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[OT] MTNL Triband Nu Users Beware - Part Of Your Downloads During Nu Hours May Be Charged To Your Non-nu Quota Of 1gb/mo.
by Arun K. Khan 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

In May 2006, ~173MB download during NU hours got charged to my non-NU 1GB/mo. quota. For details go to following link: http://www.broadbandforum.in/Triband-Nu-Users-Beware-Part-Of-Your-Downloads… -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) Schapiro's Explanation: The grass is always greener on the other side -- but that's because they use more manure.

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Share your views with LFY: CommunitySpeak Episode 2
by Janani Gopalakrishnan 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hello all, Greetings from the Linux For You team! As you all know, last month we launched a new initiative called CommunitySpeak where we pose a question to various ILUG mailing lists and publish the top five responses (selected by our technical editors) in the magazine. Thanks to all those who responded to last month's question on "why a majority of the world's top 10 supercomputers are powered by Linux". The best five among the responses received are to be published in the July 2006 issue of LFY. The selected responses were sent by Vishnu Vyas (Chennai), S R Parthan (Chennai), R Subramanian (Chennai), Manu Konchady (Bangalore) and P Sriram (Chennai). Thanks again for your participation. This month we have chosen the topic: "What would make a Windows user pick up a Linux magazine?" No, this is not a marketing tactic. We are *really* curious. What would make Windows users pick up a Linux magazine? How can we convince them to read about and adopt Linux and other free and open source software? Would they be interested in reading about free business software than run on Windows? What's your take on this? Our eyes and ears are wide open and we are waiting to listen to your ideas. Please write to us at writetojanani(a)gmail.com with a CC to atul.goel(a)efyindia.com before July 5th 2006. The top five responses will be published in the August 2006 issue of Linux for You. Look forward to your responses. Thanks, Janani Gopalakrishnan, Freelance Writer Atul Goel, Asst. Associate Editor, LFY

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Help with CGI
by Krishna Dagli/Krushna Dagli 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

> > Thanks for your instant support. What I am trying to do is > > simply run the Linux O.S. commands using CGI + Apache. > > Not sure what linux OS commands are, and reserving my comments on what a > bad idea this is, but anyway... > > > a) In httpd.conf > > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/ > > Ok, this is fine. > > > b) Started Perl > > /usr/bin/perl -w & > > And what is this supposed to do? It's basically a no-op. perl will > sleep forever, never doing anything. Ever. You do not need this. > > > Now I am not exactly Knowing What to do . If someone can give me in > > simple steps a simple configuration and sample CGI script + I will be > > reading the links sent by you guys > > Put your executable files in /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/ > Make sure they are executable > Run them from the browser using http://yourserver/cgi-bin/filename Try following script as your cgi test. #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; while (($key, $val) = each %ENV) { print "$key = $val \n"; } -Krishna

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problem with flash player
by bombay news 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

I have downloaded Macromedia Flash Player 7, but cannot install it in Opera 9. I get the following error msg: Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed in the following directory: Opera installation directory = /home/shivkumar/.opera Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): y cp: cannot stat `/home/shivkumar/Desktop/libflashplayer.so': No such file or dir ectory chmod: cannot access `/home/shivkumar/.opera/plugins/libflashplayer.so': No such file or directory Installation complete. Pl. help sk _________________________________________________________________ Shah Rukh fan? Know all about the Baadshah of Bollywood. On MSN Search http://server1.msn.co.in/profile/shahrukh.asp

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problem with flash player
by bombay news 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

I have downloaded Macromedia Flash Player 7, but cannot install it in Opera 9. I get the following error msg: Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed in the following directory: Opera installation directory = /home/shivkumar/.opera Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): y cp: cannot stat `/home/shivkumar/Desktop/libflashplayer.so': No such file or dir ectory chmod: cannot access `/home/shivkumar/.opera/plugins/libflashplayer.so': No such file or directory Installation complete. Pl. help sk _________________________________________________________________ Sexy, sultry, sensuous. - see why Bipasha Basu is all that and more. Try MSN Search http://server1.msn.co.in/Profile/bipashabasu.asp

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Deleting last line in a Dir
by Mangesh V Rakhunde 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hi How can I delete last line from all files from a Directory Bye Mangesh

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Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 38, Issue 50
by durvesh chury 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi , I am a young & new linux user of Mumbai would u please send me a DVD copy of fedora core 5 on the following address 'E' 204 Marigold c.h.s. THAKUR VILLAGE kANDIVALI 'E' MUMBAI 400101

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Help with CGI
by ryan coelho 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi Guys, I have been wanting to configure cgi-bin with apache. I have done it before and now I am having no luck. I want to do this on Red Hat 9. Pls help and guide me . Thanks & Regards Ryan

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MTNL to launch WiMAX
by Sameer Bagwe 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Read about this news on another forum. Searched google and found this. http://tenders.gov.in/innerpage.asp?choice=tc5 <http://tenders.gov.in/innerpage.asp?choice=tc5&tid=del25625&work=1> &tid=del25625&work=1 Regards.

