Linuxers September 2009

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Ubuntu 9.04 / Karmic Koala Alpha4
by jtd 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

Wanted to give ubuntu a spin. So downloaded the ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso and burned to cd. Then booted. Splash screen comes up with the language option followed by Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer. Then nothing. Hit enter. still nothing Check all the options and try to edit the command line. No go. Same with karmic Koala Alpha4 so what witch craft is needed to proceed beyond the splash screen? -- Rgds JTD

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Reply to Sameer Shinde
by Suhit Kelkar 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

Hi, Have you investigated these fonts: Gargi, Lohit Hindi (FOSS) and Shivaji or Shusha (proprietary). Keymaps are different to fonts. A keymap is the relationship between keyboard keys and alphabets. E.g-- in Hindi bolnagri, type p and you get the hindi letter 'pa'. In Remington, typing p will yield some other letter. Type in whatever keymap you want. It's up to you. Just make sure, before saving the file, select the text and you save it in the above fonts. If you want to email the doc/odf file, simply also email the font. When the recipients install that font, they will be able to read your document. Hope this helps.

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by Varad Gupta 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

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Wiki: Protected mode? Block it?
by Roshan 07 Sep '09

07 Sep '09

List, I've been trying to clean spam for quite sometime (months?) but the attacks have increased severely. It actually doesn't make sense to just manually delete every page created by the bot, because it is easy for the bot to do it, but it a tedious process to clean it and wait for its next attack! Is there a 'protected-mode' for this wiki, for the time-being till it is upgraded? Or can it be blocked, till it is upgraded to a better CMS? I guess, I may be asking for too much, but the wiki needs to be saved from spam bots. Can the super-admins block the wiki? or do something like that? -- Roshan Baladhanvi

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Call For Speakers - 4th IndicThreads.com Conference On Java, Dec 09, Pune India
by Harshad Oak 07 Sep '09

07 Sep '09

Hi, Writing to inform you of the call for papers for the 4th IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Tech, scheduled for 11-12 Dec 09 in Pune, India. The conference call for papers<http://j09.indicthreads.com/call-for-speakers/> is currently open and we would like to invite subject experts & speakers to respond to the CFP. Do check out & respond to the CFP at ( http://j09.indicthreads.com/call-for-speakers/). Visit the conference website http://j09.indicthreads.com/ for conference details. Your suggestions are welcome at conf @ rightrix.com. Last but not the least, if you think the conference is interesting, do find the time to share the conference info / link on your blog and twitter ( #indicj). Thanks, Harshad --- Harshad Oak Founder, Rightrix Solutions Oracle ACE Director, Sun Java Champion

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any tool to split and join large files
by Kussh Singh 07 Sep '09

07 Sep '09

In windows there were many GUI programs that could split large files and then join the fragments as required. But i couldnot find any programs in ubuntu/linux yet. "split" works only for text files, i think and so does "join" on the commandline. It would be good to know about some GUI programs which could give similar functionality as found under windows applications. Kussh

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Flag to detect presence of usb modem?
by Rony 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

Hello, What is the system's flag to detect the presence and absence of a usb modem that gets up on /dev/ttyACM0 when plugged in? I need to put that line in a cron based script running every minute to automatically trigger a dialup connection whenever a usb modem is plugged in and shut it down whenever it is pulled out. The recent flood on 'visarjan' day has knocked out my client's telephone lines and triband too has stopped after the 24 hour period. I don't want to give any admin access to the users. Whenever triband will be down, this usb modem will be their alternate connection. Simply plug it in and use. I only need the line to check for the presence and absence of a usb modem on ttyACM0. Any help will be highly appreciated. In the meantime I am already checking up google but no results so far. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Net book - Ideapad S10
by Mukund Deshmukh 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

> It works, and the function keys also works, > I think acpi module in kernel is playing with brightness, will black list > acpi and then check. Black listing video module has solved irritating brightness variation on Netbook and laptop too. Thanks for the help. Warm Regards, Mukund Deshmukh, Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd, 10/1 IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur -440022.

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Tks4advice. My problem's solved
by Suhit Kelkar 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

Linuxers, rock on! @ Roshan Singh: Tks dude for showing me your net backup script and *gently* nudging me to learn cron. Tks to JTD for the autoshutdown idea. Suhit Kelkar

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Information about joining open source projects
by SHASHANK SALVI 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

Hello, I liked to what are the requirements for anyone to join a certain open source project? I have been studying python language and like to join some projects related to it to see how much did I really learn and also to know more about how a open source project works. As I have never worked on any such projects before I like to know where do newbies start for a project. Thank you. -- ACK and you shall receive. :) Keep smiling and be happy.

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