Re: [PLUG] Microsoft-Novell pact

2006-11-25 Thread Nishit Dave
@sco1984: Do you have any idea what you're talking about, or are you just sprinkling your post with words that you think are big? @sushrut: It is needless to create another debate on the much flogged topic, when you can read online what the whole world is saying about it. Rather than present a ve

Re: [PLUG] unable to start Linux on PI Digital Equipment

2006-11-26 Thread Nishit Dave
On 11/21/06, YAGNESH N DESAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the Hint; I was also of the expecting the same opinion. I checked into to the BIOS and "Large Disk Access Mode" was set to DOS. I changed it to Others. I think it should work as the said Linux partition starts at @5.2GB as compar

Re: [PLUG] wanted printer recommendation

2006-11-27 Thread Nishit Dave
On 11/27/06, K. Shantanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I want to buy a USB color printer. I just need to print a few quotations, > a > few bills and a few codes here and there (around 20 pages monthly). > So, the printer need not be expensive. The only thing, is that the printer > has > to

Re: [PLUG] wanted printer recommendation

2006-11-30 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/1/06, K. Shantanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061130 12:43]: > HP printers work rather faultlessly with Linux. However, recently Even USB printers of HP? > Samsung has started to advertise its support for Linux, so you can see Yes I

[PLUG] Got Tata Indicom Broadband working on Linux (FC5)

2006-11-30 Thread Nishit Dave
After months of agony, I have found a simple solution. Using rp-pppoe 2.4.3 on FC5, I am now able to use Tata Indicom Broadband through a lan cable to eth0. The trick lay in deleting all entries from /etc/ppp/chap-secrets, /etc/ppp/pap-secrets, /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. Then, as

[PLUG] Re: Got Tata Indicom Broadband working on Linux (FC5)

2006-12-01 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/1/06, Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After months of agony, I have found a simple solution. Using rp-pppoe 2.4.3 on FC5, I am now able to use Tata Indicom Broadband through a lan cable to eth0. The trick lay in deleting all entries from /etc/ppp/chap-secrets, /etc/ppp/pap-s

Re: [PLUG] Linux with Iqara / YOU

2006-12-02 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/2/06, Manas Ranade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Need help in using OpenSuse 10.1 / FC with Iqara / YOU. Any help appreciated. cheers, Manas Slightly OT, but the Youtele website is on PHP, so the servers could all be Linux, but there is not a single occurrence of the word 'linux' on thei

Re: [PLUG] RE: what is form factor?

2006-12-02 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/3/06, Sushrut Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Member, Form factor refers to the physical size and shape (according to outside dimensions) of a computer device. It is most often used to describe the size of circuit boards, especially the motherboard and expansion cards. The ATX for

Re: [PLUG] Fedora Core 6 cd's works fine.

2006-12-02 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> opined: digest this week. Well i asked another guy to burn FC 6 from another location on another media and ultimately on another CD writer. I put the cd and perform "cd check" process which comes with FC. It damn showed me error. Language, langu

Re: [PLUG] Linux with Iqara / YOU

2006-12-02 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/3/06, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anything that works on pppoe at least, which has many ISPs. What exactly do you mean linux friendly? Can connect using linux? Many of them can be connected that way. As in where they provide *some* support with configuration / trouble

Re: [PLUG] Linux with Iqara / YOU

2006-12-03 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/3/06, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> enlightened: I pay 550/- for a month, 10GB download quota, 256kbps, 512 kbps at night from exatt. And I am happy with the plan. Couldn't have asked for more except Are you and I living in the same country? Which ISP? Tell me quick and I will

Re: [PLUG] Fedora Core 6 cd's works fine.

