Linuxers April 2006

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HylaFax Successfully Installed
by Rony Bill 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hello All, I had installed the hylafax packages through 'adept' in Kubuntu 5.10 but never configured them. Finally I decided and google showed up useful links for the setup. The first one is the server configuration given here http://www.aboutdebian.com/fax.htm The server setup smoothly and using 'kdeprintfax', I was able to send messages to my fax machine. However I was looking for a fax printer that would be a part of my printer list when giving the print command. So this link looked promising http://xtronics.com/reference/Debian-print2hylafax.htm After a lot of haggling and bargaining with different qt3 libs, I finally managed to get 'faxfrontend' up and running only to discover that its similar to kdeprintfax. Both of these are separate utilities that need the file to be selected and then its sent. However I am still looking for that elusive fax printer that can be selected from the print menu. The Kubuntu 5.10 'System Settings' does have a printer setup with a 'print to fax printer' but its settings are blank. Any clues on how to link the fax applications with that fax printer? 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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Help with college
by Jayanta Chandra Chandra 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

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img file greater than 1.44 MB.
by Nadeem M. Khan 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi. I've been trying to install RHEL 3 on an IBM x346. I needed an img file to load at install time for my Adaptec hostraid controller. The file is present at the IBM site, but the size is greater than 1.44 MB. The size is 1.47 MB and cannot fit into a floppy (which I would put into the drive for the "linux dd" comand to work.) Has anyone else encountered this problem, as I see that lots of img files are greater than 1.44 MB? Regards, NMK.

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Website and wiki
by Anurag 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hello, Please have a look at new wiki theme at http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page?useskin=beagle This mediawiki theme has been customised to look more like the one used at our website. If list members like it, then perhaps we can make this theme as default. Many thanks to the folks at ubuntu-in.org for providing us this theme. Also, some days back we had a discussion regarding the non validating html used at our homepage. Few people had offered help in making it w3 compliant. I would again ask people to come forward if they are willing to help us with this. thanks, Anurag -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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PCQ Linux 2006 Lousy.
by Rony Bill 04 Apr '06

04 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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[OT] City of Tuttle, Oklahoma. Get rid of this software!!!!!
by Arun K. Khan 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

How things can go out of control when PHBs claim to be computer literate and get involved in IT implementation: http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=127 -- Arun Khan Linux is like a wigwam - no gates, no windows, apache inside

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Puppy Linux 1.0.8 Rocks.
by Rony Bill 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Hello All, I downloaded the file 'puppy-1.0.8r1-mozilla.iso' from http://www.puppylinux.org/user/downloads.php?cat_id=1and burned it into a CD. It is an amazing and cute distro that surprisingly detected my display, sound as well as my usb pen drive. [P4 2.66, Intel 845 GEBV2, 256 Mb RAM, 80 GB HDD] It has a very nice looking desktop giving all the useful icons with their functional names in text. It is very useful for home users who want a simple straightforward system with a good foundation. It has 5 boot options and initially I selected option 4 (RAM only). When you boot into it, it asks you to confirm your hardware and gives options for sound along with a test sound to know everything is up. Display settings come in different combinations and I used 1024x768x24. Thats something very handy. The best part of this live cd is that it can be installed into a pen drive or hard drive. It has these options in the live cd itself so no messing around with command line codes. . It can be installed on a seperate partition and uses ext2 as the fs. This os is useful to give to family members who want a simple and easy os and their usage will not mess with the existing distros. It works only as root so it will be equivalent to Win 98 or Win Me. It has a firewall setup too so that closes all your ports from outside. Applications wise, it has everything one can imagine in an standard OS. Its media player could directly play vcds with proper video and sound. The trancend flash drive was detected and usable too. It can mount ntfs partitions in read only mode. Some points to note while installation:- 1. Don't install the grub boot loader if you already have grub distros installed, add the entries to your existing grub later. 2. Due to that, it does not install the image file in the hdd. It only saves the vmlinuz file in the /boot folder. Therefore, the file 'image.gz' will have to be manually copied to that /boot folder. For the newbies, here is that part of menu.lst in grub that was added later to the existing distro. Partition numbers will vary. # linux installation on /dev/hda12. title PUPPY LINUX 1.0.8 (on /dev/hda12) root (hd0,11) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda12 initrd /boot/image.gz savedefault boot 3. The sound did not load during hdd bootup so I booted the live cd again and selected the option to ask for the partition. There I pointed to my partition and the pup001 configuration was saved there. After the live bootup with sound working, I booted through the HDD and sound was up. This distro should be ideal for home users, old pc users ( not tried it out) and people scared of using computers. 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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Re: [ILUG-BOM] PCQ Linux 2006 Lousy.
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

> Next, create awareness of why we do not recommend the company/ product. > Perhaps (not sure of the legal issues of this), put up a whitelist and > blacklist of companies and products, most important a *peer review* of > *WHY* stated Clearly. > People who understand and believe this could maybe "mirror" this list on > their own sites/ portals etc. (good when considering visibility) I will. > Maybe this should not go directly on the LUG site to avoid any > unnecessary complications, since there might be luggers who do not agree > but perhaps be hosted on subsections of lug members hosting their own > websites and linked from ilug ? thoughts? > I'm game. So am I. > Think we should adopt the motto: "If you are not part of the solution, > you are part of the problem". Absolutely.

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ubuntu on Digit mag CD
by bombay news 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

April's Digit magazine has a few linux versions incl Ubuntu and Damn Small Linux. Now I would like to run these from the CD/DVD itself like a Live CD. Is this possible? Or will it damage my machine which runs on Windows XP? Shiv Kumar _________________________________________________________________ Sexy, sultry, sensuous. - see why Bipasha Basu is all that and more. Try MSN Search http://server1.msn.co.in/Profile/bipashabasu.asp

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unbuntu, novell, XGL: linux world sydney
by Erle Pereira 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Got a chance to catch linux world sydney. Thought id sent across some interesting observations. Indicators of the future... (desktop related features) Saw Ubuntu Beta of the new Dapper Drake scheduled (delayed a bit) for May/June. The new XGL interfaces ..... http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=401&num=1 One word. WOW. Pictures do not do Justice. Seen an average comp. with an average display card do some pretty amazing effects. novell desktop also scheduled for June also comes with XGL. Same really cool desktop features. http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/ apparently there is something called "aglx" which the FC team have been working on, which gives the same features... it doesnt come with FC5, but can be put on as I was promised. But did not get a chance to see it yet. for the adventurous, its in extras I believe somewhere... Gnome 2.6.14 is FAST. Real FAST. Got a chance to met with a few developers, think of this, gnome 2.8 on debian. thats right Debian! uses more than 120-130 mb (64bit port), 2.6.14 takes 80M. (seen this on my own piece, so i can vouch for it.) in short, future looking good. More WOW factor. Better hardware support. regards Erle

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