Linuxers November 2006

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ZTE MC315 working on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu)?
by Frederick Noronha 11 Nov '06

11 Nov '06

Can anyone help me to get a Reliance datacard ZTE MC315 working on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu)? Is there a solution to that? FN -- FN 9822122436 +91-832-240-9490 (phone calls after 1 pm please) Free the airwaves... for India's sake (see the article at the URL below) [http://www.tehelka.com/home/20061111/20061111.asp?filename=18.jpg]

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BoF: 10th November 2006 (report)
by Roshan 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Hello, If you couldn't attend the BoF yesterday, here's a description of what happened. http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Report101106 Barkha, Devdas, Gaurav, please confirm (permission), if I can display the pic taken on the wiki. I have asked Anurag and Vivek. Please confirm your approval. -- http://sankoobaba.blogspot.com __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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FOSS.in... Nov 24-26, 2006 Bangalore
by Frederick Noronha 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

QUOTE: FOSS.IN is one of the world's largest and most focussed FOSS events, held annually India. Over the years, it has attracted thousands of participants, and the speaker roster reads like a "Who is Who" of FOSS contributors from across the world. ENDQUOTE http://foss.in/2006/info/Final_List Addendum It was truly an herculean task to wade through the tons of amazing talks and tutorials, and we must admit that we have left out a lot of good talks for unavailability of slots. The organizers express gratitude to all the people who submitted talks and hope they will be involved with the event in some way. The List 1 A.R.KARTHICK OPENCLOVIS ASP - An Open Sourced Carrier Grade Middleware Talk 2 Aaron Seigo KDE4 And You Talk 3 Aaron Seigo Writing Applications With KDE4 Workshop 4 Aditya Godbole Porting the FreeBSD kernel Talk 5 Ajit Sabnis Open Source Portal Talk 6 Anandaraj Thangappan Eclipse plugin development Talk 7 Andrew Cowie On The Cutting Edge: solving the fundamental structural problem of the free software movement Talk 8 Andrew Cowie Opening GTK to Java programmers: the past, present and future of the java-gnome bindings project Talk 9 Aneesh Kumar K.V Linux Kernel Clustering Framework Talk 10 Anurag Shekhar Apache Derby 10.2 Talk 11 Archana Kumar Open Source IT Monitoring Tool - A look at Zenoss Talk 12 Ashutosh Dhanesha Project INVITE Talk 13 Ashwin Chaugule Linux WiFi Stacks Talk 14 Avik Sengupta OpenBSD in the wild - a personal journey Talk 15 B N Poornima Best Practices in Linux Kernel Testing Talk 16 B.C. Sekar Adding new protocol decode support in Ethereal Workshop 17 Bijon B Shaha A 'Toaster' in Service of Freedom Talk 18 Biju Chacko Using Gentoo Portage to Build a Sand Boxed Application Stack Talk 19 Biswaranjan Nayak The State of OTG in the Linux Kernel Talk 20 Charles Rose Software Change Management for Hardware Talk 21 Christof Wittig How we Fix the Software Industry with Open Source Talk 22 Christoph Hellwig Contributing to the Linux Kernel for fun and profit Talk 23 Christoph Hellwig The TFRC Tunnel Protocol - an XFRM-based tunnel driver for Linux 2.6 Talk 24 Danese Cooper The Truth about FOSS and Open Standards Talk 25 Dibya Prakash Porting Ruby into Symbian OS - Google SOC project Talk 26 Frederick FN Noronha Ten Tips To Turbocharge The Team: Getting Smaller User-Groups Moving Talk 27 Gopalarathnam Venkatesan JSON - a lightweight data-interchange format Talk 28 Guntupalli Karunakar Indic computing workshop Workshop 29 Harald Welte OpenPCD and OpenPICC: Free Software and Hardware for RFID Talk 30 Harald Welte Developing with OpenEmbedded on the Simputer Talk 31 Harsha Padmanabha Image builder for Embedded Systems Talk 32 Indranil Das Gupta IT Asset Management using FOSS tools Talk 33 Isaac Praveen Developing web applications with perl/Catalyst Talk 34 Jaimon Jose Secure Linux Programming Talk 35 Jaya Kumar The Linux kernel, GPLv2 and GPLv3 Draft2 Talk 36 Jaya Kumar ALSA and OLPC audio Talk 37 Jayasankar Divakarla Linux Security Module. Talk 38 K .Sebi Kumar Open standards and CGL driving Telecom revolution Talk 39 K. K. Subramaniam FOSS tools in primary schools Talk 40 Kai Voigt MySQL 5.0 & LDAP Talk 41 Kalyan Varma Digital Photography and Linux Talk 42 Kartik Mistry How to become 3rd Indian Debian Developer Talk 43 Kushal Das Inside of Fedora Extras, a technical journey Talk 44 Luke Kanies Puppet - Portable System Automation Talk 45 MADHUKAR GUNJAN CHAKHAIYAR iSCSI - An emerging technology and its footprint in Linux. (( STANDARD- IETF 50 AND RFC 3720 )) Talk 46 Mahesh T. Pai Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodiet? Talk 47 Manu Konchady A FOSS Bridge to Cross the Digital Divide Talk 48 Mathew Varghese Open Source Product Documentation Framework Workshop 49 Natarajan Kannan Webmarker - Your marker pen for the web Talk 50 Nirav Mehta FOSS infrastructure for your organization Talk 51 Noor Ul Mubeen sUSBix - stick to it ! Talk 52 Pankaj Kaushal Monitoring Large Scale Web Applications with Nagios Talk 53 Peter Karlsson Application Perf Tuning on OpenSolaris using DTrace Talk 54 Philip Tellis libyahoo2 - the 'other' messaging library Talk 55 Pradeepto Kumar Bhattacharya Interview Tips - How to perform well in your next Interview? Tutorial 56 Prashanth Mohan Tutorial Session on LDTP Tutorial 57 Prashanth N Udupa Visualization on Linux with VTK Designer Talk 58 Priti Patil Project Talk: janabhaaratii: Localisation of Free/Open Source Software Talk 59 Raghu Venkataramana WET – A commercial grade opensource web testing tool Talk 60 Rahul Sundaram One Laptop Per Child - challenges & development Talk 61 Ramya B.B Pushing drivers to user-space Talk 62 Rasmus Lerdorf Getting Rich with PHP 5 Talk 63 Roger Persson Creating a Flexible Robot Controller using Python Talk 64 Russell Nelson Which Open Source License? Talk 65 Russell Nelson "But I'm not a hardware guy" Tutorial 66 Shyamal Misra SDL - The New Mantra of Game Development Talk 67 SijiSunny An Historical Merging from Xfree86 to Xorg Talk 68 Sirtaj Singh Kang Writing an SMS Service with Free Software Talk 69 Sirtaj Singh Kang Qt Graphics View - A Fresh Canvas Talk 70 Sivakumar Thyagarajan Building an open source Java EE 5 application server - Project GlassFish Workshop 71 Sony Kuruvilla Philip OpenVPN - A functional and easy VPN Tutorial 72 Sudhakar Thaths Chandra Hacking the Slug Workshop 73 Sulamita Garcia Makefiles - Dark Magic in Programming Talk 74 Sulamita Garcia Creating Load Balance environments Tutorial 75 Sunil Abraham Impact of Indian Copyright and Patent Law on FOSS Talk 76 Suparna Bhattacharya ext4 development - a work-in-progress update Talk 77 Suparna Bhattacharya Linux and the art of minimalist development Talk 78 Tim Pritlove Closing Keynote Talk 79 Vamsee Krishna Kanakala Strap on your rocket packs: Web Development in Common Lisp Tutorial 80 Venkata Kishore BrandZ: A framework for non-native vitualized operating enviroment in OpenSolaris Talk 81 Vivek K.S. OpenAlchemy Talk 82 Vrushali Mahalley Overview of Open Web Single Sign-On Talk * * * * * People who wish to attend FOSS.IN can now register themselves online and avail a 50% discount on the Rs.1000 delegate fee - if you register online and bring your registration code to the venue, you have to pay only Rs.500 Online Registration will be open till the 22nd of November 2006, after which registration opens at the venue (without discount). Please read the instructions carefully, and don't forget to bring your registration code to the venue! Here's the URL to go to: https://foss.in/2006/cfp/delegates/

