[PLUG] [Commercial] My 3970X Threadripper PC is for sale in Pune!

2025-08-05 Thread Vishal Rao via plug-mail
Hello! See https://www.lahsiv.net/threadripper/ for details. Thank you! -- "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - St. Augustine. ___ plug-mail mailing list plug-mail@plug.org.in http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail

Re: [PLUG] geoip DB + wireshark 4.2.2 not working in Ubuntu 24.04.2 (x86_64 platform)

2025-02-23 Thread Vishal Rao via plug-mail
See https://chatgpt.com/share/67bb755a-e434-8003-bd0c-eac4cd779a30 if it helps? On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 at 21:12, Amey via plug-mail wrote: > > Hello All, > > I am facing an issue with geoip MAP in firefox web browser. > > I did download the database file (GeoLite2 City GZIP)from maxmind [1] > and di

Re: [PLUG] Knoppix live cd

2023-08-16 Thread Vishal Rao via plug-mail
On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 at 12:57, Arun Khan via plug-mail wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 10:45 PM Sudhanwa Jogalekar via plug-mail > wrote: > > > > Got Ubuntu 2204 bootable pen drive. That should be useful to you. > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 6:55 PM shirish शिरीष via plug-mail > > wrote:

Re: [PLUG] Knoppix live cd

2023-08-09 Thread Vishal Rao via plug-mail
On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 at 18:54, shirish शिरीष via plug-mail wrote: > > Hi, am in bit of jam. Can someone help out. Have bandwidth, have pen drive. > Unable to mount /home hence need a knoppix live cd to fsck /home & be able to > mount it. Please lemme know if someone can help. > > Connect offline/o

Re: [PLUG] Any opensuse tumbleweed mirrors available?

2022-02-12 Thread Vishal Rao via plug-mail
ian mirror (opensuse.mirrors.estointernet.in) but i dont seem to get more than about 200 mbps at best and for ubuntu i have to resort to using the apt-fast script off github currently. On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 10:49, Vishal Rao wrote: > Hi Amey, > > I got sidetracked a bit but I just saw this news post: > >

Re: [PLUG] Any opensuse tumbleweed mirrors available?

2022-01-03 Thread Vishal Rao via plug-mail
; Amey. > > [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/supp...@lists.opensuse.org/ > > On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 11:06, Vishal Rao via plug-mail > wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I tried to use opensuse tumbleweed and it's pretty awesome but one i

[PLUG] Any opensuse tumbleweed mirrors available?

2021-12-13 Thread Vishal Rao via plug-mail
Hi folks, I tried to use opensuse tumbleweed and it's pretty awesome but one issue is lack of any update mirror so had to drop it due to slow downloads from the main German server... Do you by any chance know of any available tumbleweed mirrors? I checked many mirrors and none have the updates fo

Re: [PLUG] Unable to access hamaralinux.org

2021-12-07 Thread Vishal Rao via plug-mail
Sorry for top post, yes I also see the same error. On Tue, 7 Dec, 2021, 5:26 pm Amey Abhyankar via plug-mail, < plug-mail@plug.org.in> wrote: > Hello All, > > I am trying to access the hamara Linux web-site after a long time and > getting 502 Bad Gateway. > > Anybody facing the same issue today?

Re: [PLUG] How to select best openSUSE Tumbleweed mirror?

2021-06-23 Thread Vishal Rao via plug-mail
I should add that zypper doesn't appear to have capability to pull with multiple connections. For my Ubuntu based distros there is this apt-fast tool on github which helps by using multiple connections with apt. On Thu, 24 Jun 2021, 7:51 am Vishal Rao, wrote: > Hi Amey, > > On We

Re: [PLUG] How to select best openSUSE Tumbleweed mirror?

2021-06-23 Thread Vishal Rao via plug-mail
Hi Amey, On Wed, 23 Jun 2021, 7:51 pm Amey Abhyankar, wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 at 12:15, Amey Abhyankar wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 at 11:31, Vishal Rao wrote: >> >>> Hello! >>> >>> I'm running openSUS

[PLUG] How to select best openSUSE Tumbleweed mirror?

