RE: [ilugd]: how to pass c output to shell??

2002-07-03 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, Simple, compile the program and pipe the output to sh or any shell. Tested on a Red Hat Linux 7.3 bash shell. The shell outputs are given below ---Shell outputs start-- [venkat@eagle venkat]$ cat test.cc #include int main() { cout << "

RE: [ilugd]: Any body got Oracle 8i/9i [OracleLicenseExcerpt]

2002-07-08 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, > with that as a lil brief...i have to make a decision..should i go for MySQL / PostgressSQL or should i bet my money on Properiety Oracle? Hi, I heard Yahoo ran on MySQL, if that is the case, isn't it good enough for other applications. Regards, Venky 

RE: [ilugd]: Please Help regarding Netscape installation

2002-07-18 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi,   >i export path but it couldn't work i am using bash shell and mandrake 8.2.   There must be a file called .bash_profile in your home directory, Just add the netscape path there at the end of PATH command line.   (This is just an illustration)   __

RE: [ilugd]: ISO image CD not bootable

2002-07-23 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, We faced a similar problem, though we had also checked the MD5 Sum. We found the problem was in the CD drive. Anyway, if you have the ISOs, check the MD5 Sum. a91011f1c6b5f331d120d33ee5898d95 valhalla-i386-disc1.iso 422948492b984060b21923d11febb422 valhalla-i386-disc2.iso 505a73bac591882c

RE: [ilugd]: ISO image CD not bootable

2002-07-23 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, well Mr D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida aka Venky was it really necessary to send the windows version of the "really sought after" utility to everyone subscribed to this list? Well, you could use md5sum command on Linux machines, I sent that utility as we use

RE: [ilugd]: ISO image CD not bootable

2002-07-23 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, necessary to attach almost 500 KB of data with your mail to everyone subscribed to the list. Sorry about that, will keep that in mind. 2-3 people (some off the list too) had asked for it so it seemed that it may be useful. Regards, Venky Systems Software Group, Netcentric

Recall: [ilugd]: ISO image CD not bootable

2002-07-23 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida would like to recall the message, "[ilugd]: ISO image CD not bootable". To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive

[ilugd]: Make an ISO image from CD

2002-07-24 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, How do I make an ISO image from CD? Could you give me both the Linux and Windows commands. Regards, Venky Systems Software Group, Netcentric Division, HCL Technologies Ltd., Noida, U.P 91 - 4510701/702/813 Extn.3141 To unsubscrib

[ilugd]: X on windows

2002-08-20 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi,   >Get a copy of Exceed from Hummingbird or download a copy of WinAXE.   >These are all copyrighted softwares.   >Anybody knows any opensource solutions for this.     >Harshal.   > Cambridge Univ. and ATT offers VNC which is GPLed too!  >

RE: [ilugd]: Red Hat 7.2

2002-08-25 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
"Warning FAT 32 is alpha" and loading stops [the cursor keeps blinking though; Just press CTRL + c, stops the Checking Filesystems part and goes into runlevel 3, I guess ;-) To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[ilugd]: Is Redhat the next M$

2002-08-27 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, Check this out http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3668,a=30372,00.asp Regards, Venky To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wp

RE: [ilugd]: Help

2002-08-28 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, >> When I run my red hat linux 7.3 many a times it >> displays a message saying >> application panel crashed can anyone suggest what >> could be the reason. > Check for defective hardware - failing harddisk, > memory etc. I face this problem many times, especially with Gnome, well, easy way

Re: [ilugd]: Free as in Freedom - Issue needs urgent decisions !

2002-08-28 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, Have been following this thread for quite sometime and seems we should change the name to GNU/Linux Users Group ;-). So, we don't have to promote closed source. The point is, if IBM comes out with a closed proprietary software but if it is so mildly priced, then whats wrong. And why do we try

[ilugd]: Multiple Distros

2002-08-28 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, Can you have more than one Linux Distribution say, Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse on the same machine. Though it may be a futile exercise, just curious. I guess, theoretically it should be possible, if the distros do not format any ext2/3 partitions that aren't their own. Some tweaking may be requi

RE: Re: [ilugd]: Unidentified subject!