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Ping capture tool
by Vishal 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

I'm working on Network in which Mumbai is central location with 10-12 locations connected over WAN . I'm looking out for for tool which can capture ping report (latency ) between Mumbai to that particular location . Currently I'm using a batch file which captures ping 10 times and creates a TXT file (ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -n 10 >cochin.txt) . Can any one sugesst me an tool which can directly capture ping results . Regards Vishal

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Janabhaaratii seeks translators for Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Malayalam...
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Empanelment of translators & janabhaaratii Translation Workshop ________________________________________________________________________ http://www.janabhaaratii.org.in/janabhaaratii/page_gen.php?lang=en&body=/an… janabhaaratii project at C-DAC, Mumbai funded by Technology Development in Indian Language (TDIL) Group of Ministry of Communication &IT, Govt. of India is a community oriented Indian language initiative. We plan to bring computing power to non-English speaking people by translating the desktop menus, help messages, files, FAQ's, error messages etc of GNU Linux System in various Indian languages. To begin with – translations in the Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Malayalam languages are planned. Through janabhaaratii project, we have already made available live CD's for these languages that one can use to input, edit, and display & print Indian language text easily. We would like to invite prospective translators who can contribute to this work on a payment basis. We will hold workshops to acquaint them with the following on 2nd Friday of every month: * Familiarity with Indian Language text processing using GNU/Linux platform. * Different kinds of translations & issues thereof. * Tools to support translations. We would also like to empanel translators for doing this task. In case you are interested Please fill the form & submit.

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Hosting Google Calendar Mobile Edition
by Francis 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi , I was wondering if anyone here in Mumbai hosts websites on their GNU/Linux driven computers . I have the Mobile edition of the Google Calendar which I have been working on as my Final year college project which I need to host . Please contact me off the list . Also let me know the fees for the hosting . Francis Pereira Rainy Days ! !

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ubuntu dapper drake
by Abhishek Daga 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

i looked up buylinuxdvd.com but they do not carry dapper drake ubuntu 6.01. I am looking for both the desktop and server version. If anyone can spare copies in exchange for blanks, (CDs), i'd appreciate it. thanks abhishek __________________________________________________ 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] ubuntu dapper drake
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

> yes there is a seperate cd for server, the desktop cd is a live cd which can > be installed from the live booted system like knoppix. How to order the CD for servers? I did not notice anything on the Shipit site. Cheers, Debarshi

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not able to view Inbox on kmail
by TAC Forums 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Hi , We have LTS on a debian 3.1 system Today, the /home partition got full due to some reason. And ever since that happened..every body on the server gor there kmail's crashed. After we removed unwanted files from /home , and when every one logged back in, there inbox was empty.Every body's..but the rest of the folders were there as it is. We can see the meessages in the /home/user/Mail/inbox/cur folder, but somehow Kmail is not able to view them.. Can any one help with this? Regards, Boskey -- TAC Support Team

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Billy baba resigning [OT yawn]
by vvcrishna＠radiophony.com 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Quoting Siddhesh: > On 6/20/06, Rony <ronbillypop(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > files. After I installed linux in his system, surprisingly he > > practically stopped calling. The only 2 times I have had to go to his > > That's quite interesting. I noticed a similar behaviour with my mother > in case of her quite successful) migration to GNU/Linux. The main > reason for that seems to be buttons and dialogs actually explaining > what it wants them to do. Anything kicks "OK/Cancel"'s a$$ ;-) > I just suffered a major Mac OSX crash...some hw problem that I haven't yet pinned down. But practically all my data is back now, thanks to third party proprietary software tools and loads of help from Mac users. Similarly, when I have problems with my RH9 installation, I get help from this and other users. But in comparison, although there were some sneers here (I thought) about Mac's Unix framework, the level of help and ease of fixing a serious problem was a different grade. I am sure a command line recovery would have worked pretty effectively, but would have presented me with a steeper learning curve, instead of which I got a clear and simple graphic utility which allowed me to see my destroyed files and save them back to my remote hdd with a series of clicks. I used to be a fairly neat hand at Windows, but can't even imagine wasting my time fixing its problems when they arise, and with the level of weaknesses and attacks commonplace today, that is just too often for my comfort. Looking back on the last 15-16 years of Windows development, I just think that Gates lost control, and perhaps was seduced by the incredible success and money. Yes, you can fool most of the poeople most of the time, but for someone else to do it better takes a fresh approach - Apple had nothing to lose and so could gamble on Next's experience, but the Linux world does not seem to be quite grasped of the urgency of the opportunity - at least not in India. I have seen some attempts from India to do creative things, but on the whole depressingly little - certainly too little for the kind of interest levels and keenness one sees on this and other lists. I don't know what the issue is, but instead of moaning about Gates' failures, we should look a little inward and evolve a way to bring out something better for ourselves. Vickram

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need an Ubuntu Dapper Drake CD
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

> I am looking for an Ubuntu Dapper Drake CD (the latest version of Ubuntu > which launched on June 1). I live at Dahisar, so can anyone nearby help me > out? I have been trying to buy one from an online seller from Mumbai, but > for some mysterious reason, the CD is not reaching me!!! Just visit http://shipit.ubuntu.com/ or http://shipit.kubuntu.com/ depending on whether you want Ubuntu or Kubuntu, and get a stamped CD for no cost. Cheers, Debarshi

