Hello,
On Sat, 10 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At present I am using in Ubuntu 7.10 and i would like to upgrade to Ubuntu
> 8.04.
>
> So I downloaded Alternate CD iso of Ubuntu 8.04 and then I burned them in
> the CD.
I think the instructions on the web site are probably misleading.
Perh
Hello,
I am posting this here as it should receive wide exposure.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html
The bottom line(s):
1. If you run a Debian or derivative (yes, Ubuntu!) version
that is based on etch or later,
and
2a. If you generated an SSH/SSL key on t
Hello,
On Tue, 13 May 2008, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> I think this method of password recovery works on several
> distributions; wherein you can boot into single user mode and recover
> your password.
There are two different things you are mixing here:
1. Single user mode obtained by boot option "s
Hello,
On Tue, 13 May 2008, Roshan wrote:
> I have a very odd hardware problem, and I cannot
> guess, which hardware is at fault.
> (It might turn up to be a BIOS problem too, but read
> on to help me out, if you can)
On reading your mail it looks very much like a BIOS problem.
Most probably, t
Hello,
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam Gopalan wrote:
> I think it is time we face the facts and decide where we should be
> wasting our time and energy - Getting more people to switch to
> Linux/FOSS and not use pirated MS software or stop people from posting
> to ILUGC, hopi
Hello,
On Wed, 14 May 2008, senthilraja P wrote:
> Basically, even though the students are interested, they are
> handicapped because of lack of basic skills required for a foss project.
>
> Some example i can quote are:
> * Lack of knowledge of SVN. (its one of basic operations in any FOSS
> p
Hello,
On Wed, 14 May 2008, swapan karmakar wrote:
> how can we create an exact clone of LinuxOS installed on a HDD to another
> HDD...?
Suppose the file-system you want to copy is mounted at /source
Suppose the file-system you want write is mounted at /target
cd /source
find .
Hello,
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Kadambari Devarajan wrote:
> I've been keeping track of the list for quite a few years now, albeit
> passively.
Which in some ways classifies you as a newbie and may explain your
poorly formatted e-mail.
> Fine, even if bottom-posting is mandatory here,
The question
Hello,
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक ] wrote:
> > how can we create an exact clone of LinuxOS installed on a HDD to another
> > HDD...?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
>
> There is no better utility than this for cloning as far as I know.
I think you are t
Hello,
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Venkatraman S wrote:
> Also, i would be interested in knowing as to how this is the "GNU/Linux
> Way".
"The GNU/Linux Way" possibly refers to:
You should not limit your freedom to Freedom 0
(Recall: Freedom 0 refers to the freedom to use software.)
Hello,
(Disclaimer: I am *not* trying to fan any flames here!)
http://blog.dave.org.uk/2008/05/pointless-battles-for-geeks.html
Consider this thread as read only!
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On Sat, 17 May 2008, Praveen A wrote:
> A very serious effort to get Windows refund from Lenovo is going on in
> ilugd. There is cases in Europe where people have got such a refund,
> but this is first time this issue is being taken seriously in India.
> Some magzines are involved in this a
Hello,
On Sun, 18 May 2008, Pranesh Srinivasan wrote:
> But I stongly suggest you donate them to some other organisation which
> would need those comps, more than you do. Puppy Linux would work great
> on those machines. :) Try other schools, or rural training centres,
> the likes.
I think the qu
Hello,
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Zico wrote:
> The funny thing is, if i want to play any sound from any sites with firefox,
> it plays but at the same time if i wanna play something from my hdd, it
> doesn`t!!! :(
This means that firefox (or some program that it is using like esound
or pulse or th
Hello,
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Shuveb Hussain wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Dennis Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Does anyone know what these flash players rely upon to access sound
> > hardware?
> IIRC, Flash uses /dev/dsp. I don't think it does ALSA.
If you look through the
On Wed, 21 May 2008, carti wrote:
> "df" command would give you the block size.( see the column header after
> So, I believe the block size is 1024 bytes. Correct me if I am wrong.
Sorry. You are wrong! :-(
If the file system block size is what you want then the command is
dumpe2fs -h /
Hello,
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Anand Prabhu wrote:
> It is connected through a USB serial port.
I think the modem also has a regular ethernet port.
