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Wine, Dine and Network(tweak)ing
by Jeetu 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

Hey all, Am new to the list and relatively new to Linux in general, though have been using it as my primary OS for quite sometime now and luv it :) I'm using Debian 3.0 with kernel 2.4.18 and my research interest is in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) - a subset of AI. I have my open source project called Mother (http://mother.sourceforge.net) Have a few queries and would really appreciate if I could get some help on them : a) Over a period of time have been trying to follow the Wine project and it's progress. I'm quite impressed by it. Recently I've been trying to install Office 97 on it using wine-20021125 and the installation fails after it searches for installed components. Any ideas on how to get it goin?....and I use OpenOffice and just wanna see if I can get this going to guage the progress of Wine (basically trying to see how long it'd be before I can run my VB based inventory software at work which is currently under development under Linux....then I can run Linux at work :) ). The Wine newsgroup doesn't seem to respond to this, however there are ppl who say Office 97 is running for them....if anyone here knows how then i'd appreciate. b) I have a Realtek 8139 based NIC and it runs great. I'm using the BSES Powersurfer Broadband service. I get speeds similar to those I get under Windows and was wondering if there's tweaking I can do that'd help improve that. My network interface comes up during bootup as set in half-duplex mode....is that due to the card? or due to the network?? basically can I set this to full duplex? or is there any other way to significantly improve speeds. c) The Konqueror file browser upon trying to unzip a .tar.gz file seems to do it very very slowly, for huge files, when compared to the tar utility. Is that a bug or is there something i should do to set it right? d) Anyone here knows of any project (or app) that aims to bring Voice Chatting abilities to MSN clones under Linux. I know the aboves quite a long list of questions.....thanks a lot in advance for all the help. Bye for now

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Mailing list project.
by Amish Munshi 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

On Thursday 05 December 2002 10:18 am, bsf wrote: > hi all > > why not hack a working mailing list server ( say mailman ) to include this > functionality > by this we wdn't have to reinvent the wheel for actually building up a > mailing list prog .... > secoindly it could provide an option for traditional sending out emails > too ... for people who are behind a firewall and cannot pop access ... I am going to follow these basic rules. 1. Should use the same mailing list software and not try to reinvent the wheel by writing a new mailing list software. (This will include studying the present mailing lists softwares and their analysis) 2. Include POP as an option to it instead of forcing everyone to POP from the server. So POP will only be an feature and not a compulsion, list admins my diable this feature if required. 3. Support to reply to mails online - web based. (Online Yahoo groups or google groups for example). The interested programmers who have contacted me and I have managed to gather their info are: "Srinivasan. R" <cnu_28 {at} yahoo.com> "Aliasgar Dahodwala" <rock_ali {at} indiatimes.com> If anyone else interested (or I have missed theie name) then please get in touch with me at amish {at} munshi.dyndns.org. Documentation also has to be written so anyone keen on doing that part can also > > thirdly ... the time to the finished product wd be greatly reduced ... The software that is popular need not be better. The software that is better need not be popular. It is a matter of choice what you prefer, better or popular. Linux/GNU gives you choice and also is the best software today in the market, ever guessed how much does it cost? Amish K. Munshi. (IT Engg.) Registered Linux user 282018 at http://counter.li.org Homepage http://munshi.dyndns.org/~amish Email address amish {at} munshi.dyndns.org ICQ 85730949 === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.===

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LUG meet
by Kamlesh Shah 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

Hi... all I may join you at the meet.. Regards Kamlesh Shah

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MBR / Partition table woes
by Chetan Vaity 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

Has anyone recoverd a partion table with a tool called "gpart". This tool scans the entire disk block by block looking for partition begin patterns. The guesses can then be used to recreate the partition table by hand. A friend of mine wanted to reinstall Win2000 on a dual boot machine. The (fateful) sequence of events: --------------------------------- 1. I copied the first sector of /dev/hda to a file /root/MBR.grub using dd. 2. Booted from the Win2K CDROM and installed Win2K. 3. Try booting. No grub. Directly goes on and boots Windows. 4. Booted from RedHat 7.3 CDROM, entered rescue mode. It recognised the existing linux partitions. Copied the first sector of /dev/hda to /root/MBR.win, again using dd. Then copied the /root/MBR.grub to /dev/hda. 5. Try booting. Grub appears. Enter Linux choice - boots Linux properly. But when Windows is selected in grub, it pops up Grub again. 6. Again booted using RedHat CDROM. Copied /root/MBR.win to /dev/hda. 7. Try booting. Nothing. Just a blank screen. No error messages. 8. Panic. 9. Try booting using RedHat CDROM. Now it doesn't find any Linux partitions. Only raw device /dev/hda available. 10. Panic! 11. Compile "gpart" on another machine and transferred it to this m/c using a floppy. (in Linux rescue mode). Started gpart. I will try and get the output of gpart and post it here. Any help, advice will be appreciated. - Chetan

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Removing prefix from subject
by Gautam Mani 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

Hi all, I have been using Linux for more than 3 years now, and joined this mailing list around 2 weeks back. I have a small suggestion. Can we remove the [ILUG-BOM] prefix in the subject of all mails in the list as it reduces readability in the index of messages. Is there any specific reason why it exists? It would be cool if someone could point that out. To make my point clear, checkout the two screenshots of my mailer (taken on ilug-bom and the mutt-users mailing list) 1. ilug-bom linuxers: http://www.execve.net/showcase/ilug-bom.png 2. mutt-users: http://www.execve.net/showcase/mutt-users.png As you all can clearly see, it not only reduces readability, but also hurts the eyes (as a matter of speaking). Thoughts/Comments? Cheers, Gautam -- Gautam Mani <execve_at_execve_dot_net> Don't be a slave! Use the Door -- use Linux. Secure-Key: [ A7E6 795F AF8D 91AF 1D5E 3CC5 7847 7DCC 7586 EF34 ]

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Linux Localization Professionals
by Satish Mohan 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

Hi, We at Red Hat are on the localization project for Indian languages for Linux. Though a lot of work has been done by various bodies the same needs to be coordinated and channelized.we are putting in place a team towards that. We are looking for experienced linux programmers with background on fonts and keyboard maps development (preferably). Kindly contact me off list regards satish -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Satish Mohan Tel : +91-22-2853452 - - Enterprise Consultant Mob : +91-98210-57213 - - Red Hat India (www.in.redhat.com) Fax : +91-22-2845343 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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User wise Disk Usage across the entire Hard drive
by Asif Shaikh 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

Hi, We've ported our file server to RedHat 7.3 now being used as a domain controller on my office LAN. I need to get a report of user wise disk usage in the entire Hard Drive, not only in the users home folders. Is there any command/monitoring tool that can help me get this info? Rgds, Asif

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Article:A Beginner's guide to Linux
by Hanisha Vaswani 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

hi, came across an interesting article on NY Times which deals with common Linux queries. It is a real eye-opener... sort of 'how the rest of the world STILL feels abt. Linux'. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/05/technology/circuits/05POGUE-EMAIL.html?8c… the site requires you to be registered (which is Free) to view the article. hanisha __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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Regd. NYT article
by Hanisha Vaswani 06 Dec '02

06 Dec '02

have created a userid on NY Times for anyone interested in reading the Linux article mentioned in my previous mail. UId: ilug_bom Passwd: bombay best, hanisha __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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Parsing with Perl
by DalelAmari＠aol.com 06 Dec '02

06 Dec '02

My name is Dalel. I have 441 emails in txt format. how can I process them in perl and then put the content in mysql database. In mysql databse, I need to have the following fields: date subject from to cc text (body) Thank you Dalel

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