Linuxers March 2011

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Help required in conducting campus interview for MCA students

by pankaj＠glug4muz.org

Hi all, I am working as a faculty in the MCA Course Department of B. R. Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar (http://www.brabu.net). I am also maintaining GNU/Linux User Group for Muzaffarpur (http://www.glug4muz.org) which is my home town. I have provided the training of LMAP environment to the last semester students of first batch of MCA Course. In addition to this some students have also got training in Java Programming from some other institute. Now I have been assigned the responsibility of conducting campus selection for these students from my Department. But I am not having the list of HR persons of companies which are interested in conducting such interview for MCA final semester students in the field of LAMP and Java Programming. I request you all to provide me the list of companies to whom I may contact for conducting such interview. It will also help me in making popular my GNU/Linux User Group in my town and attract more and more students to become member of this GNU/Linux User Group. -- Best Regards ... Pankaj Kumar

12 years, 6 months

[Commercial] GNU/Linux At School

by Swapnil

Hi, Muktware is celebrating its first year of establishment. We are planning a slew of new features which will be announced in the coming weeks. To further spread the adoption of [1]GNU/Linux in colleges and schools today we are announcing two features for college and school students - Student News section and Foss @ School Forum. Student News: This section will be run and controlled by college students, covering the news reports from your college campus. If you are organizing an event in your school or college; if you are planning a Linux Install Fest or similar events you can post a report about it on Muktware and let us spread the word. If you happen to meet a Linux expert, you can conduct an interview and publish it on Muktware. There a few pointers from us, you can go beyond this and use Muktware as a platform. Keep one thing in mind: quality. Publish what will help the adoption of GNU/Linux in college and schools. Foss @ School Forums: If you are a college/school student and you want to get connected other students who are using Linux for their projects, you can use our Forum to get connected with such students. If you need help with choosing right operating system for you; getting advice about right application to suite your needs; if you are stuck with some problem and seek help from those who have already faced similar issues -- use our forums. If you want to create a website for your school, but are not sure how to do it, use this forum to seek help from your friends. Please visit this page to know more about these two features: [2]http://www.muktware.com/blogs/28/2011/895/muktware-announces-new-fe atures-students Best Swapnil Bhartiya Editor Muktware.com References 1. http://www.muktware.com/category/project/gnu 2. http://www.muktware.com/blogs/28/2011/895/muktware-announces-new-features-s…

12 years, 6 months

oni hindi phonetic keyboard released, please use it

by Narendra Sisodiya

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Narendra Sisodiya <narendra(a)narendrasisodiya.com> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:08:07 +0530 Subject: [LUG@IITD:12801] soni hindi phonetic keyboard released, please use it To: IITDLUG <iitdlug(a)googlegroups.com> Checkout - http://code.google.com/p/soni-hindi-phonetic-keyboard/ Please use it, if you like it then spread the world. -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘ -- LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘

12 years, 6 months

{Off topic} Open sourcers urged to adopt dancing poultry license-- The Register

by Suhit Kelkar

Please take this in the spirit in which it is intended. To be humorous, humour has to ruffle feathers. And laughter is man's foremost right. PS: for the record, I am pro-GPL. Consider that for one to jeer at what one loves may be construed as an act of nobility. --Suhit. Open sourcers urged to adopt dancing poultry licenseFree software in Swiss polka revolution By Cade Metz in San Francisco<http://forms.theregister.co.uk/mail_author/?story_url=/2011/03/26/chicken_d…> <http://search.theregister.co.uk/?author=Cade%20Metz> Posted in Odds and Sods <http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/>, 26th March 2011 00:33 GMT <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/26/> In an effort to revolutionize the world of open source, a free software advocate has submitted a new license to the Open Source Initiative. The document is two years in the making, and it's known as the CDL, short for Chicken Dance License. "The purpose of this license is to make intellectual property far more entertaining to deal with," writes Andrew Harris, the author of the license. "Rather than boring old GPL violations or licensing agreements for GPL software, [an] entertaining video of people doing the chicken dance is produced. If this was taken to court, CDL violators may even have to perform the chicken dance retroactively!" The license is meant to offset the heavy legal component of open source software. "We all want fewer lawyers in software, but that isn't always possible," he says. "We might as well dress up the ugly legal side of it all with classic Swiss polka." According to the submission, the license is based on the BSD. "I figured this was a good place to start for the CDL," he continues. "It's easy to understand and relatively short. Of note are my fourth clause and the disclaimer I added relieving oneself of liability from injuries and expenses sustained from performing the chicken dance." The license is available here <http://supertunaman.com/cdl/cdl_v0-1.txt>. Under clause 4 of the license, anyone wishing to distribute CDL software without redistributing source code must submit to the following conditions: - For every thousand (1,000) units distributed, at least half of the employees or persons affiliated with the product must listen to the "Der Ententanz" (AKA "The Chicken Dance") as composed by Werner Thomas for no less than two (2) minutes - For every twenty-thousand (20,000) units distributed, two (2) or more persons affiliated with the entity must be recorded performing the full Chicken Dance, in an original video at the entity's own expense, and a video encoded in OGG Theora format, at least three (3) minutes in length, must be submitted to <OWNER>, provided <OWNER>'s contact information. The dance must be based upon the instructions on how to do the Chicken Dance that you should have received with this software. If you have not received instructions on how to do the Chicken Dance, then the dance must be chicken-like in nature. - Any employee or person affiliated with the product must be prohibited from saying the word "plinth" in public at all times, as long as distribution of the product continues. It would seem, however, that the license is unlikely to win approval. "Clause 4 appears to conflict with OSD clause 5 because people with disabilities or cultural obligations preventing them from either singing or dancing (or religious issues portraying chickens) would not have equal freedoms under the license," writes OSI director Simon Phipps. "It also violates OSD clause 6 as it would prevent use in the plinth industry. There are also difficulties concerning dependence on contact information being up-to-date such that freedoms would cease to be available in the event <OWNER> becomes uncontactable." No doubt, Google will object to the CDL on the grounds of license proliferation. And then Microsoft will introduce its own version, dubbed the Permissive Chicken Dance license, which will require anyone who uses its code to perform the Swiss polka until they die from exhaustion. ®