2006-12-05 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/4/06, Ashish Belagali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We have purchased latest PCQ with FC 6 DVD. Any experiences with that? -- Good thing. I am on FC6 installed from PCQ too. It is better to be certain about the disc's quality than waste money on Linuxforu. I upgraded from FC5 (just a day b

Re: [PLUG] RE:Fedora Core 6 in Magazine (Sushrut Kulkarni)

2006-12-05 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/4/06, Sushrut Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This months (Dec 2006) Issue of magazine 'PC World' contains Fedora Core 6 DVD. The DVD is not bootable though. They gave 6 ISO format images and you need to burn your own CDs. In case you don't want anything else on the double-side DVD,

Re: [PLUG] Gnunify 07?

2006-12-05 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/5/06, Rohan Dighe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have mainly seen at student level, usually they go onn building the same projects during their academics like (student registration system, library system, hotel mgmt system) instead if they could get on to some real work like say contributing

Re: [PLUG] Re: Got Tata Indicom Broadband working on Linux (FC5)

2006-12-06 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/5/06, Mayuresh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was able to resolve this. Had posted this follow up in Jun 06. See if it works for you: http://www.plug.org.in/pipermail/plug-mail/2006-June/000452.html Works fine for me without any connection delays on FC6 as well now. Yes, setting the AC n

Re: [PLUG] Abt fedora core 6 DVD wid LFY...

2006-12-06 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/6/06, KAPIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > i read a mail, someone was sayin that DVD quality shipped wid Linux for you are not so good as compared to the PC quest megazine, is it true? cause i'm waiting for DEc 2006 isie of LFY for fedora core DVD, >and will you pl

Re: [PLUG] Abt fedora core 6 DVD wid LFY...

2006-12-08 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/8/06, YAGNESH N DESAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had bought the DVD and installed the FC6 I found that it was not supporting the propreitory formats like mp3. Also I had an issue with the RPM manager which did not start without internet connection. (rpm command from commandline would alw

Re: [PLUG] Broadband (Iqara/YOU) on OpenSuse 10.1 HOWTO

2006-12-08 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Arun Port Forwarding is the solution. I have not tried it personaly, but you can see the howtos on http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm Umm, that would work if the sysadmin hasn't blocked port forwarding. Doesn't work on my LAN, f

[PLUG] Wanted: PHP programmers / web developers

2006-12-18 Thread Nishit Dave
A friend of mine wants PHP professionals. Here's an excerpt from his requirements: 1. Would have PhP programming/ web development skills, and would be looking for a job. Experience is flexible, but should obviously be good at his/ her job, and should be willing to be in Mumbai. 2. Would have pr

Re: [PLUG] TUX Magazine

2006-12-18 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/18/06, Atul Nene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Just thought it would be of interest to pluggies to know about TUX Magaxine : http://www.tuxmagazine.com/ I've been reading it and found it nice. The last free issue will be distributed in July 2007. I have been downloading them monthly

Re: [PLUG] Link to download December 2006 TUX issue.

2006-12-19 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/19/06, YAGNESH N DESAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: is there any issue on copyright here . . ! I do not know. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19/12/2006 12:59 PM >>> Here is the link to download "TUX December 2006" issue. Download this 3 MB PDF, and upload at www.rapidshare.com and share the link s

Re: [PLUG] Why are students/colleges not using *nix systems

2006-12-23 Thread Nishit Dave
We are still discussing only one side of the story, i.e. in academia. All students, and their tutors in a system like ours, will be interested in training that can open access to the mainstream opportunities, which happen to be Microsoft technologies. This is because Microsoft (and other proprie

Re: [PLUG] Re: [OT] broadband 2007

2007-01-02 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/2/07, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shudder.. I still remember when BSNL was the only telephone provider and I was crying to surrender the connection.. shudder, chilling shiver running down the spine. :( Speaking of ISPs, what's up with Exatt? Their website at http://

Re: [PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for January 2007

2007-01-04 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/4/07, sudhanwa Jogalekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, PLUG meeting for January 2007 is scheduled on "Saturday 6th January, 2007, 4 pm @ SICSR. These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) Time 4 pm Can you consider