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Need an Ubuntu Dapper Drake CD
by bombay news 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Dear all, I am looking for an Ubuntu Dapper Drake CD (the latest version of Ubuntu which launched on June 1). I live at Dahisar, so can anyone nearby help me out? I have been trying to buy one from an online seller from Mumbai, but for some mysterious reason, the CD is not reaching me!!! Shiv Kumar _________________________________________________________________ Shah Rukh fan? Know all about the Baadshah of Bollywood. On MSN Search http://server1.msn.co.in/profile/shahrukh.asp

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[COMMERCIAL] Linux Jobs
by Sudhir Gandotra 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

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winSCP update
by Abhishek Daga 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

I had asked for some tips on scp via windows/putty. I typed too soon i think. Heres one answer. http://www.jfitz.com/tips/ssh_for_windows.html#WinSCP __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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fc3 (tecra 8100) and fc4 (desktop) function keys settings
by Abhishek Daga 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

I am using FC3 on a tecra 8100. Connected via ssh to a remote machine running an application written in c-tree. it requires the use of various function keys. F1 pulls up Help instead of doing what app wants it to do. F3 just spits out a character. F10 acts like the Alt key. Same for Fc4 on a std desktop. All function keys work as they are supposed with putty over winXp. Any ideas on how to resolve this where F1, F3, F10 do what the application want them to do and not what is predefined? Also, i can scp files from remote server as I am sshing into it. But can I download files from remote server on local machine using putty? thanks abhi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 38, Issue 42
by PenguinPuPPy 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

Hey Guys How About A meet This Sunday its been long time!

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Microsoft's New Linux-Based Wireless Network
by Sameer Bagwe 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

"The next time Bill Gates sends an e-mail through Microsoft's shiny new Wireless LAN it will be passed through a behind-the-scenes Linux-based network appliance. Earlier this year Microsoft and Aruba Networks jointly announced the two companies will work to replace Microsoft's existing Cisco wireless network with Aruba's centrally-managed infrastructure, which eliminates the need for individual changes on the access points. " Source: http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;754084996;fp;2;fpid;1 Regards.

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linux pipes
by maini sagun 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

can anyonme tell me how to build pipes in linux and a little clearance on linux pipes i will be grateful.... thanx prince __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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help needed
by Ranjit Sapre 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Hi all, I have installed Fedora 2 on my PC. I wish to install Oracle 8i or above on linux. Does anyone have a CD? or any advice? im in bangalore. Thanks, Ranjit

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Don't bluff yourself, GNU/Linux is essential to our students today... lessons from New Mexico
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

A fascinating note. Facts and figures that might have missed you amidst all the proprietorial software propagand. Am grateful to Dr Charles Cosse <ccosse(a)psl.nmsu.edu> who sent me this note: "Hello -- Greetings from Las Cruces, NM (USA)! Just writing a quick note of thanks for your continued efforts towards the advancement of FOSS/Linux/etc...I've enjoyed your newsletter and continue to benefit from your information dissemination. Here in Las Cruces, NM, I am attempting to assemble the pieces of a "New Mexico Linux Corps". Please have a look if you get a chance...perhaps someday if your in the area we can meet for lunch! Hope so, meanwhile, thanks again! Sincerely, Charles Cosse http://linuxcorps.nmsu.edu http://www.asymptopia.org " The only thing is that I'm almost exactly at the other end of the planet ;-) Further contacts for those interested: Charles Cossé, Ph.D. Physics & Software R&D Physical Science Laboratory New Mexico State University ccosse(a)psl.nmsu.edu 505.522.9291 (voice) 505.522.9428 (fax) PS: Free/Libre and Open Source Software doesn't just teach you *one brand* of computing. It takes you to an indepth level of learning, which allows its students to cope with any challenges that arise in future... * * * * * * * * * New Mexico Linux Corps The New Mexico Linux Corps is an outreach project at New Mexico State University which partners with interested school districts to compliment and assist their efforts as they expand the resources available to their students in terms of OpenSource software and computers running the Linux operating system. A quick survey of businesses and government institutions that rely on Linux and OpenSource, daily, serves to emphasize the need for increasing its' presence in our schools: Google, Yahoo, Pixar, Amazon, Sony, NASA, Intel, IBM, OSX, FAA, NSA, CIA, FBI, DOE, DHS, NMSU, UNM, U.S. Military, Raytheon, Locheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Zianet, Hewlett-Packard, Hughs, Harris, Los Alamos, Sandia, Autozone, Novell, Calculex, Oracle, Shell, Conoco, Home Depot, Digital Domain, U.S. Postal Service, LCPS, State of Massachusetts, State of Indiana, Motorolla, and many more. As of today, Linux is the fastest growing software and powers 8/10 of the worlds' fastest supercomputers. Many school districts around the country -- indeed, the world -- have recognized the importance of Linux and OpenSource in today's workforce, and successfully educate their students with-and-about it. As New Mexico works to preserve its' status as a center for high-tech creativity we need to empower the next generation with a more complete set of practical skills to implement their innovations. The long-term benefit to the State of New Mexico will be the production of graduates with familiarity and capabilities in an area upon-which our local economies increasingly rely. We are currently in the process of advancing our program to provide modest financial support for a handful of mobile tech-staff to assist interested schools in Southern New Mexico with installation, training, application development, and technical support. We look forward to working together with these pioneering schools to expand the educational opportunities for their students, our future. Teaching with-and-about Linux and OpenSource has the potential to profoundly affect the lives of many students in positive ways. The New Mexico Linux Corps project remains committed to serving the students, the schools and the State of New Mexico. -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Frederick 'FN' Noronha | Yahoomessenger: fredericknoronha http://fn.goa-india.org | fred(a)bytesforall.org Independent Journalist | +91(832)2409490 Cell 9822122436 ---------------------------------------------------------- AsiaCommons' blog http://www.asia-commons.net/blog/39

