Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-31 Thread A G
--- श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 29 July 2006 15:54, A G wrote: > > > card. Moreover, xine and audacity stopped > > > > Wrong distro, I guess. Check a couple of other > distro. > > You will find one which will work for your > ha

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-29 Thread Ritesh Khadgaray
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 19:40 +0530, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote: > On Saturday 29 July 2006 19:31, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > > > Which flavour of linux and windows can you mother install? My mom can't > > > even double click half the time and clicks way too many times if I set up > > > single click f

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-29 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 29 July 2006 19:31, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > > Which flavour of linux and windows can you mother install? My mom can't > > even double click half the time and clicks way too many times if I set up > > single click for her. > > everyone is different, with different level of skill/intell

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-29 Thread Ritesh Khadgaray
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 19:09 +0530, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote: > On Saturday 29 July 2006 18:58, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > > Try saying this to my mom > > then again for some it is good, for some painful. > > Which flavour of linux and windows can you mother install? My mom can't even > double cl

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-29 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 29 July 2006 18:58, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > Try saying this to my mom > then again for some it is good, for some painful. Which flavour of linux and windows can you mother install? My mom can't even double click half the time and clicks way too many times if I set up single click f

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-29 Thread Ritesh Khadgaray
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 18:44 +0530, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote: > On Saturday 29 July 2006 15:42, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 18:18 +0530, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote: > > > On Thursday 27 July 2006 18:06, Vaibhav Kulkarni wrote: > > > > On 7/27/06, Ritesh Khadgaray <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-29 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 29 July 2006 15:54, A G wrote: > > card. Moreover, xine and audacity stopped > > Wrong distro, I guess. Check a couple of other distro. > You will find one which will work for your hardware. > > Well respects ones are knoppix, kanotix, ubuntu, > mandriva, pclinuxos. Wrong advice. If ev

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-29 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
On Saturday 29 July 2006 15:42, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 18:18 +0530, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote: > > 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 fo

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-29 Thread A G
> 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 it. On the other hand, when I > booted my machine in > linux,

Re: [PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-29 Thread Ritesh Khadgaray
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 18:18 +0530, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote: > 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

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] 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] 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!

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

[PLUG] This is seriously good

2006-07-26 Thread श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTEC