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Konqueror Image rendering bug
by Roshan 12 May '07

12 May '07

Hello Lists, I browse using Konqueror with Images "turned off" so that large size images aren't fetched. (or for that matter any image, irrespective of its size). (sometimes, or at times use Mozilla Firefox) As per rules of W3C, the "alt" tag is compulsory for images, and Konqueror doesn't seem to read that attribute and display it when images are turned off. Therefore, I have filed a bug with kde's bug tracking system with Id 145224 (so that you can search the report of this bug). If you can vote for this bug, may be it'll get some attention and fixes for this will be applied. Konqueror has known to be pretty standards compliant and is the *fastest* browser (wow!, Ah! Wrong word ;) ). -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC- http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc ubunturos @ freenode Office firewalls, cyber cafes, college labs, don't allow you to download CHAT? Click here: http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Mandrake 2007
by Vickram Crishna 12 May '07

12 May '07

--- linuxers-request(a)mm.glug-bom.org wrote: > > From: Roshan <d_rosh2001(a)yahoo.co.in> > > --- mehul wrote: > > Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > >> what is software piracy? > > > Something that MS doesn't care of? > > Or possibly MS doesn't stretch its resources and > money > into going against it to the maximum or with highest > priority. I hear, that's because, they want > popularity, at cost some some losses. :-? What MS wants or focuses its budget towards is not the issue, and going down that road is not worth the discussion. Software is the set of rules that determines the utility of a piece of hardware, or many pieces of hardware when they (by the excellence of their software) work together. When that software is concealed, or the developer chooses to ignore the needs of different hardware users and prevents them from enjoying the same features, benefits etc, everyone loses, not just the users of that hardware. Piracy is an artefact of a select section of society. This was true when the term piracy was applied to sea-going merchants, who were licensed by their governments to kill and plunder everyone else, and is no less true today, when a group of 13 countries some 120 years ago (led by global supernation Haiti, in case you mistakenly thought this was all about superpowers) signed an agreement that is even today still being debated (the ink just won't dry). MS has chosen to work in the world of proprietary software, and this is a business decision of theirs. They are clinging to it, long after bigger or more impactful IT companies like IBM and Intel have seen the value of building businesses that do not pivot on the proprietary software spike. If they choose to move away from this stance, it will not affect the essential value of 'open' or 'free' software (just tags or jargon that have no more intrinsic value than the word 'proprietary'). Vickram ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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kacpid hogging CPU (with intel dual core)
by G Karunakar 12 May '07

12 May '07

Hi, I have this machine with a new mobo + intel dual core installed, running debian etch (kernel 2.6.18-4-686).. /proc/cpuinfo shows two processors.. the system as such seems slow with high enough latency.. and top shows kacpid constantly hogging.. 90-100% of CPU time always.., acpid is running, with thermal, fan, processor etc modules loaded.. what could be the issue? or how to fix it? has anyone faced similar issue with dual cores? (meanwhile i am compiling 2.6.20 with processor type dual core selected!) Karunakar

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Tataindicom datacard [OT]
by jtd 12 May '07

12 May '07

Where can i pickup a tataindicom datacard?. Their true value shops dont have any and will be able to deliver only 45 days later. I need one urgently. -- Rgds JTD

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nrc-foss node and meet on the 17th
by lawgon＠au-kbc.org 12 May '07

12 May '07

hi, as you know, NRC-FOSS (http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/) is planning to start a node at Mumbai. This node will help to coordinate/facilitate foss related activities in Mumbai especially in the following areas: 1. promoting foss in formal and non-formal education 2. popularising foss in schools, colleges, industry and ngos in the maharashtra region 3. fostering the writing and development of foss code in the area. To this end we hope to facilitate at least a couple of meetings/installfests or linux demo days a month in various establishments as well as help coordinate activities. It goes without saying that we cant achieve anything without active participation of the LUG. The node will in all probability be hosted by VJTI and we are having a meeting with the management and the managements of other colleges on the 17th morning at VJTI. We would like to discuss the scope and functioning of the node with members of the community in the afternoon/evening. I know it is a working day, but I hope a good number of members will take some time off to participate. The meeting will take place at the VJTI and exact place and time will be announced depending on the response we get here. Please respond to the list with your ideas, suggestions and whether you will be able to participate. Remember, we need you ... -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS

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(no subject)
by Roshan 11 May '07

11 May '07

Hello Lists, (see header) I am using Kubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) on my second hdd and three applications, Konqueror, Konverstaion and Kopete (yes, KDE - Kyonki haha) on my MTNL Triband line, without specifying the DNS. The automatically accepted DNS was the IP address of the ADSL Router / Modem. (D-Link 502 T) I wasn't able to get updates using apt-get because, the command would fetch the first URL and become stagnant with no network activity over the ethernet LED. I finally, decided to add the DNS servers provided by MTNL, and wow! apt-get could finally understand what it is supposed to connect to and fetched updates. Phew! Why didn't the K affect the 'K'onsole. Some other underlying protocol, perhaps? BTW, I managed to install Firefox (1.5.0.11) and have bookmarked two links on installing Firefox 2.0 on *buntu. These updates consumes a lot of my bits, and that brings me to a question! Can I (if I get one) use the Kubuntu 6.06 DVD as a source for installing common applications (such as say GCC 3.x or 4.x, Java 1.4.x JRE 1.5.x etc?) If yes, anyone in Mumbai with a Kubuntu 6.06 DVD? -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC- http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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[OT] Any telecom breakdown?
by Rony 11 May '07

11 May '07

Hello All, Has there been any major telecom breakdown in Mumbai? My phones went dead yesterday but internet was on. Now phones are back to life and net is down. The Reliance fwp too has problems getting the yahoo mail website load fully. Pop/Smtp access is good though. -- Regards, Rony.

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News: Ubuntu Linux evolves for mobile devices
by Mohan Nayaka 09 May '07

09 May '07

``A version of the increasingly popular Linux operating system Ubuntu will be developed for use on net-enabled phones and devices.'' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6634195.stm Regards, Mohan S N -- "Wise fool" Gandalf, "The Two Towers"

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COMMERCIAL Linux Admin Job Vacancy In Mumbai
by s.shankar＠htechsoln.com 08 May '07

08 May '07

Dear All, Here are the detailed requirements for the post of Linux System Administrator In Mumbai: The person needs to be RHEL-4 certified / have strong fundamental understanding of various aspects of the core Linux system & its basic services. Work experience of 2 2.5 yrs is required Must have the flexibility to work in different day shifts ( 2 slots ) Knowledge of basic shell scripting for automating day to day tasks Knowledge of hosting stand-alone java applications on linux server & hosting web applications in tomcat / other web servers is an added advantage Self-learning is a must. Never-say-die spirit is a prerequisite. Good communication skills required for interacting with development team and end users to coordinate and to resolve issues. PLEASE REPLY BACK TO s.shankar(a)htechsoln.com Thanks & Regards, S Shankar

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Important GNU/Linux Binaries & Tools
by Naveen Dhanuka 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hi All, I need help in adding regular and important gnu/linux tools/binaries into different categories that i have already made on my wiki. Please help add important tools/binaries on this page. URL: http://www.elearn.in/wiki/index.php?title=GNU/Linux_Commands If you feel that there another category to be added, please do that as well. Also add your name & email address in the list of contributors. Regards, Naveen Dhanuka

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[commercial] New Linux magazine
by Linux Magzen 07 May '07

07 May '07

Hello all, I have started a monthly online linux magazine for Indians. It is totally free of cost with no advertisement or any commercial gains. If anyone is interested in writing articles for the same please let me know. Your article will be published along with your name/email/website/contact. Everyone is welcomed from students to experienced developers. Please contact me on *linux.magzen(a)gmail.com* I also need tips on how to improve. Jai Hind. -- Linux Magzen Monthly Linux magazine for Linux users http://groups.google.com/group/linux-magzen email : *linux.magzen(a)gmail.com*

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Killimg bad cd/dvd scan process.
by Rony 06 May '07

06 May '07

Hello All, How does one kill a runaway bad cd/dvd reading process that does not allow any other program to run? Even in console, before one can log in and do ps -ax, it floods the screen with I/O error messages. Any keyboard shortcut to kill the process? Ctrl+C does not work. -- Regards, Rony.

