Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 27 July 2006 21:44, Anand Nene wrote: > On 7/27/06, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote: > > Duh.. any decent multitasking OS could do that.. > > I think you aren't aware about CFD simulation, available CFD software > and hardware requirements? Sounds exactly like TPC benchmark hardware.. Just

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread Anand Nene
On 7/27/06, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote: Duh.. any decent multitasking OS could do that.. I think you aren't aware about CFD simulation, available CFD software and hardware requirements? Here is a more exact description of such a system: A cluster consists of 530 AMD Opteron 64-bit processors

Re: [PLUG] Re: This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 27 July 2006 20:35, Atul Sowani wrote: > It's those generic China-made Tech-com card based on FM10 > architecture. Now whom shall I contact? Please advise if you know. If we want to solve the problem, could you please post - slackware/kernel version you are using - relevant lspci outp

Re: [PLUG] Re: This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread Atul Sowani
It's those generic China-made Tech-com card based on FM10 architecture. Now whom shall I contact? Please advise if you know. Thanks, Atul. On 7/27/06, Shakthi Kannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > Atul Sowani wrote: -- | I don't know how old my audio card is and I never | ever said that the

[PLUG] Re: This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, > Atul Sowani wrote: -- | I don't know how old my audio card is and I never | ever said that the card was old or new. -- Do you atleast know what card it is? So, you didn't contact your hardware vendor for Linux drivers? So, the next time your mobile phone or microwave or setup-box causes y

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread Atul Sowani
Dear Onkar, I don't know how old my audio card is and I never ever said that the card was old or new. I did some reseach indeed and finally made it work partially. I can play audio CDs using the very same card on Linux. Only problem is that xine does not play sound while playing a movie and audac

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread Onkar Shinde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Atul Sowani wrote: > Just to give an example, I installed a sound card in my PC which has > Win2000 and slackware linux 9.1/10.1 on it. When I installed the card > and restarted my machine, windows detected the card and could take > full advantage of i

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 27 July 2006 14:26, Anand Nene wrote: > To add to that, the pinnacle of motorsport, F1 uses Linux for its > internal systems. AMD Opteron's working in a grid, comprised of > several hundreds computing nodes running on linux in an attempt > to advance Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) c

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 27 July 2006 18:06, Vaibhav Kulkarni wrote: > On 7/27/06, Ritesh Khadgaray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the best i can say is, slackware by design is for expert( read bsd'ish) > > users. That is untrue. But at the same time it is matter of perception.. > Being bsd'ish is less of a p

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread Vaibhav Kulkarni
On 7/27/06, Ritesh Khadgaray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 15:12 +0530, Atul Sowani wrote: > In general, a good article! I would like to share my thoughts on this > as an ordinary linux user. Please don't start any flame war on this, > as I am not trying to make any allegations

Re: [PLUG] Help on HDD

2006-07-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 27 July 2006 16:34, Nikhil wrote: > Hi All ! > I want to know that I have HDD having bad sectors in > nearly about of 12MB. Can I use the HDD for linux OS? > B'cos on windows it hangs the computer... > Please tell me if there is any soln. on this If you install linux afresh, you can

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Thursday 27 July 2006 15:12, Atul Sowani wrote: > In general, a good article! I would like to share my thoughts on this > as an ordinary linux user. Please don't start any flame war on this, > as I am not trying to make any allegations on Linux - it might just be > that I am an incompetent user!

[PLUG] Directory-based quotas

2006-07-27 Thread Yogesh Hasabnis
Hi All, As far as I know, disk quotas can be implemented in Linux on an entire filesystem. Is there any way or workaround with which quotas can be implemented on a directory ? I searched on the net and find that there is no way to do this. Just want to confirm whether anybody has used some othe

Re: [PLUG] Help on HDD

2006-07-27 Thread Ravi Agrawal
Hi Nikhil, If the bad sectors are in continuos form then you can make partition accordingly and dont use the partition which have badsector. E.g. 40 gb hdd Bad sector at 20gb to 30 gb then make partion as 0 t0 19gb, 19gb to 31gb (Dont use it), 31gb to 40 gb. Regards Ravi --- Nikhil <[EMAIL

Re: [PLUG] Help on HDD

2006-07-27 Thread Knight Samar
Hi Nikhil, On 7/27/06, Nikhil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All ! I want to know that I have HDD having bad sectors in nearly about of 12MB. Can I use the HDD for linux OS? B'cos on windows it hangs the computer... Please tell me if there is any soln. on this Try using it.Many a times, windows

[PLUG] Help on HDD

2006-07-27 Thread Nikhil
Hi All ! I want to know that I have HDD having bad sectors in nearly about of 12MB. Can I use the HDD for linux OS? B'cos on windows it hangs the computer... Please tell me if there is any soln. on this thanks & regards, Nikhil __ Do You Yahoo!?

[PLUG] [COMMERCIAL] -- Immediate job opening at Red Hat for Desktop Systems Specialist

2006-07-27 Thread Pramod Raghavendra
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Job Openings for the following position exists at Red Hat, Pune. Position Title : Desktop Systems Specialist Location : Pune, India Job Type : Full Time Those who have at least 2+ years work experience with Linux are preferred. The successful candid

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread Ritesh Khadgaray
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 15:12 +0530, Atul Sowani wrote: > In general, a good article! I would like to share my thoughts on this > as an ordinary linux user. Please don't start any flame war on this, > as I am not trying to make any allegations on Linux - it might just be > that I am an incompetent us

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread Atul Sowani
In general, a good article! I would like to share my thoughts on this as an ordinary linux user. Please don't start any flame war on this, as I am not trying to make any allegations on Linux - it might just be that I am an incompetent user! Linux is VERT robust and very cleverly designed OS - no

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-27 Thread Anand Nene
On 7/27/06, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote: http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html Yep. Greg Hartman wrote: Linux now runs in everything from a cellphone, to a radio controlled helicopter, your desktop, a server on the internet, on up to a huge 73% of the TOP500 largest supercompute