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Charity shuns open source code
by Rony 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Hello All, Below is an example of how M$ salesmen brainwash people. The charity head just needs a few viruses and trojans to understand that his 90m pounds are more safe under Linux and open source means opening the source code, not the compiled code that makes the OS software. ""We are a funding organisation that ships £90m around the world - the last thing you want to do is open up your systems to anybody to have a look at to deal with bugs," he said." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6124582.stm May I suggest that instead of bashing the charity, we could write a nice email to them explaining the differences in the closed and OSS concept and what misconceptions they have about linux. Regards, Rony. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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problem with sound server
by Pradnyesh Sawant 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

hello, i have debian 3.0 installed on my AMD 2600+ system. i'm using the alsa sound server, and have the nvidia-nforce2 soundcard. i'm getting the following problem with my sound server. when i try to run any music using either xmms or amarok, the system kinda hangs for a few seconds. i say "kinda" because the sound keeps on playing, but nothing else works for quite some time. i cant cycle between windows, can't open new applications. the only thing i can do is to use the amarok global shortcut to stop the current song, which stops after about a min or so, and then the system starts functioning properly. logging off or even restarting the m/c doesn't help. googling suggested that only one application can use the sound system at a time, so i should disable the sound server usage in KDE (for notifications, kalarm, etc), but that didn't help. and neither did the other suggestion, which was to use alsaconf to reconfigure the sound server. thanks for the help in advance :) -- warm regards, Pradnyesh Sawant -- A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle --Anon

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Re: Microsoft Novell Collaboration
by Vihan Pandey 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