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Kubuntu 7.04 DVD
by Satish Alwani 06 May '07

06 May '07

Alrite guys, I got the 7.04 DVD. If anyone wants this. Let me know Regards, Satish Alwani

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firefox and X together take up 100% of cpu usage???
by Pradnyesh Sawant 04 May '07

04 May '07

For the past few days i've been observing that when firefox is running continuously for some time (sometimes for minutes, sometime for hours), X and firefox are taking up 100% of cpu usage. My system details are as follows: os: debian testing (that's what i've got in my repos, dunno what version it is) firefox: Mozilla Iceweasel 2.0.0.3 xorg: 7.1.0-16 m/c: AMD 2600 XP+ custom compiled kernel: 2.6.20-6 i tried running strace -c on firefox for a few seconds, and this is what i've got: % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- 26.62 0.002113 0 4260 2100 readv 50.88 0.004039 2 2318 poll 0.23 0.000018 0 722 gettimeofday 0.00 0.000000 0 269 futex 0.00 0.000000 0 205 102 read 18.86 0.001497 8 192 77 writev 0.00 0.000000 0 140 write 0.00 0.000000 0 60 mmap2 3.41 0.000271 5 58 munmap 0.00 0.000000 0 39 ioctl ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- 100.00 0.007938 8263 2279 total Can someone kindly point out what's happening? Or atleast give me pointers of looking at other places where i can find out what's going on... Thanks a lot! -- warm regards, Pradnyesh Sawant -- Be yourself, everyone else is taken. --Anon

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Linux on Vista Installation Report.
by Rony 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hello All, The installation went smoothly with no manual correction needed to grub. The machine was an HCL one with Pentium 2.8 Ghz. Dual Core, Gigabyte 955 mobo and 512 MB RAM with 15" LCD screen and DVD writer. OS was Vista Home basic. Kubuntu 7.04 64 bit was used to first boot live and test his Tata Indicom LG FWP. ( The Tata dealer had assured him of driver compatibility with Vista but after the purchase, could not keep it up. Tata CC guys put their hands up too.) The standard LG wvdial.conf worked and net was up and running. Installation was smooth just like other Kubuntus and after reboot we first booted into Vista to see if everything was ok. It was all fine. Since his 3rd partition was a 44 GB one, I had split it into 30 GB for FAT32, and the remaining for Linux root and swap. In Vista the 30 GB formatted vfat did not show up on My Computer. In the disk management, that partition was manually assigned a drive letter. Then it got visible and usable. For multimedia support in Kubuntu 7.04, I was looking for the repo list on the net but found nothing for Feisty. So from the same site http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2663/how-to_get_full , the text '## Canonical 'Commercial' Repository deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu edgy-commercial main' was appended to the /etc/apt/sources.list file and the word 'edgy' was replaced with 'feisty'. In the command, 'sudo apt-get install totem-xine totem-xine-firefox-plugin libxine-extracodecs flashplugin-nonfree msttcorefonts sun-java5-plugin skype banshee streamtuner xmms realplay f-spot' (remove totem packages as they are for gnome) some of the softwares are not available so apt-get will throw errors. Eliminate the ones not available and the rest essential ones will get downloaded. As it became late and net was slow, I had to leave and could not test multimedia support. Otherwise the system is up and running on the net. -- Regards, Rony.

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kubuntu dvd
by Satish Alwani 02 May '07

02 May '07

Why download what we already have. Roshan said hes coming by this area to pick up etch and kubuntu from me. I guess you guys can synch and get it as well. Satish

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problem in installation of lan card in mandriva
by tapas nandi 02 May '07

02 May '07

hi everyone , i am a new user of linux , i have installed mandriva , but i am having some problem in the installation of lan card , as written in the manual i have done half the step , and in between i need to do a compilation step where the file sc92031.c is to be compiled and the output should be sc92031.o , i tried to compile it but errors are coming , i think some library files are not being found while compilation , can anyone tell me that what are those library files and where can i get them.....

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[Announce] the "MOWGLI" mailing list on mesh for Mumbai
by Vickram Crishna 01 May '07

01 May '07

The Mowgli mailing list has just opened up at http://recurrencies.net/mailman/listinfo/mowgli_recurrencies.net To subscribe, mail mowgli-subscribe(a)recurrencies.net and reply to the mail in the standard automated process verifier. The list will serve as a discussion ground for the deployment and use of a open mesh network for people in Mumbai to use. The primary objective is to build a local rich data functioning municipal area wireless mesh network open to all, with arms-length punctuated Internet access a future possibility. Anyone willing to either help build the network, using known mesh technology and community owned and run hardware, or to build projects (art, games, catalogues, collaborative performances etc) that will showcase network capabilities, or to research open technologies to optimally strengthen the network, or to research and develop new technology layers on the network, or to collectively build or provide access to storage layers to power data resources, or *anything* not covered in the previous descriptions but have the possibility of growing value for all, please do join in and let's get the ball rolling. fyi the first mesh node was built by LUGgers at HBCSE last month, and this list has grown out of the person-to-person discussions following that, to look for ways to bring this technology to bear for this *urban* area. Aside from Nagarjuna and myself, artists and educators and techie enthusiasts are coming together in the hope that more such efforts will catalyse the Mumbai mesh into self-sustaining growth. The practical functioning of the mesh will depend on and grow together from many community level networks in discrete but contiguous parts of the city. As far as the technology goes, we look for expertise (now and in the future) in antenna construction, hardware refabrication, OLSR, streaming, data cacheing and database management, content management and many more. We are lucky that listmembers here live in wide-spread areas of the city, and hope they will use the preliminary workshops and events conceptualised and being planned, to learn and to teach others to build out from there. Welcome. Vickram ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/

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Wall command like utility/command in Linux
by Jagdish Chhailkar 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

I have 25 thin clients with builtin mozilla browser. I have a LAMP applicaiton running on a server. The users are accessing the application on their thin client using the builtin mozilla browser. My problem is : 1) when i want to shutdown the server , i didn't know whether somebody is using the application or not. 2) I have another server on which the users are logged in through X session called on their thin clients. If some/any users forgots to log-off his/her login then I didn't come to know that the users is not doing anythink. Is there any wall like command/utility , thru. which i can pass on a message which will be displayed on all the active users as well as the message will be passed to all the http users ? -Jagdish

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Linux with Vista
by Amit Redij 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

> -----Original Message----- > From: linuxers-bounces(a)mm.glug-bom.org [mailto:linuxers-bounces@mm.glug- > bom.org] On Behalf Of Sachin Nambiar > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:01 PM > To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Linux with Vista > > I have a dual boot Ubuntu along with Vista and have faced absolutely no > problems so far, > > > -- > Regards, > Sachin Gopal > Indian Pneumatic & Hydraulic Co. Pvt Ltd. > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers I have dual boot Kubuntu 7.04 & Vista on Toshiba Satellite. Works without any problem :) ============================================================================================================================ Disclaimer: This message and the information contained herein is proprietary and confidential and subject to the Tech Mahindra policy statement, you may review at <a href="http://www.techmahindra.com/Disclaimer.html">http://www.techmahindra.com/Disclaimer.html</a> externally and <a href="http://tim.techmahindra.com/Disclaimer.html">http://tim.techmahindra.com/Disclaimer.html</a> internally within Tech Mahindra. ============================================================================================================================

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Re: Linux with Vista
by Easwar Hariharan 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hello, Rony,please keep the list informed about the progress of the Linux with Vista installation,whether it leads to success or failure.Pleease... Regards, Easwar

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Linux with Vista
by Sachin Nambiar 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

I have a dual boot Ubuntu along with Vista and have faced absolutely no problems so far, -- Regards, Sachin Gopal Indian Pneumatic & Hydraulic Co. Pvt Ltd.

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Does anyone know about .vce format files and how to go about reading them
by ryan coelho 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Hi Does anyone know about .vce format files and how to go about reading them Or how do I convert the .vce file to pdf file . Thanks & regards Ryan Coelho

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Re: Linux with Vista
by Easwar Hariharan 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Sorry to spoil the party,but there are reports of Vista refusing to boot up after Linux is installed,though those cases were on boxes with single HDDs.If your friend has 2 HDD's,then no problem,he can install vista on one and linux on the other but it involves some drive swapping as illustrated in the link below: http://wiki.gtwy.net/index.php/Dual_Boot_Vista_and_Linux Also,another link is; http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about78184.html Regards, Easwar

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Linux with Vista
by Rony 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Hello All, A friend of mine bought a branded pc with Vista installed. However no additional peripherals work as their drivers are not available in vista. I suggested that he install Linux in dual boot and he has agreed. I only want to know if Linux and Vista will live peacefully and boot from Grub. Does Vista have the same booting method as XP? -- Regards, Rony.

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Kubuntu 6.10/7.04 64 bit CDs required.
by Rony 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Hello All, Does anyone have Kubuntu 6.10 or 7.04 64 bit CDs? If so please let me know offline. -- Regards, Rony.