2021-06-21 Thread Vishal Rao via plug-mail
em to be missing the "updates" repo. Any suggestions? Does anyone else here use Tumbleweed and facing this issue? Regards, Vishal Rao -- "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - St. Augustine. ___ pl

Re: [PLUG] openSUSE conference June 18 - 19, 2021

2021-06-01 Thread Vishal Rao via plug-mail
On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 at 17:45, Amey Abhyankar via plug-mail < plug-mail@plug.org.in> wrote: > Hello All, > > Yes as the subject says = https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSVC21 > Conference timings are in CET [European time] zone. > Conference is virtual/online & free for all. > Registration is

Re: [PLUG] Sendmail is unable to send emails to users in same domain

2020-12-23 Thread Vishal Rao
So either you need smtp server port listening enabled on host abc.com or there is a firewall rule blocking it, I guess. On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, 14:21 Amey Abhyankar, wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 12:50, Vishal Rao wrote: > > > > Do you have mail server port open on abc.com itse

Re: [PLUG] Sendmail is unable to send emails to users in same domain

2020-12-22 Thread Vishal Rao
Do you have mail server port open on abc.com itself and not some subdomain like smtp.abc.com? On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, 12:33 Amey Abhyankar, wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to configure sendmail on gitlab 13.x CE [on-prem > server/CentOS 7] to send emails to the LDAP based gitlab users. > [on-prem/t

Re: [PLUG] Any1 has centos 8 x86_64 iso?

2020-11-23 Thread Vishal Rao
day or two. And apologies for top posting but its a pain with the android Gmail app. On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, 15:02 Vishal Rao, wrote: > If you are not in a hurry I can download it for you tonight and you can > bring a 16gb pen drive to my home tomorrow so I can copy it over? Send me > ema

Re: [PLUG] Any1 has centos 8 x86_64 iso?

2020-11-23 Thread Vishal Rao
If you are not in a hurry I can download it for you tonight and you can bring a 16gb pen drive to my home tomorrow so I can copy it over? Send me email direct. On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, 10:23 Amey Abhyankar, wrote: > Hello, > > As the subject says :-) > > The iso is 7.x GB = > http://centos.mirror.sn

Re: [PLUG] Advice on reviving Nokia N900

2020-11-02 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 at 16:52, Mayuresh wrote: > Remember N900? There was such a Linux phone a decade or more ago. > I have one of these! Was fun to use the phone, I should probably resurrect it some time and SSH into it just for fun. ___ plug-mail maili

Re: [PLUG] New Indian ubuntu mirror

2020-02-14 Thread Vishal Rao
Update at bottom... On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 at 01:08, shirish शिरीष wrote: > at bottom :- > > On 07/07/2017, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > > COEP and/or IIIT in Pune could be a good choice in the near future. > > I saw an ad in the newspaper today from COEP for supply of 1000 and 300 > meg > > of band

Re: [PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

2019-09-04 Thread Vishal Rao
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 11:37, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 8:43 AM Tejas Sanap wrote: > > > > Hey, folks! > > I use plain IRC and for some reason that I can't explain, love it's > > simplicity. I ran into a blog post today, that prese

Re: [PLUG] Which fast (Indian) mirror for Fedora? (Like PicoNets)

2019-03-06 Thread Vishal Rao
On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 09:39, Amey Abhyankar wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 18:16, Vishal Rao wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Does anyone have any recommendations for a fast repo mirror for Fedora? > > I found 1 local repo hosting provider but t

Re: [PLUG] Which fast (Indian) mirror for Fedora? (Like PicoNets)

2018-12-21 Thread Vishal Rao
Hi again, On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 19:03, Amey Abhyankar wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 18:16, Vishal Rao wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Does anyone have any recommendations for a fast repo mirror for Fedora? > > > > I'm running F

Re: [PLUG] Which fast (Indian) mirror for Fedora? (Like PicoNets)

2018-12-21 Thread Vishal Rao
Hi, On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 19:03, Amey Abhyankar wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 18:16, Vishal Rao wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Does anyone have any recommendations for a fast repo mirror for Fedora? > > > > I'm running F

[PLUG] Which fast (Indian) mirror for Fedora? (Like PicoNets)

2018-12-18 Thread Vishal Rao
Hello, Does anyone have any recommendations for a fast repo mirror for Fedora? I'm running Fedora 29 Workstation and have BSNL's FTTH 100 mbps connection which I'd like to take full advantage of with a good fast repo mirror. The default meta mirror list with the DNF fastestmirror option enabled

[PLUG] New Indian ubuntu mirror

2017-06-26 Thread Vishal Rao
Hi, There was a recent post to the ubuntu-in mailing list about a new upcoming Indian mirror, see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-in/2017-June/011694.html Anyone with a fast (100+ mbps) wired connection that can try it and comment? Regards, Vishal -- "The World is a book, and those wh

Re: [PLUG] Can I get these Linux capabilities on Android?

