Linuxers May 2005

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Problems loading XFree86 in 24-bit color and 1024x768 resolution on intelD845GLVA p4 motherboard
by tramsmai 13 May '05

13 May '05

"GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India"<linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> wrote: Hi all, I am having problems with graphics in debian.I am unable to run XFree86 in 1024x768 resolution and 24-bit color depth.During installing I could not find the proper driver for the graphics so I used vesa.But whenever I set the color-depth as 24-bit, it does not work.It works fine with 16-bit color depth.But the screen-size and video-quality is not upto my satisfaction. Please guide me. hi, If your graphics card is of Nvidia u need to download the drivers corresponding to the graphics card and then install them go to Nvidia's website and you will find the instructions and drivers bye ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers.indiatimes.com Bid for for Air Tickets @ Re.1 on Air Sahara Flights. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now!

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] acers latop AD: can we do something ?
by Abhishek Daga 12 May '05

12 May '05

--- Dinesh Joshi <dinesh_pro(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >From: "Amol Hatwar" <amol(a)hatwar.org> > > >I disagree that Acer sucks. I should know. I own an Acer Aspire 3002 NLC > >(running Mandrake Linux 10.1). > > I once saw ants crawlling out of an acer laptop. > > >As for being cheap, I don't think anybody would have a problem with that. > >;) > > Cheap == bad quality == not work for more than a few weeks to months... > > Plus, their warranty doesnt include the screen or any external parts of the > lappy. So if you scratch your screen or your keys fall off then you need to > pay for getting it repaired or replaced. They only have warranty for the > internal parts. I own a dell. It costed me a pretty penny and I can vouch > for their build quality and after sales service :) And their warranty covers > all parts - internal and external ;). They cover everything but dont protect > against arson or theft. > While we are on the topic of promoting the various brands, I'd say there is surely a connection between Toshibas and rock solid performance. especially the Tecra series.. almost battlefield standards. Alright, out you IBM and Sony lovers. Though it would take a shareholder of HP-Compaq user to promote their brand.. :) Or would they dare? -abhi Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html

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[OT] - Linux Book for beginners
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hi, Don't know if this is old news... Just snagged a book off the shelves.. Linux Bible 2005 - Chris. Negus. (I got it for rs.440) I'm just about to finish the 2nd chapter. so far so good ... not ready to comment on the book yet. But the killer thing is that the book comes with a DVD + CD ( the list as far I could see) DVD - Knoppix (bootable), RedHat FC 2, Slackware, SUSE LiveCD CD - Damn Small Linux (bootable - a knoppix variant), Debian Sarge Knoppix rocks! Yesterday was the historic day that I heard an mp3 play from linux + the sweet thing was that I was running linux off a Disc. No partitioning, no installation woes. "It simply worked !!!" I'd recommend this for someone who is just trying out Linux for the first time and doesn't want to "Initialize" his HDD Thanks, Gishu Pillai

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global address book using Open LDAP?
by agencies_ad1＠sancharnet.in 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hello. Is there any comprehensive how to out there to set up global address book using Open LDAP? Thank you Komal ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using NWebmail, BSNL's Webmail Program

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Problems loading XFree86 in 24-bit color and 1024x768 resolution on intelD845GLVA p4 motherboard
by rakesh hazra 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hi all, I am having problems with graphics in debian.I am unable to run XFree86 in 1024x768 resolution and 24-bit color depth.During installing I could not find the proper driver for the graphics so I used vesa.But whenever I set the color-depth as 24-bit, it does not work.It works fine with 16-bit color depth.But the screen-size and video-quality is not upto my satisfaction. Please guide me. ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony

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bad magic number in superblock
by Karia Amit 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hi all, I am trying to open file system through debugfs command and then /open command under it however its giving me 'bad magic number in superblock while opening file system' error how do i go about resolving it please guide as i want to list all deleted files in last 5 days "Difference Between Good And Great Is That Good Performs Well And Great Performs Well Consistently" Amit Karia +919819851812

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] India eyes own open-source license
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 12 May '05

12 May '05

On Thursday 12 May 2005 00:49, Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote: > http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5701861.html > > India eyes own open-source license > By Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com > Published on ZDNet News: May 11, 2005, 4:00 AM PT > > MUMBAI, India--In the seemingly never-ending quest to balance > openness with profits, one of India's more influential professors > is devising yet another open-source licensing program. > > Deepak Phatak of the Indian Institute of Technology has kicked off > an effort to create the Knowledge Public License, or KPL, a > licensing program that will let programmers share ideas with one > another while at the same time allowing them to retain the rights > to their own software modifications. the gpl automatically retains the copyrights of the creator with the creator. The creator assigns these rights to others. He can also provide the same work with any other licence he chooses. What the gpl specifically disallows is taking this code and using it without providing the recipients the rights granted by the contributor and contributors with accreditation etc. Nothing prevents you or me from obtaining a piece of code under a different licence form the copyright holder. With all due respect to the justifiably lauded Prof. Pathak, I see this licence as yet another (doomed) attempt like the Sun licence. What commercial organisations would love to do is get their hands on other's work without having to do the hardwork or paying. IMO you can take copyrighted code, read it and REIMPLEMENT it independently. But that would be incredible hard with gpld code because gpld code resolves quickly with the most optimal solution. Recoding would mostly end up with a much less than optimal solution, not counting other very MAJOR cost factors like testing and documenting and paying for people who can actually think. IMO its not the licence but the bussiness model which needs some creative thinking. rgds jtd