2002-08-29 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hey, Cool it, I am being spammed Help!!!Help!!!Help!!! Venky -Original Message- From: neelam kumar sharma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 6:48 PM To: multiple recipients of Subject: Re: Re: [ilugd]: Unidentified subject! Dera sir, I am neelam sharma

RE: [ilugd]: PCI Info

2002-09-05 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, Give the command : cat /proc/pci This should give information about the PCI devices on your machine, don't know if it gives the information you want. (I think, you also did this.) Regards, Venky -Original Message- From: Sirish Kumar, Noida Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:43

RE: Re: [ilugd]: help in dual booting

2002-09-05 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Better still, just edit the grub.conf file and make it a true dual boot system with bootloader. I will try to find out the exact change required, but I have done this earlier, believe me, its really simple. A boot floppy is never reliable. -Original Message- From: Yogeshwar Chauhan [mail

RE: Re: [ilugd]: help in dual booting

2002-09-05 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Probably something like this Add this to /etc/grub.conf (I guess this should do it) title WindowsXP rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 Replace hd0 by whichever partition WinXP is in. Regards, Venky -Original Message- From: D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida Sent: Friday

[ilugd]: HTTP Site for Red Hat Linux 8.0 Download

2002-10-01 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, Could anyone please point me to some HTTP Sites for downloading Red Hat Linux 8.0 downloads. All Red Hat mirrors seem to point to FTP Sites. Regards, Venky To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subj

RE: [ilugd]: linux power surge

2002-10-01 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Wine In the latest Red Hat Linux Distros -Original Message- From: Vibhav A. Tekchand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:36 PM To: multiple recipients of Subject: Re: [ilugd]: linux power surge Where can i get an emulator to emulate win32 on linux??? i wanna r

RE: [ilugd]: Fwd:Vacancy

2002-10-03 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Is your site about optical illusions? And he prefers to call that a cool site {;-) -Original Message- From: Gaurav Prasad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 4:19 AM To: multiple recipients of Subject: [ilugd]: Fwd:Vacancy Note: forwarded message attached.

RE: [ilugd]: Project on Cryptography

2002-10-06 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Depends on the duration of the project and the time frame and resources. For a small project, you could implement, DES (or better Triple DES Encyption Algo). Or go in for the newer AES. Venky -Original Message- From: Kapil Chawla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002

ilugd@wpaa.org

2002-10-13 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Why don't you read the GNU Fortran 77 Documentation http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~kern/G77/g77_toc.html > the command i gave is 'g77 -c test1.f' The output of this command should be test1.o, an object file. (i-e- if no compilation errors were found) This command only compiles the program, it ha

RE: [ilugd]: Linux PC

2002-10-29 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
In my opinion, that mail was for H/W compatibility with Linux, I don't see any problems with such things being discussed on the list. Well, Ajith, AMD is very well supported by Linux, atleast Red Hat Linux 7.3. One of my friends is using Athlon XP 1800+ with a Gigabyte M/B I guess. And he wasn't

[ilugd]: Article

2002-11-11 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, An interesting article. http://www.businessworldindia.com/cover1.htm Regards, Venky To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org

[ilugd]: Hangs at "Checking Filesystems"

2002-11-11 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi friends, I am facing a problem with my RHL 7.2 desktop. I have some Fat32 and Fat16 partitions on my 17.2 GB HDD which has Win 98 on the primary partition. I use GRUB to boot into Windows/ Linux. When I boot into Linux, the boot process hangs during the "Checking Filesystems". I have to press C

RE: [ilugd]: Hangs at "Checking Filesystems"