Re: [PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for January 2007

2007-01-04 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/4/07, Henry J. Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK,sounds like enough people are interested in this Linux telephony stuff so here's the schedule. Noon Sunday: Go to South Main road in Koregaon Park then turn south at lane five and half a block south on the right is the Green Terraces buildi

Re: [PLUG] Mini-Project in Linux

2007-01-08 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/8/07, Ashutosh Adkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually am really interested in Systems.But tell me one in apps and systems each. Thanks a lot. How about writing a script to fetch all dependencies and provide gui-based options for the configure, make, make install routine for VLC [ www.

Re: [PLUG] some clarifications on GPL

2007-01-08 Thread Nishit Dave
s (or it's derivative work's) users. Contrary to Linus Torvalds' rationale in choosing GPLv2 (and no further) as the kernel's license, rms maintains that it favours the users' freedom, not necessarily the developer's rights. And this world would only gain if we return mo

Re: [PLUG] Mini-Project in Linux

2007-01-09 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/9/07, sudhanwa Jogalekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Finding dependencies and similar stuff?? Just check out urpmi from Mandriva. (urpmi.org is the website) May be you will like to port urpmi to other distros.. Better read what I was saying first. I suggested work on a GUI based helper

Re: [PLUG] some clarifications on GPL

2007-01-09 Thread Nishit Dave
OK, I am reposting my bounced mail, in three parts. Part I of 3, 8th Jan 2007: Before we discuss this further, some links: The GNU GPL FAQ How to use the GNU GPL for your own programs An

Re: [PLUG] some clarifications on GPL

2007-01-09 Thread Nishit Dave
Part II, 8th Jan 2007: - For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a

Re: [PLUG] some clarifications on GPL

2007-01-09 Thread Nishit Dave
d only gain if we return more to it than we take away. Nishit Dave -- __ 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 

Re: [PLUG] some clarifications on GPL

2007-01-09 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/9/07, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GPlv3 makes no difference in this regard. How about just reading http://gplv3.fsf.org instead of speculating? Cluebat: http://pcburn.com/article.php?sid=1593 Original attribution: http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/15/0331201

Re: [PLUG] some clarifications on GPL

2007-01-09 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/9/07, Atul Nene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Sridhar for clarifying further. When I said 'give back to owner', I meant 'give back to community' since, my understanding is that GPLed software ceases to belong a person and starts belonging to the community. The GPL (and other licenses

Re: [PLUG] Re: [OT] broadband 2007

2007-01-09 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/9/07, Desi Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/3/07, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try exatt.com. An entire front page in flash is too much(or too less.. > flash > doesn't run on 64bit linux so entire thing is empty) but it is there.. But once you click "Broadband

Re: [PLUG] some clarifications on GPL

2007-01-10 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/9/07, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The clauses regarding availability of source when a service is offered over the network is a *optional compatible clause*. So again GPLv3 makes absolutely no difference in this case by default. You are quoting a obsolete article. Read the *cur

Re: [PLUG] Re: [OT] broadband 2007

2007-01-10 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/10/07, Desi Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW, I am myself on exatt. But I get the service thru one of their franchise. I'm not too happy with them, but generally it is OK. Plus I have no other choice :( The service was working till yesterday night. -DP Can you share their contact

Re: [PLUG] Fedora Core 4 on Intel 946GZ

2007-01-12 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12 Jan 2007 06:11:13 -, Yogesh Hasabnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am struggling with the installation of Fedora Core 4 on an IBM ThinkCentre A55 machine. The machine uses Intel 946GZ chipset, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3000 and Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet card. The installatio

Re: [PLUG] Re:Setting up Tataindicom broadband on Fedora core 6

2007-02-09 Thread Nishit Dave
Please download the rp-pppoe client from Roaring Penguin ( http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe). Unzip the .tar.gz archive to a folder on your disk and run the go-gui script. If everything goes well (and it should), you will get a successful install. Then, run your favourite shell and become ro