As far as the USB connection is concerned, I haven't used it myself.
This may need usb_net driver and ppoe --- but I am just guessing.
Have look at t
Hello,
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> I just did an "aptitude upgrade" of my Debian Etch system at home. After
> this, it refuxes to boot with the message
>
> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
This is certainly mysterious. It is possible that in the process
Hello,
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008, Bharathi Subramanian wrote:
> Recently applied for the BSNL Broadband connection. I like to
> get your suggestions on ADSL modem (with Ethernet + WiFi).
I was told that the wait for the modem with wi-fi was a lot more so I
opted for just the modem from BSNL and bought
Hello,
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008, Balu manyam wrote:
> absolutely - less is much better - it would be more helpful if one can edit
> a file with less - so we need not use 'vi' especially for big text
> files..(sed -i is an option but less is less memory intensive)
I think adding an editor to "less" wou
Hello,
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:00 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ??? I am using firefox 2.0.11, on ubuntu 6.06. When i tried to
> open ubuntu-tam.org, the two stroke tamil letter positions are
> interchanged.? (PFA the screenshot).? How do i resolve it?
I think this was resolved using a newer
Hello,
VCS wars^Wdiscussions!
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008, Arnold Noronha wrote:
> My personal preference is svn+svk.. so everybody is happy: those who
> want centralized can use svn directly, and those who want
> decentralized (like me) can use svk.
>
> svk can get pretty slow once the number of commit
Hello,
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> Aren't
>
> xargs foo
>
> and
>
> xargs -i foo {}
>
> supposed to be identical? Why do they act different?
Because they are not identical!
The first takes the white-space separated words from standard input
and assigns them as A
Hello,
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> Eureka! I scanned the man page again and found a switch "-l" which forces
> each input argument to be processed separately. Therefore, it is
>
> xargs -l foo
>
> that is equivalent to
>
> xargs -i foo {}
>
> Now onwards, I will a
Hello,
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008, Shrinivasan T wrote:
> How to copy a VCD to another empty disc?
>
> i can not create dd dump or iso.
You should not (and perhaps cannot) use dd to dump a CD.
There are (at least) two ways CD's are written --- tracks and packets.
The former can be read and written by
On Sun, 08 Jun 2008, Sarad AV wrote:
> I don't see why gmail should be seen as evil if they are willing
> to release account information on subpoena. without it, they are
> not even permitted to operate in the country.
I think you missed some other points which are still bad.
On Sun, 8 Jun
Hello,
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008, Sarad AV wrote:
> they have the numbers. that puts them right where they want. they
> can dictate now.
The tyranny of the majority! :-)
> As long as we don't have the numbers, what we say
> is only a ideology. there isn't much we can do about it.
^^^
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008, Sarad AV wrote:
> > B. Avoid monopolies. If your friend uses Gmail then insist on using
> > Yahoo! and complain loudly if the two services do not co-operate.
> > More choice is mostly better!
>
> Its designed not to work. All the 'free extra services' can be
> exercised only
Hello,
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Pranesh Srinivasan
wrote:
>I do not wish to flare your temper, or start a flame war,
I agree but feel that there are too many "given wisdom" statements in
what Sarad AV has said to let them pass. My apologies for fanning the
flames. ;-)
If you want to sk
Hello,
Perhaps we are all blind men looking at the same elephant here!
I once wrote
(http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/blog/floss/soft_duties-2001-03-12-12-22.html)
Unfortunately, as long there will be people willing to "take
the easy way", there will also be a MicroSoft that leads t
Hello,
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Arun Khan wrote:
> On Thursday 12 Jun 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> > given that the cost of running one's own mail server is so low, I
> > dont see why people bow to the big G
>
> assuming one had competency in this domain and the time,
Which is why having a commu
Hello,
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> hurd and vista are in competition as the two most useless operating
> systems
I haven't used Vista but I have used the Hurd---about 5 years ago when
I decided that my desktop machine could manage fine with Hurd.
Unfortunately, I have since
Hello,
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Arun Khan wrote:
> On Thursday 12 Jun 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> > Which is why having a community supported service sounds increasingly
> > like a good idea. Let's see if there is some "prior art" which can
> > help.