2002-11-11 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
>Have you been modifying /etc/fstab - I have a feeling you have enabled >fsck for the DOS partitions somehow. check whether you have 0 0 at the >end of the vfat partitions. May be, I will check up when I get back home, will 0 0 disable fsck for vfat partitions? Well, I have been facing this probl

RE: [ilugd]: Hangs at "Checking Filesystems"

2002-11-11 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
>Check the lines for the vfat system the mount point is wrong or the >partition to be mounted hasnt been specified properly. When I try using Disk Management, I can mount all file systems through the GUI so atleast /etc/fstab is correct, seems some daemon has been disabled by my tweaking. >>

RE: [ilugd]: Hangs at "Checking Filesystems"

2002-11-11 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
>U R ADVISED TO CHANGE AUTO TO LBA IN BIOS I will try that, but I haven't touched the settings of BIOS and this was running for the last few months. To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Ch

[ilugd]: Floppies and CDs do not mount

2002-11-19 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, I have a peculiar problem, my floppies or CDs do not mount. The mount command hangs. Nor does it mount through the GUI. It used to earlier, this problem is since I changed some settings in /etc/fstab for the FAT filesystems (Previous mails with subject ***Hangs at "Checking Filesystems"***).

RE: [ilugd]: Floppies and CDs do not mount

2002-11-19 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
The drives are OK and work perfectly under Win98. I forgot to get the /etc/fstab file. In fact the mount process is shown when I do a ps -ax. And it is there indefinitely. Can't even kill it with kill -9. I think, I will get the /etc/fstab tomorrow. I even tried it without using fstab settings.

RE: [ilugd]: Floppies and CDs do not mount

2002-11-20 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi All, Here is the output from various commands. The /etc/fstab file. The mount process just hangs. Could someone throw some light on this, I am trying to mount a FAT floppy. Mine is a RedHat 7.2 system, but I am using ext3 file system for /. I had converted to ext3fs from ext2fs more than s

[ilugd]: FW: Security Alert: Compilers Can "Optimize" Away Security Code

2002-11-21 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
I don't know how to make those "This is an RFC 1153" thingies, but this article is interesting. -Original Message- From: D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:12 PM To: Nitin Gupta, Noida; Naveen Sharma, Noida Subject: Security Alert: Compiler

RE: [ilugd]: RedHat 8.0 CD's

2002-11-24 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, Can anyone lend or write the Red Hat Linux 8.0 CDs for me. Anyone near North Campus, University of Delhi or Janak Puri. I will get the blank CDs. Please give me your contact phone no. and/or address. Regards, Venky :-) To unsubs

[ilugd]: Stdout and redirection

2002-11-27 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, How can I both redirect and write to the standard output at the same time? I am using bash. Thanks and Regards, Venky To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.m

RE: [ilugd]: Stdout and redirection

2002-11-27 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
e you want output to be redirected. Lalit - Original Message - From: "D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 5:41 PM Subject: [ilugd]: Stdout and redirection > Hi, > How can I both redirect and wr

RE: Re: [ilugd]: font problem...no response

2002-12-02 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
I guess, Windows (probably Win98) has a maximum limit of 1024 fonts. Just guessing, I once faced a size overrun when I tried installing thousands of fonts on a machine. -Original Message- From: Avneesh / Shivaas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 2:52 PM To: multip

RE: [ilugd]: Redhat Linux 8.0-wether pirated

2002-12-04 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, Red Hat Linux can be downloaded from their site itself, and nor can a website (Linux Plaza) sell pirated stuff so blatantly, so don't worry, its perfectly legal. If you have a company with thousand PCs, you can still install the s/w on all of them too. Only thing, you won't get any support

RE: [ilugd]: FW: linux & novice

2002-12-18 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
> -Original Message- > From: Raju Mathur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 9:59 AM > To: multiple recipients of > Subject: Re: [ilugd]: FW: linux & novice > > > > Please don't confuse opinions with facts. In your opinion Linux is > just a kernel. In mine

RE: [ilugd]: FW: linux & novice

2002-12-18 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
> > OK, so are we agreed that we're setting out this afternoon to > > Change the World and Rescue It From The Evil Empire rather than > > Quibbling Over Terminology? ;-) > > The "From" should be "from". Now we need a English grammar sub-list too ... {;-) ===

RE: [ilugd]: SCO threatens IP claims on Linux?!!

