Linuxers December 2009

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Check out my photos on Facebook
by Sudheer K Muhammed 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Hi India, I set up a Facebook profile where I can post my pictures, videos and events and I want to add you as a friend so you can see it. First, you need to join Facebook! Once you join, you can also create your own profile. Thanks, Sudheer To sign up for Facebook, follow the link below: http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=1427901091&k=Z2G2P5V236TB51AITB5U2USUSSDJ46… Already have an account? Add this email address to your account http://www.facebook.com/n/?merge_accounts.php&e=linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in… was invited to join Facebook by Sudheer K Muhammed. If you do not wish to receive this type of email from Facebook in the future, please click on the link below to unsubscribe. http://www.facebook.com/o.php?k=81ff72&u=512595019&mid=18e6d6dG1e8d944bG0G8 Facebook's offices are located at 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304.

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collabcad.com
by Kussh Singh 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

I was very happy to note that now Linux has some CAD software which is comparable to the best in the world or eventually going to be there. I was doubly happy to know our public sector was making a contribution in this regard. But my hopes were dashed when i wanted to access the documentation/download page. Looks to be more hype than real. Commercial motivation seems to have gripped the govt babus. This seems to be a software made from open source or GPL softwares in the area of CAD/ERP where linux is weak (with respect to FREE* by cost*softwares) . Yet it is not open source or even its documentation is not available to the lay public. It promises to work with various closed source CAD formats most of which are notoriously un-interchangeable. Can the NIC- national Informatics Centre which is* publicly funded* develop such a software from Free softwares that may be GPLed? and then deny the software or even its documentation to the people of India? Can India ever attain leadership in technology if the govt agencies themselves deny ACCESS to documentation on usage of such CAD/CAM/CAE technologies which have themselves been developed from Free softwares. Unless such cutting edge software is tested/used by an evergrowing number of people, it will remain buggy and enough human resources will not be able to adequately train themselves to use such technologies in an increasingly competitive and superspecialised world. On one hand NIC says it is trying to promote FOSS and on the other hand nicsi etc showcase more of propreitary softwares or run of the mill softwares instead of cutting edge softwares. Nicsi is supposed to be a distributor of this collabcad.com software. Let us not forget that technologies like GRASS etc in terms of GIS technology was open sourced by the US govt's deptt of defense's Corps of Engineers. Regards, Kussh PS: I am seriously trying to get the documentation/trial download of such software or know the SIZE of such software to evaluate it.

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[X-POST]: Reading an image file
by Roshan 29 Dec '09

29 Dec '09

List, I have been trying to search on reading an image file via C. I haven't been able to find code without libraries. However, being aware of the 'binary' mode in Windows (Turbo C++), I had read it using fopen, fread and fseek to read the header and then the contents. However, this reading was done reading individual bytes and not reading it using structures. Apologies, ahead, because, I suspect I may be using wrong 'terms' or may have some incorrect information. (Correct me, thanks) For example, a .bmp (grayscale image) file has first 54 bytes as header (IIRC, correct me, if I'm wrong). Somewhere within that, there's the height and width of the image. Following the 54 bytes are the pieces of image data containing integers between 0 - 255 representing grayscale colors. This seemed to work in Windows because I could see the results. Now, I do know that there are libraries that make this task easier in various distributions of Linux but the purpose (or requirements, If I may say) here it to read it in the same way as it was done in Windows. Though I also do see 'b' mode in the manual page of 'man fread', but I'm doubtful about the results. If anyone has tried to read an image file or has good sample code that I can lookup, would like to have links to it. Alternately, if someone can put in a few details regarding this in a little more 'easy-to-understand' way, that would be helpful. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Roshan Baladhanvi

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need help with simple shell script
by Suhit Kelkar 29 Dec '09

29 Dec '09

Hello, Could anyone kindly suggest how to make a firewall activate automatically when I start my browser? The firewall also demands root password. When I close the browser, can the firewall be closed automatically? No need for the firewall when I am not browsing the internet, as I do not have an always-on connection. I use firestarter firewall on ubuntu 9.04. Thanks in advance. Suhit Kelkar

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Query about postfix.
by Rony 28 Dec '09

28 Dec '09

Hello, I have to setup an smtp server for a small office and I have zeroed in on postfix. I am going through the docs online but can't find the parameter that allows the sending of mails only to addresses listed in a whitelist type file. This is the peculiar requirement for the customer that emails can be sent outside the office, only to email addresses listed in a file. The *'smtpd_reject_unlisted_recipient" parameter works only for local recepients. Any pointers to this? * -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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[Call for edit] List_of_laptop_with_preinstalled_GNU-Linux_in_India
by narendra sisodiya 27 Dec '09

27 Dec '09

If you know laptops with preinstalled GNU/Linux (non windows, non-dos, non-freedos) , please help in improving the wiki page http://lug-iitd.org/List_of_laptop_with_preinstalled_GNU-Linux_in_India -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Society for Knowledge Commons │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org └─────────────────────────┘

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ERP solution needed for academia
by rahul kala 26 Dec '09

26 Dec '09

i am looking for an ERP solution for implementation in academia. anyone knows relevant software? -r kala The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] ERP solution needed for academia
by PS 26 Dec '09

26 Dec '09

Hi, You can Try any one of the following and see what suits you. WebERP - http://www.weberp.org FrontAccounting - http://frontaccounting.net/wb3/ OpenBravo - http://www.openbravo.com OpenERP - http://www.openerp.com PostBooks - http://www.xtuple.com/postbooks Best Regards Prakash Shetty ------Original Message------ From: rahul kala Sender: linuxers-bounces(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in ReplyTo: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India Subject: [ILUG-BOM] ERP solution needed for academia Sent: 26 Dec 2009 8:56 PM i am looking for an ERP solution for implementation in academia. anyone knows relevant software? -r kala The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers BlackBerry® Powered Email

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Do not buy BenQ U121 netbook (linux edition)
by narendra sisodiya 25 Dec '09

25 Dec '09

Dear all, Recently , I have purchased BenQ U121 netbook. I have BenQ U121 eco netbook comes with linpus linux version. but I have tested it well that its wifi does not work at all with Ubuntu 9.10 and UNR . I have tried full effort to install fedora 12 (using USB, using netboot, etc ) but It will not boot fedora atall. also speed is not promising. (also tried ndiswrapper but nothing helped) PS: Next time you go to purchase a linux netbook, just use a pen drive and use Unetbootin to load Ubuntu 9.10 and then just boot and test all thing at shop itself. -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Society for Knowledge Commons │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org └─────────────────────────┘

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Joomla error on Xampp
by suraj nayak 24 Dec '09

24 Dec '09

hi All, I getting the following loong error while installing Joomla with Xampp on Ubuntu... Strict Standards: Non-static method JLoader::import() should not be called statically in /opt/lampp/htdocs/joomla/libraries/joomla/import.php on line 29 I am unable to get the solution...Please help..... Thanks & Regards, Suraj Nayak

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