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Help / installing a new ethernet card / Gentoo
by Abhijeet 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hi, I've had gentoo 2005.1 with a 2.6.15-r1 gentoo kernel installed for the past 6 months. Recently, my ethernet card conked off and after lots of testing, I was advised by my 'knowledgeable' cablenet operator to get a new one - so I did. I've got an intex lan card with an Realtek 8139d chipset now and I got a drivers cd along with that. I tried compiling the source for the module which they've provided in that CD but was unsuccessful. I used to have a Pronet card with a Realtek 8139 chipset and that was autodetected during installation. What I was wondering was if there is any other way to go about installing this new ethernet card and also unregister the old one; as during boot it gives an error saying that eth0 is not present or something to that effect. I tried looking up google and forums, but couldn't find much. Thanks in advance. Abhijeet

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[OT] IBM 'frozen' chip runs at 500GHz
by Arun K. Khan 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

IBM computer simulations show that their chip could reach speeds of 1,000 GHz http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/20/79449_HNibmfrozenchip_1.html -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. -- Sydney J. Harris

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Billy baba resigning [OT yawn]
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

> This argument isn't true at all. What if the child wants to change the > file associations? What if the child wants to draw a simple drawing? > ( Paint brush kicks Kpaints a$$ ). What if the child wants to install a > flash plugin? Firefox has issues installing plugins on my FC5 system. Who knows? The child might just solve all these problems. eg., she might come with a KPaint that kicks Paint's a$$! IMHO it is much better to expose a child to things she can do, than stuff ready-made for her. Regards, Debarshi

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Linux hands on
by Vishal 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hello , I'm looking out hand's on trainning on Linux to clear my few doubt's . Is there anyone indidival or any trainning institute who can conduct a small session for me on on Linux hand's on . Regards Vishal

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[OT] Erratic service MTNL TriBand
by Arun K. Khan 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Looks like MTNL has joined the band wagon of crappy ISPs of India. For the past 3 days, I have been experiencing erratic net access to the "Internet." I run my own DNS (bind) - an inordinate time for a name lookup is a good indication that queries to the root servers are not going through. Usually, a reboot of the modem has solved the problem. However, today around 15:00 it got to the point that I was not able to ping the MTNL gw 59.183.63.254 assigned to the Triband subnet. Upon further investigation I found that my modem/router was not getting any dynamic IP assignment for about an hour (ATM link layer checked out OK). My connection is off the Khar(W) Exchg. Anybody with TriBand service experiencing the same? -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) "I can resist anything but temptation."

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Re: Linux hands on
by Roshan 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

> Hello , > > I'm looking out hand's on trainning on Linux to > clear my few doubt's . Is > there anyone indidival or any trainning institute > who can conduct a small > session for me on on Linux hand's on . As stated in one of the earlier emails to the list, you can do it by yourself. You might explore a lot more, but disadvantages like inconsistency (aaj kiya, kal nahi, parson kiya, badme nahi....and so on...) time consumption is more (if you are fairly new) and have no idea of what of Windows to GNU/Linux Alternative (that's how I learnt, but that may not be the best or correct way) What you would probably require is to know which are the best sources for this. Among the billion's, here are a few of them which I would list out 1. the distro's (that you are using) website of documentation / how to's page 2. http://www.tldp.org 3. a few articles from http://desktoplinux.com/ 4. http://www.linuxquestions.org finally, 5. en.wikipedia.org (gr8 for some jargons that you might not know) and yes....for all google-ites, there's always http://www.google.co.in (Google India ;) ) __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Billy baba resigning [OT yawn]
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

