Linuxers January 2004

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gnuers....time to wake up and go workshopping....:)
by Trevor Warren 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Gnuers.....;) Its time to wake up and go ahead with another round of workshops across the state. Commercial ones in bombay we have to work out too. Wakeup.....wakeup. Trevor -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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Re : Why does linux access the hhd so much
by xterm 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

><victorjulietpapa(a)hotmail.com> > >I would really like to know why does linux access the >disk so much (in GUI >mode) to fire-up even a small application like terminals >windows? What is it >that it reads/writes so much? This is irrespective of >m/c configuration. > >veejay My swap is 4 times the RAM still i also face the same problem...

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Is there a 'free(dom)' variant of Knoppix?
by Rishi Gangoly 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Hi I got to know that there are non-free applications bundled along with Knoppix CD. Does anyone know if there is a variant of Knoppix? I figured it would be easier to just download and use / distribute that instead of removing the non-free packages from the Knoppix CD and creating one myself. Apparently RMS told me a few days back that the 'vrms' tool does not guarantee the results to be 100% true since it purely depends on the deb package maintainer. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/vrms.html Regards Rishi

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Spawning of a new gnu enthusiats group @ nanded
by Trevor Warren 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Hiyee Manoj, Thanks for writing in. Its a great idea and a very noble deed indeed to have to spawn a forum where all like minded participants can come together towards discussing Free Software and Open Source related issues. The begginning could be made by having a mailing list hosted at yahoogroups for a start. Post the innaugration of the same we could help you to move the mailing list to a better location. The e-group could be named "GLEN" or Gnu Enthusiasts Group of Nanded. Think about the same and enure you spend sometime reading up on the philsosophies of Open Source and Free Software at www.gnu.org/www.fsf.org and www.opensource.org. We will be there with you along the way toward help building your community and supporting it all through the way. Trevor "MANOJ PUROHIT" <gres_manoj(a)rediffmail.com> Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book To: trevorwarren(a)yahoo.com Subject: Please guide Dear sir, hi! I am Manoj Govind Purohit, from Nanded, India, would like to start an ILUG centre in my city, Kindly guide me in this regards, cause I got lot more info from internet about it but certainly failed to get the thing, about what will be the fund raising procedures for such a group, since lot of activities are expected to be carried out and each of them involves expenses. Will you be please guide me in this regard. Thanking you. Manoj Govind Purohit Nanded, Maharashtra, India -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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RMS speech on Free Software
by Rishi Gangoly 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Hi RMS is going to talk about Free Software at 4:00 PM today. If you have questions or want to know about Free Software, please come for this speech today. Venue: V.J. Kulkarni Auditorium, Homi Baba Centre for Science Education, TIFR, Adjacent to Anushakti Nagar Bus Depo. Mankhurd. Phone: 25555242 / 25567711 Contact: Dr. Nagarjuna Please forward this to your friends that would be interested in this topic. Regards Rishi

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[Announce] getmail.com 1.0
by Philip S Tellis 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Announcing the release of version 1.0 of getmail.com http://sourceforge.net/projects/getmail-com/ Getmail.com downloads email from a mail.com account. It uses HTTP to log in to your account, get the inbox listing, and download messages along with attachments. Login name, password, and maximum message size can be specified through the interface or in the configuration file. It does not delete messages or look in folders other than Inbox. Caveats: The configuration file is called .gmcom.rc and is in your home directory. The program will prompt you to create it if it does not exist. The password is stored as plain text in the file, but the file's permissions are 0600 (-rw-------), so only you can read it. You may edit the file and delete any parameter from it. The program will either prompt you for it, or choose a default value (if it can). The file will be written only if it does not exist. Philip -- "If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything." -- A. L.

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[Announce] libyahoo2 0.7.4 released
by Philip S Tellis 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

It's on sourceforge, so go download it. http://libyahoo2.sourceforge.net/ Changes: auth fixed ext_remove_handler takes two parameters - the tag returned by add_handler and the client_id. Also note that I've decided to stop releasing rpms. It made no sense since anyone using this library would have to build it as part of his own project anyway. Yes, it would be cool if it were distributed as a separate library, but I don't see that happening. Philip -- I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Why does linux access the hhd so much
by I R Veejay 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe asked me : >When you say GUI mode, which desktop, and window manager are you >actually running? >Which terminal emulator are you using? What services and applications >were currently loaded when you started the terminal? >I doubt that ... what is your machine configuration? How much physical >memory? And to repeat, which services and which software currently >open? I am using RHL9, It's default WM and KDE as desktop. The system is a standard desktop installation. I mentioned a small utility such as a terminal emulator just as an example. Large utilities like Mozilla & OpenOffice take ages to open. The M/C is a P4 @1.6GHz, 128MB SDRAM, 40GB Seagate HDD. Size of the Swap partition is 256MB (approx). Veejay _________________________________________________________________ Marriage? http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/cgi-bin/bmclicks1.cgi?74 Join BharatMatrimony.com and get married.

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Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 9, Issue 22
by psawant＠nse.co.in 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

saravan wrote:- >HI guys, >When i am trying to connect to the internet from my suse desktop i am getting the following temporary failure in name resolution >My modem has been configured n its getting detected as well.Using PPP for the net. >Any inputs will be of immense help to me please check if your /etc/resolv.conf file is empty it is supposed to contain the ip addresses of dns nameservers in the following format nameserver <ip-addr> nameserver <ip-addr> please provide the ip-addr of vsnl/mtnl dns nameservers (or any other isp that you are using). then try connecting to the net. hope that helps! Pradnyesh Sawant.

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USB in kernel 2.6
by Chirag Arjun Bhangale 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Hi, I use Reliance phone thru a USB data cable to connect to the internet on my Red Hat 9 system. Recently I have upgraded to kernel 2.6.1. However now i cannot connect to internet via my Reliance phone. the script for the connection is: pppd /dev/ttyUSB0 230400 debug usepeerdns defaultroute connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v "" at+cta=30 OK "atdt#777" CONNECT' mtu 264. Also when i try to communicate with dev ttyUSB0 i get error : No such device I have built a monolithic kernel with UHCI support and USB serial support. Please Help

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Linuxers January 2004