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Etch-Xfce DVD burning errors.
by Rony 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Hello All, I wanted to copy a Fedora 8 DVD for a friend. I tried the default Brasero in Etch-Xfce but it would not even proceed further than the window where Read and Write drives are chosen. So gnomebaker was used. It read the master DVD and created the image but on writing the image back to a blank DVD, it completed the process halfway but with no errors. However the DVD is only half burned as can also be observed physically. Then my all time favorite K3B was installed but it too recorded halfway and said ok. What I observed in gnomebaker was that it uses the 'dd' command to write the DVD which I feel is outdated. I did not check the same in K3B as I did not expect it to do the same. All necessary packages like dvdrw+tools, and many more are installed in my system. I lost 2 blank DVDs. Finally for the third and last one in stock, Nero was used in the other operating system and that recorded properly. What could be possibly happening? I recollect gnomebaker showing messages like... Writing image using dd if=... of=..... Flushing Cache. Updating RVM (?) Google does not yield much information about this problem. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Net Radio in Linux
by Rony 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Rony wrote: "A friend of mine showed me this site for internet radio. It works in Linux too. Go to www.sky.fm and check out 'Listen Now' on the top and from the list, select 'MP3 Streams'. A playlist file .pls will be downloaded. Save it and load the playlist in your audio player. Listen to good music without RJ yak yak. I selected the 96Kbps stream. As per the theoritical calculations, one hour of listening takes about 43 MB download." There is a 24 Kbps stream also available for slow connections. The sound is mono but decent for listening. 24 Kbps also cuts down on the downloaded data for connections having data download limits. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Gparted question
by Nishit Dave 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

List, I want to create a partition on my laptop by freeing up space from my C: drive, NTFS. I have been reading documentation on Gparted, but I could not determine if it requires contiguous free space within a partition to shrink it and create a new one with free space. The defragmentation utility provided with Windows XP does not consolidate free space. Would using Gparted to repartition the disc, after such (suboptimal) defragmentation, result into loss of data, or will it use only the free space? It would seem visually that Gparted will use free space, but there are conflicting opinions everywhere. Can somebody provide a concise, unequivocal answer? Can somebody provide a feasible solution if there is a definite problem?

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Yum country specific mirror list
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

> I'm using Fedora 8. Nowadays yum is updating at extremely slow speeds > from Asian mirrors. I am assuming that your Yum is configured to fetch mirrorlists from the following URLs: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=x86_64 http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f8&arch=x… Now do you know which particular mirror you are using and finding it slow? Most of the time, the first two mirrors would be an Indian one. One of the Indian mirrors -- ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ -- allows only a limited number of anonymous clients to connect, and each client is allowed a maximum of 32KBps to 48KBps of bandwidth. The other Indian mirror -- http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/pub/fedora -- is also planning to do something similar, and they might be changing their configuration as I am writing this email. In case you are having problems with the Indian mirrors: Now both these mirrors are quite new, experience very heavy loads -- http://glug-nith.org/usage ; http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/awstats/awstats.pl -- and face the standard bandwidth shortage prevalent in India. The first one has an 8Mbps line, while the second has a 5Mbps line, which they are planning to increase. Even then, it has been my observation that apart from the heavily loaded Fedora mirror, the other mirrors which these two machines host are quite fast. eg., try downloading Emacs from http://gnu.glug-nith.org/emacs/emacs-22.1.tar.gz and ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-22.1.tar.gz and compare the speeds. So if we had some specific inputs from you as to which mirror(s) you find slower, what sort of bandwidth you have, etc. we can try to optimize the Indian Fedora mirrors accordingly. If the problem is with the other Asian mirrors, then you might take it up on Fedora's mirror mailing lists. > mirrorlist.txt is filled with asian servers only. > Is there any way that yum downloads Non Asian mirrors list from US or > Europe? or on what basis does yum downloads country specific mirror > lists. Is there any way to change the defaults? There is a way. You need to pass a country variable tothe mirrorlist URLs. Eg., for only Indian mirrors you would do: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=x86_64&count… http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f8&arch=x… Cheers, Debarshi -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU) * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP)

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[INFO] Changing default applications in Etch-Xfce Desktop
by Rony 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

Hello All, I had pasted some files on my desktop. These files opened with a preset default application. I wanted to use another one that I installed but on right-clicking the file, no option for opening in an alternate application was available. Even googling for help did not yield any usefull results. Finally while checking out some files in my home directory ( using the default Thunar browser) I found that inside Thunar the alternate application option is available and I could change it to my chosen one. Plus, those who do not have the archiving option on right click inside Thunar can install the 'thunar-archive-plugin' using apt-get. This will add the archiving options 'Extract Here' and 'Extract To' on right clicking files inside Thunar. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Net Radio in Linux
by Rony 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

Hello All, A friend of mine showed me this site for internet radio. It works in Linux too. Go to www.sky.fm and check out 'Listen Now' on the top and from the list, select 'MP3 Streams'. A playlist file .pls will be downloaded. Save it and load the playlist in your audio player. Listen to good music without RJ yak yak. I selected the 96Kbps stream. As per the theoritical calculations, one hour of listening takes about 43 MB download. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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[OT] Defective Linux For You Media.
by Rony 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

Hello All, This month Linux For You has done it again. The magazine costs Rs. 100/- like other computer mags but again their optical media is bad. This has become a tradition with them and they seem to be pretty thick skinned about it. I have decided to stop buying this magazine altogether as it is a waste of hard earned money. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Help on NDMP
by Kanika Rajani 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

We are working with NDMFS(an implementation of NDMP protocol) to take backup (on fedora 7 platform) but are facing a problem. When giving the "backup" command to take the backup ,it is giving the error-NDMP_NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR. Can u help?

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Commercial -- Opensource Navigation Client -- OT
by Akshay Mishra 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Hello list, I had posted earlier about requiring hands for development on our ARM platform. We are now pleased to inform a fully stable ARM9E platform available with DSPWorks. We are offering alpha samples for people who'd like to pay and play with and test our board (the hardware is fully stable and so is the software. It might still not be commercial grade though). We have gpsdrive working stably on our platform and we are now taking orders for intial samples. The delivery shall take some time (4-6 weeks) since we are gathering volumes so that we can reduce price and get some money to make hardware. The specs are: gpsdrive on a handheld. it'll work in your car or maybe also on a handy (battery unit up next). Maps from google maps. (it should take commercial maps, but you'll have to pay for it.). Any discussions for possible alliances are welcome. . All those interested can send me an email at: akshay <at> dspworks.in. Thanks, Akshay

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open source POS systems
by Abhishek Daga 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Hello, I am seeking recommendations on open source POS (point of sale) applications that includes support for bar code readers, label printers, etc.. The entire gamut related to a POS system in a retail (grocery store) environment. One suggestion was TINA POS but its no longer there on sourceforge. Then there is phppointofsale.com. Anyone used it? It seems like a good bet but personal experiences and first hand reports are highly valued. Thanks abhishek

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Fwd: Fedora 8/ARM available
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh(a)wantstofly.org> Date: 15 Jan 2008 05:03 Subject: Fedora 8/ARM available To: fedora-arm(a)redhat.com, fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com Hi all, We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial) Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture. The package repository has been built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float, little endian. The majority of the important and frequently used Fedora packages have been built for ARM. The Fedora/ARM architecture wiki page has more info: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM The easiest way to start using Fedora 8/ARM is to download the prebuilt root filesystem, which can be booted in QEMU, or chroot'ed into or booted from on any ARMv5 or later processor running in little endian mode. Additional packages can be installed by using yum, which is provided in the filesystem. A HOWTO which describes getting Fedora/ARM running in QEMU is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu There currently are a handful of known issues, which are described at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/TODO Please help us by using the Fedora/ARM port and reporting any issues you run into so that we can fix them. thanks, Lennert _______________________________________________ Fedora-devel-announce mailing list Fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU) * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP)

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not able to open network manager.
by mukesh yadav 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

hello friends. i'm using ubuntu...and xfce desktop environment. I'm not able to open the network manager to add the Ip address. and i dont know how to do this via terminal. so please help me how i can open network manager to change my static IP and gateway and other info... thanks in advance.

