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[OT] New Wireless Broadband USB Modems.
by Rony 30 May '09

30 May '09

Hello, Reliance and Tata Indicom have now come out with USB modems that provide broadband speeds theoretically upto 3.1 Mbps in major cities with National low speed roaming in other areas. A client of mine told me that his friend uses a Reliance one and clocked upto 1.5 Mbps on it. Reliance promo emails mention peak hour speeds between 512K and 1Mbps. Tata also provides a wireless router that talks wirelessly to the tower and provides a wired+wireless LAN for the office. MTNL and BSNL broadband are getting competition. Great! Now use your note/netbooks for video conferencing on the move. No more linesman telling you that your modem or wiring is bad. Is this the 3G thing by the back door before the licenses are issued or something in between, before 3G makes a big bang? Will 3G bring in something even newer? -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Which is the cheapest hand-held available?
by Deboo 29 May '09

29 May '09

Which is the cheapest / low-cost hand-held computer (not mobile phone) available which even a por man anywhere in India can buy with little money? If it can run linux, great.

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Installing open office 3
by Ashok Sinha 29 May '09

29 May '09

So I down loaded the RPM package (a tra.gz file) of Oo3. Unpzipped it in a new folder named Open office in my Downloads folder. I double clicked Setup. Got an error msg that Java is not installed. Now what? -- Ashok Sinha

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[OT] Triband clocks 22Mbps.....No kidding.
by Rony 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hello, Today at one place I was amazed to see triband going out of control. DVDs getting downloaded in one hour, large files in minutes. It was an unlimited 512 Kbps scheme but was overclocking. In between it would come down to 600 to 700 KBytes per second, otherwise it was above 1 MBytes per sec. It was the AT&T server connection (username@a). While this utopia is in bloom since a week or two and may last a few days more, It shows that our telephone lines are capable of giving 22 Mbps which I actually saw in the new D-Link modem stats. Upload 1 Mbps and download max. 22 Mbps. Seeing is believing. Gosh! MTNL when will you open your tap to full? We could be on a virtual LAN and share files with each other just like the cablewalas do in some areas. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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equivalent of icponfig on widoze
by Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. 28 May '09

28 May '09

I am using Hathway cable internet where they bind your ip settings to your pc. If I unplug the lan cable from the pc and plug it into my laptop, I cannot browse. They are using some sort of dhcp with a static ip (I know that sounds funny - but that's what they say). When I called the helpdesk, they said what I need to do is release the ip from my machine and then renew it on my laptop. something like ipcfg release and then ipcfg renew. The guy obviously has no clue how to do it in linux. What would be the equivalent in linux. I am using debian 5 and kubuntu 9.04 on the two machines. Thanks, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer. Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.

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Installing open office 3
by Ashok Sinha 28 May '09

28 May '09

I am running linpus linux which is based on fedora core and would like to know if it is possible to ver 3 of open office. I was checking there was a version for RPM and another for Debian. Which one should I download? -- Ashok Sinha

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Never buy a Reliance Telcom product
by Pankaj Jangid 28 May '09

28 May '09

True. Talking to them for the same problem again and again is more painful then spending a day without internet.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Never buy a Reliance Telcom product
by Pankaj Jangid 28 May '09

28 May '09

But there was no alternative available in the market. There is BSNL but they do not cover Delhi. MTNL is not providing data connections; only some value added services over 3G. I am regreting the decision and again.

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Linux OS Inoperable
by SUBHASH UDIAVAR 27 May '09

27 May '09

Hi everybody, I was introduced by Anurag, after finding out his mail in the open forum while surfing the Net to set my problem. He had suggested to be part of the mailing list which I have done, however the site refuses to open up for me for unknown reasons repeatedly stating that the the username and/or password is incorrect dspite inputtting the correct details.I have experienced a snag on my desktop which is loaded with a LINUX OS way back in 2005. In fact, the OS was installed by my friend who is terribly sick and I feel it indecent to call him for this, we are in the late fifties. One would be wondering as to what I was doing all these years, Yes, I was operating my WIN XP Pro thru the laptop which I have carried to almost all cities in India and a couple of times abroad when on duty tour. Now I am a relaxed and retired guy. This Linux OS is installed on a pc having Athlon CPU on a Asus motherboard. I used to use the PC for as much as 5 years prior to my friend installing the Linux OS on the same PC with XP home and the other day after opening the desktop I had to update all the MS prog and you well know it took me almost 5 hours, maybe more to download and install. The switch provided by my friend, a toggle switch to 'switchover' from the XP to Linux ( after shutting off the PC) and I saw it is working fine as when in a particular direction the OS switches either to XP or Linux. On opening the Linux OS I found after booting which must be taking less than a minute or slightly more faced with a login page. I appreciate my friend that he has mentioned both my login ID and password within the Linux symbol for ease of use and on punching these details the 'login failed' pops up. As I am new I was wondering if you could help in solvingin starting my Linux OS. Something like disabling the login itself or in the least to reprogram the login dialogue. Please remember- *I am a novice as far as PCs go *and use it mostly to surf,mail and IM etc. Trust I have contacted the correct persons for the advice. Grateful if one of you could help me out. Thanks and regards SBUdiavar *PS: Could somebody post this on the forum page please as I can not do it due to login prob I'm facing in the ILUG site. Thnx.*

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[X-POST] Call for "I Know What You Are Going To Do This Summer 2009"
by Kushal Das 25 May '09

25 May '09

Hi all, We are happy to announce "I Know What You Are Going To Do This Summer 2009",[1] a free (as in freedom), online (IRC-based) [2] training sessions for wannabes to Free/Libre/Open Source Software at #dgplug on irc.freenode.net [3]. If you are a mentor, or trainer, or prospective enthusiast who would like to participate in this years' sessions please go through last years' IRC logs: http://www.dgplug.org/irclogs/ We will have a review or Q&A session on last years' sessions before we proceed into new topics, this year. The session timings are mostly varying, usually after 1900 IST every day. If you are interested in participating, please confirm your participation by sending an off-list mail to me (kushaldas AT gmail DOT com). Poster: http://kushaldas.in/tmp/summer_training-small.png URL: http://dgplug.org/intro/ Planet: http://planet.dgplug.org/ Wiki: http://wiki.dgplug.org/ Mailing list group (for queries, discussions): http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org [1] http://wiki.dgplug.org/index.php/SummerTraining09 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRCHowTo Regards, Kushal -- http://fedoraproject.org http://kushaldas.in

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