Linuxers February 2003

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[OT] fixing the line length
by Manish Jethani 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

Sometime back we had a discussion (poll?) on "fixing the line length" in our posts. Some, like myself, were of the opinion that the sender should wrap the text at an "appropriate" column, say, 66. Some others were arguing that this scheme only screws up the display. I just discovered this RFC [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt] (have I been living in a cave?) that addresses this issue by introducing a new parameter with the text/plain type. It's "format=flowed|fixed". And guess what - Mozilla already supports it, Mutt is introducing it in 1.3, and Pine developers are thinking about it (I might be wrong, but that's what a recent message on the Pine mailing list suggests). So I hope this will solve the issue. Manish -- "The statements and opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent those of Oracle Corporation." Manish Jethani phone (work) +91 80 51073488 Member Technical Staff manish.jethani(a)oracle.com Oracle (India) Visit my personal home page: http://www.geocities.com/manish_jethani/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Virtual Linux
by jtdsouza＠softhome.net 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

On Monday 03 February 2003 15:30, q u a s i wrote: > Zainul M Charbiwala <zainul(a)ee.iitb.ac.in> writes: > > No need to repartition. It doesn't even install a bootloader. > > WoW. Cool. Now then why do you want to force GNU/Linux down > the throat of such people? It is for the fence sitters. There are many (mainly non techies) who are quite frustrated with MS products and would like to try another OS, but are sceptical about GNU/Linux. The sceptism arises from the fact that if a "great" company like MS can deliver such junk others may be much worse. Trying out an os without the "risk" of screwing his harddisk sounds good to such users. jtdsouza(a)softhome.net

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Query
by ravi akkenapally 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

I don't know how access floppy drive in linux.We have sun-micro systems in our college.To access floppy drive i went to /home/floppy/ directory, but there r many folders named such as 'unnamed floppy #1,#2 and so on.How to find out the folder that actually refers to floppy drive. And also once i lost the contents of my floppy when i placed it in drive actauly they r over written by some other files. Please mail me back... bye CHANDU. ________________________________________________________________________ Missed your favourite TV serial last night? Try the new, Yahoo! TV. visit http://in.tv.yahoo.com

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help me out in configuring a usb modem
by kiranchandra 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

i have a laptop with me. i have installed debian distribution in it. I earlier used a usb modem in microsoft windows. can any one help me out in configuring the usb modem with the laptop. the modem details are d-link DU-560M USB modem. i will be glad if you add me as a member in your group.

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suse mail server
by Girish Hanchate 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

Hi Contact to Seascope Infotech Pvt.Ltd. 158/33 Laxmi Industrial Estate New Link Road Andheri (West) Mumbai - 400 053 India Tel : +91-22-6338484 / 6338939 Fax : +91-22-6331074 / 6331075 Web : www.seascope.co.in rgds girish Hi guys, Any idea where i can get the Suse Mail Server?and for how much? regds, Kishor __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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disabling linux single
by Harsh R Busa 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

plz enlighten me about disabling linux single feature of lilo in most redhat systems thanx harsh

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[OFF TOPIC] AI Seminar: Indian Language wordnets
by Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