FACT : At the end of the day, a corporation's primary goal is to make money and take care of their self interest. In their spare time/expense they would probably want to do charity/social work(for various reasons). Thus Novell by default can do what it wants under the prescribed laws. The only way this can change is if a majority stock holder(by the way i don't who owns how much of Novell, but that data can be got from the U.S - S.E.C) decides a motion to oppose a company decision and gets enough share holder votes with him. Yes, the Novell ``user" does not and CAN NOT decide, its the share holders CAN, and if and only if they have a majority. If they don't, then whatever was done is done. If users are unhappy with the company policy, they can certainly complain(about a major business decision) but that is effective only if they have enough numbers to impact Novell's revenue. Even if that does happen, its all on the company business guys to see where ``more revenue" comes from and thus take a decision. Its about where the $$$ and the more $$$ comes from. So if the more $$$ is coming from M$ . . . need i say more. Also, if one play's with corporate fire, one must be ready to get burnt. Let me make one thing very clear. i don't oppose all commercial organisations. But it is very naive on anyone's part to think that all of them would be selfless in terms of protecting value systems, integrity and freedom at the cost of profits. Moreover if a person is using some free(as in freedom) software(partially/wholly developed by a commercial organisation), that organisation takes a decision which the customer is not happy with, and he/she doesn't have shareholder clout - there's really little to do in terms of changing that company's policy. What one can do is, STOP using that software and use alternatives. If there are components that are unavailable then use what is available and develop what is not. Is it difficult: YES, Is it going to be a path of pain: YES, Is it even possible: YES!!! The GNU project set out to do that and succeeded and getting most of the stuff needed, and over a period of time other people(Linus, etc etc etc.) and communities(BSD, ASF etc etc etc.) also contributed and at the end of the day, a working system did emerge. i think that says it all. It's Stallman and the printer all over again. Stallman wasn't a Xerox majority share holder and his efforts in getting the driver source code did not bear fruit, so he did what had to be done. The only question is are the users of Novell products going to do the same? Only time will tell. Regards, - vihan

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Microsoft-Novell Collaboration
by Vihan Pandey 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

<snip> > More questions: When were Novell SUSE customers > asked if they wished Novell to negotiate a agreement with Microsoft on > their > behalf? When were Novell SUSE customers asked about the terms of said > agreement? ... <snip> > Did > Novell truly represent the best interest of their customers using Power of > Attorney? Can Novell legally assume Power of Attorney for their customers > without a written grant? Do Novell customers have the ability to "opt-out" > of this agreement? Is this agreement binding on customers? " > Who gave Novell rights to decide on behalf of you just because you > happened > to buy a Novell product????? FACT : At the end of the day, a corporation's primary goal is to make money and take care of their self interest. In their spare time/expense they would probably want to do charity/social work(for various reasons). Thus Novell by default can do what it wants under the prescribed laws. The only way this can change is if a majority stock holder(by the way i don't who owns how much of Novell, but that data can be got from the U.S - S.E.C) decides a motion to oppose a company decision and gets enough share holder votes with him. Yes, the Novell ``user" does not and CAN NOT decide, its the share holders CAN, and if and only if they have a majority. If they don't, then whatever was done is done. If users are unhappy with the company policy, they can certainly complain(about a major business decision) but that is effective only if they have enough numbers to impact Novell's revenue. Even if that does happen, its all on the company business guys to see where ``more revenue" comes from and thus take a decision. Its about where the $$$ and the more $$$ comes from. So if the more $$$ is coming from M$ . . . need i say more. Also, if one play's with corporate fire, one must be ready to get burnt. Let me make one thing very clear. i don't oppose all commercial organisations. But it is very naive on anyone's part to think that all of them would be selfless in terms of protecting value systems, integrity and freedom at the cost of profits. Moreover if a person is using some free(as in freedom) software(partially/wholly developed by a commercial organisation), that organisation takes a decision which the customer is not happy with, and he/she doesn't have shareholder clout - there's really little to do in terms of changing that company's policy. What one can do is, STOP using that software and use alternatives. If there are components that are unavailable then use what is available and develop what is not. Is it difficult: YES, Is it going to be a path of pain: YES, Is it even possible: YES!!! The GNU project set out to do that and succeeded and getting most of the stuff needed, and over a period of time other people(Linus, etc etc etc.) and communities(BSD, ASF etc etc etc.) also contributed and at the end of the day, a working system did emerge. i think that says it all. It's Stallman and the printer all over again. Stallman wasn't a Xerox majority share holder and his efforts in getting the driver source code did not bear fruit, so he did what had to be done. The only question is are the users of Novell products going to do the same? Only time will tell. Regards, - vihan

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D-LINK WLAN card configuration regarding...
by George John 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Hi all, Can anyone let me know how to install and configure my "D-Link WLAN card on RHEL 4. The details of the D-LINK WLAN card is as follows: AirPlus G DWL-G510 Wireless G Desktop Adapter (PCI card) H/W Version : C2 F/W Version : 5.00 Also please suggest me any WLAN card that by default will install in RHEL/FEDORA. Thanks & Regards, George ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com

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Microsoft-Novell Collaboration
by Mrugesh Karnik 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Ah hello! I'm really surprised no has bothered throwing this piece of meat into the doghouse yet. Maybe everyone is dumbstruck? Well, anyway, for the unknowing: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/default.mspx http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/ Comments people? -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------

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by Dharmesh Kothari 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

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Linuxers November 2006