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Re: [ILUG-BOM] MySQL Migration Toolkit 1.0.7 beta Released
by Devdas Bhagat 30 May '05

30 May '05

On 29/05/05 17:58 +0530, Amol Hatwâr wrote: > > Oracle to mysql seems good. MySQL seems to be developing more n more day > > by day. > > > > Great going mysql !! > > > It's good to have features and all. But don't you think MySQL is killing > it's own competitive edge? > > Developers chose MySQL over others because it was lightweight; it was in > version 3.xx like a swiss-army knife. It is on it's way to becoming > elephantware. And I always thought it was because it was installed on webhosts and because PHP supported MySQL better than other databases. Lets see: relational integrity, stored procedures, triggers, acid compliance are just necessary features. Missing in MySQL 3.x. Does MySQL handle 30th February correctly? Devdas Bhagat

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Ruby vs Perl
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hi, Just ran into a prog lang that I didn't know.. Ruby - "the object oriented scripting language". Has anyone got to grips with this language. I just bought a book for Perl.. Is Ruby better than Perl or are they in two completely different worlds.. http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020101.html Thanks, Gishu Pillai

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Morals and Ethics
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 30 May '05

30 May '05

On Sunday 29 May 2005 12:35, Trevor Warren wrote: > --- Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon(a)thenilgiris.com> wrote: > > keep it on list - i for one am enjoying it > > [snip] > > No offence meant. But just cause we do not see eye > to eye on an issue however frivilous it may be we > choose to take it offline. > > In days when as a group we learnt.....we did toy > around with a lot more frivlous issues and that too > with no [ot] tags. > > Come on boys...rock and troll....oopsy..roll. Puneet and I agreed to disagree with two mails (offlist) of I-said-u -said and closed the thread. And actually GNU/Linux is becoming a bit too reliable (boring?). All my systems continue to roll without touching them. Hardly any tech issues. However the future is fraught with extreme danger due to proprietary companies - particularly M$ - lobbying for laws assigning themselves rights which usurp rights of the commons or fences off large areas of technology simply because somebody else got to filing patents first. Even worse fencing of technology which could be used for illegal acts in spite of the fact that such users are a microscopic subset of legit users, and the affected parties are big companies on a death spiral. They are equating knowledge with limited + non replicable resource - property. In reality the value of knowledge lies in it's non expendability and replicability. The original patent laws were created to benefit individuals by providing them a time limited period of monopoly, so that society and the creator could benefit from the IMPLEMENTATION of knowledge AND that knowledge become public. Patent law required that the patent be described in detail and with specificity. Over a period of time the whole system was turned on it's head so that companies became it's primary beneficiary and the patent paper itself was anything but detailed and specific. This bad situation was further twisted to patent business processes, software and algorithms (knowledge) thus trying to interfere with ones thought process. You can't think an alternate algo producing the same result. If you think this is idiotic be assured it IS NOT there are case against two doctors for discussing Hormone Replacement Therapy, which is patented by some company (HRT that is ). The excuse made by companies is that it costs a lot of money to create knowledge - which is directly contradicted by the evidence in the case of software. In the case of other knowledge like pharmaceuticals it could be shown that the major cost of identifying promising directions of research are borne by public bodies like universities. It's only the commercialization which is expensive, again much of that expense is marketing, distribution and legal costs - nothing to do with knowledge creation. The evidence is low cost drug mfgs in baruch / ankleshwar area often as low as 1/20th the cost of a branded equiv. The fight by the commons relies in the main on taking the moral high ground. Compromise this by condoning or justifying illegal behaviour and you will be delivering yourself a k.o. . In essence it's a slow slide to the Feudal age where a tyrant king and his overlords simply annexed large parts of the commons and made it private property and you paid a tithe to farm, or became a serf. Their power derived from wealth largely obtained by plundering peaceful wealthy communities. Sounds familiar?. rgds jtd

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X server trouble
by Puneet Lakhina 30 May '05

30 May '05

HI all, There was some problem with my xserver, it did not start after i installed java sdk 1.5. i think it was because of the space or something. anyway i removed that but now the problem is i have to login every time in text mode and i have too issue startx manually, using the command startx. How do i make it automatically do that and one more thing only gnome starts up. if i give startx kde it tries to start the x server but fails, any clues what could be the problem and how can i resolve it... Puneet

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] LINUX on AMD Athlon 64
by Trevor Warren 30 May '05