2012-10-15 Thread Vishal Rao
On 16 October 2012 02:16, steve wrote: > > It is quite sad actually. > Indeed. I have an N900 lying around (currently use an HTC HD7 with WP7 *gasp*) and it is a little underpowered and the resistive touchscreen is not so great (for touch), otherwise it is an awesome device. I was really amazed t

Re: [PLUG] Need a copy of Lucid Lynx

2010-07-05 Thread Vishal Rao
On 28 June 2010 13:19, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Hi friends, > > I am a middle-aged newbie with aspirations to being a linux user. I intend > to format my current computer and dual boot it with Winduhs 7 and Lucid > Lynx. > > Can anyone help me get a copy of Lucid Lynx? Any advice would also be > he

Re: [PLUG] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

2010-03-15 Thread Vishal Rao
On 15 March 2010 09:31, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > How come you are getting more throughput with fs unmounted? I tried the same > and I got less throughput, though the decrease is not much substantial. Oh, that? I have no clue how :-) Something wrong I'm doing?

Re: [PLUG] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

2010-03-14 Thread Vishal Rao
Follow-up (with lotsa ubuntu sudo love): vis...@thunderbird:/media$ sudo mkdir btrfs vis...@thunderbird:/media$ sudo mkdir ext4 vis...@thunderbird:/media$ sudo mount /dev/sda7 btrfs vis...@thunderbird:/media$ sudo mount /dev/sda8 ext4 vis...@thunderbird:/media$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda7 /dev/sda7

Re: [PLUG] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

2010-03-14 Thread Vishal Rao
I've managed to boot into btrfs as root fs using a separate ext4 boot partition in ubuntu 10.04 following http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1389279 but with some shortcuts to avoid patching grub2 (just created an entry in 40_custom). did a few quick stuff but main thing was "hdparm -t /dev/

Re: [PLUG] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

2010-03-13 Thread Vishal Rao
On 13 March 2010 23:28, Mehul Ved wrote: > Can't you keep one and virtualise the rest? Multi-booting is fun for > testing but gets difficult to maintain. i do that too, but prefer to run on real for things like checking out video drivers (nouveau) etc. but, i'm having trouble installing fedora 1

Re: [PLUG] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

2010-03-13 Thread Vishal Rao
On 13 March 2010 15:23, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On Saturday 13 March 2010 14:38:34 Vishal Rao wrote: >> Which distro and version are you using? I have downloaded F13 >> alpha (the KDE amd64 live CD) planning to install it this weekend, >> so if btrfs is reasably easy/st

Re: [PLUG] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

2010-03-13 Thread Vishal Rao
On 13 March 2010 14:16, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On Saturday 13 March 2010 12:57:11 Vishal Rao wrote: >> I'm thinking I might be ready to test it in about, what?, maybe 6 >> months time when >> its stable enough state in either Fedora or Ubuntu distros? > &g

Re: [PLUG] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

2010-03-12 Thread Vishal Rao
On 13 March 2010 12:57, Vishal Rao wrote: > On 13 March 2010 08:34, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: >> Just wanted to share an interesting experience I had today. >> >> Check http://ghodechhap.net/btrfs.performance.txt > > Well Im not savvy enough to really follow

Re: [PLUG] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

2010-03-12 Thread Vishal Rao
On 13 March 2010 08:34, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > Just wanted to share an interesting experience I had today. > > Check http://ghodechhap.net/btrfs.performance.txt Well Im not savvy enough to really follow that text file but sure is interesting to know that btrfs is "twice as fast" as ext4 in

[PLUG] ATA errors with Crucial SSD (solved)

2010-01-19 Thread Vishal Rao
Posting this info here because I know there are Fedora members who might take this message along... (hope other distros or better yet upstream can help fix this) See my thread on the Ubuntu forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1364671 Especially the solution here: http://ubuntuforums.

