khan
On Sunday 05 Apr 2009, Sivaram Kannan wrote: > gave the same result. What can I do to get my office suite work again > properly? Working on Google docs is a real pain, please help. > Upgrade to OOo 3.0.1. openSUSE v11.1 and OOo v3.0.1 is works fine in my setup. --

Re: [Ilugc] Openoffice Problem

2009-04-05 Thread Arun Khan
t start up at all for a particular user BUT would work fine for another user on the same system. After much trial/error, I used a LiveCD and removed all the GNOME related dirs and the .gvfs directory for the user who had problems and then OOo started working fine

Re: [Ilugc] Suse 11 configure network & connect internet

2009-04-06 Thread Arun Khan
settings. Click on network settings and give the parameters for the network settings. HTH -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Re: chennai lug hosting

2009-04-06 Thread Arun Khan
planning and management is a few of orders of magnitude better. > I am not blaming IITM for this, but some time > back I did a mini survey and found the best bandwidth for educational > institutions in India was IITK - 102 mbps. Let us be thankful for the small blessings :

Re: [Ilugc] Suse 11 configure network & connect internet

2009-04-06 Thread Arun Khan
ed, the driver for the NIC is not being loaded. From the kernel version in your OP, it looks like you are using openSUSE 11.0. Try openSUSE 11.1, it comes with 2.6.27.19. Alternately, if you have the source code for the NIC driver, you can compile it and install it. HTH, -- Arun Khan ___

Re: [Ilugc] India in second place in GSoc applications

2009-04-06 Thread Arun Khan
GUI), CNTL-V (paste the string) and enclose it with < and > -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Need help on Koha 3.0 installation in Debian 5.0

2009-04-06 Thread Arun Khan
: > text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 > Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 > Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate > Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 > Keep-Alive: 300 > Via: 1.1 proxy.bracu.ac.bd:8080 (squid/2.6.STABLE6) Why is localhost going t

Re: [Ilugc] Need help on Koha 3.0 installation in Debian 5.0

2009-04-06 Thread Arun Khan
On Tuesday 07 Apr 2009, Zico wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > > Can you "telnet localhost 8080" ? > > *debian:~# telnet localhost 8080 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. Good. S

Re: [Ilugc] Need help on Koha 3.0 installation in Debian 5.0

2009-04-07 Thread Arun Khan
On Tuesday 07 Apr 2009, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > > You have not answered the above question. > > Have you disabled "proxy" for localhost?  Make sure /etc/hosts > > has "localhost" entry poi

Re: [Ilugc] Need help on Koha 3.0 installation in Debian 5.0

2009-04-07 Thread Arun Khan
On Wednesday 08 Apr 2009, Zico wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > > You have not answered the above question. > > Have you disabled "proxy" for localhost? > > Ok, i have disabled proxy with *a2dismod proxy; *But, nothing has > changed.

Re: [Ilugc] Need help on Koha 3.0 installation in Debian 5.0

2009-04-08 Thread Arun Khan
> No, i can`t login. Read up on basics of MySQL admin or install phpmyadmim. You will need the "root" password for MySQL db though. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the

Re: [Ilugc] OpenSolaris Install media needed

2009-04-11 Thread Arun Khan
il/09 LFY issue. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Any option in linux?

2009-04-12 Thread Arun Khan
f "corrupted" issue. I tried > to open those files with openoffice suite, but .. .there the fonts > are gone!! > > So, is there any tools to retrieve those data? No guarantee/warranty, try pdftk <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftk> -- Arun Khan __

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Any option in linux?

2009-04-12 Thread Arun Khan
new file. That means, new > file is blank. Looks like your files got totally b0rked. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Free software for manage DNS Server

2009-04-13 Thread Arun Khan
ur friend :) There are plenty of examples floating around the 'Net that you can copy shamelessly and modify to suit your needs. A good place to start are the localhost.zone and 0.0.127.zone files that come bundled with bind package. HTH -- Arun Khan _

Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

2009-04-16 Thread Arun Khan
would have negotiated with the vendor and awarded the contract to whoever was willing to do this for me. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

2009-04-16 Thread Arun Khan
On Friday 17 Apr 2009, Arun Khan wrote: > > Could you suggest me an OpenSource software for doing this. > > dd if=imagefile of=/dev/sd[ ...] tar/cpio, Clonezilla. > I got Ghost4Linux <http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/Ghost-for-Linux-Download-53.html> from

