Linuxers August 2004

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Talk on Free Software and Super Computing
by Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe 20 Aug '04

20 Aug '04

Time: 5:30pm, Sunday 22nd August, 2004 Venue: Seminar Hall, 3rd Floor, KReSIT, IIT Bombay Title: Thunder - Free Software and Super Computing The talk covers the design and development of Thunder Super Computer and its associated Free Software stack. Thunder, designed by California Digital, can perform 23 trillion floating point operations per second (peak) yielding the best price/performance ratio at 86.7% efficiency. (highest efficiency rating recorded at this scale). It is rated as the world's second fastest super-computer. http://www.californiadigital.com/thunder.shtml Speaker: Mr. Anand Babu The speaker is an active Free Software developer, and a full-time GNU volunteer. He is an author/maintainer for various Free Software projects like FreeIPMI System, HDB/RPCI, Hymn, Freehoo and bios-config. He leads the Free Software Division of California Digital as Chief Software Architect and VP. -- Research Scholar, KReSIT, IIT Bombay http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sameerds/

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Re: unicode html 2 pdf
by Indictrans Team 20 Aug '04

20 Aug '04

hi, for pdf generation fpdf (www.fpdf.org) seems to be the easiest solution. for a VERY PRIMITIVE demo of online pdf generation in Devanagari , see indictrans.org/pdfdemo swapnil

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Anand Babu in Mumbai
by Nagarjuna G. 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

------------------------------------------- Please forward this to those in CDAC, Mumbai University, Puna, Nashik, BARC who will be interested in super computing. ------------------------------------------- Talk by Anand Babu on Thunder: Free Software and Super Computing Venue: TIFR, Colaba (www.tifr.res.in) 11am on Sunday 22nd. Venue: IIT Mumbai (Kresit Auditorium) 5:30pm on Sunday 22nd. All are welcome to attend at any of the above convenient venues. Anand Babu, the main hacker of Thunder, the second fastest super computer made with GNU/Linux, is visiting Mumbai on his way back to US. He will be talking about design and development of Thunder Super Computer and its associated Free Software stack. Thunder can perform 23 trillion floating point operations per second (peak) yielding the best price/performance ratio at 86.7% efficiency. (highest efficiency rating recorded at this scale). Presentation material: bzip2 compressed PDF document: http://www.gnu-india.org/ab/thunder/thunder-experience.pdf.bz2 Picture of Thunder Super Computer: http://gnu-india.org/ab/thunder/ThunderApril2004_300dpi.jpg You can find a brief intro about Anand Babu at http://chennailug.org/ web site - main page. -- Nagarjuna

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Problem with USB HID subsystem!
by Ashok Iyer 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Hi, I am facing a problem with a USB device. This device is an HID device (i.e. not a keyboard/mouse/joystick). The Linux kernel is able to recognize the device as a HID device and load the appropriate modules. Using the HIDDEV ioctl's , in my application, I am able to get the vendor indetification, string descriptors and applications that the device supports. My problem is the following. This device supports a certain protocol using which commands can be sent to the device and it will respond with appropriate information. However, I do not know how to use the available IOCTL's in the hiddev usb subsystem to issue these commands to the device. I have been successful in writing my owm device driver for this device (i.e. bypassing the hiddev interface) and with this I can issue those commands to the device and get the information. Now I want to do this same thing using the hiddev interface and the facilities it provides. Any pointers will be helpful. Regards, Ashok Iyer

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Grouchy old man script
by Vickram Crishna 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

At 8:43 AM +0530 8/19/04, Philip Tellis wrote: > >Suggestions for improvement welcome. Requests to explain/comment the >code will be met with deaf ears. What's the logic here? I noted your point about people checking out the script for themselves, but I personally feel it is good discipline to comment code, if only ;-) for posterity, and it is GOM (grand old men, not limited to subset grouchy ;-) old men) who set the standards for neophytes and budding GOM (and GOW). -- Vickram

