Linuxers February 2007

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Some Technology Observations.
by Debarshi Ray 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

> i've generally found, that if one buying a Mac and one does not want to use > Mac OS X(of which some components of the GUI(Aqua) are under non free > licenses), either fry the machine and put a GNU/Linux distribution on it or > don't use Aqua, install a Free GUI and the other Free app's with along with > Darwin. That's the way to go. Sorry, could not understand what you wanted to convey. Regards, Debarshi -- After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box. -- Italian proverb

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Vdata card use
by Koustubha Kale 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Would be most grateful. Never used wvdial but will learn now of course. So basically I treat it just as a standard modem is that it? With warm regards Koustubha Kale ----- Original Message ---- From: Vivek J. Patankar <list307(a)gmail.com> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2007 10:09:13 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Vdata card use Koustubha Kale wrote: > I have a Tata Indicom VDATA PCMCIA card for internet access when out of office. > Is it possible to use this with Fedora core 6? Any pointers please. I have used the Huawei EC321 data card on FC6.x86_64. Setting it up using wvdial was a breeze. If you want, I can provide you the wvdial settings that I used. -- Regards Vivek J. Patankar Registered Linux User #374218 Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) Linux 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 x86_64 -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL

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Need review of Motorola Axxx series cellphones
by Mohan Nayaka 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Hi all, I am planning to buy a new cell. Someone suggested A1010 which seemed to be excellent value for money. I searched some more and found A1000/A768i/A1200 with comparable features and Linux OS. IIRC, jtd has an A768i. I wanted some review of these mobiles. Required features: More or less what A1010 has (www.motorola.com/mot/doc/5/5146_MotDoc.PDF) Budget: 12-13k Any comments about A768i/A1200 ? Regards, Mohan S N -- Never look up when dragons fly overhead.

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Vdata card use
by Koustubha Kale 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Hi list, I have a Tata Indicom VDATA PCMCIA card for internet access when out of office. Is it possible to use this with Fedora core 6? Any pointers please. With warm regards Koustubha Kale ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL

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Tata Cable Broadband
by osric fernandes 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Hi, Has anyone used Tata's Cable Broadband (not Tata DSL). I have been using Exatt Cablenet all this while and I am really bugged with their downtime. Tata has just recently launched cable broadband in my locality and the introductory schemes are really cheap. However I am concerned about the authentication mechanism. It seems that they are using some browser based authentication scheme so I doubt if there is any problem in connecting through linux. If anyone has any bad or good experiences then please do inform. -- Regards, OSRIC XAVIER FERNANDES

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Playing VCDs in Ubuntu.
by Rony 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

Hello All, I gave one more shot at trying to play VCDs and DVDs in Ubuntu 6.10 on my desktop. All instructions given on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats were followed but still VCDs would not be opened in Totem. A DVD would play upto the menu but the 'Play' link that comes after that on the screen would not come and the screen would simply remain blank. From the net a useful page was found http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2007/01/20/playing-vcds-on-ubuntu-linu… Using apt, gxine and gxineplugins packages were downloaded and that finally helped in playing VCDs as well as DVDs. Gxine has good audio settings options that allow you to set audio levels in order to avoid distortion. The same procedure was followed in the Acer 2428 laptop running Edubuntu 6.06 LTS. I am able to get videos for VCDs as well as DVD but no sound. The system too did not have sound so some ALSA packages were downloaded based on their look and feel. System sound is up but no movie sounds. I am able to record my voice using 'Sound Recorder' but the playback is faint. Could anyone help me out on this? I am willing to get the lappy to your office at your convenience. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ Copy addresses and emails from any email account to Yahoo! Mail - quick, easy and free. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/trueswitch2.html

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BarCamp MU
by Sameer Niphadkar 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

Hello, BarCampMumbai|University Level Date: 11.02.07 Venue: K. J. Somaiya Engineering College, Vidyavihar (E), Mumbai - 77 Time: 1100 hrs IST (11:00 am) BarCampMU follows BarCampMumbai, BarCampPune, BarCampHyderabad etc. at a time when BarCamp's are being held all over India, and all over the world. To find where else Barcamp is held, go to www.barcamp.org. BarCampMU. Be There. What is BarCamp? BarCamp is an ad hoc un-conference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. It is an interactive platform where all participants present, share, speak-up or at least be active listeners. http://barcamp.org/BarCampMumbaiU 'You will be what you WILL to Be' -James Allen

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say tata bye bye to the BBC: Agrees to go to bed with MS alone.
by Abhishek Daga 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

Mac and Linux users will not be able to use all of the BBC's features. Article: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2174256/bbc-slammed-microsoft-lock Open Source Consortium vents fury over TV on demand 'bias' Ian Williams, vnunet.com 06 Feb 2007 The Open Source Consortium (OSC) has slammed the BBC over plans to lock online TV viewers into Microsoft products. The accusations come after the BBC announced that its new on-demand services will be limited to Microsoft Windows. A report from the BBC Trust said that services will be unavailable to consumers who do not use Microsoft software or have an up-to-date version of Windows...................more on the link above. You can register your protest or complain here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/appeals/index.html -abhishek ____________________________________________________________________________________ Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097

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fedora support and reliability question.
by krishnakant Mane 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

hello all, just one question about fedora and this is really very serious because I have got contracts from 3 other big organisations for converting their enterprise to gnu/linux. I found that fedora is having more hardware support than any distro for the latest hardware like ggc mother boards etc. now my question is that what kind of reliability can we expect with fedora and what is the level of support we get? for example ubuntu has a "LTS" meaning Long Time Support policy. I think fedora obviously can't provide this because this is purely community driven project. I am not so sure about mandriva whether is is purely community driven or an organisation is supporting it. any ways the point is that can fedora have that kind of support because new versions come every now and then so can we look for support on fedora? for example if I am using fedora core 6 how long can I get updates and new packages for the same? thanking all. Krishnakant.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Some Technology Observations.
by Debarshi Ray 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

>> Add >> to that the confusion when someone would want to give a presentation >> about Free Software and Free Knowledge, which they had made on >> proprietary applications, on their own machines running MacOS. > did you throw them out? No. Politely asked them to fend for themselves and withdrew all stage support. ;-) Regards, Debarshi -- After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box. -- Italian proverb

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