2003-01-13 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, Also read the response from SCO ... I don't think, SCO would go about suing other Linux distributors, nor will its claims stand judicial scrutiny as Linux was developed from scratch. ;-) Venky Here is the response from SCO... Posted by 2003-01-13 21:28:57.0 - by Tina Gasperson - A s

RE: [ilugd]: thanks a lot..

2003-01-15 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, Seems you loaded Red Hat Linux 8.0, then MP3s are disabled, but it is very simple to supply MP3 support. Goto, http://www.xmms.org and get the xmms-mpg rpm present. Just install the file by issuing the command rpm -i filename.rpm, where filename is the name of the file on any linux termina

RE: [ilugd]: ORACLE 8i/9i CDs LINUX BASED

2003-02-03 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hey, Could someone tell him the price of Original Oracle CDs for Linux or this spamming is gonna continue. Venky >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:27 AM >To: multiple recipients of >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject

RE: [ilugd]: ORACLE 8i/9i CDs LINUX BASED

2003-02-05 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, BTW, even if you do download Oracle 8i/9i, you are not allowed to distribute them, even if it is freely downloadable. It has some restrictions in terms of distribution and is only meant for development work. If you are going to use it commercially, that is for actual office work, you have

RE: [ilugd]: WC 2003

2003-02-12 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Three replies to a match mail ... Interesting, you could have just ignored the mail ... or you could have posted the match scores itself ... {;-) Venky To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header

RE: [ilugd]: sound card problem in RH 7.3 linux (Via motherboard)

2003-02-12 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
> would like to add for your information that >they are having their motherboard as Via. >If you want to know about the type of Via? I think you should list more information? Which Via board, and if possible the sound card vendor. Via makes so many boards. Is it an inbuilt sound card or are y

RE: [ilugd]: LOCATION OF RPM PKGS ON LINUX CDs

2003-02-13 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
That background you have used is the attachment! Anyways, whats the use? You still don't understand, I guess! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 1:58 PM To: multiple recipients of Subject: Re: [ilugd]: LOCATION OF RPM

[ilugd]: Linux in Film Production

2003-02-13 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
HI, Using Linux in Feature Film Production : http://linuxmovies.sourceforge.net/linux.movies.gallery.html Regards, Venky To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://ww

[ilugd]: RE: Unidentified subject!

2003-02-13 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, > My dear, > This is Incredimail, a different mail software from Outlook Express, just to use the beautiful backgrounds while sending > > mails to other persons. It has some 3D effects and sounds which makes it more enjoyable. If you feel interested, you may I have been using incredimail si

RE: [ilugd]: Security Announcements

2003-02-24 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, I guess, anyone who is actually serious about security should not depend on this list alone and if you are subscribed to some high profile list, then these mailings aren't required, as these vulnerabilities would definitely be reported on those other lists. I don't say that it is useless

RE: [ilugd]: Handling of error 'permission denied'

2003-02-24 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, If you are the only user on the system, then why not login as root ... ;-) If not, then thats the whole point about security, that everyone is not able to read/write/execute everything. If you still want to do this, then 1) Login as root. 2) On the prompt, type the commands: cd /

RE: [ilugd]: Handling of error 'permission denied'

2003-02-25 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, Thanks for reply. As I am the only user of linux on my PC so giving permisions for read/write/execute upto my home directory won't create any problem for me from security point of view. I guess that the above command is only for read permission or 0777 is also p