30 May '05

>thinking of it. But > I wanted to be doubly > sure that whatever I load into it runs for sure. > > Richard [snip] If you one of the techy types ready to "apt get get_my_freaking_package" then debian is for you else for eye-candy stick to rhel/suse. You may also try out FreeBSD/Solaris 10 which is somthing work toying around with if you haev the time. Trevor |------|____________________________________|------| ( >- / Scaling FreeSoftware & OpenSource \ -< ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_ \____________________________________/ _|_| __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Re: A question regarding LDAP
by Vickram Crishna 29 May '05

29 May '05

At 4:26 PM +0530 5/29/05, Vikrant Gaonkar wrote: >i have configured a master ldap with LDBM database and have also >configured 4 slave ldap's getting updated from this master. >now my problem is that these slave ldap's allow me to write on them >and if i give only read access to these slave ldap's then they dont >even give the master to update the database. >can anyone help me out with making the slave ldap's read only to >everybody else and write access only to the master. How about if you identify the master and slave database servers as users (presuming you will run the slaves and master on different machines), give only these users write access on both master and slaves, and read-only to everyone else - assuming you need to update the salve databases as well, otherwise just give the slaves write access to the master? -- Vickram

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Re: Morals and Ethics
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 29 May '05

29 May '05

On Friday 27 May 2005 18:04, Puneet Lakhina wrote: Please take this off list if u want to continue, since I dont want to bore everyone with what we find interesting. On Friday 27 May 2005 18:04, Puneet Lakhina wrote: > > > Hey Sherlock, > > i know ur name is some jtd but m just helpin u stay in ur ambient > temperature. > And ya customers wisening up, if you deliver value to the custmore > than the most wise decision he made was hirin u?? You are mixing up getting customers and using illegal means to get customers. I jolly well know that getting customers (users) is important. Your tactic for getting them may include huge ad spends on BBC and Star telling potential customers blatant lies about how secure your software is or quietly working on already very secure software to make it even better. Getting customers illegally is bad for the customer and for other's business. But again it's not the business end of things that most people in the FLOSS eco system are interested in. It is usurping the commons and destroying it's value that we are worried about. M$ is the biggest and worst offender. There are / were others too Cisco, CherryOS, SCO, Forefront technologies (afair) etc. > And about M$ > loosing customers, thats just evolution as more n more players come > into the market and its good enough to survive the major market > holder will loose some share and thats where a company has to > innovate to stay in business. > I dont know if u know it or not but > "lets see where M$ will be if they keep their current behaviour. Current behaviour was in reference to ILLEGAL behaviour. Legal strategies and tactics are welcome and as you point out necessary. > And ya about makin illogical > observations - well if havin the customer s my first poriority > sounds illogical to you, u should be doin some readin not me.. You missed the point completely. It's about aquiring customers by illegal and unethical behaviour. Unethical is again subjective. To me an example of unethical tho perfectly legal behaviour is patetenting of prior art tech (fat file system, IS NOT, ) submarine patents. The fat file patents were overthrown but it costed the commons money and time to do so, both of which could have been more profitably spent. --chop the baloney about world peace, iraq, school education etc--- > > PS try changin ur email address u really are an embarrasment to the > name.. Somebody lost his cool -0 -that is a personal attack. But u obviously don't know me. and pls reply offlist if u want to continue discussing, i think we are wasting the commons resources. rgds jtd

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] A question regarding LDAP
by Animesh Singh 29 May '05

29 May '05

Evening Vikrant, > now my problem is that these slave ldap's allow me > to > write on them and if i give only read access to > these > slave ldap's then they dont even give the master to > update the database. > can anyone help me out with making the slave ldap's > read only to everybody else and write access only to > the master. define 2 acls ( one for replication, in read/write mode and another, in read only mode, for use ) Regards, Animesh. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail

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MySQL Migration Toolkit 1.0.7 beta Released
by Komal 29 May '05

29 May '05

MySQL Migration Toolkit 1.0.7 beta has been released. The MySQL Migration Toolkit is a powerful framework that enables you to quickly migrate your proprietary databases to MySQL. More information at: http://www.mysql.com/products/migration-toolkit You can download sources and binaries for Windows from: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/migration-toolkit This release adds support for MS SQL Server and addresses a number of bugs. All users are recommended to update to this new release. The list of new features includes - Support for MS SQL Server 2000 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - Renaming of target schema objects The list of addressed bugs includes - Incomplete data transfer from some tables - Access BYTE and BIT not mapped to unsigned datatype - Datetime columns were missing time - Some Oracle/MS Access datatypes were not mapped Regards, Komal