Re: [PLUG] Unable to play WMV files.

2009-08-06 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:51 PM, vaibhav wrote: > Hello Vishal, > I tried installing xine using following: > " yum install xine >xine-lib-extras-freeworld >gstreamer-plugins-ugly >gstreamer-plugins-bad >gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras >gstr

Re: [PLUG] Unable to play WMV files.

2009-08-05 Thread Vishal Rao
i havent been following this thread (just saw the subject line) but shouldnt you be installing the various gstreamer plugins like bad, ugly etc... just search for packages with gstreamer in the name, on arch linux i have: gstreamer0.10-base-plugins gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-good-plugins

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Copyrights and open source licensing in India?

2009-07-27 Thread Vishal Rao
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Navin Kabra wrote: > > > > I'm looking for opinions about the email subject, especially from people > > with legal skills and knowledge about the situation in India, because > IANAL > > :) > > > > Vishal, > You should consider attending this event tomorrow: > http

[PLUG] [OT] Copyrights and open source licensing in India?

2009-07-26 Thread Vishal Rao
Hello, I'm looking for opinions about the email subject, especially from people with legal skills and knowledge about the situation in India, because IANAL :) When you have a piece of software, like one or more shell scripts and/or source code files, as a package you want to release as open sou

Re: [PLUG] Need help in configuring the Tablet drivers

2009-07-23 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Nachiket Kulkarni wrote: > Hi, > I have recently made the switch from Vista to Ubuntu 9.04. My tablet model > is HP tx2009au. The full specification can be seen here On Site > Specs< > http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01445216&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us

Re: [PLUG] Mailing list moderation

2009-07-19 Thread Vishal Rao
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Vivek Khurana wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Rahul Sundaram > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Plug's mailing list moderation is hyper sensitive and unnecessarily > > blocks mails with random things like "suspicious header" where this is > > nothing suspicious w

Re: [PLUG] file locking

2009-07-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Aditya Godbole wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Manas Alekar wrote: > > > > You might be interested in mandatory file locking via setgid. Mount > > using option mand and then use lockf. There are pitfalls, though. > > I am looking at a user level approac

Re: [PLUG] Problems with Athlon X2 64 & mobo!!

2009-02-11 Thread Vishal Rao
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Makarand Mhaiskar wrote: > 1. Could this be a mobo issue? Could be. Or it could just be a RAM issue... if you have a Linux LiveCD, try running the memtest option see if that throws up anything... -- ___

Re: [PLUG] Time to downgrade?

2009-01-07 Thread Vishal Rao
I wonder if this recent blog about installing and running "xrestop" might help: http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2009/01/viewing-xorg-memory-consumption-xrestop.html -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.o

Re: [PLUG] Installation with Quad core Processor.

2008-12-25 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Nikhil Kala wrote: > actually connected RAM is 8GB. Also not giving the good performance. You should explain in more detail what you mean by no good performance... which software/what scenario etc.. -- _

Re: [PLUG] Installation with Quad core Processor.

2008-12-25 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Nikhil Kala wrote: > I have Intel Quad core 2.0 processor with Intel original board. > > I tried to install different linux flavors and but not working... FYI, Ubuntu 8.04 amd64 desktop edition works fine for me on Q6600 quad core CPU on Intel DP35DP and DG33FBC m

Re: [PLUG] [Dev] Adding BSNL EVDO detection to NetworkManager

2008-12-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Chetan S wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Chetan S wrote: > >> This neat file resides under >> /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-modem.fdi for Ubuntu >> Intrepid. Great stuff! IINM the hal folks might accept your patch for that fdi file?

[PLUG] Interview with Samba's Jeremy Allison

2008-12-15 Thread Vishal Rao
"Ubuntu has the strongest chance to take Linux mainstream" :-) See http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/-ubuntu-has-the-strongest-chance-to-take-linux-mainstream--486274 -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mail

Re: [PLUG] Would you like to name Fedora 11?

