[Ilugc] [Commercial -- well, not really] An Invitation to tuxcompatible.com

2008-11-12 Thread Steve
ode/2 Please read more at the site. Thank you for your time, regards, - steve ___ 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: Re: [Ilugc] Employee Agreement of a FOSS company

2008-12-05 Thread Steve
t for me, that fight it out myself. Isn't that why even the FSF requests copyright assignment ? http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html ...how is that different than a for profit company requesting the same ? gah ! like I said, this thread is trying too hard to be deeply intel

Re: Re: [Ilugc] Employee Agreement of a FOSS company

2008-12-05 Thread Steve
matter of preference and logic...not one of right vs. wrong c. In terms of 'insatiable curiosity about totally trivial and irrelevant things', i have no doubt one can discuss something right until godwin's law is invoked or more :) cheers, - steve <...snip...> _

Re: [OT] Rudeness (Was Re: [Ilugc] What logs to check for a system crash?)

2009-01-25 Thread steve
o windoze because ubuntu barfs. ight ! So do you think it is in some way better to encourage people to ditch FOSS and go back to windoze by being entirely unhelpful and rude when they ask for help on a mailing list ? - steve -- Linux Centric Marketplac

Re: [Ilugc] firefox10 network manager does not know that network is running

2009-02-15 Thread steve
uot; c. set it's value to True I am sorry, but i don't know about Kmail. ...but for those of you seeing the same problem in Thunderbird, you'd have to go to "Edit->Preferences->Advanced->General->config editor" and do steps (b) & (c) above. Hope that

Re: [Ilugc] automatically updating resolv.conf

2009-02-15 Thread steve
to try NetworkManager for managing connections. It is pretty neat. cheers, - steve -- Linux Centric Marketplace: http://www.tuxcompatible.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of th

Re: [Ilugc] firefox10 network manager does not know that network is running

2009-02-15 Thread steve
workaround I mentioned fixes that assumption made by FF & TB. cheers, - steve -- Linux Centric Marketplace: http://www.tuxcompatible.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the m

Re: [Ilugc] automatically updating resolv.conf

2009-02-15 Thread steve
Hi Satish, Satish Eerpini wrote: Hi Steve, does adding "usepeerdns" allow for the updation of resolv.conf automatically or does it just direct the network to use the dns servers ? AFAIK, adding it results in updation of resolv.conf. I checked the code of '/etc/sysconfig/netwo

Re: [Ilugc] using cat to print in a color scheme

2009-02-16 Thread steve
#x27; (you may also save the alias in ~/.bashrc if you like) - now use vless as you would use less $ vless foo.c $ cat /some/file | some_filter | vless HTH regards, - steve -- Linux Centric Marketplace: http://www.tuxcompatible.com ___ To unsubscribe, ema

Re: [Ilugc] Interview Question

2009-06-05 Thread steve
first command? $ pwd # or ls or ps ...depends on individual habits. sorry, just couldn't resist ! :) cheers, - steve -- why procrastinate when you can perendinate ? ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe &qu

Re: NOT SOLVED : [Ilugc] stream.h and fstream.h NOT FOUND problem

2009-06-07 Thread steve
ikely have the same names. hth, - steve [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B_standard_library#Streams_and_Input.2FOutput [2] http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/files/ -- why procrastinate when you can perendinate ? ___ To unsubscribe, email il

Re: [Ilugc] MS contributing to Linux

2009-07-21 Thread steve
ility agreement with M$[1] ...if it is, cheers to Red Hat ! [1] https://www.redhat.com/promo/svvp/?intcmp=7016000HiHHAA0 cheers, - steve ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the sub

[Ilugc] [Commercial][X-Post]Required: Software vendor to create application for NGO (Mumbai based)

2009-07-29 Thread steve
b) can be the same person/company. If you are interested, please contact me offline and I'll provide further details. cheers, - steve [1] http://psi.org/ http://psi.org.in/ -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/

Re: [Ilugc] How to setup firefox to work as IE?

2009-08-19 Thread steve
. cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "u

Re: [Ilugc] learning C++

2009-08-28 Thread steve
know zilch about C++ can luggies advise me on installing some interactive tool for her to teach herself. Not interactive, but a great book ... http://www.mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html HTH, cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http

Re: [Ilugc] How to create autoplay cd's in linux

2009-08-31 Thread steve
(Nautilus) _and_ has not changed the default preferences, there will be a prompt shown to the user asking whether the autorun.sh file should be run. HTH, cheers, - steve [1] using gconf-editor and searching for 'autorun' in both keys and values. -- random non tech spiel: http://lonet

Re: [Ilugc] need help

2009-09-04 Thread steve
ub menu at boot. HTH, regards, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.

