Re: [PLUG] Problem while configuring X on Compaq presario Laptop

2005-04-07 Thread BAIN
that we know your GUI doesn't work, posting the error log will be lot more helpfull for people who can help you. -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in)

[PLUG] Skype Linux review.

2005-04-07 Thread BAIN
v/dsp and works well with ALSA-oss emulation, there is no support yet for artsd or esd and likes so you have to stop other apps using /dev/dsp before you can make a call. All in all a good quality application and service, almost as good as ICQ was when it was launched for the first time.

Re: [PLUG] Connecting to Internet

2005-04-05 Thread BAIN
etup in > linux. Can somebody please help me ? > Did you try googling even once? If yes then have you already tried http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/install.php ? If no then STFW Cheers, -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net -- ___

[PLUG] [OFFTOPIC] yagoohoogle.com

2005-04-05 Thread BAIN
http://yagoohoogle.com/ -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.

Re: [PLUG] April 2005 Meeting Confirmation: Saturday 2nd April 20054:00 pm @ SICSR

2005-04-02 Thread BAIN
> > Hope its not april fool. ;) > All of us who attend PLUG meets are fools anyway ;) > So doesn't matter. > PS : You are a lesser fool nowadays. Ah!!! i just realised!, by that rate i am birlliant ;-) -- BAIN http:/

Re: [PLUG] Patent Bill Discussion In The Meeting?

2005-03-29 Thread BAIN
be software patents free again. Ofcourse this was my interpretation, am i wrong??? -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in

Re: [PLUG] openSolaris

2005-03-24 Thread BAIN
inux? Certainly, this group isn't just about linux but inclusive of linux IMHO. Neways, there is already a controversy regarding how much open/free solaris really is? also patents make things even worse. BAIN -- __ Pune GNU

Re: [PLUG] Kernel patch for Intel P4 HT machines.

2005-03-18 Thread BAIN
server applications. Well this assuming you are talking about a patch on top of SMP kernel. If you are looking at SMP vs UP then SMP will definately show improvement. -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Grou

[PLUG] Google Code

2005-03-18 Thread BAIN
Slashdot had this story running today Google is at it again and has launched Google Code. It appears to be "Google's place for Open Source software". Check it out here http://code.google.com/ -- BAIN http://abhi

Re: [PLUG] Ideal Linux Desktop Distro

2005-03-16 Thread BAIN
hieves this to a certain degree though > > 10) One app for one job. Slackware has good policy but the real benifit of linux is the choice. i don't think you should kerb that -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net --

Re: [PLUG] USB Pen Drive

2005-03-14 Thread BAIN
ist and lkml archives? It seems 2.6 encountered some problems in the standards used and some workaround was put in/ (or not i don't exactly remember). May be you have hit the same problem. Also try sending mail to usb-storage list direc

Re: [PLUG] c programming help

2005-03-11 Thread BAIN
ugger interface. but its not for the light harted so i wouldn't recommend it unless you have someone to teach you how to use it efficiently. ofcourse you will have to mentain your own makefiles in this case -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net -- __

[PLUG] Google is wonderfull :) [WAS: QT informations]

2005-03-09 Thread BAIN
;handling etc. While reading this mail look what gmail throws at the bottom? (Below sponsered links) http://quality.kde.org/develop/howto/howtohack.php Ain't gmail/google just too good ? -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net -- _

Re: [PLUG] (OT) Torvalds switches to a Mac

2005-03-09 Thread BAIN
> Torvalds switches to a Mac Ah ! he is on Power PC for years now, mainly to make a point that everything should work on things different than x86. So people can't sneak in x86 only things.\ -- BAIN http://abhijit.ado

Re: [PLUG] Adjusting number of loopback devices allowed.

2005-03-07 Thread BAIN
> edit /etc/modules.conf and add the following line. > options loop max_loop=64 > > Or you can add this entry to you lilo.conf > append=" max_loop=64" > > I think you can have upto 256 such devices. By the way this will work for > kernel 2.4 Will wo

Re: [PLUG] CAD Query

2005-03-06 Thread BAIN
sure how powerfull it is,i've never used cad extensively. You can find it on latest knoppix cds(3.7) under 'Utilities'. Commercially Autocad is available i think, and bunch of others too.. Google should return lots of links (tried it

[PLUG] [Humor] Linus suggests new numbering scheme

2005-03-02 Thread BAIN
ental institution in a decade or two"). -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail

Re: [PLUG] info on vmalloc

2005-02-26 Thread BAIN
od discussion about that can be found in above book Cheers -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/list

Re: [PLUG] Creating a proc entry

2005-02-22 Thread BAIN
; > COde: > == > > struct proc_dir_entry *entry; > char * filename = "spoon"; > entry = create_proc_entry(filename,0444,(struct proc_dir_entry *)0); can you try create_proc_entry("spoon"

Re: [PLUG] How to log into Mandrake10.1 as a root?

