Re: [ilugd]: I have a cable internet how to get it to work on linux

2002-12-08 Thread Robins Tharakan
> http://www.exain.net/vike/linux/ > > this is a howto i found written by vivek... > > affly > robins > - Original Message - > From: "Gollum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 10:17 AM > Subject: [ilugd]: I have a cable internet how to get it t

Re: [ilugd]: [Flames] [Wars] : Poor Debian Installer !!!

2002-12-08 Thread Robins Tharakan
the debate (which i hope is over now... at 5:21 am !!) has been on since a pretty long time now... (since yester night i guess ) ! and so here are my conclusions... :-) 1. i for one had a good time :-) 2. every hour i check my mail (since yester night), i have a new set of rebuttles waiting..!

[ilugd]: Reeeeeeeeeeeeee:[OT] Cable internet.....

2002-12-14 Thread Robins Tharakan
i think the WHOLE mail that "roy ji" wrote just pertains to the cost of the setup!! rbs - Original Message - From: "Satendra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Roy ji r u from gurgaon ? how much ur isp charge u ? > - Original Message - > From: "Ambar Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >

[ilugd]: pre-emption...

2002-12-17 Thread Robins Tharakan
hi all,   i was just reading robert love's interview on tinyminds.org, and he was mentioning about the preemption patch in 2.5, and the faster response that one can expect..   question: while working in mozilla, scrolling the browser, the xmms gets "hung" up miserably... in the sense well tec

Re: [ilugd]: burning cds

2002-12-23 Thread Robins Tharakan
> > > I believe the physical limit of writing is 60X coming any close to > > it > > > cant be good for the CDWriting process I imagine ;). > > > > Why is there a limit at all? > > Because the CD is spinning while you are writing it and beyond 60X the > media will be affected by the centrifugal forc

[ilugd]: old p120

2002-12-30 Thread Robins Tharakan
hi,   i have this old p-120 on which i wish to install *any* version of linux... a recent motherboard replacement has somehow made any linux booting impossible...(i did try lilo too...!) the system just gets hung after an "init" message during bootup, or at the max it reaches the hard-disk de

Re: [ilugd]: old p120

2002-12-30 Thread Robins Tharakan
please read "i did try lilo too..." as "i did try loadlin too..."   sorry   robins - Original Message - From: Robins Tharakan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 7:52 PM Subject: [ilugd]: old p120 hi,   i have this

[ilugd]: Fwd: trivial question

2002-01-16 Thread Robins Tharakan
hi guys, for once, my system is working fine, and this question is only for info sake..! ;) i have a modem(56k).. bandwidth is limited(obviously..!) can i somehow place any download, to a "low priority" task... so that my browsing can go on in the meanwhile ?? i mean, does any ISP in delhi pr

Re: [ilugd]: RamDisk

2002-01-18 Thread Robins Tharakan
To add on... to that .. there are two ways to use it in linux "kernel" first, the old "ramdisk" option in the kernel.. (which by experience is quite unstable when you are talking about > 200 Mb drives !) it infact results in a hung kernel, with only hard-boot to spare..) the other and better

Re: [ilugd]: trivial question

2002-01-18 Thread Robins Tharakan
!!) quite rightly Qos, is what i could have used, but since someone said, its unavailable with VSNL, is their any other "such" alternative? with any other provider?? On Thursday 17 January 2002 02:51 pm, you wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:25:05PM +0530, Robins Tharakan sp

Re: [ilugd]: RamDisk

2002-01-18 Thread Robins Tharakan
although this is a way off the list topic! ;) i guess the only answer that i know of is.. "i just hope you could do it !! ;) " affly robins On Friday 18 January 2002 05:55 pm, you wrote: > hi, > can you tell me how to do this sort of a thing in > windows2000. > > > > > somebody wote: > Imagine

[ilugd]: urgent help !!

2002-01-24 Thread Robins Tharakan
hi , i'll get down to the matter straight. i have this old p-120. the problem started when a loose lan card came off. i open the machine, after a hard shutdown, fixed the card, increased ram from 16M to 32M. now the boot up gave "grep /proc/cmdline: no such file or directory.." /etc/rc.d/rc :

[ilugd]: pgp - gpg

2002-02-01 Thread Robins Tharakan
hi guys, trivial problem... once again.. my simple question is, i have an email with a pgp public key of a friend. (pgp version 7.0.3) i have gpg-1.0.3 installed. would these two work together? and if so, how do i import the key to my list ?? a command like gpg --import friend.pgp doesnt work,

Re: [ilugd]: find linux friend in Delhi [ how to learn linux ]

2002-02-06 Thread Robins Tharakan
hi amit, and frankly, if it only helps... all i could say is, that quite like me (arguably! ;) , you would see a lot of jokes (pj's rather!) , shortcuts (lol=laughing out loud... kinda stuff) and a lot of abbreviations... pgp-pretty good privacy, w/o without, and b/w between and the likes...