Linuxers August 2006

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Re: RMS in Mumbai
by Roshan 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

> RMS (Richard M. Stallman) will be in Mumbai on 27th. > The purpose of > this email is to know if we could organize a public > lecture on 27th. > Please let me know your ideas: like your > organization or college would > like to host him and the lecture etc. Isn't the GLUG-August meet likely to be scheduled for the 27th of this month too? Perhaps, could the public lecture be merged with the meet? > Can we have a talk in some place like IIT? We can > then publicise the event > in colleges and organizations. HBCSE was _likely_ to be the location for the meet. So could be for the lecture? __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] FW: [Commercial] Jobs
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

> Forwarded without prejudice. Please contact Ajay directly. > > ----- Forwarded message from Ajay Narasimhan <ajay.narasimhan(a)stpdomain.com> ----- > > From: Ajay Narasimhan <ajay.narasimhan(a)stpdomain.com> > Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:11:50 +0530 > To: linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org > Subject: [Commercial] > X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 > > We are a software product company (www.stpdomain.com) looking for > specialized skill-sets in Linux / Java / J2EE / Web Services... Do they want people specialized in Linux to work on Winblows? :P Cheerio, Debarshi -- "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?" -Jean Kerr

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

>> actually it is a good, relevant question. Who is RMS? A person well >> known in the 20th century who has outlived his time Enough is enough. Few days back you were bashing up Gaurav P. Chaturvedi, and now it is RMS. Is something wrong with you? > hmm, sounds like great idea. We should also dismiss all the efforts > put in by Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru and others for freedom of India in > 20th century. > If we as human beings don't know where we came from, > what is the difference between us and mindless zombies then? Hehehe... Kenneth a mindless zombie.... ROTFLMAO You know if we follow the principle of 'do unto others as you would do unto you' then Kenneth Gonsalves would have been kicked/banned from this list. Regards, Debarshi -- "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?" -Jean Kerr

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Configuring mtnl broadband ...
by Navin Daund 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Hi, I am new to Linux and MM-LIUG. I have installed Red Hat 9.0 and have mtnl broadband on UTSTAR UT300R2U Modem. It is connected with Ethernet connectivity and nic card is automatically detected by Linux. Please lemme know the step-by-step procedure to configure internet and email on my system. Thanks and regards, Navin.

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FW: [Commercial] Jobs
by Devdas Bhagat 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Forwarded without prejudice. Please contact Ajay directly. Regards Devdas Bhagat ----- Forwarded message from Ajay Narasimhan <ajay.narasimhan(a)stpdomain.com> ----- From: Ajay Narasimhan <ajay.narasimhan(a)stpdomain.com> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:11:50 +0530 To: linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org Subject: [Commercial] X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 We are a software product company (www.stpdomain.com) looking for specialized skill-sets in Linux / Java / J2EE / Web Services... Interested candidates based out of *Mumbai* may please respond with their detailed CV at jobs(a)stpdomain.com Thanks. Ajay Narasimhan Mobile: + 91 - 98198 22830 ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Meebo
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

> ok...I understood tidbits... Thats a lot, you know, since I would not have understood a bit of what I myself wrote. :p > but now my question is, what exactly is > yahoo's official client doing that gaim cannot, yet? ( if you have > explained this earlier please point me to the post ). Yahoo!'s official is doing black magic one can say. (Just joking.) One just needs to key in the proxy IP and port and it simply works. Works, you know! No tweaking nothing. > Can we reproduce what yahoo's doing by using free tools? I do not know any such free tool. At this point you might like to read http://mm.glug-bom.org/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20060807/053186.html Just the 3rd, 4th and 5th paragraphs would be enough. > Generally, firewalls dont block ssl connections Is it so? I have limited knowledge, but I remember seeing the Webmin interface, where the admin just clicked and opened all 'SSL_Ports' and 'Safe_Ports'. I asked him to give me the configuration file, but he somehow managed to give me the wrong one. Should I get it again ? > so i think u can setup an SSL tunnel into an outside > ( unfirewalled proxy ) PC and then connect to the yahoo service. Yes I think thats a possible solution. Thanks, Debarshi -- "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?" -Jean Kerr

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[OT] What is a flame?
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

> He was then flamed to death and... Well does anybody know the origin of the word 'flame war'? I found the following in my /usr/share/games/fortune/humorix-stories: Brief History Of Linux (#5) English Flame War The idea behind Slashdot-style discussions is not new; it dates back to London in 1699. A newspaper that regularly printed Letters To The Editor sparked a heated debate over the question, "When would the 18th Century actually begin, 1700 or 1701?" The controversy quickly became a matter of pride; learned aristocrats argued for the correct date, 1701, while others maintained that it was really 1700. Another sizable third of participants asked, "Who cares?" Ordinarily such a trivial matter would have died down, except that one 1700er, fed up with the snobbest 1701 rhetoric of the educated class, tracked down one letter-writer and hurled a flaming log into his manor house in spite. The resulting fire was quickly doused, but the practice known as the "flame war" had been born. More flames were exchanged between other 1700ers and 1701ers for several days, until the Monarch sent out royal troops to end the flamage. Happy flaming, Debarshi -- "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?" -Jean Kerr

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The dangers of patents in standards
by jtd 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2006081312303… Nokia files a suit against qualcomm, since Qualcom's FRAND terms are allegedly unreasonable and discriminatory. This is about implementing standards approved by ISO / ETSI not about purchasing tech. If Nokia finds it so difficult wonder how libre software developers will implement patent encumbered standards. -- Rgds JTD

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Meebo
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 13 Aug '06

13 Aug '06

>> What do you mean? See it is very easy to sit there and pass comments. >> I just fervently pray that you do not get trapped behind such a >> draconian firewall. > umm...dumb question but did you try an http tunnel? Not so dumb as you think. The situation is like this... Even after allowing all SSL_ports and Safe_ports (this was done using Webmin, so I did not see the /etc/squid.conf, we are unable to use IRC on ports 6667, 8000. Irssi says "temporary failure in name resolution", while GAIM says "proxy connection error 503". However Yahoo! and Jabber are working using GAIM AFTER opening the ports in Squid. Jabber on the usual 5222, while Yahoo! on 8001. At this point I have a feeling that the IRC ports are blocked in the firewall too, because I had heard our sysadmin (when the network was set-up) remark that all IRC activity will be blocked. He made no remark about Jabber or Yahoo!. I do use a HTTP tunneller, corkscrew, to do ssh into public servers. Regarding ssh, one needs BOTH corkscrew and the opened ports in Squid to do anything at all. In a scenario where only the Squid acls are relaxed but tunneling not done, ssh also says "Temporary failure in name resolution". At this point I have a feeling that one needs to tunnel GAIM like ssh. But following the instructions in http://www.http-tunnel.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=1227&, I get "proxy connection error 503" for IRC and "Couldn't connect to host" for Jabber (GTalk). Please note that this was done with the Squid acls relaxed, whereby Jabber and Yahoo were connecting without tunneling, but IRC was not. Cheers, Debarshi -- "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?" -Jean Kerr

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] FC5 Installation
by bimal pandit 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Dear Vinayakam, On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 Vinayakam Murugan wrote : >I did install FC5 on a Toshiba A105-S4094 with a 120GB SATA HDD . It worked >fine. I am still trying to configure my display (getting 800x600 only) but >that's another story. > >On 8/5/06, Jagdish Chhailkar <cjagdish69(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>I have compaq Pressario with ATI Radeon Xpress200 display card,160GB SATA >>HDD,256 MB DDR2,AMI Bios V3.07,CD-R/RW/DVD Read. >> >>I have successfully installed Win-XP and now trying to install FC5. While >>installation it is displaying 'installing sata_sil driver' and the >>installation continues. But at the time of partitioning it shows "No Hard >>Drive Found". >> >> >>Instead of which if i go for FC4 or Mandriva Linux 2006 , the installation >>goes cool. >> >>I have received DVD's of FC4 & FC5 with LFY's MAY-06 issue. >> >>What will be the reason & how can I solve this problem to install FC5 ?. >> >>-- >>Jagdish R.Chhailkar as a root on a root terminal use "system-config-display" to get a tool to configure your display while most preferred and better way is to edit "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" see the line which contains ... Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection hope this will help. regards, Bimal Pandit

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Linuxers August 2006