Linuxers February 2006

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OpenGL X Desktop
by Mrugesh Karnik 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

Check this beauty out: http://www.freedesktop.org/~davidr/xgl-demo1.xvid.avi Mrugesh

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Minutes: Mark Shuttleworth's talk at IIT-Bombay
by Anurag 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

*Minutes of Mark Shuttleworth's talk at IIT-Bombay* The GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai held an additional GLUG meet in january at KReSIT, IIT-Bombay. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth interacted with the GLUG members and shared his views and ideas regarding ``Free Software'' and how it made a perfect business sense. This talk was attended by about 60 people coming from all over the country. Falling short of time, Mark Shuttleworth quickly talked about the following points, apart from answering questions. * Community and its background: Before starting his talk, Mark was eager to know about the Mumbai's GLUG community, its background.. since every GLUG is unique in its own respect. He then talked about his own background and about his ventures. * Ubuntu Organisation Structure: Mark talked about how ubuntu project started and what its goals are, how Ubuntu project is different from Debian yet how both still manage to collaborate with each other, how latest packages are adopted from upstream to make Ubuntu's archives always fresh. * Business Sense: Quoting Mark's own words, ``... knowledge and software are copyable. Their value or quality does not decrease when it is shared..'' According to him, this makes a perfect business sense. Ubuntu project, and all the best things that they produce, will always remain freely accessible to the entire community, individuals or large companies alike. Canonical is in a self sustaining business since it provides software services to organisations which are willing to hire them. Canonical has tied up with LPI and plans to start certification programs for Ubuntu professionals. * Free CD distribution: Mark answered several questions related to free software distribution and the rationale behind it. There are several parts of world where internet access is extremely costly. Free CDs therefore have an important role to play. Some questions were asked about the free CDs that Canonical ships worldwide and how some people tend to misuse the resources. Mark then recalled an incident wherein a `gentoo' fanatic tried to drain out Canonical's money by ordering 500 CDs. * Dapper Drake Preview: Mark gave a brief idea about the upcoming ubuntu release codenamed `Dapper Drake' and why it is going to have a 3 year(desktop)/5 year(server) support cycle and security updates. Dapper is also a distribution which is going to be certified by third party application providers like IBM. Starting from Dapper release, users will have the luxury of a GUI installation program and a single CD which acts as both live and installable. * Freedom Toaster etc. Answering a question related to Freedom Toaster, Mark explained the entire concept behind it and how the whole idea came into a reality during a brainstorming session. We couldn't talk about his space travel however due to lack of time. - tea break Mark personally autographed on Ubuntu CDs and stickers and posed for group photos. Though he left on time since he had to catch a flight, but GLUG members continued to interact till tea lasted :) ---- *Details of next GLUG meet: Date: 12 February 2005 -> Agenda : to be decided -> Location: Some other garden probably. * Presentation slides: Presentation slides of Mark's talk will be available from the glug homepage. * Pictures: http://db.glug-bom.org/pics/ <Gallery2 Photo Album> http://www.glug-bom.org/pics/ <Classic Apache style> Anurag -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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[OT] Why are you here?
by Philip Tellis 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

Out of curiosity, I'd like to know how many people on this list work with computers because it's their job, and how many do it for other reasons. If computer programming/sys admin was the worst paying job in the industry, paying something like Rs 2000/- per month, would you still do it? Philip -- Only great masters of style can succeed in being obtuse. -- Oscar Wilde Most UNIX programmers are great masters of style. -- The Unnamed Usenetter

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Minutes: Feb 2006 GLUG meet at HBCSE
by Anurag 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

*Minutes of February GLUG-Meet @ HBCSE* The GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai held its February GLUG meet on 19th February 2006 at HBCSE, Mankhurd. Meet was attended by about 25 people coming from all over the city. This meet consisted more of technical sessions with handson demonstrations. Following talks were held. * Backup and restoring We started with a talk about backup and restore of data. We saw the demonstration on how one can use the utilities like tar/cp/rsync to create incremental/differential backups. * Professional Certifications - By Mr. Shankar Iyer (RedHat) Shankar talked about the value of professional certifications in today's scenario, and the various certifications available from RedHat for upcoming professionals. --- tea break :-) * LaTeX document preparation system - By Ms. Meena (HBCSE) Meena talked about the oldest and best document preparations system availabe, LaTeX. Starting with few simple examples demonstrating the basic text formatting capabilities of LaTeX, we moved on to see how good LaTeX is at rendering mathematical equations, creating books, thesis, letters etc. LaTeX sources of examples covered in the talk are available here: http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/lug-meetings/Feb-2006/latex-examples.tar.gz ---- *Details of next GLUG meet* Date: To be decided -> Agenda : Talk on Qt/KDE development -> Location: To be decided * Pictures: Pictures taken in this meet have been posted on ILUG-BOM picture gallery ``http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/pics/''. Anurag -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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PHP query string parsing
by Sanket Medhi 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

I am currently working on a small PHP project for my college. I am quit new to it, so this query might seem trivial to you. What I am trying to do is use the index.php to act as the front page of the site, as well as be able to handle queries using the GET method. For example, http://localhost/index.php?search=somestring should work as well. That is, there might or might not be a query string. All I want to know is whether such a query string exists or not. And if yes, what is(are) the parameter(s) (in this case, search is the parameter). Thanks in advance. -- Regards, Sanket Medhi.

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[ot][hardware] making redundant connections between switches and a router
by Abhishek Daga 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hi folks, I did attempt a google for this but did not know what search term would actually pull up a meaningful result for this. Apparatus/Equipment. a) SMC wireless dsl router (3 port) b) three 8 port switches, (dlink, dax, smc) Setup: 4 ports in each are used to connect to various PCs. 1 port used up to connect to the wireless router. Problem: I have had issues with routers where frequent reseting is required. So to prevent the entire internal network going down because of a bad router, I decided to make the connections redundant. So connected Port 6 of dlink to port 6 of Dax. Port 7 of dlink to port 6 of smc. Port 7 of dax to port 7 of smc with the assumption that even if the router fails, i'l have uninterrupted access. But this was not to be. Things got messed up, despite enabled connections, machines would not ping each other or the router. Then finally removed the links from Switch 1 and 2 to the router and also the connection from dax to smc and it started working fine. So what got messed up in the above setup? I am thinking its something to do with conflicts but not convinced as to why there would be a conflict? Can anyone throw some light on this? thanks abhi *********************************************************************** According to the theory of aerodynamics, a bumble bee cannot fly. A bumble bee is not aware of this theory and so it decides to fly anyway. *********************************************************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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MTNL Triband with DSL-Ethernet bridge and Linux PPPoE?
by Amish Mehta 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hello All, Has anybody tried MTNL Triband with entry level (but reliable) DSL-Ethernet bridge/converter? i.e. simple device which converts DSL signals to Ethernet signals? My idea is NOT to go for full fledged router(like DLink-502T) but use Linux with PPPoE because afterall DLink modem itself uses Linux. I have read that it works with DLink-502T in bridged mode so it should work with simple and cheap bridges. eBay shows such bridges to cost just 5-7$ but I am not sure if it works with Triband and PPPoE on Linux. That way one can avoid DSL modem deposit(and have their own bridge at same cost) as well as monthly rental. And have all the power of Linux firewall/NAT/cron jobs etc. Please let me know if someone has tried this and which bridge/converter was used and how much does it cost? Thanks in advance. Amish.

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search looks good - thanks benoy
by Philip Tellis 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Thanks to benoy, our search page now looks like the rest of our website: http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/search/linuxers/ -- Computer programmers never die, they just get lost in the processing.

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Mplayer running slowly in full screen mode
by manish mallan 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hi, I compiled Mplayer on ubuntu breezy. It's working fine except that when i change to full screen mode, it runs slowly. The picture moves slowly. I have AMD 64 with MSI K8MMV motherboard. It has unichrome video card. I m using 1280x1024 resolution in vesa mode. I tried changing to VIA Unichrome, but X fails. Can anybody suggest me solution for this. Thanks & regards Manish

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[ANNOUNCE] Finance::Bank::HDFC version 0.12
by Rohan R. Almeida 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi, I would like to announce the availability of Perl module Finance::Bank::HDFC version 0.12 on the CPAN. >From the docs: NAME Finance::Bank::HDFC - Interface to the HDFC netbanking service SYNOPSIS use Finance::Bank::HDFC; my $bank = Finance::Bank::HDFC->new; $bank->login( cust_id => xxx, password => xxx, ); print $bank->get_balance . "\n"; $bank->logout; DESCRIPTION This module provides an interface to the HDFC netbanking service at https://netbanking.hdfcbank.com/netbanking/ Changes in v0.12: - Module Readonly used for constants - Added method set_timeout - All methods die on errors - Code cleanup - sample script in scripts/get_balance.pl - Added TODO file in distribution You can read more about it and download it here: http://search.cpan.org/~rohan/Finance-Bank-HDFC-v0.12.0/lib/Finance/Bank/HD… - Rohan http://rohan.almeida.in

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