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Answering Machine Software
by Manish Kathuria 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Can someone suggest a stable linux based answering machine software requiring a simple voice modem ? Thanks, Manish

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[OT]: Broadband prices, from less to free?
by Roshan 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hello List, Read this: http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/apr/26broad.htm Quote from the article "He said that bandwidth costs too are likely to see a drastic reduction shortly with BSNL and MTNL planning to host web servers within the country by the middle of this year. Maran said these PSUs would set up web servers, which will enable the internet traffic to be diverted within India instead of being routed out of the country. This will reduce bandwidth costs significantly, he said, adding that Internet access charges would also come down." set up web servers? Is "Internet Backbones" the technically correct word? If internet traffic are routed out of the country, VSNL is just a gateway to it? VSNL, doesn't have an backbone? There is one backbone at Karachi and one at Lahore in neigbouring country, according to http://speedtest.net/ -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC- http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc Add online presence to your web pages, find out how here - http://messenger.yahoo.com/addpresence.php

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Virtual Distributed Ethernet
by Chetan S 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hi All, Came across this cool piece of software - Virtual Distributed Ethernet -http://vde.sourceforge.net/ It basically allows you to simulate a network on a single computer and it allows you to connect these distributed ethernets to each other. It is extremely useful if you have multiple images running under qemu and wish to connect them , simulating physical hosts. sadly it is not packaged into deb. regards, C

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Hello World!
by Omkar Raut 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hi, This is my first mail to mumbai lug! 1) Is there a good shop in mumbai to buy linux pre-installed laptop (see http://www.system76.com/ ) 2) What laptop brands are said to be most suitable for linux? -Omkar.

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HP Officejet 4255 printing blank pages in Ubuntu 7.04
by Sachin Nambiar 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

We have a HP officejet 4255 all-in-one printer-fax-scanner-copier machine which i need t configure with ubuntu. While my laptop dualboot ubuntu 7.04 does recognise the printer and assign hp 4200 series drivers, it keeps printing only blanks. I tried hplip, tried exporting it to pdf format then printing. Googling wasn't much help as similar problem was either unanswered in forums or solved by exporting to pdf. Is there any internal printer or some other setting i have overlooked? Please guide.. Regards, Sachin Gopal Indian Pneumatic & Hydraulic Co. Pvt Ltd.

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How many Debian Etch CDs you need?
by Praveen A 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi, Interesting overview of the 331 discs of Debian 4.0 etch http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/tour_of_the_Debian_4.0_CDs/ Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Acer 2428 Fully Linux Loaded
by Rony 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hello All, Now that the Acer 2428 is fully Linux loaded, I have written a wiki how-to at our site below. http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Acer2428_Fully_Linux_Compatible -- Regards, Rony.

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Linux Based Point-of-Sale and Inventory System
by Prashant Verma 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hi, I'm looking to customize/deploy a POS/Inventory system for a small store chain. I was wondering if anyone on the list has developed/deployed a complete POS system based on Linux and/or FOSS and how their experience turned out to be. If you did, please drop me a note at my email address and I'd appreciate it if I could discuss this in detail with you. -Prashant

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the age old question : i did rm -Rf by mistake - what do i do
by Vihan Pandey 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hello, A lot of *nix people often wonder the answer to the age old question : i did rm -Rf by mistake - what do i do now ? Well, there are quite a few answers to the same. Thankfully there is now a simple answer (with not so headbreaking). A friend of mine tried it out on his Ubuntu box(on ext3) and was able to recover a ton of stuff deleted over the ages. To make things even better the answer is GPL :D And the answer is : http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec Regards, - vihan

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Multimedia support in Ubuntu and Kubuntu 6.06 6.10
by Rony 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hello All, I was with Krish when he mentioned that he had successfully got multimedia playback in Ubuntu, by adding some repositories manually in the apt sources list and downloading extra packages. When I got back, a google search revealed this page below and that finally did it. http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2663/how-to_get_full This explains everything in a simple and straightforward way. As I use Kubuntu, in the line 'sudo apt-get install totem-xine totem-xine-firefox-plugin libxine-extracodecs flashplugin-nonfree msttcorefonts sun-java5-plugin skype banshee streamtuner xmms realplay f-spot' The 'totem-xine totem-xine-firefox-plugin' entries were removed as they are for Gnome and apt throws errors. The important package is libxine-extracodecs. I am now able to play VCDs with sound. My DVD freezes at the introductory text itself but that could be due to bad media or my DVD writer is country locked. Anyway now I am quite happy with the progress and hope others who were tearing their hair over multimedia in Debian based distros will find some relief from the link above. -- Regards, Rony.

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Sabayon-Mandriva Conflict
by Easwar Hariharan 22 Apr '07

22 Apr '07

During installation of Sabayon 3.25,the GRUB didn't have an entry for Mandriva 07,therefore,I added an entry labeled Mandriva Linux 2007 and pointed it to root partition for Mandriva namely sda5(partition 5,HDD 0) for Sabayon.But Mandriva refuses to boot with the error message given below and tells me to press any key.When I press a key,it sends me back to GRUB.FYI,my home partition(sda7 partition 7,HDD 0) is separate from my root partition in Mandriva. All partitions are logical. On the advice of a friend who knows something about Gentoo and Sabayon,I modified the entry for Mandriva in /boot/grub/menu.lst as follows: title 'Mandriva Linux 2007' root(hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 initrd /boot/initrd.gz Presently,the error message is:(/*....*/ are comments and not part of the error message) Booting 'Mandriva Linux 2007' root(hd0,4)/*Since I have only 1 HDD,hd0 and since Mandriva root is in hda5,partition number-1=4*/ Filesystem type is ext2fs,partition type 0x83/*But I have all linux partitions as ext3fs!*/ kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 /*I tried sda5 too,with and without(w/o) ro and hda5 with and w/o ro*/ [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1b68d6] /*All greek and latin to me*/ initrd /boot/initrd.gz Error 15:File not found. Press any key to continue..._ /*When any key is pressed,it sends me back to the GRUB menu*/ Please Help. Regards, Easwar

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Real-time help ? IRC is the place to be!
by Roshan 21 Apr '07

21 Apr '07

Hello List, For those from Windows background, are /usually/ not aware of IRC, apart from theoretical knowledge, the following URL points to an article, that tells you how to get going. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/14/0631220 I hope, we can expect a few new members on channels, mentioned in the wiki. (This also tells me, a newbie guide to IRC is missing in the wiki). :) -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC - http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc Send a FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger. Get it now at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] bash proxy settings
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 21 Apr '07

21 Apr '07

>> To confirm that this actually works do: >> $ nslookup gnu.org >> on your own machine. > This works Good. >> [ If you can not have a DNS then try: >> $ ping 199.232.41.10 >> If this fails, then read on.] > This does not - dest unreachable Do you have a gateway? Remeber a proxy and gateway are different although they can be on the same machine. If you have a gateway then it is not forwarding ICMP ECHO packets. Can you do: $ traceroute google.com I still would like to know what you are trying to achieve? Anything particular you want? Cheers, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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GPLv3, Linux and GPLv2 Compatibility
by Praveen A 21 Apr '07

21 Apr '07

Hi, Very interesting discussions on the effect of GPLv3 on Linux, the kernel and GNU/Linux distributions. http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/gplv3_linux_and.html It discusses many of the corner cases and analyses the effects of glibc going to LGPL and distribution copyrights. It helped me to understand many of the issues in a better way. Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Gnash WAS Kububtu 6.10 DVD
by Vickram Crishna 21 Apr '07

21 Apr '07

> > From: Rony <ronbillypop(a)yahoo.co.uk> > To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" > <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> > Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:40:17 +0530 > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Gnash WAS Kububtu 6.10 DVD > Installation. > > Vickram Crishna wrote: > > > > > Please everyone see project Gnash - join in if you > are > > interested. It's a really cool project by some > good > > people to resolve all the nasty proprietary issues > > around video - including flash animation. Normal > is > > really boring, after all! > > > > > Hi. > > Gnash is a flash movie player. I did not find any > mention about playing > VCDs and DVDs on the site. > It is an online video player, intended to render all streaming type movies (YouTube) as well as flash animations. From the archives, you will gain a huge amount of understanding of how bits are rendered in pixels, no matter what the codecs involved, whether it is about lines of text or images. Vickram ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.ht…

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openSUSE 10.2 Dual Layer DVD
by Rahulkrishna Gupta 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

Hi, In case anybody is interested in openSUSE 10.2, you can pick up a copy from the Novell office. All you need to do is to come down to the Novell Office and pick up a copy. Its completely free of any cost and you don't need to provide a blank DVD in return. The media is a Dual Layer DVD with all the packages. It includes a 32-bit as well as a 64-bit version of openSUSE. You can spread out the message to other LUG groups as well as to your friends and acquaintances. In case you have any queries, please contact me. Novell Office Address: Novell India Pvt. Ltd. 62 MIDC, 13th Street, Andheri (E), Mumbai - 400 093 Phone: 28342244 Landmark: Lane opposite to Hotel Tunga Paradise You can come during office hours between Monday to Friday. At present, this is the arrangement that we have been able to make. Note: If you are organizing an Open Source event and want to distribute openSUSE DVDs at the event, please get in touch with me. Thanks. Regards, RahulKrishna Gupta Novell India Pvt. Ltd.

