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GNULinuxInIndia o Feb 26, 2003
by FN 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

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Commercial support price is not exorbitant. You are not tied down to a particular vendor.... o Most Reputed Institutes and R&D organisations (IIT, IISc some RECs, TIFR, C-DAC, NASA etc) use GNU/Linux. o Open Standards compliant. o Immune against most virus attacks.[Thanks to David Kastrup, Bochum for feedback on this point) o Most technologies and standards are first implemted in GNU/Linux and then elseware. (examples being first OS to be ported to Intel Itanium architecture) o Unimaginably scalable (Runs from anything from wristwatches and PDAs to cluster supercomputers and mainframes). o Now backed by major corporations such as IBM and Oracle. o Very customisable as source code is available. o Last but not the least free (as in "free beer" :D ). So extremely cost-effective. .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. GNUnify ALL INDIA FREE SOFTWARE FESTIVAL: The Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research(SICSR), under its annual Unify festival, organized the first ever Free Software Festival in India on Feb 15-16, 2003. For a report of the event contact Kanti Jadia (j_kanti(a)rediffmail.com) URL's for reference o http://www.gnunify.org o http://www.symbiosiscomputer.com o http://www.iitb.ac.in o http://www.vjti.ac.in o http://www.plug.org.in o http://www.ilug-bom.org.in/ o http://www.simputer.org o http://www.mit.gov.in Perhaps one could also add: gnu.org.in -- the home page of the Free Software Foundation (India) -- and http://www.linux-india.org (LinuxIndia). .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. FINALLY, SOMETHING IN INDIAN LANGUAGES: IndLinux Hindi v0.37 (milan) released: Guntupalli Karunakar <karunakar(a)freedomink.org> that indefitagable campaigner for Indic solutions in GNU/Linux, came up with this announcement on Feb 20. IndLinux Hindi v0.37 (milan) is released Download it from http://www.indlinux.org/downloads/index.php or directly from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/indlinux/IndLinux-Hindi-0.37.tar.gz?down… Read release, installation and usage notes at http://www.indlinux.org/doc/IndLinux-Hindi-0.37-README.txt More about the IndLinux team at http://www.indlinux.org .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. NEWS FROM EASTERN INDIA: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshanm(a)softhome.net> sent in some interesting udpates. o Nirmalya Lahiri and Sankarshan himself have managed to get up and running the LTSP at a local privately run college [Sarsuna College] with 50 PCs. This college for all practical administrative purposes has shifted to the OSS platform, with major IT related administrative functions being carried out with least increase in cost and major value addition. Staff orientation was also without major hitches and the system is up and running for the past 6 months. o Both have also developed and put in place a DSS/MIS for a government aided college at BudgeBudge that takes care of related executive decision making ability. o A consortium model library model capable of being scaled up to handle central libraries is in the pipeline for implementation at universities. o Rohan Sen <rohansen(a)myrealbox.com> has developed a prototype fully functional, scalable and robust payroll program that is currently smoothly running at Surendranath College, another Govt aided college at Kolkata. o Currently a self learning Knowledge Base is being developed using the latest release of Oracle and Content Management Systems. Thank you for your kind words for this modest newsletter Sankarshan! FN .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. GNU/LINUX... AND PCQ: Below is a listing of GNU/Linux software featuring in recent issues of Indian mainstream PC mag, PCQuest. (We do wish PCQuest would focus more on GNU/Linux... and stop mixing up terms like Free Software and 'freeware'). July 2001 * The latest Linux distribution from Red Hat Feb 2002 * Shusha and Shivaji fonts for Linux. March 2002 * A file-splitting utility for GNU/Linux (Indianware) May 2002 * Simple tool to split large files into smaller files. June 2002 * Sniffer and protocol analyzer... by Rohit Sharma July 2002 * GNU/Linux section of indiwiz.com in PDF format July 2002 * Bulk mailer written in Perl for GNU/Linux Aug 2002 * Cyberoam, providing Internet via cable Oct 2002 * Indix: project to develop Indian lang support for GNU/Linux. With modified X-windows, development toolkits and a terminal emulator program Nov 2002 * Indix. oprint converts Indic text to PostScript .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. LAP -- TAKING GNU/LINUX TO EDUCATION: Raju Mathur <raju(a)linux-delhi.org> credits the "unflagging efforts" of Prateek Khanna and Dhruv Gami for helping to get up and running the Linux Access Project (LAP) home page. See http://lap.linux-delhi.org/ They are using a Wiki (TWiki) as the collaborative tool, so feel free to create an account for yourself and add content and comments. LAP, the GNU/Linux Access Project is an initiative for popularising Linux in education. .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. NEWS FROM THE TAMIL FRONT: vvenkataramanan <venkat(a)tamillinux.org> informs us about having written a new font download tool (BASH shell script). This downloads all frequently used Tamil fonts (TSCII, TAB, TAM, Vikatan, Kumudam, Kalki, Murasu-Anjal compatible WebTamil fonts, etc.). With this he plans to address the following problems for Tamil linux users; o Downloading fonts to read various pages one by one. o Installing truetype fonts and making it available to X Says VV: "It uses GNU wget to ftp download all fonts at one go from my employer's ftp server (real fast), use ttmkfdir to create font scales and update fontpath with chkfontpath utility. (I have tested this in few machines running RH and Mandrake, I will be glad if someone tests it in SuSE and Debian and more). I plan to add few more ftp servers where I will maintain fontpools (any volunteers for space?)" Some more quotes: "The idea came out of Ximian Red Carpet for GNOME (http://www.ximian.com). I wanted to write some unified downloader/installer for everything tamil (fonts, keymans, akaram editor, Unicode editor, Vasee's TamilTeX package, Sivaraj's console tools, atleast one Tamil Linux Howto. This will make the life of anyone willing to migrate to tamil desktop simple. First step though is to make it work with fonts fully. It draws heavy inspiration from similar utility by Sebastino Vigna for Microsoft's free webfonts and some similar tools for Debian." It is available for download from ftp://ftp.tamillinux.org/apps/TamilFontsGet.sh and the documentation is at http://www.tamillinux.org/fonts.html .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. CHANGES AT TAMILLINUX.ORG SITE: Venkat also announces some "long pending" changes to the tamillinux.org site - listing some latest developments in Mandrake 9.0rc1, GTK2 VP modules of Dinesh, Vasee's kimaps, the Tamil Linux Howto, etc. .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. MAGAZINE COMPLETELY IN FREE SOFTWARE: V. Sasi Kumar <vsasi(a)vsnl.com> shares that the Laboratory in Informatics for the Liberal Arts (LILA) of the Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya has brought out a magazine named LILA devoted to futuristic computing. Says he: "They say that, to their knowledge, this is the first magazine in India to be manufactured completely in Free Software, and also the first to be brought out under the Free Documentation Licence. They propose to have Free Software as its major theme, with other aspects of contemporary trends in computing also included. No price is mentioned on the magazine. Hope it is 'free' as in 'free beer'! ;-)" Check out: hindivishwa.org Email: hindiuniv(a)nda.vsnl.net.in .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. USING GNU/LINUX? Let your loyalty show... register at http://counter.li.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOUR INPUTS and criticism to this newsletter are welcome. Contact at fred at bytesforall dot org --COPYLEFT 2003, GPL. May be freely circulated provided entire text is retained. FN --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Micros DB access
by Amol Gokhale 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