>
Hello,
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Shuveb Hussain wrote:
> All USB devices. Check for proper earthing before blaming/replacing your
> mobo.
"Proper Earthing"? In Chennai (or Mumbai) homes, this only happens in
one's dreams! Unfortunately, there is no simple solution that I know
of.
Regards,
Kapil.
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Arnold Noronha wrote:
> If I am (was?) not mistaken, if you set the proxy information using
> synaptic package manager's proxy settings, running APT on the command
> line will respect those settings. So getting rid of the proxy will
> require using the graphical interface to d
Hello,
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Thanigairajan murugan wrote:
> 2)Allow ssh from known ips only.
Whether this is good or not depends on the context.
For example, suppose your system is remotely administered. If those
few IP addresses become inaccessible to you then you are locked out of
the system.
Hello,
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Bharathi Subramanian wrote:
> To send a file to User1, the file will be uploaded in his folder/
> account and send a mail to him with the file link. User1 will be
> authenticated with a password, whenever he is trying to access his
> folder/account or download file.
Ca
Hello,
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Zico wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Bharathi Subramanian <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I feel, it is a over kill. Bcoz most of the files are docs, bin and
> > ISO images. As of now, I am using the technique explained by Kapil.
> What`s that?
The thread s
Hello,
Apropos "rm -rf /".
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Arun Khan wrote:
> Seriously, has anyone tried it?
I recall doing this once with user-mode-linux but didn't record the
session. You may want to try it with u-m-l or with qemu. It hurts
less when you play in the sand. :-)
It should manage to "go th
On Friday 20 Jun 2008, Sudharshan S wrote:
> You forgot this,
>
>rm -rf / -- Shortcut to get yourselves fired for the rest of your
> life
>
> DISCLAIMER: Am not responsible for lost jobs now.
Actually, if you install "safe-rm" then you may be safe!
This package just recently entered Debian un
Hello,
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Raja Subramanian wrote:
> it is easy to establish more than N connections per minute over
> the LAN through regular usage through various shell scripts, maintenance
> tasks, etc.
Multiple ssh connections are not really required for recent openssh
clients. These create
Hello,
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> Apropos "rm -rf /".
>
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Arun Khan wrote:
> > Seriously, has anyone tried it?
>
> I recall doing this once with user-mode-linux but didn't record the
> session. You may want to t
Hello,
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, vaibhav khatavkar wrote:
> I am also facing one more problem ... I also
> deleted all file from /var/cache/apt/archives/
I think you did not follow his instruction correctly.
You also removed a _directory_ called partial!
> /var/cache/apt/archives/partial files miss
Hello,
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Manish Sinha wrote:
> I heard resizing the root partition is the thing which is highly
> discouraged due to some specific reasons. Is it correct? I had to
> reinstall my ubuntu when I saw my / filling up some months back...
Never use BIOS unless you _have_ to --- after
Hello,
Apropose greylisting.
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Arun Khan wrote:
> Not sure if this 'Net legend but I have heard that some spam software
> take this technique into account and retry the MTA at which point the
> email is accepted.
The principle behind greylisting is that the SMTP RFC allows f
Hello,
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, rajasekhar kuppa wrote:
> How ever i don't know the fundamentals of this and am posting this in the
> hope that some one might guide me to any other existing virtualisation
> stuff in the Linux world.
A lot of different virtualisation options exist depending on what y
Hello,
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
> I would prefer to work with people who have their basics (or
> fundamental know-how) set right - whether it comes from college
> education or experience, doesn't really matter.
I think we would all agree with this. The "fundas" must be OK.
The
Hello,
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, shirish wrote:
> http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_1.html
Even Newton (who was definitely *not* a nice guy) admitted that he
saw further by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Politics, marketing and economics are a part of Life that influences
innova
Hello,
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, swapan karmakar wrote:
> i am trying to set up internet connection thru BSNL's new ZTE EVDO
> CDMA Tech Modem (USB data card). i am using Mandriva 2007 (kernel
> 2.6.22-9)
This may be a usbmodem device similar to that used by
Reliance and Tata-Indicomm. The following U
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Prashanth Mohan wrote:
> One of the reasons for this is that most of the universities in India
> are Teaching Institutions rather than Research Institutions.
