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$MAIL: New mail notification in bash
by Manish Jethani 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Bash has this feature of notifying you when you have new mail. The MAIL env. var. needs to be set to include the mail folders that need to be checked for new mail. On my system, I have included some of my Pine folders (e. g. $HOME/mail/linuxers) in $MAIL. I would like to know how bash "checks for new mail". Does it just use the "last accessed time"? I am sorry, I couldn't find any info on this in the manpage. My problem: After getting the notification ("You have new mail in linuxers") and reading the new message(s) using Pine, bash _again_ tells me that I have new mail. I suspect it just uses the last access time, which makes it so dumb in my case, because the message gets "marked as read/old" (thus modifying the mail folder file) since I have _just_read_it_. In short, it notifies me twice, once when I have new mail, and again when the mail has just been read. Any of you guys using this? How do you cope with it? Manish PS: I run fetchmail in daemon mode, so mail notification on the command line is cool for me. -- "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." -- Thomas De Quincey (1785 - 1859)

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Reminder: ACM Seminar on Data Compression, Friday June 29
by Durgesh D Rao 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Dear Colleague, This is to remind you of the following ACM event. Once again, sorry for the delayed email. - Durgesh, for ACM Mumbai ACM Seminar Friday, June 29, 2001 - 6:30 p.m. Title: Data Compression Speaker: Sayyed S. A. A., NCST Venue: Lecture Theatre, NCST, Juhu Abstract:Data compression techniques are applied to files to reduce their size, which in turn increases the capacity of data storage and speeds up data transmission. Data compression draws heavily from information theory, which deals with the probability of some symbol appearing in the input. For totally random sources, each symbol is equally likely, but random sources are uncompressible. This means that the more probable an event, the less information it contains. Data compression techniques also work on this principle. If we look at real-world files, we find a lot of redundant data in them. Data compression exploits this redundancy to its advantage. I intend to give an overview of data compression About the Speaker: Mr Sayyed is a consultant in the Database and Knowledge Engineering division at NCST Juhu. His interests include Databases, compression and encryption. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Durgesh D Rao (DDR) | Email: durgesh(a)ncst.ernet.in Research Scientist, KBCS Division | Ph: 6201606x372(w), 7563437(r) National Centre for Software Technology | Fax: +91-22-6210139 Gulmohar Rd 9, Juhu, Mumbai 400049, INDIA.| Web: www.ncst.ernet.in/~durgesh ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re-building the kernel
by Mayuresh A Kathe 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Yup, this mail fixes it :-) ~Mayuresh > > Hi, > Sorry about the html.. hope this fixes it... > > As for the re-building the kernel.. i meant updating it with fixes of a > remote machine... a machine on which i dun have hands on access.. > > Philip answered my question.. > Thanx > Kunal > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mayuresh A Kathe" <mayuresh(a)vsnl.com> > To: <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 11:31 PM > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re-building the kernel > > >> Hi Kunal, >> >> What do you exactly mean by re-building the kernel of a remote server? >> >> Awaiting your reply. >> >> ~Mayuresh >> >> PS: >> DO NOT send HTML mails, you are using Outlook Express, >> but most of us do not have an HTML aware email client. >> >> >> >> > >> > Hi, >> > I couldnt find anything on the ILUG site, on how to re-build the >> kernel of >> a > remote server... Could some one direct me to the right page? >> > Thanx, >> > Kunal >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Richard Stallman's Public Lecture 5pm 17th July, at TIFR. >> Linuxers mailing list >> Linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in >> http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Richard Stallman's Public Lecture 5pm 17th July, at TIFR. > Linuxers mailing list > Linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re-building the kernel
by Mayuresh A Kathe 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Hi Kunal, What do you exactly mean by re-building the kernel of a remote server? Awaiting your reply. ~Mayuresh PS: DO NOT send HTML mails, you are using Outlook Express, but most of us do not have an HTML aware email client. > > Hi, > I couldnt find anything on the ILUG site, on how to re-build the kernel of a > remote server... Could some one direct me to the right page? > Thanx, > Kunal

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Slackware
by Philip S Tellis 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Slackware 8.0 is out. Has anyone written it to CD yet? Philip -- As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such things as a free variable." 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

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Re-building the kernel
by Kunal Jhunjhunwala 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Hi, I couldnt find anything on the ILUG site, on how to re-build the kernel of a remote server... Could some one direct me to the right page? Thanx, Kunal

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Simputer
by Mayuresh A Kathe 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

> It would help if you could explain what you found lacking in their > X-implementation. And I don't understand what you mean by scalability in > the context of a Simputer. One of the biggest problems with the Simputer is it uses X. > | If you have to make > |a group of simputers work to help people you will have to rewrite hazzar stuff > Group of simputers working together to do what? I hope you understand that > Simputer is not for highend distributed computing. Just the fact that they are using X makes it straight away lean towards distributed computing. Do you know the power a StrongARM@206Mhz offers (remember its a RISC machine)? Its tremendous, putting it in a sickly handheld capable of doing the current things is like recruiting Arnold Schwarzenegger to pour you a glass of milk everyday. What Somesh probably meant by working together is networking... Devices so small should be able to network effortlessly with not just with their own kind, but also with desktop machines. > | I agree with mayuresh that > |a group of engineers can't make something worth the hype of simputer . > |In its present design simputer is useless piece of silicon. > > May be it is. May be it is not. But we should reason why it is or why it > is not. The reasoning will continue... ~Mayuresh

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Simputer
by Mayuresh A Kathe 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

>> Encore developed the hardware and the IISc guys developed or rather >> put together the software, there are just a few instances where the >> IISc guys have litterally written the device drivers (I had > > IISc developed IML, the IML browser, text to speech converter for hindi > and kannada, integration of tts into IMLI, tapatap and some other user > space stuff. All system level stuff was taken from linux development > with minor changes. The IML browser (Imli) is actually "Chimera"... Actually I don't think they "developed" tapatap, but rather implemented one of the free handwritting recognition algorithms. I think most of the System level stuff (including the kernel) were taken from the StrongARM Linux port (I think that was the LART project) But they sure did a great job of implementing those technologies, better than re-inventing the wheel :-) ~Mayuresh

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NIC drops output
by Satish Dasi 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Hi this is a newbie here I have 2 NICs both recognized by kudzu as RTL 8139 and RTLtoo. However after i changed the ip address on eth0 it started to behave strangely. Both the cards didnt ping their own ips neither the ips of the network machines to which they were connected. Is there a prob with the cards or with Linux generic divers????? Pls help me out in this Thanx in advance Satish

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] The Simputer
by Mayuresh A Kathe 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

> The main thing is that IISc will not be building the simputer. Only its > specification. The specification is released openly under the SGPL, and > anyone can build an implementation. The software is downloadable under > the GPL. Got that... But, what I am trying to point out (unsuccessfully) is that, I admire the things done at IISc (had interacted with one of the guys) but based on the things done at IISc (including the true goal of reaching the masses) companies like Encore are taking a free ride on getting the government to subsidize certain operations of theirs, that is really sick, beacuse for them its primarily business. Any ways, just for a bit of info about Encore, they have a whole lot of old 486 laptops lying with them which they are ready to sell off at dirt cheap rates (remember my earlier post regarding the same?), that just goes to prove the condition of the company... Well, its their job, let them do it as per what they think is right. > Anyway, I thought the project was good, and you didn't. Lets leave it > at that. Yup, sorry if I gave an impression that I want to prove you wrong or that I am right, just that I am really feeling sick about the whole issue of Simputer. Warm Regards, ~Mayuresh

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