Re: [Ilugc] BJP's Akward Embrace to Free software

2009-04-16 Thread Arun Khan
t; > I only want all to write proper english. I agree, but it may be too much to ask for, from the SMS generation. At work place, their SMS language permeates into their official emails and letters inspite of repeatedly pointing it out to them. -- Arun Khan

Re: [Ilugc] Regarding UBUNTU 8.10 installation

2009-04-16 Thread Arun Khan
s i got when search through forums Ask your IT support what is the graphics chip set in your system or get it from the vendor that supplied you the hardware. > Anyone kindly help us to solve this problem You need to give full hardware information before anyone can help you.

Re: [Ilugc] Patch lzop

2009-04-16 Thread Arun Khan
'. The tool is giving you a hint to set the above variable if the header file is in a non standard location. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message.

Re: [Ilugc] FC10 does not get the default gateway.

2009-04-16 Thread Arun Khan
Check with your IT staff to see if they have changed anything in the DHCP server. Are you getting other network parameters like DNS servers etc. from the DHCP server? -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsu

Re: [Ilugc] FC10 does not get the default gateway.

2009-04-16 Thread Arun Khan
On Friday 17 Apr 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Friday 17 April 2009 10:51:30 Arun Khan wrote: > > snip ... > > > > > In the office LAN, this > > > was working out of the box previously. Now ethernet gets > > > detected, but there is no defaul

Re: [Ilugc] FC10 does not get the default gateway.

2009-04-16 Thread Arun Khan
n edit the > file and add it. The OP has set his laptop to get all network parameters via DHCP, default gw being one of them. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject

Re: [Ilugc] Need Ubuntu 8.1

2009-04-17 Thread Arun Khan
up against the right front tire will be a copy of the CD > you seek. Sounds like a treasure hunt with an assured prize at the end of the rainbow :D -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe &qu

Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

2009-04-17 Thread Arun Khan
2. Seek professional help. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] problem sendmail in James-2.3.1

2009-04-18 Thread Arun Khan
into a full messaging platform? They have a huge user base and active communities around them. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Re: ilugc Digest, Vol 59, Issue 57

2009-04-18 Thread Arun Khan
#x27;guest' user to execute with admin privilege. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] problem sendmail in James-2.3.1

2009-04-18 Thread Arun Khan
james, do u prefer any other Email Server .. postfix + dovecot does the job for me. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] dd to cdrom

2009-04-20 Thread Arun Khan
I do admit that is the first time I have seen dd being used to write to a CD/DVD writer device. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] mdadm/raid1 don't see raid sync in /proc/mdstat

2009-04-21 Thread Arun Khan
ot sure where I went wrong. OS: openSUSE 11.1 (x86) mdadm: mdadm-3.0-10.8 # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md0 : active raid1 sdb3[0] sda3[1](S) 89827328 blocks [1/1] [U] unused devices: TIA -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscri

Re: [Ilugc] mdadm/raid1 don't see raid sync in /proc/mdstat

2009-04-21 Thread Arun Khan
@ Raja and Sai Kiran Kanuri - thanks very much for pointing out the faux pas on my part yesterday. This morning after a night's rest I realized where I had messed up :( On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009, Raja Subramanian wrote: > - Raja > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Arun Khan wrot

Please congratulate GSoC'ers directly (was Re: [Ilugc] google summer of code 2009)

2009-04-22 Thread Arun Khan
g your feelings to the entire list. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: Please congratulate GSoC'ers directly (was Re: [Ilugc] google summer of code 2009)

2009-04-22 Thread Arun Khan
should be motivation enough for others aspiring to be one. If the congratulatory notes is the motivating factor then IMO that is the _wrong_ reason for such aspirations. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "uns

[Ilugc] [jobs] Linux Systems and Network Administrator with min. 3 years experience

2009-04-27 Thread Arun Khan
ork%20administrator> Please do _not_ reply to this list. Please forward this to friends/colleagues who have the requisite experience and are seeking a challenging assignment. Thanks, -- Arun Khan JOB ID: 2009-04-01 Position: Linux Systems and Network Administrator. Experience: Min