[PLUG] BSNL Dataone with Netgear DG632 on Fedora Core 6

2007-02-12 Thread Nishit Dave
Hi, I decided to ditch the overcharging VSNL and switched over to BSNL. The latter's service engineer didn't come to install my captioned router/modem as the guy who sold it to me presumably preconfigured it for BSNL. However, I have not been able to connect to BSNL Dataone ever since. Can any

[PLUG] Firefox, yum cannot resolve URLs in Fedora Core 6

2007-03-01 Thread Nishit Dave
I use a BSNL Dataone connection with a Netgear DG632 router (currently on router mode) that works fine with Windows XP. Under FC6, Konqueror can use the internet connection without a hitch, but firefox and yum (or yumex) and perhaps other packages somehow do not detect the connection / do not use

[PLUG] VLC and Fedora Core 6

2007-03-01 Thread Nishit Dave
I have the 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 kernels on my Fedora Core 6 box, and was recently trying to play a VCD on it with VLC 0.8.6a. The sound output was very choppy and irritating (apart from it being Borat), forcing me to switch to my XP partition where there was no problem (Fedora versions of other mult

Re: [PLUG] Microphone on Linux

2007-03-01 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/1/07, Vikrant Birajdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I am using Fedora core 6 and opensuse 10.2 on my systems, The sound is working fine on the system, but I am not able to work with my Microphone. Have you checked if the microphone has not been muted in the mixer? -- _

Re: [PLUG] Dhule district adopted OPEN SOURCE

2007-03-07 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/7/07, Anand Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, You can download these contents from http://svs.org.in/Downloads.html Thus we are spreading open source concept in the Dhule district. The project is going very smooth. The response is also very good. And by the end of April 2007, we exp

Re: [PLUG] Re: Dhule district adopted OPEN SOURCE

2007-03-08 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/8/07, Anand Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, The computer lab is arranged by ZP Dhule. All computers have Windows XP pre-installed on their systems. ZP Dhule has purchased thousands of computers directly from HCL. And HCL computers come with pre-installed windows XP OS. So we are pr

Re: [PLUG] Re: Dhule district adopted OPEN SOURCE

2007-03-09 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/9/07, Devendra Laulkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I think Microsoft provides no cost MS Office to schools. Also it provides training to teachers for free permission before using images in school newsletter and How to request and maintain logs for such permissions. Don't you think t

Re: [PLUG] Workshop on Cyber Security & Ethical Hackin

2007-03-14 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/14/07, Shakthi Kannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, --- Sedulity Maharashtra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have different levels of Cyber Security & Ethical > Hacking That is so wrong. Ethical hacking is when you try and break Microsoft Windows passwords ;-) -- _

Re: [PLUG] Open Office in Government

2007-03-16 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/17/07, Pramukh Pracharak - Grahak Raja Jaga Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Mr. Anand Kulkarni I read your post regarding Open Office in Government Organisations. And I fully agree with you that government should not spend public money for purchasing MS Office Licenses when Open Office

Re: [PLUG] How to upgrade to X11 R7.2?

2007-03-18 Thread Nishit Dave
Is there anyother distro that I could try? Since this is my work laptop I would need to connect to Cisco VPN too, has any one have experience with that?I thinking - I *should* try (without keeping getting my finger burnt) is Fedora, also few of my servers are going to have red-hat soon. Save y

Fwd: [PLUG] Ubuntu edgy

2007-03-20 Thread Nishit Dave
From: Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mar 19, 2007 12:04 PM On 3/19/07, Ranjit Bhonsle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello to all, In recent times I don't see any talk about distros. Nobody posts any install experiences. I have been unable to install Ubuntu edgy f

Re: [PLUG] Re: Open Office in Government

2007-03-20 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/21/07, Anand Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think its more advisible to discuss this issue in the PLUG monthly meeting. Why don't you come for the PLUG meeting on 07th April 07 at 4 PM? We can have views of many PLUG members there and the I am sure our discussions will be fruitful.

[PLUG] Ubuntu edgy

2007-03-21 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/21/07, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you find the default fonts in Fedora to be problematic? I doubt that that's the case since both these distributions default to the same font family. It may perhaps be due to the default fonts in Firefox on Linux - that's what I tend to

Re: [PLUG] [COMMERCIAL] Openings for Linux / .NET

2007-03-22 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/22/07, Manish Dusane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Folks, AirTight Networks is a leader in the niche market of wireless intrusion prevention. For more details visit airtightnetworks.net We are looking for Linux systems programming expertise - device drivers, linux kernels. We are also l

[PLUG] GNU India on the Microsoft scourge in Government

2007-03-22 Thread Nishit Dave
http://www.gnu.org.in/on-corp-agreements Please read it. -- __ 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 P

Re: [PLUG] GNU India on the Microsoft scourge in Government

2007-03-22 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/22/07, Kaustubh Gadkari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/22/07, Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.gnu.org.in/on-corp-agreements > The link does not work. Somehow, it works for me. Here it is again: http://www.gnu.org.in/on-corp-agreements Alternativ

Re: [PLUG] GNU India on the Microsoft scourge in Government

2007-03-22 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/22/07, Kaustubh Gadkari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somehow, it works for me. Here it is again: > http://www.gnu.org.in/on-corp-agreements > > Alternatively, you can go to http://www.gnu.org.in and click on the > appropriate article. It's on the home page itself. Somehow, I don't seem t

Re: [PLUG] Re: GNU India on the Microsoft scourge in Government

2007-03-22 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/22/07, Kaustubh Gadkari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DNS works for me too. I can resolve www.gnu.org.in to 158.144.44.134. I just can't get to the machine! :-) I had previously posted about this problem I am facing in Fedora Core 6. I can resolve all URLs from the command line, and Firefo

Re: Network problems (was Re: [PLUG] Re: GNU India on the Microsoft scourge in Government)

2007-03-23 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Problem is simple "The Firewall" & "DNS". Add DNS suffix in FC 6 and try again. Or specify correct DNS addresses. By default Firewall options are disabled in "Knoppix 5.1". So even you can connect to wireless network. Can you please exp

Re: [PLUG] Embedded Linux /Qt Training Information

2007-03-28 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/28/07, Shakthi Kannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, 1. Start from "Programming from the Ground-Up": http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook/ 2. Read Linux device driver and try out its examples. 3. Participate (testing, bug fixing, development) in free/open source embedded projects.

Re: [PLUG] Embedded Linux /Qt Training Information

2007-03-28 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/28/07, Shakthi Kannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you mean user-space system programming, then you can check out: http://www.advancedlinuxprogramming.com/ No, that was supposed to be a sarcastic comment about LUGs tending to focus on topics of academic interest to engineers, while neg

Re: [PLUG] Next Version of Mac OS X to use Linux Kernel

2007-04-04 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/4/07, BVK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/2/07, Arun Tomar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Next Version of Mac OS X to use Linux Kernel Please, let us all accept that this was a lame April Fools' hoax, and let it rest in peace. -- ___

Re: [PLUG] How to install solaris...? (Nobie)

2007-04-06 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/6/07, Sriram Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/6/07, KAPIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Resources: a. We'll have a Pune Open Solaris User Group meet either tomorrow or next weekend (I've not followed up with the other list members - my bad :( ) Here's the list URL : http://mail.open

Re: [PLUG] Plug meeting

2007-04-06 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/6/07, Anand Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, In the PLUG meeting, I would like to show the demonstration of the few open source softwares developed at our end. So please add this in our agenda. Hi, Can you please send the links to your website where we can see them? Perhaps some

Re: [PLUG] Re: Plug meeting

2007-04-07 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/7/07, Anand Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually we have not yet released few softwares yet. But you can always download the released set of softwares at http://svs.org.in/Downloads.html Also, I request you to browse even http://svs.org.in/donations.html Thanks, Will look 'em u

Re: [PLUG] PLUG meeting April 2007 Saturday 7th April,4 pm @ SICSR

2007-04-08 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/7/07, Nawaz Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, *Forcing* some one to use a particular software sounds like a micro$oft culture not much appretiated in the open src community, just my thought, you can protest anyways. Cheers. You are gravely mistaken. The Free software moveme

Re: [PLUG] PLUG meeting April 2007 Saturday 7th April,4 pm @ SICSR

2007-04-08 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/7/07, Nawaz Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, *Forcing* some one to use a particular software sounds like a micro$oft culture not much appretiated in the open src community, just my thought, you can protest anyways. Contd. from previous post: The issue here is that the likes

Re: [PLUG] To Ranjit / my connection

2007-04-08 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/8/07, Ranjit Bhonsle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since Knoppix is debain based it will work. On Fedora it would be adsl-setup. regards, Ranjit. If confused about various alternatives, have one more - RP-PPPoE. Please download the file rp-pppoe-3.8.tar.gz from http://www.roaringpenguin.co

Re: WARNING 2: Re: [PLUG] Tata Indicom Broadband on Linux

2007-04-10 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/9/07, शंतनु (Shantanoo) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 0 - http://plug.org.in/mailinglist.php 1 - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html 2 - http://ifets.ieee.org/past_archives/archiv_260200_070201/0639.html 3 - http://www.lemis.com/email.html 4 - ht

Re: WARNING 3: Re: [PLUG] Tata Indicom Broadband on Linux

2007-04-10 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/10/07, Desi Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3) I never knew "discouraged" was defined as "not allowed". I wholeheartedly agree to this :) Additionally "not allowed" doesn't mean "not allowed for everyone". It is lot more like "top posting is not allowed if Webmaster caught you top-

Re: [PLUG] Linux Distro ?

2007-04-12 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/12/07, Prashant Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi guys, i was wondering which linux distro might be suited for use in a Cafe? Someone told me Ubuntu cant be used as its not free to use for commercial purpose. How abt Vector Linux, does it also have any clause like this? Please just

Re: [PLUG] flv player

2007-04-12 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/12/07, Vivek Khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/12/07, Rajiv Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to play down loaded flv files in Kaffeine. > I am unable to hear the sound though video is seen. > How can I fix it. Try VLC, it can play flv files properly. The link: http://w

Re: [PLUG] flv player

2007-04-12 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/12/07, Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/12/07, Vivek Khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/12/07, Rajiv Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I want to play down loaded flv files in Kaffeine. > > I am unable to hear the sound

Re: [PLUG] flv player

2007-04-13 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/12/07, Pranav Peshwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Agree with Kaustubh,use mplayer. Get mplayer, get the essential codec pack,uncompress and put it into /usr/lib/win32/ or other appropriate place and play all kinds of media :) A slightly different approach would be to use something like zamzar

Re: [PLUG] Linux Distro ?

2007-04-13 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/13/07, Prashant Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The use is only limited to surfing (firefox is there) and chatting on the web (GAIM suits it), thats what most of the people do in a cyber cafe right ?? I had suspected you meant cybercafé when you said cafe. Go with Ubuntu or Mandriva.

Re: [PLUG] Linux Distro ?

