Linuxers July 2010

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[Commercial] E-commerce requirement using Magento
by Dinesh Shah (दिनेश शाह / દિને શ શાહ 12 Jul '10

12 Jul '10

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[Commercial] Openings at Gnowledge Lab HBCSE Mumbai
by alpesh gajbe 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

We have openings at Gnowledge Lab in HBCSE for the following positions Project Fellow Project Assistant Please refer the links below for more information. http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/advt/one-position-of-project-assistant-for-gno… http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/advt/one-position-of-project-fellow-for-gnowle… -- With Regards Alpesh Gajbe www.gnowledge.org alpesh(a)gnowledge.org

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Forward][Humour][OT][GLUG_Bom] What can the Apple iPad be used as?
by Surya Sharma 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

I don't get the point of this discussion. I use a cheap nokia phone with opera mini and have not had issues bottom posting. People are just being lazy. Surya

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[Forward][Humour][OT][GLUG_Bom] What can the Apple iPad be used as?
by Easwar Hariharan 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

*What can the Apple iPad be used as ? * * * *iPad cannot be used as a phone because …..* ….. It cannot make calls. Period *iPad cannot be used as a replacement for your laptop or netbook because ….. * ….. It does not have a multi-tasking OS ….. It does not have a Drag & Drop file management ….. It does not have a USB port ….. Its storage maxes out at a paltry 64 GB & has no expandable memory slot ….. It does not have a HDMI port *iPad cannot be used as an Internet Browsing device because …..* ….. It does not have support for Adobe Flash which many websites use *iPad cannot be used as a replacement for Amazon’s Kindle because …..* ….. Kindle is cheaper than iPad ….. Kindle has free worldwide 3G coverage; iPad needs a $30/month data plan from AT&T ….. iPad’s IPS LCD screen causes more eye strain as compared to Kindle’s E-Ink display ….. Kindle has better battery life than iPad *iPad cannot be used as a high end gaming device because …..* ….. It has an IPS LCD display which has high motion blur as compared to OLED *iPad cannot be used as a portable TV or video player because …..* ….. It has a display aspect ratio of 4:3 instead of 16:9 ….. It has mono speakers *iPad cannot be used for video-conferencing because …..* ….. It does not have a camera *iPad cannot be used as a Navigation device because …..* ….. It does not have a GPS chip built in *And lastly…* *iPad cannot be used as a feminine hygiene product because …..* ….. It isn’t one. Don’t be confused by the name. *So what can the iPad be used as?* Well, the iPad can be used as a Digital Photo Frame. It can do that just right! But $500 for a Digital Photo Frame? Apple, can we have the next device please? -- Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Privacy issues in India
by gurteshwar singh 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

> What do the informed Linuxers make of the Government threatening to clamp > down on Blackberry, Skype, etc. again, unless they get a back door into the > protocols? Citation please! > Do you think it is primarily motivated by national security concerns, or by > a desire to snoop on citizens? Do we have enough safeguards to ensure that > this government intrusion would not be a tool for political vendetta or > corruption? > > And lastly, what can we do about it? > > Comment. In other news, http://www.deccanherald.com/content/78508/uid-misuse-may-attract-severe.html

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Forward][Humour][OT][GLUG_Bom] What can the Apple iPad be used as?
by vkb 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

Friends, Sharing my thought(s) regarding "top-posting". May eventually succeed in allowing more of us to indulge in more of "lime and gin on a beach" (or say just lime-juice for the teetotalers). Given : top posting is inefficient and not desirable Assumption : there will always be people who * do not know this * do not understand this (see PS to this mail) * blame it on the the tools and devices they use Question to ourselves : Is it possible (i.e technically possible) to design some kind software module that can be developed as a plug-in for existing list-manager-software. The existing/current/recent archives of the list would be a sort of backend-reference database for this software module. The module would use some available lexical- parsing engines and/or its own logic as a backbone. The module would parse, edit and/or re-arrange incoming mail trails so that they are suitably trimmed (of legacy mail trails) and re-sequenced to comply with the very desirable bottom-posting convention. Anyone looking for an useful project in our LUG world ? ;-) Then this is food-for-thought (and action) :-) If many of us feel this is viable or plausible, I believe it may just be the most sustainable approach to crack this top-posting issue, and quickly go back for more "Lime and gin on a beach". Thanks for your time. VK PS. Saw this somewhere on the net (cant remember now). Kept a copy to help explain to the newbies... top-posting A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? bottom-posting Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? A: Top-posting. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.