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Yum country specific mirror list
by Prashant 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hi, I'm using Fedora 8. Nowadays yum is updating at extremely slow speeds from Asian mirrors. mirrorlist.txt is filled with asian servers only. Is there any way that yum downloads Non Asian mirrors list from US or Europe? or on what basis does yum downloads country specific mirror lists. Is there any way to change the defaults? Thanks, Prashant

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Fwd: Report on Kolhapur workshop
by Kenneth Gonsalves 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Begin forwarded message: > From: "sudhanwa Jogalekar" > Subject: Re: Report on Kolhapur workshop > > Hi, > > Today at 11 am I saw the reporting about the event and the "phono" of > Prof. Kodawade Sir on the Star Majha channel. ( I think this was a > repeat telecast. The same program is telecast at 8 pm on Saturday) > > They had shown NRC-FOSS website video with Prof. Kodawade's telephonic > interview about the event. > > Congrats to all the people participating in the event, especially > Prof. Kodawade and Kenneth Gonsalves for organising/co-ordinating the > event. I am sure this is a major step in getting FOSS into various > colleges and courses. > > Regards > -Sudhanwa -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/

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Fwd: Serious help needed
by Suhit Kelkar 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: rahul srivastava <rahulks7(a)yahoo.com> Date: Jan 13, 2008 10:43 AM Subject: Serious help needed To: suhitkelkar(a)gmail.com Cc: matias(a)urbanology.org Dear Suhit, Many apologies for taking your time again! But I urgently need help and felt that you would be in the best position to help us with this. For the Koliwada workshop (and we are racing against time on that!) we urgently need a professional programmer. If you could forward this following job-description to your friends who are in this field, we will be very very grateful! Please do treat this as urgent. warmly, Rahul Professional Programmer Needed: Open source - Wikimedia Project We are currently looking for an experimented programmer, fluent in html and PHP, AJAX and C# a definite plus for a 3 months project starting immediately. The successful candidate will be working in close collaboration with other programmers based in San Diego (US) and a team of urbanists and social scientists based in Mumbai and Tokyo. The work will consist in customizing and adding new functions (such as video) to an existing open source wikimedia system. The system will be used by the residents of a neighbourhood in Mumbai and eventually put at the service of other communities. Knowledge of Marathi a plus. Location is irrelevant, although the programmer should be ready to travel to Mumbai a couple of times. Compensation commensurate with experience. Send CV and/or work samples to urbz08(a)gmail.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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KDE4 live CD: the latest of KDE + the latest of Fedora
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

http://www.deadbabylon.de/blog/2008/01/11/livecd-for-rawhide-with-kde-400/ "Today is the release day of KDE 4.0.0. The packages should find their way into the repository soon or they are already there. What's missing is another live image to test the new stable version of KDE without the need of installing rawhide." Here is the ISO and its checksum: http://www.fedoraforum.de/iso/test/rawhide-KDE4-i686-20080109/rawhide-KDE4-… http://www.fedoraforum.de/iso/test/rawhide-KDE4-i686-20080109/rawhide-KDE4-… Cheers, Debarshi -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU) * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP)

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In support of OLPC
by Rony 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hello All, Here is an interesting POV for those who are sceptical about OLPC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7138061.stm -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [OT] Fwd: [Gnu-arch-users] dear colleagues
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray <debarshi.ray(a)gmail.com> Date: Jan 10, 2008 4:14 PM Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [OT] Fwd: [Gnu-arch-users] dear colleagues To: ILUG-Cal's principal mailing list <ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org> One of the GNU Arch authors have lost his car. Regards, Debarshi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thomas Lord <lord(a)emf.net> Date: 10 Jan 2008 16:53 Subject: [Gnu-arch-users] dear colleagues To: gnu-arch-users <gnu-arch-users(a)gnu.org> Well, perfect end to a fucked up decade...... Really exciting night! Someone came pounding on my door to call me outside. Turns out, someone has totaled my car while it was parked on the street for the night. Why is this exciting? Because I can't walk much at the moment and that car was vital to day to day survival. I wonder how I'll manage to get groceries tomorrow. Wait, it gets better. Being poor, I'm fully paid up and current on lowest available rate insurance. So, I called the claims number tonight and, an experience familiar from the open source world, the number is disconnected. Watch us drown. If anyone would like to help either please do so or pass this message along to someone sensitive who can. Time is of the essence, if anyone happens to give a damn. -t _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users(a)gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/ -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU) * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP) _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list Ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Press interview
by alpesh gajbe 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

A recent interview of FSF Chairman in enterpriser.in on Swatantra software. http://www.enterpriser.in/India/Questions_n_Answers/Proprietary_Software_is… With Regards Alpesh

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[COMMERCIAL] MySQL session at OSIW; let's design the programme together
by Atanu Datta 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hi all! MySQL will conduct a session in Bangalore and Delhi during the OSIW (Open Source India Week) where they want feedback on the topics the attendees will be interested in knowing more about. Following are a few topics that came forth when we were cooking the programme with MySQL's David Axmark and Brian Aker. 1. Zero hassles transition from MS Access/Oracle to MySQL 2. How to do Stored Procedures, Triggers & Views in MySQL 3. How to write storage engines for MySQL Those are some of the things that our DBA wants to know more about. Obviously, there should be many more topics that you all want covered or wanna discuss. Please throw your ideas, we'll put all of 'em in the melting pot, and hand it over to the Brian so that he can design the final programme. Best, Atanu Datta Team LFY

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Usefull Titbits.
by Rony 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hello All, Here are some useful softwares you can use. 1. http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm The Smart Boot Manager is a floppy image that can be burned into a floppy to make it a universal boot utility. I discovered it accidentally in the Xbuntu 6.10 CD ( smb.bin ) when trying to run it on an old Celeron 300, 64 MB RAM machine that had a CD ROM but could not boot it due to the old BIOS. The beauty of this utility is that it lists everything that is bootable, including all HDD partitions and you simply select the required device and hit enter. It eliminates the need for dedicated boot floppies for every distro CD. It was usefull in installing Etch-Xfce on that machine. 2. http://www.blogbridge.com/ This is an open source RSS reader that can be installed in your system so you don't need to let third party reader web sites know what you are reading. Simply download the tar.gz package and run it directly. Do your own tweaking. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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greetings from a new member!
by Suhit Kelkar 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hello fellow gnus, I'm Suhit Kelkar, freelance journalist currently working with the research group PUKAR, and avid gnu enthusiast. (I use Mandriva 2008 now, and for the past three years have relied on free software for my writing work. I'm now pushing for it in my office.) Here's wishing you freedom in the new year. I look forward to catching up with you in the linuxers meeting. May I know the time of the next one, please, so I may make your acquaintance? Regards, Suhit.

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Photos of first OLPC pilot in India
by Venkatesh Hariharan 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

As 2007 was drawing to a close, I got a chance to visit the OLPC deployment in Khairat, India. This deployment is supported by Reliance, one of the largest industrial groups in India. I have uploaded photos from the visit and added a small description to each photo. These are at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/venky7/sets/72157603606772250/ I look forward to your comments, feedback, brickbats etc... Venky

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[Commercial] Linux CDs/DVDs at low prices.
by Amit Joshi 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

I am planning to sell Linux CDs/DVDs on an on-demand download basis. CDs -- Rs.20 and DVDs -- Rs.40. I already have a few Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu CDs that I wish to give away freely. I shall charge Rs.10 flat rate throughout Mumbai for every 3 CDs/DVDs. Payment and contact details shall be mailed to interested parties. :) Regards, Amit.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linuxers Digest, Vol 57, Issue 3
by Venkatesh Hariharan 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Chetan S" <cshring(a)gmail.com> > Great news indeed. > > Just a question : Have all the features including wifi been enabled too ? > Yes. It has a mesh network and the students use it to chat among themselves, share photos etc. > I admire this laptop for its robustness and the wonderful idea of > making students fix its problems. > > Can you detail the support level offered in this case ? Am sure there > is only marginal one ( a good thing ) as Negroponte rightly expects > students to fix the problems and learn while doing that. There is a team from Reliance that is supporting the OLPCs. Amit who is a Linux admin for Reliance and a few others regularly visit the site and fix the OLPCs. > What customizations have been made in this case considering they have > been given to Indian students ? Or is it the original stuff. None. It has the Sugar interface that is based on Fedora that is customises specially for children. This was built by the OLPC team and Red Hat along with others. One OLPC is now in the Pune center of Red Hat where some of the localization will happen. Interestingly, the students are Marathi medium students and not all of them use English fluently but they use the OLPC features quite well. Venky

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[Announce] Linuxchix Mumbai Meetup
by Barkha Khatri 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Hi All, A few Linuxchix.org.in members are meeting up in Mumbai on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at Cafe Coffee Day, Dadar. Meeting is open for everyone interested to join Linuxchix India. More details have been put up on the wiki.[1] Regards, Barkha. [1] http://www.linuxchix.org.in/wiki/index.php/CityMeetMumbai

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] .. Photos of first OLPC pilot in India
by jtd 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

On Friday 04 January 2008 13:31, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: > As 2007 was drawing to a close, I got a chance to visit the OLPC > deployment in Khairat, India. This deployment is supported by > Reliance, one of the largest industrial groups in India. I have > uploaded photos from the visit and added a small description to > each photo. These are at: Are they available in India? like the G1G1 schme in US and Eu. > http://www.flickr.com/photos/venky7/sets/72157603606772250/ > > I look forward to your comments, feedback, brickbats etc... > > Venky -- Rgds JTD

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] tata indicom online payment
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

> The Problem: The payment section of the site doesnt work in firefox and > works fine in internet explorer. I am a Tata Indicom subscriber from Kolkata. I use one of their 2Mbps plans. Recently I renewed the connection by making an online payment using a credit card and it worked fine. I am sure I used Firefox to do that, and can not remember any problems. Can you please elaborate on the exact problem? I will keep an eye open for it the next I make an online payment. ;-) Cheers, Debarshi

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tata indicom online payment
by Satish Alwani 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Hey, Alrite, I wanted to let you guys know that I've been using TATA Indicom Broadband, since quite some time, and well, they have this option to make online payments. Interestingly its been over 3 months of complaining and they still cant rectify the problem. The best part is the problem is extremely stupid. The Problem: The payment section of the site doesnt work in firefox and works fine in internet explorer. Honestly, Im so overwhelmed with the stupidity and idiocracy, I just had to share this IE experience. Perhaps, someone can talk some sense into their twisted js coder. Regards, Satish Alwani

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Devnagari Phonetic Input
by Aniket Bharaswadkar 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Hello All Wish you all a Very Happy New year Its been a long time since I posted to the list. I have been using fedora as my distribution. Currently on fedora 8. I used the ISIS applet for Devnagari text input in Gnome and I must say its a really great piece of software , its really impressive. http://www.bangla.name/isis/ But I noticed that there is no way to use the applet in KDE. I would really like to use this applet in KDE. I have friends who use linux too , and all of them work primarily with KDE. So can anyone please guide me as to how to use the applet in kde. If that is not possible, I was wondering if it is possible that the applet can be "ported" to KDE by the kde.in team? That would give a real boost to local-language computer use in linux. In KDE I tried using the keymaps (IN keymap -> Bolnagri variant for phonetic) options available in Kcontrol Centre , but the problem is that its mapping is not "really "phonetic" and efficient and fast as the ISIS Applet provides, atleast for me. Regards Aniket V Bharaswadkar Linux mymachine 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 #1 SMP Fri Dec 7 15:49:59 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Dell Vostro 1400 , C2D , Nvidia 8400 , Intel 3945 ABG ,

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GLUG-BOM Activity
by Rony 29 Dec '07

29 Dec '07

Hello All, Off late there seems to be very little happenning in Mumbai's GLUG activities. Even on the list there are hardly any technical discussions taking place. Are people loosing interest? -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Is it possible to write Unicode/ASCII characters directly in any text editor in Linux?
by Kamaleshwar Morjal 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

Hi all, I had a small problem with entering some ASCII and Unicode characters that are not available on the normal keyboard (En-US). Right now I have to use the character map to get those characters but that makes it really slow to work with such text. Is there a simpler, faster way to enter such characters using their ASCII or Unicode values directly in a text editor (I use gedit/kwrite/kate et al but would like to know a universal method, if it exists, that works with all the editors including the command line ones..). For example, in Windoze you can enter any ASCII character by holding down Alt - typing out the ASCII value of that character - then releasing Alt - the character is inserted at the cursor. I am currently using Gutsy Gibbon. Any help on this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks and regards. -- "Best things in the world are free; FREEDOM is priceless!" kamaleshwar morjal (कमलेश्वर मोरजाल) http://kamalx.livejournal.com/

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Linksys Router WRT54G v8 - Purchase/Use in India?
by Ayush Gupta 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

Hi Linksys has released v8 of their immensely popular WRT54G Wi-Fi router. The v8 series have a serial number starting with CDFF or CDFG as against the CDFE serial numbers used for v7. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G). The v7 router prevalent in the Indian market currently has Atheros chipset and the firmware cannot be replaced by third party open source firmware such as DD-WRT etc. This is not the case with the v8 router. These use Broadcom chipset and hence, third party firmware can be installed on them. I want to know if anyone has purchased or used the WRT54G v8 router in India? Also, have you tried to replace the firmware? Did you need any patches etc? I want to purchase WRT54G v8 but I cant find any shop that is selling one. Everyone is selling v7 only. In case you know of any dealer or shop that is selling v8, please send me their contact information so that I may purchase the same. With Warm Regards Ayush Gupta Phone : +91 99711 53393

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Etch-Xfce the little BOMB.
by Rony 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hello All, Someone wanted to install a light weight linux distro on his P2 hardware with 64 MB RAM. The Debian docs showed that the lowest RAM for Etch is 64 MB for Gnome/KDE desktops. However for lighter requirements, Etch with Xfce desktop would be fine. Next, downloaded Debian Etch-Xfce single CD iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r1-i386-xfc… and burned it into a CD. At the boot prompt, the help menu's installation guide mentioned that at least 32 MB of RAM is required for this distro. The target system has 64 MB. Before actual deployment that is yet to take place, I installed it in my system to test it out. Installation was smooth. The internet was kept switched off to load everything from the CD itself. It logged into a simple cute desktop that resembles Gnome and Mac. The top task bar of gnome and the bottom menu bar of mac. It comes preloaded with Iceweasel, the libre version of Firefox. The two missing packages were OpenOffice and IceDove (libre sibling of thunderbird). The volume control and net monitor icon was added to the top panel. Not expecting much from the distro, just for kicks I tried to play some music files and to my utter surprise it played all of them, like wma, mp3. More surprises, it played mov, 3gp and even my DVD out of the box. W-O-W! No hassles of setting up repos and downloading extra codecs and libs. A very good feature for no-internet type installation. It does not auto-mount CDs and DVDs but thats no problem, just manually mount it wherever you want to. Mounting it to /media/cdrom0 is just fine. The inbuilt media player can manually add the DVD to its playlist and play it. The tricky part is with OpenOffice. The distro has a base installation of OO but its not complete and does not run. It has no icons in the menu listing. I tried it in command line using openoffice -writer or -calc but it would give errors of no JRE installed. However that is not the real problem which I found after installing sun-java5-jre. The bundled OO is a base package only. For package downloads, first simply add the debian repos to the apt sources.lst. After an apt-get update, install synaptic, a gui for apt. Please note that this distro is more gnome oriented so avoid installing KDE based apps. as that will require heavy downloads of the KDE environment. Then scroll to the openoffice part in the list and select both packages for complete removal. Then manually install the complete deb packages (using sudo dpkg -i *.deb ) of OO from their site. I had the folder saved from my last Etch-KDE installation that needed these packages too. After installation OO did not start and got lost half way. However, a reboot of the system was all that was needed to get it up and running. It opens a default empty window for where we can select New -> Text/HTML/Spreadsheet/Presentation etc. Then icedove was added using apt-get and thats all. A simple and fast installation of the latest multi-media ready distro core with a light-weight desktop. Later will post results from the actual installation on-site. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Fwd: Presenting our next FreeIndian: Anant Narayan
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roshan <d_rosh2001(a)yahoo.co.in> Date: Dec 23, 2007 5:43 PM Subject: Presenting our next FreeIndian: Anant Narayan To: Chennai ILUG <ilugc(a)ae.iitm.ac.in>, Delhi ILUG <ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org>, Ubuntu India <ubuntu-in(a)lists.ubuntu.com>, PLUG <plug-mail(a)plug.org.in>, kde-india(a)kde.org List, FreeIndian is all about introducing Indian FOSS contributors to the world. Individuals listed here contribute to various Free and Open Source projects. They include programmers, artists, translators, FOSS advocates, maintainers, packagers and many other direct or indirect FOSS contributors. Read on to know what Indian FOSS developers are all about, how they entered the realm of FOSS, how much time they spend on it, what are their opinions about FOSS, and what are their likes and dislikes. FreeIndian is based loosely on the format of BehindKDE, which features KDE developers across the world. Our current interviews features one more [http://code.google.com/soc Google Summer of Code GSoC] candidate who got involved in PHP initially, learned it alongside his course at Jaipur. He's a native Chennai-aite, born in Delhi and is pursuing his education in Jaipur. Read the interview, to know more about Gentoo user, here. http://kde.in/index.php/Anant_Narayan Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Network driver problem
by PV Sundarram 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hi luggers, I am trying to install etch on a system with asus p5gc-mx motherboard which has a inbuilt network card. In the installation phase, it is not detecting the network card. Has any one faced a similar problem and solved the issue? Thanks, Sundarram P.V.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] ftp error: 500 invalid port connection
by Agnello George 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