Re: [Ilugc] Job Oppurtunity - Open Source -Linux System professionals - Yahoo! Bangalore

2009-09-15 Thread steve
e the poster is not a n00b, to this rap on the knuckles. cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ ___ To unsub

Re: [Ilugc] Job Oppurtunity - Open Source -Linux System professionals - Yahoo! Bangalore

2009-09-15 Thread steve
On 09/15/2009 06:59 PM, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: gah ! ...for double standards, from tolerating empty subject lines just because the poster is not a n00b, to this rap on the knuckles. cheers, - steve I am assuming that you are referring to the thread I started where I didn't put

Re: [Ilugc] restoring

2009-09-16 Thread steve
t3 or ext2 undelete" (assuming that the filesystem was one of those). cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ __

Re: [Ilugc] restoring

2009-09-16 Thread steve
ls, if possible ? For instance, the output of running the following command from a command line terminal: $ ls -la ~/.local/share/Trash/files cheers, - steve On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:10 PM, steve wrote: On 09/16/2009 03:55 PM, Prabakaran Haridoss wrote: hi, Is there any option to r

Re: [Ilugc] query about virus attack on UNIX / LINUX environment

2009-09-17 Thread steve
exist in any software, including operating systems. > What is the > fundamental premise which makes Linux/Unix not-virus-friendly? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware HTH, cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://loneha

Re: [Ilugc] Re: ilugc Digest, Vol 64, Issue 74

2009-09-17 Thread steve
On 09/18/2009 01:42 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: and oh!, Mind it... ROFL !! cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupo

Re: [Ilugc] Gnome-Power-Manager does not update battery status

2009-09-18 Thread steve
e been reported for g-p-m on a regular basis). What is the g-p-m version on your system ? What happens when you restart g-p-m ? I'd suggest filing a bug against the arch linux g-p-m package. cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lo

[Ilugc] Fwd: [ILUG-BOM] Fwd: [ilugd] IT returns form for OpenOffice

2009-09-19 Thread steve
Apologies for forwarding a already forwarded mail, but IMHO, this was worth cross-posting on all indian lugs and I didn't see it being posted here. cheers, - steve [...snip...] -- Forwarded message -- From: Terence Monteiro Date: Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 2:37 PM Subject: [fos

Re: [Ilugc] Tally on Linux

2009-09-22 Thread steve
and lesser still about any of these packages. cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ ___ To unsubscribe, e

Re: [Ilugc] Facinating songs about Linux?

2009-09-23 Thread steve
=novell+linux+commercial cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.

Re: [Ilugc] SFD Photos NEW!!

2009-09-24 Thread steve
ions like Pavithran. When you think about it, instead of brushing it off, you realize that today's web services are 'centralized cathedrals' rather than 'bazaars' ...it need not be so. cheers, - steve -- random non tech spi

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: Proprietary Tender by NIC for SC

2009-09-25 Thread steve
flash based resource hogging widget, a good sysadmin does not let him have it. Same argument applies here. cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http:/

Re: [Ilugc] Building custom linux

2009-09-25 Thread steve
o you want your users to be able to install the distro themselves and you provide the customizations (use kickstart) Vs do you want to redistribute your own customized distro (use revisor).), you can choose what to go with. cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspo

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: Proprietary Tender by NIC for SC

2009-09-25 Thread steve
On 09/25/2009 02:57 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:44 PM, steve wrote: ehe, it ideally should be the tech team's responsibility to decide what would work best for the user. Just because 'User' wants that new shiny malware rich flash based resource hogging

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: Proprietary Tender by NIC for SC

2009-09-25 Thread steve
manufactures are being shafted in the tender. cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ ___ To unsubscribe, email il

Can't login after Fedora updates (was: Re: [ILUGC]-)

2009-09-28 Thread steve
disabled in Fedora quite a while back. Unless you changed the behavior, you would not have been able to login as root from the GUI before the update too. hth, cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stum

Re: [Ilugc] Access barcode scanner data using ttyUSB0

2009-09-28 Thread steve
amlined C library suitable for embedded use. """ Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about bar code scanning. I just saw this application in the results list when I did a "yum search scanner" (was searching for alternatives to xsane). cheers, - steve -- random non tech spi