----- Forwarded message from Pushpak Bhattacharya <pb(a)cse.iitb.ac.in> ----- Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 22:13:52 +0530 (IST) From: Pushpak Bhattacharya <pb(a)cse.iitb.ac.in> X-Scanned: By Symantec Carrier Scan Server Subject: AI Seminar To: btech3(a)cse.iitb.ac.in, <btech4(a)cse.iitb.ac.in>, <mtech1(a)cse.iitb.ac.in>, <mtech2(a)cse.iitb.ac.in>, <mtech01@it>, <mtech02@it> I am giving a talk in the CSE seminar hall at 3.30 PM on Monday (tomorrow; particulars below). You might be interested in attending it. Title: ----- Development and Application of Indian Language Wordnets. Abstract: -------- It is now an accepted fact that no meaningful research and development in natural language processing, information extraction and machine translation can be carried out without WORDNETS. In India, wordnets are being built for the following languages: Hindi and Marathi at IIT Bombay, Tamil at Anna University Knowledge Based Center Chennai, Gujarathi at MS University Baroda (under the supervision of IIT Bombay), Oriya and Sanskrit at Utkal University Bhubaneswar and Bengali at IIT Kharagpur. The Hindi wordnet- which pioneered all these efforts- is at an advanced stage of development with about 11000 semantically linked synsets and with the associated software and the user interface. The final aim is to construct wordnets for Indian languages, link them internally to produce the INDO-WORDNET and then link the Indo-wordnet with the English wordnet and the Euro-Wordnet (a conglommeration of European language wordnets). This will facilitate automatic translation, multilingual information search and multilingual text processing. The Indo-wordnet project is being spearheaded by IIT Bombay. In the presentation with the above title, we describe the computational and linguistic issues involved in building Indian language wordnets with specific reference to Hindi and Marathi. Synsets are the building blocks of any wordnet, and the basic principles behind construcing the synsets, viz., Minimality, Coverage and Replacability will be discussed. In Indian language computing, verbs pose difficult problems- particularly in the storage structure of the wordnet- due to compounding, causative formation and onomaetopia. Our method of dealing with verbs will be spelt out. Certain semantic relations of the English and the Euro-wordnet have been further refined in the Hindi wordnet structure. Also cross-part of speech semantic relations have been explicitly set up for facilitating word sense disambiguation. We conclude the talk with two important applications of the wordnet- word sense disambiguation and automatic lexicon generation. We have used the verb noun associations to disambiguate the nouns through a semantic cluster formed in the wordnet. As for the second application, the wordnet hierarchy is used to create the disambiguators and the semantic attributes of the words in the document. This facilitates extracting knowledge from the document and automatic translation. Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai- 400 076 India. Tel: 91-22-25767718 (o), 25768718 (r), 25721955 (r) Fax: 91-22-25720290/25723480 email: pb(a)cse.iitb.ac.in homepage: http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pb ----- End forwarded message ----- -- "Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-night hacking (and/or conversations with God)." (By Matt Welsh)

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what time is the meet ?
by Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

Like the subject line says, what time is the meet ?? -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri Homeopath and Linux Enthusiast. Mumbai, India. http://www.pavri.net/

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Meetings details
by Amish Munshi 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

The venue is 2 Science, on the ground floor, ruparel college. Ruparel college is located at Matunga -Western Railway (West). The meeting agenda is library versioning by Philip S Tellis. RMS visit preparations.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Calling for donation for Give Away CD's at Gnu-Linux conference
by Trevor Warren 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Hello Bhaskar, good-evening. I would be really glad if you could have the cd's given to me while in bombay. I work at MediaLab Asia and am reachable on my cell 24x7(9820349221(M) : 28312930-31(O)). I can use all the Blanks you can donate. After all they are for students itself. That apart we are keenly looking forwards towards delivering a talk at Shivaji University on 8th which will include intorduction to fsf-os, First Strides with gnu-linux, knoppix(bootable cd with gnu-linux on it), carreers on gnu-linux, using free software-open source, why does gnu-linux/fsf-os for students make so much sense???. A concrete agenda for the talk is yet to be jotted down, but the above is a small preci of what is to come. Call me and drop in when you are in bombay and we'll meet. Have a nice day Bhaskar. And your efforts to help are highly appreciated. Trevor On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 15:47, The GNU/Linuxer wrote: > Dear Trevor, > Hello! I want to know how can I help regarding the ``Give-away CDs''. I have many blank CD-Rs with me. Would CD-Rs in a spindle [without jewel cases] serve the job or do you require cases also ? Do tell me about that. Also let me know how I can reach you because I am based in Kolhapur. Most probably I'll be in there when RMS visits Mumbai. I have told Amish [Munshi] to get some job which I can do. Everything will be decided today I suppose. > Since I am a student of Shivaji University, I am interested in knowing about ILUG-Bom's involvement with the Varsity, 'cause I think I can be of some help to you in that regard. > Do inform me at the earliest. > Regards, > Bhaskar Ghose > > > --------------------------------- > Gesendet von http://mail.yahoo.de. > Bis zu 100 MB Speicher bei http://premiummail.yahoo.de.

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Linuxers February 2003