On 12/22/07, Benoy George <bgenix(a)gmail.com> wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [ILUG-BOM] ftp error: 500 invalid port connection > From: Agnello George <agnello.dsouza(a)gmail.com> > To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> > Date: Friday 14 December 2007 04:58:39 PM IST > > > HI > > I am trying to access a ftp server . I am able to connect to it with the > > user name and password. However when i connect to the server and do a dir i > > get the following error. > > > > C:\Documents and Settings\Admin>ftp XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX > > Connected to XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX > > 220 Microsoft FTP Service > > User (XXX.XX.XXX.XXX:(none)): user-name > > 331 Password required for user-name > > Password: > > 230 User user-name logged in. > > ftp> dir > > 500 Invalid PORT Command. > > 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. > > I got a fire wall running and i have opened port 21, The entry in the > > iptables is as follows . > > > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 21 -j > > ACCEPT > > > > why am i getting the error ?? when i am able to ftp to other ftp site with > > out authentication ( like ftp://202.96.64.144/pub/ ) > > > > Thanks !! > > Sorry for the late reply, since I am not marking to the list. > From your previous thread I have noticed that you have not > added ftp-data port(20) to the policy. > > see > $cat /etc/services | grep -i ^ftp > on your linux machine. > > and try with > #modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp > > But still sometime we are getting errors with ftp service from > M$ platforms. > > best regards > Benoy > Thanks for all the answers but here is what i did Passive ftp A PORT command is again issued, but this time it is from the server to the client. The client connects to the server for data transfer. Since the connection is in the same sense as the original ftp connection, passive ftp is inherently more secure than active ftp, but note that this time we know even less about the port numbers. Now we have a connection between almost arbitrary port numbers. Enter the ip_conntrack_ftp module once more. Again, this module is able to recognize the PORT command and pick-out the port number. Instead of NEW in the state match for the OUTPUT chain, we can use RELATED. The following rules will suffice: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 1024: --dport 1024: -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 1024: --dport 1024: -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT add the following to the kernel modprobe ip_nat_ftp -- Agnello . G .Dsouza

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unable to access http://manage.resellerclub.com/reseller throgh firewall
by Agnello George 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

HI I have a Linux based fire wall ( iptables) that allow access to client on the Internet, I have current allowed all ports open both incoming and out going . I can access all site and all ports accept the site http://manage.resellerclub.com/reseller or http://manage.answerable.com/kb ( which i currently really important site for a dept in my company ) . i have no error logs to work with ... no logs what so ever .... except it give me page cannot be displayed on the browser. I had squid configured on my sever but have current stoped it . This problem has occurred since yesterday i flushed the cache ( # > /var/spool/squid/swap.state) but i don't think that should be a problem since i stoped squid !! . How do i go about troubleshooting this issue ?? Thanks -- Agnello . G .Dsouza email : agnello.dsouza(a)gmail.com agnello(a)qualispace.com www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com www.study-the-word.blogspot.com

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[Commercial] : Management institute needs Linux support engineer
by Koustubha Kale 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

Hi All, A large Management institute needs Linux support engineer for supporting a server cluster and about 150 thin clients plus few desktops. All on Centos. RHCE will be a distinct advantage. Excellent career prospects for qualified candidate. Please contact me directly if interested. -- Regards, Koustubha Kale

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[OT][Job/Freelance] Need for PHP programmer for Khoj Studios
by Parthan S R 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, A friend of mine is looking for a freelance programmer who can work with an interesting project in Drupal/PHP. Interested people may contact him directly. Details regarding the project are as follows. *if not able to reach him, do not mind pinging me :) - -------- Original Message -------- *Developer working in PHP needed for Khoj Studios* Khoj is an international artist led initiative based out of Delhi that concentrates on cutting edge art practices and collaborating artists and organisations from Asia to build a strong platform of contemporary art practices in the region. As a part of its extended outreach and ambition to reach out to new and remotely located artists, Khoj is looking at building a strong online presence that enables artist participation for community building and extensive professional networking with other Khoj nodes in the networks. The Khoj CRECHE (Comprehensive Resource for E-Community Hosting and Expansion) project was envisioned a year ago to achieve these ambitions. In one year, it has completed the first of the three phases of implementation (www.khojworkshop.org <http://www.khojworkshop.org/>) using PHP based Drupal CMS. We are looking at young and motivated programmers who have experience working with Drupal or are comfortable with PHP and can work with Drupal to implement the second phase of the CRECHE project at extremely competitive market rates. The programmer can be based in or outside of Delhi and can agree to work full-time or part-time depending upon their time availability. If you are interested in the project, please get in touch with Pooja Sood (Phone: +91-11-65655874, +91-11-65655873. E-mail: interact(a)khojworkshop.org <mailto:interact@khojworkshop.org>) Or Nishant Shah (Phone: +91-0-9740074884. E-mail: itsnishant(a)gmail.com <mailto:itsnishant@gmail.com> - -- Nishant Shah Ph.D. Student, CSCS, Bangalore. Project Manager, COMAT, Bangalore. # 0-9740074884 - -- With Regards, Parthan aka Technofreak [web] http://technofreak.in [blog] blog.technofreak.in [photos] photos.technofreak.in [irc] teKnofreak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) [mobile] BLR +919845446647 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHaQNEk4vYYS/wECYRAmugAJ9W7fd4xapY/IZWquBCNervDCGvNwCeOS9r Uz7oh6FJqAeqEuxPKwvY9Vs= =w/kn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[OT] HTML5 Working Group Rejects Open Media Formats
by Kamaleshwar Morjal [कम लेश्व र मो रजाल] 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

Hi Linuxers, I got this recent Sitepoint newsletter ( issue 180 ) that appears worth sharing. Where are the web-standards leading? Will these DRM kingpins always keep playing with standards and making things ever more difficult for the developer who is the one finally affected by this 'dog-fight for the biggest slice of bread'. Its a really sad realization that the wealthiest businesses in the Industry have the cheapest of ways and policies; the two things, apparently, can never be mutually exclusive! [quote src='sitepoint'] First up, after selecting Ogg Vorbis audio and Ogg Theora video as the standard formats for multimedia in HTML5, the HTML Working Group backed down under pressure from Apple and Nokia, removing these formats from the spec. Faced with the prospect of yet another version of HTML with no clear standard for including multimedia content, developers were up in arms. Then, while all our backs were turned, Opera filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission over the company's tying of Internet Explorer to Windows, and its persistent failure to support web standards in IE. Instantly, pundits began trading theories over whether the complaint had merit, or was simply an irresponsible publicity stunt from Opera. [/quote] [quote src='[1]'] Nokia and Apple have succeeded in removing Ogg Vorbis and Theora from the current draft, citing patent uncertainties (read: a reluctance to back a standard that has no provision for including DRM). Manuel Amador has detailed why he believes the decision to omit these open formats to be an "outrageous disaster:" "(Given) the fact that there are widely available patent-free implementations of Ogg technology, there is really no excuse for Apple and Nokia to say that they couldn't in good faith implement HTML5 as previously formulated." [/quote] Full story at [1] [1] http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/viewissue.php?id=3&issue=180&format=htm… -- "Ignorance is short-lived, knowledge is forever!" -- Anonymous kamaleshwar morjal (कमलेश्वर मोरजाल) http://kamalx.livejournal.com/

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how to block yahoo chat and gtalk from squid proxy
by Agnello George 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

how do i block a client from accessing yahoo chat My current set ups is as follows -- have a firewall and behind it have a proxy server running on port 3128. now to block yahoo chat access i did the following in my squid.conf acl special_url url_regex -i chat.yahoo.com|messenger.yahoo.com http_access deny special_url but this still allows clients to log to yahoo chat . Do i need to block certain ports , and if so which ones Thank you !! -- Agnello . G .Dsouza email : agnello.dsouza(a)gmail.com agnello(a)qualispace.com www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com www.study-the-word.blogspot.com

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Today's Economic Times poll on Free Software (Please Vote)
by Venkatesh Hariharan 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

Today's Economic Times has an online poll that asks, "Should India support free software to take PC penetration to the next level?" Please login to www.economictimes.com and scroll down to the voting section on the right hand side of the web page and vote "Yes." This vote will be on only today, so please vote at the earliest.