2007-04-13 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/13/07, Prashant Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks alot for clearing my friends doubt. I couldnt solve it, told him PLUG has the answers. THanks That *is* supposed to be the raison d'être for a LUG. Do tell your friend to choose a distro (or at least the eye-candy level) that wor

Re: [PLUG] FreeDOS on Dell Inspiron 1501

2007-04-16 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/16/07, ॐ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for your patience with the wording of this message. Any flames and comments are welcome, with a caution that I may prefer to ignore them :-) I couldn't just get the timeline here. You have bought it recently, right? So the 3-4 years mean you h

Re: [PLUG] Help:Full Asterisk Installation on FC#

2007-04-16 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/16/07, subodh nirwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Asterisk+Zaptel+Ztdummy+MySql+Apache+SugarCRM+ViciDail modules/servers on FC3.I would appreciate it very much if someone could post a step by step installation guide for setting up the above mentioned modules/ser

Re: [PLUG] [Commercial] - Linux Firewall Configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/18/07, Neeraj Bezalwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- What, the firewall got your message? -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailm

Re: [PLUG] LILO

2007-04-18 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/18/07, ॐ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mandiva was the distribution, known to me atleast, loyal to LILO, till now, but now I find Manriva 2007 x86_64 installs GRUB by default. I like GRUB. My initial experience with LILO (circa 2002, PCQLinux 7?) was not that good. Never had problems with

Re: [PLUG] Booting Problem in Mepis: Distribution selection

2007-04-18 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/18/07, ॐ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Basically there is not much point in switching distributions but amount of *specific* help you get may vary depending on userbase in the vicinity (I mean LUG) for distribution of you choice. So i can only offer generic advice based on general practices b

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu LTS 6.06 Required.

2007-04-18 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/19/07, Desi Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/19/07, A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Can anyone lend me Ubuntu LTS 6.06? > Pl contact me offline on my id. > > Thanks. > ~A. > Unless there is a specific reason (e.g Long Term Support offered by 6.0.6) I suggest you wait

Re: [PLUG] http://badvista.fsf.org

2007-04-19 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/19/07, A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. Vista can block unauthorised code execution, under the guise of virus protection. This can mean that it will allow only software authorised by Microsoft or its honchos to run. Therefore, if somebody decides that vlc circumvents content protec

Re: [PLUG] http://badvista.fsf.org

2007-04-19 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/19/07, Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/19/07, A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Part II Of course, both Vista and Linux are distributed under licenses, but there is a major difference between their terms. Vista EULAs very minutely specify what you

Re: [PLUG] http://badvista.fsf.org

2007-04-19 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/19/07, Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/19/07, Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/19/07, A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Part III GPL v3 has been necessitated to deal with businesses trying to get cu

Re: [PLUG] http://badvista.fsf.org

2007-04-19 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/20/07, A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While I agree that the above points 'may' occure, it would be better if some hard examples are given. Else the credentials of the accuser gets a dent. This is a distinct possibility. Vista has been designed to *impinge* on your rights. Eg. MS talk

Re: [OT] FSF Pune Group [was:Re: [PLUG] http://badvista.fsf.org]

2007-04-19 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/20/07, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- -END PGP SIGNATURE- As this is OT, I'll risk the question: what's the use of digitally signing messages posted to a discussion forum? Any comment would invalidate the original signature

Re: WARNING 2: Re: [PLUG] Tata Indicom Broadband on Linux

2007-04-19 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/20/07, Anand Nene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Fri, 13/04/07 at 16:27 +0530] Aditya Godbole wrote: > On 4/10/07, Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When did *I* become part of this specific conversation? Oh, I mentioned corporate email habits. Nothing to see h

Re: [OT] WAS [PLUG] Check this Link

2007-04-20 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/20/07, Prashant Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.100mb.nl/ Check this link out Is there any kind of a generator to do that , or Check this one: http://www.asciimation.co.nz Very OT. -- __ Pune GNU/Li

Re: FSF Pune Group [was:Re: [PLUG] http://badvista.fsf.org]

2007-04-20 Thread Nishit Dave
+++ Nishit Dave [PLUG] [20-04-07 10:29 +0530]: | On 4/20/07, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | wrote: | > | >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | >-END PGP SIGNATURE- | > | > | As this is OT, I'll risk the question: what's the use of digitally

Re: FSF Pune Group [was:Re: [PLUG] http://badvista.fsf.org]

2007-04-24 Thread Nishit Dave
+++ Nishit Dave [PLUG] [20-04-07 10:29 +0530]: | On 4/20/07, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | wrote: Hi, This is Shantanoo. I have put the 'Sender:' header in the mail. This is one of the reason why people need digitally signed messages :) Shantanoo hmm...interes

Re: [PLUG] Erratic Mouse !!!