2008-12-02 Thread Vishal Rao
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need a Fedora account to get edit access to the wiki. It takes only > a couple of minutes to sign up at http://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts. Not working unless I print, sign and mail out the CLA apparently... --

Re: [PLUG] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-27 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please suggest. Suggestions: http://mdzlog.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/greg-kh-linux-ecosystem/ http://mdzlog.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/plumbers-conference-retrospective/ http://dustinkirkland.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/what

Re: [PLUG] w810i on mandriva 2008

2008-08-25 Thread Vishal Rao
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is this issue in Mandriva, I faced it too. Every time I have to become > root on terminal and then unmount. As non-root user it will not un-mount. In > my Ubuntu, it works seamlessly. i don't use Mandriva mysel

Re: [PLUG] Fwd: [ILUG-BOM] [X-POST] [SECURITY] Hold all Fedora updates

2008-08-24 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW from the ILUG-Mumbai list. > Original announcement: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg00012.html Old news. And no, the "original announcement" was a week before that: http://fedoraannou

Re: [PLUG] trouble with mandriva

2008-08-12 Thread Vishal Rao
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Jayant Kairi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > options. I have tried all the possible options but none worked. it might be that you need to specify one of those boot params like "noapic" and "acpi=off" i dont use mandriva but i think at the first boot screen before you

Re: [PLUG] Coming is an open source cell phone

2008-07-16 Thread Vishal Rao
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Amit Karpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, >This is really Good news from Pune. > "Pune: Mobile space, especially cell phone, is always an area where > innovations are relentless. Even before hustle and bustle over iPhone > end, the beta testing for

[PLUG] Canonical store delivers?

2008-07-15 Thread Vishal Rao
Hi, Has anyone ordered anything off shop.canonical.com and gotten it successfully delivered to your place in Pune? A few months ago I tried ordering with my credit card which was accepted but soon cancelled and refunded with a reason given as "possible credit card fraud" :-) This time I plan to

[PLUG] [OT] Free PHP based recruitment/HR software?

2008-07-10 Thread Vishal Rao
Hello PLUG, Any recommendations for (preferably PHP) web-based "recruitment/HR tracking" software where you can store candidate/applicant info and feedback/status and schedule appointments/interviews etc? - Vishal -- __ Pune GNU

Re: [PLUG] Open source phone goes mass-market

2008-06-26 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Chetan Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Vishal Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I'll buy it. Would you? >&g

Re: [PLUG] Open source phone goes mass-market

2008-06-26 Thread Vishal Rao
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll buy it. Would you? Does it have a touchscreen (stylus and/or finger) which I didnt see mentioned? And it's 2.5G but I'm waiting for 3G or some sort of "mobile broadband" enabled phone (maybe Android based phones) or Wi

Re: [PLUG] Report/Minutes of PLUG meet held on 9/06/08

2008-06-08 Thread Vishal Rao
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:55 AM, shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > First of all I hope everybody is enjoying the rains. After a long > long time I felt like going to the PLUG meeting and there were quite a > few things on the agenda. This is from personal perspective if > somebody f

Re: [PLUG] An Open letter on OOXML happenings in India

2008-06-03 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Praveen A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is time of Open Letters, this time it is from Dr Deepak Phatak of IIT > Bombay. (snip) > Read full letter at http://deepakphatak.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-is.html Nice, this is dated May 28th, I wonder if he's aware at the

Re: [PLUG] Request for FreeBSD 7.0

2008-05-27 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Hariprasad Govardhanam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Guys, > > I am looking for AMD64 version of FreeBSD 7.0 CD/DVD. Does anybody > have it? I will be very much obliged if anybody is willing to burn a > CD/DVD for me. I live in Kothrud, and I can come and colle

Re: [PLUG] Debian ssh key vulnerability

2008-05-14 Thread Vishal Rao
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please provide references: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/281901/ > > Note that this a specific patch/packaging issue and does not affect upstream > releases. Also see See http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1445 about Ubuntu upd

[PLUG] Touchscreen working on HP tx1000 series tablet with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron amd64

2008-05-10 Thread Vishal Rao
Hello, Thought I would post my success trying to get the touchscreen working on my tx1000 series HP Pavilion tx1302au tablet PC with Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 amd64 64-bit :-) Searching for "touchscreen tx1000 linux" on Google gives a couple of good links but I needed to do some more to get it to w