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Connected to the internet (MTNL Triband) using USB in Kubuntu 6.06
by Roshan 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

Hello List, I was trying to connect to the internet using different Live CDs including Freespire, Ubuntu 6.10, Xubuntu 6.10. through the USB port that was conne cted to the ADSL (Dlink 502-T) router. Somehow, all the above didn't manage to configure the device automatically on boot up, though Ubuntu 6.10 listed the device on the device manger. I finally tried Dapper Drake (Kubuntu 6.06) and it automatically configured the device (allocating IP address through DHCP) and Konqueror (my smart browser - as I call it) proved that the device is working and I'm connected to the internet. I wonder, if Ubuntu has the same base as Kubuntu, why didn't ubuntu do it? AFAIK, the desktop environment is the different, but the base is same, isn't it? (This was on Dell E1405 running the Kubuntu 6.06 Live CD). If one can list steps, that I probably had to follow for Ubuntu 6.10, please let me know. -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC - http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc Send a FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger. Get it now at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Gnash WAS Kububtu 6.10 DVD Installation.
by Vickram Crishna 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

--- linuxers-request(a)mm.glug-bom.org wrote: > > From: Rony <ronbillypop(a)yahoo.co.uk> > Multimedia audio/video is not proper as > usual even after all > the upgrades and codec installations. But thats > normal in Linux. Open > media formats play fine. Please everyone see project Gnash - join in if you are interested. It's a really cool project by some good people to resolve all the nasty proprietary issues around video - including flash animation. Normal is really boring, after all! Vickram ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/

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Invitation To OPEN HOUSE
by Naveen Kumar 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Dear Friends, CDAC Mumbai is organising an OPEN HOUSE on the 21st April 2007 at its Juhu campus where delegates can interact with our R&D staff and get a feel of the various research/development/educational activities in progress at the centre. This will broaden their exposure to the field of IT and pave way for closer interaction with CDAC Mumbai. There will be demonstrations of systems developed by us, presentations by some of the reseachers, etc. This is also an opportunity for people to get a feel of our research labs and know more about our educational programs. We invite you, your colleagues and your friends to the open house. Please find a poster about this event at: http://www.cdacmumbai.in/design/corporate_site/override/images/OH-Poster200… We request you to pass on this information to others and also publicise the event among your colleagues and friends. -- Thanks & regards Naveen Kumar Project Engineer Open Source Software Division( http://ossrc.org.in/ ) C-DAC Mumbai ( http://www.cdacmumbai.in/ ) ( http://moebiuscurve.livejournal.com/ )

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Kububtu 6.10 DVD Installation.
by Rony 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hello All, I am so happy. :) Finally I got rid of Etch testing and installed my long awaited Kubuntu 6.10 dvd. It has more boot options than 6.06 and the dvd has a server version included. So for installing a server one has to type 'server' or 'server-expert' at boot prompt. There is an option for command line only install in the main menu itself. Its paint program is much improvised from the earlier one that was like M$ Paint. This one has 'Krita' which has good features like photoshop or gimp. I love KDE. Long live KDE. Cheers to all the KDE guys. Keep up the good work. Multimedia audio/video is not proper as usual even after all the upgrades and codec installations. But thats normal in Linux. Open media formats play fine. Finally, those who have always been searching for an option to boot any Ubuntu cd into a live root console only, I found the solution from the net. Simply use the option that allows you to edit the boot string and add 'single' at the end of the line and hit enter. This boots the system live into a root prompt without asking for a password. I have hunted for this in the cd menu itself but could never find it. I tried 1 and rescue but that did not help. I recollect using 'single' for Red Hat. -- Regards, Rony.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] PXE Boot
by Koustubha Kale 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

----- Original Message ---- From: Koustubha Kale <koustubha_kale(a)yahoo.com> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:23:03 AM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] PXE Boot >----- Original Message ---- >From: mahesh pokhriyal <mahesh_pokhriyal(a)yahoo.com> >To: Linux Group Mumbai <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> >Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 5:54:35 PM >Subject: [ILUG-BOM] PXE Boot > >Hello Friends, > > I configured ltsp for PXE Boot in Fedora 5 . But when i try to boot from Client pc through PXE Boot i got error message: > >Doing the pivot_root >pivot_root: pivot_root: No such file or directory >Mounting the devfs filesystem >mount: Mounting /devfs on /dev failed: device or resource busy >Running /sbin/init >exec: /sbin/init: no such file or directory >Kernel Panic : Attempted to kill init! > >Note:- My client pc have onboard LAN with Boot Rom supporting. > Also my pc have in which i configured ltsp support Boot Rom. > I also try with RHEL ES 4 but i face same problem. > >Do i need an external PXE Boot lan card for my client PC. > >Pls. help me & give me solution friends. > >Thanks & Regards, > >Mahesh Pokhriyal Its failing at the point where it does a pivot root to wherever you stored ltsp e.g. /opt/ltsp Check the path in the dhcpd.conf file. Also check the path to tftpdroot folder. It should NOT have the leading /tftpdroot or whatever is your path.. Example for dhcpd.conf.. http://osl.birzeit.edu:8080/wiki2/index.php/Dhcpd.conf_for_LTSP Also check your NFS exports to confirm that /opt/ltsp/i386 IS being exported.. With warm regards Koustubha Kale __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] PXE Boot
by Koustubha Kale 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

>----- Original Message ---- >From: mahesh pokhriyal <mahesh_pokhriyal(a)yahoo.com> >To: Linux Group Mumbai <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> >Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 5:54:35 PM >Subject: [ILUG-BOM] PXE Boot > >Hello Friends, > > I configured ltsp for PXE Boot in Fedora 5 . But when i try to boot from Client pc through PXE Boot i got error message: > >Doing the pivot_root >pivot_root: pivot_root: No such file or directory >Mounting the devfs filesystem >mount: Mounting /devfs on /dev failed: device or resource busy >Running /sbin/init >exec: /sbin/init: no such file or directory >Kernel Panic : Attempted to kill init! > >Note:- My client pc have onboard LAN with Boot Rom supporting. > Also my pc have in which i configured ltsp support Boot Rom. > I also try with RHEL ES 4 but i face same problem. > >Do i need an external PXE Boot lan card for my client PC. > >Pls. help me & give me solution friends. > >Thanks & Regards, > >Mahesh Pokhriyal Its failing at the point where it does a pivot root to wherever you stored ltsp e.g. /opt/ltsp Check the path in the dhcpd.conf file. Also check the path to tftpdroot folder. It should NOT have the leading /tftpdroot or whatever is your path.. Example for dhcpd.conf.. http://osl.birzeit.edu:8080/wiki2/index.php/Dhcpd.conf_for_LTSP With warm regards Koustubha Kale __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Installfest
by Mrugesh Karnik 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hi Luggers, I think its about time we held an installfest. I know a couple of college students who want to use Linux but are unable to install it. Let's host it somewhere and announce to the masses. -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------

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Configuring sendmail to work with gmail hosted domain
by Vinayakam Murugan 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

Hello We have moved our domain hosting to gmail recently. We want to continue using our linux server as our local post office. The problem faced is that the sender's email address is sent as the user whose credentials are used for authentication. Suppose xyz(a)mydomain.com is the user whose credentials are used for authentication, then mail sent by me go out as Vinayakam Murugan ( xyz(a)mydomain.com) instead of (vinayak(a)mydomain.com) which was the case earlier. We have added the following lines to my sendmail.mc LOCAL_CONFIG C{VirtHost}mydomain.com <http://o-i.com/> FEATURE(`nocanonify') define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE',`true') define(`confME_TOO',`true') define(`SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS',e) define(SMART_HOST,mydomain <http://mail.w-o-i.com/>.com <http://o-i.com/>) dnl define(`SMTP_MAILER_MAXRCPTS',`1') MASQUERADE_AS(`mydomain.com <http://o-i.com/>') define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE',`10000000') FEATURE(`always_add_domain') FEATURE(`allmasquerade') FEATURE(`masquerade_entire_domain') FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope') DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=465,Addr=10.0.0.1, Name=MTA') Any pointers to what might be going wrong would be helpful. -- Warm Regards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vinayak http://theregoesanotherday.blogspot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you aim to fly, then don't hang around with chickens. Why? Because chickens can't fly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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list of all commands
by praveen shinde 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

Hi , how can i get a list of all the commands available in solaris 10 /linux. man can be used to find help about each command. but i want to have a list of all the commands thanks Praveen shinde. --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.

