Linuxers July 2009

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by scrapo

Hi I understand that MNS has filed a case in High Court at Mumbai against the online college admission process for Jr. College in Mumbai. the case is both against the government and the company that made the online software / website for creating a complete mess. Since you all were so worked up about the site being only IE access, this is a chance to join the complain and add your grouse of using proprietory formats and forcing students / public to pay for a specific OS to be able to get admission to a college. Regards Saswata

14 years, 2 months

Broad Coalition Formed to Promote Benefits and Adoption of Open Source Software in Government

by narendra sisodiya

FYI -- Group includes diverse cross-section of technology industry leaders, associations, non-governmental organizations, communities and academic/research institutions WASHINGTON, July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, a broad cross-section of more than 70 companies, academic institutions, communities, related groups and individuals joined together to announce the formation of Open Source for America, an organization that will serve as a unified voice for the promotion of open source software in the U.S. Federal Government arena. To register or learn more about the coalition, visit www.opensourceforamerica.org. full story - http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/s… -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ R&D Engineer │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a └─────────────────────────┘

14 years, 2 months

Dovecot Time moved backwards error

by Deepak Kashyap

Dear Members, I have setup a small mail server for my office on ubuntu server "Hardy" running on vmware. It runs postfix +Dovecot +getmail + squirremail. Every thing works fine except dovecot which crashes because of "Time moved backwards error" To overcome it I have put a restart in CRON every 5 min , but I keep getting this message Cron <someuse@localhost> /etc/init.d/dovecot restart >/dev/null start-stop-daemon: open pidfile /var/run/dovecot/master.pid: Permission denied (Permission denied) How can I overcome this dovecot problem , I googled but could not find a proper solution With regards Deepak Yahoo! recommends that you upgrade to the new and safer Internet Explorer 8. http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/

14 years, 2 months

Check out my photos on Facebook

by Ips Khurana

Hi linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org, 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, Ips To sign up for Facebook, follow the link below: http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=778881928&k=Z6FT53PZRVXNUEMFQE36Y3&r linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org was invited to join Facebook by Ips Khurana. 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=676b8b&u=796073388&mid=d0a456G2f731dacG0G8 Facebook's offices are located at 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304.

14 years, 2 months

TALLY ERP 9 UBUNTU 8.10 (Interprid) Desktop

by Deepak Kashyap

Dear Members, I have installed Interprid Ubuntu Desktop on My EEE PC B202 which is Atom 1.6Ghz I want to use Tally 9 ERP on it. I Installed Wine from the package manager & Installed Tally on it. Tally opens fast but it does not open the data file fast, It hangs , the data files are on a windows share which I have mounted on to /mnt/Tally The same thing works ok on another desktop using Interprid , please help with the settings ? With regards Deepak See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check out Yahoo! Buzz. http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/

14 years, 2 months

strange case of chm files which don't open correctly

by Kussh Singh

Recently had gone over to linuxappfinder.com and was seeing the software collection of alternatives to windows softwares. Came across free-cad.sourceforge.net. Downloaded the help documentation in chm format (bottom, right corner of the home page under most downloaded section). Tried opening the CHM file with xchm. It opens as a plain text file with all the html tags etc. Maybe there are better (more uptodate) chm readers available now than the xchm I am now using. If anybody knows of such softwares, pls let me know. Earlier (on another computer while using ubuntu 8.10 or 8.04) i had come across another chm/ebook reader software using synaptic but haven't installed it yet on the 9.04 computer. Thanks, Kussh

14 years, 2 months

Open Hardware and Open Document

by RS singh

Dear Linux Users Open source we all know, is there any thing called Open Hardware and similarly Open Document. Regards Ravinder Singh Ludhiana. Yahoo! recommends that you upgrade to the new and safer Internet Explorer 8. http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/

14 years, 2 months

setup vlc as my default multimedia application in ubuntu9.04

by Kussh Singh

Right now totem is set as the default application for all multimedia related files and it does not work as it should--i.e. there is no sound when any multimedia file is opened--even for ogg or wav files. Video files run but without any sound. I can't get totem to work correctly but vlc works perfectly. I tried all the usual tricks--install the bad files, restricted formats, etc etc but totem does not work. gxine and others also work but totem does not. So my question is --which configuration file needs to be tweaked such that all multimedia formats by default open with VLC and not with totem? am using ubuntu9.04 and have an integrated sound card on an asus motherboard. Have changed the properties of most multimedia formats in nautilus to open with VLC instead of totem by default but there are cases such as while using search or other applications (such as kalarm) where the default system program for multimedia (ie totem) gets activated. Thanks Kussh

14 years, 2 months

[OT] Laptop tracking using MAC address

by narendra sisodiya

Dear All, A very disappointed morning for me. My laptop got stolen. is it possible to track laptop using MAC address. Police asked for MAC address. Q1 . How to track using MAC address or any other possibility ? Q2. How to get mac address when you do not have laptop with you. I have done ssh to other lan systems, Will it be possible to get mac address using those .ssh keys ?? Or any method to get mac address. I have serial number and probably I may get mac address using customer care. -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ R&D Engineer │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a └─────────────────────────┘

14 years, 2 months

[X-Post] July 19th - Mozilla Camp, Mumbai

by Sanjay B

Hello folks, As you all might know, the Mozilla community released Firefox 3.5 a few days ago. The new browser incorporates a lot of features of the HTML 5 specification, and we consider it a leap forward for the web. To celebrate the release, demo new features in Firefox 3.5, and discuss issues of the Open Web and standards, we are organizing an event on this Sunday, July 19th, at National College, Bandra(W) in Mumbai. The main event will be held from 3-6PM at National College. We are actively looking for people to conduct sessions related to Firefox 3.5, HTML 5, or the Open Web. Please feel free to come up with a session and add it to http://mozcamp.in/mumbai/wiki/index.php/MCM_Sessions . We hope to follow-up the sessions with a more informal yet focussed hack-session cum party at the CAMP Studio (close to National College). To add some fun, there will be MozHunt, Mumbai Edition. Do check our wiki for details: http://mozcamp.in/mumbai To RSVP attendance, please add your name on the Registration page: http://mozcamp.in/mumbai/wiki/index.php/MCM_Register About the organisers: CAMP (http://camputer.org) has been working on a video archive project called pad.ma (http://pad.ma) that has been one of the first websites to use the <video /> tag and has been part of the process of making the idea of open video a reality. Pad.ma is proud to be featured on the Mozilla demo pages for Firefox 3.5: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.5/Demos#Audio_and_Video Aamod Nerurkar has been a Mozilla CampusRep for 2 years. Some links: Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mozcampmumbai Our Wiki: http://mozcamp.in/mumbai Download Firefox 3.5: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox Cool Demos: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.5/Demos Feature list: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/features/ P.S: We need sponsors! http://mozcamp.in/mumbai/wiki/index.php/MCM_Sponsors

14 years, 2 months

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Linuxers July 2009