Linuxers January 2008

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fossconf update
by Kenneth Gonsalves 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

hi, just an update on fossconf chennai - we have a good list of speakers - most of them new and speaking for the first time. We have also been able to attract quite a few people from academia. Also a few student groups doing their projects in foss. So we have around 70 good talks - now let us hope we get a good audience to listen to these talks ;-) The talk list is here: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/talks/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Net Radio in Linux
by Kartik Mistry 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

On Jan 20, 2008 12:00 PM, Rony wrote: > A friend of mine showed me this site for internet radio. It works in > Linux too. Go to www.sky.fm and check out 'Listen Now' on the top and > from the list, select 'MP3 Streams'. A playlist file .pls will be > downloaded. Save it and load the playlist in your audio player. Listen > to good music without RJ yak yak. I selected the 96Kbps stream. As per > the theoritical calculations, one hour of listening takes about 43 MB > download. Also, http://schizoid.in/ and http://radioverve.com/ is 'working' with Linux (Specially, check faq at schizoid.in) without any issues. Check it out! Make sure that you have fat bandwidth too. -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ blog.ftbfs.in | kartikm.wordpress.com

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Etch-Xfce DVD burning errors.
by Rony 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Hello All, I wanted to copy a Fedora 8 DVD for a friend. I tried the default Brasero in Etch-Xfce but it would not even proceed further than the window where Read and Write drives are chosen. So gnomebaker was used. It read the master DVD and created the image but on writing the image back to a blank DVD, it completed the process halfway but with no errors. However the DVD is only half burned as can also be observed physically. Then my all time favorite K3B was installed but it too recorded halfway and said ok. What I observed in gnomebaker was that it uses the 'dd' command to write the DVD which I feel is outdated. I did not check the same in K3B as I did not expect it to do the same. All necessary packages like dvdrw+tools, and many more are installed in my system. I lost 2 blank DVDs. Finally for the third and last one in stock, Nero was used in the other operating system and that recorded properly. What could be possibly happening? I recollect gnomebaker showing messages like... Writing image using dd if=... of=..... Flushing Cache. Updating RVM (?) Google does not yield much information about this problem. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Net Radio in Linux
by Rony 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Rony wrote: "A friend of mine showed me this site for internet radio. It works in Linux too. Go to www.sky.fm and check out 'Listen Now' on the top and from the list, select 'MP3 Streams'. A playlist file .pls will be downloaded. Save it and load the playlist in your audio player. Listen to good music without RJ yak yak. I selected the 96Kbps stream. As per the theoritical calculations, one hour of listening takes about 43 MB download." There is a 24 Kbps stream also available for slow connections. The sound is mono but decent for listening. 24 Kbps also cuts down on the downloaded data for connections having data download limits. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Gparted question
by Nishit Dave 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

List, I want to create a partition on my laptop by freeing up space from my C: drive, NTFS. I have been reading documentation on Gparted, but I could not determine if it requires contiguous free space within a partition to shrink it and create a new one with free space. The defragmentation utility provided with Windows XP does not consolidate free space. Would using Gparted to repartition the disc, after such (suboptimal) defragmentation, result into loss of data, or will it use only the free space? It would seem visually that Gparted will use free space, but there are conflicting opinions everywhere. Can somebody provide a concise, unequivocal answer? Can somebody provide a feasible solution if there is a definite problem?

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Yum country specific mirror list
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

> I'm using Fedora 8. Nowadays yum is updating at extremely slow speeds > from Asian mirrors. I am assuming that your Yum is configured to fetch mirrorlists from the following URLs: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=x86_64 http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f8&arch=x… Now do you know which particular mirror you are using and finding it slow? Most of the time, the first two mirrors would be an Indian one. One of the Indian mirrors -- ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ -- allows only a limited number of anonymous clients to connect, and each client is allowed a maximum of 32KBps to 48KBps of bandwidth. The other Indian mirror -- http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/pub/fedora -- is also planning to do something similar, and they might be changing their configuration as I am writing this email. In case you are having problems with the Indian mirrors: Now both these mirrors are quite new, experience very heavy loads -- http://glug-nith.org/usage ; http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/awstats/awstats.pl -- and face the standard bandwidth shortage prevalent in India. The first one has an 8Mbps line, while the second has a 5Mbps line, which they are planning to increase. Even then, it has been my observation that apart from the heavily loaded Fedora mirror, the other mirrors which these two machines host are quite fast. eg., try downloading Emacs from http://gnu.glug-nith.org/emacs/emacs-22.1.tar.gz and ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-22.1.tar.gz and compare the speeds. So if we had some specific inputs from you as to which mirror(s) you find slower, what sort of bandwidth you have, etc. we can try to optimize the Indian Fedora mirrors accordingly. If the problem is with the other Asian mirrors, then you might take it up on Fedora's mirror mailing lists. > mirrorlist.txt is filled with asian servers only. > Is there any way that yum downloads Non Asian mirrors list from US or > Europe? or on what basis does yum downloads country specific mirror > lists. Is there any way to change the defaults? There is a way. You need to pass a country variable tothe mirrorlist URLs. Eg., for only Indian mirrors you would do: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=x86_64&count… http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f8&arch=x… Cheers, Debarshi -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU) * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP)

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[INFO] Changing default applications in Etch-Xfce Desktop
by Rony 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

Hello All, I had pasted some files on my desktop. These files opened with a preset default application. I wanted to use another one that I installed but on right-clicking the file, no option for opening in an alternate application was available. Even googling for help did not yield any usefull results. Finally while checking out some files in my home directory ( using the default Thunar browser) I found that inside Thunar the alternate application option is available and I could change it to my chosen one. Plus, those who do not have the archiving option on right click inside Thunar can install the 'thunar-archive-plugin' using apt-get. This will add the archiving options 'Extract Here' and 'Extract To' on right clicking files inside Thunar. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Net Radio in Linux
by Rony 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

Hello All, A friend of mine showed me this site for internet radio. It works in Linux too. Go to www.sky.fm and check out 'Listen Now' on the top and from the list, select 'MP3 Streams'. A playlist file .pls will be downloaded. Save it and load the playlist in your audio player. Listen to good music without RJ yak yak. I selected the 96Kbps stream. As per the theoritical calculations, one hour of listening takes about 43 MB download. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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[OT] Defective Linux For You Media.
by Rony 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

Hello All, This month Linux For You has done it again. The magazine costs Rs. 100/- like other computer mags but again their optical media is bad. This has become a tradition with them and they seem to be pretty thick skinned about it. I have decided to stop buying this magazine altogether as it is a waste of hard earned money. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Help on NDMP
by Kanika Rajani 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

We are working with NDMFS(an implementation of NDMP protocol) to take backup (on fedora 7 platform) but are facing a problem. When giving the "backup" command to take the backup ,it is giving the error-NDMP_NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR. Can u help?

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