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Ruby On Rails screencasts available
by Prashant Shah 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

I have downloaded the entire Ruby on Rails screencast collection from http://railscasts.com/ Its around 1.5 GB. Email me on pshah.mumbai AT gmail.com if someone wants it (no charges for it). -- Elite System. A open source company http://www.freewebs.com/elitemumbai/index.htm elite.mumbai(a)gmail.com

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GPL vs BSD, a matter of sustainability
by Praveen A 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

Hi, This is not to start another flame war. We have had this debate earlier and when I saw this blog nicely summarising the issue, I thought I should share it here. http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2007/12/15/gpl-vs-bsd-a-mat… "The BSD gives greater freedom, the GPL gives more freedom. Choose which one you value more." Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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unable to configure two gateways
by Agnello George 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

HI I have installed cent OS on one PC with 2 network cards eth0 and eth1 eth0 is 192.168.0.244 and eth1 is 10.0.0.1 my gateway to access the net is 192.168.0.254 In order that the 10.X network range can access the internet i added the a route # route add -net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 gw 192.168.0.254 And ""route -n"" gives me the following resulth [root@squid ~]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 10.0.0.0 192.168.0.254 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 My resolv.conf file looks like this search linuxbox.com nameserver 203.199.113.44 nameserver 203.199.113.27 Now is have one client with ip 10.0.0.5 , when i try to ping 10.0.0.5 ( following is the result ). I am neither able to ping 10.0.0.1 from my client machine ( 10.0.0.5 ) . My firewall is stoped and SElinux is disabled. [root@squid ~]# ping 10.0.0. 8 PING 10.0.0.8 (10.0.0.8) 56(84) bytes of data. >From 203.199.24.154 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >From 203.199.24.154 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable >From 203.199.24.154 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable >From 203.199.24.154 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable >From 203.199.24.154 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable >From 203.199.24.154 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable >From 203.199.24.154 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable too wired !! from where did i get this IP address ( 203.199.24.154 ) ??? so finally my question is , how is it possible to route traffic through another network class ? Thanks ! really appreciate all the help this forum provides -- Agnello . G .Dsouza [Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile ]

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fossconf update
by Kenneth Gonsalves 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

hi, things are progressing well for fossconf. You can see the talks proposed so far here http://registration.fossconf.in/web/talks/ - and not a *single* junk talk so far. This is a good opportunity for first time speakers to share their work and get experience in talking. Keep em coming guys! -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/

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Boot problem in Fedora core 7
by Debasish Das 15 Dec '07

15 Dec '07

Hello Friends, I use Fedora core 7 in my laptop. I am getting a pecuiliar problem. The problem is that when I choose fedora from grub menu, sometimes my machine does not boot. It just hangs. It has no problem for other distros which are installed in my machine. When I had fedora core 6 I never faced this problem. I am confused. Is it any issue with acpi? If it's a hardware problem then it should happen with all the other distros. Can anybody help me out of this problem? Thanks in advance. Regards, Debasish

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ftp error: 500 invalid port connection
by Agnello George 14 Dec '07

14 Dec '07

HI I am trying to access a ftp server . I am able to connect to it with the user name and password. However when i connect to the server and do a dir i get the following error. C:\Documents and Settings\Admin>ftp XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Connected to XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 220 Microsoft FTP Service User (XXX.XX.XXX.XXX:(none)): user-name 331 Password required for user-name Password: 230 User user-name logged in. ftp> dir 500 Invalid PORT Command. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. I got a fire wall running and i have opened port 21, The entry in the iptables is as follows . -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT why am i getting the error ?? when i am able to ftp to other ftp site with out authentication ( like ftp://202.96.64.144/pub/ ) Thanks !! -- Agnello . G .Dsouza email : agnello.dsouza(a)gmail.com agnello(a)qualispace.com www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com www.study-the-word.blogspot.com

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[OT] pacenet + wifi + voip
by Harsh Busa 14 Dec '07

14 Dec '07

hi folks i m planning to switch to pacenet isp . i do know it is possible to setup pacenet for linux box but wanted inputs on following 1) setting up pacenet with wifi . i have usr wifi access point and a wifi netgear router 2) using voip service like vonage with pacenet. any help will be appreciated harsh -- __________________________ http://www.ebackend.com/blog

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[Commercial] Urgent: Require PHP Programmers/CMS Specialists
by Janani Gopalakrishnan 14 Dec '07

14 Dec '07

Hi, A friend is looking out... very urgently... for a PHP Programmer/CMS Specialist in Mumbai. In specific, he is looking out for help with a Drupal and Moodle installation to be done asap. If anybody is interested please call Sanjeev Sarma at 9820003103. Thanks, Janani ----------------------------------------------------- Janani Gopalakrishnan Vikram http://gjanani.googlepages.com ----------------------------------------------------- 'i.t.' magazine's vision is to leverage the potential of "Innovative India". The subject selection and handling are in line with what venture capitalists, technopreneurs, CTOs and researchers would need to know to make wise decisions. Essentially, a magazine on "information.technology.today.tomorrow" for those who need to know... and those to want to know! Check out www.itmagz.com

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Domain renewal
by Anurag 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

Hello! Our domain "glug-bom.org" has been renewed for next 9 years. Many thanks to Devdas and Gaurav for following this up, and to DirectI for sponsoring the domain. Also, thanks to Space-Kerala for sponsoring server and bandwidth for the website and mailing list. Anurag -- http://web.gnuer.org/

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problem with konsole
by Pradnyesh Sawant 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

Hello, I have a queer problem. I'm using debian etch with kde. I'm facing this problem in the "konsole" application wherein if the command, etc that I'm typing overflows into the next line, it does not do a 'carriage feed' (so to say), instead the new text overwrites the currently existing text in the same line... Any ideas how I may fix this problem? -- warm regards, Pradnyesh Sawant -- If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. --Sir Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675

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squid query -- denying a particular group a specific sites , bandwidth
by Agnello George 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

HI I have just configured a squid proxy server. I have created a group called marketing and allowed http access to that particular group ( following is my config ) acl marketing src "/etc/squid/marketing.squid" http_access allow marketing ########################################### how ever i now need to give certain permission to the group *"marketing "* ( like disallowing access to certain sites ... limiting bandwidth to this group ) How is this possible ? Can some one please help me here !! Thank you !!! -- Agnello . G .Dsouza

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S/W to record data from GPS to PC
by H.S.Rai 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Some students made GPS, which has display on LCD and serial port. Now they want to record data in a file on PC. For this can you suggest software, preferably platform independent and FOSS. Thanks in advance. -- H.S.Rai

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Linux & FOSS workshop held at Acharya Narendra Dev College (Delhi University) & formation of College LUG
by Sudhir Gandotra 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

LINUX & FOSS WORKSHOP ORGANIZED BY : ACHARYA NARENDRA DEV COLLEGE, jointly with OPENLX LINUX Venue : Acharya Narendra Dev College, Govindpuri, New Delhi. Date : 6 & 7 December 2007. Time : 0930 to 1730 hrs. detailed report with pictures are at : www.openlx.com/andc/ Peace, Force & Joy! Sudhir Gandotra. 98-101-20918 IIPL: B-220/2, 2nd Fl., Savitri Nagar, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi 110017, India 1/G, Shrikrishna Sansthan Building, Bistupur, Jamshedpur 831001, India Phone : +91-11-26014670, 71, 72. Fax : +91-11-26014672 OpenLX Linux OS, Linux Training, Support, Services, Product Development Legal.Software @ Fractional Cost : http://kalculate.com http://openlx.com - International Alliance of LINUX companies You don't need violence to shake the world Treat Others As You Would Have Them Treat You www.humanistmovement.org

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Help reuired
by sushant.chaudhari＠ril.com 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

Hello, I am facing problem in sending mail from client end getting error SMTP server not responding checked it found that at server end (qmail) cpu utilization is high like avarage above 75 % with load average is also more than 2 also found spam db size is always 400 Mb which is always constant ..please suggest what is the reason for high CPU utilization / or because of spam mails takes to scan those mails. Regards "Confidentiality Warning: This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s), are confidential, and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, re-transmission, conversion to hard copy, copying, circulation or other use of this message and any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return email, and delete this message and any attachments from your system. Virus Warning: Although the company has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the use of this email or attachment."