Really? I thought they were assembly lines for creating certificate
holders! ;-)
The confrontation between teaching a
Hello,
We are seriously OT here!
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Sri Ramadoss M wrote:
> I have seen lot of talents, among my friends who would have been great
> people in research etc., but unfortunately research is confined and
> recognized only in one language, vastly :-(
I have seen good research using
Hello,
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Akarsh Simha wrote:
> What the post intended to say was that monopolies should be
> discouraged, because they can result in the companies withdrawing
> your freedom, as it has happened with Microsoft.
Here is an article which shows that Google is set to overtake
Micros
Hello,
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In windows, there is a console utility called NET SEND, by which we can
> send messages to other users, computers, or messaging names on the local
> area network.
This is a much better explanation. It could have been written as
follows.
Lan
Hello,
This mail has nothing to do with the relative merits of Linux
distributions.
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, benjamin wrote:
> "On the Web, If You're Not Growing, You're Dying"
> http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/06/on-web-if-youre-not-growing-youre-dying.html
This is the (IMHO) flawed philosphy of
Hello,
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, Sujith wrote:
> Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> > What happened to the Unix philosphy of doing one thing and doing it
> > really well?
> >
> > If the program is a web browser, it should be a web-browser and not
> > try to be a
Hello,
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> I am worried about extracting TAR files...(1) What if it contains files with
> absolute paths? (2) What if it contains files with ".." in the path? (3)
> What if it violates the Unix convention of extracting the contents in a
> sub-directory
Hello,
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
>
> transcode --input-encoding ISO-8859-1 --output-encoding UTF-8 <
> /usr/share/dict/words > dict.utf8
iconv --from-code ISO-8859-1 --to-code UTF-8 < /usr/share/dict/words >
dict.utf8
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Hello,
On Sat, 05 Jul 2008, Aditya M wrote:
> Oh please, you guys are showing off rather than making intelligent arguments.
> Its already degenerating into a flame.
I think people forgot the smileys. :-) :-) :-)
Anyway, I will add my 2-paise worth.
Why I prefer Debian? Come to the ilugc meeting
o possible: For example, if I am extracting
> something in my home directory, what if the archive overwrote .bash_profile
> or .bashrc ?
Why not experiment and find out?!
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> (Don't believe me! Just test it out!)
Hint: You need to _for
Hello,
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008, sriram wrote:
> > i cant use ssh and irc from college ,look at this
> > student jtuxmeet:~$ time ssh unixpod.com
> > ssh: connect to host unixpod.com port 22: Connection refused
> > please suggest me some solution to make it work properly .
>
> there is also the poss
Hello,
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008, abdullah abdul Khadir wrote:
> By the way what was that about "I know that its a little hard to
> put up with a government organisation, because we have been brought
> up in a way to have very negative thoughts about it." Whoever says
> such a statement must have never
Hello,
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008, R.Kannan wrote:
> Last Friday our box mysteriously tried to assign itself the IP of our
> network gateway ( 172.18.32.1 ) and succeeded.
> How can this happen , if this behaviour is acceptable can any one
> running *inx assign some arbitrary IP and bring the server / n
Dear Bharathi,
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Bharathi Subramanian wrote:
> > Talk 1: Brief intro to Deb Packages and the Release cycle:
> Speaker: Kapil Hari Paranjape, Debian Developer
> Duration: ~30mins
>
> Debian GNU/Linux has a fairly complicated release process,
etc etc.
The ta
Hello,
In the context of discussions here on Google, Yahoo! and other
"free services", here is a blog devoted to such discussions
http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/
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Hello,
Anyone in the mood for some Debian related translation work?
http://www.xinocat.com/refcard/
This is a "reference card" like the GNU emacs reference card.
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Hello,
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Praveen Kumar wrote:
> We shall use 'dd' command
>
> "dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/dev/sda5"
This is not a very good idea as all kinds of blocks of zeroes will be
copied.
> Otherwise we can also use "cp -rvfp source-partition destination partition"
> then edit grub and boot.
Hello,
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Zico wrote:
> Here, i am really confused about this issue. My root ( / ) partition is
> almost full. Now, what should i do? I mean, i don`t wanna reinstall my
> Ubuntu again. But, the root ( / ) partition will be over very soon. Then?
