Re: [PLUG] More FUD from Ballmer

2004-10-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Vishal Rao wrote: --- Sumeet Madhukar Moghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ballmer's recent communication, comparing Windows and Linux http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/ Any good links for arguments against this? This new/updated "Get the Facts" email was broadcast at work here and I only could

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Firefox Release Parties in India

2004-10-28 Thread Sumeet Madhukar Moghe
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 07:05, Kaustubh Gadkari wrote: > > > second thing that we can do is club the party with the next PLUG > > > meeting.. i.e. reschedule the PLUG meeting so that it is in that date > > > range of the parties happening worldwide. > > Why reschedule? Just meet informally and

Re: [PLUG] yahoo messenger hangs help

2004-10-28 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Kaustubh Gadkari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 27 October 2004 02:44 pm, linux lover wrote: > > in mozilla but messenger hangs > Is it possible that you have a firewall rule that blocks ymessenger? Hey, did Yahoo block third party IM clients? I am unable to connect to Yahoo with

Re: [PLUG] GeexBox

2004-10-28 Thread McLinux
Kedar K Koppikar wrote: Linux KERNEL + MPlayer + some cool stuff + some damn simple gui + tvout support + ... = GeexBox = 5 mb cd space = Approx 12 sec boot time = cool movies and cool songs .. Heaven Also check out Peanut or Vector Distro if possible,it is great and of cour

Re: [PLUG] Suse 9.2 preorder

2004-10-28 Thread Debajit Adhikary
Sumeet Madhukar Moghe wrote: > I am preordering Suse 9.2 professional. It is costing me a pretty penny, so > would anyone who is interested enough be willing to share the cost with me? > I'll happily burn a set for him. It is costing me Rs 794/-. More the people > sharing the cost, lesser would the

[PLUG] Driver for internal modem

2004-10-28 Thread Sonawane Satish
Hello, I need a Linux driver for an internal modem ( Conexant HSF 56k Data Fax Voice Speakerphone modem). The knoppix ( Kernel 2.4.19 ) CD with me does not have the driver for this. I serached for the driver on net, only to find that a version for 56Kbps speed needs to be purchased from Linuxant

[PLUG] GNU GPL

2004-10-28 Thread Devendra Laulkar
Hi, Where can I find a copy of the GNU GPL on any distro(RH, MDK, Slack,etc) even under minimum installation? To rephrase the question, Is there any folder which is guaranteed to contain the GNU GPL on any Linux system. -Devendra. -- If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair d

Re: [PLUG] More FUD from Ballmer

2004-10-28 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Sumeet Madhukar Moghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ballmer's recent communication, comparing Windows and Linux > > http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/ Any good links for arguments against this? This new/updated "Get the Facts" email was broadcast at work here and I only could post the "

[PLUG] GeexBox

2004-10-28 Thread Kedar K Koppikar
Linux KERNEL + MPlayer + some cool stuff + some damn simple gui + tvout support + ... = GeexBox = 5 mb cd space = Approx 12 sec boot time = cool movies and cool songs .. Heaven Also check out Peanut or Vector Distro if possible,it is great and of course light on sys requirem

Re: [PLUG] Suse 9.2 preorder

2004-10-28 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Sumeet Madhukar Moghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > I am preordering Suse 9.2 professional. It is costing me a pretty > penny, so > would anyone who is interested enough be willing to share the cost > with me? Darn, arent you trying it out before you buy? Im planning to wait to try

Re: [PLUG] Suse 9.2 preorder

2004-10-28 Thread Aditya Godbole
On Thu Oct 28, 2004 at 08:43:49PM +0530 Sumeet Madhukar Moghe wrote... > Hi guys, > I am preordering Suse 9.2 professional. It is costing me a pretty penny, so > would anyone who is interested enough be willing to share the cost with me? > I'll happily burn a set for him. It is costing me Rs 794/

[PLUG] More FUD from Ballmer

2004-10-28 Thread Sumeet Madhukar Moghe
Ballmer's recent communication, comparing Windows and Linux http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/ -- /Sumeet Sumeet Madhukar Moghe  http://smith-morgan.mirrorz.com The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity. -- __ Pu

Re: [PLUG] yahoo messenger hangs help

2004-10-28 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 02:44 pm, linux lover wrote: > Hello, > MY yahoo messenger is not working. I > downloaded it from yahoo site and installed. i also > did the proxy settings which i use to access internet > in mozilla but messenger hangs Is it possible that you have a firewall r

Re: [PLUG] yahoo messenger hangs help

2004-10-28 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 03:58 pm, kapil pendse wrote: > > Also, you can try using kopete or gaim, instead of yahoo messenger for > linux. These are much better, and are multi-protocol clients. You can > connect to msn and others too using these! > Plus, they're free ( as in speech ), which ym

[PLUG] Suse 9.2 preorder

2004-10-28 Thread Sumeet Madhukar Moghe
Hi guys, I am preordering Suse 9.2 professional. It is costing me a pretty penny, so would anyone who is interested enough be willing to share the cost with me? I'll happily burn a set for him. It is costing me Rs 794/-. More the people sharing the cost, lesser would the cost be. I guess there a

Re: [PLUG] Linux Success Stories

2004-10-28 Thread Sumeet Madhukar Moghe
On Thursday 28 October 2004 12:34, Vishal Rao wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:04:33 +0530, Kedar K Koppikar > > :-).Always carry 2 cd's (Knoppix and Geexbox), they always come in handy > OMG! Geexbox looks so cool! I gotta try this soon! > Thanks for mentioning it, I didnt know about it before. >

Re: [PLUG] POP (Kedar K Koppikar)

2004-10-28 Thread Vivek J.Patankar
On 28/10/2004 11:04 AM Kedar K Koppikar wrote: > Using any operating system is all about choice.And passing provocating comments on anybody's choice of OS/Tools is not a good idea.So I think this thread sould stop. Point taken, but the flame from Sudhanwa was not about Mr Ambesange's choice of

[PLUG] Re: M$ and linux

2004-10-28 Thread Vivek J.Patankar
On 10/27/2004 7:10 PM A G wrote: >Cos Win* rules the desktop, as of now, due to its ease >of use. (Pl. no stories of virus etc. Cos a good and >free AV, FW and spyware-checker and NON MS Browser are >enough to keep your system lean and mean.) >And anyway OS itself is a worthless piece of code. >

Re: [PLUG] Re: M$ and linux

2004-10-28 Thread McLinux
A G wrote: Hmmm I meant why use Win* in first place. -McLinux Cos Win* rules the desktop, as of now, due to its ease of use. (Pl. no stories of virus etc. Cos a good and free AV, FW and spyware-checker and NON MS Browser are enough to keep your system lean and mean.) And anyway OS itself is a

[PLUG] GoneME. (Any Comments?)

2004-10-28 Thread A G
Hi All, Any comment on this? http://www.goneme.org/ Like has anyone tried this? If yes, whether there is any difference (in performance, easy of use etc.)? Can anyone download, if possible, and check it and then, if people are interested, distribute this during the next meeting? ~A. Send instan

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Firefox Release Parties in India

2004-10-28 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
> > second thing that we can do is club the party with the next PLUG > > meeting.. i.e. reschedule the PLUG meeting so that it is in that date > > range of the parties happening worldwide. > Why reschedule? Just meet informally and have a blast! BTW, I think burning CD's of Firefix and distributi

Re: [PLUG] Transcript of interview : Eric Raymond with Prudential Investors

2004-10-28 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 11:05 am, Devendra Laulkar wrote: If I may correct the URL's > Eric Raymond is the President of Open Source Initiative. > > www.catb.org/_esr/writings/prudential.html www.catb.org/~esr/writings/prudential.html > > His other interesting writings (including CatB]: > > www

Re: [PLUG] yahoo messenger hangs help

2004-10-28 Thread Vinayak Pane
Hi, You can change settings of yahoo messenger from one file. cd $HOME edit .ymessenger/preferences file . make appropriate changes . It must be proxy settings problem. try to set it again . Otherwise u can remove the previous installation by rpm utility but, the settings are kept as it is.

Re: [PLUG] FC2 Problem

2004-10-28 Thread Clifford D'Mello
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:35:29 -0700 (PDT), Uday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Clifford! > > The Page you sugggested says a lot about my problem. > I tried the sfdisk command. But it's not working. The > ouput of the command was > > Warning: HDIO_GETGEO says that there are 16 heads > > > sfdisk

Re: [PLUG] Re: M$ and linux

2004-10-28 Thread Debajit Adhikary
kapil pendse wrote: > You could try Mdk10. I'm saying this because I've used SuSE and > Redhat. None could configure hardware graphics accleration for my 865G > board, but mdk10 did it out of the box! > and now I can play quake3 without a hitch! :-D I've successfully played Quake III Arena in Redh

Re: [PLUG] POP

2004-10-28 Thread RedMan
Hi, Delay in popping mails in Outlook Express depends on the connectivity between client and server and it also depends on the speed of hand-shaking between the two. Also there could be some DNS resolution problems. Regards, RedMan. On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 16:52, Sudhanshu Ambesange wrote: > I

Re: [PLUG] Linux Success Stories

2004-10-28 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:04:33 +0530, Kedar K Koppikar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Here is a tip to impress your friends and of course show off Linux > :-).Always carry 2 cd's (Knoppix and Geexbox), they always come in handy > (yes for problem solving as well). OMG! Geexbox looks so cool! I gott