2005-02-15 Thread BAIN
trashed their system in most unexpected ways, a simple user login would have saved them big time. -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: h

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Sybase Users !!!

2005-02-15 Thread BAIN
ough i thought we have reached a consensous about that... :) > Regards, > Aditya. -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in

Re: [PLUG] How to get rid of Failed dependencies..!

2005-02-15 Thread BAIN
une GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) > List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail > Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions. > -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net -- _

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Sybase Users !!!

2005-02-15 Thread BAIN
nt status) got my point? So as long as the discussion remains about using sybase _on_ _linux_ and issues involved in it i think it should be ok. -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List:

Re: [PLUG] Data One Broadband in Pune

2005-02-10 Thread BAIN
> Anybody using DATA ONE Broadband in Pune ? > How is the speed and general experience ? > Modem support in Linux ? There was a thread on this already this month Please go dig archives BAIN -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Us

Re: [PLUG] Recomendations for Inexpensive external modem?

2005-02-10 Thread BAIN
however and as kaustubh said all of them will work without problems. > personally been using a D-Link DFM-560E modem for about 2 years without > any problems at all. Me too... > > Kaustubh -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net -- __

Re: [PLUG] Fedora core 3 does not give Sound on my PC! :(

2005-02-09 Thread BAIN
fedora anyway, so a possible solution will be to install mandrake instead or in Sudhanwa's words "Uuussse Mandrake" :-)) > My configuration is > P4,Intel 845GLAD motherboard(original),256MB DDR ram, > AC'97audio. -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net -- __

Re: [PLUG] BSNL Broadband - My experience

2005-02-05 Thread BAIN
pop account from kmail. As such none of the ports are blocked so you can do everything that a dialup connection supports. (telnet ftp ssh sip whatever) In all 9.8 out of 10 points for the service so far i will give the remaining 0.2 points when they keep the record same after completing one

Re: [PLUG] DNS resolving through http_proxy

2005-02-02 Thread BAIN
ol to ask the proxy to resolve a dns address. But there is no way in linux to reroute th system dns request to http_proxy :-(. > Simplest and the best is to enter an entry for the > proxy address in /etc/hosts. thats a non issue as i have proxy i

[PLUG] Kontact now autohandles the outlook meeting requests

2005-02-01 Thread BAIN
this makes aditya's KMAIL/Calendar howto obsolete i guess. This is knoppix 3.7 kontact 1.0.1 kmail 1.7.1 You can check the screenshots on abhijit.adotout.net -- BAIN -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug

[PLUG] Re: DNS resolving through http_proxy

2005-01-31 Thread BAIN
shed. BTW, is it legal? Actually according to google contracts i think its not. But they don't seem to mind so far. -- BAIN -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: htt

Re: [PLUG] new here

2005-01-30 Thread BAIN
knoppix is KDE based and ubuntu is Gnome based. This means the two look and feel differently You can also install knoppix on your harddisk once you decide you like it. Ubuntu has a separate installation cds you will need to downlaod if you want to install it. Good luck and welcome t

[PLUG] DNS resolving through http_proxy

2005-01-30 Thread BAIN
work with named sites. Giving an ip directly works though. BTW the script i am trying to use is libgmail :) -- BAIN -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.o

[PLUG] A dream coming ture!! Open Graphics Project

2005-01-29 Thread BAIN
Miller is actaully aiming for a _product release_ as early as June 2005. More info on http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics BAIN -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List

[PLUG] Running KNOPPIX over Colinux

2005-01-20 Thread BAIN
Hi ppl, I have written a crude HOWTO on running KNOPPIX over Colinux, Lots needs to be fixed in that ans needs polisshing touch. You can find it for now at http://adotout.net/abhijit/2005/01/knoppix-colinux-howto.html Any feedback/comments will be highly appreciated -- BAIN

Re: [PLUG] Hack Anaconda - Was [Making your own distro]

2004-08-27 Thread BAIN
> Thats really interesting - hack the installer - how > can I go about doing that? Any ideas? As you have the sources, whats stopping you? BAIN -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PLUG] Enlightenment is back

2004-08-25 Thread BAIN
Hi fella's, i was delighted to read slashdot today, The old time fav. enlightenment is back with the latest release DR1 16.7.1 http://enlightenment.org/pages/news.html Good old days are back i guess. -- BAIN -- __ Pun