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The distro wagon
by Suhit Kelkar 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

Dear GNU/Linux Users Anonymous, Thank you for your advice and moist shoulders. I have seen the light. Or perhaps. Or at least it sounds like that from where I'm sitting. Or perhaps it only sounds good. Whatever: let's hope it lasts. After all, I've managed to go three months, haven't I, without a single install once before? Yes sir. So maybe I'll stick to it this time. No fresh install for six months. Promise, here recorded, stored in bytes. I'm hopping on the wagon. But it won't be a pleasant ride. Yours affectionately, Quavering Hopper.

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perl (was: Linux Graphical Apps)
by U N Gaitonde 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

This may be a diversion, but could not resist! There are some real gems Unix/Linux. man perl leads to, at the beginning: perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language and, near the end: Perl actually stands for Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister, but don’t tell anyone I said that. :D Sincerely, U N Gaitonde ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon(a)au-kbc.org> > To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:56:36 +0530 > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux Graphical Apps > <SNIP> > > perl -e 'undef$/;$"=chr(10);foreach(@ARGV){open(F,$_); > > $l=<F>;@l=reverse(split(/\n/,$l));close(F);open(F,">$_");print F > > "@l";close(F);}' file1 file2 file3... > > looks like chinese - so it must be perl > -- > regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Associate > NRC-FOSS > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ >

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Maharastra signs MoU with M$
by Nagarjuna G. 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

Alert! let us send a strong letter to the ministers, education dept. as soon as possible. Check out several stories that appeared in all news papers. I have read on page3 in DNA. http://ur1.ca/9n8q -- Nagarjuna G.

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re commercial desktop
by ashwani mahajan 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

dear sandeep, try ubuntu jaunty , its very stable compared to fedora for commercial use and installation set up, community support is strong and u can get most of the answers by googling i am comfertably using all the features u mentioned and have recently switched from fedora and open suse Ashwani mahajan See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check out Yahoo! Buzz. http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/

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Iptables Query
by Rony Bill 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Hello, I have to setup a firewall box for someone ASAP and I was going through the tutorials at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=16166 I just have a small query as I am confused with the directions of packets. When setting a rule for the INPUT table, there is a source and destination setting. From the examples given in the above tutorial, when an incoming packet is received, the source is a local IP and destination is the world. Shouldn´t the incoming packet´s source be the world and destination the local LAN IP address? Could the experts please clarify? Otherwise it seems quite easy to setup. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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any FOSS tool to make amplitude of music files uniform
by Kussh Singh 16 Aug '09

16 Aug '09

Hi group, Is there any tool to set all music/audio files to a certain amplitude? While hearing music files, the amplitude changes from one file to another due to which the volume has to be manually adjusted. I tried normalize-audio but maybe don't know whether it will do the job or how to use it properly. Would appreciate any help if a tool can be applied on a set of files in batch mode. Thanks Kussh

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Eureka! Firewall set up.
by Rony 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

Hello, Finally I was able to code the firewall exactly as it is intended to operate. It was tough and I even tried to cheat by using Firestarter on a live session and copy the resulting codes, but they turned out to be even more complex than what I wanted. Even tried Shorewall but it did not suit my purpose. I was almost giving up but finally got the wall up. Now I have understood the main concepts and what goes to which table/chain. In this setup, there are 15 machines in a LAN and except 4 senior users, no one had internet access. However the company decided to get a remote office setup at their website and everyone would pass on memos, to-dos, jobs etc through it. Therefore net access had to be enabled but only to that website. The 4 main users would still have to be allowed to go anywhere on the net. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Microsoft Certification with Red Hat Training
by Siji Sunny 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

HI friends,recently I just gone through one of the redhat link which offering Microsoft certification with Redhat training( https://www.redhat.com/training/mcp/). They mentioned that This can achieve - expand your skills, providing you with the open source training that is in high demand - provide you with cross-platform expertise - help your organization leverage the performance and cost savings of open source technology - differentiate you from your peers and maximize your career opportunities. This looks really funny.Anyway congrats to Redhat and Microsoft for this new Business relation. -- Siji Sunny

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Data recovery after formatting ext3 to ex4 partition
by narendra sisodiya 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

is it possible to recover data from formatted ext3 partition. Actually while installing ubuntu 9.04 , installer misbehaved with me and formatted my /home partition and thus i lost my valueble data. the new partition is ext4 type. I tried with testdisk but unable to recover any bit !! anythought ?? -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ R&D Engineer │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a └─────────────────────────┘

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Random Observations
by Rony 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

Hello, I had bought this month's Digit magazine which had 3 distro ISOs in one DVD. OpenSuse, Fedora11 (live+Install) and Ubuntu 9.04 (Live+Install). Thankfully, the ISOs did not throw up any md5sum errors. First the Fedora live cd was booted. Everything came up fine. I checked out the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts folder to check out the ifup-eth0 file but was surprised to see that there was no such file. The command ifconfig threw up the eth0 details. The networking was taken over by 'Network-Manager', the gui utility for gnome. Then Firefox was tried out. It was 3.5 Beta4. Sites opened lightning fast. Out of curiosity I checked out the dns entries in resolv.conf and saw the following DNS server entries (using dhcp). 59.185.0.23 and 59.185.0.50. Then I logged into my MTNL Triband modem to discover that I had earlier disabled DNS relay and my preferred DNS servers were the 203.94..... entries. In the modem's interface however, the DNS is 59.183.63.254. I wonder how 59.185.0.23 got into the DNS entries of the computer. However I am happy as these servers seem to be very quick. The Ubuntu 9.04 cd was then booted and even here the DNS entries were 59.185.0.23 and 50. Again, the sites opened very fast. As with Fedora11, the /etc/network/interfaces file had only one entry for lo. There was no entry for eth0. The observations made were. 1. MTNL's new DNS servers 59.185.0.23 & 50 are very fast and those entries should replace the traditional 203.94... entries in machines with static ips. Before this, at 2 of my clients' places I had to use the open dns ip as the secondary dns entry for sites to open at least. Now I can try out these new IPs. 2. The gui networking utilities have completely taken over the traditional distro network config files and we don't even know how these GUIs are storing their config files to be able to read/modify them. I recollect, before throwing out knetwork-manager from my Lenny, I had a tough time trying to locate the config files for the same and even googling did not help. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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