Re: [Ilugc] Avahi: Publishing a service on a different hostname

2009-04-30 Thread Arun Khan
er and other network devices that ought to be the purview of network admins only, the less information you advertise about your network nodes, the better. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe "

Re: [Ilugc] Avahi: Publishing a service on a different hostname

2009-04-30 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 30 Apr 2009, Roshan George wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 20:33 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: > > IMO, for router and other network devices that ought to be the > > purview of network admins only, the less information you advertise > > about your network nodes, th

Re: [Ilugc] Avahi: Publishing a service on a different hostname

2009-04-30 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 30 Apr 2009, Roshan George wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 21:28 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: > > On Thursday 30 Apr 2009, Roshan George wrote: > > > I agree. However, this is at home and it makes many things > > > convenient (my parents no longer hav

[Ilugc] Moving postgreSQL /data folder between systems

2009-05-01 Thread Arun Khan
eneral/60-postgresql-relocate-data-store> Any suggestions/pointers as what may be wrong with what I am trying to do. TIA, -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body

Re: [Ilugc] Moving postgreSQL /data folder between systems

2009-05-01 Thread Arun Khan
On Saturday 02 May 2009, Raja Subramanian wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > > ... After copying the data files, postgresql > > fails to start. > > What do the db error logs say? > Are you referring to the ones in the /var/lib/pgsql/data di

Re: [Ilugc] Moving postgreSQL /data folder between systems

2009-05-02 Thread Arun Khan
On Saturday 02 May 2009, Raja Subramanian wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > > Are you referring to the ones in the /var/lib/pgsql/data directory? > > Nothing there. > > No, not the DB transaction logs. > > I'm referring to /var/log/post

Re: [Ilugc] I need to import .pst into Thunderbird

2009-05-05 Thread Arun Khan
rver. Once this is complete then use Thunderbird to connect to the IMAP server and copy the messages to the Thunderbird's "local" folders. HTH -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe

Re: [Ilugc] Attn: GMail and Yahoo Users

2009-05-20 Thread Arun Khan
text and quote necessary text alone in your reply. > > Furthermore, please do not reply to digest mails. Or take the time to copy/paste the relevant subject line and trim the quoted message to the context of the discussion. -- Arun Khan ___ To u

Re: [Ilugc] wireless datacard linux compatibility

2009-05-31 Thread Arun Khan
the base station bandwidth is shared by many > subscribers. So getting 3MBps is only a dream. The Tata Indicom glossy that I got does not disclose the above setup. All they said is you will get upto 3Mbps in your "home" area and a much lesser speed when you roam. -- Arun Khan

Re: [Ilugc] problem with login in fedora core 10

2009-06-26 Thread Arun Khan
employee actually > did, which created such situation. Did you give that employee the root password? -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. h

Re: [Ilugc] problem with login in fedora core 10

2009-06-26 Thread Arun Khan
On Saturday 27 Jun 2009, Zico wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > > Did you give that employee the root password? > > Yes, he has one password. Because, that person is "in charge" of that > section. Why don't you set up that pers

Re: [Ilugc] Balachandar's Calendar

2009-06-28 Thread Arun Khan
ame/password of one site to another 3rd party site. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Need Ubuntu 9.04 CD immediately!

2009-07-01 Thread Arun Khan
LFY June/09 has the 9.04 DVD (32bit) the 32bit 9.04 DVD if you can't get it from any other source. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message.

Re: [Ilugc] tata photon+ on ubuntu

2009-07-01 Thread Arun Khan
is part of the URL string. To avoid such foobar I suggest links to be stated on a line of it's own within <> e.g. <http://cityblogger.com/archives/2009/04/09/tata-indicom-photon-and-reliance-netconnect-broadband-on-ubuntu> I believe most MUAs will not auto wrap such lines (at l

Re: [Ilugc] Need Ubuntu 9.04 CD immediately!

