Linuxers February 2006

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Re: [OT] Why are you here?
by Roshan 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Dinesh A. Joshi wrote: >Please set your lines to wrap at 72-76. And I would be glad if you could >probably reduce the size of your signature. I dont use email clients. I use Yahoo! Mail directly on my web browser. However, I was told this before by Philips Sir, and I have my lines wrapped at 72 characters. (PLAIN TEXT) I dont use my signature when I send emails to the mailing list --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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RIP M$office? Not yet but ....[OT]
by JTD 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

The NSW govt. is replacing MSoffice with Staroffice. "Sun Microsystems has scored a publicity coup ahead of the much-heralded arrival of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in Australia, with a NSW government minister announcing today Sun would replace Microsoft in providing an e-mail and calendar system across 1,500 users in the state Roads and Traffic Authority. The move represents one of the largest rollouts of non-Microsoft based software within the state government. " http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39151355,00.htm -- rgds jtd

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Differential backups with tar.
by Nadeem M. Khan 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi. I've been trying to get differential backups with tar. I've got it working nice and fine except for one problem. If a file is modified after the last full backup, it gets included in my differential backup, as it should. But my differential backup also includes directories that have not been modified since the last full backup. These directories get included as empty directories. The files in them (rightly) do not get included in the differential. To create a full backup I do: tar cvf /backups/full.tar /home To create a differential, I use the timestamp of the full backup archive as a reference: tar cvf /backups/diff.tar --newer="`date -r /backups/full.tar`" /home Works well, except for the directory inclusion part. Am I missing something? Regards, NMK.

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Re: [OT] Why are you here?
by Roshan 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

>i didnt say open source model of business is a failure. i said, if >tomorrow if the bad time comes, there will be some who will stick to >their low paying job and their will be others who still in love with >open source, but will choose a better paying job. and we need both >kind of people. the earlier one will keep the momentum going in the >bad times, and some from the later ones will emerge to support open >source on financial terms. a successful invention has to be >sustainable in technological as well as economical terms, to be >adapted by the society as whole. we not just talking about some geeks >here. I suppose this is one important 'unbiased' answer to the question. It is only power that would drive a computer and hence.....if there was no power no other components would function...even though the components are equally significant! _____________________________ If you don't know something, its always better to learn it and then experiment with components! PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! Visit http://www.somaiya.edu The internet is the biggest Library, laboratory and the Classroom independent of location but dependent on computer with an internet connection! "Intentions are written with pencil. Commitments are carved on Stones!" - CLINT A. D'SOUZA --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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big indian banks dont allow firefox
by Harshal 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

sorry guys, i know this had been discussed earlier, but cant seems to find in archive. i wanted to know where to blacklist sites those openly do not support Firefox. the one recently launched by an indian bank (IDBI) for online share trading, http://www.idbipaisabuilder.in/ gives out this ridiculous message when viewed in FireFox, Sorry. This site can be viewed only using Microsoft Internet Explorer ver. 5.x and there is one more web site by another big indian bank, icici, their general insurance site, http://www.icicilombard.com/app/Calculators/two-wheeler-calculator.asp and, http://onlinemanager.icicilombard.com/icici/netproducts/view_policy.asp?Pol… though they are not as arrogant as idbi, but the pages above simply dont load in firefox. any ideas how to make sure they hear us? writing to web master, i dont have many hopes, unless they are pressured from above (sometimes i wonder, how these web masters get jobs, i mean, should it be the first thing on his mind to use a standard HTML so that is can be viewed from any browser?)

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Problem in LTSP with RHEL 4
by neel s Gurjar 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi I could execute LTSP on SUSE 9.1 succesfully. But I am facing following problem in executing LTSP with RHEL 4. I have installed RHEL 4 and LTSP on server. I did all settings as per guide. And everything is running well. But when I start client It get DHCP server but it struck at TFTP and it Shows PXE...: ARP time out TFTP cannot open connetction and it exit PXE. What should I do ? Please reply Neel

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apache suexec problem
by प़मिला 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Dear All, here is my suexec log - tail /var/log/httpd/suexec.log cannot run as forbidden uid all that i got from google is my uid (89) is below minimum number allowed by suexec to execute CGI. and I hv to recompile apache to change minimum number is there any other workaround to do this other than recompilation Regards, Pramila

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Re: [OT] Why are you here?
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Interesting question. I think I would be doing it still. Monetarily Free Software itself is not as rewarding as proprietary stuff, but then is it not the love of it that we do it rather than 'other' reasons?

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] big indian banks dont allow firefox
by Venkatesh Hariharan 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

The subject line is too generic. To give credit where it is due, I use ICICI Bank's online facility and it works fine on Firefox. I also have an account with HDFC and cannot recall having any problems with it (though the last time I used it was many months ago). On the other hand, the site for the US Visa application really sucks on Firefox. Venky

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Re:[OT] Why are you here?
by Roshan 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Philip Tellis wrote: > Out of curiosity, I'd like to know how many people on this list > work with computers because it's their job, and how many do it for > other reasons. If computer programming/sys admin was the worst > paying job in the industry, paying something like Rs 2000/- per > month, would you still do it? I decided about my career long ago and only chose to work with computers; it is a passion and also my ROI for future. If it was the worst paying job, I would have probably worked at different places (if possible :-/) to earn enough to suffice important needs! As a student, I work with computers because of other reasons. However, it will continue even later if the job would pay atleast the bare minimun _____________________________ If you don't know something, its always better to learn it and then experiment with components! PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! Visit http://www.somaiya.edu The internet is the biggest Library, laboratory and the Classroom independent of location but dependent on computer with an internet connection! "Intentions are written with pencil. Commitments are carved on Stones!" - CLINT A. D'SOUZA --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Linuxers February 2006