Hi guys, A little background first. Micros is Point of Sale application for the hotel industry. It runs on Sco Unix among other platforms. According to Micros it uses a proprietary database but we think that it uses some sort of a Unix filesystem. Our problem is getting access to this data as we want it to be available real time for a application we are developing for our client. I have two problems: 1. What are the file systems available on Sco?? [Slightly off-topic] 2. How can I make use of Linux to access this machine and data?? Bye, Amol

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RMS Video on 14th Feb 2003 available
by Rishi Gangoly 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

Hi All, OK. Thanks to Nick Hill, he has made the audio and video lecture of RMS visit to VJTI available for download from the GNU Website on the internet. Audio Ogg sound track (15Mb) http://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/rms-speech-gnu-india2003.ogg Video Original Mpeg1+Layer2 VCD quality 2 disks (1Gb) http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/.originals/ Highly compressed, low bit rate version Mpeg1+Layer2 (54Mb): http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/vjti-14-feb-2003-lbr-split And a single file of the highly compressed version here: http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/vjti-14-feb-2003-lbr.mpg If you don't have the time or bandwidth to download these files, then you can send me e-mail and I'll have them delivered to you on 2 VCDs. rishi(a)theargoncompany.com Charges for 2 CDs + Courier + Content is Rs. 300 to your doorstep. Also Nagarjuna and Prof. Jitendra Shah have a copy of the CDs so if you meet them often you could get a copy made from them. Regards Rishi

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Confussion in NAS & SAN
by Srinivas 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

Hi all, NAS(Network-Attached storage). SAN(Storage Area Network). I am not understanding the exact difference between the above two technologies. Both provide optimal consolidation, centralized data storage, and efficient file access.Both can provide high data availability and can ensure integrity with redundant components and redundant array of independent disks. Where exactly they will sit?. and what is the architectural design of both? What are the different types of hardwares can support individually. Can any one plz help me regarding this...... Thanx in Advance. Regards vasu

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Re: Internet offline
by Nikhil Karkera 26 Feb '03

26 Feb '03

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 vinayak_hegde(a)softhome.net wrote : >offline version of www.tldp.org. We can give away these cds >along with knoppix and FreeDuc as and when this is done. >I have spoken to a lot of newbies to GNU/Linux. They want a >good reference book. This CD might just be an answer. >Also another idea which came of of a discussion with Mr. >Nagarjuna >@GNUnify was that we could have a subscription kind of service >for >corporates and individuals. We can mail the update CDs every 3/6 >months. >I was thinking something on the lines of MSDN which we lack for ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Very much in need! No doubt about it. About putting tldp.org on a CD. We could create a MSDN-like resource for this as well. HOWTOs and man pages and other help under a single searchable index, with some additional assistance pages. Content could be grouped into multiple CD's for newbies, intermediate & advanced users. Things a newbie has problems with (from my own experiences): 1. I don't know if this can be done. 2. I know it can be done, I don't know how. Don't tell me to RTFM. Tell me which FM to R. 3. I don't understand the man pages. 4. Only if there were a one stop solution where I can run a query through all the man pages and HOWTOs and other help, my work would get done a lot faster. Content within the man pages could also be grouped into sections, depending on the level of a user. A newbie probably only needs to know ls, ls -l, ls -a, and the fact that we can also write ls -al. Some people tend to develop a phobia, if bombarded with excessive content. Hope we could have something like this, or even better. Would love to help in any way I can. Warm Regards, Nikhil Karkera.

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PLAY MP3 FILES
by satyajit balkrishna saste 26 Feb '03

26 Feb '03

HI.. I am using RedHat8.0.I configured the sound card.But still Mp3's dont seem to work. Please let me know... -satyajit

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Internet offline
by Gurpreet Singh 26 Feb '03

26 Feb '03

nice cause count me in! gurpreet On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 Amish Munshi wrote : >Greetings, > > Dr. D. B. Phatak wants to create an offline internet. It will >be a >collection of sites which are of importance. This is for the >schools and >colleges that do not have internet access. The sites will be >included on a >CD, and can be installed on the HDD of the servers. Dr. D. B. >Phatak wants >many people to work on this, and we probably have the people to >help for >this cause. > I am willing to do the co-ordination for this project, but I am >not >the official co-ordinator, let me know if you are interested in >helping in >the project. > >Bye. > >-- >Amish K. Munshi >In GNU we trust. Gurpreet Singh Student Final Yr Computer Sc. & Engg. --------------------------------------------------------------------- M A K E Y O U R O W N R O A D --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: How to dump a VHS tape into MPEG-4.
by Rohit Ramesh 26 Feb '03

26 Feb '03

On Wednesday, Feb 26th, Nagarjuna G wrote : > Does anyone know how to dump a VHS tape into MPEG-4 directly? > > - Is there a hardware encoder that can be bought to get this done? > - Are there any organizations that do this at a fee? There is a device called the "IOMEGA Buz Multimedia Producer" or "Buz Box" which should do it. All you need are the relevant codecs, etc. to be installed and the device will do the encoding. Information regarding this device can be found at the Iomega website. Regards, Rohit. ___________ Rohit Ramesh VJTI, Mumbai.

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linux kernel bug database (?)
by Manish Jethani 26 Feb '03

26 Feb '03

Is there a linux kernel bug database somewhere? This bug -- http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0009.1/0572.html -- seems to be bugging me, so I was wondering how to track the status of this bug. Any suggestions? -mj -- Manish Jethani (Technical Staff, Oracle Reports) +91 80 51073488, manish.jethani at oracle.com http://www.geocities.com/manish_jethani/ disclaimer: "The statements and opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent those of Oracle Corporation."

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Seminars for Meetings
by Amish Munshi 26 Feb '03

26 Feb '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, If any of you are interested in giving seminar in the meetings, please get in touch with me via the list, I am searching for individuals who are wanting to share some knowledge with the rest of us. Thanks. Bye. - -- Amish K. Munshi In GNU we trust. Visit http://munshi.dyndns.org/imp for my public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+WYXZbCDhioPGUZ4RAm6eAKCD8UWQOH3Z1qbgm/ninapqFASMuACeLKO5 0odW62sdyRiY7ly+bQ1tM4A= =5dpc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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