Linuxers July 2007

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Libre equivalents for Photoshop and Corel Draw on Windows platform.
by Rony 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hello All, Sometimes if making a full switch to GNU/Linux is difficult, there are Libre alternatives to commercial closed softwares available for the windows platform too. For Photoshop, there is the Gimp alternative. http://www.gimp.org/ Its ready packages are available at http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html Download all the packages on this page. Install the GTK for your OS version. Then install Gimp. Then its help package (Select only English during installation). Then the animation package if required. For Corel Draw, there is the Inkscape alternative. http://www.inkscape.org/ The exe file is available at http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/Inkscape-0.45-1.win32.exe -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Does Microsoft have nowhere to run?
by Praveen A 04 Jul '07

04 Jul '07

http://www.fsdaily.com/Adoption/Does_Microsoft_have_nowhere_to_run/ -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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[COMMERCIAL] Help Desk Engineer openings at Red Hat
by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 04 Jul '07

04 Jul '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Apply online at: https://redhat.ats.hrsmart.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=2071 Details below Job Code: 2071 Division: Red Hat Location: , IN Travel Involved: 10-20% Job Type: Full Time Job Level: 1+ years experience Education: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Skills: Category: IS,IT Compensation: Not Specified Position Summary: Red Hat has openings for Help Desk Engineers who specialize in Linux Desktop System Administration with excellent troubleshooting, customer service and interpersonal skills. If you are interested in providing a fast, friendly expert service to our internal customers, want to contribute in developing Help Desk into a world class Linux support group, have ideas and the discipline to follow them through, enjoy learning quickly, are interested in dealing with different parts of Red Hat's business on behalf of Help Desk and love working with and supporting Linux then, don't delay - apply now. * Contribute to the skills, knowledge and reputation of the team of Linux professionals in Red Hat's Global Help Desk. * Email, telephone, IRC and in-person support for all employees requiring technical help with user hardware and software issues. * Communicate effectively with employees at all levels of seniority in well spoken and written English. * Participate in global service desk (ticket triage) for all employees. * Exercises expert judgment within defined procedures and processes to determine appropriate action * Provide support to all employees with connectivity (LAN/WAN/WLAN/VPN)issues. * Maintains corporate data integrity, account and file system security. * Perform configuration, upgrades, and relocation of user hardware, software and other devices. * Participate in employee training and education on policy, procedure, processes, information, howtos. * Prepared to travel to remote offices as required to provide on-site support. * Assist the team in documenting all tasks, processes, procedures and information. * In one or more coordinator roles, manage one or more major parts of Help Desk operations and contribute to others. * Be a team member or lead special projects as required. * Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision if required. * Ability to handle shift work and unusual hours if required. Requirements Position requirements: * Expert knowledge and experience with Linux on PCs and/or servers. * Outstanding customer service and interaction skills. * Customer focused and enthusiastic in helping people to resolve technical problems. * Linux system/networking troubleshooting skills essential. * Demonstrated ability to solve problems quickly and skillfully. * Excellent English verbal and written communication skills. * Experience and skill with user hardware installation and configuration. * Experience with coding/scripting: bash, python, C. * Experience in deploying and supporting communications hardware (cellphones, deskphones, video conference). * Proven ability to adapt quickly to organizational changes. * Demonstrated ability to learn and develop technical skills. * Solid Linux experience in a commercial/academic environment (typically 1-5 years) with a history of steady technical progression * Must possess strong computer ethics * BSc/BS degree preferred or equivalent experience. Success in this position will be dependent upon your having good written and oral skills in the English language. Additional language skills are a plus. Culture: http://www.redhat.com/about/culture/ - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGiuOxXQZpNTcrCzMRAkwuAKCZn+vH8Y/QMN0e9FJBN/D91HQPPQCgzBL9 Hvl6S2bHiZSXE9nrcXjcSsE= =to4i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Firewall Successfull.
by Rony 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Hello All, Some time back I had posted a link for the Arno's firewall for command line. http://rocky.eld.leidenuniv.nl/ Since my lines are dead as in 'murda', I am using Reliance FWP as the temporary lifeline. It gives me a public ip so I tested it on the firewall tester site below. I showed all my ports as stealth-ed. http://www.securitymetrics.com/portscan.adp -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Re: * [ILUG-BOM] Eben Moglen on the GPLv3 process
by jtd 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

what he says in the talk is much more than the process of creating V3. 1) a democratic process for creating legislation 2) the cost of distributing content / code 3) the ethics of depriving society of knowledge so that some can benefit Great analogies too - must read,particularly for those who think that closed software makes business sense. I have been bumping into these continuosly for the past week. I meet a couple of microserfs who were all worked up about a bank which specifies RH enterprise linux. They wanted to know how to get a copy without paying Rs.44k per site. When i said they could download the stuff, they said that RH would sue them. HA HA i loved that. Told them to use Debian. -- Rgds JTD

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[Commercial] Job opening for Perl/PHP programmer and Linux system administrator
by Krishna Dagli 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Hello , We have openings for following two positions, experience of 6 months to 1 year is must. 1) Linux System administrator: (Possibly with Solaris experience ) 2) Perl/PHP Programmer If interested, please mail your resume to kdagli(a)infofin.com Thanks and Regards. Krishna

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Linux and ReadyBoost
by Mohan Nayaka 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

A discussion on the ubuntu-devel list on the merits and demerits of the ReadyBoost technology in vista. http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com/msg00911.… And the patents on it: http://www.google.de/search?q=20060090031 Regards, Mohan S N -- "Certainty of death, small chance of success... well, what're we waiting for? " - Gimli to the Captains of the West

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Re: * Re: [ILUG-BOM] Libre equivalents for Photoshop and Corel Draw on Windows platform.
by jtd 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

On Sunday 01 July 2007 10:05, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > are some things FOSS cant yet do - 3d cad for example. It is better > to be honest and honesty will help the foss cause. You mean a drafting packagelike Auto Cad. brlcad does 3d but is not a drafting tool.. Fortunately on the ecad side foss is the standard. Infact most of the commercial vhdl engines are based on the foss versions. Confession- for pcb drafting i still use my ancient 1988 dos Circuit Maker created by a bunch of kickass indian coders. It is beginning to show its age though and i have started playing around with GNU pcb. I have still not got the hang of creating footprints in pcb. -- Rgds JTD

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The Upside Down World - Power of IPTables
by Riyaz Usman 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

Just found a nice link demonstrating how network admins can have fun using iptables. :) http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html -- Riyaz Usman http://riyaz.bitinc.co.in 1d:c5:fb:59:df:ec:79:88:ec:81:d9:3a:87:28:10:25

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wifi networking query
by Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

Hi people, I'm stuck at home due to the rains and so took up something I had been putting away. Ok here goes: Hardware: PC1 is connected to the net via cable modem attached to eth0 w/ IP aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd PC1 has a SMC wifi card running under ndiswrapper. Shows up as wlan0 auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet static address 192.168.1.202 netmask 255.255.0.0 gateway aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd PC2 has a ProNet wifi card. Atheros chipset. Shows up as ath0 auto ath0 iface ath0 inet static address 192.168.1.203 netmask 255.255.0.0 gateway aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd PC2 has no other connectivity. Both PCs are running Kubuntu Feisty. There is no firewall running on either machine while I am trying this stuff. Task 1 : to connect both PCs so that they can atleast ping each other. This is what I get. ---------------------------------------------------------------- sharukh@natrum:~$ ping -c5 192.168.1.203 PING 192.168.1.203 (192.168.1.203) 56(84) bytes of data. From 192.168.1.202 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.202 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.202 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.202 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.202 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable --- 192.168.1.203 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +5 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4017ms , pipe 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Task 2: to be able to connect to the net from PC2 thru PC1's net connection. regards, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer. You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open some-where else"?

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Linuxers July 2007