Linuxers July 2003

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] The DEP workshop on 24th August
by Nikhil Karkera 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 Dinesh Shah wrote : >What I suggest is as following. > >1. Free S/W philosophy (Why Free S/W?) >2. Installation of Debian (Has any one tried GUI Debian >Installer?) >3. Various Distros and Package Management (APT, RPM, tgz, >Sources). >4. Hardware Competibility issues and resources. >5. Networking - Ethernet and PPP (Dial-up) >6. Over view of basic apps - OpenOffice, WWW, Mail, Graphics, IM, >Chat >7. Basic SysAdmin - User Management, File Perms, Mount/umount, >basic CLI >8. Basic Troubleshooting and various resources to get help. I know a couple of PC vendors. If an agenda can be worked out soon, and made available in a proper printable format, I could speak to them and ask them to register. Also I work near Lamington street, so I could probably go down to a couple of computer shops there as well and talk to them. Regards, Nikhil. ___________________________________________________ Download the hottest & happening ringtones here! OR SMS: Top tone to 7333 Click here now: http://sms.rediff.com/cgi-bin/ringtone/ringhome.pl

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FLASH NEWS: Trevor spotted in a GLUG meet!
by Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

Hi guys, Sending in the minutes of the meeting held on 13th July. I put in as much as I could remember, please fill in if I missed anything. First thing to mention is the HUGE turnout for the meet ... the entire KReSIT classroom was filled with people, which means the attendance was roughly in the neighbourhood of 60. And on top of that, if you see faces like Philip, Trevor, Dinesh, Manish, and Terrence in the same meet, you /know/ its BIG! The meeting started out with a session on KDE/Qt programming by Amish Munshi. He talked about the set of tools that go into building a KDE application, with a quick tour of the documentation. Overall impression was the simplicity with which one can build apps the KDE way. After that, though not officially on the agenda, Trevor jumped in with a screeing of "The Code", featuring a lot of the prominent personalities from the FLOSS community. The movie is pretty interesting, and highly recommended for people who aim to convert techies into the FLOSS philosophy. The movie really gives a flavour of the community as a whole and how good software gets done in the Open Source way. An interesting part is where the movie highlights the difference between Open Source and Free Software through their prime advocates ESR and RMS respectively. The next talk was Prof. Jitendra Shah, about the on the ongoing effort on localisation of GNU/Linux for India. He mentioned a website which intends to keep track of the translation efforts and a short introduction to how a non-techie can help in translation. http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~swapnil/indictrans/ Karunakar also demonstrated the IndLinux (Milan) CD based no a re-mastered Morphix CD. The CD has a number of partially completed Indian locales to use normal applications. Answering a doubt raised by Trevor, Karunakar explained that all the work being done in the localisation is already being merged into the mainstream repositories. This means that the new releases of most distros will have built-in Indian Locale support. Debian Sid (unstable) for example, already has Indian Locale support since it is based on bleeding edge package versions. Finally there as a call for volunteers and planning help from SameerDS for a GNU/Linux workshop to be conducted in the IITB Distance Education Program. Such a workshop will be conducted in KReSIT premises, to be attended by participants in 5 different cities over the DEP telecom network. The popular suggestion was to hold this talk for PC Vendors, since they are the best medium to take GNU/Linux to bigger masses such as SOHO users and individuals. The workshop will primarily be a series of talks, to be held on Sunday, 24th of August. Unfortunately, the topic for the venue of the next meet did not come up, which will have to be decided on the List now. Sameer. -- Research Scholar, KReSIT, IIT Bombay http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sameerds/

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[Announce] Ayttm-0.3.3 is out
by Philip S Tellis 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

ayttm 0.3.3 has just been released. You can download it from: http://ayttm.sf.net/files.shtml * New Features - IRC is multiaccount compatible - IRC uses asynchronous (non blocking) connect - Tabbed chat rooms - Invite people to chatrooms from chat windows - Support for multi-protocol smiley themes (And for all the Xavierites out there, there's a Puddles theme to coincide with Malhar :D ). * Bugfixes - Check for pspell in pspell and aspell - Make some dialogs transients for their parents - Nicer Invite (to chatroom) window - Fix smiley_directory being ignored when nonstandard - Fix automatic protocol fallback failing - Fix MSN file send failing the second time (server socket not closed) - Fix crash viewing Yahoo webcam - Fix crash reading Yahoo addressbook