Re: [Ilugc] JAVA version

2009-09-29 Thread steve
ect java binary. See what is the output of: $ ls -l `which java` You may have to use the update-alternatives command to set this correctly (man alternatives). hth, cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i&#

Re: [Ilugc] free photo gallery

2009-09-29 Thread steve
nstance, standing up in a lady's presence would be sexist rather than gentlemanly these days. One can only hope for evolution towards good rather than extinction. cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-29 Thread steve
ould I redirect? ...so, you can also send multiple patchfiles to patch ... $ cat somefile[1234].diff | patch -p1 ...and patch will do the right thing ! cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-29 Thread steve
[st...@laptop junkyard]$ diff -u sample.txt sample-upper.txt | patch -p0 patching file sample.txt [st...@laptop junkyard]$ cat sample.txt OSBORN'S LAW: VARIABLES WON'T; CONSTANTS AREN'T. [st...@laptop junkyard]$ ----- Just

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread steve
go that way and do a 'relevant' one-to-one comparison, you have to include the number of syscalls being made by gcc when compiling your code to binary ...which is essentially what the perl interpreter is doing for you for 'free'. cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: ht

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread steve
On 09/30/2009 02:59 PM, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, steve wrote: Come dude ! ...that's a lousy argument and you know it. I, myself, prefer python to C and C to perl ...but won't ever look at number of syscalls to defend my preference. I deal with

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread steve
On 09/30/2009 03:41 PM, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:19 PM, steve wrote: -- I won't ever defend my preference of language /solely/ by citing the number of syscalls that a final executable needs at runtime. It's a free country and that's your choice. I

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread steve
poetry. Just do an strace on a > perl program and an equivalent 'C' program and you will be surprised to find > the amount of gunk that is there in the higher level languages. > Anyways, since we appear to be stuck in a loop, I shall exit() gracefully. cheers,

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (patch - apply diffs and act as inverse of diff)

2009-09-30 Thread steve
On 09/30/2009 06:52 PM, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: From: steve If you *really* want to go that way and do a 'relevant' one-to-one comparison, you have to include the number of syscalls being made by gcc>>when compiling your code to binary ...which is essentially what the perl

Re: [Ilugc] How to callculate the memory occupied by a c program when it is executing

2009-09-30 Thread steve
couple of suggestions :). Somebody already mentioned valgrind. There is also pmap which is good for a quick 'point-in-time' snapshot of process memory space (man pmap) or just $ cat /proc//status ...or even "ps l" hth, cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://l

Re: [Ilugc] Is there any Tally tool in Open Source

2009-10-01 Thread steve
/write' or 'import/export' tally files ? cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ ___ To

Re: [Ilugc] gdb throws an error indicating terminal_inferior inappropriate ioctl

2009-10-01 Thread steve
n the terminal type that you are invoking gdb from. cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ ___ To unsubscr

Re: [Ilugc] [OT?] Clarification on what may be OT

2009-10-01 Thread steve
#51527 (I wonder why the thread is split up that way in the archives ?) cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupo

Re: [Ilugc] Is there any Tally tool in Open Source

2009-10-01 Thread steve
On 10/02/2009 09:59 AM, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: So, I'm just curious. Is there any accounting package that can 'read/write'>or 'import/export' tally files ? I found this on the web: http://www.rtslink.com/ Thanks Prem, although, implicit in my request was the requirement for a FOSS tool to

Re: [Ilugc] London Stock Exchange Moves from .NET to Linux

2009-10-07 Thread steve
; campaign. I wonder how long before this page is taken down ... http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx hehehe, cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.

Re: [Ilugc] GNU/Linux based laptops

2009-10-15 Thread steve
have of late started equating Ubuntu to linux as many equate Linux to GNU/Linux +1 cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ __

Re: [Ilugc] one more win for open source

2009-10-15 Thread steve
. Look it up. True, however, this is/was news worthy because the LSE was one of the companies M$ showcased in their 'Get the facts' campaign a few years back. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech

Re: [Ilugc] python scripts on lenny

2009-10-16 Thread steve
well. Or you could just use daemonize: http://www.clapper.org/software/daemonize/ http://www.clapper.org/software/daemonize/daemonize.1.html The package for you fav. disto might be available cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http

Re: [Ilugc] Website Performance

2009-10-16 Thread steve
should be included as part of your apache installation. cheers, - steve (*) Judging by your request of something similar to pylot -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.