>> seems like you hate him more than you hate sco . > Not at all. Never met him personally and unlikely to in the forseeable > future. so nothing personal about it. >> we must thank him for proliferating computers and software to the >> masses. > Rubbish taiwanse cloners and chip fabs did that. ..snip... >> it is our job to take this vision in a more cleaner way > Are u joking what vision - robbing other's software, writing illegal > contracts, being the big bully, writing software with more holes than > a sieve. And that is not my concotion - it's recorded in various > court judgements across the world. >> ... to >> make computing more affordable and relilable ... to make lif >> e a lot more easir by improving the interfaces to computers an >> making them more useful to common man without putting any efforts >> in learning... > All of which would have been a lot cheaper and easier and reliable had > it not been for the aforementioned Billybaba and his cohorts' > methods. First of all very well-written JTD! Well let me narrate an incident, a real-life incident when I visited Microsoft Campus in Gachibowli, Hyderabad. It was part of our college tour, and was made possible by one of the seniors who is working in M$. I had a nice debate regarding FOSS, M$, ...., which was mainly initiated by the M$ fellas who could not stop asking which one among us though Billy to evil, thought M$ was bad, etc... During the couse of this debate, suddenly when they were pushed to a corner, they came up with the question: Why would you ever use Linux? Why would you ever use anything other than Winblows? Now what about this? Is this how employees of a company, an American company owned by a good American citizen, behave? What about the philosophies of democracy that Mr. Bush and his cronies are trying to push forward? The whole point is that M$ is not as likeable as you think. Think of a world without Winblows and you would get the logic. The whole idea of Windows making computing easy does not hold. Yeah they have definitely made it a idiot-friendly thing. But that is dangerous in the same way that driving would be a dangerous thing if you made licenses optional. The plethora of viruses and worms that we find everywhere would have been lesser if it was not for that Winblows user who so happily clicks on every mail in the mailbox, and every .exe on the floppy. Cheerio, Debarshi

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux hands on
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

> I'm looking out hand's on trainning on Linux to clear my few doubt's . Is > there anyone indidival or any trainning institute who can conduct a small > session for me on on Linux hand's on . What doubts? Could you be more explicit? Cheerio, Debarshi

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Kernel panic in ubuntu
by rohit bhute 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

My Ubuntu install threw up a Kernel panic today. The details during start-up were as follows: <snip> [4294671.914000]crc error [4294671.915000]Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0) [4294671.915000] </snip> In the GUI startup , the display would freeze at "Loading hardware drivers..." In safe mode, it dropped me to "root@bhute" -but I had no idea what to check and rectify. Incidently, even Win XP restarted automaically. In safe mode, it restarted at the same point i.e. loading drivers. Running Ubuntu's memtest gave me some 310272 errors. And to make me more confused, the system worked all OK after the memtest. Any hints would be welcome. Incidently, Dapper froze around 10 times on my machine in two weeks. Is my RAM or HDD on the death bed? -- Rohit V. Bhute http://blog.rvbhute.org/

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Installing Fedora Core on other's hard disk?
by Roshan 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Is it ok if I install Fedora Core 5 using my computer on my friend's hard disk drive? Would my friend be able to use the OS once, he plugs it back to his system? My computer configuration is completely different than his --------------------------------- If you don't know something, its always better to learn it and then experiment with components! PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! Visit http://www.somaiya.edu You have the ability to change things so that they, not only benefit you but others as well, but you might resist to...think about it! The different distros of GNU/Linux pretty much resemble the different cultures of indians all having the same foundation (the kernel) Use OpenOffice.orgDownload it for windows from http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.0/ "Intentions are written with pencil.Commitments are carved on Stones!" - CLINT A. D'SOUZA __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Re: Kernel panic in ubuntu
by Roshan 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

> Sometime on Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 10:04:51AM +0530, > rohit bhute said: > > Running Ubuntu's memtest gave me some 310272 > errors. And to make me > > more confused, the system worked all OK after the > memtest. > > > > Any hints would be welcome. Incidently, Dapper > froze around 10 times > > on my machine in two weeks. Is my RAM or HDD on > the death bed? > > I was also facing same problem, your RAM is the > culprit here. Get a > new one if possible. I have a different story to tell. This was a year ago. I had the same problem, where the system would freeze anytime. Possibly, it your RAM, but, probably, you could try testing your RAM on your friend's computer. Also, observe the amount of time your system works before freezing, for few days. Also, in the BIOS, observe the temperature of CPU and the chassis, before it freezes. My problem had its root in the motherboard. I had tested my RAM, my power supply for faults, and replaced the power supply, after a number of test's at my friend's place. But, it did not solve the problem. Ultimately, I gave my motherboard for repairing and things are normal till now! __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Re: Installing Fedora Core on other's hard disk
by Roshan 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

> > On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 08:42:39PM +0000, Dinesh > Joshi wrote: > > > > OP, why can't you install it directly on his PC? He's usually busy during the entire day, and comes back late in the evenings. So, I thought, I would install Fedora for him, initially, but I think, I cannot do that straightaway. I would have to do some modifications in the installation procedure, as stated in the earlier mails to the list. > That reminds me, can the op store the dvd disc as an > ISO 9660 rom in the > hdd and boot the target system from it? I have the 5 CD's of fedora core 5 and I think, the best I can do is give him the CD's or give him the ISO's on his hdd and ask him to install it. __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Software - Red hat 10.0
by Balwinder Arora 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

I wanted to know if redhat 10.0 is available freely ... if yes, can any one pass on the link to me.???