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A question regarding LDAP
by Vikrant Gaonkar 29 May '05

29 May '05

Hi there, i have configured a master ldap with LDBM database and have also configured 4 slave ldap's getting updated from this master. now my problem is that these slave ldap's allow me to write on them and if i give only read access to these slave ldap's then they dont even give the master to update the database. can anyone help me out with making the slave ldap's read only to everybody else and write access only to the master. Regards Vikrant G ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] A question regarding LDAP
by Trevor Warren 29 May '05

29 May '05

No idea about the config since its been quite soemtime me dirtied hands on with ldap. Did you check out the ACL's for slapd-slurpd?. Check the archives online pls. Also, the openldap mailing list may be a better place to get your queries answered if you do not get a satisfactory answer from any of the gurus here. HTH. Take care and have a great weekend dear. Trevor |------|____________________________________|------| ( >- / Scaling FreeSoftware & OpenSource \ -< ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_ \____________________________________/ _|_| __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html

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Automatic generation of iptables rules based on country
by Komal 29 May '05

29 May '05

http://blacklist.linuxadmin.org/ Komal

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Morals and Ethics
by Puneet Lakhina 29 May '05

29 May '05

hi there sherlock, > dude monoply isnt obtained by being a saint >Oh god! how naive of me. I am eternally grateful to recieve this >gem of knowledge. Yea! wait till u get shafted by them. Or maybe >they have already got you by your paying them for the crap. Thats where the problem lies in this world, emotions. First of all cool it!!!! i may not have read all the books that u prob have , but i bet one of them has keepin ur cool as its what shall i say KEY POINTS. And while we are at business ethics my dear nice fella again excuse me for me not havin read all those books that u probably stack up , i just know one business ethic or moral or watever customer, and repeat customer, and more customers and if u havent made it out just yet il give u a hint its CUSTOMERS. And that M$ has more than any of our redhats or whatever hats. But please allow me to make it clear that m not a M$ evangalist. I just believe that u gotta acknowldege that foss cant match microsoft in every segment. Now u might say that the windows market share in desktop secotor is dropping but its somewhat like maruti u know itl drop but still they will have more than half of the market for atleast 10-15 years from now. And morals and ethics that went out of the window long time back not just from business but from our world in geenral. What else can explain the re-election of tyrant in the country of maximum of ur moral and ethical brothers(and sisters if i might say that). Now one thing more, the reason i have joined this mailing list is because i personally like using Linux and the community process asssociated with it and moreover i would like to get good at it..And i support the idea that people should have a choice. But i dont believe that a complete disregard for what a rival is doing will do any good to my cause. So dude chill, take it easy. And ya piracy where did i mention my likin of piracy? And thanks for the info which i was diein to get from a learned person like you about GNU/Linux. Thanks a lot.( With all ur sarcasm,i guess u got my point) > u got to play dirty and >Yep you wise fella. I am is loving u. Where do i buy that AK47 to >knock off competition. That is a bit violent?. How about knocking >them off for Rs.5850 + 11750 (winXP prof + office xp prof) and >any other of their stuff u find appetising, now that u know what >a rotten bunch they are. Now while two wrongs do not a right make, >it is much better than waiting to get short changed. And while we >are at it you can present the same argument to all and sundry and >add a mind numbing dent to the 3 billion hole caused by piracy in >Asia (according to their personal slave the BSF singapore). >Great guy you are. >Suggest you read some books on morals and business ethics before >making cockeyed observations. And stick to the right side of the >law by recommending a perfectly viable, completely legal, >no-bullshit alternative.No <http://alternative.No> not piracy - GNU/Linux.BTW it's >also legal (very sorry to spoil your fun). >> fines well the fines have been for anti monoply suites whr M$ which >> just reinforces the point that they v got power to do what they >> like wats 3 billion to microsoft nothin much i would say... >> and wat hapnd to the bundeled IE case against m$ doesnt look like >> there is much headway and netscape can go on reinventing itself >> from borrowed code, it aint doin any good >You really need to read. They have lost 70% of the webserver market, 70%????????? i dont know if we are switchin identites here but as far as i know M$ never had 70% of webserver market share. (Heard of apache - the most popular web server). Well probably those morals and ethics books dont have that bit... sorry >10% of the browser market since firefox hit them, 20% of the desktop >market in the last two yrs. Inspite of their illegal practices, >money, and fud. >But that is not enough. evertime u use or cause others to use M$ >products u are rewarding illegal and obnoxious behaviour either in >cash or by providing the next set of victims for exploitation. That >is the only lesson to be learnt. Regarding me causin others to use M$ i guess i made it clear that i upport the idea of havin a choice.. But i do believe that m$ will always be there as all users are not the same and never will be for some m$ is good for some linux is heaven. I guess u havent heard of this - Paanchon Ungliyan Barabar Nahin Hoti.(All fingers are not of the same size- in case u dont know hindi) Regards, Puneet

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Italian, Venezulean voices favoue freeing knowledge
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 28 May '05

28 May '05

On Saturday 28 May 2005 15:35, Frederick Noronha wrote: > Free Software Foundation of India director Prof G Nagarjuna > stressed how India was able to fight-back attempts to make software > a patentable item. He said help for this endeavour had come from > enlightened politicians, the peoples' science movement, media and > others. Three cheers to Dr. Nag and the Enlightened politicians. Are we not safe for the time being from the IS NOT patent?. The EU directors are falling over themselves trying to permit software patents with a ridiculous condition known as "Technical effect" the said effect being produced when the software is run on a computing platform. Is there another platform on which software runs? All this inspite of stiff opposition from members and citizens. The last attempt to push the law thru was at a meeting of Fisheries and Agriculture (or some such), i am still trying to make the connection between fish and software. Probably only a fish would accept such red herring laws. rgds jtd

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Italian, Venezulean voices favoue freeing knowledge
by Frederick Noronha 28 May '05

28 May '05

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, May 28: Publicly-funded content must be openly available, and sharing knowledge only enhances its richness, Italian senator Fiorello Cortiana told a four-nation international conference held in the Kerala capital this morning. Eminent economist and former Venezuela minister for planning and development Dr Filipe Perez-Marti agreed, and stressed that participation, solidarity and wisdom would be the key three words that characterise a new global situation. Amidst praise for Kerala for organising this first ever south-to-south contact in the world of free software and free knowledge, speakers from Latin America (Venezuela, and Brazil), Italy and India explored ways of understanding their respective situations and possibilities for collaboration across the oceans. The Latin Americans were keen to hear about Kerala's attempts to look at take Free Software solutions to schools, through their IT@School project which aims to train about 200 master trainers, who will then train at least one teacher from each school in the state in the use of free software. Free Software Foundation of India director Prof G Nagarjuna stressed how India was able to fight-back attempts to make software a patentable item. He said help for this endeavour had come from enlightened politicians, the peoples' science movement, media and others. Latin American delegates spoke of how their firms including the Venezualan oil giant had opted for free software, both for more control over their work and avoid possibilities of sabotage in a crucial sector of the economy. Government of Brazil special advisor in the ministry of communications Antonio Bezerra de Albquerque Neto said Brazil was keen to build links with countries like India and China, and stressed that Free Software is a key means of in building a fairer society. SPACE executive secretary Satish Babu called this a fairly unique event and said Kerala had a good chance of building itself as a global destination of Free Software. SPACE chairperson Prof K R Srivathsan termed Free Software a natural way for the scientific community to play around with. Former musician turned Free Software activist Juan Carlos Gentile said he hoped this first-ever meet of its kind would lead to many things to come. Kerala IT secretary PH Kurian said ideas of sharing knowledge were not alien to India, and cited the case of Gautam Buddha who used the people's language to spread his message. Kerala began this four-nation meet on Saturday morning, and it aims to take the ideas of free software to different realms of society, which can gain from the power of sharing knowledge and culture. SPACE, the Thiruvananthapuram-based Society for the Promotion of Alternative Computing and Environment, is co-organiser of this event with the global NGO Hipatia (www.hipatia.net) and the Free Software Foundation-India (www.fsf.org.in). Organisers say that the international free software movement has shown a new way of knowledge creation and social ownership. They're keen to explore how the free software model can be applied to fields as diverse as governance, digital inclusion, development and culture. (ENDS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Freelance Journalist TEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks fred at bytesforall.org http://www.bytesforall.org

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Indigo not so open as .NET Framework?
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 28 May '05

28 May '05

On Friday 27 May 2005 20:37, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > > May M$ burn in hell >:( Sometime ago there was a thread on advantages of Mono (was it Amol Hatwar). Not everyone on the list was convinced about it's advantages. I personally felt that a broader eco system would not be bad, especially since M$ was shouting from the roof top that .Net was free and open. On checking I found out that most of .Net is patent encumbered. Seems that unless i am willing to pay per seat + time limited protection money i am really digging my self into a hole. However the Mono project might still be of use if only to highlight the dangers of flirting with the vampire. My bet is that we would be seeing a Novell - M$ spat and Novell will have to abandon gpld mono but will continue using a closed version. Thus putting he poor souls who use Mono in a hole. see. If M$ says it's open be assured it's as open as a bear trap. Use .Net and Mono with very great caution. rgds jtd

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Morals and Ethics
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 28 May '05

28 May '05

On Friday 27 May 2005 20:34, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > >From: Philip Tellis <philip.tellis(a)gmx.net> > > > > > Maruti or M$. While 15 yrs is like 15 light yrs in the > > > computing world, > > > >Umm, years and light years are different. A year is a measure of > > time while a light year is a measure of distance. > > hehe....i can't stop laughing! You got him good! :lol: YA ;-). But i'll duck under an artistic licence. rgds jtd

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Indigo not so open as .NET Framework?
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 27 May '05

27 May '05

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/26/ndigo_mono_no_no/ "A Novell-backed project seeking to create an open source version of web services technology in future versions of Windows could hit an IP hurdle from Microsoft. Evaluation has begun on an open source version of Indigo, the web services communications layer due in Longhorn and updates to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. But Microsoft suggests there could be issues over licensing of its intellectual property (IP) used in Indigo - even though previous elements of Mono have been developed by the community-" rgds jtd

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Re: Morals and Ethics
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 27 May '05

27 May '05

On Friday 27 May 2005 00:16, Puneet Lakhina wrote: > hi there sherlock, My name is J. T. D'souza, as the sig says jtd. > > dude monoply isnt obtained by being a saint > Thats where the problem lies in this world, emotions. First of all > cool it!!!! i may not have read all the books that u prob have , > but i bet one of them has keepin ur cool as its what shall i say > KEY POINTS. Never loose my ambient temp which is always kinda high - keeps one fit. > And while we are at business ethics my dear nice fella > again excuse me for me not havin read all those books that u > probably stack up , i just know one business ethic or moral or > watever customer, and repeat customer, and more customers and if u > havent made it out just yet il give u a hint its CUSTOMERS. Thanks for the confirmation about the books but do read up before all those customers wisen up to illegal business practices and get u. > And > that M$ has more than any of our redhats or whatever hats. Funny how M$ keeps loosing them INSPITE of a their lack of scruples. > But please allow me to make it clear that m not a M$ evangalist. who cares even if you are. Just don't make illogical observations about business ethics without understanding the legalities and wider ranifications. > I > just believe that u gotta acknowldege that foss cant match > microsoft in every segment. Now u might say that the windows market > share in desktop secotor is dropping but its somewhat like maruti u > know itl drop but still they will have more than half of the market > for atleast 10-15 years from now. Maruti or M$. While 15 yrs is like 15 light yrs in the computing world, let's say we look in 3 yrs time and see where M$ will be (assuming that they continue their current behavior). > > And morals and ethics that went out of the window long time back > not just from business but from our world in geenral. The FLOSS methodology of development can indeed address broader issues, but shall we stick to computers and FLOSS rather than world politics, global warming, green philosphy and life on other (SETI should help u) worlds. > > Now one thing more, the reason i have joined this mailing list is > because i personally like using Linux and the community process > asssociated with it and moreover i would like to get good at > it..And i support the idea that people should have a choice. But i > dont believe that a complete disregard for what a rival is doing > will do any good to my cause. Weren't we focussing attention on an ethically challenged company who restricts choice by illegal activities and by using the naive in it's scheme? > So dude chill, take it easy. And ya > piracy where did i mention my likin of piracy? And thanks for the > info which i was diein to get from a learned person like you about > GNU/Linux. Thanks a lot. Hope u got it. By justifying illegal behavior u are doing a definite disservice to FLOSS. FLOSS relies on legal and ethical behaviour to proliferate and progress. rgds jtd

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Re: LINUX on AMD Athlon 64 (Shreyas Phadnis)
by Roshan 27 May '05

27 May '05

1. Re: LINUX on AMD Athlon 64 (Shreyas Phadnis) From: Shreyas Phadnis <linuxace(a)gmail.com> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 11:35:03 +0530 Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] LINUX on AMD Athlon 64 > On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 09:39 +0530, Richard Chang > wrote: > > I plan to upgrade my current system currently Cel > 1.2 ghz. Planning for the > > AMD/Asus combo. > > If you plan to go for AMD then avoid ASUS mobos. Coz > Asus boards have > poor support for linux. Google it, u`ll know. Still > if are sure you want > to buy ASUS, then go for the ones with NVIDIA > chipsets.The ASUS mobos > with SiS chipsets suck! > > Regards, > Shreyas Phadnis. I have an ASUS mobo and it does have SiS....however, I am using Redhat Linux 9.0 and things work fine. I recently tried installing sound card driver and messed up my kernel. Now it loads some modules forcibly.. I feel; by default, ASUS for linux is not bad..but if linux is tweaked or tampered then may be it wud become bad. RH9 did detect my SiS chipsets and things are working almost normal (except the sound ....) Even then, I would recommed you to go "INTEL Motherbords and Processors"...but it also depends on the budget you have and the kind of work to be done. However, if its more of work in graphics and stuff...and linux.... then I would recommend going only for INTEL instead of AMD. All the best! _____________________________ www.geocities.com/d_rosh2001 ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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securetty
by Karia Amit 27 May '05

27 May '05

Hi all, I want to disallow both root and normal users to login to tty3 .Root login is disable but normal users are still able to login to terminal. What other modification i need to make to that file here is content my /etc/securetty file vc/1 vc/2 vc/3 vc/4 vc/5 vc/6 vc/7 vc/8 vc/9 vc/10 vc/11 tty1 tty2 ttyS3 tty4 tty5 tty6 tty7 tty8 tty9 tty10 tty11 "Difference Between Good And Great Is That Good Performs Well And Great Performs Well Consistently" Regs, Amit Karia

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] securetty
by Nadiem 27 May '05

27 May '05

--- Karia Amit <amit_karia99(a)rediffmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > I want to disallow both root and normal users to > login to tty3 > .Root login is disable but normal users are still > able to login to terminal. What other modification i > need to make to that file > here is content my /etc/securetty file > vc/1 > vc/2 > vc/3 > vc/4 > vc/5 > vc/6 > vc/7 > vc/8 > vc/9 > vc/10 > vc/11 > tty1 > tty2 > ttyS3 > tty4 > tty5 > tty6 > tty7 > tty8 > tty9 > tty10 > tty11 /etc/securtty is concerned with root logins only. It does not authenticate non-root logins. For that purpose, you need to edit the /etc/security/access.conf file. Add this to /etc/security/access.conf : -:ALL:tty3 Make sure your /etc/pam.d/login has this line: account required pam_access.so If it doesn't, you not only need to add the line, but also add it at the correct _sequence_. Just put it below any existing "account" line and you should be fine. HTH, Nadiem. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Morals and Ethics
by Kenneth Gonsalves 27 May '05

27 May '05

On Friday 27 May 2005 1:49 pm, Amol Hatwār wrote: > nor would I say that all MS software > is good. could you give a few examples of good M$ software? -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.sourceforge.net ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க!

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LINUX on AMD Athlon 64
by Richard Chang 27 May '05

27 May '05

Dear All, Just for info. Would like to know which FC3 kernel can we load on the AMD Athlon 64 2800+. Is it FC3-x86_64 ot the FC3-i386 kernel. Anyone who is using the above mentioned processor with LINUX ?. BTW is Athlon 64 x86_64 or i386 compatible. rgrds, rc

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Multiple distros
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 27 May '05

27 May '05

On Friday 27 May 2005 11:35, Shreyas Phadnis wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 09:39 +0530, Richard Chang wrote: > > I plan to upgrade my current system currently Cel 1.2 ghz. > > Planning for the AMD/Asus combo. > > If you plan to go for AMD then avoid ASUS mobos. Coz Asus boards > have poor support for linux. Google it, u`ll know. Any experience? > Still if are > sure you want to buy ASUS, then go for the ones with NVIDIA > chipsets.The ASUS mobos with SiS chipsets suck! Any particular reason? I thought that AMD cpu boards used AMD chipsets which are very well supported. U can run linuxbios on em - which is the bottomline for linux support (u require extremely detailed documentation from the vendor to write a bios). could u please list the chipset numbers if it's not too much trouble. rgds jtd > > Regards, > Shreyas Phadnis. rgds jtd

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