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Getting "grub>" prompt after booting in Ubuntu 10.04
by kaustubh sk 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] <abhishek.amberkar(a)gmail.com> Date: 2010/7/5 Subject: Getting "grub>" prompt after booting in Ubuntu 10.04 To: Kaustubh Kurambhatti <kaussie.27(a)gmail.com> Hi friends, I had WinXP and Ubuntu 10.04 installed on my system. I replaced WinXP with Win7 and lost GRUB (Legacy). Now my system started booting directly into Win7. So I tried installing GRUB (Legacy) again with Ubuntu live cd. But this time I end up removing NT loader as well and now I just get grub> prompt when I boot my system. I am able to boot Ubuntu manually from grub> prompt. So I did and created new menu.lst with all the commands and options I used to do manual boot But still no luck, everytime I boot my system I get GRUB prompt. == My customized menu.lst == default 0 timeout 10 color cyan/blue white/blue title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-22-generic root (hd0,7) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=/dev/sda10 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic quiet title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-22-generic (recovery mode) root (hd0,7) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=/dev/sda10 ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic title Other operating systems: root title Microsoft Windows XP Professional rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 ==== == menu.lst generated using update-grub == ## ## End Default Options ## title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-22-generic uuid f6f6c34c-25a3-4542-8247-e592a60cb30b kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=8fcc0582-aa5b-4e4f-9f0b-05b160473842 ro quiet splash initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic quiet title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-22-generic (recovery mode) uuid f6f6c34c-25a3-4542-8247-e592a60cb30b kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=8fcc0582-aa5b-4e4f-9f0b-05b160473842 ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, memtest86+ uuid f6f6c34c-25a3-4542-8247-e592a60cb30b kernel /memtest86+.bin quiet ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST == fdisk -l (after manual boot from GRUB) == root@kaustubh-desktop:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000080 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 26 287 2104515 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda2 288 38913 310263345 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 288 6661 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda6 6662 19409 102398278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda7 19410 19895 3903763+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda8 19896 19913 144553+ 83 Linux /dev/sda9 19914 29396 76172166 83 Linux /dev/sda10 29397 38913 76445271 83 Linux == mount (after manual boot from GRUB)== root@kaustubh-desktop:~# mount | grep sd /dev/sda10 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro) /dev/sda8 on /boot type ext3 (rw,relatime) /dev/sda9 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime) In GRUB prompt I tried setup(hd0,7) setup(hd0) setup(hd0,0) but I still get grub> prompt. What to do?

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Forward][Humour][OT][GLUG_Bom] What can the Apple iPad be used as?
by Surya Sharma 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

> > > http://www.techtree.com/India/News/MWC_2010_Why_is_Notion_Inks_Adam_an_iPad… > not sure what happened to this > -Yohan > > Some delays due to unknown issues. Some say its the Tegra chip being used. (all Tegra devices are on pre-order) Also, since they're indian, I'd suggest this instead of some other company :D Surya

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Invitation to a flamewar on hypothetical issues
by Suhit Kelkar 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

@ JTD: I thunk I saw a friend struck down by scurvy and rickets upon the release of his software under BSD license. I know that GPL cannot cause rickets and scurvy because it is so sour, as well as bitter. Regards Suhit Kelkar

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Invitation to a flamewar on hypothetical issues
by Suhit Kelkar 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Hello, I would like to venture that the BSD license is known to cause scurvy and rickets. Regards Suhit Kelkar

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