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[commerical] workgroup server
by Harsh Busa 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Dear List I need some help setting up a workgroup server which will typically work as 1) file / print server 2) domain authentication 3) local mail server 4) im server 5) firewall / proxy 6) vpn setup etc and a few other things which we can get into specifics offline we need support for upwards of 1 year along with this. only individuals with a definite services and support model contact me off the list . i m not looking this as a one time "do and disappear" activity. thanks and regards Harsh -- __________________________ http://www.ebackend.com/blog

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Billy baba resigning [OT yawn]
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

> wait right there. Linus Torvalds isn't responsible for Linux fanatics, > is he? So how can you hold Billy boi responsible for Windoze fanatics? He he... Did you go through what was written in the link you had earlier posted. Well here it is http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html. Gates (or Billy Boi) does sound a bit fanatic. Steve Ballmer's tirade against FLOSS is well known I thought. And yes it does have racist overtones at times: "How can you trust a programmer in China, instead of a ... like Microsoft?" > Microsoft's _major_ audience includes these "idiots" (no offense meant > to windoze users) and I guess nobody, not even the F/OSS community can > create idiot proof softwares. Micosoft can hardly keep up to these > bigger and better "idiots". Hence the proliferation of worms, viruses, > trojans, malware etc... What is the need for idiot proof software? We can do with some more less-idiotic users though. > Basically *nix users aren't the average computer Joe or Jane. And why is it so, when Unix is older than Winblows? Because of the apparent idiot-proof-ness of Winblows, and the South-East Asian pirates. It is interesting to note M$'s take on piracy. Oh yes thanks to Baishampayan for pointing out, Bill Joy wrote vi. :) Regards, Debarshi

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installing opera in linspire
by bombay news 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Dear all, I am trying to install Opera in linspire. Downloaded Opera (opera_8.54-20060330.6-shared-qt_en_etch_i386) but am unable to install this using apt-get. What commands do I give in the "Run Command" box? sk _________________________________________________________________ Fall in Love... Get married! Join FREE! http://www.shaadi.com/ptnr.php?ptnr=msnhottag

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exchange with ms exchange
by Steven Joseph 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hi, is there any way to get mail from m$ exchange to kmail. -- Life would have been a lot more easier if we could look at the source code.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Billy baba resigning [OT yawn]
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

> Debarshi, > The amount of energy you are expending in hating microsoft is so huge that > if you'd have started writing some code instead of that, you'd have a OS > much better than MS and Linux combined !! I was doing something like that when this whole discussion popped up on my mailing list. Nothing bad in taking a break though. ;-) Regards, Debarshi

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Re: Installing Fedora Core on other's hard disk?
by Roshan 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

> It's likely that it won't work out of the box. I'd > recommend setting it > up to boot into run level 3 by default. The major > problem would be with > X configuration, so once it boots into run level 3 > on his computer, > reconfigure X with the right display driver, and > switch back to run > level 5. I have no idea how to do this, but I'll find out some documentation, and may be attempt it. > you may want to trim your signature to be just about > 2-3 lines long. Yes. I would. I have "Use my signature" checked, by default, and when I forget to uncheck it before sending it to the list, the "biggie siggi" appears in the mail. __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Eben Moglen and Cory Doctorow Videos
by Venkatesh Hariharan 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

At the recently held Red Hat Summit in Nashville, Eben Moglen, General Counsel for the Free Software Foundation, and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center spoke about software patents. Cory Doctorow, noted science fiction writer, spoke about Digital Rights Management and copyrights. Both these speeches were highly appreciated by the audience. The videos of the same are now at: http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/videos/ Highly recommended! Apart from the videos, there is a whole bunch of news, blogs etc. From the Gnu/Linux Users Group perspective, what may be most relevant are the technical presentations archived at: http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/presentations/cos.htm Regards, Venky

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[OT] AIX on Intel.
by Nadeem M. Khan 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hi. Is there any way by which I can install IBM AIX on Intel platforms? Maybe a power pc simulator? Google's results were discouraging. I need an AIX test server which I can muck up but dont have a spare pSeries to do so. Regards, NMK.

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[commercial] Hiring GNU/Linux administrators
by TAC Forums 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hello, We, www.TheArgonCompany.com , have an opening with the following requirements. Interested candidates can send there resume to jobs(a)theargoncompany.com. Requirements - 6months-1yrs. of experience in GNU/Linux - A basic understanding of DNS, Mail servers, File servers - a fair idea of customer support - Love for GNU/Linux :-) Regards, Boskey Chheda -- TAC Support Team

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e: [ILUG-BOM] Billy baba resigning [OT yawn]
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

