Linuxers April 2008

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by Pradeepto Bhattacharya

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

14 years, 5 months

Open Letter to Mammooty

by Praveen A

Microsoft will be signing up Malayalam movie star Mammootty as one of the brand ambassadors for the Computer Literacy programme that is to be organized soon in Kerala, a Southern Indian State well known for its pro-free software policies. Read, Sign and Share the letter at http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty Also digg the story http://digg.com/microsoft/Mammooty_don_t_join_hands_with_Microsoft Vote the story http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

15 years

FSF India Delegation Meets the Union Minister for IT

by Rony

Hello All, I found this information about a meeting between FSF India and the Union IT minister in Oct 2007. http://www.gnu.org.in/node/130 Has the Govt. made any progress in implementing the points raised in the petition? -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

15 years

VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block (253, 0)

by Agnello George

Hi I am trying to install Cent OS 5 on a freshly formatted HDD. When boot my system frm the CD rom i get e following error "crc error VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block (253,0) plese append a correct "root=" boot optiion kernel panic -not syncing: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on unknow-block (253,0) " never faced such a issue before if can one can help , would be really grateful Thanks -- Regards Agnello Dsouza

15 years, 1 month

Network and Sound not working

by Cyril Chacko

Dear all, Has anyone configured Debian Linux on Campaq Presario F733AU Laptop. I have installed Debian on the Laptop. The Ethernet card is not detected during the install. And after install, none of the devices worked properly. Going through the net I managed to find out how to get the display going. I had to use the Vesa driver instead of nv from Xorg. However I am not able to find anything to tell me what to do about my other devices. I am adding my lspci output to this mail. Thanks for all the help Regards Cyril chacko -- Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. Make sure they are on you.

15 years, 1 month

strftime for javascript

by Philip Tellis

They say that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks, so this dog has been up to some old tricks. A couple of days ago I released strftime[1] for javascript with partial support for all of PHP's strftime[2] format specifiers, and today I released version 1.2 with full support and the ability to localise it. Get it via freshmeat here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/strftime-js/ (if you want the tarballs) or directly here: http://hacks.bluesmoon.info/strftime/ (if you only want the source and docs). The code is BSD licensed. Some more info: - The opengroup specification for strftime has 33 format specifiers and 19 modified format specifiers - PHP's strftime has the 33 basic format specifiers and adds 3 more - This javascript implementation supports the entire PHP set, and does not support the 19 modified format specifiers - The code supports locale specific representations through a locale extension mechanism which is well documented [3] There are bound to be bugs, so send them my way any way you see fit. The project is also hosted on google code, but I'm not too happy with the interface and am considering moving it to sourceforge mainly for svn and issue tracking. If you have strong opinions one way or the other, let me know. Anyway, for now, play with it, let me know about bugs, if you want to write a localised module for a particular language, feel free to do so and send it in. Philip [1] - http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strftime.html [2] - http://php.net/strftime [3] - http://hacks.bluesmoon.info/strftime/localisation.html -- hello world

15 years, 1 month

PHP Seminar Part 2 - Sunday 4th May

by Prashant Shah

Details : http://elitemumbai.wordpress.com/ elite.mumbai(a)gmail.com

15 years, 1 month

Indian students in SoC

by Praveen A

Hi, We know about 7 students from India who got selected for SoC this time. http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/SoC/2008 If you know of any student from India not listed there please update. Regards Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

15 years, 1 month

Subversion 1.5.x first public RC

by Senthil Kumaran S

Hi, The long awaited release of subversion "with merge-tracking" has been ready with its first public release candidate. You can find the official announcement here http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2008-04/1120.shtml In another 6 to 8 weeks we are expecting a GA :) This release includes a lot of feature additions (http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.5_releasenotes.html) to subversion. Try it and report bugs if any, that will help the community :) If you want to know how to use subversion with all those bells and whistles check out http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html -- Senthil Kumaran S http://www.stylesen.org/

15 years, 1 month

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Why Schools Must Embrace ODF and FOSS

by Venkatesh Hariharan

> > My choice would be that the Govt. makes it mandatory for all hardware > donations to be independent of riders on software that can be installed on > them. Legal experts could site some clause about not allowing MRTP in > education. Last time we met, Nagarjuna had mentioned about school syllabus > having to be independent of brand identities. Then let the donors (anyone) > decide whether they can operate under this rule or want to back out. That > will also help the public get a better understanding of the benefactors. As > an organization, FSF India could prod the Govt. into making this rule. We > can write a letter with all our signatures and send it to the PM and other > Ministries. We could all meet at HBCSE to sign this letter. Better still would be an online petition. http://www.ipetitions.com www.petitiononline.com I will follow up on this since I am now based in Delhi. Venky

15 years, 1 month

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