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Language switchover
by Anand 15 Oct '01

15 Oct '01

Is it possible to switch the keyboard from one language to another, say i am running GEdit and i want to type in French, can i make my keyboard settings to change to the one for French language. How Can I have two dictionaries, English is default, and then change over to another language when I am working on that language. Anand -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit www.smbd.org <http://www.smbd.org> for Free Tutorials, Source Codes and Other stuff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Linus on GNU/Linux
by Philip S Tellis 14 Oct '01

14 Oct '01

Linus Torvalds was recently interviewed by OSNews. These are his answers to some of the questions: What do you think of the FreeBSD 5 kernel and WindowsXP's new features from a clearly technical point of view? Linus Torvalds: I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others. And quite frankly, I don't see anythign very interesting on a technical level in either. What is your opinion on Hailstorm, .Net and the rest of the technologies Microsoft is preparing to roll out in the years to come? Can these releases have an impact on Linux and if yes, in what way? Linus Torvalds: See my answer about not caring what the competition does, but doing my own thing as well as I can.. What is your opinion on RMS insisting calling Linux as GNU/Linux? Linus Torvalds: I don't mind what rms calls the system. I don't think his arguments for the naming are very valid, but hey, at the same time I really couldn't care less. How do you see the future of Linux for the next 5 or 10 years from an engineering but also a marketing eye? Linus Torvalds: I don't use a marketing eye, I simply don't care. There are others who do, I'll let them worry about it. >From a technical standpoint, I believe the kernel will be "more of the same", and that all the _really_ interesting stuff will be going on in user space. That's not to say that there aren't problems to keep us occupied in the kernel too, I just don't think they make for all that interesting reading ;) My thoughts: How often have we, as developers, built our tools based on what the competition does? How often have we measured our systems against our competitors and not as the tool itself? Linus' philosophy is basically, don't bother about what the others are doing, just make your own stuff better today than what it was yesterday. Most of us started out with that philosophy (at least I did), but somewhere down the line the marketroids got to us. Maybe it was done in school and college, maybe it was done at home. It's the whole concept of getting measuring success by money earned that tends to screw up developers. This, is possibly just one of the things that seperates hackers from the rest. -- Yeah. Maybe I do have the right ... What's that stuff? -- Homer Simpson Deep Space Homer Visit my webpage at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ Read my writings at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/writings/ MSN philiptellis Yahoo! philiptellis AIM philiptellis ICQ 129711328

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Openldap server with authorization.
by dodobh＠nettaxi.com 14 Oct '01

14 Oct '01

Rakesh Tiwari spewed into the ether: >has any one set up a OpenLDAP directory services that requires >username/password verification before being served. Which version of OpenLDAP? If it is 2.0.x, did you configure your ACLs? To allow anonymous read access, use access to * by * read in slapd.conf. >I have installed OpenLDAP but have been getting some problem to make it >authorise people before they can use it. You can try to configure SASL. This is horribly documented, but you will need to make a ldap.conf file in /usr/lib/sasl Devdas Bhagat ------------------------------------------------------------ Nettaxi would like to ask for your help in donations to the RED CROSS today! http://www.nyredcross.org/donate/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Docs on the Linux TCP/IP stack
by Darshan.Wakchaure＠lntinfotech.com 14 Oct '01

14 Oct '01

Hi, I have a softcopy of a document by Richad Stevens, and its size is 1MB...should I send it over? Thanks, Darshan "Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe" To: ILUG-Bom <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> <sam_buddhe(a)yahoo.com> cc: Sent by: Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Docs on the Linux TCP/IP linuxers-admin(a)mm.ilug- stack bom.org.in 10/07/2001 11:02 PM Please respond to linuxers hi, I am looking for good documentation of the working and implementation of the Linux TCP/IP stack ... any pointers?? SameerDS. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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X crashes
by kapil karekar 13 Oct '01

13 Oct '01

X crashes very frequently on my machine(PCQ 7.1). Also sometimes when X crashes the machine hangs. I use X at 16bit 800x600 resolution on: AMD K6-2 with 128 MB ram and SiS 6326 card. Can anybody tell me how it can be rectified. Kapil Karekar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com

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Printing problem
by Raju Bathija 13 Oct '01

13 Oct '01

Hello, I have recently re-installed Red Hat 7.1 on my machine. Everything works fine, except for printing. A HP LaserJet 4550 Colour printer is connect to my machine, via parallel port. I also use a remote laser printer (HP Laserjet 4050) for printing. However, after configuring the printers in the printtool, I get the following error message, after saving the printing configuration and restarting lpd, selecting a Test page for printing: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Status Information: sending job 'root@sindhu+626' to lasercolour@localhost connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 cannot open connection to localhost - Connection timed out Make sure LPD server is running on the server ================================================================ Status Information: sending job 'root@sindhu+520' to laser4@localhost connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 cannot open connection to localhost - Connection timed out Make sure LPD server is running on the server Status Information: sending job 'root@sindhu+560' to laser4@localhost connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 cannot open connection to localhost - Connection timed out Make sure LPD server is running on the server +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Any solutions? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raju Bathija | bathija(a)tifr.res.in | http://theory.tifr.res.in/~bathija -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux, the choice | Most of our lives are about proving of a GNU generation -o) | something, either to ourselves or to Kernel 2.4.2-2 /\ | someone else. on a i686 _\_v | |

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X libraries ( C++)
by subramanian venkatesan 13 Oct '01

13 Oct '01

This is an information: Tom Swain book on GNU C++ has Xlibraries (Std) and an alternative V library for X programming. (There are in C++) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com

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x libraries
by subramanian venkatesan 13 Oct '01

13 Oct '01

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Perl docs
by Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

I need to locate a tarball of the Perl manpages in HTML or texi format ... but there seems to be no such thing on perl.com SameerDS. ===== -- MTech Student Reconfiguarable Computing Lab KReSIT, IIT-Bombay __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com

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Re: X bit depth adjustment
by Parul Mathur 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

Thank you, Vinod, for your suggestion to change to vesa driver. X works now!! Thanks also to Philip and Krishnan for helping out earlier. Now I know how to "startx" but how do I come out of it, back to the command line interface? Parul

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