2009-07-01 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 02 Jul 2009, krish wrote: > Got it thanx, i am going with fedora 11 also got Ubuntu 9.04, thanx > regards -kk > I suggest CentOS, if the setup is for production; long term support, tested/stable packages from upstream (RHEL). --

Re: [Ilugc] Disk Clean

2009-07-06 Thread Arun Khan
27; -exec rm -fr {}/* \; find ${HOME} -type d -iname '*tras*' -exec rm -fr {}/* \; Please note the syntax and read up on find if you have any doubts. You can schedule cron jobs to do above at regular intervals. At system level /tmp and /var/tmp at boot time. Some distros have setti

[Ilugc] [OT/commercial/x-post] Looking for professional help to integrate LDAP auth (Mac OSX, Linux and Windows XP)

2009-07-08 Thread Arun Khan
profile is portable through Samba. Samba+LDAP back end needs to be configured on 2 Linux file servers as well on the OSX server (for user's home dir). -- Arun Khan PS - I have already tried openLDAP (on Linux), works with Linux desktops, OSX clients see the LDAP server but do not authent

Re: [Ilugc] User Informatio

2009-07-13 Thread Arun Khan
users or the users you are complaining about? > how to restric user passwd. A little more clarity on what is your requirement will help us understand how you want to restrict their usage. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ

Re: [Ilugc] Kind help sought: FC11 booting to blank screen after upgrade from fc10

2009-07-15 Thread Arun Khan
een. I am sure that this blank screen > is not a shell. Do you get a blinking underscore at the top left of your screen or is it plain blank? Can you boot to runlevel 1 (single user)? -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.

Re: [Ilugc] google summer of code 2009

2009-07-15 Thread Arun Khan
e when it is released. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] edit the samba sharing files

2009-07-21 Thread Arun Khan
docs published by that application's community. Most of them are very helpful and sufficient to get you started with the basic configuration. > how to solve this bugs? I don't think it is a bug but insufficient reading on your part :) -- Arun Khan ___

Re: [Ilugc] how to connect two internet connections into one system?

2009-07-30 Thread Arun Khan
not already). Although it increases the number of mails in your Inbox, you will come across nuggets of information in various lists. Also strive to develop the knack for searching the 'Net for a solution - this will help you to help yourself. -- Arun Khan ___

Re: [Ilugc] problem while using usb modem ( using cell phone)

2009-07-31 Thread Arun Khan
to the device to modem mode. Google for "linux usb switch mode" or get started here <http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/> -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in t

Re: [Ilugc] ISO image burning problem with k3b

2009-08-01 Thread Arun Khan
/dev/dvd: "Current Write Speed" is 4.1x1352KBps. > > :-[ wr...@lba=0h failed with SK=3h/NO SEEK COMPLETE]: Input/output Try it with lowest speed and use name brand media. Your DVD writer may be the culprit if it still fails. -- Arun Khan

Re: [Ilugc] Postgresql Configuration problem?

2009-08-01 Thread Arun Khan
Is the server running locally and accepting > connections on Unix domain socket > "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"? > > So how to solve it... Check if postgres engine is running it's startup script in /etc/init.d/ I don't have Debian so cannot

Re: [Ilugc] ISO image burning problem with k3b

2009-08-02 Thread Arun Khan
repaired (unless it is under warranty), it works for a few days and then they die. I have a stack of DVD/CD units that bit the dust (pun intended) due to 2 simultaneous construction projects going on behind where I stay. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscri

Re: [Ilugc] telnet port is safe fot SMTP purpose ?

2009-08-07 Thread Arun Khan
emails. Some ISPs do so on port 587 [1]. [1] The right way to do it is allow SMTP submissions on port 587 with user authentication (SASL auth being the common method) read more @ <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5068> Of course, there is nothing stopping you from using any oth

Re: [Ilugc] Disable USB ports

2009-08-10 Thread Arun Khan
o have such a policy to prevent data theft? USB pen drives with small size and data caps. of 16GB and upwards is the easiest way to copy data. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Read only filesystem in external hard disk in ubuntu

2009-08-12 Thread Arun Khan
s-3g and still experiencing problems then the disk should be removed with proper shutdown of the USB device. HTH -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the messag

Re: [Ilugc] Read only filesystem in external hard disk in ubuntu

2009-08-12 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 13 Aug 2009, Mohan Sundaram wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > > If you are already using ntfs-3g and still experiencing problems > > then the disk should be removed with proper shutdown of the USB > > device. > > When I had simila

Re: [Ilugc] ISRO Bhuvan: Not for GNU/Linux users

2009-08-14 Thread Arun Khan
ion must work to open standards. There has been some movement in the DIT in the direction of using open standards but the draft text has enough "cope out" clauses for vendors to use as escape. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Regarding Ilugc account

2009-08-18 Thread Arun Khan
t such services have an option to skip the Google/Hotmail/Yahoo ... information. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] transfer file through scp

2009-08-25 Thread Arun Khan
On Tuesday 25 Aug 2009, naga raja wrote: > How to transfer the files through scp that has same inet address with > same username and password Have you tried "man scp" to find the answer to your question? If not, please do so and then tell what you did and what failed

Re: [Ilugc] How to find the OS installed date?

