Linuxers April 2005

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Broadband service and LAN/home networking with Linux
by Mayuresh Rajwadkar 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

HI Does anyone use a broadband connection, and run a LAN behind a Linux Server ? I understand that most broadband providers talk on "single" connection/Single PC only for residential connections. Regards Mayuresh

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Help with Soft IP Phones
by John Marder 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Hi! I am planning to setup a Soft IP phone on 4 machines here in my company. I have been advised to use the Cisco one. As I don't understand much about soft ip phones, would someone be kind enough to tell me a little about it and/or post a few links etc. in order to point me in the right direction. thanx in adv. john

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Times reports on Mah Govt OpenOffice &GNU/Linux
by jitendras＠vsnl.com 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

see Times of India, 19 April , Page 6 CityNotes Mumbai Titled : "State logs on to Cost cutting..." jitendra

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] delayed SSH passwd prompt when internet down
by chirag radhakrishnan 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Vipul Mathur <vipul(a)linux-delhi.org> wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 05:19:54AM -0000, vaibhav samant wrote: > If internet is down, and if I try to ssh to the server from within the > LAN the passwd prompt come late. What could be the reason for this. DNS. Or rather reverse lookup. Add a local (within LAN) DNS server with forward and reverse entries for your local machines and make sure this server is queried first. Your problem of "late prompt" will disappear. -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org http://www.vipulmathur.org/ -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers Alternatively uou can add the entry in the local machines host file. Also add an entry for your machine on the remote host Regards, Chirag --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Broadband service and LAN/home networking with Linux
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

On Monday 18 April 2005 20:44, Abhishek Daga wrote: > > I am waiting for Reliance broadband to come out with their works. > My neighbor, being a fortunate reliance employee up in the pyramid > somewhere, has had an amazing broadband connection for free for a > year, 512 Kbps minimum, Video on demand, Phone etc etc. I attempted > sharing that connection via wireless 802.11b, but the signal did > not travel the distance we wanted, but it worked!. For almost 2 > days I could surf at 512 Kbps sitting on the Pot. (the closest > spot).. U need to put a RF cable RG213 or RG59 from the o/p of your card to an external antenna. If you add a Power Amp. you could easily get a radius range of 1 km with BW of 2mbps. Set up squid and share the price and goodies with neighbours. Ofcourse everone will need a 802.11 card. rgds jtd

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[OT]MTNL TriBand Connection
by Joel A Divekar 18 Apr '05

18 Apr '05

Hi I wish to access a linux machine from internet. Please help me with the following queries a) Anybody using MTNL TriBand Connection with Linux. I have Debian Woody installed. Are there any configuration issues either Hardware / Software. Any link to refer ? b) Do they provide live IP ? c) Is bandwidth good ? Is the service reliable ? Uptime ? Regards Joel

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Broadband service and LAN/home networking with Linux
by Abhishek Daga 18 Apr '05

18 Apr '05

--- Dinesh Joshi <dinesh_pro(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > I think I know what he means. Incable, BSES, 7star mention in their ToS that > only 1 PC may connect to their service. They will "disconnect" the users who > are found to use NAT or any kind of bandwidth sharing techniques... which is > absurd. In the end all I get is only the pathetic narrowband speed. Doesnt > matter whether I have 1 computer or a internal network of 100 PCs. > > Regards, > Dinesh. I dont know why even in this internet day and age we are just Lagging behind the US in all this? One would think we are more upto speed now and dont have to make the same mistakes to learn from them? Around 5 yrs ago, AT&T broadband tried the same stunt on me when I told them that I wanted to share the connection via a router. Note please, the Input remains the same whether it's 1 or 100 PCs. So, they said, if you want extra PCs you will have to pay $4.5 per machine more.. I said why? they said, Because only then we would "support it". I said, but I dont need your support and if you do come by, I Will show u that it's working on 1 PC only. How difficult would that be to remove a ethernet cable from the router to the PC? I dont think they had a prepared response for it. I asked him/her categorically. "Is it Illegal to use it"??? I never got a straight response. It was DSLreports that cleared everything for me. That basically a NIC is a NIC, whether it comes into your computer or a router. Then what u do with it is your problem, yes they can say they will not support it, but I dont think they ever found enough number of bakras to fall for the $4.5/machine/month extra crap. In the end I believe they just gave up. If this matter were to be challenged legally, i dont think the cable companies stand a chance. But then again, they are not exactly your poster boys for law abiders (sic) so they'll just cut your line anyways. I am waiting for Reliance broadband to come out with their works. My neighbor, being a fortunate reliance employee up in the pyramid somewhere, has had an amazing broadband connection for free for a year, 512 Kbps minimum, Video on demand, Phone etc etc. I attempted sharing that connection via wireless 802.11b, but the signal did not travel the distance we wanted, but it worked!. For almost 2 days I could surf at 512 Kbps sitting on the Pot. (the closest spot).. -abhishek __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail

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Running FoxPRo app on FC3 via DosEMU
by Abhishek Daga 18 Apr '05

18 Apr '05

At the risk of stating the obvious, I'd like to add my 2 dinars. A major roadblock to adoption of linux in small offices is that accounting applications currently dependent on DOS (yes still people use them, and they work great) and Win platforms need to be run. No way those people are going to adopt to any experimental software. So, the mission began. Taking 1 office at a time: (In my verbose narration I will mark the "points to ponder" within %% and %%) ================================ Office 1: Small office using FoxPro based accounting package with upto 5/6 users at a time. Simple people need simple apps and it's a mystery why FoxPro is not the sher khan in this app world. Simplicity also calls for leaving Wine aside for a while and going one level "below" to DosEMU which as the name suggests is a DOS Emulator. (yes, figured it all by myself!) Platform: FC3 Default install DOSEMU: 1.2.2.1 (www.dosemu.org) latest stable version. RPM had dependencies. So installed pretty much all the developer tools. Got it working. %% It asked me for CD 2/3/1/2/3/1/2/3 %% Got dosEMU running by typing xdosemu which starts DOS in its own window. (I daresay the Good Ol RHL FC Bible was far more useful than the ubiquitous google) The c: which you will see is actually existing in /$HOME/dosemu/freedos Now you know your mapping point. Fire the program and it comes up. Yeah.. just like that. DosBOX also works fine, However, The Screen cannot be Maximised. With DosEMU the screen can be maximized. Remaining Steps: **Making it run from multiple Linux Clients accessing this package on a Linux Server. ** Making sure that the printing works! Else the whole exercise would be a no go. So, Once this happens, the people to benefit? a) The company and employees. Currently atleast 1 person a day suffers for 3 hours of downtime due to viruses. b) The Tech Support engineer. Who comes does reinstall or reformat or Re-whatever each time things go wrong, thus spending X hours. It's like mopping the floor without shutting the tap. c)Anyone still running FoxPro apps pointlessly on Win Machines seeking redemption, here's your ray of light. c) Myself: I'll get my mug on the cover of Time Magazine or Jane's Defence Weekly. ============================================================ The following Case is really boring and without even a successful or potentially successful outcome. You might as well press your "NEXT" button. OK... If still interested, here goes. Office 2: Another small office running Tata EX Next Gen. Crossover office and wine failed to get my RH/FC boxes to talk to Tata EX Next Gen running on Win XP Pro (requiring SQL Server). The thick client installed fine. However on running, the symptoms it displayed were typical when it is unable to connect to the DB. The only thing different I had done while installing TataEX was to install MS SQL Server outside the EX directory. As thr EX directory was required to be shared, i thought keeping the DB unshared (Well in some way anyways) is a little more secure. So the Thick client talks to the Server which talks to the DB and accounting happens. %%I am not sure if variation in the installation of EX has caused my EX client to not find the DB.%% Since it is hardware lock based, and Installing EX on WinXP PRo is a pain, will be a while before I do a resintall with default settings and try running it. Trying to install SQL Server on RH9 using Wine failed. There is a thin line between ambition and foolhardiness they almighty Lord of Free Things wants to tell you through me. %%% Can anyone throw light on whether hardware locks are in any way OS dependent? Because I am gonna try installing EX Next Gen Single USer Version (which uses the MS Access Engine) on a FC3 Machine using Wine. Not sure how the hardware lock would be handled. %%% -Abhishek __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Plan great trips with Yahoo! Travel: Now over 17,000 guides! http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide

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Re:Hdd cable
by Sachin 18 Apr '05

18 Apr '05

> This problem was observed in machines having >independent cables too. When there is a cd rom >and a writer in the system, both have to be in >seperate ide channels for faster cd to cd writing. >The writer has to be master so sec. master. This >leaves primary slave for the cd rom. I have a Secondary master (cd Writer) and secondary slave as the cd-rom, Though it works fine and doesn't make a complain about it on linux, Windowsxp seems to hang often. Do you think this could be the reason? Raj __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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64-bit compilation
by santosh rao 18 Apr '05

18 Apr '05

Hi, i have a amd-opteron 246 processor. with slackware 10 installed. i have gcc-3.3.4 when i try to compile any code with 64-bit flag it is giving me an error stating that 64 bit not implemented. Do i have to install a newer version of gcc? Google as well as gcc.gnu doesny say much about 64bit compilation .... Anyone with any knowledge of 64 bit compilation please reply. -- Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take; out by the moments that take our breath away. Regards Santosh Rao

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