Linuxers November 2005

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Abt Device Driver
by hemendra jain 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Dear Luggers, Is there anybody who could take up a session on Device Driver. I believe there are people who are interested in Device Driver. Rgds, Hemendra

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A Configurator For OpenVPN
by Komal 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Just discovered this, a GTK# configurator for OpenVPN - http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvpnadmin/ Regards, Komal

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A Movie on FOSS
by Navin Dhanuka 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Hi, I am making a movie on FOSS. The script is online @ http://navin.ind.in/?p=32 I invite you to apply patches to improve the script. -- Navin Dhanuka I Blog @ http://www.navin.ind.in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FOSS TV -- http://www.foss.tv eTraining -- http://www.etraining.in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] hello to all
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

>> hi everyone, >> >> I want to greet everyone out there as i have joined this group recently. >yeah!!!! i am also very happy you joined I am not able to control my >joy, Oh..... I am going to cry!!!!! Someone please get him a tissue.. Who put this senti guy on the welcome committee ? ILaughter?UG

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Mac OS X Look
by Revant Nandgaonkar 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Is there any program like Stardock's objectbar for gnome? I tried Starterbar on gdesklet but it isnt working. Can anyone make gnome/fluxbox/xfce/anything(not KDE) look like Mac OS X, with the mac like menubar and everything, not like flyakite(http://osx.portraitofakite.com/) but complete OSX like behaviour, because poor people like me cannot get a real mac I wanna try how it feels on linux;) revant

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Multimedia in Linux
by Rony Bill 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Hello All, There was some discussion on playing cds on linux distros and the results seem to be 50-50. The experts have been able to play movies on various linux distros whereas the not-so-experts or those experts not into multimedia have not had much luck playing them. My system has the following configuration: P4 2.4 Ghz., Intel Original 845 GEBV2 mobo, 256 MB RAM, 80 GB baracuda hdd, Sony DVD rom, Samsung CD R/W. Now since one year, I have tried out many linux distros in order to find the ideal one that can do everything or atlest do the normal stuff thats done in the 'other' popular OS ;) While its no problem connecting to the net or email or word processing or firewall, a major block exists in the multimedia area. Detection of sound cards is not a very big issue as most of the distros did detect and install sound. The major roadblock is in running the media playes for mp3s, mpegs, VCDs or DVDs. In my system, the RHEL could play mp3s only after real player was downloaded. Debian could not play anything. Mandrake 10.1 was the only OS that played VCDs and DVDs without any extra download or installation. However it had a problem of residue picture frames scattering over the desktop on close of player. FC4, SuSe 10 as well as Ubuntu failed. SuSe 10 has CD mounting problems. Ubuntu 5.04 did not create a root password so it had to be created by booting into recovery mode. Even then, in the user mode gui, it does not accept the root password for admin utilities and says 'password incorrect'. As per the new instructions given about downloading codecs from mplayer and installing them in the /usr/lib/win32 dir, all this was done but the players in FC4, SuSe 10 as well as Ubuntu 5.04 that was tried out, don't play anything and simply give some errors. The latest effort was to download mplayer itself for FC4 and here's the result for the same. warning: mplayer-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b error: Failed dependencies: libXvMCW.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4.i386 libaa.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4.i386 libdvdread.so.3 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4.i386 libfribidi.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4.i386 liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4.i386 liblzo.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4.i386 libmad.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4.i386 libmp3lame.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4.i386 libxvidcore.so.4 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4.i386 mplayer-fonts is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4.i386 The point is that how much time does one have to spend on a linux system to get it running properly? My clients place an order for a computer and within 4 days it has to be ready. On the fifth day it is installed on site. In these 4 days the engineers are busy attending to other calls as well as other installations so the pattern is this: First day get the material from the dealer. Day two, install the system to test for any defects. Day two or day three, load the sofware. Day four keep the system on soak test. Day five, deliver the system. Now in this tight schedule, how is a production engineer expected to load linux for the latest hardware, with all its dependency problems? My users are mainly home and small office ones and they have a lot of multimedia activity going on. Please do not treat this message as a rant or cribbing or a complaint against linux. It is simply an SOS from a junior linuxer on behalf of other junior linuxers too. I am not looking at an individual problem for any particular distro. Its a general problem that I want to highlight. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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hello to all
by neelam patil 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

hi everyone, I want to greet everyone out there as i have joined this group recently. Now to introduce myself to u all i dont have much to say coz I have been using linux as a developement platform only for past 4-5 months and as a newbie to it , facing some problems while using it. I am trying to overcome these problems by refering to some books,net surfing and all that.So joining your grp is one of my efforts to understand linux neatly and enjoy it. I hope i will b guided by u all in this venture. With warm regards, neelam --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.

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[OT] 'expect' script to reboot MTNL DLink 502t modem/router
by Arun K. Khan 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Met with GM Broadband @ MTNL last Friday and he told me that their portal software was not ready to handle NU and non NU hours for the NU plan i.e. if the login sessions spans over NU and non NU hours, the traffic could counted towards "additional usage" leading to the overcharge nightmare I posted a few weeks back. He told me to turn the modem off/on @ 00:00 and 08:00 which would create fresh login sessions until the portal vendor provides them with a fix (this method was also discussed in this list). Fortunately, with a Linux/*nix box, the following script can automate this annoying chore. You need expect and tcl packages installed in your box. Enjoy, -- Arun Khan <script> #!/usr/bin/expect -f ########################################################################### # Name: dsl502t-reboot (install in /usr/local/bin, owner:group root.root # and file perms 700) # Purpose: Reboot the DLink 502T ADSL modem/router # Author: Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) # Warranty: None - if it breaks your system, you get to keep all the # pieces :) # Usage: Create a file with the following lines and install it in # /etc/cron.d - do not forget to remove "#" for the 2 entries ########################################################################### # reboot MTNL ADSL modem #1 0 * * * root /usr/local/bin/dsl502t-reboot #59 7 * * * root /usr/local/bin/dsl502t-reboot ########################################################################### # change the ip number if different spawn telnet 192.168.1.1 expect "ogin:" { send "root\r" } # change the password if different expect "ssword:" { send "admin\r" } expect "#" { send "reboot\r" } expect eof </script>

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Thanks for helping me with Shell Variables
by Sushant Gulati 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hello everybody, thanks for taking out time to solve my problem. Ur replies, greatly helped me understand the power of quoting and escaping, which i had failed to forsee. Warm regards Sushant __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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Rebuilding partition table.
by Varadarajan V 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi, I just wanted to share my experience so that those who are new to gnu/linux like me can use it better. I have an 80 GB hard disk. I had 9 partitions in it. I use both windows and linux. I was using WinImage to create a virtual hard disk and i ruined my partition table. I have a lot of data in my hard disk so I somehow wanted to recover. I googled. I was continuously getting same kind of solution. Noting down the Partition start and end address and creating it again exactly. Since I lost my partition table completely that solution was of no use to me. Then I found an utility called gpart in the live cd (Slax KillBill) (I use a couple of live cds). Using gpart I was able to rebuild my partition table. though I lost one partition(and some important data). Its unbelievably good that it uses some way of determining the start and end address of filesystems in partitions and rebuilds the partition table almost perfectly. For a newbie like me, it was a great experience and i learnt that gnu/linux can do wonders if u know how to use it. Regards, Raj

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Linuxers November 2005