Linuxers December 2008

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[X-Post] Reliance WiMax
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi, Has anybody use the Reliance WiMax (Broadnet) services? I am more interested in their services in Mumbai. Good, Bad, Ugly? Apparently they install separate antenna for each connection. The size of this is as big as a laptop monitor or such, thats what the marketing exec told me. What I want to know is - 1) compatibility with Linux Boxes 2) does it work during the rainy season? Considering that rains in Mumbai or Panvel is slightly on the extreme side ;), does it work fine during the rainy season? I guess the same applies to the DTH setup even. Only reason, I am thinking its worth a try is because I won't have to depend on availabilty of power and such because I will be responsible to provide power to the setup which I can in case of load shedding as well. Thanks in advance. 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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[OT] Anyone know a place for hard drive recovery in Mumbai? <eom>
by Sandesh Singh 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Talk-in] OSM in Mumbai Wikipedia Coverage
by Raghu Prasad 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

>>> The reports say of how the terrorists used these same digital maps >>> to plan their actions and reduced the requirement of having to stay >>> in Mumbai and do a proper reconnaissance. >>> At this time, you will not find many people favouring update of >>> digital maps. Any technology/instrument can be used by people bent on destruction. If positive effects of something outweigh its negative effects, then we allow it to be used by the society. One such example is Mumbai's rail network. Everyday over half-a-dozen people die on the railway tracks of Mumbai, but we continue to use our local trains without banning them. Same is true for the knives used to chop vegetables. One can kill someone with it. But can we ban them? Now general public is getting a chance to use digital maps which were only available to government agencies, a few years back. It would be pretty sad if we are forced to give up this technology just because some terrorists and their masters used digital maps. By the way, there were terrorist attacks in India, even before Google or OSM came into existence. >> The Issue goes a little further, >> In a place like Mumbai with nearly 2 Crore population, the terrorists >> killed about 200, >> hardly a nudge in the yearly death rate, > > WOW ! > The attitude is interesting. > I am sure for the people who lost family and friends in the attack will > appreciate that its hardly a nudge in the death rate. > Good thing people like you are not in control of the country. > Or Wait ! They are actually. I think what he said was technically correct but emotionally offensive. If we mix facts with emotions, we don't reach anywhere in a public discourse. It should be noted that the family and friends of Indian citizens are not suffering for the first time. Every week we see many people dying in terrorist attacks in different parts of our country. The Mumbai offensive was a high decibel one and hence it got higher visibility in public. This has shaken the establishment. The government could have lived with multiple low decibel terror strikes spread over a longer period of time, even if their cumulative score of victims were more than 200. For example, just count the number of such victims in different parts of our country in last five years. Regarding loss of life of near and dear ones; if one dies in terror attack or in the hands of workers of some political party, the loss is the same. While looking at the issue of rights of citizens being usurped by our government, we need to look at hard facts, sans any emotions. Are we supposed to give up our right to privacy just because terrorists are striking us whenever they want? We also need to look at the experience of people in other countries like US, UK etc. where citizens have lost a lot of their privacy after 9/11. In US, there are some draconian laws in place in the name of homeland security. Is US safe just because of these measures? What are the views of experts residing in those countries on these issues? These are the questions one should be asking and discussing in detail. Well, being a mailing list for GNU/Linux, it is not be the appropriate forum for it. >> politicians use this as a chance to pass regulations that will harass >> rest of the population for a lifetime, There is a real danger of it to happen. It is necessary to be vigilant against terrorists as well as the government itself. Democracy doesn't come cheap. If citizens in general don't care, then we would be enslaved by people in power on one pretext or other. > this is a cause worth fighting for, freedom is a precious thing. Very true. Raghu

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System set up for Studio on Linux
by Aniruddha Dasgupta 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi friends, We are currently in talks with some of the Big Movie house about making 3d Animated TV serials in India. We would be starting from January. Now we would be having a studio with a team of around 50 people and 30 Workstations, Servers, Render farms, Storage solutions etc. Now we want to utilize the full potential of our Hardware. Windows does not have this ability. We want the entire Setup in Linux. We would like to know, if there is a group or people in this List who can undertake This kind of work. If yes, we would like to talk immediately. Next, we shall work on Maya, Adobe software's etc. So the Linux Flavor should support that. Please suggest a Distro which also has a large hardware compatibility. If any Positive response, please contact Aniruddha on: 09324696842, 09860931588 Aniruddha Dasgupta Director-Animation & Technical E-dutainment Unlimited Nerul, Navi Mumbai

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How to divide single storage on multiple servers? Storage Cluster
by Neelesh Gurjar 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi, I want 150 TB Network storage. However buying NAS from EMC takes Rs. 1 lak / TB. and from Fortunestart takes Rs.50K/TB. Which is pretty costlier for an NGO. Can I make one NAS from Multiple servers ? For eg. If I setup 5 servers with 1 TB space then after seting up cluster I should get 5 TB space accession outside the cluster. Is it possible? I heard that google is using same thing with their Filesystem. Please help -- Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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A quick BoF tomorrow at Andheri (W) @ 4:00 PM
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Guys, Philip is here after a long time and we thought of catching up. So we have setup a BoF tomorrow (Sun, 7th Dec. 2008) @ Andheri (W) at 4:00 PM We will all meet 1st at McDonald's and after 15 Minutes we will move to any nearby coffee house. So those we would like to catch up please drop by. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Steve Martin - "I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't."

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Talk-in] OSM in Mumbai Wikipedia Coverage
by Kenneth Gonsalves 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

On Saturday 06 Dec 2008 12:49:46 am Mikel Maron wrote: > Wikipedia is using OpenStreetMap for Mumbai, to illustrate the locations of > the attacks last week. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2008_Mumbai_attacks unfortunately the OSM data for this area is still b0rked > > Despite the tragedies, I firmly believe that open access to knowledge > ultimately makes the world safer and better. OSM is a key part of > understanding and illuminating the world. agreed > > I hope all of you, and and your friends, families and colleagues are safe > and well. thank you for the sentiment and support -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Fwd: [Talk-in] OSM in Mumbai Wikipedia Coverage
by Kenneth Gonsalves 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

-- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Solidarity from Italy
by Giovanni Maruzzelli 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

In this difficult moment, I wish all my friends, colleagues, and acquaintances in India to be well, sure, and safe. Also, I'm sure Indian people will be soon over this moment. A strong hug from Italy. Sincerely, Giovanni Maruzzelli ========================================= Contact person : Mr Giovanni Maruzzelli Company : celliax Website: www.celliax.org Address : via Pierlombardo 9, 20135 Milano Country/Territory : Italy Business Email: gmaruzz at celliax dot org Phone : 39-347-2665618 Fax : 39-02-87390039

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Vsftp help
by Neelesh Gurjar 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Richard Victor Correia" <richard(a)florix.net> wrote: >I am facing problem in setting up vsftpd. >System: CentOS 5, vsftpd-2.0. >I am able to connect to server using windos inbuilt ftp program, but >filezilla and winscp fails to connect. >Then I turned OFF SELinux and IPtables to check if active/passive mode >is creating problem. Still no luck. >Can someone help me resolve this? <http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers>While making connection with WinSCP or Filezilla please check port and protocol.. I think by default with WinSCP it uses Port 22 and SSH portocol. My suggetion for you is instead of setting up FTPserver use SFTP server. It is more secured. Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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