[Ilugc] Re: Petaflop barrier reched for the first time, by an RHEL + Cell/Opteron system

2008-06-12 Thread p . sriram
Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://news.cnet.com/2100-1010_3-6241145.html > > Thankfully the market for supercomputer OS rests safely with Linux well, this new number one machine does not have much to do with that. this happened about five years ago when ibm and hp decide

[Ilugc] Re: [ot]any online income tax returns efiling experience under linux + 00 experience?

2008-07-30 Thread p . sriram
Sri Ramadoss M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i heard its asking for .xls upload. if thats the case we need to show our > protest. yes, we should protest IF, but it does not. the upload is an xml file, the same as last year. i have e-filed my return last year and this year also. unfortunately, t

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

2008-08-04 Thread p . sriram
Muneer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Most modern motherboards have the option of booting from local hard > >disk, CD/DVDROM, Floppy, network, USB. > > This seems to be the most interesting to me. I am one of the victim of > paying Windows tax > ... > and try out Linux. if you just want to try o

[Ilugc] Re: Happy Birth Day Debian

2008-08-16 Thread p sriram
Swapnil Bhartiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Its great to see that Debian is celebrating its 15th birthday today. Are > there any celebrations going on in India? > > http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/28150/news.htm maybe, nitpicking, but how is this (aug 16 1993) the birthday of debian? it is

[Ilugc] Re: Happy Birth Day Debian

2008-08-16 Thread p sriram
Zico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 6:19 PM, p sriram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > maybe, nitpicking, but how is this (aug 16 1993) the birthday of debian? > Check this out: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay2008 yes, please check that

[Ilugc] Re: Happy Birth Day Debian

2008-08-17 Thread p . sriram
Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > new born babies are unuseable and unstable especially if they have not yet been delive^h^h^h^h^h^h released and only concei^h^h^h^h^h^h announced? sriram ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

[Ilugc] Re: Canonical Not Great Contributor

2008-09-28 Thread p . sriram
Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a confession to make: I have shamelessly used linux since 1995 and > have never contributed a patch to the kernel. Even worse, I dont know C. So, > boycott me. Hate me. Kick me. Ban me. your offer is acceptable. but, wait. we can do all that

[Ilugc] Re: Canonical Not Great Contributor

2008-09-28 Thread p . sriram
Swapnil Bhartiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just learnt from a friend of mine that I should stop using Ubuntu as > Canonical is not contributing to the > development of GNU/Linux systems as compared to other players. by this logic, what happens to distributions like centos? sriram _

[Ilugc] Re: Canonical Not Great Contributor

2008-09-28 Thread p . sriram
Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > P. S. Even Newton, Faraday and Einstein were wrong at times! for an example google for einstein's airfoil design, which he worked on around the time of world war 1. decades later, einstein wrote about how embarassed he was about this work. srir

[Ilugc] Re: Wget behind proxy

2009-01-26 Thread p . sriram
narendran krishnan writes: > I am trying to make wget work from behind a proxy. > wget --proxy-user="myname" --proxy-passwd="passwd" > http://www.iitm.ac.in/downloads/newsupdates/GJ%20&%20Research%20Park.ppt > > i face similar problem while using apt and synnaptic. what kind of authentication d

[Ilugc] Re: Reminder: Please Respond to Balakrishnan's Invitation

2009-02-11 Thread p . sriram
Anand writes: > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Balakrishnan Velayuthan > > wrote: > > > Balakrishnan Velayuthan wants you to join Yaari! > > > > No use asking someone to stop. Why don't we blacklist those domains > > (*.yaariinvites.com) in our mail servers? > > > Now that's a good idea...

[Ilugc] Re: Can mailman filter out messages from social networking sites?