RE: [ilugd]: Can't install rpm from telnet

2003-02-28 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, Are you trying to install as root? Change to root. Telnet may not allow you to directly login as root. Login as any other user and su to root. Regards, Venky -Original Message- From: Jasmeet S. Virdi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:14 PM To: multiple r

RE: [ilugd]: Queries reg GNU/Linux

2003-03-09 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Well, you should go on to Babbage and Lovelace Ada ... >-Original Message- >From: supreet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 6:32 AM >To: multiple recipients of >Subject: Re: [ilugd]: Queries reg GNU/Linux > > >GNU tools are inpired by design paradigm, unix. Unix was A

RE: [ilugd]: Queries reg GNU/Linux

2003-03-10 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
>-Original Message- >From: Raj Shekhar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 10:54 AM >To: multiple recipients of >Subject: RE: [ilugd]: Queries reg GNU/Linux > > > --- "D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

RE: [ilugd]: Automating accounts creation on AIX and Linux.

2003-03-13 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, Why not write a script with variables and get the variable from the text file. I am not very familiar with scripting but it should be easy. Or probably through makefile, in which case, I could help, though makefiles are not meant for this purpose. Regards, Venky >-Original Message-

RE: [ilugd]: Messed up my system while installing gcc 3.*

2003-03-25 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, I think, you have tried to install the latest GCC version from PCQ 8.0, and there seems to be clashes with the libraries. Its generally not a good idea to touch the system compiler, and PCQ 7.1 uses GCC 2.96. One thing you could try is installing the older version back from the PCQ 7.1 CD. In

[ilugd]: For Unsubscribing from the list

2003-03-26 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
For all those sending mails to this list for unsubscribing, please read the instructions carefully. >> To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >unsubscribe in subject header. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do not just press the reply button, it gives [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==

RE: [ilugd]: where can I get embedded tools on Li? Embedded chip specific compilers, libraries, embedded Li and simulators?

2003-03-28 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
gcc.gnu.org for GCC sources.redhat.com for Binutils, GDB (+Simulator), Newlib Accessible through anonymous CVS Newlib is a minimal library for embedded targets. Get the sources and build it. You can build GCC as cross compiler hosted on a Linux platform, with GDB and other utilities too. That is

[ilugd]: RPM to Tar

2003-04-01 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi All, Does anyone know how I can extract the tar file from an RPM file? Or all the files in the RPM into a directory? Thanks and Regards, Venky To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Chec

RE: [ilugd]: ASP on Linux

2002-04-25 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, >Can ASP be run on a Linux platform. There are tools available to convert ASP code to Perl or maybe CGI code. You could explore that possibility. (Sorry, am not conversant with the original-reply format, > or < , what are the conventions, etc., could anyone illuminate) Regards, Venky HC

[ilugd]: Shell Programming

2002-04-25 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, I have a directory structure obj c_test cpp_test result There are some exe files in obj by the name ctest001.out, ctest002.out, ... ,ctest044.out and some more files cpptest001.out, cpptest002.out, ... , cpptest083.out. That makes around 127 files. I want to run a tool on

RE: [ilugd]: Dear kapil sethi..... can you clarify it........

2002-04-25 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi,   >(ur mail is below). in this manner any person will reboot the sytem and via lilo prompt  he will get a system without password and can >change password..as u have written.. >so anyone can become root...in this situation what will happen to security of linux system .. Though this i

RE: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-02 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, I don't see where this discussion is headed. The basic difference between Oracle and mySQL would be in the area of Query Optimization. Probably, this is the most critical phase which distinguishes from one DBMS to other. And Oracle has a wonderful Query Optimizer. Query Optimization is a ver

RE: [ilugd]: Installing Linux on Pentium IV

2002-05-02 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, >Any Idea whether RHL 7.2 can be loaded on a P4 box Yes, though some audio chipsets are not supported. I loaded it on a machine with built-in audio, it even autodetects the audio device but somehow did not work. Regards, Venky To

RE: [ilugd]: What does WINE stand for?