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] help required with kernel compiling
by linuxdev 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

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help required with kernel compiling
by Pradnyesh Sawant 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

i have compiled the 2.4.20 kernel on my system. i've got the foll problems: 1. i have usb port on my system, but i don't use them. so i disabled the usb support. so i get the foll error while booting: "cannot initialise usb-uhci". is the above thing compulsory to be initialised? does it create any problems if it is not initialised? 2. i get the foll error on bootup: "cannot find module char-major-10.." what does the above error mean? what is it related to? what effects does it have on the system? how can i overcome the error? 3. i cannot get the system to auto-shutdown, as can be done on my default Red Hat 7.3 kernel (2.4.18-3). how do i get the kernel to do an auto-shutdown? i'll be very grateful, if someone could help me out with the above problems -- HACKER: Someone who loves to program and loves being clever about it. --- Pradnyesh Sawant (The Doubtfire) B.E. (I.T.) spradnyesh(a)gmx.net Ph. 91-022-27703060 http://www.geocities.com/spradnyesh ---

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playing VCD's with xine
by Akshay Tagalpallewar 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

on my system i have installed mandrake 9.1 i have a CD R/W connected as secondary master and a CD ROM as secondary slave. i'm not abel to play vcd with the writer but it works well with cdrom. whats the problem and how do i play .dat files on linux. SMS using the Yahoo! Messenger;Download latest version.

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[ILUG-BOM] [Fwd: Linux took on Microsoft, and won big in Munich Victory]
by Trevor Warren 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

-----Forwarded Message----- From: Jatin Nansi <jnansi(a)redhat.com> To: india-list(a)redhat.com Subject: Linux took on Microsoft, and won big in Munich Victory Date: 16 Jul 2003 11:11:36 +0530 Suse wins big against MS in Munich city: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030714/5320229s.htm -- Jatin Nansi Technical Consultant Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd. _______________________________________________ India-list mailing list India-list(a)redhat.com http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/india-list -- ( >- LINUX, It's all about CHOICE -< ) /~\ __ twarren(a)redhat.com __ /~\ | \) / Pre Sales Consultant - Red Hat \ (/ | |_|_ \ 9820349221(M) | 22881326(O) / _|_| \___________________________________/

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Re: Mumbai SME forum launched
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 15 Jul '03

15 Jul '03

Hi Rajiv, Is Nasscom also looking at GNU/Linux and Free/Libre and Open Source Software? Or, all all the initiatives focussed on proprietorial software? The latter approach could be self-defeating. FN On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Rajiv Vaishnav (NASSCOM) wrote: > Nature > NASSCOM SME FORUM (Western Region) > Chair : Ganesh Natarajan > > > ==> May 13th : Launch of SME Forum in Pune > > ==> June 28th : Spot The STAR SME event in Pune > > ==> July 8th : Launch of SME Forum in Mumbai... > > ==> July 26th : Spot The STAR SME event in Mumbai (Details to follow) > > A Report : > > " Laheron se takraye oose tufan kahete hain, par tufano se takraye oose > Insan kahete hain !!" > > Tufan....that was exactly the scene at 6.00 pm on July 8th. It was > pouring, roads were flooded and the traffic leading to MIDC was not > willing to move... and inspite of all these, there were close to 60 SMEs > came for the launch of NASSCOM SME Forum in Mumbai. > > Mr. Ganesh Natarajan flown in from Pune. The Nasscom Team was in full > blow. Mr. Kiran Karnik, President, Sunil Mehta, Head-Research , Sangeeta > Gupta, VP and Rituraj Nath were present. > > Mr. Kiran Karnik in his opening welcome remarks emphasised the need for > the large companies and the importance of SMEs for the growth of overall > industry. He shared Nasscom's vision for SMEs and the initiatives > already in place for SMEs. Mr. Karnik congratulated and thanked Mr. > Natarajan for championing the cause for SMEs in Nasscom Western Region. > Mr. Karnik said that the forum was "OF the SMEs, BY the SMEs and FOR the > SMEs" and that Nasscom would organize programs based on their need. > > Mr. Ganesh Natarajan shared a few moments from his memory lane...and > explained how people like Mr. Ashank Desai of Mastek, who started as a > small four member team could grow to become an Indian MNC in just a > couple of years. He shared his experience with BluChip and Sara > Infotech....Mr.Natarajan also shared Zensar's experience in working with > SME Partners. He made a presentation on the concerns of SMEs, issues > that were shared by Pune SMEs and the success of Pune events. He also > informed the group about the proposed future events. > > Mr.Ashank Desai, who was on the expert panel in 'Spot the STAR' SME > event in Pune, expressed his appreciation for organizing such an event. > He said in 1988, when NASSCOM was formed, it was 40 odd SMEs (by today's > definition of SMEs as companies below Rs.50 crores) who came together > and today you see many of them in the TOP 20 IT Companies of India. > Mr.Desai said that during early '90s there was no such mentors and > domestic market opportunity. It was therefore important for an SME to > utilize such forums and participate actively. > > The floor was open for discussion. Few concerns / issues that were > brought out were : > > � IPR > > � Patent registrations > > � Quality certification or training - Cluster approach > > � Funding - to help showcase SMEs to get funding > > � Mentoring - to create a panel of mentors > > � Domestic Market opportunities > > � Product companies and their scales > > � Segregate SMEs as per verticals and not as per geography > > Mr. Natarajan requested SMEs to volunteer in various groups and help > NASSCOM to take the initiative forward. > > > > The meeting ended with the Vote of Thanks. > > > > NASSCOM SME Forum - dedicated to the advancement of SMEs. > > > > For further details please contact rajiv(a)nasscom.org > > > > Rajiv Vaishnav > > Regional Director (West) > > NASSCOM > > O: 2823 48 44 > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) | http://www.fredericknoronha.net Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- T: 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 M: 0 9822 122436 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Mandatory Access Controls
by Subba Rao 15 Jul '03

15 Jul '03

Hello, I have a very basic question regarding mandatory access controls(MACs). Using the following diagram: --------------------- --------------------- | Subject | | Object | --------------------- --------------------- | Clearance | | Classification | | Ex - Top Secret | | Ex - Top Secret | | | | | --------------------- --------------------- In the MAC model the "need-to-know" flag, restricts the subject to access the object. Is this flag, part of the subject's attributes or the object's attributes? Thank you in advance. -- Subba Rao subba9(a)cablespeed.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Old American Wild West saying: God created men but Colt made them equal. Today: Linus created Linux and Linux made IT companies equal.

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SYMPOSIUM, 19-26 July 2003
by PUKAR Monsoon 14 Jul '03

14 Jul '03

Dear Friends: Please circulate this announcement as widely as possible to UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS in Mumbai. You are cordially invited to the PUKAR MONSOON SYMPOSIUM, a week-long series of panel discussions, film screenings, and presentations by students and researchers on water and the city. The PUKAR Monsoon is an annual series of occassional lectures, workshops and pedagogic activities organised from May to August every year, in which undergraduate college students address a specific theme through a variety of creative approaches to documentation and education of urban life. The aim of PUKAR Monsoon 2003 has been to facilitate debate and reflection, encourage artistic, intellectual and creative expression, and develop hands-on skills in documenting the political and cultural implications of the many connections between cities and water. Water as substance and as medium has been central to urban development throughout human history. In Mumbai, as in many other world cities, the modern urban experience is definitively connected to the city's geographical form as island, and its location on the coastline. In the context of globalisation, other dimensions of water, and of the relationship between cities and water are becoming increasingly visible and contested in the public arena -- notably, the privatisation of water resources and the infrastructural networks delivering water. PUKAR Monsoon 2003 began with the DOC-SHOP -- an eight-day student workshop for students held from 19-27 May 2003 -- and continues with pedagogic activities in undergraduate colleges throughout Mumbai in July and August 2003, when colleges open. For more information, contact Rahul Srivastava or Shekhar Krishnan at 2207 7779, <mailto:monsoon@pukar.org.in>, or visit http://www.pukar.org.in/doc-shop/. See below for the complete schedule of activities, for which we encourage students, teachers, and the public to attend and participate. _____ P U K A R M O N S O O N S Y M P O S I U M : " O n C i t i e s , O n W a t e r " Dates: 19-26 JULY 2003 Times: Afternoons and Evenings At: PUKAR c/o Aragon Services 4th Floor, Kitab Mahal Dr Dadabhai Naoroji Road Mumbai 400001 Kitab Mahal is next to New Excelsior Cinema, and is near VT Station. Entrance to Kitab Mahal is from the New Book Company on Dadabhai Naoroji Road. S A T U R D A Y 1 9 J U L Y 2 0 0 3 18.00-18.15 PUKAR Monsoon 2003 -- "On Cities, On Water" : INTRODUCTION RAHUL SRIVASTAVA Director, PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research), Mumbai 18.15-20.15 Water Supply to Poor Areas: PANEL DISCUSSION MEERA BAPAT Independent Researcher, Pune DAVID SATTHERTHWAITE Editor, Environment and Urbanisation, London, U.K. Intl Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London, U.K. INDU AGARWAL SPARC (Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres), Mumbai M O N D A Y 2 1 J U L Y 2 0 0 3 17.00-18.00 FILM: "Spring" (Valdas Navasaitis, 19 minutes, 1997) This silent documentary languidly glides upon an aquatic landscape, which much resembles a painting, and tries to understand the strange and unusual place, Valteris, the main character lives in. Valteris lives in the region of Klaipeda in Lithuania. Every year when the snow begins to melt, his house and the surrounding fields are flooded. Valteris lives to the rhythm of this spring flood; it is a part of his life. 18.00-19.30 FILM: "Aral: Sea of Thirst" (Jean Afanassieff, 52 minutes, 1999) The Aral Sea has dried up. The 'Big Blue Mirror'of the Kazakhs is now a desert of sand and grasses haunted by the rusting hulls of fishing boats. Fed by two major rivers, the Syr-Dia and Amou-Daria, most of the water of the inland sea of Central Asia was diverted to irrigate cotton and rice fields. Today the intensive crops which were programmed by the Soviets in the 50s have all disappeared and, apart from the little that is left of the inexhaustible resources of the sea, there remains the bitter reality of a desolate environment. The government of Kazakhstan promises a better future in 2030. They have to promise something for the future. For an old fisherman kneeling in front of his grounded boat the only prospect is sand stretching out as far as the eye can see. T U E S D A Y 2 2 J U L Y 2 0 0 3 17.00-17.30 FILM: "20,000 Leagues on the Sea" (Bernard David-Cavaz, 13 minutes, 1995) This documentary is the portrait of a Geophysicist, Jean-Francois Minster, who heads the Laboratory of Oceanography in Toulouse. This reveals the implications of climate changes on human populations, the economy, and life in general like a journey of discovery into a complex and mysterious world. 18.00-19.15 FILM: "Fishing in the Sea of Greed" (Anand Patwardhan, 40 minutes, 1999) followed by discussion with ANAND PATWARDHAN Documentary Film-Maker, Mumbai W E D N E S D A Y 2 3 J U L Y 2 0 0 3 17.00-18.30 VIDEOS: Urban Sanitation, Transport, and Alliances of the Urban Poor followed by discussion with INDU AGARWAL and DEVIKA MAHADEVAN SPARC (Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres), Mumbai 19.00-21.00 FILM: "Living on the River Agano" (Sato Makoto, 115 minutes, 1992) The filmmakers filmed and shared everyday life in Kanose, a town on the River Agano in the Niigata Prefecture. Kanose and nearby Yasuda lie close to the Showa Electric Company factory that has poisoned the river by dumping organic mercury waste. T H U R S D A Y 2 4 J U L Y 2 0 0 3 15.00-16.00 Waterfronts and Ambiguous Boundaries: STUDENT PRESENTATIONS SHILPA PHADKE and students of St Xavier's College Associate, PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research), Mumbai 16.30-18.00 Mumbai's Waterfronts: URBAN DESIGN INTERVENTIONS Eastern Waterfront: Bombay Port and Harbour ANIRUDH PAUL and PRASAD SHETTY Design Cell, Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture (KRVIA), Mumbai Western Waterfronts: Dadar-Mahim, Bandra and Juhu P.K. DAS Architect, P.K. Das Associates, Mumbai discussion moderated by VYJAYANTHI RAO Director, PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research), U.S.A. 18.30-19.15 FILM: "Canals Suspended in the Sky" (Dominique Martin-Ferrari, 26 minutes) Hué, which is crossed by The River of Perfumes, is trying to restore the canals and the hanging gardens of the Vietnamese city whilst conciliating the preservation of the architecture and the landscape, the maintaining of rural populations on the shores of the river, and the development of tourism. Parcels of land are turned into rice paddies following the model of the Etang de Thau, and the small vegetable gardens planted on top of the town walls are preserved. Huê, the 19th century Imperial City, reconnects with is traditions and its water heritage. 19.15-18.00 FILM: "The Village of the Mist" (Nina Peliaeva and George Trivano, 12 minutes) At Chungungo, in Northern Chile, rain never falls. Since there are no springs in the village, every week, water is brought to the inhabitants by lorry. However, the village is near the sea, and every morning, a thick mist rises up along the mountain slopes. Scientists have thought up a simple but effective way of collecting the mist to obtain water. Up to 60,000 litres of water per day can be produced when there is mist. This has changed the life of the village. F R I D A Y 2 5 J U L Y 2 0 0 3 15.00-17.00 Water Issues in the Media: PANEL DISCUSSION Reporting Water PRADEEP SAHA Managing Editor, Down To Earth Magazine, New Delhi Media Coverage of the Environment MEENA MENON Journalist and Writer, Mumbai discussion moderated by SAMEERA KHAN Associate, PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research), Mumbai 18.00-19.30 FILM: Premiere of "Words on Water" (Sanjay Kak, 2003, 82 minutes) followed by discussion with SANJAY KAK Film-Maker, Octave Communications, New Delhi S A T U R D A Y 2 6 J U L Y 2 0 0 3 15.00-16.00 Ecological Footprint of Mumbai: STUDENT PRESENTATIONS NIKHIL ANAND and students of Sophia College Associate, PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research), Mumbai 16.30-17.00 FILM: "Four Engineers and a Manager" (Pradeep Saha, 2000, 22 minutes) followed by discussion with PRADEEP SAHA Managing Editor, Down To Earth Magazine, New Delhi 17.30-19.00 Water -- Mumbai at Risk?: PANEL DISCUSSION discussion chaired by NIRUPA BHANGAR Educationist, Mumbai Water Infrastucture NAYAN PAREKH and RACHNA SHETH Juhu Together, Mumbai Urban-Rural Migration KAREN MENEZES and ZARIR DEVITRA St Xavier's College, Mumbai Perspectives on Privatisation SANJAY BHANGAR Bombay Independent Media Centre (IMC), Mumbai 19.00-20.00 OPEN DISCUSSION on Cities and Water _____ PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research) P.O. Box 5627, Dadar, Mumbai 400014, INDIA E-Mail <mailto:secretariat@pukar.org.in> Phone +91 (022) 2207 7779, +91 98200 45529, +91 98204 04010 Web Site http://www.pukar.org.in

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