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[COMMERCIAL] Fwd: DLUG
by Raj Mathur 05 May '09

05 May '09

[Forwarding without prejudice -- Raju] ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: DLUG Date: Monday 04 May 2009 From: Scott Mackenzie <scott.mackenzie(a)meeza.com.qa> To: "raju(a)linux-delhi.org" <raju(a)linux-delhi.org> Dear Raju, We are building out a business in Doha, Qatar that will span the Middle East & North Africa. The business model is quite unique and is pushing out a better balance of Linux/Unix/MS/Other than ever before in the region. Linux/Unix is not widely used and locating the talent needed to help balance the market is very challenging. We are seeking some help from DLUG. Can DLUG please communicate to its membership that this hip startup called MEEZA (apologies v.1.0 of our site is not great) http://www.meeza.com.qa/ needs help and is seeking full time employees to join us. We are targeting those that are considered Gurus or Gurus in training and have direct experience in service provider operations. With the global economic downturn affecting many we hope that this opportunity may be of interest to members of DLUG. Thank you for taking the time to consider this request. Warm Regards, Scott E. MacKenzie Chief Executive Officer MEEZA T +974 454 7120 M +974 585 4188 F +974 454 7121 Email: scott.mackenzie(a)meeza.com.qa<mailto:scott.mackenzie@meeza.com.qa> P.O.BOX 5825 Doha - Qatar www.meeza.com.qa<https://mail.meeza.com.qa/OWA/www.meeza.com.qa> ________________________________ Disclaimer: This email and any attachments thereto are confidential and it may contain information protected by intellectual Property Laws or otherwise legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email and any attachments from your system and destroy any printout thereof. Any unauthorized use or disclosure of this email and its attachments is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. MEEZA QSTP-LLC (MEEZA) does not certify that this email or any attachments are free of viruses or defects and recommends that you undertake your own virus checking procedures before opening this e-mail or any attachments. MEEZA does not accept any liability for any loss or damage resulting from the use of this e-mail or any attachments. The contents of this e-mail and any attachments do not necessarily represent the views or polices of MEEZA. As the integrity of e-mails across the internet cannot be guaranteed, MEEZA does not accept any liability for any e-mails and attachments which may violate the relevant applicable laws. ------------------------------------------------------- -- Raj Mathur raju(a)kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves

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First Question: "How do I install Linux?"
by Roshan 04 May '09

04 May '09

List, I am not trying to install any distro but my orientation towards being newbie friendly just doesn't stop. Why? I receive quite a few emails about "how do I install Linux?" in my inbox on a monthly basis. Apparently, guides on the internet aren't /generic/ enough to answer such a question. So, I thought of writing 'just-generic-enough' tutorial on the wiki and have completed it. It is a wiki article, so by no means, it may be termed 'complete'. In other words, your comments / additions / deletions are welcome, provided you have an account. http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/The_FIRST_Question:_How_do_I_install_… -- Roshan Baladhanvi

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Fwd: [JOB] Project on FOSS adoption in Indian education
by Shakthi Kannan 04 May '09

04 May '09

FYI, === Forwarded message === From: Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu(a)aero.iitb.ac.in> Date: Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:51 PM Subject: [JOB] Project on FOSS adoption in Indian education Hello, Project positions are open at IIT Bombay for a new government funded project on adoption of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) in Indian science and engineering education. Applicants may email their resumes along with a one page writeup on why they think they are well suited for the project to: admin.foss[at]iitb.ac.in News, announcements and details regarding the project are available here: http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/~prabhu/Projects/FOSSEducation Overview of the project ----------------------- The eventual goal is to replace the use of commercial tools in Indian science and engineering education at the college level. Towards this we are working on the following broad themes: - Python for scientific computing. - Scilab (http://www.scilab.org, http://www.scilab.in). - Multimedia authoring tool suited for Indian languages with a LaTeX backend. - Other projects related to the above. I will be personally involved with the "Python for scientific computing" component. This will broadly involve: - NumPy (http://numpy.scipy.org), - SciPy (http://www.scipy.org), - matplotlib (http://matplotlib.sf.net), - Sage (http://www.sagemath.org), - Mayavi (http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi), - ETS (http://code.enthought.com/projects), - SymPy (http://code.google.com/p/sympy), and various other packages of interest. As part of the project you will have opportunity to work with the core developers of these major projects. Requirements ------------ The positions are all for a maximum duration of 3 years. The initial appointment will be for a period of 1 year which will be extended based on performance. - Project manager: 1 position - Technical writer: 1 position - Software Developers/content generators: - Python: 4 positions - Scilab: 3 positions - LaTeX: 2 positions You will need to stay on campus or commute to IITB. Accommodation will be provided if available, otherwise HRA will be provided. Qualifications --------------- Project manager: - Good knowledge of programming and open source software community - People management - Communication - Organizational skills Technical writer: - Excellent language and communication skills (spoken and written) - Familiarity with computers - Willingness to learn Programmers/content generators: - Willingness to learn - Good programming skills - Passion for FOSS - Experience with FOSS - Good math and science skills System administration and web development skills are also required so strong applications with those skills would also be considered. Experience with Python/Scilab/LaTeX is a plus. Experience with working on a FOSS project is a big plus. Job description --------------- As part of this project you will work towards creating material for adoption of the various existing FOSS tools in the science and engineering curriculum. This will involve generation of a significant amount of documentation in the form of tutorials, audio/video demonstrations, written material, and lectures. The material will often go towards augmenting existing courses. The project will involve working with several well known packages and improving them both in terms of documentation and code to add features or fix bugs. We will be hosting several workshops, sprints and conferences where you will get to meet the developers of many important packages. Remuneration ------------- The pay will be in the range Rs. 10000 to 30000 depending on the qualifications and experience. For extra-ordinary people the upper limit is flexible. Accommodation will be provided on campus if available. Why you should apply -------------------- - You get paid to improve and write FOSS. - You get to do really meaningful work -- your work will influence generations of future students all over India and potentially elsewhere. - You get to work on some of the most important projects that will influence the future of science and engineering. - You get to meet and work with the authors of various important packages. - You will be at IIT Bombay and will have best of both worlds -- good pay and an academic environment. Thanks. Prabhu Ramachandran http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/~prabhu === END === -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Backup Internet Line
by Raghu Prasad 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hi George! > I would like to have a backup internet connection to maintain a 100% > up-time of the Internet. > > We want to achieve this by automatically switching between the internet > links if it fails (i.e for eg. if the BSNL link goes off, it has to take > the AIRTEL link and once the BSNL link is ready, it has to switch > automatically to it.) > > Can anyone throw some guidance on achieving the same. Checking the link automatically won't work all the time, as mentioned in earlier posts. But still it may work most of the time. There are scripts available which can switch the network settings in such a way that a particular configuration can be chosen from a list of options. One of the problem in using multiple network interfaces have been naming the interface reliably. Which card would be eth0 and which would be eth1? Kernel used to switch cards occasionally while initializing the network interface. This problem can be solved now with udev rules. Once the system names the interfaces correctly, a simple script can be used to initialize required interface when need arises. In my setup, I use a script which uses dialog (curses based console UI) to switch the default gateway. It uses sudo to allow a group of selected users to do this job. Using a curses based UI allows a non-technical person to do the required task without getting into the nitty-gritty of the network setup. This script can be customized to do automatic switching of the interfaces by adding special command-line options. If required, I can provide this script to anyone interested in it. Raghu

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User Guides
by beta tester 02 May '09

02 May '09

I am a new user to linux i would like to know where i could get a good user guide for squid & squidguard.

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Reliance finally changed "unlimited" to 10GB
by Pankaj Jangid 02 May '09

02 May '09

Hi, Due to immense community pressure I suppose. They have replaced the string "unlimited" with 10GB in all their plans. http://www.rcom.co.in/Communications/rcom/RNetconnect/netconnect_broadband_… -- Regards Pankaj<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_bernard_shaw.html>Jangid http://jangid.freeshell.org

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linuxers Digest, Vol 72, Issue 36
by kuldeep rathore 01 May '09

01 May '09

> > NO it wont i tried that > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Rony <gnulinuxist(a)gmail.com> > To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:58:28 +0530 > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux distro, but no war... > Arun Khan wrote: > >> >> >> True. In my case FWIW, 1280x1024 res. was auto detected by the hardware >> detection of the Ubuntu/openSUSE LiveCDs. I did not set them @ boot time. >> >> >> > Lenny has a live cd too. It boots a full desktop on only 256 MB machines. > > -- > Regards, > > Rony. > > GNU/Linux ! > No Viruses > No Spyware > Only Freedom. > > > > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers >

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux distro, but no war...
by Mukund Deshmukh 01 May '09

01 May '09

>>> I am looking for a simple linux distro with following features for >>> few of celeron 256Mb machines. >>> 1. Light window manager. >>> 2. Networking >>> 3. Abword >>> 4. and spread sheet. >>> I tried DSL, knoppix, ubuntu, but non of them work. >>> Any idea, suggestions, but no war ;-) >> >> Try PuppyLinux, Debian with the LXDE desktop, use text based installer. > > Thanks, will give a try. > Thanks Arun, for suggesting puppy. It rocks. Now there is one XP machine with canon printer. I wish to use this printer from puppy machine. Any idea how to go ahead...... Do I need CUPS? Warm Regards, Mr. Mukund Deshmukh, Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd. 10/1 IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur -440022 India. Web site - http://betacomp.com Meet us at our Booth 10.1 A09 , CHINAPLAS 2009 , May 18 - 21, 2009, Pazhou Complex, Guangzhou, CHINA.

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Squidguard
by beta tester 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

\squidGuard 2009-04-30 18:09:52 [18027] squidGuard: can't write to logfile /usr/local/squidGuard/log/squidGuard.log 2009-04-30 18:09:52 [18027] squidGuard: can't open configfile /usr/local/squidGuard/squidGuard.conf 2009-04-30 18:09:52 [18027] Going into emergency mode I am getting this error can anyone tell me where i should look for it to get sorted out.

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Linux distro, but no war...
by Mukund Deshmukh 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Hi, I am looking for a simple linux distro with following features for few of celeron 256Mb machines. 1. Light window manager. 2. Networking 3. Abword 4. and spread sheet. I tried DSL, knoppix, ubuntu, but non of them work. Any idea, suggestions, but no war ;-) Warm Regards, Mr. Mukund Deshmukh, Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd. 10/1 IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur -440022 India. Web site - http://betacomp.com Meet us at our Booth 10.1 A09 , CHINAPLAS 2009 , May 18 - 21, 2009, Pazhou Complex, Guangzhou, CHINA.

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