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New Seagate Drives Have Real Difficulties With Linux.
by Vishakh Thomas 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/09/0651200&from=rss -- VpT

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Fwd: <NO>OOXML: Your action is required: Contact BIS now!
by Dinesh Shah 09 Dec '07

09 Dec '07

List, FYI and possible action? With regards, ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion(a)ffii.org> Date: Dec 6, 2007 11:29 PM Subject: <NO>OOXML: Your action is required: Contact BIS now! To: dineshah(a)gmail.com Dear Dinesh Shah, You signed the <NO>OOXML petition, a movement backed now by more than 70.000 supporters worldwide. Our effort to influence the OOXML (Office Open XML) standardization process has been an astonishing success so far. We aim for at least 100.000 signatures in February when the Geneva Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) will convene with the aim to resolve comments. Microsoft is trying by all means to get its "standard" adopted without substantial changes despite of its thousands of officially reported technical flaws and the pre-existence of ISO 26300:2006 (OpenDocument, ODF) as the most appropriate international standard for the representation of office documents. By next Tuesday Dec 11 2007 delegates from your National Standards Body BIS who will participate in the BRM have to be announced to ISO. At least Portugal and Ireland will be represented by Microsoft. In many other countries, we know that Microsoft gold partners are proposing themselves as heads of national delegations. Many of them will prevail if we do not take action. Will you let Microsoft represent your country at Geneva and decide the future of OOXML? You can make a difference and call now BIS at +91-1123237991 and help us to find out: a. Who will represent BIS on DIS 29500 at the Ballot Resolution Meeting in Geneva? b. When will the decision on delegates be made and if BIS is aware of the Dec 11 deadline? c. Does your national delegates for the BRM are independent enough from Microsoft? d. Does the responsible Committee of BIS for DIS 29500 work on resolution proposals for all the 3500 comments tabled or - if at all - only for the national comments that they submitted? Please report your findings by replying to this email, we will update this page with the members of each national delegation: http://www.noooxml.org/brm More things that you can do to help our effort against this broken standard proposal: 1. Join our mailing list and get in touch with many other activists: http://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/noooxml-club 2. Become a member of FFII, the worldwide association leading the <NO>OOXML campaign: http://action.ffii.org/member_application 3. Become a member of DIGISTAN, the organization for the promotion of true digital open standards worldwide; please indicate your interests to: members(a)digistan.org 4. Blog about OOXML which shapes the public debate; blogging has been instrumental to our success in Sweden for example; 5. support our campaign work with financial means: http://www.noooxml.org/donations Best regards, -- Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion(a)ffii.org> <NO>OOXML Campaign leader -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Join the Revolution!

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USB tvtuner
by jtd 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

has anyone used a usb tvtuner on linux? Any pointers ? -- Rgds JTD

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The Linux Delhi Hall Of Shame: Resurrected
by Kumar Appaiah 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Dear Linuxers, I am working on resurrecting the erstwhile Linux Delhi Hall Of Shame, which lists a set of (typically Indian or useful to Indian) websites which are not standards compliant, in the sense that they are designed to work with specific proprietary software applications or operating systems. Full details of criteria and current list of sites in the Hall of Shame are available here: http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/HallOfShame I would request you to familiarize yourself with the criteria which warrant additions to the list, and add relevant sites to the list as well. If you do not want to edit the Wiki yourself, please mail me and I shall add the site to the Wiki. I appreciate your comments and suggestions. Please help in making this effort a success. Thanks are due to Raj "Raju" Mathur of Linux Delhi for his advice in helping me get this done. Thank you. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036

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doubt with mutt/fetchmail
by Pradnyesh Sawant 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Hello, I'm using fetchmail+procmail+mutt with pop3 for my gmail accounts. I'm also not deleting messages that are being downloaded from gmail. However, is there any way to sync up my local image and the one on gmail? I mean, if I read/delete a message on my local box, then the corresponding message should also be read/deleted on gmail. I know that imap is a better alternative for that; however, before I start using imap, I have the following doubts: 1. can I d'load the mails permanently so that they may be accessible offline too? 2. I think I can do the above if I use mutt directly with imap instead of going through fetchmail, but then how do I filter messages (how do I use procmail in this setup) 3. even if I use mutt directly, will mutt sync back with gmail? I know that one can use thunderbird/kmail to do this kind of stuff. my query is how does one do this using fetchmail+procmail+mutt? Thanks... -- warm regards, Pradnyesh Sawant -- Work expands so as to fill the time available for it's completion. --Parkinson's law

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[OT] OSSCamp Delhi
by vivek khurana 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hi! all, Please to announce second OSSCamp Delhi on 15th and 16th of December 2007. For more details please visit http://www.osscamp.in/OSSCampDelhi2/index.php?title=OSS_Camp_Delhi Those who are coming please register at http://www.osscamp.in/OSSCampDelhi2/index.php?title=Campers If you are interested in giving a presentation please register http://www.osscamp.in/OSSCampDelhi2/index.php?title=Topics Hoping to see you all at OSSCamp Delhi. regards VK

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Viruses Anyone?
by Rony 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hello All, In Linux, I am trying to download InfraRecorder from sourceforge, a libre CD/DVD writer for different platforms. The file I want is an exe for the windows platform. However, when I directly save it to a mounted vfat partition, it is saved as abcd.exe.bin The .bin is added automatically so it cannot be double clicked and run. When I save it to a linux partition, it is saved as abcd.exe During the day, I was working on a windows machine in a user's office and when I selected a particular software for download, immediately the system rebooted and the virus infection being deep, had to be finally removed with a clean install. At the end of the day I selected another file for download from download dot com, and just as I clicked on the download link, it went into reboot. It was the same infection, but this time I shut down the internet before it booted up again and could restore the system to an earlier date. I want to know if all these things are connected and is there some major infection going around? Sourceforge could be using Linux servers, but I feel too scared to download anything for a week or two for windows, even if it is libre software. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Dot article on KDE PD @ FOSS.IN and new KDE- India Website
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

Hi, Enjoy! [1] and [2] [1]http://dot.kde.org/1196683982/ [2]http://www.kde.in Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Fwd: [Free Map] Free and Open Mapping India, A Series of Workshops in February 2008
by Nagarjuna G. 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

please read this announcement, and if you want to be part of this, please subscribe to the list so that we can take it forward. http://freemap.in/pipermail/freemap-workshop/2007-December/000150.html Also request you to spread the information. please help us to raise some funds as well so that this event will take off. donations can be sent to Free Software Foundation of India. Nagarjuna

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] .. slides on FOSS
by jtd 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

On Saturday 01 December 2007 12:02, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Friends, > > we have created some slides on FOSS. FOSS jobs GIS is missing. -- Rgds JTD

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] .. slides on FOSS
by jtd 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

On Saturday 01 December 2007 12:02, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Friends, > > we have created some slides on FOSS. > > Access them at > Loved the oensource intro idlis , except for the term opensource. FOSS is definetly better. some minor quibbles: Foss History pg 14 Commercial distributions: include support. Sources are free but usually not binaries. Both source and binaries are distributable. However distros obtained without payment to the original company / franchises cannot avail of support. So the sentence should be removed as the clarifications will be complicated. And the first sentence should be rewritten as Include paid support. -- Rgds JTD

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help
by sushant.chaudhari＠ril.com 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

I am facing problem in qmail that from client side takes time to send mail getting error SMTP connection failed. checked found that spamd taking more time to release mails. Please provide solution how to realease spamd . "Confidentiality Warning: This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s), are confidential, and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, re-transmission, conversion to hard copy, copying, circulation or other use of this message and any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return email, and delete this message and any attachments from your system. Virus Warning: Although the company has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the use of this email or attachment."

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Fwd: volunteers for Teacher Training Programmes
by Kenneth Gonsalves 01 Dec '07

01 Dec '07

forwarding to the list as I didn't notice that this was offlist Begin forwarded message: > From: Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon(a)au-kbc.org> > Date: 1 December 2007 12:29:54 PM GMT+05:30 > To: "shantanu oak" <shantanu.oak(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] volunteers for Teacher Training Programmes > > > On 01-Dec-07, at 12:09 PM, shantanu oak wrote: >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "Dinesh Joshi" <dinesh.a.joshi(a)gmail.com> >> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> >> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:37:33 +0530 >> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] volunteers for Teacher Training Programmes >> n Nov 26, 2007 6:19 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon(a)au-kbc.org> wrote: >>> as a fallout from the NRC-FOSS meeting in Mumbai, requests for >>> Teacher Training Programmes and installation of FOSS in labs have >>> started coming in. Typically, TTPs will be for one or two days, and >>> the teachers will be trained to teach FOSS subjects. We have a full >>> schedule of what is to be taught. We will pay for travel, >>> accommodation and a small honorarium also. Please contact us if you >> >> Hello Kenneth, can you send more info regarding the course work? >> I'm interested. > >> Hi, >> I am interested as well. >> >> - Shantanu Oak > > The training broadly covers training teachers to teach the syllabi > in foss electives I and II mentioned here: > > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/FossElectivesSyllabus <--- > this is for Anna University, Tamilnadu, but other universities > would do something more or less on the same lines. If you are > interested, please add your name and details in the link below and > we will revert: > > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/FossSpeakers > > as most universities in Maharashtra are now just about to formulate > their Syllabi in foss, this is a good chance also to get into the > ground floor of the syllabus making process. I would like to > emphasise that the policy of NRC-FOSS is *not* to go for platform > neutral syllabi, because going for that in Indian conditions, means > that the majority of lecturers will opt for the 'easily available > and accessable' option. We are *not* for a level playing field - we > are working to tilt the playing field in favour of FOSS. > > > > -- > regards > > Kenneth Gonsalves > Associate, NRC-FOSS > lawgon(a)au-kbc.org > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ > > Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/ > web/ > > > -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/

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slides on FOSS
by Shrinivasan T 01 Dec '07

01 Dec '07

Friends, we have created some slides on FOSS. Access them at http://sirsasana.org/slides -- dear, T.Shrinivasan My experiences with Linux are here http://goinggnu.wordpress.com For Free and Open Source Jobs http://fossjobs.wordpress.com

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volunteers for Teacher Training Programmes
by Kenneth Gonsalves 01 Dec '07

01 Dec '07

hi, as a fallout from the NRC-FOSS meeting in Mumbai, requests for Teacher Training Programmes and installation of FOSS in labs have started coming in. Typically, TTPs will be for one or two days, and the teachers will be trained to teach FOSS subjects. We have a full schedule of what is to be taught. We will pay for travel, accommodation and a small honorarium also. Please contact us if you are interested. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/

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Hi Folks
by Vivek Varghese Cherian 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

Hi Folks, I am now working in Mumbai. Hope to meet up with the GLUG-Mumbai members soon. Regards, -- VivekVC

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Exatt / Worldnet with Linux
by Prashant Shah 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

This guide is to setup Ubuntu Linux with Worldnet / Exattnet. Assume the following : Username : abc Password : xyz Server : worldnet002 Lets get started .... 1. Get a dlink card - DFE-530TX (it has original realtek chipset which if fully supported in linux as 8139too kernel module) Note : There are other lan cards in market available under Realtek chipset - but they didnt work for me. I read about them that they are not original realtek chipset. 2. Run the following command from the shell prompt (needed to set the link speed to 10MPBS and Half duplex) $mii-tool -F 10baseT-HD eth0 Add this line to /etc/rc.local so that it runs at every boot /etc/rc.local mii-tool -F 10baseT-HD eth0 3. Install the pppoe package (google them) modconf_0.3.1_all.deb pppoe_3.8-1.1_i386.deb pppoeconf_1.13_all.deb 4. configure the /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf (substitute the username and passowrd) /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf ETH='eth0' USER='abc' DEMAND=no CONNECT_TIMEOUT=60 CONNECT_POLL=6 PING="." PIDFILE="/var/run/$CF_BASE-pppoe.pid" TERMINATEFILE=/var/run/pppoe.stop SYNCHRONOUS=no CLAMPMSS=no LCP_INTERVAL=20 LCP_FAILURE=3 PPPOE_TIMEOUT=80 FIREWALL=NONE ACNAME='worldnet002' SERVICENAME='worldnet002' DNSTYPE='SERVER' PEERDNS='yes' 5. Run the following command and fill in the details $pppoe-setup 6. Verify the following /etc/ppp/chap-secrets "abc" * "xyz" /etc/ppp/pap-secrets "abc" * "xyz" 7. Start the internet $sudo pppoe-start ...Connected ! Note : Sometimes the worlnet DNS servers will not assign you a IP address. So when you boot into windows note down the IP address assigned to you. Then when you boot into Linux just assign the same IP address to the LAN card as static ip address. This is just a basic hack to get it working. If any improvements or mistakes please suggest. -- Elite System. A open source company http://www.freewebs.com/elitemumbai/index.htm elite.mumbai(a)gmail.com

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Linux Driver Development -- OT -- commercial
by Akshay Mishra 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Hello all, I have made a ARM9E based hardware and am now writing extended drivers for the peripherals (Linux 2.4.20). Need help with somebody who can devote some time on driver development. I shall explain the toolchain, discuss the requirements and once ready, test the drivers on the hardware with you. It shall be a great learning experience for sure. We can discuss other things offline. Drop me a mail at akshaymishra<at>gmail.com. Thanks, Akshay

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Cron help needed
by shishu naik 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Hi, using crontab -e i have created the crontab file and gave the specified time and commands. Then when i start crond its says cant' lock pid.... Other wise can anyone tell me how to put shell script in crontab. Thanks Shishu

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Cron help needed
by Raghu Prasad 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

> using crontab -e i have created the crontab file and gave the > specified time and commands. > Then when i start crond its says cant' lock pid.... > Other wise can anyone tell me how to put shell script in crontab. 1. Write a shell script in a secure location. For example, assume that your script is /usr/local/bin/myscript.sh 2. Make sure that its owner and group is root and root respectively. chown root.root /usr/local/bin/myscript.sh This step is not essential, but useful to keep the script tamper proof provided next step is also followed. 3. Make sure that it is executable. chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/myscript.sh 4. Run "crontab -e" as the user who is intended to execute the script. In the editor window, enter data in the following format (for further details read crontab manual by running "man 5 crontab") minute hour day_of_month month day_of_week /usr/local/bin/myscript.sh For testing purpose, set up execution time a few minutes from current time. Usually cron daemon is started during system startup. You don't have to start it explicitly. Run "ps -ax | grep cron | grep -v grep" to check whether cron is running already. 5. Check the mail of the user as whom the script was getting executed. The mail will contain the output, if any, generated from the script. Usually these mails are stored in /var/mail directory. Special care should be taken to write scripts running as root. The ownership and permission of all the scripts or other executables are of extreme importance to avoid unintended security holes in your setup. The security aspects of shell script or any other executable can't be discussed in a short mail like this. Refer some good books on secure programming or search on the Net. Raghu

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Hoo to install ZTE MG880 modem on Linux
by Neelesh Gurjar 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi, I have baught ZTE MG880 usb modem. I couldnot install it on my Linux Desktop. How to install this on Linux ? I am using FC-4. Please help.. -- Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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nrc-foss meeting in Mumbai
by Kenneth Gonsalves 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

hi, the meeting report was incomplete. The complete report is here: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/full/44/NW/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to put customized kernel in installation CD/DVD ?
by Neelesh Gurjar 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

Rony wrote: > Vivek's suggestion for disk cloning should work for you since all your > systems are identical. the time taken too will reduce drastically. Curently I am using one imaging software for this. But it takes long time to copy block by block. jtd wrote: > connect two drives in a linux machine dd if=<your master drive> > of=<your slave drive>. > next put the newly cloned slave as master in another machine aand add > yet another slave drive. I think same problem will come in this also. It will take much time for block by block copy. Because of this, I thought that it will be better if I can put kernel direclty into installation CD/DVD by following way: 1. Making an ISO of installation DVD. 2. Mount that ISO on one directory. by using "mount -o loop..." 3. Replace the kernel image which will be in for of RPM. 4. I think then I may need to change some xml files or something like that. 5. And reburn that ISO on DVD. But here I dont know how to replace that kernel and which files need to change so that while installing Yast or in Fedora Anaconda will use new kernel RPM. Please help Neelesh -- Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to put customized kernel in installation CD/DVD ?
by Raghu Prasad 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

On Nov 19, 2007 7:20 PM, Neelesh Gurjar <neel.hjs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have 40 servers to install OpenSuse10.2. All have same hardware > configuration. I have installed OpenSuse on one of the server and I have > customized the kernel as per my requirement. Now if I install OpenSuse as it > is on other servers I have to customize kernel on all servers after > installation. Can I put my customized kernel into Installation CD/DVD itself > ? So that when I will install that New OpenSuse, by default it will install > customized kernel. Can this help you? http://www.mondorescue.org/ You can take a snapshot of your newly installed and customized system on a DVD. Then restore it on other systems. Make sure that system parameters like hostname, IP etc. are changed before bringing those systems on network. Raghu

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NRC-FOSS meeting on higher education in Mumbai
by Kenneth Gonsalves 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

Hi, the meeting in Mumbai was a great success. Details here: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/full/44/NW/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Cron help needed
by shishu naik 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi All, I want to know how to use shell script in cron to automate my tasks. please give me a clear picture.. I have created a crontab for root user but the script is not running... Thanks shishu

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[INFO] Remote Administration using Libre Software.
by Rony 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

" From one station, the user can monitor other desktops and have discussions with other users without having to be physically present at their terminal. Picture quality is excellent." A clarification for the above statement. The voice discussions are on the intercom, not software based. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Slow USB Transfers
by Amit Joshi 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

I am using Gentoo Linux with 2.6.21-suspend2-r7 kernel. I don't know if I have missed out on some part in kernel compilation, but all USB Transfers seem to be pretty slow. I get an average speed of around 2MBPs and after a while the transfer stalls completely. Not to mention the USB version is 2.0 and the Flash Drives are working very well on Windows. I don't know if this is an issue with Linux in general. Regards, Amit.

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linux proxy server query
by Agnello George 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

HI I have to install in my office a Linux proxy server for a new lease line connection. The requirement is that through the proxy server i should have control over bandwidth management for vairous groups and individuals and i should be be able to restrict access to certain website for users and groups. Squid is best used here , but we need a requirement for a GUI. I am planning to install e-box . ebox-platform.com/ - do let me know whats your take on this. Also there is IPcop that i need to look at. Do let me know if you all come across any opensouce control panel for bandwidth management . Thanks a million!! :) -- Agnello . G .Dsouza

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KDE Posters
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pradeepto Bhattacharya <pradeeptob(a)gmail.com> Date: Nov 21, 2007 8:57 AM Subject: KDE Posters To: KDE-India List <kde-india(a)kde.org> Hi folks, Here is the "KDE Posters - FOSS.in '07 Collection" [1]. For high-res versions please check the flickr link at the bottom of that page. The idea is to show case the KDE Family and some of its constituents, to show case "human face" behind KDE Project. Hope you all like it. Enjoy! [1]http://kde.in/kde-posters.php Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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MTNL Triband Query
by Aman Mathur 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hello, Im using MTNL's Triband service for accessing the Internet at home . I have never requested a static ip address from MTNL, however whenever im connected to the Internet, I see that my ip address is constant , something like 192.168.1.x , where x is the same all the time.I am new to networking and stuff so please excuse me if my questions sound a bit noobish :) Ok,so i have the following two questions : 1) Is this ip address of mine a static ip address ?. If not , then why does it stay the same all the time ? 2) If I want to host my website on my computer which anyone on the internet can access, how do i go about it ? . I have some basic idea of port forwarding and read some of the tutes on www.portforward.com, which were really informative, but im still not sure how i can host a website on my computer which anyone can access. Thanks a lot :) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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How to put customized kernel in installation CD/DVD ?
by Neelesh Gurjar 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi, I have 40 servers to install OpenSuse10.2. All have same hardware configuration. I have installed OpenSuse on one of the server and I have customized the kernel as per my requirement. Now if I install OpenSuse as it is on other servers I have to customize kernel on all servers after installation. Can I put my customized kernel into Installation CD/DVD itself ? So that when I will install that New OpenSuse, by default it will install customized kernel. Please help. -- Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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[INFO] Remote Administration using Libre Software.
by Rony 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hello All, A windows user was using radmin to monitor and view other desktops in his LAN. However after its time period expired, it turns out that it costs more that 60K for a 50 user license. So I looked for a libre equivalent and found this below that works in Windows and Linux. It is distributed under the GNU GPL license. http://www.tightvnc.com/intro.html http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html On reading its docs, I found it to be almost similar to radmin in installation and use, but with better security. I installed it in windows and its working fine. From one station, the user can monitor other desktops and have discussions with other users without having to be physically present at their terminal. Picture quality is excellent. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to put customized kernel in installation CD/DVD ?
by Neelesh Gurjar 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Rony wrote: >Kickstart is the utility to clone machines based on the sample machine's >settings. Yes by kickstart we can do it. But I do not want to give much load on Network and many of the servers are not network with each other. Second thing I am planning to compile small Linux distro for making my work easy. Please help. -- Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to host a website on a dynamic IP was MTNL Triband Query
by Krishna Dagli/Krushna Dagli 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

On Sunday 18 November 2007 12:25, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > On Sunday 18 Nov 2007 07:16:33 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > i have serious doubts as to whether uploads are not calculated. > > BSNL counts uploads also. > > Transferred over 400MB over scp to a friend of mine during daytime, > ie, paid hours. None of it reflected in my traffic count. I'm on > the NU plan btw. >Not so fast. Wait for sometime for the server stats to update. Rest >assured both sides are billed - u for upload, your friend for >download - atleast when i checked 8 or 9 months ago.. Are we talking about this? http://mumbai.mtnl.net.in/triband/htm/tri_faq.htm#17

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unable to get a nslookup on windows client
by Agnello George 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

HI I am trying to test my DNS ( bind- dlz ) server ( 192.168.03.244) from a remote windows client ( 192.168.0.209 ) . I have a domain called sample.com . The hostname of my r DNS server is testserver.com . When i do a nslookup on the server for sample.com it returns me the following : [root@bind ~]# nslookup sample.com Server: 127.0.0.1 Address: 127.0.0.1#53 Name: sample.com Address: 192.168.0.244 when i do a nslookup for 192.168.0.244 i get the following on my DNS server [root@bind ~]# nslookup 192.168.0.244 Server: 127.0.0.1 Address: 127.0.0.1#53 244.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa name = ns1.testserver.com. but wheni try to do a nslookup for 192.168.0.244 on my windows client i get the following i can how ever ping to 192.168.0.244 C:\Documents and Settings\Admin>nslookup ns1.testserver.com *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.244: No response from server *** Default servers are not available Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.0.244 *** UnKnown can't find ns1.testserver.com: No response from server On my DNS server using the command "elinks" i can view the webpage for sample.com hosted on another remote machine. I have disable iptables a did a setenforce to 0 , but still get the same above resulth on a remote windows client. Where exactly am i going wrong ? Thanks for al the help -- Agnello . G .Dsouza

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"Upcoming" Meet
by Roshan N Baladhanvi 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

All, I'm not sure, if this has been posted to the list and the archives don't have it either. The November meet's details was put up at "Upcoming", in Yahoo! Please visit http://upcoming.yahoo.com/ and click on the meet's link. You can, confirm, if you are attending the meet on 11th and/or coming along with guest(s). Also, if there are any requests for the latest Ubuntu / Kubuntu / Xubuntu 7.10 CDs ([K]Ubuntu alternate CDs for upgrade) - please put it up here on the list. Preferably, if you could get along a Flash drive (1 GB or more) I could give you the distro, instead of burning up multiple discs. http://www.ubuntu-in.org

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[announce] Accessibility talk at Yahoo!
by Philip Tellis 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Victor Tsaran, Yahoo!'s accessibility guru is visiting Bangalore this week, and will be conducting an open session this Friday. See more details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/322224/ and follow instructions there if you're interested in attending. Philip -- hello world

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Mailman is back again!
by Anurag 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hello all! Apologies for the broken list mailserver during the weekend. The mailing list was not accepting any new postings since yesterday morning. Its working well now, and hopefully nothing should break. If you posted any messages since yesterday morning, then please post it again. thanks Anurag

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GOS: Google and Ubuntu 7.10 based new OS
by Abhishek Daga 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

http://www.thinkgos.com/ and some news http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/01/google-pc-at-wal-mart-for-200/ -abhishek

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fossconf chennai feb08
by Kenneth Gonsalves 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

hi, please register here: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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InfraRed Support for Etch.
by Rony 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Hello All, I am trying to get Nokia phones connected to my Debian Etch in order to download clicked photos. I use a usb IR adapter and it gets detected and uses /dev/ttyUSB0 as its device. "pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0" Packages irda-utils, kdelirc, lirc etxc have been installed manually. However, from google searches, it appears that I need siefs file system support installed first in order to mount the IR device to a mount point. Does anyone know where its available? On the Debian site, its not listed. Google throws up pages in Russian. Could existing IR mobile users give some clues on how they got their mobiles visible in Linux? I only need to upload/download images. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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gnucash users?
by Abhishek Daga 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

hello, anyone out there (in mumbai) successfully using gnucash is a multi company environment? Wanted to know your feedback and also, if there is anyone providing commercial support for the same? thanks abhi

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