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Easy Console Firewall.
by Rony 23 Jun '07

23 Jun '07

Hello All, Arno's IPTABLES firewall is a usefull console based firewall for those who understand firewall concepts but find it difficult to remember the exact syntax of the iptables script. It is available with Debian/K-Ubuntu as an apt repo, but go to the site and download its latest deb package for the latest stable version. Installation is easy and the conf file is easy to edit. http://rocky.eld.leidenuniv.nl/ -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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TurboCash
by Rony 23 Jun '07

23 Jun '07

Hello All, TurboCash is a GPLed accounting software. At present it is available only on the $dose platform. Could accounting experts on the list have a look at the website to provide more inputs on its usefulness for Indian businesses, small and big? Since it is an 84 MB download, it looks big. The website also has links for consultants so it must be already being used by companies. http://www.turbocashuk.com/accounting-software-opensource.html http://www.turbocashuk.com/accounting-software-download.html Since it is Libre Software, I am not putting an OT tag. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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[FOSS] Video Archives
by Roshan 23 Jun '07

23 Jun '07

List, RMS[1] was in Mumbai last year in August. (27th August 2006, to be precise). A session was organized by FSF-India and GNU/Linux User Group of Mumbai, on Free Software, Free Knowledge and Free Society. This year, President of FSF-I Georg Greve[2] was in Mumbai and delivered a talk on Free Software and Science (on Thursday, 7 June 2007). 1. Does anyone from the list, has the video archives of the above two sessions? 2. Can they be shared and re-distributed? 3. If it can be, is it available on YouTube or online media? (not others, the above ones specifically) (better if it is available on a DVD or CD) 4. Apart from this, if anyone has audio archives of sessions by RMS, please let me know. (point 2 applicable) I'm asking this because, a few who might be interested in Free Software, might find it exciting to watch a video by the pioneer of Free Software. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stallman [2] http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20070604/059829.ht… -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC- http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc ubunturos @ freenode The DELETE button on Yahoo! Mail is unhappy. Go here to know why http://in.mail.yahoo.com

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Rumors of new Gnash functionality exaggerated
by Praveen A 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

A free Flash viewer is one of the last major gaps in GNU/Linux desktop functionality, so last week's news that Gnash, the free Flash player, had reached the stage where it could play YouTube and Lulu.tv videos seemed too good to be true. Unfortunately, it was. .... Read Full Story http://www.linux.com/feature/114561 Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Toshiba laptop consultation
by Koustubha Kale 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

>> >>Mohan Nayaka wrote: > >Hi all, >> I am planning to buy a laptop. Model: Toshiba Satellite(r) A135-S2386 >> Is this machine penguin-friendly or atleast, not unfriendly? >> Particularly, is it Beryl-friendly? Any allergies to FC6/7 ? I am keen to >> try out FCx more seriously now. >> >Battery life seems short. >http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3639&review=Toshiba+Satell… > I am using a Toshiba L-30 C330 with Fedora 6 for past 6 months. The bios is buggy so sleep, hibernate don't work. Also the sound card does not work without a 1 line hack in the patch_realtek.c file Beryl worked after a fashion but kept crashing. I also had lot of trouble with window decorations vanishing so I left it alone. Will try it again when I upgrade to F7 soon. I used an IBM T series before this for a few years & that was MUCH better with linux. Also Toshiba is not very linux friendly company in terms of drivers & updates etc if you take a look at their updates site. I should have stuck to IBM. regards Koustubha Kale ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/

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[OT] Toshiba laptop consultation
by Mohan Nayaka 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Hi all, I am planning to buy a laptop. Model: Toshiba Satellite(r) A135-S2386 Is this machine penguin-friendly or atleast, not unfriendly? Particularly, is it Beryl-friendly? Any allergies to FC6/7 ? I am keen to try out FCx more seriously now. TIA, Mohan S N P.S.: I am addressing both mail-ids since some of my mails have bounced in the past. -- "There will be plenty of time to rest in the grave"

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Will The Real Open Source CRM Please Stand Up?
by Praveen A 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

"Open Source has grown up. Now it is time for us to stand up. I believe that when we do, the vendors who ignore our norms will suddenly recognize that they really do need to make a choice: to label their software correctly and honestly, or to license it with an OSI-approved license that matches their open source label. And when they choose the latter, I'll give them a shout out, as history shows. Please join me, stand up, and make your voice heard--enough is enough." by Michael Tiemann, President, Open Source Initiative Read the complete blog post http://opensource.org/node/163 Also on digg http://digg.com/linux_unix/The_Open_Source_Initiative_Finds_Its_Backbone Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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[OT] Lightning protection for ethernet ports?
by Rony 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Hello All, The rains have hardly begun and my client's mobo was its first casualty. Its on-board LAN got zapped by lightning through the cable internet while the pc was off. Is there any small handy LAN lightning protector that can be given to all clients with cable internet? Has anyone used such a thing? -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Re: * [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Online Security
by jtd 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

On Monday 18 June 2007 23:20, Rony wrote: > Hello All, > > I was searching for firewall testers and came across this link. > > http://www.auditmypc.com/anonymous-surfing.asp > > This link tells you what information your pc gives to the website. > It shows the ip address which is quite normal, but it also gives an > area map of where you are located within Mumbai using google maps. I am not even on the map which displayed half of mumbai. It does not even show prabhadevi where the mtnl gateway is located. How does it locate? it's called geoip afaik - a database of ips sorted by country and city and dont forget to draw a suitable large map. -- Rgds JTD

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Re:[ILUG-BOM] Fedora 7 installation: completely unexpected results
by Easwar Hariharan 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

> > > > > Though the author of this article managed to setup > > things on his own (/boot/grub/menu.lst etc.), Tapas > > had to reboot quite a few times for his boot menu to > > be displayed with windows. > > Dont try installing if you dont know what you are doing. > Apart from that, none of > > the other hdd partitions were automatically detected > > and mounted. > > > > This is not an intent to flame, but rather caution new > > users trying to install Fedora 7. > > New users should not be installing anything anyway. Least of all a > full blown linux distro not designed for a newbie desktop user. I beg to differ,being a newbie doesn't disqualify you from experimenting on your computer as long as you don't destroy anything.Even if you do,it's not anybody else except family business to admonish or put down the person who has committed the mistake.And BTW,by making mistakes is how you learn.......if you don't learn from others' mistakes that is....... Regards, Easwar

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