Linuxers March 2002

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Re: FTP Problem
by Abhir Joshi 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

Bhargav wrote: > over it, I am not able to do it.....dunno why.....also, wu-ftpd does not > load on start up....{or so I think}...thanx in advance... Yes, It doesnt load on startup. wu-ftpd will be started by `xinetd' whenever you try to connect to it using a FTP client. `xinetd' should be running for this to happen. First `su' to root. Then enable wu-ftpd by setting the option `disable = no' in the file /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd. Then start xinetd by doing /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd start OR if xinetd is already running do /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart Abhir _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Commercial] Latest cds available from Enterux Solutions
by Sales - Enterux 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

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FTP Problem
by Bhargav 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

Oops... I am sorry for posting the subject incorrectly. So here we go This may seem redundant but I need the solution to my problem and any feedback will be appreciated. I am want to set up an FTP only server on my desktop computer's linux partition so that I can share files with my friends as I used to in windows using Serv U. I don't intend to use this computer as a server for any other type of protocol such as HTTP, etc. I have the wu-ftp daemon (wu-ftpd) installed on my Red Hat 7.2 partition. Now here is my problem. How do I setup user a/cs for my FTP server. I know the answer to this is rather easy but despite hours of scratching my head over it, I am not able to do it.....dunno why.....also, wu-ftpd does not load on start up....{or so I think}...thanx in advance... Orcaa !!

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Linux is not reliable . Windows Still rulez
by Tahir Hashmi 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:39:06 Amish K. Munshi wrote: > Yes I agree with you, but I most of the work that we require to >do is available as a GUI toolkit. And however integrated we are to the >Linux systems, we would love to use the graphical version of linuxconf >rather than the text version. There's a learning curve. When I started out, I was averse to the command line too. But as I began discovering commands for things that went click-click, I found myself using the command line more and more. The reason is simple - it's easier to issue a command than fire up a GUI, sift thru the tabs and buttons et al. Say, you want to add a user to a new group. How'd you do it in GUI? Fire up Linuxconf, expand the trees till you reach the users area (I've forgotten what Linuxconf looked like, so it's a somewhat inexact reproduction), click on that user and then in his/her property sheet, specify the group somewhere. That done, you click the "Activate" button and then "Quit" hoping that things went fine. Same thing on the command line: # usermod -G <group>[, ...] <user> There's a command - apropos - that searches for the supplied keywords in short descriptions of all the entries in man pages. So, if you're looking for disk management commands, you can do: $ apropos disk and get a list of commands that have the word "disk" in their descriptions. I don't say that GUI is bad. The user should figure out when to use what tool. As a rule of thumb, use a GUI tool when you are going to use a majority of the features it offers. So I may use LinuxConf when I get down to configuring my system after a fresh install. But not for the occasional tweaks and mods. Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://tahirhashmi.scriptmania.com mailme(a)tahirhashmi.scriptmania.com __________________________________ We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed

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Fwd: GPL is taking court action
by Navin Dhanuka 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

GPL is taking court action against a violator. The FSF is taking legal action against "Progress Software Corp." who attempted to ship a binary of "Gemini" -- a mysql storage module without providing sources. Progress Software sells a CDROM called NuSphere MySQL Advantage. This contains various applications like Apache, PHP and MySQL. As a very important part of HA database services and crash recovery, Gemini is very popular. But the source code is under wraps . ie A GPL violation by Progress Software. The question is not about GPL standing for trial, but the point about MySQL AB selling ``dual licensed'' editions and Progress Software not being allowed. IMHO GPL will win ! [-SNIP-] EBEN MOGLEN's Affidavit : 19-a.. Redistribution must itself occur under GPL and only GPL, with no additional license conditions. (See Exhibit B, §2(b)); 19-b.. Redistribution must include ``source code,'' the human-readable form of computer programs that allows programmers to understand and modify computer programs for themselves, as opposed to ``object code,'' which is the ``machine language'' version of computer programs that is very difficult for programmers to understand or modify 19-c.. Redistribution must include a copy of the GPL, so that users are aware of their rights to use, copy, modify and distribute, and so that anyone engaged in redistribution is also aware of the conditions under which redistribution is permitted. ...... 35.. I then checked whether the source code of the Gemini component of mysqld was available. I saw that it was not. I used standard tools to ``recompile'' mysqld, which means to rebuild the program from the parts provided, and discovered that the rebuilt mysqld did not include Gemini capacity. In a manual distributed in the portion of the CD only related to Windows users I found the statement that ```GEMINI' tables will be included in some future MySQL 3.23.X source distribution.'' ...... 38.. Under GPL §4, I conclude, Progress Software Corp. lost the right to distribute MySQL when it distributed NuSphere MySQL Advantage in a fashion that violated GPL. [-END-SNIP-] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux for Win2000
by stanley 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 Trevor Warren wrote : > >--- Tahir Hashmi <tahirbond(a)lycos.com> wrote: > > > > http://www.cygwin.com >[snip] > dude....i think he meant...how do i install linux on >windoZe. > >To the creator of this thread...."dude.......Linux is >an O.S by itself and would do with it's own >partitions... linux is not an O.S by itself its a kernel and linux is useless without GNU > http://www.linux.org > http://www.linuxdoc.org > Warren brian noronha