Re: Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu installation queries

2008-04-28 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Yogesh Hasabnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No specific reason for evaluating Ubuntu. In fact the tools that are > developed in our organization are supposed to work on Red Hat/Fedora OSs > only. But have a heard a lot about Ubuntu being very user-friendly. We

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu installation queries

2008-04-28 Thread Vishal Rao
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:38 PM, roupam ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Download the Ubuntu DVD... Can you post links from where to get the DVD? Is it an official DVD ISO made by Canonical? I've noticed a lot of complaints about Hardy on ubuntuforums.org, installations not going well, other th

[PLUG] Wake up - Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS released

2008-04-25 Thread Vishal Rao
No interest or posts to the PLUG list about Hardy? Just wanted to mention I was on Gutsy 32-bit on my old P4 (been running Ubuntu since Feisty) and recently installed 64-bit Hardy since Beta on my new Q6600 based desktop. The 7.10 desktop LiveCD had issues booting and progressing far but Hardy wo

Re: [PLUG] MandrivaLinux Spring 2008...

2008-04-25 Thread Vishal Rao
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 8:40 PM, ഓം <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And Mandriva 2008.1 Spring look good. I just installed it few minutes > back... Clean install went smooth and configured most things... no > issues atall... Are you folks using the "One" free CD ISO? Is there anything limited/dis

Re: [PLUG] Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff

2008-04-19 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried reading your post backwards, but it read the same. This is too high > order for the rest of us. Heh: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-April/msg00010.html Also, of course, Ubuntu Hardy H

Re: [PLUG] Microsoft files complaint on OOXML vote to apex office and Ministry of Consumer Affairs

2008-03-26 Thread Vishal Rao
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://osindia.blogspot.com/2008/03/microsoft-files-complaint-on-ooxml-vote.html Funny :-) Plus, I think yesterday was "Document Freedom Day"... (the last Wednesday of March) http://documentfreedom.org/ -- "Thou

Re: [PLUG]Booting Problem.

2008-02-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On Feb 19, 2008 10:05 AM, "आदित्य (Aditya)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The hdx nomenclature still exists. If you have PATA disks. > > All Sata or SCSI disks were named as sdx. > > This nomenclature existed ever since I have known linux, maybe around > 1999! :) > > Regards > Aditya I have an 80

[PLUG] Fast package management in openSUSE 11

2008-02-16 Thread Vishal Rao
Found this link with a video on the latest openSUSE weekly news: http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/296 If this package management/solver is really this fast on ver 11 and they offer the latest KDE 3.x as an install option then I might drop Ubuntu at home and switch back to openSUSE 11 :-)

Re: [PLUG] BSNL Broadband - Help!

2008-02-07 Thread Vishal Rao
On Feb 7, 2008 12:56 PM, Vivek J. Patankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After four months of waiting, I was finally got the BSNL connection. But > I still am not able to get it working. The 'engineer' from the BSNL Perhaps the user and/or pass they have provided is for the portal and not the conne

Re: [PLUG] Announcing Fedora 9 Alpha

2008-02-06 Thread Vishal Rao
On Feb 5, 2008 9:52 PM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes Feature List: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList Any chance table PC touchscreen support will get improved in this or a future release? Right no

Re: [PLUG] no power off after shut down

2008-02-05 Thread Vishal Rao
On Feb 5, 2008 5:13 AM, bp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed mandriva 2008 on p4 pc. I checked that acpi service is on. > Also acpid is running. How about your try the opposite and use the acpi=off kernel boot parameter? Let apm try to do the shutdown? -- "Thou shalt not follow the n

[PLUG] Fedora 8 installfest at Manipal Inst of Tech.

2008-02-04 Thread Vishal Rao
Sorry to forward the announcement like this but couldn't resist. There was an installfest at the college where I bunked so many classes during 1994-98 and thought I would post it. Anyone from MIT/Manipal lurking on PLUG? See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue118 -- "Thou shalt not follow th

Re: [PLUG] What are the Fedora 9 codename candidates?

2008-01-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On Jan 18, 2008 5:29 PM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dragicorn > Chingachgook > Asperger > Marfan > Tourette > Chupacabra > Bathysphere > Kingsport Town > Sulphur > Mayonnaise > Woodwose > Barmanou LOL either Fedora 9 has gotten a new sense of humour or the joke is on me :-) Asper

[PLUG] What are the Fedora 9 codename candidates?