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] party time...low cost pcs to hit the stand
by Trevor Warren 12 May '05

12 May '05

Whatever can be done to reduce the cost of affordable computing be it Free Software / Open Source / Closed Software....market forces will see its adoption. Trevor |------|____________________________________|------| ( >- / Scaling FreeSoftware & OpenSource \ -< ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_ \____________________________________/ _|_| __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] party time...low cost pcs to hit the stand
by Trevor Warren 12 May '05

12 May '05

Shanti bhuva...!!!. The despicable person in me decided to take a long hike and stop yapping crap.:D. Trevor |------|____________________________________|------| ( >- / Scaling FreeSoftware & OpenSource \ -< ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_ \____________________________________/ _|_| Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html

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India eyes own open-source license
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 12 May '05

12 May '05

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5701861.html India eyes own open-source license By Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com Published on ZDNet News: May 11, 2005, 4:00 AM PT MUMBAI, India--In the seemingly never-ending quest to balance openness with profits, one of India's more influential professors is devising yet another open-source licensing program. Deepak Phatak of the Indian Institute of Technology has kicked off an effort to create the Knowledge Public License, or KPL, a licensing program that will let programmers share ideas with one another while at the same time allowing them to retain the rights to their own software modifications. The license will likely function much like the Berkeley Software Distribution or the MIT License programs, he added. The idea is to create an environment where developers can take advantage of the collaborative power of the open-source movement while giving individuals the ability to exploit their own twists. Ideally, such a program could also help ease the raging tensions between the open-source software movement and proprietary software companies. "The free software people are afflicted by what I call the J factor, which is the jealousy factor. The proprietary people are afflicted by the G factor, the greed factor. They want to maximally extract money from the world," Phatak said in an interview here. "I am working to tell the world, 'Please permit these groups to coexist peacefully and harmoniously. There is a tremendous advantage to everyone.'" "Legally, we have to move very carefully because the Americans have a tendency to sue anybody for anything," he added. The number of open-source licensing programs has expanded rapidly in the past few years. Under some programs, such as the General Public License, developers have to publish their modifications if the modifications are used outside their own operations. Many in the open-source community have complained about the proliferation of licensing models and taken action to curtail the numbers. Budding software powerhouse If anything, Phatak's licensing proposal comes with the power of numbers. India's 1,750 colleges with computer science and electrical engineering degrees admit about 250,000 students a year, he said. That's up from 1983, when there were 70 colleges admitting 5,000 students a year. Combined with the boom in outsourcing, this makes India one of the major centers for software development. A contest sponsored by Red Hat seeking new concepts for open-source software drew more than 2,000 proposals, Phatak said. Winners will be announced in a few weeks. Phatak has also created the Ekalavya program to stimulate open-source ideas. Under the program (named after a Hindu legend), students submit ideas to a collaborative portal. Those with promising ideas are then linked up with mentors in the industry. "Let me tell you my dream: Today, India is a net taker in the open-source community. In four years, I want the world to recognize India as a net giver, and that is entirely possible" he said. While collaboration between universities and private enterprise is not as pervasive in India as it is in the U.S., it's growing, according to many sources. For instance, start-ups created to exploit technology that was developed at universities have begun to pop up, according to Rishi Navani, managing director at WestBridge Capital Partners, a venture firm specializing in Indo-U.S. investments. One example is Strand Genomics, which specializes in analytical software for drug discovery and development. Professors at major institutions such as the Indian Institute of Technology or the Indian Institute of Science also sit on technology advisory boards with corporations and government agencies, which are often run by their former students. ("The IIT is a big club," said one graduate.) Recently, a large insurance company adopted thin clients rather than PCs in part because an IIT study showed that it could cut ownership costs by about two-thirds, Phatak said. A recent visitor to Phatak's office was Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Craig Mundie. "I told him a competitive price point (for a desktop OS) would be in the single digit dollars," Phatak said. END OF FORWARDED STORY [Thanks to Sunil Abraham for drawing attention to this story.-FN] _____ _/ ____\____ Frederick Noronha (FN) * Freelance Journalist \ __\/ \ Goa India T +91.832.2409490 M +919822 122436 | | | | \ http://fn.swiki.net http://goabooks.swiki.net |__| |___| / http://www.bytesforall.net http://www.goanet.org \/

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