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problem with kernel compilation
by Pradnyesh Sawant 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

Hello, I am trying to compile a linux kernel (actually, have tried 2: linux-2.6.19.1.tar.bz2 and linux-2.6.20.6.tar.bz2 (got the latest copy from www.kernel.org)), on gcc:- $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: i486-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --with-tune=i686 --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21) on both the kernels, on doing a "make menuconfig", i get the foll errors (not giving the whole list of errors): scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:193: error: expected ')' before '*' token scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:116: error: 'WINDOW' undeclared (first use in this function) scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:130: error: 'KEY_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function) scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:232: warning: implicit declaration of function 'wrefresh' scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:210: error: 'KEY_UP' undeclared (first use in this function) and *weirdly* enough, i opened a particular file (scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c), and found that "KEY_UP", etc have actually NOT been defined :( am i doing something wrong? -- warm regards, Pradnyesh Sawant -- Be yourself, everyone else is taken. --Anon

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] GSoC/KDE-2007 and our lug member
by Rony 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

Anant Narayanan wrote: > > > Not just a few, I am proud to say that we have about 60 Indian students in GSoC this year; including 3 from my college. I sincerely hope that atleast 30 of these students will stick around to become permanent contributors to their respective projects. > > Just curious to know, will the GSoC contributed code be GPLed and available to the public? -- Regards, Rony.

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JSP problem with Firefox
by Rony 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Hello All, I was filling out the online passport registration form and had problems with the date field. After the focus was moved to any other field, the last digit of the date would get cut. You can try it out on the link below. https://passport.gov.in/pms/OnlineRegistration.jsp Even reducing the date from 4 to 2 characters show the same result. Even in windows the same problem existed in firefox. The only way it worked was in IE7. (It may be working in IE6 too but I don't have it). Is there a work around for this? I am planning to write to the Delhi office that may be in charge of the website. You could write too. -- Regards, Rony.

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Firefox: Adding Search Engines
by Rony 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Hello All, I was trying to add a search engine in Firefox 1.5 but the link to add engines would throw errors. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/searchplugins/updates So I removed the text up to firefox and this showed up. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ This page had a link to add search engines and is given below. This link works. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:4 -- Regards, Rony.

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The techie way of "why switch to ... ?"
by Roshan 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Hello List, http://www.lobby4linux.com/clips/switchlinux.swf -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC - http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc Send a FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger. Get it now at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/

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Usefull link on OLSR
by Rony 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Hello All, I was reading a BBC report on the search engine www.ask.com and decided to try it. The keywords 'olsr wireless mesh' threw up nice results and in this page http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/events/1103.en.html there is a pdf file that explains the practical aspects of OLSR meshes and how to optimise link quality. http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/attachments/665-Slides_Communit… -- Regards, Rony.

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Debian Etch review
by Kumar Appaiah 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Dear Linuxers, This is a nice article about how the Debian project has tried to "redefine" itself with Etch: http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/07/04/13/1231226.shtml?tid=106 Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036

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GSoC/KDE-2007 and our lug member
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Hi, I am sure most of us know about the annual event Google Summer Of Code. Like past years The KDE Project participated this year even. Actually I had posted about the event when it was kicked off this year. Anyways, results were declared sometime back and KDE got some 40[1] [2] slots from Google. But for me the bigger and happier news is that a lot of Indians participated this year and quite a few them submitted good proposals. There were 216 eligible proposals in all that were submitted to The KDE Project. And the news that is even more happier and bigger is that one of the chosen candidates is from our ``Amchi Mumbai" even - Sharan Rao. Some of us surely must have seen him / met him at LUG meets or otherwise. Sharan has been an occasional contributor to K3B since last year. Sharan's proposal about Umbrello was happily selected by mentors - I say this because I was present at the meeting and I noticed how proposals were judged strictly by core KDE devs. I think, I have mentioned before how being a ``actual" contributor helps in such cases because they already have seen your code. And more importantly, a good proposal does it job really well. Sharan's proposal was really good, more importantly something he thought all by himself and was completely out of the box and mentors didnot even put forth that in the stock ideas. All he did was found a cool application and found what it was lacking and made a good proposal around it. To be fair to other candidates, I must admit most of the 40 accepted proposals were just like that of Sharan. And all such proposals just passed with flying colours even if there was a discussion/debate on pros and cons of the proposals. If there were only disputes, it was due to certain conflicting proposals or duplicate proposals for the same idea, in which case the most suitable candidate was selected which ofcourse was measured by a scale called as - "who show most enthusiasm and maybe has submitted most patches or proposal was very very strong". It was taken care that proposal was worth atleast 30+ hours per week of work and was even informed to student if he had other ideas. Anything less and the candidate was questioned. I was sort of happy and pleasantly surprised watching mentors calling a spade a spade or some such metaphor. And since I have spoken to personally ( or heard about ) quite a few candidates this year, the common thing was their enthusiasm and willingness - be it Mike Authur, Marcus Hanwell or Sharan or anybody else. Anirudh Ramesh (based in Singapore) and Piyush Verma (Delhi based) are the other Indians in the list. Good luck to you both. Do well. Also heartiest congratulaltions to other members of the list who have been selected as well for other projects. Good wishes to all of you. Sharan, dude you rock! Congratulations and loads of good wishes. And one guy whom I really need to thank is our beloved admin - Anurag - who was instrumental in helping me get introduced to ( and meet ) Sharan ( - my favourite twit, is what I like to call him ) sometime Feb '06 or so. He has done really well for himself and learnt a lot without any other expectations and more importantly has contributed some lines of code to Free Software and I am sure he will do much much more. [1] http://dot.kde.org/1176336589/ [2] http://code.google.com/soc/kde/about.html 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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OT -- [ Commercial]Embedded Linux Developer Required
by Akshay Mishra 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Hello all, I am working with a small team on software development/embedded development. Need BE (EE/CS) with linux/embedded development expertise. 1-2 years of experience and a "Linux hand" should be good. The requirement is to work on an embedded platform/driver and application development. The association is open, in terms of either on project contract basis (4 months full time project) or becoming an employee . We can discuss that for the suitable candidate. You could drop me an e-mail if the work described suits you or if you desire more information Regards, Akshay

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PXE Boot
by mahesh pokhriyal 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Hello Friends, I configured ltsp for PXE Boot in Fedora 5 . But when i try to boot from Client pc through PXE Boot i got error message: Doing the pivot_root pivot_root: pivot_root: No such file or directory Mounting the devfs filesystem mount: Mounting /devfs on /dev failed: device or resource busy Running /sbin/init exec: /sbin/init: no such file or directory Kernel Panic : Attempted to kill init! Note:- My client pc have onboard LAN with Boot Rom supporting. Also my pc have in which i configured ltsp support Boot Rom. I also try with RHEL ES 4 but i face same problem. Do i need an external PXE Boot lan card for my client PC. Pls. help me & give me solution friends. Thanks & Regards, Mahesh Pokhriyal --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.

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Wireless free information system successfully setup.
by Rony 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Hello All, On Saturday 14th April 2007 we successfully setup the wireless mesh running the free information server. This time the OLSR protocol was also loaded into 2 laptops that acted as additional nodes. The server machine with Apache2 was loaded with CD and DVD isos in the /var/www/ folder and we could visit the machine through the mesh and access the web page with all the isos. So finally we were having tea in the canteen and downloading Linux isos on our laptops. The linux laptop got a speed of 1.2 Mbps to 800 Kbps and the windows laptop got abot 500 Kbps. We can work on the speed part. What a nice day to start the free information network. It was the 'Jayanti' of Dr. Ambedkar who wanted to empower the people with freedom and knowledge. The full setup is available at http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/WirelessMesh - Regards, Rony.

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Signup procedure for the wiki
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Hi, Is it possible to have a stronger signup procedure for the wiki? I think something as simple as email confirmation should do the trick. Simply entering a username and password is making it really simple for bots to play havoc. -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.tk

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Wireless Mesh meet at HBCSE
by Rony 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Hello All, We are meeting again tomorrow Saturday 10.30 am onwards 14th April 2007 at HBCSE Mankhurd for the wireless mesh setup. This time we will be setting up the content server and is a very good opportunity to see how the mesh will provide free information to the public. All those who attend are requested to bring their laptops if possible, to test the mesh as much as we can. -- Regards, Rony.

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Old distros cds! Interested?
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Hey, I have a few old Kubuntu CDs and few new ones even lying around. Where old = 5.10 and new = 6.10. I have some ed/ubuntu - 6.10 as well. Now if anybody is interested please ping me offlist, we can arrange a meeting or meet during a lug meet or some such and I can give you the cds then. And before somebody says - ohhhh those are old, why would I need those? Umm, you think. maybe old hardware or whatever. I am sure there might be some use other than distributing those to autorickshaw drivers in Panvel. Btw, those 5.10 Kubuntu CDs, were sent directly by Jonathan Riddell because those days there was no shipit for kubuntu or whatever. 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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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Jayanta has Tagged you! :)
by Roshan 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

--- Jayanta Chandra wrote: > <removed content> Jayanta, I'm posting this message to your email address as well as to the list. I humbly request you to avoid sharing your address book (if it includes the email address of the list) with social networking websites such as tagged, zorpia, orkut. -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC - http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc Send a FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger. Get it now at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Jayanta has Tagged you! :)
by Philip Tellis 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Sometime Today, Jayanta Chandra assembled some asciibets to say: > Is Jayanta C your friend? > > Please respond or Jayanta may think you said no :( If you know Jayanta, please let him know that we said no and that he is no longer a member of this list. Thank you.

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Jayanta has Tagged you! :)
by Jayanta Chandra 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

[imgsrv.php?uid=36529445] Jayanta C, 22 India Jayanta C has added you as a friend Is Jayanta C your friend? Please respond or Jayanta may think you said no :( [1]Click here to unsubscribe from Tagged, P.O. Box 193152 San Francisco, CA 94119-3152 References Visible links 1. http://www.taggedmail.com/no_more.html?unsem=linuxers%40mm.glug-bom.org&tId… Hidden links: 2. http://www.taggedmail.com/welcome.html?conn=1y87dfgs0&ect=5espx52&tId=13006… 3. http://www.taggedmail.com/welcome.html?conn=1y87dfgs0&ect=5espx52&tId=13006…

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Wireless Mesh - Progress and success
by Roshan 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Hello All, Mr. Rony will post details of today's session along with other links. The document for Wireless Mesh has been updated and is available at http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/WirelessMesh There are plans for the next week too, but they aren't confirmed. However, if we (GLUG-BOM members) do plan to meet up, I'll request you to come up with resources (GNU/Linux, Free documents etc.) that can be shared across the mesh network and accessible to those who want them. (atleast indirectly). We had two mesh clients (if that is the correct terminology, technically) as Sabayon Linux on one laptop and Microsoft Windows XP on another and tried downloading distros (600 MB and above) with speeds ranging from 300 KiloBytes / second - 700 KB / second. (Statistics from Mozilla Firefox, with its default download manager). -- S K Somaiya College of ASC - http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in Send a FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger. Get it now at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/

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Rollback of changes made by bots
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

I noticed some changes made by bots to the wiki: http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_Brochure_Quick_Guide by UypR5w and http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Sandbox by FxzU6e Can the admins please reverse this? -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.tk

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Debian Guide
by Rony 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Hello All, With Debian Etch doing the rounds, here is a useful link on various settings of Debian. http://www.aboutdebian.com/contents.htm -- Regards, Rony.

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Need Debian Etch DVD
by Joel A Divekar 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hi AllCan anybody help me with copy of Debian Etch DVDs. My office is near Lower Parel and I stay at Kurla. I can provide blank DVD in exchange or pay for the DVD. Please call or mail. Thanks.RegardsJoelMumbai+91 9867572484

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Fwd: [Fsf-friends] Debian Etch Release Party on the 21st:BMSCE, Bangalore
by Roshan 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Was somebody waiting for a Debian release party? ;) --- Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello All, > Considering certain important factors the Debian > Etch Release Party will be > on the 21st, April,2007. > http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Bangalore/BMSCE/Debian_Etch_Release_Party -- S K Somaiya College of ASC - http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in Send a FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger. Get it now at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/

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Re: wireless mesh at hbcse successfully done
by Vickram Crishna 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

--- jtd wrote: > On Tuesday 10 April 2007 00:09, Vickram Crishna > wrote: > > Actually, I > > think from what I heard in Dharamsala, it should > be > > possible for us to 'mesh' into the system remotely > > wherever we are located, provided we run OLSR > locally > > and tune it to the same mesh. In that case, > > downloading the resources will be just a hop or or > two > > away. Is this understanding correct? > > More or less. except that the range is limited to > about 100 mtr > outdoors No, I meant that what I thought I saw in Dharamsala, was a bunch of people running OLSR on their machines, and becoming part of the Berlin mesh. Vickram ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.ht…

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Hidden bots in GLUG-BOM Wiki?
by Roshan 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Hello List, Apparently, I have been notified of changes to wiki pages constantly by some unknown / unregistered usernames who don't seem to change anything on the page (according to the page history). Does this indicate that there are hidden bots attacking the wiki or is it simply something else that I am unaware of? Any wikipedian (on this list) aware of what it could be? What could be done to solve it? -- S K Somaiya College of ASC - http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in Send a FREE SMS to your friend's mobile from Yahoo! Messenger. Get it now at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/

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wireless mesh at hbcse successfully done
by Nagarjuna G. 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Hi all, particularly those who attended the workshop on 31st March and 1st April, and last saturday Rony, Jtd resumed the work. Status: Last saturday we successfully managed to get the mesh working. Actually the mesh works out of the box like a charm. We only used several of our legacy skills and actually wasted lot of time. But at the end every moment spent was useful. We now know exactly what to communicate to others who wish to setup such a mesh (mess ;-) successfully. The dhcp on wireless was not working as of Saturday, but today afternoon I tried based on a reply from the olsr-users mailing list. Again it worked out of the box. What I did: installed a package called 'freifunk-dnsmasq', restarted it. Now we see an additional parameter on the web interface called OLSR-DHCP: This is where we give the DHCP share of the mesh network (not the lan network). thats it. Now we have a working mesh in the campus. I will write documentation here: http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/WirelessMesh. Please add to everything I missed out. I will also upload few screen shots so that new teams setting it up will find it useful. Next step: Prepare a server (Rony contributed a server) and dump useful resources there for community use. Next time, gluggers can walk into our campus and sit in our lounge with a laptop and takeaway what the server has. If we get a list of goodies that the community needs we will begin archiving them. So send such a request to glab(a)hbcse.tifr.res.in. we will download them during the night time and leave it one the server. Nagarjuna

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browser cant resolve domain names .....
by Vivek Chaure 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Hi list , I have a Fedora Core 6 on my machine. I have a DSL 502T and a 'Realtek ' ethernet card , When I connect to the DSL router via DHCP , I can ping any domain name . however I am not able to browse the web through any of web-browsers .I have to put in IP addresses explicitly into the browser.No domain names are getting resolved. Please help. -- regards , Vivek M. Chaure B.E.(C.S.E.)

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Debian Etch DVD Set
by Satish Alwani 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Vihan, I currently have it being downloaded, maybe you can do dvd 2 / dvd 3. Its 38% percent done since last night when I started. I think I should have it in the next 2 days odd. I could send you a copy if you want. So i strongly suggest you work on disc 2 first. I am trying to get one of my friends to pitch in and do disc 3 if possible. Once I have all the discs, I can send 1 copy to nagarjuna as well, so he can directly dump it on the server. TIFR is like 10 mins away for me, else courier zindabad. As of the site, I dont think I have seen it since maybe 3-4 years, if not more. I know it has errors, it was written for php3 maybe the beginning of php4. Just running out of time of updating my own stuff. As mentioned, it was for IE5.5, thats pretty old. Regards, Satish

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debian etch final copy
by Satish Alwani 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Anyone here got the final release DVD's of debian etch? I can pick it up, I am in Colaba. or if someone sending out DVD's via courier, that would be doable too. Thanks, Satish 9820658557

