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[commercial] New Linux magazine
by Linux Magzen 07 May '07

07 May '07

Hello all, I have started a monthly online linux magazine for Indians. It is totally free of cost with no advertisement or any commercial gains. If anyone is interested in writing articles for the same please let me know. Your article will be published along with your name/email/website/contact. Everyone is welcomed from students to experienced developers. Please contact me on *linux.magzen(a)gmail.com* I also need tips on how to improve. Jai Hind. -- Linux Magzen Monthly Linux magazine for Linux users http://groups.google.com/group/linux-magzen email : *linux.magzen(a)gmail.com*

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Killimg bad cd/dvd scan process.
by Rony 06 May '07

06 May '07

Hello All, How does one kill a runaway bad cd/dvd reading process that does not allow any other program to run? Even in console, before one can log in and do ps -ax, it floods the screen with I/O error messages. Any keyboard shortcut to kill the process? Ctrl+C does not work. -- Regards, Rony.

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Kubuntu 7.04 DVD
by Satish Alwani 06 May '07

06 May '07

Alrite guys, I got the 7.04 DVD. If anyone wants this. Let me know Regards, Satish Alwani

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firefox and X together take up 100% of cpu usage???
by Pradnyesh Sawant 04 May '07

04 May '07

For the past few days i've been observing that when firefox is running continuously for some time (sometimes for minutes, sometime for hours), X and firefox are taking up 100% of cpu usage. My system details are as follows: os: debian testing (that's what i've got in my repos, dunno what version it is) firefox: Mozilla Iceweasel 2.0.0.3 xorg: 7.1.0-16 m/c: AMD 2600 XP+ custom compiled kernel: 2.6.20-6 i tried running strace -c on firefox for a few seconds, and this is what i've got: % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- 26.62 0.002113 0 4260 2100 readv 50.88 0.004039 2 2318 poll 0.23 0.000018 0 722 gettimeofday 0.00 0.000000 0 269 futex 0.00 0.000000 0 205 102 read 18.86 0.001497 8 192 77 writev 0.00 0.000000 0 140 write 0.00 0.000000 0 60 mmap2 3.41 0.000271 5 58 munmap 0.00 0.000000 0 39 ioctl ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- 100.00 0.007938 8263 2279 total Can someone kindly point out what's happening? Or atleast give me pointers of looking at other places where i can find out what's going on... Thanks a lot! -- warm regards, Pradnyesh Sawant -- Be yourself, everyone else is taken. --Anon

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Linux on Vista Installation Report.
by Rony 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hello All, The installation went smoothly with no manual correction needed to grub. The machine was an HCL one with Pentium 2.8 Ghz. Dual Core, Gigabyte 955 mobo and 512 MB RAM with 15" LCD screen and DVD writer. OS was Vista Home basic. Kubuntu 7.04 64 bit was used to first boot live and test his Tata Indicom LG FWP. ( The Tata dealer had assured him of driver compatibility with Vista but after the purchase, could not keep it up. Tata CC guys put their hands up too.) The standard LG wvdial.conf worked and net was up and running. Installation was smooth just like other Kubuntus and after reboot we first booted into Vista to see if everything was ok. It was all fine. Since his 3rd partition was a 44 GB one, I had split it into 30 GB for FAT32, and the remaining for Linux root and swap. In Vista the 30 GB formatted vfat did not show up on My Computer. In the disk management, that partition was manually assigned a drive letter. Then it got visible and usable. For multimedia support in Kubuntu 7.04, I was looking for the repo list on the net but found nothing for Feisty. So from the same site http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2663/how-to_get_full , the text '## Canonical 'Commercial' Repository deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu edgy-commercial main' was appended to the /etc/apt/sources.list file and the word 'edgy' was replaced with 'feisty'. In the command, 'sudo apt-get install totem-xine totem-xine-firefox-plugin libxine-extracodecs flashplugin-nonfree msttcorefonts sun-java5-plugin skype banshee streamtuner xmms realplay f-spot' (remove totem packages as they are for gnome) some of the softwares are not available so apt-get will throw errors. Eliminate the ones not available and the rest essential ones will get downloaded. As it became late and net was slow, I had to leave and could not test multimedia support. Otherwise the system is up and running on the net. -- Regards, Rony.

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kubuntu dvd
by Satish Alwani 03 May '07

03 May '07

Why download what we already have. Roshan said hes coming by this area to pick up etch and kubuntu from me. I guess you guys can synch and get it as well. Satish

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problem in installation of lan card in mandriva
by tapas nandi 02 May '07

02 May '07

hi everyone , i am a new user of linux , i have installed mandriva , but i am having some problem in the installation of lan card , as written in the manual i have done half the step , and in between i need to do a compilation step where the file sc92031.c is to be compiled and the output should be sc92031.o , i tried to compile it but errors are coming , i think some library files are not being found while compilation , can anyone tell me that what are those library files and where can i get them.....

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[Announce] the "MOWGLI" mailing list on mesh for Mumbai
by Vickram Crishna 02 May '07

02 May '07

The Mowgli mailing list has just opened up at http://recurrencies.net/mailman/listinfo/mowgli_recurrencies.net To subscribe, mail mowgli-subscribe(a)recurrencies.net and reply to the mail in the standard automated process verifier. The list will serve as a discussion ground for the deployment and use of a open mesh network for people in Mumbai to use. The primary objective is to build a local rich data functioning municipal area wireless mesh network open to all, with arms-length punctuated Internet access a future possibility. Anyone willing to either help build the network, using known mesh technology and community owned and run hardware, or to build projects (art, games, catalogues, collaborative performances etc) that will showcase network capabilities, or to research open technologies to optimally strengthen the network, or to research and develop new technology layers on the network, or to collectively build or provide access to storage layers to power data resources, or *anything* not covered in the previous descriptions but have the possibility of growing value for all, please do join in and let's get the ball rolling. fyi the first mesh node was built by LUGgers at HBCSE last month, and this list has grown out of the person-to-person discussions following that, to look for ways to bring this technology to bear for this *urban* area. Aside from Nagarjuna and myself, artists and educators and techie enthusiasts are coming together in the hope that more such efforts will catalyse the Mumbai mesh into self-sustaining growth. The practical functioning of the mesh will depend on and grow together from many community level networks in discrete but contiguous parts of the city. As far as the technology goes, we look for expertise (now and in the future) in antenna construction, hardware refabrication, OLSR, streaming, data cacheing and database management, content management and many more. We are lucky that listmembers here live in wide-spread areas of the city, and hope they will use the preliminary workshops and events conceptualised and being planned, to learn and to teach others to build out from there. Welcome. Vickram ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/

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Wall command like utility/command in Linux
by Jagdish Chhailkar 01 May '07

01 May '07

I have 25 thin clients with builtin mozilla browser. I have a LAMP applicaiton running on a server. The users are accessing the application on their thin client using the builtin mozilla browser. My problem is : 1) when i want to shutdown the server , i didn't know whether somebody is using the application or not. 2) I have another server on which the users are logged in through X session called on their thin clients. If some/any users forgots to log-off his/her login then I didn't come to know that the users is not doing anythink. Is there any wall like command/utility , thru. which i can pass on a message which will be displayed on all the active users as well as the message will be passed to all the http users ? -Jagdish

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Linux with Vista
by Amit Redij 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

> -----Original Message----- > From: linuxers-bounces(a)mm.glug-bom.org [mailto:linuxers-bounces@mm.glug- > bom.org] On Behalf Of Sachin Nambiar > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:01 PM > To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Linux with Vista > > I have a dual boot Ubuntu along with Vista and have faced absolutely no > problems so far, > > > -- > Regards, > Sachin Gopal > Indian Pneumatic & Hydraulic Co. Pvt Ltd. > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers I have dual boot Kubuntu 7.04 & Vista on Toshiba Satellite. Works without any problem :) ============================================================================================================================ Disclaimer: This message and the information contained herein is proprietary and confidential and subject to the Tech Mahindra policy statement, you may review at <a href="http://www.techmahindra.com/Disclaimer.html">http://www.techmahindra.com/Disclaimer.html</a> externally and <a href="http://tim.techmahindra.com/Disclaimer.html">http://tim.techmahindra.com/Disclaimer.html</a> internally within Tech Mahindra. ============================================================================================================================

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