[PLUG] RE: plug-mail Digest, Vol 12, Issue 37

2004-10-27 Thread santosh lamkhade
Hi Sudhanwa, I am intrested in this volunteer activity organized by PLUG. can you plz. tell me when this activity will take place so that I can make scheduld like that way. Thanks. Warm Regards, Santosh _ Yantras for power and succe

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

2004-10-27 Thread Vaibhav Kulkarni
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:06:45 +0530, Devendra Laulkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1 Byte = 8 bits. (generally ?) > ALWAYS Vaibhav -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: ht

Re: [PLUG] The Internet

2004-10-27 Thread Rohan Wali
hi, i had the same problemPC tel HSP56 micromodem is not detected by Fedora Core. You can download the driver from http://www.geocities.com/vyakti2003 Follow the readme instructions included in the tar file and it will work fine(you should be logged in as root) after you install the driver g

Re: Re: [PLUG] The Internet

2004-10-27 Thread Rohan Wali
hi , for you SB16 prb. visit the following site. http://luni.org/pipermail/luni/2004-August/017039.html which distro are you using ? Fedora ? hope your prb is solved ROhan On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:22:36 -0700 (PDT), shardul vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks rohan > > if you can spend

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

2004-10-27 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Clifford D'Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 kilo BITS. Yes, 'bits' is lowercase 'b' and 'bytes' is uppercase 'B' (usually

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Firefox Release Parties in India

2004-10-27 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Sumeet Madhukar Moghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We could do that under the banner of the PLUG, with the participating > > > One thing that we can do is burn a few CD's of firefox, and install If I'm not mistaken, Firefox is most popular on Windows (under 5 MB download) due to all the hoopl

Re: [PLUG] Re: M$ and linux

2004-10-27 Thread A G
I dont know what you mean. But lets face the fact. MS has 'integrated' IE in the kernel of OS. The IE engine is used by many s/ws like ms office. IE hangs and the complete OS hangs. Try opening about 40-50 links in new ie window and the os gdi resources reaches nadir, faulting the kernel32 or somet

[PLUG] mp3 support in Fedora

2004-10-27 Thread Rohan Wali
hi, i wanted to know where i could get the rpm to provide mp3 support for fedora core release... Linux Kernel Version : 2.4.22 KDE version : 3.1.4 ROhan -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List

Re: [PLUG] "modutils" are not working !!

2004-10-27 Thread Vinayak Pane
Thanks swapnil, It solved my problem partialy , but steel I can see the errors for iptable initialisation. The modprobe related problem is gone . It never shows the messege :"QM_MODULES function not implemented. " . But now I am facing some other problem as a side effect, my older version of kern

Re: [PLUG] mp3 support in Fedora

2004-10-27 Thread Ritesh Bharati
Rohan Wali wrote: hi, i wanted to know where i could get the rpm to provide mp3 support for fedora core release... Linux Kernel Version : 2.4.22 Did you checked latest xmms. ? Ritesh -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing Lis

Re: [PLUG] mp3 support in Fedora

2004-10-27 Thread Gautam
hi, try http://www.xmms.org/ Rohan Wali wrote: hi, i wanted to know where i could get the rpm to provide mp3 support for fedora core release... Linux Kernel Version : 2.4.22 Did you checked latest xmms. ? Ritesh -- Cheers. Gautam -- __

[PLUG] FC2 Problem

2004-10-27 Thread Uday
Hi Everybody! I installed Fedora Core 2. While Installing it warned 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 formatt

Re: [PLUG] mp3 support in Fedora

2004-10-27 Thread Gautam
Hi, http://dag.wieers.com/packages/xmms-mp3/ Check this one too. Cheers, Gautam -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'hel

Re: [PLUG] mp3 support in Fedora

2004-10-27 Thread Shekhar
hi, i wanted to know where i could get the rpm to provide mp3 support for fedora core release... Append following to your yum.conf. -8<-- [core] name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - core baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/core ---

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] yahoo messenger hangs help

2004-10-27 Thread linux lover
Hello, MY yahoo messenger is not working. I downloaded it from yahoo site and installed. i also did the proxy settings which i use to access internet in mozilla but messenger hangs while logging me to yahoo server. How to use yahoo messenger on my redhat 9 linux box. regards, linu

[PLUG] Transcript of interview : Eric Raymond with Prudential Investors

2004-10-27 Thread Devendra Laulkar
Eric Raymond is the President of Open Source Initiative. www.catb.org/_esr/writings/prudential.html His other interesting writings (including CatB]: www.catb.org/_esr/writings/index.html -Devendra -- "Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning." -- Marlo Thomas -- ___

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

2004-10-27 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Vaibhav Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1 Byte = 8 bits. (generally ?) > > ALWAYS WRONG! Look it up ;-) A 'byte' is any fixed-length stream of bits (or something like that)... An 'octet' is an 8-bit 'byte'. You could have 1-bit bytes or 9-bit bytes or any length you prefer... Its

