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Switching to GNU/Linux -- for newbies
by Praveen A 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Switch to Linux! GNU/Linux, or simply Linux, is an alternative to Microsoft Windows. It is easy to use and gives more freedom to users. Anyone can install it: Linux is free as in freedom, and often available free of charge. http://www.getgnulinux.org/ Can point to newbies to GNU/Linux. Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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[Tags?]Fwd: Wanted: Free Software resources for all families and schools
by Roshan 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

--- Marco Fioretti wrote: > Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:49:19 +0200 > From: Marco Fioretti > To: d_rosh2001(a)yahoo.co.in > Subject: Wanted: Free Software resources for all > families and schools > > > Greetings, > > I am a freelance writer specialized in FOSS topics, > Contributing > editor of Linux Journal > (http://www.linuxjournal.com/xstatic/corporate/staff/Marco) > and member > of the OpenDocument Fellowship. > > I'd like to let you know about a new personal > initiative of mine, > which will hopefully make lots of parents and > teachers understand why > they cannot ignore FOSS and Free Culture anymore in > the interest of > their own children. > > I am going to publish on the Digifreedom website: > > * a directory of Digitally Free Schools, that all > parents may check > when choosing a new school for their children. > http://digifreedom.net/node/55 > > * one of bad public websites, > http://digifreedom.net/node/76 > > * one of Trashware organizations, > http://digifreedom.net/node/92 > > * a list of examples of "Bad ICT information", that > is links to > article from mainstream press or websites which > have no clue of what > Free Software actually is, so all parents and > other non-hackers can > learn to recognize them. > > * forums on Digitally Free School and Digitally Free > Families: > http://digifreedom.net/forum/30 > where all citizens concerned about the attacks on > the Digital > Freedom of their schools or families can work > together to protect > it. > > All these are and will always remain absolutely free > services to the > whole community: I hope to make of these databases > something that all > parents and teachers, especially those who know > nothing or very little > about software, will be able to use to do the right > choices in the > best interest of their children's education and of > their own civil > rights. > > The reason why I am writing is only to let your LUG > know that I always > welcome any submission to any of those databases > (the more the better), > either through the forums above or via direct email. > > Obviously, should you find it appropriate, you are > also welcome to > spread the word about the databases, forums and my > Open Letter to > Mothers about Software > (http://digifreedom.net/node/74) as much as you > wish, *especially* outside Free Software circles. > Teachers, parents > associations, churches, senior citizens clubs, any > youth organization, > whatever: the more non-programmers we can reach with > this approach, > the better it would be for Free Standards and > Software. > > Thank you in advance for your time! Any general > feedback is also > welcome! > > Best Regards, > > Marco Fioretti > > -- > > Help *everybody* love Free Standards and Free > Software! > http://digifreedom.net -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc ubunturos @ freenode Once upon a time there was 1 GB storage in your inbox. To know the happy ending go to http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html

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NRCFOSS Seminar, Sunday 29th July
by Mrugesh Karnik 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

Greetings. Firstly, thanks to all those who attended the seminar on 22nd. I hope everyone enjoyed and benefited from it. The second seminar on bash will be held on Sunday, 29th July. The venue is the same: FOSS lab, Mechanical Department, VJTI. Please note that, this seminar will be conducted at 2pm, unlike the previous. Following topics will be covered: Functions Shell Arithmetic Positional Parameters POSIX Regular Expressions and if time permits, Parameter Expansion. The seminar is free of cost and everyone is invited. Regards. -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------

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Reviews page on wiki
by Mohan Nayaka 29 Jul '07

29 Jul '07

Hi all, I noticed today that the reviews page (http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Reviews) on the wiki was blank. >From the edit history, it looks like during the spam cleanup on 27th July, the reviews were inadvertently removed. I have restored the page from the older version. Do let me know if there are any mistakes. Regards, Mohan S N -- The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles

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[Fwd: AP: Hungary Officials Raid Microsoft Office]
by Vivek J. Patankar 28 Jul '07

28 Jul '07

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: AP: Hungary Officials Raid Microsoft Office Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:33:55 +0100 To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com> ''Associated Press 07.26.07, 4:26 PM ET BUDAPEST, HUNGARY - Hungary's state Competition Authority raided the offices of Microsoft Corp.'s local subsidiary as part of a probe into the company's relationship with large software distributors. The unannounced raid took place July 19 at the offices of Microsoft Magyarorszag Kft., according to a notice posted on the authority's Web site. According to the statement, Microsoft used sales conditions and offered software distributors incentives - described as "loyalty discounts" - so they wouldn't offer clients anything but Microsoft Office products. ...'' http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/26/ap3957835.html "Con-vict-ed Fel-on" -- Regards, विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar) Registered Linux User #374218 Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) Linux 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 x86_64 My USB drives automount! :p

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Re: Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] MTNL TRIBAND MODEM QUERY
by Joel Solomon 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

>Also, once the router is plugged in and all the lights except LAN are >on, post the output of `ifconfig` and `route -n` oot@SG:~# ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:100 (100.0 b) TX bytes:100 (100.0 b) root@SG:~# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface sorry for the delay in replyin but had got stuck up rony i'll try wat u said n will also let u know about it

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Problem Installing Mysql
by RS singh 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

Dear linux Users I use RH EL 3, Every thing is working fine but MySql is giving problem while installing. The Error shown is libmysql.so.10 file required The file is already present on the system. I want to use this system as LAMP server. Any other alternative. Advice. RS Ludhiana. Office firewalls, cyber cafes, college labs, don't allow you to download CHAT? Click here: http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php

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Re: Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] MTNL TRIBAND MODEM QUERY
by Joel Solomon 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

>Also, once the router is plugged in and all the lights except LAN are >on, post the output of `ifconfig` and `route -n` > >Also, did you try adding the Network Monitor applets on your gnome >panel like I had mentioned in my last email? > > >-- Siddhesh Poyarekar i'm using the default kernel installed by Ubuntu..... i even connect a transcend mp3 player to the pc via usb...... Is the hal is installed by default???? i'll try the commands n let u know... i did add the network monitor applets as u told me.....

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openSUSE 10.2 DVDs ...
by Arun Khan 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

I have a few extra openSUSE 10.2 (32bit) DVDs (original press from Novell) to give away. Please contact me offlist if you are interested -> (mailto:knura@yahoo.com?subject=openSUSE102_DVD). -- Arun Khan

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Fedora7 with Multimedia--Installation Report.
by Rony Bill 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

Hello All, Though faithful to the Debian based distros, I could not help flirting with Fedora 7 which is being touted as a great distro. It was the bootable DVD that came with July 2007 LFY. The hardware, Pentium-4 2.4 Ghz., Intel 845 GEBV2, 256 MB RAM, Samsung 80 GB IDE HDD, Sony DVD writer, Samsung CD writer. The DVD cleared the media test and the installation began. When you come to the partitioning part, please note that like other distros it does not list choices in radio buttons or check boxes. It is a drop down list. I did not see the list and checked a manual option placed below. However the warning that my entire disk will be formatted saved me from a Himalayan blunder. The drop down list has the actual manual option. After that installation was smooth. When it comes to the packages part, please select everything you want from the DVD in this step itself. I did not do that and found that the DVD repo is not added to the Yum package manager after installation. So everything selected later is downloaded from the net. By default, only Gnome is the installed desktop. Installation looked slower than Kubuntu, though the number of packages is similar. Fedora 1007, Kubuntu 950 approx. Post installation was smooth too. The screen resolution was 1280 x 1024, a very nice thing. However it was switched manually to 1024 x 768 for easy reading. Sound setup comes up during first boot and you can play a test sound. The wallpaper is great. You are floating above the clouds with hot-air baloons around you. The top panel bar does not have any applet enabled on it but you can add whatever you want manually by right clicking on the panel and selecting 'Add to panel'. I liked the 'Dictionary' utility very much. 'Eyeballs' are nice too and move as you move your mouse. Next to the date is the user's Name, which is handy for the boss to know who is logged into the desktop. By default the user does not have sudoer rights so you need to open a terminal and 'su -' with the root password. Edit the file /etc/sudoers. In that file, go to the entry which mentions '## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands'. Uncheck the option below it. Keep the % sign. Then edit the file /etc/group. In the line containing the wheel group, after root, put a coma and add the user_name. This will make this user, a sudoer. For multi-media codecs, go to http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2853 and follow the instructions as given there. Copy the commands and directly paste them into a gui terminal using Shift + Insert. Please add sudo to the beginning of every command or do the whole exercise as root 'su -'. From that web page, please note that VLC player installation is optional and not necessary. The same is true for the installation of Amarock, as it is kde based and is a whopping 77 MB of download from the net, due to extra kde components. It can play mpg, wmv, mp3, 3gp, dvds etc. DVD playback is good. However VCD playback is kinky and after a few seconds of video and sound, it crashes whatever player you use. I tried 3 and all crashed. Looks like the new kernels are not VCD friendly. I could not try the USB of the MTNL ADSL router as mine is a 4 port one without usb. Overall a very good system and very pleasing to look at. I could not try out kde in it as it would have to be downloaded from the net. With latest hardware and more RAM, it should be a pleasure to work with. So go ahead and try it out. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/

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