Linuxers September 2001

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Doctor, heal thyself - Windows-specific site hosted on Linux
by S. Krishnan 28 Sep '01

28 Sep '01

Just take a look at www.winsite.com - a site which the owners claim is nothing less than "The Planet's Largest Software Archive for Windows shareware and trialware on the Internet" (http://www.winsite.com/ws_aboutus.html). Jusdt check out the logo at the bottom of the left hand frame: it reads "Powered by redhat Linux"! Rgds, Krishnan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com

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Reminder: ACM Seminar on LaTex, Fri 28/9
by Durgesh D Rao 28 Sep '01

28 Sep '01

Dear Colleague, This is to remind you about the following event. Regards, - Durgesh, on behalf of ACM Mumbai ACM Seminar Friday, September 28, 2001 - 6:30 p.m. Title: LaTeX: A Document Preparation System Speaker: Vivek Mehta (NCST) Venue: Lecture Theatre, NCST, Juhu Abstract: LaTeX is a generic typesetting system that uses TeX as its formatting engine. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents, but it can be used for almost any form of publishing. LaTeX is … [View More]

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Event based sounds in Windowmaker
by Kinjal Sonpal 28 Sep '01

28 Sep '01

Hi all, I've just switched from KDE to Windowmaker as my defualt windowmanager. Excellent windowmanager. I face only one problem. I'm not being able to set event based sounds in the Wmaker, similar to what we get in KDE and Windows. There was a button for sounds in wmakerprefs, but I still do not hear any sound. Any idea abt this? TIA Warm Regards, $ sonpal -kj

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windoze problems
by Kapil Karekar 27 Sep '01

27 Sep '01

hi luggers, I'm having a problem wiith installing windows on my linux box. Whenever I try to install win 98 the installation process gives me this error : " Fault in MSDOS extender" and prints out the values of some registers. I have assigned hda1 & hda5 to windows. Can any of you guys help me out by telling me the remedy? Thanking you in advance Kapil Karekar GNU/Linux registered user #226893 ------------------------------------------------- If there is any position open for a … [View More]

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] transparent proxy
by Mahesh Gharat 27 Sep '01

27 Sep '01

The iptables rule for transparent proxy is #/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE in the above rule 192.168.0.0 is the local network and 255.255.255.0 is subnet. -o eth1 option specifies the external interface which connects your proxy server/gateway to the internet.for me it is eth1.for you it might be ppp0 if you are using dialup. Enable routing on the Server. Add the IP of your proxy server as gateway in the network properties of the … [View More]

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Great site for newbies, or those that once were...
by Philip S Tellis 27 Sep '01

27 Sep '01

...that means everyone. http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html Don't know if this was posted earlier or not, but the title of the page says it all: Things we wish we knew before we started o r s h o r t l y a f t e r TOC: * Before you begin.. * Partition hints * A user called root * Users & groups * Mounting a partition * File types - file modes * Some UNIX commands * How to maneuver on disk * Configuration of X * How to abort the X session * Copy/Cut/… [View More]

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System Commander 2000
by Soumen Dass 27 Sep '01

27 Sep '01

Hi ! Any idea from where I can download system commander 2000 ( "for free")..?? I want to have a Win 2000 and Linux Dual Boot (Disk a) + Sun Solaris (Disk b)... Can it handle all these three.. any feedback/suggestions... Regards, --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Soumen Dass, Junior Officer, Data Centre Mumbai Telephone : (022)490-6520 -- "This e-mail message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. It … [View More]

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transparent proxy
by shahazad＠linuxplanet.nu 27 Sep '01

27 Sep '01

hi buddies, i need help for setting up a transparent proxy...i want to use iptables. can u please send me the rules, and also the setting that are to be made on the linux box and on the windows client. i cant get yahoo chat to work on it as well. Also do send me some links/urls about the same .. thanx cheers~ </shahazad> -- Get your firstname@lastname email for FREE at http://Nameplanet.com/?su

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System Commander 2000
by DASS SOUMEN /IBANK/MAHALAXMI 27 Sep '01

27 Sep '01

Hi ! Any idea from where I can download system commander 2000 ( "for free")..?? I have a Win 2000 and Linux Dual Boot (Disk a) + Sun Solaris (Disk b - intend to install)... Can it handle all these three.. any feedback/suggestions... Regards, ___________________________________________________________ Soumen Dass, Junior Officer, Data Centre, ICICI Bank, Ph (Off) : 4906520 -- "This e-mail message may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. It should not be … [View More]

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mail servers
by Kunal Jhunjhunwala 27 Sep '01

27 Sep '01

Hey, which mail servers do you guys suggest one should use? I have heard good things about qmail, but it requires a static ip. Exim isnt very popular and sendmail is a tad bit scary for me... anyone else got any suggestions? Regards, Kunal Jhunjhunwala "Be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send" -- Jon Postel, RFC 1122 "Be liberal in what you send, yet conservative in what you accept." -- Firewall Building 101

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Linuxers September 2001