Re: [Ilugc] Downloading frame based sites with wget

2009-10-17 Thread steve
://nptel.iitm.ac.in/faq.php#11 Could somebody confirm the reality (as opposed to what the website mentions) of this ? cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupo

Re: [Ilugc] Downloading frame based sites with wget

2009-10-18 Thread steve
On 10/18/2009 10:43 AM, Varrun Ramani wrote: 2009/10/17 steve http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/faq.php#11 Could somebody confirm the reality (as opposed to what the website mentions) of this ? cheers, - steve The content in the website is free to access :- both the videos and the course

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread steve
selves back to avoid more noise on the list. Hope you can understand this mail. cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ __

Re: [Ilugc] [TAMTRANS] discussions on tamil translation

2009-10-21 Thread steve
d.org/fuel/ It ultimately makes sense to 'standardize' on commonly used computing terms irrespective of the context (ie: the UI or application) which uses the terms. If this discussion is not directly related or relevant to my suggestion, i apologize. cheers, - steve -- random

Re: [Ilugc] Migrate Solaris Threads to Linux Threads

2009-10-24 Thread steve
other that API diffrences . http://www.redhat.com/docs/wp/solaris_port/book1.html The PDF for that is at: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/sol-porting.pdf hth, cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stum

Re: [Ilugc] Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal

2009-10-27 Thread steve
Bharath Mahan ! Seriously though, is there a way to channelize this disappointment in a constructive manner(+) ? Comments/ideas/opinions ? cheers, - steve (*) ...and also was amused in the process by options for the 'secret question' :) ...worth a look !! (+) Look at my reply to t

Re: [Ilugc] Downloading frame based sites with wget

2009-10-27 Thread steve
On 10/18/2009 12:31 PM, steve wrote: On 10/18/2009 10:43 AM, Varrun Ramani wrote: 2009/10/17 steve http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/faq.php#11 Could somebody confirm the reality (as opposed to what the website mentions) of this ? cheers, - steve The content in the website is free to

Re: [Ilugc] Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal

2009-10-27 Thread steve
http://pgportal.gov.in/ - you can file your disappointments. Well, thanks, yeah, I sure will. Not that I am very hopeful of change. That's the reason why I meant to ask whether there is a more effective way to voice my opinion. cheers, - steve [1] http://home.nic.in/nicportal/@@index-

Re: [Ilugc] email notification in irc

2009-10-29 Thread steve
...that should give you an idea how to do it. HTH, cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ ___ To

Re: [Ilugc] email notification in irc

2009-10-29 Thread steve
On 10/29/2009 04:08 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Thursday 29 Oct 2009 4:03:47 pm steve wrote: [...snip...] ...that should give you an idea how to do it. the whole idea of monitoring events with a bot is silly. Every program knows what it is doing and is capable of sending signals

Re: [Ilugc] fortran compiler issue on FC 10

2009-10-29 Thread steve
there regarding this issue ? cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] use ~ for users home dirs

2009-10-30 Thread steve
o figure out whether you meant to list the file or directory in the current directory which is named pony or look up whether the user pony exists and list that users home directory ? cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.bl

Re: [Ilugc] A nice medical application with jQuery plugin and javascript code

2009-10-31 Thread steve
mentioned in passing the actual plugin name and the source: http://odyniec.net/projects/imgareaselect/ cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupo

Re: [Ilugc] A nice medical application with jQuery plugin and javascript code

2009-10-31 Thread steve
Hi, On 10/31/2009 03:20 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:16 PM, steve wrote: Thanks for sharing this. It would have been a bit more useful if you also mentioned in passing the actual plugin name and the source: Dear Steve, I think I already did that. The plugin

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (kill - get signal list and kill processes)

2009-11-01 Thread steve
$tktalk& If i don't know the pid of tktalk , could you let me how to find it. The answer is in the email you responded to. Use `pgrep`. Although if you are looking specifically for backgrounded jobs, you could use the bash builtin 'jobs': $ jobs -l cheers, - steve -- r

Re: [Ilugc] Reg: video downloader

2009-11-02 Thread steve
oad and convert using external sites) cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-r

Re: [Ilugc] Reg: video downloader

2009-11-02 Thread steve
n, as you mentioned. If you want a button next to your video (instead of the drag and drop or the right click menu convenience of UnPlug) you can use DownloadManager and check the appropriate option in the preferences ('General->Appearance') dialog. cheers, - steve -- random non te