Re: [PLUG] The Internet

2004-10-27 Thread Salil Bijur
> Depending on how comfortable you are using linux you can start by > visiting www.linmodems.org and try running the scanmodem tool to > identify your modem then search for your modem driver on > www.linmodems.org or google.com chances are its a 'Conexant' (or > related brand) modem whose free spee

Re: [PLUG] yahoo messenger hangs help

2004-10-27 Thread kapil pendse
Hi > i also did the proxy settings which i use to access internet > in mozilla but messenger hangs while logging me to > yahoo server. > How to use yahoo messenger on my redhat 9 > linux box. Try running yahoo messenger from terminal. open Konsole under KDE and type ymessenger. Now when

Re: [PLUG] Re: M$ and linux

2004-10-27 Thread McLinux
A G wrote: I dont know what you mean. But lets face the fact. MS has 'integrated' IE in the kernel of OS. The IE engine That why I hate Win32 too much monolithic. new ie window and the os gdi resources reaches nadir, faulting the kernel32 or sometimes the gdi32 dll. Try to watch a movie cd w

[PLUG] POP

2004-10-27 Thread Sudhanshu Ambesange
I have a linux 7.2 box. When I try to use outlook express on windows client to pop all the mails from a user account, it is very slow. Moreover, it gives time out error for any mail that has any attachment even in some kb. I have tried to increase the time out also. But invain. The same outlook e

Re: [PLUG] Re: M$ and linux

2004-10-27 Thread A G
> Hmmm I meant why use Win* in first place. > -McLinux > Cos Win* rules the desktop, as of now, due to its ease of use. (Pl. no stories of virus etc. Cos a good and free AV, FW and spyware-checker and NON MS Browser are enough to keep your system lean and mean.) And anyway OS itself is a worthles

[PLUG] Re: M$ and linux

2004-10-27 Thread Mukund N Rathi
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:40:06 +0100 (BST) From: A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Re: M$ and linux To: Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hmmm I meant why use Win* in first place. -McLi

[PLUG] M$ and linux

2004-10-27 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
At 02:16 PM 10/27/04 +0530, you wrote: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 05:01:13 +0100 (BST) Reply-To: Pune GNU/Lin

[PLUG] POP

2004-10-27 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
At 07:33 PM 10/27/04 +0530, you wrote: From: "Sudhanshu Ambesange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:52:46 +0530 (IST) Reply-To: Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing L

[PLUG] Volunteers needed

2004-10-27 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Further to my earlier mail regarding the volunteers, I am forwarding Anand's mail which will give some more idea about the project. Those interested can also contact him directly. Forwarded mail: Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:59:14 -0700 (PDT) From: ANAND KULKARNI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: p

Re: [PLUG] POP

2004-10-27 Thread Shantanoo
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:52:46 +0530 (IST), Sudhanshu Ambesange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a linux 7.2 box. When I try to use outlook express on windows linux 7.2? > client to pop all the mails from a user account, it is very slow. from where are you trying to pop? How is the respon

Re: [PLUG] Re: M$ and linux

2004-10-27 Thread Shantanoo
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:40:06 +0100 (BST), A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmmm I meant why use Win* in first place. > > -McLinux > > > > Cos Win* rules the desktop, as of now, due to its ease > of use. (Pl. no stories of virus etc. Cos a good and > free AV, FW and spyware-checker and NON MS Bro

Re: [PLUG] POP

2004-10-27 Thread Aditya Godbole
On Wed Oct 27, 2004 at 11:47:19PM +0530 Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote... > At 07:33 PM 10/27/04 +0530, you wrote: > > IS THIS A WINDOWS SUPPORT MAILING LIST? > > PUTTING A LINE SAYING "I HAVE A LINUX 7.2 BOX" DOES NOT QUALIFY TO WRITE > ANYTHING FURTHER ON NON-FREE SOFTWARE. ( THERE ITSELF IS A MISTA

Re: [PLUG] POP

2004-10-27 Thread Vishal Rao
--- Shantanoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe there can be some network issue which is decreasing the speed. > Can comment on it as don't have any informatiion about it. Some DNS problem maybe? LOL 'Linux 7.2' LOL __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mai

[PLUG] FC2 Problem

2004-10-27 Thread Uday
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 Disk /dev/hda: 77545 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Old situation: Warning: The partition tab

Re: [PLUG] POP (Kedar K Koppikar)

2004-10-27 Thread Kedar K Koppikar
Using any operating system is all about choice.And passing provocating comments on anybody's choice of OS/Tools is not a good idea.So I think this thread sould stop. Regards, -- Kedar K Koppikar (Specialist-Linux) Growel Softech Ltd Dapodi Branch Pune Human Knowledge belongs to the world..

[PLUG] Linux Success Stories

2004-10-27 Thread Kedar K Koppikar
I recently read a article on BSD success stories available at http://linux.oreilly.com/news/bsd_ss.pdf How about some Linux success stories? Here is a tip to impress your friends and of course show off Linux :-).Always carry 2 cd's (Knoppix and Geexbox), they always come in handy (yes for

[PLUG] Re: Linux vs M$

2004-10-27 Thread Mukund N Rathi
~..::Mukund::..~ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 02:22:03 +0530 From: Shantanoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Re: M$ and linux To: Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; char