2009-03-21 Thread p . sriram
Roshan George writes: > On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 21:24 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: > > Is there a way to filter and discard messages based on domains like > > faniq.com, hi5.com, facebook.com, linkedin.com ... ? > > It is possible. However Kenneth Gonsalves has said previously that the > list admins

[Ilugc] Re: Fedora Crash

2009-03-24 Thread p . sriram
Kenneth Gonsalves writes: [about fedora] > the distro is meant to be used by > users - like you (a professional developer), me (an amateur developer) and our > respective aunties (who use it to surf, check email and process words). RHEL > is meant for corporates who want paid support - and I

[Ilugc] Re: Can mailman filter out messages from social networking sites?

2009-03-24 Thread p . sriram
Kapil Hari Paranjape writes: > With most sites adopting SPF records[*], the faking of the first header > is generally avoided by most mail servers. However, I haven't checked > what these social networking sites do. we have got one more from faniq this morning, so i waded through the mail logs t

[Ilugc] Re: chennai lug hosting

2009-04-05 Thread p . sriram
Kenneth Gonsalves writes: > Nothing like getting hosted by an institution, let us hope it can be done. > btw what bandwidth do you have? ah, hah. lets see, we had an earlier post, Kenneth Gonsalves writes: > IITM has a miserable 64 mbps line - it sucks bigtime i doubt imsc has more bandwidth t

[Ilugc] Re: Send mails to a specific server

2009-05-21 Thread p . sriram
Ashish Verma writes: > Is the below possible, if yes how? > ... > I am not sure if this can be done by making alterations in the DNS, as it > can hold MX record for either "fs" or "ms". you can use split horizon dns, if you want to do this using dns. the split horizon will have to be set up so t

[Ilugc] Re: Request to Digest Mode Subscribers

2009-06-22 Thread p . sriram
Ashok Gautham writes: > I am most certainly not the admin of this LUG, but I would like to > take interest in the welfare of this mailing list. thank you. i am the list admin (not admin of the lug) and i appreciate all such efforts. > Any more tips are welcome. well, there is a web front end

[Ilugc] Re: Last chance! Your private message from Kamalakannan expires tonight

2009-07-02 Thread p . sriram
Kamalakannan S writes: >FanIQ >Your private message from Kamalakannan will e xpire tonight at midnight. ok, thanks. unsubscribed ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message

[Ilugc] Re: abdul...@... has sent you a private message

2009-07-02 Thread p . sriram
Abdul Rahman I writes: > >FanIQ.com >Abdul Rahman I has sent you a private message yes, thanks. ilugc sends abdul rahman a public message - unsubscribed. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subje

[Ilugc] Re: SATHISH KUMAR wants to chat

2009-07-20 Thread p . sriram
SATHISH KUMAR writes: > SATHISH KUMAR wants to stay in better touch using some of Google's coolest > new products. thank you; you can do that elsewhere, not on this list. unsubscribed. sriram ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in wi

[Ilugc] Re: Bala Lynus has sent you a Desktopdating invitation

2009-07-26 Thread p . sriram
Bala Lynus writes: > Bala Lynus has invited you to Desktopdating yeah, thanks, but not here. unsubscribed. sriram ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.a

[Ilugc] Re: how to merge directory contents

2010-01-19 Thread P . Sriram
Saravanan S writes: > I need to merge the contents of several directories, into a single > directory structure, > Like i have > dir1/a/1 > dir1/b/2 > dir2/a/10 > dir2/b/20 > > after merging dir1 and dir2, i should get, > > dirnew/a/1 and 10 > dirnew/b/2 and 20 > > How to do this easily?

[Ilugc] Multihoming etc (not squid)

2010-04-24 Thread P . Sriram
Girish Venkatachalam writes: > There is no need for squid to run on a multihomed host. Multihomed is not a synonym for multiple network interfaces. It is possible to have multiple network cards and not be multihomed and it is also possible to have a single network card and be multihomed. > Onl

[Ilugc] Re: Candidate Needed For the Post Of Admin - IT Infrastructure

2010-04-24 Thread P . Sriram
Saravanan S writes: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > > Do consider candidates without certification > > You are absolutely lowly taught. > ... > Equal chances that you are an inexperienced interviewer. I wouldn't dismiss AK so lightly; he has been in IT since before the t

