Linuxers April 2007

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Answering Machine Software

by Manish Kathuria

Can someone suggest a stable linux based answering machine software requiring a simple voice modem ? Thanks, Manish

16 years, 4 months

[OT]: Broadband prices, from less to free?

by Roshan

Hello List, Read this: http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/apr/26broad.htm Quote from the article "He said that bandwidth costs too are likely to see a drastic reduction shortly with BSNL and MTNL planning to host web servers within the country by the middle of this year. Maran said these PSUs would set up web servers, which will enable the internet traffic to be diverted within India instead of being routed out of the country. This will reduce bandwidth costs significantly, he said, adding that Internet access charges would also come down." set up web servers? Is "Internet Backbones" the technically correct word? If internet traffic are routed out of the country, VSNL is just a gateway to it? VSNL, doesn't have an backbone? There is one backbone at Karachi and one at Lahore in neigbouring country, according to http://speedtest.net/ -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC- http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc Add online presence to your web pages, find out how here - http://messenger.yahoo.com/addpresence.php

16 years, 4 months

Virtual Distributed Ethernet

by Chetan S

Hi All, Came across this cool piece of software - Virtual Distributed Ethernet -http://vde.sourceforge.net/ It basically allows you to simulate a network on a single computer and it allows you to connect these distributed ethernets to each other. It is extremely useful if you have multiple images running under qemu and wish to connect them , simulating physical hosts. sadly it is not packaged into deb. regards, C

16 years, 4 months

Hello World!

by Omkar Raut

Hi, This is my first mail to mumbai lug! 1) Is there a good shop in mumbai to buy linux pre-installed laptop (see http://www.system76.com/ ) 2) What laptop brands are said to be most suitable for linux? -Omkar.

16 years, 4 months

HP Officejet 4255 printing blank pages in Ubuntu 7.04

by Sachin Nambiar

We have a HP officejet 4255 all-in-one printer-fax-scanner-copier machine which i need t configure with ubuntu. While my laptop dualboot ubuntu 7.04 does recognise the printer and assign hp 4200 series drivers, it keeps printing only blanks. I tried hplip, tried exporting it to pdf format then printing. Googling wasn't much help as similar problem was either unanswered in forums or solved by exporting to pdf. Is there any internal printer or some other setting i have overlooked? Please guide.. Regards, Sachin Gopal Indian Pneumatic & Hydraulic Co. Pvt Ltd.

16 years, 4 months

How many Debian Etch CDs you need?

by Praveen A

Hi, Interesting overview of the 331 discs of Debian 4.0 etch http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/tour_of_the_Debian_4.0_CDs/ Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

16 years, 5 months

Acer 2428 Fully Linux Loaded

by Rony

Hello All, Now that the Acer 2428 is fully Linux loaded, I have written a wiki how-to at our site below. http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Acer2428_Fully_Linux_Compatible -- Regards, Rony.

16 years, 5 months

Linux Based Point-of-Sale and Inventory System

by Prashant Verma

Hi, I'm looking to customize/deploy a POS/Inventory system for a small store chain. I was wondering if anyone on the list has developed/deployed a complete POS system based on Linux and/or FOSS and how their experience turned out to be. If you did, please drop me a note at my email address and I'd appreciate it if I could discuss this in detail with you. -Prashant

16 years, 5 months

the age old question : i did rm -Rf by mistake - what do i do

by Vihan Pandey

Hello, A lot of *nix people often wonder the answer to the age old question : i did rm -Rf by mistake - what do i do now ? Well, there are quite a few answers to the same. Thankfully there is now a simple answer (with not so headbreaking). A friend of mine tried it out on his Ubuntu box(on ext3) and was able to recover a ton of stuff deleted over the ages. To make things even better the answer is GPL :D And the answer is : http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec Regards, - vihan

16 years, 5 months

Multimedia support in Ubuntu and Kubuntu 6.06 6.10

by Rony

Hello All, I was with Krish when he mentioned that he had successfully got multimedia playback in Ubuntu, by adding some repositories manually in the apt sources list and downloading extra packages. When I got back, a google search revealed this page below and that finally did it. http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2663/how-to_get_full This explains everything in a simple and straightforward way. As I use Kubuntu, in the line 'sudo apt-get install totem-xine totem-xine-firefox-plugin libxine-extracodecs flashplugin-nonfree msttcorefonts sun-java5-plugin skype banshee streamtuner xmms realplay f-spot' The 'totem-xine totem-xine-firefox-plugin' entries were removed as they are for Gnome and apt throws errors. The important package is libxine-extracodecs. I am now able to play VCDs with sound. My DVD freezes at the introductory text itself but that could be due to bad media or my DVD writer is country locked. Anyway now I am quite happy with the progress and hope others who were tearing their hair over multimedia in Debian based distros will find some relief from the link above. -- Regards, Rony.

16 years, 5 months

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