Linuxers May 2008

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Strange problem with installing (K)Ubuntu.
by km 17 May '08

17 May '08

Hello everyone at LUG-BOM, I am facing this strange problem while trying to install Kubuntu/Ubuntu 7.10 on a friend's computer. The media integrity is verified as I used the same CDs on his laptop and they worked fine. However I got the following error while trying to install it on the desktop computer. { [ 0.476000 ] .. MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC [ 0.476000 ] Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Boot with apic=debug and send a report. Then try booting with the `noapic` option. } I did not try the apic=debug and the noapic options as i am not aware how to set the boot options. Any help in this regard greatly appreciated. Thanks and regards. -- kamal ---- { LINUXERS http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers /}

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] I/O Error....Cannot read from fd0
by Arun Khan 16 May '08

16 May '08

On Friday 16 May 2008, "mukesh yadav" wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 16:14:51 +0530 > From: "mukesh yadav" > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] I/O Error....Cannot read from fd0 > To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> > > but when i reconnected the floppy drive it worked fine. Do you get the error when you disable the floppy in the BIOS? -- Arun Khan

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Linux rides pillion on Mumbai city BEST buses
by Arun Khan 14 May '08

14 May '08

Read the full story @ <http://www.linux.com/feature/132871> -- Arun Khan

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OpenSSL keys vulnerability
by Anurag 14 May '08

14 May '08

The Debian security team yesterday announced security updates for OpenSSL and related packages [1] to fix predictable random number generator in openssl. The debian team strongly recommends that all keys generated on affected be removed and regenerated. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html [2] http://wiki.debian.org/SSLkeys Anurag -- http://web.gnuer.org/

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{COMMERCIAL} Customizing a Lamppix CD
by Vinayakam Murugan 12 May '08

12 May '08

Hello One of the things we do is to develop LAMP based content applications. We would like to take advantage of the LAMPPIX distro to facilitate distribution of our demo CDs. Linuxers with knowledge of customizing the same , can contact me offline for further commercial discussions. -- Warm Regards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vinayak http://theregoesanotherday.blogspot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them." Confucius ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Freed-managers] [X-Post] [Part II] Interaction with Nixi: Planning meeting Fri., 9
by Dinesh Shah 12 May '08

12 May '08

... Continued from Part I 4. Community participation in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting to be held in Hyderabad from 3-6 Dec., 2008: http://www.intgovforum.org/ NIXI wants the community to be there, as this is supposed to be a meeting for public comment, and I think that it is important that we take part. In particular, names are being solicited for be part of the advisory group, and the deadline for that is May 21st. For more on the IGF, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Governance_Forum 5. Of particular interest to IndLinux is that NIXI is willing to (a) fund localisation work carried out by distributed community groups in the country, (b) fund projects aimed at polishing open-source Indian language tools, and deploying them, e.g., making sure that OpenOffice, and Mozilla Indian language packs get built, and distributed, and (c) provide bandwidth, and hosting to such open-source projects. 6. Deployment of Indian language, and other open-source software developed in India, and/or targeted at an Indian population. Their examples were Hindawi, Dhvani, etc. The goal here would be to (a) put together software that demonstrates the use, and (b) convince people using proprietary alternatives to switch. 7. Survey of sites in the .in domain: Someone to carry out a study of .in sites (which are currently some 4.5 lakh in number), categorise them, and give awards to the best sites in various categories, e.g., best Hindi/Indian language blogging site, best open-source site, etc. 8. Rework syllabi at elementary, and middle school levels to replace references to proprietary applications with generic teaching, and/or references to open-source alternatives. 9. Bring your own ideas: NIXI is also very interested in hearing about your ideas for possible open-source projects. Please feel free to contact us at Sarai, or to directly get in touch with Mr. Rajesh Aggarwal, IAS, Additional CEO, NIXI, or Mr. Ajay Tripathi, Technical Officer, NIXI. (Their email addresses are in the list of recipients.) Regards, Gora -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 +91-92113-61617

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[Freed-managers] [X-Post] [Part I] Interaction with Nixi: Planning meeting Fri., 9
by Dinesh Shah 12 May '08

12 May '08

Let the ideas and contributions coming... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gora Mohanty <> Date: Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:01 AM Subject: [Freed-managers] Fw: [X-Post] Interaction with Nixi: Planning meeting Fri., 9 (Please note that this is a rather lengthy message copied to various lists, as various parts of it are of interest to different communities. Please edit the list of recipients, and the body in any follow-ups.) Hello all, Firstly, a formal meeting announcement: Event: ILUG-Delhi meeting Date: Fri., May 9th Time: 6.30pm Agenda: o Brainstorming for working with NIXI. Please see details below. Participants: All on this list. Venue: BB/3G, DDA flats, Munirka. Contact: Me (9868527992) We had an interesting meeting today with some people from NIXI, the National Internet Exchange of India, which is now set up as a not-for-profit company. Briefly, NIXI wishes to play the role of a bridge between industry, government, and the FOSS community, and has certain advantages over normal government agencies when it comes to funding projects in this area. Here are some ideas mooted from their side. Please note that these are open to people from anywhere in India, and they would like to see country-wide participation: 1. Preparing for roll-out of internationalised top-level domain names, i.e., web URLs entirely in Indian languages. ICANN should be approving this in some 6 months time, so NIXI wants people to participate in an experimental setup on a private (to India) network which can go public on the Internet on ICANN approval. This work would include the preparation of a write-up on potential issues involving canonical representations for Unicode names, phishing and other security loopholes, etc. Sarai might be hosting an informal seminar to introduce this topic, in a week or two. 2. ipv6 roll-out: NIXI would like to have a parallel ipv6 network in 1-2 months time. They have already done training and awareness sessions for ipv6 routing, but largely using proprietary tools. They would like community folk to hold training sessions for (a) MCA-level students, and (b) technical folk in small/medium enterprises, universities, or other institutions. 3. Software for, and management of .in domain name registry: Currently, they use proprietary software, and databases, and would like to switch to open-source alternatives. -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 +91-92113-61617

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Donald Knuth on open source
by saurabh daptardar 12 May '08

12 May '08

Hi, I came across an interesting interview of Prof. Donald Knuth where he talks about open source ( and other things) http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856 Regards, Sourabh Daptardar P.S: Ubuntu camp should be happy should be happy to know that he uses Ubuntu ;) -- "Reality is, after all , too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth.We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not , know the Absolute Truth." -- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ( An Indian Pilgrim )

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Internet n/w in Etch GUI
by Rony 09 May '08

09 May '08

Hello Everyone, Recently I had downloaded the 3 DVD Debian Etch set, the updates DVD and after checking that md5 was the same, I burned them into DVDs. At a client's place when I installed Etch from them, everything went smoothly. However Firefox (Ice Weasel) does not open any sites. The net is the Triband ADSL modem and in the gnome-terminal as well as konsole, dig, ping as well as ftp download works. Since there was some distraction towards other machines, I did not get to try out the Ubuntu live CDs. The only peculiar thing about the setup is that the ADSL modem (old D-Link) is connected to this machine by ethernet and another windows machine uses the usb interface. A network card in that doze machine then passes on the shared usb connection to the rest of the networked machines. Before installing Debian, the target machine ran xp and net was being normally used though both ethernet and usb have the same 192.168.1.1 ip. The usb machine was shut down too to see if the same IP was the culprit. Even now with Etch, the net works only in terminals. Is this some bug with Etch 3 DVD ISOs? Has anyone encountered such problems with Etch? -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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SVN problem
by Subhodip Biswas 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi ! When i am trying to access svn over http i get this : [subhodip@home-server ~]$ svn co http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk JOSM svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/!svn/vcc/default' svn: REPORT of '/svn/!svn/vcc/default': 400 Bad Request (http://josm.openstreetmap.de) While when i am doing this : [subhodip@home-server ~]$ svn co svn://svn.mapnik.org/trunk mapnik Checked out revision 697. Why is this so ? what I am missing out here ? -- Regards Subhodip Biswas GPG key : FAEA34AB Server : pgp.mit.edu http://subhodipbiswas.wordpress.com http:/www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SubhodipBiswas

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