Re: [ilugd]: Just a thought

2003-02-20 Thread Tarun Dua
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 11:13, ananthm thought: > Evolution of community (In lines of Druv Gaimi's thought) > The objective of the Linux users meeting as I understand is a meeting of Linux >enthusiast, sharing their experience and helping in increasing the common knowledge >of the community. > Fo

[ilugd]: Needed : contact info of Bob from Cware

2003-02-20 Thread Arjun
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[ilugd]: IT Industry Set To Be Linuxed: Nasscom

2003-02-20 Thread Arjun
Dear Friends, IT Industry Set To Be Linuxed: Nasscom source: Financial Express 19 Feb'2003 The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) bets big on the open source software - Linux. The apex body of the software companies argues that Linux has the potential to grow in

[ilugd]: New resource - Colocation

2003-02-20 Thread nkapoor
Resource ID: 31 Title: Colocation Category: I S P URL: www.net4india.com Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: "Hi I have been browsing various linux groups across India, bu it seems as if there is no much commercial support for this movement from ISP. I would like t offer our colocaion facili

[ilugd]: can gnuLinux break into winXP password flaw?

2003-02-20 Thread LinuxLingam
have been reading about a reported flaw in winxp password feature. basically, according to reports, boot from a win2k cd, enter the recovery console, and voila! the whole hard disk of winxp, including user accounts and user data is naked and wide-open, like adam&eve without the gravity-defying f

Re: [ilugd]: can gnuLinux break into winXP password flaw?

2003-02-20 Thread Raj Mathur
> "LL" == linuxlingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LL> have been reading about a reported flaw in winxp password LL> feature. basically, according to reports, boot from a win2k LL> cd, enter the recovery console, and voila! the whole hard disk LL> of winxp, including user accou

Re: [ilugd]: can gnuLinux break into winXP password flaw?

2003-02-20 Thread LinuxLingam
> LL> so the question: can a similar access be granted if i chose to > LL> boot up from a knoppix or a gnulinux recovery disk, such as > LL> from redhat or other distros? > > LL> anybody tried this? this would be quite interesting. and i do > LL> need to know this urgently. you

[ilugd]: Problem with RAM usage with squid

2003-02-20 Thread Tushar Gupta
Hi, Is there any mechanism by which I can flush or free up RAM without need to reboot the server Tushar To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.

Re: [ilugd]: Helping India's economy : A Free/Libre Open SourceSoftware promotion scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Dhruv Gami
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Arjun wrote: > sysadmins. Create a CD which will meet all the requirements > of class IX, X, XI,XII syllabii. Help schools have atleast > one system administrator. Teachers may be interested since > quite a few are sick of kids dele

Re: [ilugd]: can gnuLinux break into winXP password flaw?

2003-02-20 Thread Kishore Bhargava
Well, I have tried a knoppix CD on my own machine and have full "read" access to my XP partition without a problem at all. Great recovery tools this knoppix eh ;) Cheers...Kishore -- He who invents adages for others to peruse takes along rowboat when going on cruise. =

Re: [ilugd]: can gnuLinux break into winXP password flaw?

2003-02-20 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thursday 20 February 2003 11:29 pm, you wrote: > Well, I have tried a knoppix CD on my own machine and have full "read" > access to my XP partition without a problem at all. Great recovery tools > this knoppix eh ;) > > Cheers...Kishore and i suppose, should you right-click the xp partition, y

Re: [ilugd]: Just a thought

2003-02-20 Thread Raj Mathur
> "Tarun" == Tarun Dua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tarun> [snip] Tarun> A few more suggestions Yup apart from the person chairing Tarun> the meet it should also be known who has the keys to the Tarun> meeting room. Another good Idea will be to know beforehand Tarun> who al

Re: [ilugd]: can gnuLinux break into winXP password flaw?

2003-02-20 Thread Amit Goel
Hi Yes, after booting from knoppix you can also access win2k partition. I tried booting into knoppix and then saving my presentation onto hard disk which was running win2k. So that concludes that knoppix can mount any NTFS partition. -- Amit > and i suppose, should you right-click the xp partit

Re: [ilugd]: can gnuLinux break into winXP password flaw?

2003-02-20 Thread Raj Mathur
> "LL" == linuxlingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LL> On Thursday 20 February 2003 11:29 pm, you wrote: >> Well, I have tried a knoppix CD on my own machine and have full >> "read" access to my XP partition without a problem at >> all. Great recovery tools this knoppix eh ;)

[ilugd]: [OT] (fwd) [saag] Of potential interest -- Citibank tries to gag crypto bug disclosure

2003-02-20 Thread Raj Mathur
[Cross-posted] [This appears to be a growing trend: a corporation creates an insecure product or protocol, and then tries to bring in the force of the law against people who plan to publish (disclose) that insecurity. The DMCA in the US is meant precisely to gag vulnerability publishers and to pr

Re: [ilugd]: HELP Playing VCD under Redhat 8

2003-02-20 Thread Supreet Sethi
Xine and Mplayer both can play VCD. Xine is available pre-compiled as RPM at freshRPMS.net U would also need support libraries to install. On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 13:32, Lalit Kumar Bhasin wrote: > > Have you tried Xine ?? > > > - Original Message - > From: kingdeepaksingh > To:

Re: [ilugd]: Problem with RAM usage with squid

2003-02-20 Thread Supreet Sethi
There is a cache_mem argument in squid which manipulates RAM requirements Thu, 2003-02-20 at 20:36, Tushar Gupta wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Is there any mechanism by which I can flush or free up RAM without need > to reboot the server > > Tushar > > > > ==

[ilugd]: PROBLEM REG. MULTIBOOT SYS. (LINUX, WIN98 & WIN2K)

2003-02-20 Thread MALKIAT BENIPAL
Dear Abu, As per your guidance provided in the your document regarding above, first of all I installed win98 and then win2k and finally linux. After installation of linux neither linux would boot nor win2k. Then I would log in as root user and issue the command grub-install /dev/hda. AFter this I w

Re: [ilugd]: New resource - Colocation

2003-02-20 Thread Tarun Dua
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 11:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Resource ID: 31 > Title: Colocation > Category: I S P > URL: www.net4india.com > Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Description: "Hi > > I have been browsing various linux groups across India, bu it seems as if there is >no much commercial support

Re: [ilugd]: can gnuLinux break into winXP password flaw?

2003-02-20 Thread Tarun Dua
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 09:01, Raj Mathur wrote: > Erhm, sorry for raining on your parade, but you can do exactly the > same thing on your Linux partition too. Boot with Knoppix, open a > root shell and access all your Linux data. Talking about console level access there is almost no way one would

[ilugd]: (fwd) [Announce] libyahoo2 0.6.3 released

2003-02-20 Thread Raj Mathur
This is an RFC 1153 digest. (1 message) -- Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Philip S Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Announce] libyaho

Re: [ilugd]: PROBLEM REG. MULTIBOOT SYS. (LINUX, WIN98 & WIN2K)

2003-02-20 Thread Doofus
The method outlines by Abu is nice. I'll suggest here wot i do n it works for me :) i make use of win2K bootloader instead of grub. . Install win98 . install win2K . now u'd have a box with dual booting into 98 and 2K (if u can't reach this stage, get back to me offline) . install linux on a separa

Re: [ilugd]: Help for talk

2003-02-20 Thread Amitabh Trehan
Thanks. Had a nice time with my talk at Pune UNiv. Had a nice day at GNUnify where RMS gave a slightly more emotional talk on GNU/Linux, via's CEO introduced GNU/Linux fitted PCs from Rs. 8K to 20K, encore simputer was there, Nagarjuna (TIFR) FSF, interesting talks by two profs from IITBombay (one

[ilugd]: About RAID

2003-02-20 Thread srinivas
Hi all I am having a little bit of confussing in raid(Redundant array of Inexpensive disks). The basic idea of RAID was to combine multiple small, inexpensive disk drives into an array of disk drives which yields performance exceeding that of a Single Large Expensive Drive.In Linux how intern

Re: [ilugd]: Just a thought

2003-02-20 Thread Tarun Dua
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 08:50, Raj Mathur wrote: > Apologies for the screw-up with the meeting room this time. You don't need to apologize :-) Tarun Dua To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. C

[ilugd]: how does one find the dist seek time from /proc

2003-02-20 Thread Tarun Dua
Hi how can I have the following information from the /proc . Part of an automation effort in a timed (ok croned script). CPU usage - User / System Couldn't find :( . Number of Processes ?? Do I need to count them ls -l [0-9] /proc | wc -l or is there a better way. Memory usage cat /proc/meminfo (

[ilugd]: how does one find the dist seek time from /proc

2003-02-20 Thread Tarun Dua
Number of Processes ?? Do I need to count them ls -l [0-9] /proc | wc -l Actually ls -d /proc/[0-9]* | wc -l Tarun Dua To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail

RE: [ilugd]: how does one find the dist seek time from /proc

2003-02-20 Thread Mukesh Verma , Gurgaon
Does anybody knows some function in Linux which can tell u the CPU limit? -Original Message- From: Tarun Dua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 12:36 PM To: multiple recipients of Subject: [ilugd]: how does one find the dist seek time from /proc Hi how can I have

Re: [ilugd]: (fwd) [Announce] libyahoo2 0.6.3 released

2003-02-20 Thread Tarun Dua
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 11:04, Raj Mathur wrote: > Announcing version 0.6.3 of libyahoo2 Is it the same one as the gaim client uses ? Tarun Dua A day of Questions ? To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subje

Re: [ilugd]: can gnuLinux break into winXP password flaw?

2003-02-20 Thread LinuxLingam
> Erhm, sorry for raining on your parade, but you can do exactly the > same thing on your Linux partition too. Boot with Knoppix, open a > root shell and access all your Linux data. > yes, i know that. have done so with knoppix and grinned at the naked level of access. but, you see, raj, gnulin

RE: [ilugd]: how does one find the dist seek time from /proc

2003-02-20 Thread Tarun Dua
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 12:37, Mukesh Verma , Gurgaon wrote: > Does anybody knows some function in Linux which can tell u the CPU limit? cat /proc/cpuinfo Tarun Dua To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject