Linuxers May 2006

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Debian Hosting
by Anil Gupte 20 May '06

20 May '06

BlankTrying this again since my first message got munged. Can anyone recommend a reliable hosting provider on Debian in preferably in Pune? We need MySQL and the ability to do scripting/perl/PHP. Alternately any suggestions for possible co-location of a small server? Thanx, Anil Gupte

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Books on Debian
by deshpande＠vsnl.com 20 May '06

20 May '06

Hi Can you suggest me good books on debian administration Thanks in anticipation MAHESH DESHPANDE Trainer for Linux Installations, Linux for End Users.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] ET:Microsoft and Open Source
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 20 May '06

20 May '06

>> Must we always draw comparisons with XP? True XP is the most commonly >> used desktop OS, but then someone who has not used XP at all (or >> atleast for quite some time) might think otherwise. I for myself find >> the absence of virtual desktops in XP very irritating! > Umm....I dont use XP. I use Linux 24x7. It is only at the college that I > am *forced* into using XP. Same for me too. :( ;) > But as I said, its very simple to use - even for first timers. Thats not quite true. It is 'simple' because many people use it, or in other words there is a Windows User Group everywhere. :D It might be 'difficult' setting up things in GNU/Linux, but if you think about the system hang-ups, reboots, viruses, etc. the situation changes. > And I find the absence of a full blown CLI in XP crippling :( Quite right. > I use FC5. Dunno what version of GNOME it uses but I certainly couldn't > find it in the right click menu or any of the preferences. I was told > ( on IRC ) that I'll have to edit some files in my home directory to > make that association. Sucks! I use FC5 too and it uses GNOME 2.14. You right click a file and there is an option to 'open this file in another application' in the drop-down menu. By the way I think there is no way to perform hover-select in single-click mode in Nautilus, as it used to be in WIndows. Regards, Debarshi

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] ET:Microsoft and Open Source
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 19 May '06

19 May '06

> I have run the latest KDE / GNOME > and they are no where near the responsiveness, intuitiveness, > userfriendliness that XP's (or M$) GUI offer. Must we always draw comparisons with XP? True XP is the most commonly used desktop OS, but then someone who has not used XP at all (or atleast for quite some time) might think otherwise. I for myself find the absence of virtual desktops in XP very irritating! > I dont see any > userfriendliness being built into GNOME. As a concrete example, I still > cannot right click any file and associate it with an app. This has been > a standard in M$ GUI for like ever and even KDE guys added it a long > time ago. Yeah this is true. While using FC2, I could not find an easy way to edit the file-type and application associations. But the right-clicking functionality is now present in GNOME 2.14. > it still lacks > a good "control panel" (infact AFAIK it doesnt have one). KDE is far > far ahead of GNOME in this case. Thats again true. Not only that, I can not really differentiate between the logic behind placing an option in the preferences or administration sub-menu in the 'System' menu in GNOME. They look very similar to me. Any idea? By the way I know one Microsoft employee who claimed that Redhat is a very bad open-source company, while giving examples about the economic failures of FOSS based firms. He did not elaborate on Redhat though, although he gave the example of Mandrake going bankrupt. Wonder how good a proprietary software company M$ is? Regards, Debarshi

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Re: ET:Microsoft and Open Source
by Roshan 19 May '06

19 May '06

> 4) People are used to Corel Draw, Photoshop,.Net, Alternatives are there such as Scribus, GAIM, Mono Project but people are not aware. If someone joins any institute for DTP course, he would have to be taught using CorelDraw, Photoshop because, "most" of DTP providers use these. > The list can go on. Please everyone, do not discuss > the individual cases > as the intention is only to highlight the problems. I haven't. But, people who are a part of the list, would know their alternatives, though they cannot be "the" alternative. *snip* > kudos rony! You hit the nail on the head :) But you > need to agree that > KDE and GNOME still have a long way before they can > become as > userfriendly as Windows UI. This brings a thought to my mind. Question: The subscribers of this mailing list, have migrated from Windows to any Linux Distribution, OR have been using GNU/Linux right from the day he/she started learning computers? Because, there would be some people, who like the Windows GUI because they were introduced and taught about the GUI and they would generally resist a change from that GUI to KDE or GNOME. Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

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[OT] Can CD/DVD writers be repaired?
by Arun K. Khan 19 May '06

19 May '06

I have a CD/DVD writer that does not read any medium. The physical function like eject/insert of the tray works OK. On insert, the external panel LED lights up a for a moment and then nothing. I suspect the LED/head is gone. I want to explore the option of getting it repaired. If you know of any place (in Mumbai) that handles such repairs please contact me off list. Thank you. TIA -- Arun Khan Linux is like a wigwam - no gates, no windows, apache inside

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[OT] Sendmail + LDAP HowTo.
by bimal pandit 19 May '06

19 May '06

Dear All, just to let people configure an email system, I have written an article on it and want that you should go through it, analyse and test it and help me to improve it further, while in case there is any error/mistake or correction is required please let me know. though I am not an expert but your valuable input will help me to understand the mailing system. SendMail + LDAP HowTo. http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/927 regards, Bimal Pandit

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video capture card & VHS to vcd.
by Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. 19 May '06

19 May '06

Hi, How do I go about recording video onto a cd or dvd from: 1. a vhs video cassette (must be able - this is the main purpose) 2. a tv broadcast (good if posible else ..) Actually I was talking to a friend of mine who would like to set this up. I offered to help him if it was a linux based solution. I have googled and found that a lot ot documentation seems to point to video capture cards and tv tuner cards with a certain amount of ambiguity. I have looked up the hardware compatibility lists, websites of mythtv, cinelerra, mjpegtools and a few more. he already has a pretty new machine w/ 2.4 G P4, 512 ram and a 80 GB hd of which we can give linux about 40 GB. He would like to do this professionally somewhere down the line and hence would not be averse to buying a good card. I want to know which card is a better bet, a video capture card or a tv tuner card. recording tv broadcasts though is not a priority or even a necessity, the aded ability would just be icing on the cake. Any personal experiences ? thanks a mil. Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K R Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer. Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

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[OT] About Plan 9
by Mohan Nayaka 19 May '06

19 May '06

Hi everyone. Just out of curiosity ; has anyone in this group tried out Plan 9 ? http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/download/ has a live CD. The ISO image is just 75.5 MB. i am downloading it. will try it out today. By the way I installed Dapper Beta 2 yesterday. Boot-up has improved in this release. The installer crashed in between. I put in a bug report & they said that this issue was rectified in the latest nightly build. All is well but no audio o/p :( (in DB2) Anyway, this seems to be a intermittent configuration configuration problem with xmms since 5.10 xmms seems to be fragile. The least mistake in configuring it makes it unusable. Any suggestions for a better music player ? I am now trying out kmplayer. Regards, Mohan S N -- There will be plenty of time to rest in the grave. - Paul Erdos

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Debian Hosting
by Anil Gupte 19 May '06

19 May '06

BlankCan anyone recommend a reliable hosting provider on Debian in preferably in Pune? We need MySQL and the ability to do scripting/perl/PHP. Alternately any suggestions for possible co-location of a small server? Thanx, Anil Gupte

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