Linuxers May 2007

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Plain text emails using Web based Yahoo! Mail
by Roshan 21 May '07

21 May '07

List, I have added a small How-To on the wiki about composing / viewing plain text emails using Web Based Yahoo! Mail. http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Plaintext_Emails This may not be useful for many (active) on the list, because, I assume most use a email client! However, I believe, there are newbies entering the world of GNU/Linux everyday, and finding out these mailing lists and sending off emails to the list. Unknowingly, the send HTML emails, which are blocked for obvious reasons. Therefore, this How-To is aimed at newbies to send plain text emails to the list. I would also like to suggest, that for new registrations of subscriptions to the list, the *welcome* email (the one that is sent after confirmation of registration) /should/ include a link to this How-To to help individuals know how to send plain text emails. :) -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC- http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc ubunturos @ freenode __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT?]: Linux O. S. with LAN - MTNL Triband
by Vickram Crishna 19 May '07

19 May '07

--- Anurag wrote: > Sometime on Wednesday 16 May 2007 23:55, Raj Mathur > said: > > > All that they have to do now, is introduce > Unlimited > > > plans at more reasonable rates (read 'lower') > for > > > users. (hehe, this must be on so many wishlists > ;) ) > > > > Isn't the unlimited 256 Kb/s some Rs 900 per > month? Sounds pretty > > reasonable to me. > > IIRC, that's only for their Delhi customers. Not > Mumbai ;-) I think tht is very reasonable. There are no MPs or Union ministers in Mumbai who would notice or care about MTNL services, whereas in Delhi they are practically dropping off the treetops. Of course they may not care about MTNL either, but the pain if hey do notice is much higher, hence the differential service levels. On the train two days back, I met an MTNL staffer who was very loyal and vociferous about MTNL standards. He told me that I should apply for a very cheap Garuda CDMA, Rs 1,000 for two year rent free service and Rs 1,000 free talktime, excellent connectivity (he said). Does anyone know whether it has built-in data connectivity to compete with DSL? Vickram ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/

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Shell scripting book like Kanetkar's
by knowledge less 19 May '07

19 May '07

Is there a similar book on shell programming like Y Kanetkar's Unix Shell Programming, but one that is current. Kanetkar's book is quite old and no new editions. I need a book which has lots of exercises like Kanetkar's and is easy too like the one. Regards, Deboo

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Linux/Unix books donation
by knowledge less 18 May '07

18 May '07

I have quite a few nice Unix/Linux and Security books (mostly Oreilly) which I do not use but they are in good condition and not that old that anyone can't use it. Is there a place I can donate them where people can really make use of them? They are 10 - 12 big books. Regards, Deboo

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[OT?]: Linux O. S. with LAN - MTNL Triband
by Roshan 17 May '07

17 May '07

Hello List, Logged on to Triband's home page today, and the marquee scrolling on their page (just below the flash animation) says, "For best Triband Usage ... Linux O. S. with LAN port..." (Did someone notice this before me?) So, their department (dealing with Triband) realizes that there are individuals who use Triband with a Linux distro! All that they have to do now, is introduce Unlimited plans at more reasonable rates (read 'lower') for users. (hehe, this must be on so many wishlists ;) ) But I wonder, what sort of a support will they provide for GNU/Linux users? Distro-specific or will they ask users to do "command-line" tasks for configuring, in case the user decides to switch to manual configuration. (or whatsoever) -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC- http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc ubunturos @ freenode Office firewalls, cyber cafes, college labs, don't allow you to download CHAT? Click here: http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php

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Re: doc
by abhishek 15 May '07

15 May '07

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 10:05, Dr. Anar D. Rupji wrote: > l send the documentation and Development life cycle Hello Sir, We want to include context diagram and data flow diagram in documentation. so documentation will be sent to you tomorrow ie on 16th May. -- With Regards Abhishek Amberkar ---------------------- There is no Operating System but `GNU' and `Linux' is one of its kernels.

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Shell Script for resizing an array of images
by Roshan 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hello List, I had a task of resizing more than 30 images one by one (of sizes as large as 3000 x 2000 pixels or a little lesser than that) to a size 640 x 480 pixels. I'm sure, a lot of you click high quality photos (images of size > than 1 MB) and want to resize them to send it through email, say as a zip file (if the receiver wants a copy of the photos). One can upload the photographs to a photo-sharing website, but one wouldn't have to log on everytime to view / show the photos. I used the command line tool called "convert " (by ImageMagick) to convert them. Though I knew, I could play with files in shell scripts I didn't know anything about the syntax. So, I searched and found this document http://tldp.org/linuxfocus/English/July2001/article211.shtml Understood the syntax on the page, and wrote a script to complete the above mentioned task. #!/bin/sh for f in $*; do convert -resize 640x480 $f t-$f done I have one question. Is the $* is for argument number (or its type) for the file that would have to be converted? There's one thing that I noted while this script was executing. The processor usage was around 93-100 % and the memory usage was jumping up and down. Look at the following picture, to know more. http://www.geocities.com/d_rosh2001/system_monitor.png Please feel free to copy, modify and redistribute this code, if it helps. :) -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC- http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc ubunturos @ freenode Office firewalls, cyber cafes, college labs, don't allow you to download CHAT? Click here: http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php

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"Breaking News : Polar Bear Sighted!"
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 14 May '07

14 May '07

Hi List So finally "the eagle has arrived" or shall I say - "the polar bear has arrived". [1] This ofcourse is an alpha version of KDE 4.0. So one step closer to World Domination. Read more in the given link below. So thank you for your patience, still a lot to do and lot to achieve and a long way to go. Three cheers to the all KDE developers who put in their valuable time, effort and love. [1] http://dot.kde.org/1178891375/ Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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screen resolution drops down to 640 * 480 after monitor change
by Kamal Paryani 14 May '07

14 May '07

hi after installation if i change my monitor on ubuntu 7.04 it does not take the resolution higher than 640 * 480 but the monitor is capable of higher resolutions if i switch back to the original monitor on which the installation was done then it allows me to increase the resolution please help , how do i tell ubuntu desktop to ignore the monitor regards kamal

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] what's on the ubuntu dvd, any ideas?
by Shuvam Misra 14 May '07

14 May '07

> You need to download only once. Then create a Packages file by using > dpkg-scanpackage. compress the Packages file to create packages.gz in I think you meant dpkg-scanpackages? Took me a couple of minutes to find out this command. Thanks for the pointer; I didn't know about it. Shuvam

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