Re: [Ilugc] is this a hardware problem

2009-11-02 Thread steve
be listed, like kernel image, in the boot loader menu. I see the file in /boot - so how do I run it? or see the output? run memtest-setup and reboot. cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbl

Re: [Ilugc] gawk query - csv processing. moving away from MS-Access

2009-11-03 Thread steve
m programming to pettifogging is tolerated on this list as long as it is FOSS related and doesn't get out of hand :). cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbl

Re: [Ilugc] gawk query - csv processing. moving away from MS-Access

2009-11-03 Thread steve
Hi Siva, On 11/03/2009 06:27 PM, Siva Subramanian wrote: Thanks Steve and Raman Found a better alternative. Python. :) Excellent !! I debated with myself whether I should just recommend python before I sent out my reply and finally decided against it (or at least defer suggesting it until

Re: [Ilugc] gawk query - csv processing. moving away from MS-Access

2009-11-03 Thread steve
customer_ids: print ... and due to the bug above, the condition block is only entered when customer_id is the same as the one in the last line of the file (since all the other strings in customer_ids have a '\n') cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: h

Re: [Ilugc] using dictreader in python

2009-11-04 Thread steve
he mail earlier today but had to cut short due to some work, when i returned to it I noticed that you had sent out another mail with context ...and see ? ...you got some very good responses. ..and oh, btw, using sql also is a good idea: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/498130

Re: [Ilugc] equivalent of Solaris processor_bind system call IN Linux

2009-11-05 Thread steve
pthread_setaffinity_np(3). This sets the affinity of a thread (as opposed to the entire process), which is what a LWP would be called on linux, to a specific CPU. cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (grep - find lines matching pattern)

2009-11-09 Thread steve
tired of all that typing, creating an 'alias' helps: $ alias grep="grep --color=always" $ alias less="less -R" $ grep girish /etc/passwd | less cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/

Re: [Ilugc] /. & /.. files in home directory

2009-11-09 Thread steve
nal 'special cases' are required. did i make any sense at all ? :) cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ _

Re: [Ilugc] NAT box

2009-11-10 Thread steve
security issues and would like to address that too. All of this and more is very well documented, please take some time off to read the docs and come back with some more /specific/ questions: http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/index.html http://www.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial/iptables-tutor

Re: [Ilugc] using dictreader in python

2009-11-10 Thread steve
Hi Siva, On 11/10/2009 03:42 PM, Siva Subramanian wrote: Hi Steve, Thanks a lot. It works like a breeze when the files are small (< 100MB) Umm <100MB is a /small/ file ? That is pretty large file as csv files go, IMHO. However, it takes a jolly good 45 mins on a desktop with 2

Re: [Ilugc] How to measure the humidity in groundnut using linux?

2009-11-11 Thread steve
-- without even once trying to confirm their instincts. No number collecting, no profiling ...just go by instinct ! bah ! heh ...that said, I wish the OP luck. I agree with most people who suggested that the OP first try to solve the problem of measurement and only once that is done, try to use an op

Re: [Ilugc] How to measure the humidity in groundnut using linux?

2009-11-12 Thread steve
Hi, On 11/12/2009 01:38 PM, Mano wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:43 PM, steve wrote: [...snip...] One last post before someone points out its OTness: My imagination was spot on actually except for the details and the correction for veg oil volatility. Come to think of it, groundnut oil

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Patent on Sudo???

2009-11-12 Thread steve
On 11/13/2009 01:36 AM, Sai Kiran Kanuri wrote: Look at what i came across... it cant get better than this. :) http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009094923390 Now, now, *nix users need not fear, Mr. Randall is really the one they are after. cheers, - steve -- random non tech

Re: [Ilugc] GPRS Connection In Fedora

2009-11-12 Thread steve
c/ You can of course start wvdial in the background (wvdial &) and put all 3 commands as a script. cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/

Re: [Ilugc] GPRS Connection In Fedora

2009-11-12 Thread steve
On 11/13/2009 09:31 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Friday 13 Nov 2009 8:43:46 am steve wrote: > route add default gw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where the xxx is the gateway > you have to do this everytime you switch to a new provider in fedora. Not true. I've been using Fedora for a lo

Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC Monthly Meet - Nov 14th 3PM

2009-11-12 Thread steve
7;t do it at all and even if you do, be humble enough to accept your mistake. If you can't do that, just grow a thick skin, because you'll most likely be flamed by others. Don't expect sympathizers from the set of people who you disrespect by expecting privileged treatment.

Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC Monthly Meet - Nov 14th 3PM

2009-11-12 Thread steve
Hi Dhivya, On 11/13/2009 12:22 PM, steve wrote: Hello Dhivya, On 11/13/2009 12:02 PM, Dhivya Muthu wrote: --- On Fri, 11/13/09, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [...snip...] So if its wrong, you can correct the mistake right..! but why do you keep on sending mails like this..? I think you

Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC Monthly Meet - Nov 14th 3PM

2009-11-12 Thread steve
On 11/13/2009 12:39 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:34 PM, steve wrote: I just noticed that it wasn't you who sent out the mail without the correct subject line, you were just asking Kenneth to tone it down. Ah well, that's his choice ...and also your's

Re: [Ilugc] GPRS Connection In Fedora

2009-11-13 Thread steve
Hi, On 11/13/2009 12:29 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Friday 13 Nov 2009 12:05:30 pm steve wrote: >> Not true. I've been using Fedora for a long time and with different >>providers and I've never had to do this. > > I do it at least twice a day

Re: [Ilugc] GPRS Connection In Fedora

2009-11-13 Thread steve
Hi, On 11/13/2009 01:40 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Friday 13 Nov 2009 1:30:57 pm steve wrote: [...snip...] So, like I mentioned maybe you should report it, but before that ... I told them, they said they would revert - they did not Told them as in created a bugzilla ? If you did and

Re: [Ilugc] GPRS Connection In Fedora

2009-11-13 Thread steve
On 11/13/2009 02:34 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Friday 13 Nov 2009 2:25:40 pm steve wrote: > no - I did not Ok. so in what way is it hard coded then ? I was wrong - the gateway is not entered anywhere. wvdial seems to find it. It is only in ethernet connections that this prob

Re: [Ilugc] GPRS Connection In Fedora

2009-11-13 Thread steve
On 11/13/2009 02:55 PM, steve wrote: f. Add a new wired connection (the good thing about NM is you can have multiple wired connections 'configurations' for the same device, and can seamlessly switch between them -- just name them differently) I assume that you do know that the configur

Re: [Ilugc] GPRS Connection In Fedora

2009-11-13 Thread steve
n panel and then "Preferences->Startup Applications". Scroll down and search for Network Manager and enable it. If no such entry exists, click the "Add" button and enter: Name: Network Manager Command: nm-applet --sm-disable Comment: whatever after the applet shows up do (f) and

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Nandanam wall paintings and the Indian IT industry

2009-11-13 Thread steve
.. damm, did ya get the munchies yet ? - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ..

Re: [Ilugc] archiving/sharing mail for future reference

2009-11-15 Thread steve
(or someone else here) can create one for the OP quickly). cheers, - steve -- random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ ___

Re: [Ilugc] C coding tricks on UNIX

2012-06-26 Thread steve
Hi, On 06/26/2012 09:05 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > [...snipped randomness...] > > Now for the tricks part. > Disregarding all the usual incoherent ramblings in your post, pray tell, how is this a 'C' trick ? cheers, - steve -- random spiel: http://lonetwin.n

Re: [Ilugc] sudo file on multiple machines

2012-07-18 Thread steve
ggest going with scp (if you are ok with overwriting, that is) every time you update sudoers, basically: $ export SYSTEMS="192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.3 192.168.1.4" $ visudo && for i in $SYSTEMS; do scp /etc/sudoers root@$i:/etc/ ; done If having the same sudoers file on

Re: [Ilugc] headphones in fedora 17

2012-07-31 Thread steve
ector'. Select that and then try. if this doesn't work ...dump gnome and use something like xfce till the gnome guys sort it out. cheers, - steve ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] keep track of super user activities

2012-12-19 Thread steve
ire document if you want to learn how to properly secure your system. cheers, - steve > with thanks in advance s.mahalingam > > > ___ ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc >

Re: [Ilugc] A serious issue of Amazon Elastic Load Balancer

2013-03-20 Thread steve
e 'accepted standard' way of doing this behind an ELB (when using http) is by looking at the X-Forwarded-For header. There are a few quirks you should be aware of but there is enough info available online to help you out. https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+ELB+X-Forwaded-For cheers, -

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