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Novell Linux day invitation.
by Amish Munshi 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Novell and Linux means business ------------------------------- If you only attend one IT event this year, this is the one. There has been a lot of talk about Open Source and Linux and you would be forgiven if you thought it was just that - talk. Up until now no one company could provide an end-to-end managed Linux solution. Novell offers a complete range of enterprise Linux solutions, from server to desktop. You can now implement Linux and have all the infrastructure management tools and support you need. So Linux has just got better. Progressive IT professionals in all kinds of businesses are formulating a Linux strategy. And why wouldn't you? You get greater control, freedom of choice, no vendor lock-ins and lower IT infrastructure costs. It's logical. You will hear about: * Where Open Source is heading and the directions emerging from the Open Source community. * The latest trends and growth projections for Open Source. * Why Linux is now a viable choice as a core enterprise computing platform. * Who in the corporate world is already using Linux and what have been their experiences. * The views of major vendors and their Linux strategy roadmap. * How to make Linux the core platform in your IT environment and migration considerations. You will see demonstrations of: * Linux for the desktop * Linux server * Developing applications for Linux using Mono and .Net You will get FREE evaluation software: By registering and attending this event you will receive a complete set of Linux evaluation software for FREE! When and Where: --------------- Aug 31 : Mumbai 9:00am 5:00pm Hotel Intercontinental The Grand Registration : http://www.novell.com/offices/asiapac/mumbai.html Sept 2 : Bangalore 9:00am 5:00pm Hotel Taj West End Registration : http://www.novell.com/offices/asiapac/bangalore.html Sept 3 : Delhi 9:00am 5:00pm Hotel Taj Palace http://www.novell.com/offices/asiapac/delhi.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- By attending Novell's Linux Day you are eligible to win a Linux based Motorola A760* ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Five countries to get cheap Windows XP
by scrapo＠saswatabanerjee.com 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Philip Tellis <philip.tellis(a)gmx.net> wrote: __________ >Sometime Today, Devdas Bhagat assembled some asciibets to say: > >> Please stop top posting. > >did you notice the long lines or did they not bother you? This is what >it looks like in the archives: >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20040816/015950.ht… > >Don't know about you, but I hate horizontal scrolling, especially since >my scroll mouse doesn't have a left-right scroll. > I am using a smartphone for most of my email requirements. The email client does not have a fixed line size concept. Since most email clients do wrap text lines, it didn't matter. The top post also is because I need to use the stylus to do interleved posting and can do top posting automatically by using built in scroller. Rgards saswata

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Grouchy old man script
by Philip Tellis 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

I wrote a little perl script that reads through the pipermail archives and lets you know whether a message is top-posted/overquoted/has long lines/excessively long signature/disclaimer attached to it. Find the script at: http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/lug-authors/philip/bin/maillist_grouchy_old_man See it in action at: http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/cgi-bin/grouchy-man/message_id Where message_id is the id of a message (including leading zeroes) eg: http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/cgi-bin/grouchy-man/014113 for a nice example from Dinesh. Figure out what the different values at the bottom mean. Now don't overload the server having fun. Suggestions for improvement welcome. Requests to explain/comment the code will be met with deaf ears. -- Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them. -- Will Rogers

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RE: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Five countries to get cheap Windows XP
by scrapo＠saswatabanerjee.com 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

microsoft has obviously misread the market. There have been repeated suggestions to them for lower pricing in asia on buyer power basis. Instead they have come up with this really stupid option. They don't seem to realise that asian consumeras are more tech savy and very conscipous of cost-benefit analysys. It is going to leave many managers read in face soon. Regards saswata "Aayush Iyer" <aayush.iyer(a)ftgl.net> wrote: __________ > >Posted by michael on Sunday August 15, @12:50PM @Slashdot.org > >from the windows-with-training-wheels dept. >de la mettrie writes "C-Net reports that analysts do not recommend using >Microsoft's new 'Windows XP Starter Edition', a low-cost XP version >aimed at the Asian market (and previously covered on Slashdot). The >report notes that numerous networking features are removed, and the >Starter Edition allows only three applications to be run concurrently. >According to Microsoft, this limitation 'helps [users] stay organized >and reduces confusion.'" > >""The report notes that numerous networking features are removed, and >the Starter Edition allows only three applications to be run >concurrently. According to Microsoft, this limitation 'helps [users] >stay organized and reduces confusion.'"" > >Do we really need this? > > >Email: aayush.iyer(a)ftgl.net >ICQ: 298353370 > > > > > >-- >http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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unicode html 2 pdf
by Harsh Busa 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

hi all i m trying to write a webapp which generates some unicode html - basically local language text and need to convert it to a pdf. any pointers ? using pdflib / perlmods doesnt help coz there seems to be little support for either unicode or it is not able to find the fonts any pointers please help -- __________________________ http://www.ebackend.com/blog

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