12 years, 6 months

Cron exception - alternate?

by Roshan

All, I have RE-started my journey into Unixes/Linuxes recently (if 6+ months is that), though I was into it in the earlier years of my college days. I seem to have forgotten things or probably cannot recall certain things at the right time. Nevertheless, here's why I am sending this email. I did not know about a cron exception and had to assume a particular behaviour. I have detailed that example in Wikipedia, from which, I paste a small section of it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From Wikipedia: For "day of the week" (field 5), both 0 and 7 are considered Sunday, though some versions of Unix such as AIX do not list "7" as acceptable in the man page. While normally the job is executed when the time/date specification fields /all/ match the current time and date, there is one exception: if both "day of month" and "day of week" are restricted (not "*"), then either the "day of month" field (3) or the "day of week" field (5) must match the current day. The above exception would cause trouble when cron is used to specify a task that has to be run on a specific date and time by specifying "day of the month", "month", "day of the week" (where day of the month falls on day of the week). As an example see below 45 19 26 02 06 run_this_task.sh In an obvious case, one would look at it and read: run_this_task.sh runs on Saturday, 26th Feb at 7:45 PM in the evening However, CRON looks at it like this: If it is 26th Feb at 7:45 PM, run_this_task.sh, even though it is NOT Saturday (effectively reading only: 45 19 26 02) OR If it is 7:45 PM on a Saturday, run_this_task.sh, even though it is NOT 26th Feb. (effectively reading only: 45 19 <> <> 06) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this case, I would assume, it would not be wise to use CRON to schedule a one time task due to the above "OR" condition. (cron is a 'regular' habit for me ;) ) I think, using "at" is more apt for scheduling one time tasks? (Am I correct?) -- Roshan Baladhanvi

12 years, 6 months

ntp v/s ntpdate (Was Re: File named with 2 variables)

by Arun Khan

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Binand Sethumadhavan <binand(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/3/24 jtd <jtd(a)mtnl.net.in>: >> You might want to add ntpdate to maintain proper time. > > ntpd, you mean. ntpdate cannot substitute for a properly configured > ntpd. It is only a one-off time adjuster (usually a precursor to > ntpd's startup). +1 for ntpd. I found out the hard way. dovecot would keep stopping in a mail server. After some investigation I correlated the dovecot stops to a cron job that ran ntpdate to adjust the system time. Installed ntpd, removed the ntpdate cron entries and dovecot worked happily thereafter. Now I run ntpd in all my systems in "client" mode. They all point to one "server" mode ntpd on the LAN. The LAN ntp "server" references from ntp.pool.org time servers. -- Arun Khan

12 years, 6 months

[JOB] Sr.Faculty requirement in Gujarat

by Surya Prakash Garg

Dear All, We have an opening for Sr.Faculty in Gujarat for teaching M. Sc-ITIMS Kindly provide your contact details & Updated CV for further discussion Location: Gujarat University,Gujarat Designation : Sr.Faculty Roles & Responsibities : Teaching M.Sc - ITIMS Regards, Surya Prakash Garg dr.suryagarg(a)gmail.com

12 years, 6 months

[JOB] Required Linux Administrators

by Surya Prakash Garg

Hi, One of our partner have Openings for LINUX Administrators. Location: *Saudi Arabia* If you are interested in the opportunity, kindly revert with an updated resume with the following details: Current Organization: Total years of Experience: Contact No: CTC: ECTC: Notice Period: negotiable (No of days) ; Current Location: Passport: Please revert, if you need more detailed info. Regards, Surya Prakash Garg dr.suryagarg(a)gmail.com

12 years, 6 months

Reminder:: LUG-Meeting,26th March 2011,16.30,HBCSE

by Siji Sunny

Hi All, Looking forward to meet all of you at HBCSE. Date :26th March 2011 Time : 16.30 Venue :HBCSE,Mankur. Pls visit http://www.ilug-bom.org.in/ <%20http://www.ilug-bom.org.in/> for more details. Tentative Topics to be Converd 1.Introduction to PandaBoard With Live demo : Vikas Joshi, Texas Instruments,Banglore 2.Hacking on the Marvell touchpads ;Ganesh 3.Samsung SC2450 netbook : JTD 4.Beagle Board :Siji Sunny 5.Hawkboard & More..(If time permits) -- Siji Sunny

12 years, 6 months

Lug meet

by jtd

A lug meet is propsed for 26th Mar or 19th Mar (Holi) Preferred date is 26th unless the majority prefers 19th, being a holiday. Time: 1630 Hrs Venue: HBCSE Mankhurd Agenda: Hawkboard - TI OMAP L138 ARM board Hacking on the Marvell touchpads, Samsung SC2450 netbook and similiar ARM devices. rootfs and nand flash on Marvell Panda Board demo by TI Anything else of interest. -- Rgds JTD

12 years, 6 months

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