2009-09-08 Thread Arun Khan
way is > > $ su > # cd /root > # ls -l anaconda-ks.cfg The above is valid for Redhat/Fedora (or derivatives thereof). OP's distro is Ubuntu. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "

Re: [Ilugc] Re: USB bootable Linux distribution (Lokeswara Bheeman)

2009-09-09 Thread Arun Khan
live CD. My experience with unetbootin (from sourceforge); although it supposedly supports any Linux distro the only success I have had with it is Ubuntu. No luck with converting openSUSE LiveCD ISOs to USB bootable images. -- Arun Khan

Re: [Ilugc] Linux operating system for touchscreen tablet PC

2009-09-09 Thread Arun Khan
the display and behaves like a mouse giving the co-ordinates of the pointer; very much like the mouse we are used to. They used to be serial mouse compatible now they are probably USB mouse compatible. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, emai

Re: [Ilugc] ot:job opportunity - Linux Support Professionals

2009-09-09 Thread Arun Khan
pen to the idea of taking a > few interns who are in the final year of their college. > Could you please give some details about the positions? I personally cannot determine if your openings are related to System Admin, or Development. If Development then is it embedded, w

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Indian Govt gives free software in local languages

2009-09-09 Thread Arun Khan
rsion!). That is a bigger problem IMO. The people who develop such sites do not bother about compatability with browsers other than IE. My "pat" (sp?) paise :) -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: problem in Installing new OS using Virtual box

2009-09-19 Thread Arun Khan
nt tools to compile the drivers to match the kernel. Without the drivers it will not work. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. xargs command

2009-09-21 Thread Arun Khan
te the command passed to it, whereas with xargs it is only one sub shell i.e. the command and the target which comes from the find command. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the

Re: [Ilugc] ext4 vs ext3

2009-09-26 Thread Arun Khan
ot to create ext4 on Ubuntu 9.04. > The latest kernel is 2.6.31 available on www.kernel.org. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [ilugc] Problem with Firefox 3.5.0 beta

2009-09-26 Thread Arun Khan
de. To get the help you need, you need to provide your distro, it's version number, how did you install the first version of FF etc. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject

Re: [Ilugc] Did you get my invite?

2009-09-27 Thread Arun Khan
ice provider access to your email account and their bot picked all the entries from your address book and spammed them with the invite. BTW, most of the services have an opt out button (or similar action) to allow registration without having to provide your userid/password of you

Re: [Ilugc] ext4 vs ext3

2009-09-27 Thread Arun Khan
e numbers and moved into /lost+found! I have inherited the system administration of a file server with a 6TB XFS filesystem. What was the size of the XFS file system with which you experienced the above problem? The client premise experiences frequent power outages. -- Arun Khan _

Re: [Ilugc] ext4 vs ext3

2009-09-27 Thread Arun Khan
On Monday 28 Sep 2009, Raja Subramanian wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > > I have inherited the system administration of a file server with a > > 6TB XFS filesystem.  What was the size of the XFS file system with > > which you experienced the abo

Re: [Ilugc] spreadsheet pagebreak problem

2009-09-28 Thread Arun Khan
edora IRC, the OO forums/mailing lists might be a more appropriate place to ask. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: Fwd: [ILUGC]- Problem in GUI Login (Sorry for not Mentioning Subject)

2009-09-28 Thread Arun Khan
ling list clueless about your setup. You should not user root to login into your account GUI or console. Either use su or sudo to do your system administration activities. GUI Administration Console (e.g. Add/Remove software in Fedora) are configured to prompt for 'root&#x

Re: [Ilugc] unable to open a .pps attachment using openoffice 3.0 impress

2009-10-04 Thread Arun Khan
achment? OO is giving enough hint to about the file in the error you have reported. Most likely it is encrypted. Request the sender to send it w/o password protection. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "un

Re: [Ilugc] open suse repositories

2009-10-10 Thread Arun Khan
repo, these are always updated and fast. http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/11.1/repo/ http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/opensuse/opensuse/distribution/11.1/repo (assuming you are using 11.1) HTH -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ.

