Linuxers September 2002

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[OT] Re: [snip]
by Amish Mehta 28 Sep '02

28 Sep '02

dat waz pun full mo(o)n. Amish. q u a s i wrote: >Yo! >Hey Trevor mon, yer "[snip]" scissors does no nothin mon!!! It jus

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Whats obfuscation....Victory ;)
by Gurpreet Singh 28 Sep '02

28 Sep '02

hi luggerz i asked u all abt obfuscation, u guyz responded well. i got a few ideas and did my best in the competetion and.... I WON THE SECOND PRIZE for the debugging and obfuscation contest. the feeling was gr8, 2 dyas before u dont know what obfuscation is and after 2 dyas u stand 2nd in an obfucation contest. wud like to thank u all for that ;) gurpreet

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contact between various LUGs
by Gurpreet Singh 28 Sep '02

28 Sep '02

hi i was in goa engg coll lately for a competetion and got to meet a few ppl.what i observed was that, the popularity of linux and the desire among the students to be thorow with linux was clearly evident. i spoke to students from goa and a few from belgam. these guyz do have their local lugs and do what ever bit they can. after talking to then it struck me that why no have some communication between the lugs. what i propose is that, since a lot is going on the lugs on the mailing list and these things are really useful, why not share the popular topics every week on each lug with the other lugs. what we can do is (manually/ or automatedly) select 5 most popular topics on the mailing list, pile up all the discussion on those topics in 1 mail and mail them to every lug so that we can have thier comments too... we may also share the "off the mailing list" activities of each lug. for further discussion on this i have invited a few students from goa lug and belgam lug to attend the workshop @ our college. just an idea.... plz comment gurpreet

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problem with smbmount
by Unmesh Dhake 28 Sep '02

28 Sep '02

Halo, I am having RH7.2 installed on machine. On this machine samba is also configured for windows connectivity. From this machine i need to access folders on unix machine. For this i added two lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local umount /n_exp_ob umount /n_imp_ob smbmount //raman/exp_ob /n_exp_ob smbmount //raman/imp_ob /n_imp_ob Here raman is unix machine name. n_exp_ob & n_imp_ob are linux machine folders where unix machine folders mounted. exp_ob and imp_ob are unix machine folders. Folders are getting mounted correctly, but after some time I am getting following messages on screen continuously and machine stop working. smb_proc_readdir_long: name=\*, result=-2, rcls=1, err=2 Anybody know solution for this. Regards Unmesh

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Re: Buggy C prog
by Amish Mehta 28 Sep '02

28 Sep '02

Hi, You got divine hands :-). Though it worked, you should still allocate memory to arg itself for holding array of pointers. Something like arg = (char **) malloc(sizeof(char *) * 6); arg[5] = NULL; Amish. Nikhil Joshi wrote: > >Hi! >success afterall ... >I used following to allocate memory to arg > >for (i=1;i<4;i++) > if ((arg[i] = (char *) malloc (30)) == NULL)

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] An Interesting Question
by quasar＠vsnl.net 28 Sep '02

28 Sep '02

pankaj(a)ncst.ernet.in wrote >Try this on windows (it's a java program. U can write it in C and >compile with VC it will give same result) :) I dont need to, I believe you about what it does. This reminds me, there was once a feller who got down *the* "yugandhar" with a simplistic email client he was writing... remember that occasion? I dont think there is any system which is 100% secure. But I confess, I should have been a little more specific in saying that win2K is the most stable from the M$ stable. :D umm... May be I should keep a copy of the program as NCST seems to be partial to win2K which they have on most of their machines... cheers, quasi p.s. howz life sir? will you be there for the ACM meet tomorrow 1830hrs?

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Re: [OT] http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in
by Amish Mehta 27 Sep '02

27 Sep '02

I dont think any standard would say to have 'page not found'(no page) as first page. My suggestion would be to have list of mailings lists on front page, because I wanted to change my preferences of list, and to find link to change it, I had go to my trash and open one of the emails after finding 'page not found' on mm.ilug-bom.org.in. I dont have good memory to remember long link. :-) Amish. Philip S Tellis wrote: >that's standard with mailman AFAIK. It can't redirect to any specific >mailing list, because there are multiple mailing lists on the server.

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Re: Fost.com digest, Vol 1 #94 - 1 msg
by Dinesh Shah 27 Sep '02

27 Sep '02

> --- Philip S Tellis <philip(a)konark.ncst.ernet.in> wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Dinesh Shah wrote: > > > > > Would love to... But both are working days. Can it be > > in the evening after 6pm? > > > Or I may have to do some juggling for my schedule. ;-) > > > > 12th and 13th October are Saturday and Sunday. Sorry, Wrong calander :-) I am in... Let me know the schedule, venue and topics... Also one more Seminar is finalized for SPCE, Andheri. I have spoken to Mr. Balasubramaniam. The dates for SPCE is 18-19 Oct. (Sat-Sun). I need speakers for this event as well. Pls come forward with the topic(s) you are interested in speaking about. Looking forward to favourable response. With warm regards, --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System dinesh(a)indiamail.com http://dineshah.tripod.com Mobile : +919821311906 -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup

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Re: Buggy C prog
by Amish Mehta 27 Sep '02

27 Sep '02

Philip S Tellis wrote: >No he shouldn't. When he does char *arg[4]; That's when memory is Sorry, I was under impression he used arg array as from main(int argc, char **arg) directly. I noticed it now that he has defined arg separately. Amish.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] An Interesting Question
by jtdsouza＠softhome.net 27 Sep '02

27 Sep '02

On Wednesday 25 September 2002 05:41, Bhargav Bhatt wrote: > Hello Luggers! > I will play the Devil's Advocate here. snip > P.S: i dont think that the GPL can be used at M$ is too smart > at code obfuscation(i think it means obscuring source code) for > people to be able to disassemble their OS and claim it to be a > rip-off of linux. Firstly no need for all the hassle of cloning linux use freebsd. It's license is unencumbered. Infact this is where they got their TCP/IP code from. A compiler is smart enough to de obfusicate code and will finally generate machine code very close to the original, which will be very difficult for M$ to defend. While small parts of similiar code may no doubt be attributed to coincidence, it would require some stretch of imagination to forward coincidence as an argument for an entire kernel. We must also presume that M$' developers worked in complete isolation and did not at any time consult any of the free developers - another tall order considering that the orginal code writers can barely understand what they have written in the first place. Apart from the above hypothetical case, the real problem is about the development model used by closed and open software. The M$Developer will have to pick cut off date for the code they plan to copy. By the time they come up with something useable, the open version will have moved so far ahead that the old version will become pretty much useless. Also it is not the kernel which is the key, it is the applications which produce the $. So all applications on the windoze platform will have to be ported by the developers delaying the deployment by ages. rgds jtdsouza(a)softhome.net

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Linuxers September 2002