[Ilugc] net4india thinks ilugc mail is spam

2010-05-23 Thread p . sriram
dear ilugc members (with net4india as isp = users @linuxpertacademy.com and us...@bksystems.co.in and maybe others) net4india thinks that ilugc mail is spam and is bouncing it to postmaster; this is not the first time and i dont see why postmaster has to request net4india to whitelist ilugc ever

[Ilugc] Re: [NOTE] Emergency Moderation Enabled

2010-07-19 Thread P . Sriram
Bharathi Subramanian writes: > Mails won't get delivered directly on the list. SABDFL aka list admin / owner speaks I have been a member of this list since before it was created - starting with adding group aliases. I have always followed the practice of letting the list decide its own policie

[Ilugc] New list created ilugc.tamil

2010-07-22 Thread P . Sriram
writes: > If any list member wants ilugc.tamil or ilguc.telugu or ilugc.finnish or > ilugc.tulu or whatever, please send mail to me As per request, new mailing list ilugc.tamil has been created at the request of masivaku...@gmail.com. This user has been sent the list admin password to kick thi

[Ilugc] Re: Ubuntu does not detect keyboard on startup

2010-09-02 Thread P . Sriram
Roshan George writes: > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 23:45 +0530, sugantha wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have Ubuntu 2.6.32-24-generic installed. Sometimes, as soon as I startup, > > the keyboard does not get detected. I need to restart my machine by point > > and click from the login prompt. After rest

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: Doubts-Raid-Apache

2011-02-21 Thread P . Sriram
Girish Venkatachalam writes: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Kumaraswamy wrote: > This is actually 4 disks(not 3). What am I missing? > > >   hdd is dedicated parity in the above This is what you are missing; actually, with 3 data disks and a dedicated parity disk, this is raid 4 not raid

Re: [Ilugc] Indian GNU/R Group Invite

2011-11-28 Thread P . Sriram
A. Mani writes: > Please join if interested in R: > > https://groups.google.com/group/r-group-india > > This group is for all discussions about R users and developers in India. On a related note, good old ftp.iitm.ac.in is a CRAN mirror (not yet official). Sriram

[Ilugc] Is it time to say good bye?

2016-02-07 Thread p sriram
Dear ilugc, I am ilugc-owner. I have been watching the mail traffic slowly decline to about 100 mails a month in the last three years, from the lively 500+ average it enjoyed for several years before that. It gives me great pleasure to note that this is one of the longest living groups / lists

[Ilugc] Is it time to say good bye?

2016-02-07 Thread p sriram
Dear ilugc, I am ilugc-owner. I have been watching the mail traffic slowly decline to about 100 mails a month in the last three years, from the lively 500+ average it enjoyed for several years before that. It gives me great pleasure to note that this is one of the longest living groups / lists

[Ilugc] migration

2016-03-03 Thread P. Sriram
(overriding mode to post) ... Here is our migration plan: 1. New ILUGC mailing list @ FreeLists.org is ready. FreeLists not allowing the auto bulk registration. So please register yourself on the new mailing list. ... Thanks :-) -- Bharathi Subramanian I see that less than a hundred are subscrib

[Ilugc] Re: fwd: fanIQ mail from Giridharan

2009-03-24 Thread Prof. P. Sriram
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Arun Khan wrote: > The attachment contains the "message" with all the headers that I > received from the mailing list. I saved the message in mbox format to > capture the headers. thanks. > Hope this helps. unfortunately, it is of no help. i dont know what exactly i am lo

[Ilugc] new test mail

2013-01-09 Thread Prof. P. Sriram
new test mail -- sriram ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] list temporarily down - now back up

2013-01-09 Thread Prof. P. Sriram
Dear ilugc mailing list users, The ilugc mailing list was down for about the last 48 hours but is now back up. The problem was caused by overly aggressive spam filtering rules which resulted in all incoming postings being classified as spam and hence getting discarded. Spam filtering rules have

[Ilugc] testing

2010-12-11 Thread Prof. P. Sriram
testing -- sriram ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc