Linuxers May 2004

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[ILUG-BOM] Interesting article on Rediff by Rajeev Srinivasan on GNU/Linux
by Dinesh Shah 04 May '04

04 May '04

Unix's revenge. I was personally rather astonished to hear that Sun Microsystems and Microsoft had buried the hatchet in their long running war of words. This startled me, because I had become used to Sun being the only holdout in a world where Microsoft makes the rules. So apparently the Silicon Valley maverick has been defeated and forced to compromise with the giant from Redmond, Washington. http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/may/03rajeev.htm Enjoy! With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) <Dinesh(a)ShahMicro.com> Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 +91-22-56919423

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Re: anyone need the flashmob cd???
by Rajesh Rajani 04 May '04

04 May '04

Hi Trevor, At 12:00 PM 5/3/2004, linuxers-request(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in wrote: >Afternoon Rishi, > > Yep, that would be a great idea. But getting our >machines into/out of iit will be a nightmare. The >logistics surely will be a nightmare. Unless there is >someone who is willing to work this out for us. > > We need to have a look at someting location and some >backing to make an event like this happen....and FAST. > >Trevor I am definitely interested, but I don't have access to the Flashmob CD. My attempts to download it have failed so far so I'd like to have the CD to play around with. Is there anyway I can get my hands on one so I can make a copy. I think as a first step let's do an inventory of the things that we will need for a fixed target audience size, say a 10 node flashmob. Then we can think of scaling it up if it works. -Rajesh

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] error in grub.conf
by Poornima Marattil 03 May '04

03 May '04

hi pramila, one guess is that ur new kernel does not support the required file system.you can try this boot ur system using a rescue img and make a initrd image which has the missing file system modules eg: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-new.img <kernel-version> --with=ext3 --with=jbd and give this in ur grub conf initrd /initrd-new.img since u have a scsi disk u may need other modules 2. do include that in ur initrd img regards, poornima On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 pramila wrote : >thanks 4 help, > >/dev/sda1 worked actually mkinitrd >but now i am getting error >Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to >kernel. >whats this ? >tried google but cant find solution > > >Santhosh Joseph <santhosh(a)ezrs.com> wrote: >looks like this is a path related issue. > >Use a rescue CD if available, mount your partitions, chroot and >edit the >grub.conf file to set the correct location > > >pramila wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I recomplied my kernel 2.4.20 > >but when tried to boot with new kernel image, > >grub gives an error- > > > >" cannot open root device / please append a correct root=boot >option" > > > >any suggessions ? > > > >my /etc/grub.conf is - > > > >default=0 > >timeout=10 > >splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > >title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) > >root (hd0,0) > >kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ > >initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img > > > >title Red Hat Linux NEW (2.4.20-8) > >root (hd0,0) > >kernel /newbzimage ro root=LABEL=/ > >initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img > > > > > > > >--------------------------------- > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs > > > > > > >-- >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs >-- >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] anyone need the flashmob cd???
by gaurav mishra 03 May '04

03 May '04

i got the mail but don`t know whatsis this all abut . Well in case of participation i can help for sure. ----- Original Message ----- From: Trevor Warren <trevorwarren(a)yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 19:32:22 -0700 (PDT) To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] anyone need the flashmob cd??? > Morning Vivek, > > --- Vivek J Patankar <vj714151-ilugbom(a)yahoo.com> > wrote: > > I'm game... just tell me when and where? > > vivek > [snip] > > > We are gonna need quite some more enthusiats you > know...:D. Lets wait and see if someone wakes up from > their slumber on this front. > > Trevor > > > ===== > ( >- -< ) > /~\ __ Scaling FLOSS in the __ /~\ > | \) / Enterprise : trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | > |_|_ \ Call Now: 9820349221 / _|_| > \____________________________________/ > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs > http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover > > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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[ot[commercial] python/perl developers wanted
by Trevor Warren 02 May '04

02 May '04

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] anyone need the flashmob cd???
by Trevor Warren 02 May '04

02 May '04

Afternoon Rishi, --- Rishi <rg(a)theargoncompany.com> wrote: > On Sunday 02 May 2004 8:02 am, Trevor Warren wrote: > I don't have that kind of power to attend a flashmob > meets.. But I'm sure the > computers at IIT will have that kind of power and > network to deliver what's > needed. [snip] Yep, that would be a great idea. But getting our machines into/out of iit will be a nightmare. The logistics surely will be a nightmare. Unless there is someone who is willing to work this out for us. We need to have a look at someting location and some backing to make an event like this happen....and FAST. Trevor > > Rishi > ===== ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Scaling FLOSS in the __ /~\ | \) / Enterprise : trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Call Now: 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover

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Announcing live CD for bio/chemical modeling
by Amish Munshi 02 May '04

02 May '04

Pratul K. Agarwal from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA) has released VigyaanCD. Vigyaan (http://www.vigyaancd.org/) is an electronic workbench for bioinformatics, computational biology and computational chemistry. It has been designed to meet the needs of both beginners and experts. VigyaanCD is a complete computer operating system on a CD, containing all the required software to boot the computer with ready to use modeling software. No additional software or operating system is required for VigyaanCD to work. At present the following ready to use software comes on VigyaanCD: Artemis, Bioperl, BLAST (NCBI-tools), ClustalX, Cn3D, EMBOSS tools, Garlic, GROMACS, Ghemical, GNU R, Gnuplot, GIMP, ImageMagick, JMol, MPQC, NJPlot, Open Babel, Octave, PSI3, PyMOL, Rasmol, Raster3D, SMILE, TINKER, XDrawChem, Xmgr and Xfig. GNU C/C++/Fortran compilers and additional Linux tools (such as ps2pdf) are also available. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin

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[ot]Re: VigyaanCD: bio/chemical modeling workbench
by Trevor Warren 02 May '04

02 May '04

--- "Pratul K. Agarwal" <pagarwal(a)linus.ornl.gov> wrote: > Hello, > > Could you please post this message to your Linux > users > group? > > Thanks, > > Pratul K. Agarwal, Ph.D. > (Developer, VigyaanCD) > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Announcing the release of VigyaanCD. > > Pratul K. Agarwal from Oak Ridge National Laboratory > (USA) > has released VigyaanCD. Vigyaan > (http://www.vigyaancd.org/) > is an electronic workbench for bioinformatics, > computational > biology and computational chemistry. It has been > designed to > meet the needs of both beginners and experts. > VigyaanCD is a > complete computer operating system on a CD, > containing all > the required software to boot the computer with > ready to use > modeling software. No additional software or > operating > system is required for VigyaanCD to work. > > At present the following ready to use software comes > on > VigyaanCD: Artemis, Bioperl, BLAST (NCBI-tools), > ClustalX, > Cn3D, EMBOSS tools, Garlic, GROMACS, Ghemical, GNU > R, > Gnuplot, GIMP, ImageMagick, JMol, MPQC, NJPlot, Open > Babel, > Octave, PSI3, PyMOL, Rasmol, Raster3D, SMILE, > TINKER, > XDrawChem, Xmgr and Xfig. GNU C/C++/Fortran > compilers and > additional Linux tools (such as ps2pdf) are also > available. > > k > > > > ===== ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Scaling FLOSS in the __ /~\ | \) / Enterprise : trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Call Now: 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover

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anyone need the flashmob cd???
by Trevor Warren 02 May '04

02 May '04

Evening Pals...!!!, Was thinking about meeting up for a mini flashmob this weekend but there seems to be no response from anyone. Anyways...have got the iso downloaded and burnt. It seems to work on some P4 machines here. Need to test it on my AMD Athlon at home. Anyone interested in joining in the fun please push for a mini flashmob soa s to enable us do some testing as a group. Trevor ===== ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Scaling FLOSS in the __ /~\ | \) / Enterprise : trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Call Now: 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover

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PDA + Phone + Linux sync sw
by Rishi 01 May '04

01 May '04

Hi Guys, My boss wants a state of the art / latest / greated PDA + Phone that works in US and India + bundled software to sync with the GNU/Linux operating system. He is going to the US tonight and will buy it from there. Anyone that has done R&D on this topic and can suggest a model I should tell him to buy, would be super. For the past 1 hour I've been on Google, LinuxDevices, Palm.com and Nokia.com and have got even more confused on what I should recommend/suggest. ;-) Any help would be great. My goal is to prevent him from buying a product that would require him to switch (dual boot) into Windows just so that he can sync his PDA with the computer for data entry. I've not had much success with the PDA sync tools on GNU/Linux with his notebook. Probably got something to do with the USB / Serial Port thingy.. Regards Rishi

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