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Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Fwd: [ilugd] [commercial]]
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay(a)gmail.com> Date: Apr 11, 2007 8:55 AM Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Fwd: [ilugd] [commercial]] To: ilug-Cal's principal mailing list <ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ilugd] [commercial] Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:26:06 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <mail-lists(a)karan.org> Reply-To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org> To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org> Hi, We ( DSource Plc ) are looking to hire 3 ( three ) sysadmins in India. I am going to try and cover the details, briefly - feel free to send questions my way; either onlist or offlist. Also, if you know someone who might be interested,feel free to forward this email to them. Job Spec: While the job is primarily system admin and network management, there is a fair bit of 'script coding' that is also required. Required: The Indian operation is just starting off, so initial work will require a fair bit of remote 'pairing'. We are also going to be spending a few months in India onsite at a client, so expect to be thrown right into the firezone. Technologies that should not be strange to you : Linux ( we are a 100% CentOS / RHEL shop ), Xen, selinux, puppet ( and/or cfengine ), isp grade networks ( routing, packet monitoring and performance testing ), high performance database's, high density storage, large data volume handling. You *must* be able to write scripted code in ruby. Python and php are also handy to know - but not required - since lots of our legacy stuff is done in python and php ( dont ask, the php stuff was before my time ... ). We dont really care about what degree you have. we also dont care if you got 60% or 90% in your exams or what certificates you carry along with you. But, you need to be able to communicate in English, must have atleast a few years of working in a related environment. Common sense and an ability to rationally think are, however, critical! General sysadmin skills are essential ( we will test you on these ). People with a well thumbed copy of 'unix power tools' should definitely apply! All assignments are permanent, full time and come with the govt requirements for benefits etc. Location: We are looking for people based in Pune, Delhi and Chennai as a base. However, for people based in Delhi and Chennai there will be a frequent ( not exceeding 4 working days / month ) requirement to travel to Pune. Type of Employer: The Company is a infrastructure management consulting service, where we offer systems and network services to clients. We have 27 people working full time and 8 people part-time in the UK. And a further 6 people in Australia. Agile and XP practises are a cornerstone of the management style ( in that there is really no management, the entire organisation tree is very flat ). Salary and Benefits: You get paid pretax's Rs.80,000/- a month. We expect you to work 38 hrs per week. We also only work half-days on Wednesdays. There maybe a requirement to work weekends, but only after suitable advance notice ( mostly to handle infrastructure outage that cant happen during the work week ). There is a 6 months trial run period, wherein you get to see what we do and if you want to work with us, and we get to see if we want you working with us. Interview process: 1. Send me a CV. 2. We call you for a quick chat on the phone. ( 20 min ). 3. Have a longer ( 3 hrs estimate ) sysadmin 'pair' session. 4. Fix a time and have a longer ( 1 hr ) developer 'pair' session. 5. People get hired. ( 1st week of June 2007 ) Regards, - - KB [1] - Agencies and head hunters are not welcome to reply to me, we dont and wont hire people through agencies. - -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGHFUbXQZpNTcrCzMRAhxyAKCjCiJKzH1CGPqO2QuDbjV5FaKY/gCgnowq PUd/ZKdpxxZ5Epyo5zwQK+E= =Lf74 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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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debian etch dvd
by Satish Alwani 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Oh, I thought he was in TIFR, navy nagar. Damn. Oh well; courier.. Anwyays, happy downloading http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/iso-dvd/ Remember, disc 2 and disc 3. I strongly recommend the use of Moser Baer DVD's while burning. im around 50% done already. Should have effectively tomorrow/day after.Provided no screw ups. Satish

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Auto-enable usbnet device on link startup
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Hi, This is something I noticed while I was playing around with my Triband connection on USB. If I start (or reboot) my router after my computer has started, the network interface for the USB connection is detected but not enabled automatically. I have to manually up the interface. I guess this behaviour is expected under debian since network configuration (upping of interfaces) takes place only at startup through /etc/init.d/networking. Any network devices detected after startup will be configured but not enabled. Shouldn't default behaviour be to simply enable the interface if it is defined as auto in /etc/network/interfaces? -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.tk

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] wireless mesh at hbcse
by Vickram Crishna 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

--- Nagarjuna wrote: > Hi all, particularly those who attended the workshop > on 31st March and > 1st April, and last saturday Rony, Jtd resumed the > work. > > Status: > > Last saturday we successfully managed to get the > mesh working. Actually > the mesh works out of the box like a charm. We only > used several of our > legacy skills and actually wasted lot of time. But > at the end every > moment spent was useful. We now know exactly what > to communicate to > others who wish to setup such a mesh (mess ;-) > successfully. > > The dhcp on wireless was not working as of Saturday, > but today afternoon > I tried based on a reply from the olsr-users mailing > list. Again it > worked out of the box. > > What I did: > > installed a package called 'freifunk-dnsmasq', > restarted it. Now we see > an additional parameter on the web interface called > OLSR-DHCP: This is > where we give the DHCP share of the mesh network > (not the lan network). > thats it. > > Now we have a working mesh in the campus. I will > write documentation > here: http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/WirelessMesh. > Please add to everything > I missed out. I will also upload few screen shots > so that new teams > setting it up will find it useful. > > Next step: > > Prepare a server (Rony contributed a server) and > dump useful resources > there for community use. Next time, gluggers can > walk into our campus > and sit in our lounge with a laptop and takeaway > what the server has. > If we get a list of goodies that the community needs > we will begin > archiving them. So send such a request to > glab(a)hbcse.tifr.res.in. we > will download them during the night time and leave > it one the server. > Great news. Please link up these how-to-do-it pages in the wsfii wiki also. The resources idea is brilliant and a great boon. Please see how soon we can make this work. Actually, I think from what I heard in Dharamsala, it should be possible for us to 'mesh' into the system remotely wherever we are located, provided we run OLSR locally and tune it to the same mesh. In that case, downloading the resources will be just a hop or or two away. Is this understanding correct? > > From: Mrugesh Karnik <mrugeshkarnik(a)gmail.com> > Secondly, without the dnsmasq package, can we get > the native udhcpd to work > with the OLSR interface? I think we can.. What's the > OLSR interface that > shows up with ifconfig? It is possible, I think, to > manually configure the > DHCP server to listen on the OLSR interface. > > The problem, I think, wasn't with the missing > package, but with the fact that > we had DHCP running on the WLAN interface instead of > the OLSR interface. The > native DHCP should work perfectly fine if I'm > right... unless dnsmasq has > some features I don't know about.. Is it possible to 'test-bed' this on a non-wireless, perhaps a standalone, device? Can we create ghost nodes somehow? Anyhow, it hardly matters, since the actual test-bed will be available at HBCSE for trials. Vickram ___________________________________________________________ New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] bash proxy settings
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Firstly, may I know what is your ultimate aim? :-) >> I tried the above but now when i try to ping www.google.com >> ping: unknown host www.google.com is what i get. Make sure there is a DNS server that is reachable from your machine. The best way would be to run BIND as a caching DNS server ('# service bind start' for Red Hat systems) on the machine running the proxy server, and configure your machine to use this as the primary DNS (use /etc/resolv.conf). To confirm that this actually works do: $ nslookup gnu.org on your own machine. [ If you can not have a DNS then try: $ ping 199.232.41.10 If this fails, then read on.] Next, make sure you have a gateway that actually forwards the packet from your subnet to the outside world. I have had experience using a 'gateway' which never forwarded anything, so make sure that the sysadmin is not lying and the gateway is actually forwarding the traffic. Checking this is a bit dicey, and depends if there is any firewall that is blocking traffic bound to specific ports and so on. Here are a few things you can try: 1. $ ping google.com 2. Try using an email client like Mutt, Thunderbird, KMail and see if you can send and receive mail or not. If the SMTP and/or POP3 traffic is blocked this would not work. 3. Disable the proxy in the Web browser (eg., Firefox), and try to visit any site. Again if port 80 or 443 traffic is being blocked or not forwarded, this would not work. 4. Try using Gaim. Do not set any proxy, and try to log into Yahoo!, Jabber, or IRC. 5. Try SSH, without using any HTTP proxy tunnelling tool (like Corkscrew). If you have not heard about tunnelling, then most likely you do not have a any such tool. Just do something like: $ ssh foo(a)external.server Knowing your ultimate aim would have been helpful. Regards, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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Protecting ubuntu against fork bombs
by Chetan S 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Hi all, An old article caught my eye - http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/308 It talks about the way linux systems react to a fork bomb and surprisingly it is by freezing stiff. Sadly most distros seem to freeze as the limits are meant to maximize performance and not make it secure, even Ubuntu. Can someone shed light on what knobs/limits to tweak to deal with this "problem" ? regards, C

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Regarding comments on my site!!
by amitflu 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Hi, These dayz I am making a site and want to make a business out of it(in php and apache). Would love to receive ideas on improving revenue and outlook of the site? My site is www.merasurat.com. The site is still in its initial construction dayz. Thanks and Regards, Amit Kumar Webmaster www.merasurat.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121

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Re: Debian Etch out, finally!
by Kartik Mistry 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

On 4/9/07, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > At last! > > http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408 > > Kumar Ah, Where is release party? ;) -- Regards, -------------------------------------------------------- KartiK MistrY | kartikmistry.org 0xD1028C8D | kartikm.wordpress.com --------------------------------------------------------

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Firefox 2.0 @ higher risk than IE 7 in Vista?
by Roshan 08 Apr '07

08 Apr '07

Hello All, http://zdnet.com.com/1606-2_2-6173372.html Found this link, while was browsing through my emails and replies to queries. The above video demonstrates that .ani files used in Vista for animated cursors can be exploited by a remote server (when a URL is visited). (exploited for remote access to files) For Internet Explorer 7 (default installation with Vista), a connection is established, but since Internet Explorer is in protected mode, it won't allow harfmful priveleges on system files. However, a higher concern is for Firefox users, because it uses the same windows component to process this request, but doesn't have a defined modes of access. (No modes like the ones in IE7). I *haven't* tried this, nor do I know how a TCP packet is used in the above connection, (and what sort of packet) for this attack. So, does Firefox need some enhancements of functioning independently of Windows components? What are the security features of Firefox that tend to prove Internet Explorer is pretty bad on it? -- S K Somaiya College of ASC - http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Debian Etch out, finally!
by Kumar Appaiah 08 Apr '07

08 Apr '07

At last! http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408 Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036

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Qmail
by mahesh pokhriyal 07 Apr '07

07 Apr '07

Hi friends, I want to install qmail , pls. can anybody tell me best site for qmail from i get help about qmail like how to install & configure Qmail setup by setup. OR anybody have the notes for Qmail pls. forward me. Thanks&Regards, Mahesh Pokhriyal --------------------------------- Don't be flakey. Get Yahoo! Mail for Mobile and always stay connected to friends.

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April Meet
by Harsh Busa 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

WHAT: Meet to get first in person glimpses of $100 Laptop of One Laptop Per Child Project. Networking overall. WHERE: 5 Gardens, Matunga, Mumbai ( Very close to VJTI College) ( decide which garden ! ) WHEN: 7th April 2007 @ 5PM If you are coming or certainly not coming please leave a note on : http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/April_Meet Encouraging others to fill in details like how to get there and stuff Regards Harsh -- __________________________ http://www.ebackend.com/blog

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RHEL AS on Intel 101 motherboard
by ajay solanki 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

Hi I am trying to install RHEL AS on Intel 101 motherboard. It is giving system kernel panic error. Any work arounds to install Linux ? I want to install it on the ST3160021A 160 GB HD. And the windows is installed on the ST3250823AS 250gb HD. If any one has installed Linux on 101 motherboard please help me with tips on doing the same. The configuraion of my comp is as follows. Operating System Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Processor 2.67 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 16 kilobyte primary memory cache 1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache Main Circuit Board Board: Intel Corporation D101GGC AAD35788-308 Serial Number: BTGC62200YVL Bus Clock: 133 megahertz BIOS: Award BIOS for Intel GC11010N.86A.0311.2006.0420.1525 04/20/2006 Memory Modules 1984 Megabytes Installed Memory Slot 'A0' has 1024 MB Slot 'A1' has 1024 MB Drives 252.14 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity 125.66 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space SONY DVD RW DRU-810A [CD-ROM drive] 3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive] ST3160021A [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 3JS292J5, rev 3.06, SMART Status: Healthy ST3250823AS [Hard drive] (250.06 GB) -- drive 0 ControllersStandard floppy disk controller ATI IDE Controller Primary IDE Channel [Controller] (3x) Secondary IDE Channel [Controller] (3x) Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (2x DisplayATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series [Display adapter] ViewSonic E653 [Monitor] (13.8"vis, s/n ER01703495, April 2000) Bus AdaptersStandard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (2x) MultimediaRealtek High Definition Audio Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device Other DevicesIntel USB Video Camera III Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard PS/2 Compatible Mouse USB Root Hub (3x) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html

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Windows Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB
by Baishampayan Ghose 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Extremely odd --- http://www.trnicely.net/misc/vista.html BG - -- Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose(a)ubuntu.com> Ubuntu -- Linux for Human Beings http://www.ubuntu.com/ 1024D/86361B74 BB2C E244 15AD 05C5 523A 90E7 4249 3494 8636 1B74 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGDe7MQkk0lIY2G3QRAkZKAKCLq7ufPykBie/jRR9SDQ8JKXUzpQCfddyd HkLRzStE0IhlUO6rkoTFUAM= =SCuz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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LUG meeting btwn 4/2 and 4/9?
by Russ Nelson 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

Hi. I'll be in Mumbai between 4/2 and 4/9. If you're having a meeting then, or want to arrange one, I can speak on various topics, like Open Source licensing, or Politics and Technology of the DNS. I can also bring my One Laptop Per Child XO machine. It's a way cool piece of hardware. I'm consulting for Rediff.com, so I'll be busy all day. I can probably get away by 7 (they work me hard), and the office is in Mahim West. I'm leaving in about 41 hours, so act promptly! -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com | You can do any damn thing Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | you want, as long as you 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-323-1241 | don't expect somebody else Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog | to pick up the pieces.

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OLSR @ HBCSE
by Mrugesh Karnik 04 Apr '07

04 Apr '07

Hello guys, I thought of a few issues on my way back home. Firstly, if you want to edit stuff like nvram settings or anything else not available in the GUI, its apparently done via the /etc/local.* files. The DHCP server configuration for example, was done in /etc/local.udhcpd.conf or something similar. Just something to keep in mind before hacking the init scripts. Secondly, I read this: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3626#page-51 The cron script that was edited to prevent the default gw route loss (/usr/sbin/cron.minutely original at /usr/sbin/cron.minutely.orig) could have been trying to achieve this: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3626#page-54 Please run a diff to make sure. But I don't think it should be kept the way it is in the original file either. Another thing. If it is necessary to find out exactly which node assigned the ip to the client, in case of multiple DHCP servers, maybe interface aliases can be used to define two different subnets. Run DHCP server on the aliases to lease ips in two different subnets. Also, apparently OLSR traffic happens on UDP port 698. Regards. -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------

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Apache error "child pid 10500 exit signal Segmentation fault"
by Shubham Saxena 04 Apr '07

04 Apr '07

Hi, I have RHEL 4, httpd 2.0.52-9.ent. I have setup local webserver. When I am opening any .html page, the error log is showing "Directory index forbidden by rule: /var/www/" and when I am trying to open .php pages, the error log is showing "child pid 10500 exit signal Segmentation fault" and the blank page is displayed. Shubham --------------------------------- TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV.

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DRM-free Music from EMI through Apple iTunes
by Praveen A 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

Hi, April 3, 2007: EMI, the world's third largest music company, said today that it was making its music available online without a key anti-piracy measure in a deal with Apple Inc. to boost sales of digital music. Read the full story http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/technology/03music.web.html Great news for the DRM elimination crew!! Lets continue educating the consumers about the evils of DRM. Join the DRM Elimination Crew today !! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign "If consumers even know there's a DRM, what it is, and how it works, we've already failed," Peter Lee, an executive at Disney http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4342418 Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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LUG meet btwn 4/2 to 4/9?
by Easwar Hariharan 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

> > > On 31-Mar-07, at 8:43 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: > > > How about Tuesday the 3th, 8PM? Is there any systemic reason why > > that's a bad idea? > > 5th evening - for the purely selfish reason that i can attend ;-) Not so selfish,my dear,matches with my schedule too. ;-) Regards, Easwar

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Re:[ILUG-BOM] Debian Etch DVD's request
by Karan R. 01 Apr '07

01 Apr '07

Hi roshan, Thanks for the help, I contacted Vipul and will be picking them up from iitb today. If anyone else needs stuff, i can get that and burn it. Karan --------------------------------- Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos.

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Wireless Workshop at HBCSE
by Rony 31 Mar '07

31 Mar '07

Hello All, I had a talk with Dr. Nagarjuna about the wireless gnu/linux download idea and it was decided that it should not be restricted to downloads of CD isos alone but it should be a wireless resource hub that will allow anyone to freely access the knowledge base with no internet restrictions. It should be installed in schools, colleges and other public places in the villages and towns all over India. It will act as a free knowledge and information hub. People can simply access whatever information they are looking for and for those who don't have laptops, they can simply walk into a knowledge cafe and save their required data on a recording media. As a technology demonstrator, at the HBCSE, the plan is to setup a local wireless mesh of multiple APs that will provide a wide access range and then install the server that will provide the data to be freely downloaded. The process will be documented so that it can be emulated in other schools and colleges. The day for setup will be a Saturday and timing will be after 5.30 pm, next week. So we need 2 to 3 people to help in setting it up. Once it is setup, we can have a session where everyone bring their laptops to do the downloads. Those who don't want to bring a laptop can bring blank cds that can be recorded during the session. Those who are interested in contributing their time for this workshop may contact me off-list. -- Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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