First of all, has anybody on the list seen Revolution OS? It is a small documentary. I think I have a copy so junta can take it from me if required. > Right now they have made a "contribution" of US$30million to Mass. > government to "help" needy students buy M$ malware. Funny they dont > offer it to everybody - only those insisting on Open standards. And > in an attempt to get a future legal handle they are fast racking > their version of XML in two rubber stamp "standards" organisation. During the same visit to M$, they talked about a scheme where low-cost limited edition of their .Net stuff was to be given to colleges for their students' to use. Forgive me for not remembering what 'low-cost limited' exactly meant. But then the employees were very proud of the fact that the Gates Foundation has donated generously for the betterment of AIDS patients and so on. However on being informed that a certain Bram Moolenaar- author of vi, does organize donations for poor children in Uganda the M$ people came up with the "Why at all Linux" thing. Secondly the guys at M$ seem to be extremely satisfied with the fact that most (according to them an overwhelming majority) of the people are using Winblows. That they say is the clinching factor. They are even more pleased to note that most of my class-mates are Windoze lovers, and they are the ones to be tomorrows CEOs. However they do not mind that atleast 60% to 75% of these users use pirated copies. And today's pirates would be tomorrow's CEOs according to them. The thing is proprietary software is a pain in most cases, if not all, and M$ aggressively pursues it. My friends at BARC's Remote Handling and Robotics Division experienced a similar problem RMS had faced at MIT's AI Labs. These fellows at BARC have bought a nice digital compas from Honeywell. The demo program which apparently demonstrates how to operate the thing is a mere EXE and the code is not available. In the absence of it, nobody has got any idea how to program the thing and use it in a robot. BARC I am given to believe is central to India's fundamental R&D and this is how the situation is. The whole impression that people (Winblows users actually) get today is that Windoze is the 'standard' thing, and that GNU/Linux is the real trouble. eg., you can not install Windoze after you put on GNU/Linux, Fedora does not come with MP3 support while Windoze has no problem, etc.. People seem to miss the point that it is Windoze that overwrites the bootloader entries while GNU/Linux appends, that MP3 is patented and M$ pays for it, and so on... Regards, Debarshi

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Linuxformat in India
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

>> if you notice that the average student outside the Mumbai metropolitan >> region spends more than that on fuel alone. > Fuel?? You're certainly talking about a different class of people > here. I (and most of educated India, AFAIK) don't spend on fuel. > Mostly its on bus and train fare ;-). And why do the buses and trains require you to buy the tickets? Only to pay the drivers? I thought they ran on some fuel too. In my opinion Rs 100-Rs150 for a really good quality magazine is not too much. Googling is ok, but having a hard copy still counts. Not everywhere in India do you get good stable Internet connections, and so using the net is still remains a pain for some. And remember the Internet also costs some amount. Lets not confuse a 'good FOSS magazine' with the ones we already have like Digit, PCQ, etc.. In my opinion they often advertise proprietary software that runs on otherwise Free OSes. Hence they do not serve the purpose. Bye, Debarshi

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Billy baba resigning [OT yawn]
by jtd 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

July 2008 favourite punching bag will resign from M$ as chief software architect. The orginal PR stated that he was resiginig as Chairman. But a clarification from billybaba says that he will remain chairman forever. Hopefully the rest of the garbage will remove itself too and there will be some real architecture in place of spahgetti. -- Rgds JTD

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School days
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

> In my school, one day the boys got together to shout > "bhago bhago" just when the class was about to get over. It became a > very serious matter involving the principal too. He threatened the > entire class with punishment unless the guilty persons owned up. One of > our classmates admitted that he only said "bha", he did not say "go" as > the teacher had turned around by then. This amused everyone and we were > let of with a small punishment. :) Well something similar happened when i was in class X. The library was lit up with lights which were distributed across two phases. Once one of the phases went kaput, and we the perennial back-benchers found ourselves in the darker part of the library. I initiated a 'Andhera Kayam Rahe', inspired from the crook in the Shaktiman series, which soon spread like woildfire. Things took an ugly turn, and I was taken to the principal on admitting that I had done it. Luckily the punishment turned out to be much lesser than was promised initially. Cheers, Debarshi

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permissions on /var/www in Ubuntu
by Rohit V Bhute 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

I've messed up the ugo permissions on the /var/www directory which is now giving me a 403 Forbidden error. Details as follows. 1. 'www-data' user and group - created (I assume) when I installed apache2 and used by it. 2. The /var/www directory had 'root' in its owner and group fields. 3. I changed the owner and group of /var/www to 'www-data' and added 'root' and 'rohit' (normal user) to the 'www-data' group and changed the directory permissions to 775. Now, I get a 403 error. The apache2-default folder, which is owned by 'root' is accessible through through the server. Can anybody tell me the right permissions of the www directory so I can add/edit/delete stuff without using sudo?. -- Rohit V. Bhute http://blog.rvbhute.org

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AntiDialer (Broadband Dialer for Sify) v0.1 released
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

(AntiDialer is a GNU/Linux broadband dialer for Sify broadband users) Hi, I have released AntiDialer v0.1 into the wild today. The main feature of this release is that it is no longer just a GUI dialer. It is now a console based dialer with a GUI plugin. Here are the details: AntiDialer version 0.1 is out today. Get it here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=157014&package_id=17… This version has been released in three forms: 0) source tarball 1) debian package 2) rpm package (auto-created from the deb package with alien) New Features: ------------------ 0. Complete rewrite of the core to remove all dependence on QT libraries. QT dependency is only for the UI plugin now. 1. Console based interface for the shell junkies 2. Plugin interface to allow new feature implementation in the form of separate plugin libraries 3. A GUI plugin based on QT 4. Ability to provide username/password at console. You may write the command with username and password into an rc.d file and it will autoconnect on startup. Features removed: -------------------------- 0. Heartbeat: This feature is useless unless you want a tray icon alive all the time. A tray icon can be implemented as a plugin. The old heartbeat code is still there in the tarball if anyone's interested. Regards, Siddhesh -- http://siddhesh.tk

