Re: [PLUG] This Person Has A Point.

2004-12-25 Thread Clifford D'Mello
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 03:03:22 + (GMT), A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2004/12/how-to-kill-open-source-on-desktop.html > > So does this person. http://thelinuxbox.org/Rebuttal.php -- Clifford -- ___

Re: [PLUG] FireFox optimised builds at MOOX.ws

2004-11-10 Thread Clifford D'Mello
> http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/ > > I'm downloading the 'M3' FireFox 1.0 build optimised SSE2 (P4 / > AthlonXP etc) now > M3 will not work for Athlon XP (No SSE2, support only SSE) -- Clifford -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Gr

Re: [PLUG] SuSE Linux 9.0 with GeForce 4MX 440

2004-11-02 Thread Clifford D'Mello
> I checked out on nvidia website for driver download, but they have > AMD64 drivers, not AMD32 (I don't know much about AMD processors, but > I believe Athlon is a 32bit processor). > They do have drivers for IA32 though. Yup they are the ones http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-6

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] FC2 Problem

2004-10-27 Thread Clifford D'Mello
> me that it could not read the partitions from BIOS > correctly and may cause [ fixable ] errors. Now after > installing I am not able to access my first logocal > NTFS partition (d:) in Windows 2000. Windows says The > disk is not formatted. Do you want to Format it now? > fdisk shows the partiti

[PLUG] Modem speeds

2004-10-27 Thread Clifford D'Mello
Original subject: Re: [PLUG] Internet on SuSE9.1 and something to learn from M$ too!(originally and wrongly: New BSNL internet phone charges) > > Where can I get the FCC rules? BTW, whats the max speed that can be > achieved with BSNL's copper wire, and the digital exchange in between > the compu

Re: [PLUG] /proc file size zero

2004-10-26 Thread Clifford D'Mello
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:57:46 +0800, Harsh Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > What's the reason behind putting the sizes of all the /proc contents zero. > Maybe this could answer your questions http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/ref-guide/ch-proc.html -- Clifford -- __

Re: [PLUG] Internet on SuSE9.1 and something to learn from M$ too!(originally and wrongly: New BSNL internet phone charges)

2004-10-26 Thread Clifford D'Mello
> Btw, I didnt get the connection betw 56kbps and 7. How > did you arrive at this fig of 7kbps practical if the > modem is 56? > Please note that the 56 kbps you are talking about is 56 kilo BITS per second and the 7 he is talking about is 7 kilo BYTES per second. 1 BYTE = 8 BITS so, 7x8 = 56 kil

Re: [PLUG] Internet on SuSE9.1 and something to learn from M$ too!(originally and wrongly: New BSNL internet phone charges)

2004-10-25 Thread Clifford D'Mello
> > > > These 3 days, I got a consistent speed of 7-8 kbps, > > > > and on Sunday, I got consistent speed of 10 kbps, > > Excuse me if I am wrong, > but if you have a 56kbps modem, then u can't get a speed more than 7KB/s > theoretically > right? > Precisely, however FCC rules restrict the outp

Re: [PLUG] virtual cds on linux

2004-10-14 Thread Clifford D'Mello
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:45:28 +0530, kapil pendse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Such a software should be able to create 1 or more virtual CD/DVD > drives. With this done, the OS thinks there's another cd drive > attached to the system. Now mounting an iso image on this virtual > drive should be anal