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ACM Seminar
by Philip S Tellis 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

Friday, March 1, 2002 - 6:30 p.m. Title: Reinforcement Learning Speaker: Jayprasad J. Hegde Venue: Lecture Theatre, NCST, Juhu Abstract: Reinforcement Learning is all about simulating the manner in which humans would go about learning in real life. So, if you were presented with a game of chess and you did not know how to play it, how would you go about learning it? How would you go about learning it if you were told that out of the six games you played only 2 resulted in a victory? How do you figure out which game you have won? How do you figure out which strategies were successful or which strategies are a strict no-no? These are some of the issues you would face when posed a problem of learning a new concept, or in this case learning a new game. These are exactly the same issues which a system would have to deal with if it were to ever try and learn something using trial-and-error. Now, consider the implications of using such a learning mechanism: exploring the surface of Mars by learning how to navigate on-the-fly, building a world-class checkers-playing program using GAs and NNs, learning to acquire "soft" versions of a dictionary given a parallel corpus, learning new strategies for computer-controlled opponents in the latest 3D first-person shooting game... the list goes on. If you've missed out on the Machine Learning seminar given previously, then this would be a good time to attend the second of the Machine Learning seminars viz. Reinforcement Learning, since, we will recap some of the pertinent basics of Machine Learning, cover the basics of Reinforcement Learning, discuss some of the technologies involved and then round-off with a motivating case study. About the Speaker: Jayprasad J. Hegde is a fitness-freak going under the guise of a Computer Scientist in the KBCS division at NCST. He claims to be working in the field of Natural Language Technology and have interests in Machine Learning, but one is rarely fortunate enough to see him around and confirm this. His only proof of existence seems to come from some of the articles that he keeps writing rather frequently, his knack for being available for "important" occasions like someone's birthday-treat and his picture on the his home-page. If you have seen him in your locality please dial KBCS and inform them. Please do not expect any rewards for doing so.

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Re[2]: [ILUG-BOM] Problem the older BIOS
by Vinay Pai 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

> Well, > Goldie, I don't understand one thing..... > Your OS is supposed to communicate with BIOS for any device queries. > So if your BIOS itself is not reporting beyond 8GB, how can any OS > detect more than that?? > ( Correct me if I'm wrong........ ) Yep... you are wrong. The BIOS used to play a major role during the 16-bit real mode days. DOS used the bios for I/O as did Win3.x and (I think) Win95. Modern OSes talk directly to the disk controller, so after the kernel is loaded the BIOS has no role to play. Thus it is important for the Kernel to be located somewhere the BIOS can access it, but after that it doesn't matter. For Linux this means LILO uses the BIOS but the Kernel doesn't. > Maybe, the best solution could be to upgrade the BIOS or change the > motherboard / BIOS chip. > By this, you'll get rid of any more problems to come. > The new BIOS chips cost about 500 - 800 bucks, I'm not sure just check > it out with a h/w vendor. Its not that simple... BIOSes are very hardware dependent [snip] > The 1024 Cyl. problem is easy to solve. > Just use LBA32 extensions of new LILO. If you BIOS doesn't detect large drives it is quite likely that it doesn't support LBA32 either. LBA32 is a BIOS funda, not LILO.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux for Win2000
by Tahir Hashmi 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

http://www.cygwin.com --- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://tahirhashmi.scriptmania.com mailme(a)tahirhashmi.scriptmania.com __________________________________ We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed On 28 Feb 2002 12:10:07 -000 shahazad wrote: >Hi all, >Can anybody tell me about runnning "Linux on windows 2000". >I have searched all over the net but havent found it for win2000. > >It would be gr8 if anybody would supply me with the download url. > >Thanx >regards ></shahazad> > > >-- >Get your firstname@lastname email at http://Nameplanet.com/?su >_______________________________________________ >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > 2,000,000,000 Web Pages--you only need 1. Save time with My Lycos. http://my.lycos.com

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