[Ilugc] [jobs] Looking for a theme maker

2009-10-11 Thread Arun Khan
contact the project co-ordinator "Comet Media Foundation " directly if you have the necessary skill set. The freelancer/consultant must be able to showcase at least one theme written by him/her. [1] <http://gnukhata.gnulinux.in> -- Arun Khan __

Re: [Ilugc] ubuntu netbook remix with normal laptop??

2009-10-30 Thread Arun Khan
laptop works fine with other Linux desktop installed. I have done it on my Toshiba laptop with 14.1" screen - I did not like it and removed it. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] is it possible to connect two computers using adsl modems

2009-11-02 Thread Arun Khan
. One computer is the client, the other is the server. TCP/IP stack over PPP connection. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] is it possible to connect two computers using adsl modems

2009-11-02 Thread Arun Khan
On Monday 02 Nov 2009, narendra sisodiya wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > > On Monday 02 Nov 2009, narendra sisodiya wrote: ... snip ... > >> > >> IMHO, 500m crossover cable can connect,, > > > > ethernet may require a rep

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] is it possible to connect two computers using adsl modems

2009-11-02 Thread Arun Khan
a metro area are other possibilities. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] UMASK

2009-11-05 Thread Arun Khan
can i change umask value in SuSe Linux. In file called "login.defs" (find /etc -iname login.defs) -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Windows & Ubuntu Boot times compared. Who wins?

2009-11-05 Thread Arun Khan
timer in the BIOS and it is all booted up by the time I get down to using it :) Likewise, I have a cron job that shuts down the desktop at a certain time of the day. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubs

Re: [Ilugc] How to generate /dev/ttyACM port

2009-11-05 Thread Arun Khan
gt; > \-- > > You shouldn't have to. On a colleagues laptop I had to do a manual "modprobe usb-serial" to get the serial device activated. OP could try the above if all else fails. HTH -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Linux for older people

2009-11-13 Thread Arun Khan
laptops being advertised (in the B2B rags) with their Linpus Linux distro pre-installed and a lower price tag (avg. 4K) v/s counterpart with Windows pre-installed. They are also offering the D250 Netbook with Linpus at around 17K now. -- Arun Khan ___

[Ilugc] [OT/HW] KVM support in Aspire 5542/Aspire 3810T

2009-11-13 Thread Arun Khan
as in a brand name starting with V...) I would appreciate feedback/comment from anyone who has used either of the above models and verified that VT can be enabled through BIOS and that the kernel loads the respective KVM modules. TIA -- Arun Khan

Re: [Ilugc] Advanced Linux Shell Scripting Work Shop [OT]

2012-01-21 Thread Arun Khan
least to the ones identified by the application. 3. Name of the instructor is helpful when you mention his/her experience -- Arun Khan ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Advanced Linux Shell Scripting Work Shop [OT]

2012-01-22 Thread Arun Khan
at works and what does not. -- Arun Khan ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Need guidance for a biz migrating to linux

2012-01-22 Thread Arun Khan
ber is 98400 85550 This mail list is a public and archived. Please do not give out phone numbers of 3rd parties. -- Arun Khan ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Asterix compatible card in india

2012-01-23 Thread Arun Khan
re your experience with whatever hardware you end up buying. HTH, -- Arun Khan ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] HDD error in Fedora

2012-01-25 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > > run smarctl -d /dev/sdX X=device alphabet and note any errors reported. > oops, typo error s/b smartctl -a /dev/sdX -- Arun Khan ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman

Re: [Ilugc] HDD error in Fedora

2012-01-25 Thread Arun Khan
did report errors found in the HDD's. It might help if you include a note along with the HDD stating the problem you are experiencing (and not listed in their error codes) and they might replace the HDD. Hopefully they will not say we do not support Linux :) HTH -- Arun Khan ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] HDD error in Fedora

2012-01-27 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:41 PM, A. Mani wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Arun Khan wrote: >> Run "badblocks" in r/w mode and see if any errors are reported. >> > > Simply do the tests with Gsmartctl from a live cd (like parted magic). > It reports v

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