Linuxers April 2006

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using already blocked device
by Harshal 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

hi, is there a way i can use a device blocked by one program, if required by another prog.? the situation is like this, i am running skype on linux and at the same time i want to play xmms for some songs, (i can do it in windows, skype and winamp together so i hear the person as well as some music in backgrond.) to my knowledge i dont think its possible in linux, but just wanting to wish the i am wrong ;-)

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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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Breaking News !
by Prabhat Sandheliya 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi guys, I am sure you remember, the story I posted few days back, on the mailing list ( http://groups.google.com/group/lug-indore )about Ankit Fadia, "Ankit Fadia : The real picture " . There is a new twist in the story. :-) I sent this mail to various people, including one IT and Cyber Law expert, Deepti Chopra. She also felt that Mr Fadia is doing something fraud and misleading people. She talked to Certificate authority of India and questioned about the authenticity and credibility of the certificate. When I posted the original story to various people, I got many positive responses. I forwarded all those mails to Deepti and she passed them to the Certificate authority of India. Now the twist in the story. :-) Deepti just informed me that, she got positive reply from Certificate authority of India. They have issued a notice to Mr Fadia and CEO, Reliance Web World to stop the issuing certificates. Now we are also thinking about taking some legal action against Mr Fadia and Reliance Web World. Cheers to our victory over unethical business practice and fraud. :-) Do send me your suggestions and views. -- Prabhat Sandheliya --------------------------------------------------------------------- Promote Linux - Join mailing list : http://groups.google.com/group/lug-indore (Linux Users Group - Indore)

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3D Rendering Drivers.
by ronbillypop＠yahoo.co.uk 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hello All, At the linux meet at HBCSE Rajeev had given a very nice demo of the new display drivers of linux that are well suited for 3D rendering. One application demonstrated was a 3D file browser that works like a walk through into a room with files and folders shaped like 3D objects. This type of 3D walk through has tremendous potential for corporate films and demos. Future operating manuals for electronic equipment could also be in 3D form. One important potential for this is in the shopping mall industry. Instead of visitng a crowded mall, getting trolleys entangled and walking for a few hours, an exact replica of the mall can be made available to the customers in the form of a CD or DVD depending on the content size. The mall walk through will have features like virtually removing the product from its shelf and turning it around to examine it. A more advanced feature may also allow the virtual shopper to open the jars or boxes and see the actual content inside, something the mall will not allow otherwise. The software can be made available as a direct installation or to make it platform independent and live, it can be made into a live linux distro that does not do anything except detect minimum hw like kb, mouse, usb and concentrates fully on providing the maxiimum video and sound drivers and the actual application that will run live. No desktop or any normal os features or services or packages. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ Switch an email account to Yahoo! Mail, you could win FIFA World Cup tickets. http://uk.mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Port numbers bound in Redhat Linux 9.0
by Roshan 01 May '06

01 May '06

> Umm...shouldn't that be 4000? Servers are generally > created on a fixed > port. Thats why they are called servers... Ah, I had tried this earlier, and had made a check, with netstat -a, command to find out whether this was available. But, then, it did not create a server. Tried, this today again, and now it does, create a server on port 4000, but still takes around 7-8 minutes. > Umm...isn't that kinda obvious. If you start it at > port 0, it will take > a long time to determine a free port. The reason, I used port 0 is because, I could get the server started on 4000 and Redhat did not make it visible to me whether it had bound some application to that port. Port 0 ultimately, gave a choice to the OS to find out port for me :) > And eewwww...you should've mentioned that you're > doing this in Java... I thought, Java was preferred for networking programming and assumed, this would be true atleast for the years to come by. Is it true? > I dont think you need to do it in Java but you never > mentioned which > language you were using. So I assumed C. Ah, for the moment, I don't think, I would be doing it in C, atleast till I am sure, I can do it. > Anyway, try googling the next time. This is the > right way to build a > client / server: I do google, a lot more, but solutions seem to be passive, which does seem to help all the time. At these times, I post to the list! __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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LTSP get struck
by neel s Gurjar 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

hi i have FC4 on Server and i am trying thinclient networking with using LTSP. I could put 4 computers on thin client. For one computer i am getting problem. It has 200Mhz CPU, 32MB RAM, Trident Display. It is booting properly through LAN. It gets IP from DHCP also. Everything works fine upto login screen. at login screen X server cant show display properly. And computer get struck. What should i do ? Please help... Neelesh

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MTNL Triband
by Venkatesh Hariharan 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

I just got the MTNL Triband installed on my IBM X40 running RHEL 4WS and it was a snap! Once the hardware was plugged in, all I did was go to the terminal, do a "service network restart" and I was online! The MTNL guy who came to set up my connection had never worked on Linux and said that if he had to set this up on Windows XP he would have to do a whole bunch of configuration. As that old ad goes, "You come a long way, baby!" Venky

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Re: Port numbers bound in Redhat Linux 9.0
by Roshan 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

> Well you can start by: > 1. Posting your code > 2. Telling us what error it is flagging > > FYI remember, you cant create a socket to listen on > any of the first > 1024 ports. Only root has the rights to do that. > Though this isnt the > problem in your case. 1. Code snip /*Server code*/ int listeningport=0; System.out.println("Attempting to create a server socket at port: "+listeningport); serversockvar = new ServerSocket(listeningport); //Create a server on any freely available port //(read the api docs and modified this) System.out.println("Server Socket created"); I believe, there is nothing wrong with the code, it creates a server at a free port now, but takes too long around 9-10 mintues 2. The error displayed (now) When I start the client, it tries to establish a connection, but fails indicating, "Connection timed out" > are you converting host to network and network to > host correctly? What am I supposed to do for this, exactly? Everything is running on localhost! ------- /*snip*/ > You can check whether the server is created and > using the port 4000 by > keying > netcat -anlp | grep 4000 Thanks to Apoorva Madam. The server is does start now, (with some modification, mentioned above), but the client does not connect __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Re: Port numbers bound in Redhat Linux 9.0
by Roshan 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 15:47, Roshan wrote: > > What is the range of port numbers bind to > different > > applications in Redhat Linux 9.0? > > > > Any command, other than netstat to find out that? > > cat /etc/services This helped; thanks! I am using the port 4000 in socket programming, locally creating a server and client for accessing, but the server program does not seem to create the server, while it does in windows :(... Any ideas? __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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[OT] free dns server
by Harshal 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

guys, i am using this mtnl's triband service, and from last few days its dns server is not functioning properly. i was wondering if anyone knows an ip of good dns server on net to whom i can point my machine to look up for.

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