2002-05-16 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, By the way could anyone give more information on how to configure DLLs for Wine, I am able to run notepad and flash exe's on WINE (winelauncher), but haven't actually configured multimedia. Seems a lot of tweaking has to be done, some configuration files have to be edited, etc. The man page i

[ilugd]: Pretty interesting stuff.

2002-05-16 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
HIPPOCRATIC OATH FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS Never ever write a line of code that someone else can understand. Make the simplest line of code appear complex. Use long names. Don't ever code "a=b", rather do something like : (AlphaNodeSemaphore = *(int)&(unsigned long) (BetaFrameNodeFarm)); Type f

[ilugd]: Hope isn't from this mailing list

2002-05-16 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
The Gatesmobile At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." In res

[ilugd]: Windows Fonts & Linux

2002-05-21 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, I have some wonderful fonts for Windows in the form of TTF files. Can I use these fonts under Linux (Red Hat Linux 7.2). If yes, how do I install these fonts. Regards, Venky To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscr

[ilugd]: Slightly off-topic - but interesting

2002-05-24 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Sony's 'copy-proof' CD fails to silence crackers. Date: Monday, May 20th Source: USAtoday Technology buffs have cracked music publishing giant Sony Music's elaborate disc copy-protection technology with a decidedly low-tech method - scribbling around the rim of a disc with a felt-tip mark

RE: [ilugd]: Advice on a machine

2002-05-29 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, 1) Well, it does seem to be a good decision to go in for RDRAM with P-IV. Generally, users have gone in for SDRAM with P-IV, ending up with wasting their money. P-IV gives the speed advantage only with RDRAM. But it would be worthwhile to consider, P-IV with RDRAM should be roughly three tim

RE: [ilugd]: Linux for Schools - TC++

2002-06-03 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, 1. Most of the students like to make their projects graphics-based, which is pretty simple and straight forward in TC++, but that may not be the case with linux. Why don't you try XWPE for Linux. Very similar to the TC++ environment. Also supports source-level debuggi

RE: [ilugd]: Linux for Schools

2002-06-03 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, >If after installing Linux we say, `However >you still need to purchase Turbo C (or any other DOS/Win app)', we >lose that advantage. xwpe is free, if anyone wants, I could give you the rpms, you could evaluate that. Similar to TC++, you don't have to create a project, just type in a C sourc

[ilugd]: Linux in Schools ++

2002-06-05 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, This is something interesting. The government of Peru has passed a law, or is in the proces, for the use of free software only in government agencies. Microsoft Peru wrote a letter to the Peru Government against this. A strong reply was sent to Microsoft Peru The Peruvian Government's letter

RE: [ilugd]: name for schools project

2002-06-05 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, >LEX: LEt's Linux >PFP: Penguin Friendly Program >LOGIN: Linux-Only Grand INitiative Like these programs 1) GNU - GNU's not Unix 2) WINE - WINE is not an emulator We could use something recursive for the Linux in Schools project. Any comments or suggestions. Regards, Venky

RE: [ilugd]: RH 7.3 CD's needed in Naraina

2002-06-10 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, Please at least delete the earlier mails when replying. Probably, you didn't notice but the useless junk was around 325 lines (324 lines to be precise). No offence meant, ;-). Regards, Venky _ "Contrariwise", contin

[ilugd]: Free Linux CDs

2002-06-13 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, http://www.pogolinux.com/systems/linuxcd.html This site gives away free Linux CDs to individuals, and to LUGs. Based on RH Linux. We could contact them through the LUG. Regards, Venky _ Copyleft - All rights reversed =

RE: [ilugd]: Re: : redhat based CD - BASIC

2002-06-19 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
Hi, Don't you think its high time we made schools realise that BASIC is a useless language. Anyways, I don't think BASIC would be part of syllabus prescribed by NCERT. 3. BASIC interpreter/compilers YaBASIC and ScriptBasic were two that caught my attentio