2008-01-16 Thread Vishal Rao
I saw an email in a Fedora mailing list about voting for the Fedora 9 codename, but it looks like you need an account to vote or even look at the shortlist. Can someone post the shortlist of codenames for the vote? I don't wish to signup for the account (and sign the CLA etc) just to find out the

Re: [PLUG] opensouce alternatives..

2008-01-14 Thread Vishal Rao
On Jan 15, 2008 1:23 PM, Rohan Dighe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if someone has seen a comprehensive list (somewhere on the > web) > which describes various alternatives to closed source softwares. Are you looking for something like these links? http://www.linuxalt.com/ http://w

[PLUG] Ugly talk between OpenBSD's Theo and RMS

2007-12-27 Thread Vishal Rao
Check out the OpenBSD "misc" mailing list archives... I was doing my usual archive browsing and came across this "holy war" of sorts... http://marc.info/?t=11973064711&r=1&w=2 http://marc.info/?t=11977398043&r=1&w=2 -- "Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at it's end madness and c

Re: [PLUG] Need help for openSuse 10.3

2007-12-26 Thread Vishal Rao
On Dec 26, 2007 9:29 AM, Yogesh Chaudhari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I installed openSuse 10.3. Everything is fine except that when I tried to > play Video files (vob, avi, mpeg, dat, etc..) with VLC or MPlayer; session > abruptly logs out. Does anyone having same problem with openSuse

Re: [PLUG] Need Help with Wireless configuration in Ubuntu

2007-12-22 Thread Vishal Rao
On Dec 22, 2007 6:17 PM, Anoop John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Networking. However there is a small catch, she has to restart > networking everytime the system reboots. Finally I have advised her to I have a similar issue in Ubuntu 7.10. What I did was to put 2 lines in /etc/rc.local above the "

Re: [PLUG] OT Anybody experiencing DNS issues with BSNL broadband since 17th Morning?

2007-11-17 Thread Vishal Rao
On Nov 17, 2007 9:44 AM, Chetan Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > Not able to access a LARGE number of domains/sites. > Regards, > Chetan Yup since last evening (Fri) some sites were not opening and today morning all sites were down. I use OpenDNS so it was probably a router problem with

[PLUG] Fingerprint reader project announced

2007-11-15 Thread Vishal Rao
My earlier forwarded msg was too big, but the wiki is at http://www.reactivated.net/fprint I believe the Fedora fingerprint page mentions Daniel Drake to work with for getting fingerprint support into Linux! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureThinkfinger (right at the end) I have the

Re: [PLUG] Re: BSNL Broadband Online Application

2007-11-14 Thread Vishal Rao
On Nov 14, 2007 6:41 PM, Vivek J. Patankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Considering my experience dealing with BSNL earlier today, at least they > were honest about the whole deal. I think I'll wait for BSNL. I've been on BSNL's DataOne 256kbps connection since March 2005 (almost 3 yrs now) in Pun

Re: [PLUG] Re: BSNL Broadband Online Application

2007-11-14 Thread Vishal Rao
On Nov 14, 2007 5:19 PM, Chetan Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is a general drive for upgradation. This also includes broadband > related infrastructure. > The date indicated is Jan 26th 2008. I can see if I can get an > update/confirmation. Do Awesome, if you can get a hint about whether norm

Re: [PLUG] Re: BSNL Broadband Online Application

2007-11-14 Thread Vishal Rao
On Nov 14, 2007 5:08 PM, Chetan Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also there are some other expansion plans of BSNL which will get started > pretty > soon. Looks like 26th Jan 2008 is the target for such offerings. Expect some > improvements around that time. Can you elaborate on the "expansion"

Re: [PLUG] Re: BSNL Broadband Online Application

2007-11-14 Thread Vishal Rao
On Nov 14, 2007 5:00 PM, Vivek J. Patankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And BTW, I will have to buy my own ADSL router and they recomment a > D-Link GLB-502T ADSL2+ router. Which brings me to the question... is > there an equivalent router which will work with BSNL and has wireless > capacity apart

