Linuxers March 2006

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OpenGL X Desktop
by Mrugesh Karnik 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

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

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PCQ Linux 2006 Lousy.
by Rony Bill 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hello All, The PCQ Linux 2006 writeup in the mag was quite impressive so I tried it out. First of all, the CD media is terrible, it has many file errors. First time, in CD1 itself it had some file errors. On inserting CD2, it simply went into CLI and said the system was ready to reboot. Next time it was another 'dhakka maro' session of opening and closing the cd (Sony DVD) tray but it finally installed. It is supposed to be FC4 packages based but it is a disgrace to the existing FC4. It could not go beyond 800x600 resolution. It did not detect the sound devices (Both these things worked fine in FC4). The Firefox setup in Kde showed weird behavior. It would not allow me to check/uncheck boxes and as I moved my mouse over it the tick marks would randomly appear and disappear. Finally I just chucked it. After almost a year of FC4 and Ubuntu 5.10, if PCQ comes up with such crap, it will only sabotage the FOSS cause. I won't be surprised if M$ uses these CDs to show people how good Windows is, over Linux. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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debian
by bombay news 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Trying my hand at linux after burning my fingers with mandrake ages ago. got hold of an old Live CD of Debian with Gnome 2.4 and find the desktop architecture really cool. Here are a few questions I need answered: 1.Will someone educate me on the new Debian 4 release? What are the system requirements? 2.ToI of yesterday has the piece on Knoppix having a desktop even better than Windows Vista. Can it be installed or it exists only on a Live CD format? Shiv Kumar _________________________________________________________________ Tried the new MSN Messenger? Its cool! Download now. http://messenger.msn.com/Download/Default.aspx?mkt=en-in

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[OT] Fwd: GOI wants us to buy M$ products forinteracting with it.
by Arun K. Khan 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Although the original post in the LIH list mentions Mumbai ILUG, I have not seen it here yet. I am forwarding it here since I believe we will be seeing a lot more of this kind of crap from the GoI e-Governance portals. Portals, paid for by the tax payers money, supporting only closed proprietary software. -- Arun Khan -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Rahul Chopra <rahul(a)efyindia.com> > Reply-To: linux-india-help(a)lists.sourceforge.net > To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org>, > linux-india-help(a)lists.sourceforge.net, > linux-bangalore-2005(a)yahoogroups.com, GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, > India <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > Subject: [LIH]RE: [ilugd] [Sorry for X post] GOI wants us to buy M$ > products forinteracting with it. > Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:28:47 +0530 > > hi sudev > > thx for pointing out to this key issue. > > how about different people from ilugd, ilugb, etc who understand this issue > deeply...send in their opinions (and explanations of the procedure and > impact) to LINUX FOr You (lfyedit(a)efyindia.com), and then a senior > journalist will interact with the GoI and do a major story. > > the same can be FDLed and can be released on the Net too, so that the entire > community can raise awareness about this issue > > hope this helps > > regards > rahul > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ilugd-bounces+rahul=efyindia.com(a)lists.linux-delhi.org > [mailto:ilugd-bounces+rahul=efyindia.com@lists.linux-delhi.org]On Behalf > Of Sudev Barar > Sent: 30 March 2006 11:24 > To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list; > linux-india-help(a)lists.sourceforge.net; > linux-bangalore-2005(a)yahoogroups.com; GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, > India > Subject: [ilugd] [Sorry for X post] GOI wants us to buy M$ products > forinteracting with it. > > > Can these be put in hall of shame? > > Starting now all companies are required to file returns electronically > and under digital signature. A look at Ministry of Company Affairs > site reveals that you need WInXP or WIndow2000 O/S only to do > e-filing. > > They have ofcourse set up nominated e-filing centres to help users. > But who will guarantee that my e-signatures are not copied or key > logged by spyware running at such centres? > > How do we agitate this issue? > > http://www.mca.gov.in > http://www.mca.gov.in/DCAPortalWeb/dca/Feedback.do?method=feedbackpage > > -- > Sudev Barar > Learning Linux

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LDAP access query
by प़मिला 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Dear All, I am trying to write a ACL for ldap. But google didnt help me for this. my requirement is - a person in one organizational unit should not be able to see other organizational units. I am using (Yet Another) PHP LDAP Admin project to browse throuch LDAP ldap hierarchy. Can anyone tel me how to write this ACL ? Thanks in advance. Regards, Pramila

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Vista and Linux
by Rony Bill 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hello All, The new Windows Vista is supposed to be using a new file system and its also encrypted, (EFS). So does this signal the end of mounting Windows partitions in Linux? Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Call for Developers for the CSLinux project
by Amit Karpe 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Dear Linux hackers, As you may be aware, we, the Computer Science Linux User's Group, are attempting to make our own re-branded distribution of Linux based on Fedora Core 5. This distribution is aimed at having a customised set of packages that we need in our BCS/MCS/BE/ME/MCA/Diploma syllabus so that one set of three or four CDs can be moved around without carring peripheral CDs for Java, plugins, multimedia, etc. Moreover, we were mailed regularly by people that they had trouble setting up Postgres, PHP, tomcat, Perl, JDBC, etc. during their time of critical needs. It is definately not fair to expect people to learn how to configure these things at the last moment when practicals are declared within a week. Even if someone is capable of configuring these, it is likely that they may forget at the last moment and also likely that people wont want to spend time configuring stuff on the day previous to the exam at the cost of studying. For this purpose, we also aim to provide pre-configured RPMs and configuration scripts that can achieve this task within a few minutes. In fact, CSLinux version 1 released last year allowed even first year students to set up many things that TYs were having trouble with. This version will be aimed at pushing this simplicity and ease-of-use to the next level. With GUIs, web-based tools for remote management of nodes in labs, configuration replication scripts for applying common settings to multiple laboratory nodes, user management scripts for handling the thousads of users on college servers, etc. For more information on what's been going on in regard to CSLinux, you are encouraged to join the CSLUG group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cslug and go through the archives http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cslug/message . We have also started a Wiki seedwiki.com/wiki/computer_science_linux_users_group/ for simplifying this effort and the link to it can be found in he CSLUG archives. We request your participation, support and encouragement in this effort. Please do spread the word around. We need all sorts of people to help us out. We need graphics designers to design the themes, logos, images, wallpapers, bootscreens, etc. for CSLinux. We require people to modify the installer Anaconda. We need people to modify RPM files and change the default configuration in them. We need people to make and build binary RPMs out of source tarballs for packages whose RPMs that may not already be available or when i686 RPMs may not be available. We also need developers to develop the configuration scripts, the small tools that we will provide with CSLinux and changing initscripts. Finally and most importantly, we also require the BCS/MCS/BE/ME/MCA/Diploma community to contribute their academic projects to be put up on CSLinux. This is to encourage students to make professional-grade real-life applicable projects by providing them a large exposure within the peer community. Also, we need people to search for sponsors. For example, we may approach coaching classes to sponsor the project in return for putting up their ads/banners on our default wallpaper, the GNOME/KDE splash screens, the default gdm login logo, and the CD covers and the prints on the CD themselves. Absolutely any help will be appreciated a lot. We would like CSLinux to become a living example of an open source project that is self-sustaining, started off by students on their own, and a successful business model within Pune (although it will be strictly not-for-profit). If you feel that you have completed any assignment from BCS/MCS/BE/ME/MCA/Diploma to perfection and would like the community to see it, then we will also be including such assignments for reference on the distribution. This is a very highly-demanded feature by many. Your contribution on recommendations to what tools, packages and documents that should be included in CSL would be highly appreciated. We thank you for all your support in this matter. For more information you may contact the following: Amit Karpe: amitkarpe(a)vsnl.net, 9226745408 Archis Gore: archisgore(a)yahoo.com, 9371058022 It would be preferred if you could post your suggesstions, ideas and contributions onto the list. Thank you, Yours sincerely, The CSL Team P.S. Please forward this mail to as many mailing lists and people that may be interested. E-mail: archisgore(a)yahoo.com Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/archisgore -- Amit. ______________________________________________________ param vaibhavam netum etat swaraashtram samrthaa bhavatwaashishaa tebhrusham || Bharat Maata Ki Jay ||

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Pentuim MMX + Athlon(networking)
by PenguinPuPPy 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hello everybody, I am writing for the first time though i have been visiting the mailing list sincle a long time.Well the question is i wanted to practice Linux -Networking(Samba squid and all that stuff), now do do this i had an Athlon 1800+ already with Microsucks & Suse 9.3 .Now to go ahead with my work i purchased a 2nd hand pentium mmx 166 mhz with 32 mb ram.my question to the group is will this oldie satisfy my networking needs. regards Penguinpuppy -- To Love The Penguin(aka TUX) You Need To Be As Faithful As A Puppy

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PCQ Linux 2006.
by Rony Bill 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hello All, This month's PCQ is a linux special, so grab your copy today. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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[OT] Situations Vacant
by Animesh Nerurkar 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Dear All, Plz send your replies to animeshn(a)comprehence.com Situations Vacant: Jr. Systems Administrators and Developers: Engineering graduates (preferably BE computers or electronics) with 2-3 years experience in core technologies like Linux. Should have worked on enterprise class hardware. 1. We're looking for people who are interested in System Administration and Development with a solid grounding in Linux. 2. Your personal favourite tools happen to be one or more of the following; Servers: Installation & Administration for the following; a) Sendmail/ Exim b) Apache c) PHP d) Database (Oracle 8i,9i/ PostGreSQL/ Sybase/ mySQL) Coding: e) Python f) PERL5 g) Java, Javascript h) cgi-bin i) shell scripts j) C, C++ k) Expect l) Tcl/tk Security: m) Security: Designing & implementation of Security policies using iptables, etc. RDBMS: n) RDBMS (Oracle/ PostGreSQL/ Sybase/ mySQL ) Knowledge of SQL, PL/SQL and PERL5 scripts to assist developers. Backup/ Storage: o) Backup/ (Veritas NetBackup/ Familirity with Robotic Tape Libraries etc, Knowledge of RMAN for Oracle Databases) p) Storage (T3+, Netapp Filers (NAS)/ SAN, Veritas Volume Manager, LVM & LVM2, RAID familiarity is a must!) Others: q) DTP (TeX/ LaTeX) 3. you are comfy with solaris, etc. 4. your fundas on networking are clear. 5. you don't puke at the thought of windozz What you get is... 1. To work on large scale linux projects. 2. Exposure to large enterprise level computing and storage solutions. Regards, Animesh N. Nerurkar System Administrator Comprehensive Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Email: animeshn(a)comprehence.com Tel : 91-22-303-777-65 Mobile: +91-986-777-99-51 Fax : 91-22-303-777-99 -- "Feel free" mit GMX FreeMail! Monat f�r Monat 10 FreeSMS inklusive! http://www.gmx.net

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