> What will happen? How can i survi
Hello,
On 7/19/08, Sivaram Kannan wrote:
> Am facing a installation problem in Debian Lenny Beta 2. I downloaded
> the dvd version and when I tried to install it in my pc, the cdrom
> drive(LG DVD writer) is not getting detected. The installation is
> failing in the step, "Detect and Mount CD-ROM
Hello,
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, indianathan n wrote:
> I have an 2 GB pen drive. Pen drive is ext3 file system. I used it
> in Ubuntu 7.10, RHEL4 Puppy linux 3 and Mandriva. In my experience,
> i wish to expose some steps to be followed.
Thanks for your write-up. I agree with most of your points.
>
Hello,
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, indianathan n wrote:
> I experienced that the file copied in RHEL4 machine can't
> edited in ubuntu.then i changed the file permission in ubuntu. after some
> time, when i access the file in RHEL4, the file owner displayed as 999 (
> using ls -l). The same thing happen
Hello,
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, balaji chellappan wrote:
> In the list of OS supported, they have not mentioned anything about
> linux.
This seems to be a standard USB external storage device and should be
usable as such.
> It seems the disk is preformatted in NTFS. If we reformat to ext3,
> can we
Hello,
Some thoughts on this discussion.
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Ashok Gautham J. wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:33 PM, senthilraja P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Some suggestions:
> > 1. What i have done is very basic thing, that need not require any
> > expertise
> > or great skills. H
Hello,
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> We are going to host a *public* IRC session in #fedora-india, freenode
> coming Monday at 3:00 PM and do a quick walk through on the basics of
> RPM packaging in Fedora. More details at
I really wanted to learn this! Unfortunately, I'll be trave
Hello,
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, rajasekhar kuppa wrote:
> There a bunch of roughly 2000 articles in the form of html, text , pdf,
> and (yes you guessed it) .doc format.
>
> I am also in need of a design idea. what would be an ideal way to present
> this to the users.
We installed eprints from
Hello,
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hohndel pointed out that RPM packages
> include licence information; the DEB package management as used by
> Ubuntu and Debian doesn't have this information in the package files.
Not wanting to start a flame-war or anything ;-) ...
Any Debi
Hello,
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Zico wrote:
> I am facing sound problem in my onboard, real tech card, using alsa. I am
> using Ubuntu 8.04. When i go to play some video or something like that with
> firefox, it plays. But, just after that, if i wanna play something from my
> hard drive, sound gone aw
Dear Friends,
There is potentially a huge DNS problem that is about to hit the
internet on a scale comparable with spam e-mail.
It can be solved by patching the DNS resolver you use but:
- the DNS resolver of your home router is impossible to patch
- the DNS servers of Indian ISP's have cu
Hello,
Here is a nice write up by Dan Kaminsky himself.
http://www.doxpara.com/?p=1176
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Hello,
Prem Kurian Philip wrote:
> Incidentally, MS IIS 6 and MS IIS 7 have no existing exploitable
> vulnerabilities while Apache does.
> http://secunia.com/product/1438/
What are the known exploitable vulnerabilities in the Apache web
server?
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, sanath kumar wrote:
> Hi friends, I'm an UG student. I'm very much interested in linux and i am
> well versed with the theoritical basics of OS. I also am doing a course on
> UNIX. So i thought it would high time to make my hands dirty on kernel
> codes. I did not
Hello,
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, benjamin wrote:
> "Virtualization is a technique by which mutiple guest operating system
> can be allowed to be run on a base operating system"
>
> on "a base operating system" or "on the hardware"?
Usually, there _is_ a base operating system which is called the host
Hello,
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
>>> From: Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> http://humorix.org/articles/2007/12/monkeys/
>
> we have to wait till they reprogram the shift key to decide that ;-)
These primate research guys should learn to use "xmodmap" or "loadkeys".
:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, benjamin wrote:
> in Xen, would you call Dom0 the host?
You are right about the fact that even Dom0 is "only"
a special domain.
My statement was made from a usage perspective rather than
as strict logical dependency.
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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" prompt with a
> busybox prompt.