2007-04-24 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/24/07, Roshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Shodhan Bhave wrote: > On my desktop, I have installed fedora. I have > logitec optical mouse. > Many a times the mouse behave erratic . The cursor > moves without any > logic to any part of the screen. Umm, Optical mouse do behave erratic, when

Re: [PLUG] [ot] make free - ruin the country.

2007-04-26 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/26/07, आदित्य लघाटे <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/26/07, Vaibhav Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/26/07, A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And so if they are not using this service, why should they pay? > > There may be people who do not use roads at all, why are roads free? Ro

Re: [PLUG] [ot] make free - ruin the country.

2007-04-26 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/26/07, आदित्य लघाटे <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/26/07, Vaibhav Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/26/07, A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And so if they are not using this service, why should they pay? > > There may be people who do not use roads at all, why are roads free? Ro

Re: FSF Pune Group [was:Re: [PLUG] http://badvista.fsf.org]

2007-04-26 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/27/07, Shantanoo Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mailing list software can do that if it is able to understand the difference between forged and genuine email. Upto certain limit, one can find spam, but you can not fight it 100%. This is where digitally signed messages come into picture.

Re: [PLUG] [ot] make free - ruin the country.

2007-04-26 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/26/07, आदित्य लघाटे <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/26/07, Vaibhav Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/26/07, A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And so if they are not using this service, why should they pay? > > There may be people who do not use roads at all, why are roads free? Ro

Re: [PLUG] [ot] make free - ruin the country.

2007-04-26 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/27/07, Desi Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had read the announcement of BSNL providing broadband in early 2004. I'm still waiting :) I know, few people (30,000) in Pune have BSNL provided broadband, but compared to Pune's population, what % is that ? We also read about (and by now forg

Re: [PLUG] [ot] make free - ruin the country.

2007-04-27 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/27/07, Desi Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sad part is, I haven't been lucky with private players even :( I was able to get connection thru YOU telecom (then it was called Iqara) it worked for a while, then they had permissions issue. Now I have exatt, it has been down since a week, thei

Re: [PLUG] [ot] make free - ruin the country.

2007-04-27 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/27/07, Desi Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sad part is, I haven't been lucky with private players even :( I was able to get connection thru YOU telecom (then it was called Iqara) it worked for a while, then they had permissions issue. Now I have exatt, it has been down since a week, thei

Re: [PLUG] [COMMERCIAL] Opening for GTK / PHP

2007-05-08 Thread Nishit Dave
On 5/9/07, mahesh sheth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1> PHP indepth knowledge of PHP, Configuring Apache, pgSQL, mySQL 2> GTK / GNOME GTK widgets, embedding browsers in GTK windows, OpenGL, XLib Everybody (including myself, some months back) has been looking for PHP develope

Re: [PLUG] #linux-india Birds of Feather Meet at Pune

2007-05-11 Thread Nishit Dave
On 5/11/07, Tarun Dua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oops!! sorry I meant tomorrow at 12th May. -Tarun I am visiting Pune tomorrow, and as I will be only a few hundred paces away, will try to attend. Don't shift it. Keep it on the west side of Koregaon Park. -- __

Re: [PLUG] Microsoft says 235 of its patents were violated by F/OSS

2007-05-16 Thread Nishit Dave
On 5/16/07, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I *think* US patents are valid in India thanks to WTO.. No. The revised Indian Patents Act specifically forbids software patents, or in other words, patents on computer-aided innovations. Thank FSF India for that. This, in my opin

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