Re: [PLUG] BSNL Broadband Online Application

2007-11-13 Thread Vishal Rao
On Nov 14, 2007 1:07 PM, Vivek J. Patankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I filled up the online application form about a week ago. Can someone > tell me how much time they take to respond? It may be never. You should walk in to your exchange and talk to someone in charge.. they may be out of connec

Re: [PLUG] Announcing the release of Fedora 8 (Werewolf)

2007-11-10 Thread Vishal Rao
On Nov 10, 2007 11:03 PM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct. The firmware is not redistributable at all. > > http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-extras Yup, I'd seen that page already, thanks. The older bcm43xx certainly doesn't support my wifi model and the new b43 I

Re: [PLUG] Announcing the release of Fedora 8 (Werewolf)

2007-11-10 Thread Vishal Rao
On Nov 10, 2007 10:37 AM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right. There was some work on this. Good to know it paid off well. Refer > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/ReleaseSummary > > Esp the laptop section. No go, I failed to get wireless working (Broadcom bcm 4321) so I'm

Re: [PLUG] Announcing the release of Fedora 8 (Werewolf)

2007-11-09 Thread Vishal Rao
On Nov 8, 2007 11:29 PM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Go grab it I booted the gnome live CD on my tablet this morning and it looks encouraging! I don't know if it's Fedora or the newer .23 kernel but laptop buttons and sound work better than openSUSE 10.3 or Ubuntu 7.10. Sound only

Re: [PLUG] Fwd: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Live version available

2007-11-09 Thread Vishal Rao
On Nov 8, 2007 7:31 PM, Ranjit Bhonsle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some how I did not have the heart to nuke FC7...it is home. > Now it is XP-SP2 + OpenSuse 10.3 + FC7. I've just started the torrent download of the F8 GNOME live CD ISO. Even though I'm not a fan of Fedora, will try installing it

Re: [PLUG] Fwd: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Live version available

2007-11-07 Thread Vishal Rao
On 11/6/07, Ranjit Bhonsle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had some issues with desktop config due to my > old hardware but could solve it by a driver update. > nv driver is best in Fedora. Try installing (unless you already did) the nVidia drivers via 1-click from http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA#ope

Re: [PLUG] Fwd: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Live version available

2007-11-07 Thread Vishal Rao
On 11/7/07, Vishal Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try installing (unless you already did) the nVidia drivers via 1-click > from http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA#openSUSE_10.3 does that help? > > The second yellow icon is for legacy cards in case yours is in this > list h

[PLUG] Fwd: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Live version available

2007-11-02 Thread Vishal Rao
Enjoy (I hope I'm not violating any etiquette by forwarding the news like this...) -- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Loeffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 3, 2007 12:50 AM Subject: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Live version available To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From toda

Re: [PLUG] KWGR614 or WRT54GL

2007-10-26 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/25/07, Desi Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get good signal strength within my house. Never checked across floors. I get decent (20% signal strength) connectivity (it claims full 60 mbps, my broadband works at full 256kbps speed) with my router on the upper floor and my tablet on the

Re: [PLUG] KWGR614 or WRT54GL

2007-10-26 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/26/07, Aditya Laghate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > The WRT54GL can use two different bands to get connections, Wireless-G > (802.11g at 54Mbps) and Wireless-B (802.11b at 11Mbps). One antenna is > for Wireless B and the other for Wireless G. and I suppose that, at > any one point of ti

Re: [PLUG] Linux and Samsung printer...

2007-10-26 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/26/07, ಓಂ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sincere thanks for pointing out about possible dangers... np :-) fyi, i found the link for that item after searching google for "linux root permissions insecure slashdot" - first hit was http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/18/0319203 -- "Thou

Re: [PLUG] Linux and Samsung printer...

2007-10-25 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/26/07, ಓಂ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody here have an experience using Samsung SCX 4200 laser > printer with Linux. It is supposed to be Linux supported printer and > Samsund site has a Unified (what does it mean?) driver for Linux... Watch out for the driver. I read somewhere (w

Re: [PLUG] HCL laptop?

2007-10-16 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/17/07, ಓಂ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another thing to frankly mention is in my last few years of work > machines with AMD CPUs have never given me any trouble while those > with Intel have sometimes caused problems. Either due to CPU or other > components. > > Few weeks back I (and someone

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