Note that the internal disk of the EEE Pc is also a USB disk so your
initramfs may be
Hello,
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Venkatraman S wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Ravi Jaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I using HCL leaptop notebook, in which key U & I is not working. Now ,my
> >
> Aint hijacking this thread, but quick Q : how is this notebook? Does it
> perform well? Any pl
Hello,
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Ravi Jaya wrote:
> I using HCL leaptop notebook, in which key U & I is not working. Now ,my
> requirement is to map this two keys (U and I) to
> right and left windows keys respectively. I appreciate any sort of help or
> pointers to fix this.
I don't understand what y
Hello,
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> S.Ramaswamy wrote:
>> Getting your code into an official release is not just a matter of
>> cloning a repository and then committing changes locally with a
>> distributed version control system.
> Sure, but "official kernel" is just a social nor
Hello,\
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Zico wrote:
> I can login as root remotely, but no command is working there... as for
> example: ls, yum,su or so on.
One thing you can do is the following.
Get "sash" (standalone shell) or "busybox" (another standalone
program) on your local machine. These programs
Hello,
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Sarad AV wrote:
>I think people go to a cyber cafe for more than browsing. when
>you dependent on MS office to get your work done and download
>microsoft supported formats, it is best to have a windows machine
>unless the cafe owners want to loose (some)
Hello,
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008, indianathan n wrote:
> I downloaded Debian Lenny live (Gnome).It's size is 734MB. I tried to
> burn it in CD using K3B ( i also enabled over flow burning option), But it
> burn until 728MB and failed to write the image.
That is because the image is too large! This
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On Tue, 02 Sep 2008, indianathan n wrote:
> I backuped the packages to new folder in my home directory.
> After second update, i checked the deference between old and new packages.
> Both are different. What happen to old ones?
If the packages are updated then the old ones are "autoclean"e
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On Wed, 03 Sep 2008, Deepak Pandian wrote:
> As per one of our lugie's suggestion I installed Ubuntu in a fairly safe
> partition (ie. Free space in your harddisk) You can estimate that by
> following the harddisk cylinders in fdisk. You need to play safe here , else
> you can loose you
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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 GNU tool combo i.e. GNU Operating System does this refer
> to?
It refers to the date that RMS decided that there sh
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On Thu, 04 Sep 2008, Arun Khan wrote:
> I am trying to reconcile the announcement's title "GNU Operating System"
> turning 25 i.e. celebrating it's 25th birthday. To me, this implies
> that the GNU tools (the Unix equivalents required for sys admin at a
> min.) and the HURD kernel (GNU
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On Mon, 08 Sep 2008, benedict nicholas wrote:
> Dear Friends,We have in our college around 100 Intel Dot Station
> with 300MHz,128MB RAM & 10GB hard disk. We are trying to convert
> them intosome flavour of linux. Open Office & gcc are the only two
> packages we are going to use since it is
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On Mon, 08 Sep 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> my laptop is dying and I need a new one. I am informed that lenova
> thinkpads work out of the box with linux and was looking at the R
> series. Am a little confused - the cheapest R series seems to have more
> features than the more expe
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On Mon, 08 Sep 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> the 128MB of RAM looks a bit limiting. Have you considered using a
> LTSP or a NX based setup ?
How times have changed!
In 1996 someone challenged me to run GNU/Linux with X, Emacs and
TeX/Xdvi on a 486 with 4MB of RAM. The challenger lost!
I
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On Tue, 09 Sep 2008, indianathan n wrote:
> I tried to configure internet configuration using Airtel GPRS with
> Motorola SLVR L9 in opensuse11
> When i connect the mobile using usb cable, messages log file displays
> the following
> Sep 7 20:21:28 linux-wd2r kernel: Initializing USB
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On Mon, 08 Sep 2008, Zico wrote:
> I am trying to compile fuse filesystem in my ubuntu 8.04. I downloaded the
> source of fuse. From http://chaos.allsiemens.com/siefs/
> What should i do now?
Is there some reason why the prebuilt fuse-module-deb
doesn't work for you?
If you have comp
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On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Zico wrote:
> Now, is it possible to handle both system, the normal internet & eGranary in
> one browser simultaneously? I want to bring this flexibility to the student
> that, no one need to change this proxy anymore, when anyone wants to use
> eGranary, he/she can use
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