Linuxers October 2007

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The Linux Delhi Hall Of Shame: Resurrected
by Kumar Appaiah 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Dear Linuxers, I am working on resurrecting the erstwhile Linux Delhi Hall Of Shame, which lists a set of (typically Indian or useful to Indian) websites which are not standards compliant, in the sense that they are designed to work with specific proprietary software applications or operating systems. Full details of criteria and current list of sites in the Hall of Shame are available here: http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/HallOfShame I would request you to familiarize yourself with the criteria which warrant additions to the list, and add relevant sites to the list as well. If you do not want to edit the Wiki yourself, please mail me and I shall add the site to the Wiki. I appreciate your comments and suggestions. Please help in making this effort a success. Thanks are due to Raj "Raju" Mathur of Linux Delhi for his advice in helping me get this done. Thank you. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036

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Announce: November 2007 GLUG meet at HBCSE
by Anurag 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hello list members, We'll be having our November GLUG meet at HBCSE on sunday, 11th November 2007. Date: Sunday, 11th November 2007 Time: 4:00 PM Venue: HBCSE, Mankhurd Topics: 1) Common Lisp - The language basics. - By Chaitanya Gupta 2) How to get started with SBCL and Emacs Everyone is invited to attend and benefit form the talks. We'll try to finish the talks by 6PM so that we get more time for one to one interactive discussions, and those who are coming from far away can leave early. Anurag -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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Problem configuring yum and webcam in fedora 7 on acer 4710z
by Vidyadhar Bhise 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Hi, I have recently bought the acer 4710z laptop, with linpus linux installed. I formatted and installed Fedora 7 on it. The webcam (acer Crystal eye) was not detected thus i tried the script given on forums.....http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=169878 After this i started experiencing problems with yum and though webcam was detected, was not compatible with video drivers. The GUI of software updater also hangs most of the time. Internet connection on my laptop is taken from my windows xp desktop. and i am a newbie with linux. Please guide to restore yum and also regarding the webcam. thank you.

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article on rediff: linux for visually impaired
by G Karunakar 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Hi, check "Low cost software for visually impaired" http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/oct/23linux.htm Karunakar

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performance hit for LAMP server
by rohit bhute 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

We are facing a peculiar problem. I'm providing as much details as I can. Even so, tell me if I should provide more info. LAMP server before install - RHEL 3 with Apache 2, PHP 4, MySQL 4. After install - RHEL 5, Apache 2.2.3, PHP 5.1.6, MySQL 5.0.2 The problem we are facing is the site performing badly when accessed from certain locations - from our corporate LAN, which is behind Squid. Certain colleagues in other companies (we suspect behind they are also behind Squid or some proxy) also reported with gemeric messages like "site isn't loading". Some symptoms are: 1. Images, CSS, JS files not loading or loading incompletely. 2. If we view source, we see the HTML is fully downloaded, but not rendered. 2. PHP pages being asked to be saved (the saved pages are blank) This problem is prominently noticeable in PHPMyAdmin. 3. The performance improves 9may be illusion) over time, but any new drastic changes brings it to square one. 4. Awstats page takes forever to load comletely. 5. Sometimes the sites are inaccessible in toto. 6. Files not downloading through FTP (even 200K fails). The perplexing thing is I and my colleague have accessed the server from home (Triband and cable net respectively) and everything works! We don't know what the problem is, where it is, etc. Any ideas? -- Rohit V. Bhute http://rvbhute.org/

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Misinformation warning
by Nishit Dave 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

This slashdot post http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/30/2113200 [OpenDocument Foundation To Drop ODF] is about a nobody-organization called the OpenDocument Foundation, having nothing to do with OASIS, proponents of the ODF. The shills have already been unmasked by some knowledgeable slashdot posters. Please don't get upset.

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Re: Issue with Ayttm 0.4.6-34
by Kartik Mistry 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

On 10/30/07, Kamaleshwar Morjal wrote, > Hi all, > I recently installed Ayttm 0.4.6-34 on Feisty. When i > started the program it presented two blank windows! > ... Hi, Thanks for using ayttm! Get the latest version (0.5.0-10) from Debian, http://packages.debian.org/sid/ayttm or from, http://ayttm.sourceforge.net/files.shtml You will feel better since it is GTK2 port. Thanks to great work of Siddhesh! -- Cheers, ----------------------------------------------------------- Kartik Mistry || GPG: 0xD1028C8D || IRC: kart_ kartikmistry.org/blog || kartikm.wordpress.com ----------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] QEMU/VIRTUALBOX on ubuntu 7.10: UPDATE
by Abhishek Daga 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

On 10/29/07, Abhishek Daga <daga.abhishek(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 10/29/07, Dinesh Shah <dineshah(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Dear Terrence, > > > > On 10/28/07, jtd <> wrote: > > > On Friday 26 October 2007 13:04, Dinesh Shah wrote: > > > > > > > Which stable VMs are available for running Linux as guest OS on > > > > Windows XP host? > > > > > > You mean XP as guest on lnux host. Running XP as host is a bad idea. > > > > Some times you have to use and support bad ideas. ;) > > > > > -- > > > Rgds > > > JTD > > > > With regards, > > -- > > --Dinesh Shah :-) > > > > -- > > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > > > Finally decided to go with virtualbox. the version available through > synaptic ( 6.06) has some issues though. dependency issues. I tried > fixing those, but it kept saying "kernel complete failed" and virtual > office will not start. > > So followed another instruction set where i downloaded the dapper version > from the virtualbox repository.. > before dkpging this, i had to install the kernel source and then the > virtualbox package and it all worked fine. > > > update: Installed virtualbox. Worked fine. Then tried win98SE as guest OS. failed miserably. just didnt go beyond setup. Then tried winxpsp2 and it installed ok.... Messed up my resolution even for ubuntu host. would not go beyond 640x480. Had to do a rebuild for xorg.conf and it restored the resolution. applications run fine. sound worked well. chose the OSS sound card. What has not worked yet is the LAN/internet through the guest OS. I like the "work seamlessly" feature in virtualbox. Still there are issues with the resolutions and its a pain to fiddle around each time with the resolutions to get a true full screen. but speed wise, it was fine. Guest 10 GB with 256 MB. Host original was 512 MB. Now trying to install QEMU on a 7.10 desktop edition AMD64.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] performance hit for LAMP server
by Neelesh Gurjar 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

>Migrated the websites to RHEL 5. I simply took a backup, installed RHEL 5 and >restored the apps. Bar some config changes in httpd.conf (from apache >2.0 to 2.2), no other modification were done. As per my knowledge if you migrate to PHP5 from PHP 4 then you need to do changes in php.ini also. Unfotunately I dont remember exact changes but I had done this 3 months back for one of our PHP-Mysql application. I remember even some PHP4 functions dont work in PHP5. So need to convert those also. Regards NeeleshG *Operating systems are like underwear — nobody really wants to look at them. (Bill Joy)*

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[Commercial] Why not enroll in FOSS India Awards?
by Niraj Sahay 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

Hi, Are you working on any free software or open source (FOSS) project? Do you know anyone who is? There's a great opportunity for all Indian FOSS contributors to showcase their work at the national level, and perhaps global too! Plus, the development team (or individual) can get a minimum cash prize of Rs 25,000! But, there's more to it than just cash prize. The winners will get exclusive coverage in LINUX For You magazine, and openITis.com (aka linuxforu.com). Which in turn could mean: (a) more media coverage for the project and its developers, (b) publicity amongst targeted customers, and (c) more contributors getting attracted to the project. Launched with an initial kitty of Rs 5 lakhs, the FOSS India Awards aim to recognise India's top 20 FOSS projects. The LINUX For You team is working with FOSII (Forum for Open Source Initiatives in India) on this venture. The registration for FOSS India Awards is FREE! All one has to do to register is to visit http://www.openitis.com/awards/ and fill in the two-minute form. Registration for FOSS India Awards is open till 15th December '07. The awards will be announced during Open Source India Week (aka LinuxAsia 2008) during the 2nd week of February '08. Please do forward this message to anyone whom you believe is working on a FOSS project, and is a good candidate. Let's prove to the World that India contributes to FOSS too... Best Wishes! LINUX For You team

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