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Re: MTNL Mumbai Newsletter
by Roshan 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

JTD wrote: > MTNL says IE is vulnerable and > "It is suggested to install another browser apart > from IE as a standby > alternative. > Following are some of the other standard browsers > available on > internet and their locations from where they can be > downloaded. > Netscape ver 8.1 > http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/ > FireFox ver 1.5.0.4 > http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ > Opera ver 8.5 http://www.opera.com/ > Avant ver 10.2 http://www.avantbrowser.com/" This is good news. There are people at MTNL who understand, there are few holes in IE and are asking their customers to look out for options. I vote for MOZILLA FIREFOX! > So people are peering outa the window. > Times Insta poll says that 80% of respondents want > Indian government > to implement opensource technologies. I think, there's already an instance of the same. The national portal of India (http://www.india.gov.in). Pages are developed using PHP and hosted on Apache, Redhat Linux > Billybaba resigning and his sharp practices. Would that make a big difference to organizations who purchase Microsoft Products? __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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MTNL Mumbai Newsletter
by jtd 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

MTNL says IE is vulnerable and "It is suggested to install another browser apart from IE as a standby alternative. Following are some of the other standard browsers available on internet and their locations from where they can be downloaded. Netscape ver 8.1 http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/ FireFox ver 1.5.0.4 http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Opera ver 8.5 http://www.opera.com/ Avant ver 10.2 http://www.avantbrowser.com/" So people are peering outa the window. Times Insta poll says that 80% of respondents want Indian government to implement opensource technologies. along with an article about Billybaba resigning and his sharp practices. Mainstream press is noticing things. -- Rgds JTD

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New linux Library
by x x 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

I propose to start a library of linux books soon. I am looking forward to some suggestions on startup collection on this thread. For availing books contact me offlist at 9969302344. _________________________________________________________________ Fall in Love... Get married! Join FREE! http://www.shaadi.com/ptnr.php?ptnr=msnhottag

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google earth
by Harsh Busa 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

Google has started supporting their apps on linux first was picasa and now its ggl earth http://dl.google.com/earth/GE4/GoogleEarthLinux.bin -- __________________________ http://www.ebackend.com/blog

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Are there any online trading software ...
by Steven Joseph 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Hi, Are there any online trading software availiable in linux. Are there any firms that offer online trading applications for linux... similar to 1 paisa .coms desktop trading software Steven -- Life would have been a lot more easier if we could look at the source code.

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CUI (text-based) OS?
by Roshan 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

LO, If given a choice, would anybody like to come back to a CUI based Operating System...those good old days of UNIX / the 1990's (early) Linux OS? (or GNU/Linux, if it had been associated) This very thought has its roots in the short story below! Long time back in my first year (BSc I. T.), I had developed a small utility for DOS in C(we did not have GNU/Linux anywhere around in first year!) which was a "one letter DOS"(kindof emulator for DOS). Any user who would run it, would just have to type a single letter to execute / display something. For example, if one wants to clear the screen, he has to just type the letter 'b' (b for blank). 'h' for help! --------------------------------- If you don't know something, its always better to learn it and then experiment with components! PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! Visit http://www.somaiya.edu You have the ability to change things so that they, not only benefit you but others as well, but you might resist to...think about it! The different distros of GNU/Linux pretty much resemble the different cultures of indians all having the same foundation (the kernel) Use OpenOffice.orgDownload it for windows from http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.0/ "Intentions are written with pencil.Commitments are carved on Stones!" - CLINT A. D'SOUZA Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com Stay connected with your friends even when away from PC. Link: http://in.mobile.yahoo.com/new/messenger/

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Linux compatible PCI IDE adapter
by Faraz Shahbazker 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

I am looking to setup software RAID-1 on my home computer and need an extra IDE interface. Any ideas on tried-and-tested PCI-IDE adapters/chipsets for GNU/Linux which are locally available(read Lamington Road). I am also considering the alternative of buying a SATA hdd, in which case I would need to know of Linux compatible PCI-SATA controllers/chipsets. Once again the operative conditions would be locally available and somewhat cheap(<= 1k). Thanks, farazs

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GNU/Linux books...
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Some books available with Shroff Publishers at Mumbai spdorders(a)shroffpublishers.com O'REILLY * Linux in a Nutshell Rs 500 * MySQL in a Nutshell Rs 325 * Open Source for the Enterprise Rs 250 * Perl best practices Rs 450 * Perl Testing: Developer's Nbk Rs 225 * Test driving Linux Rs 350 CHARLES RIVER MEDIA * Linux TCP/IP Stack Rs 450 NO STARCH PRESS * Linux Cookbook Rs 600 * Linux for Non-Geeks Rs 300 * The official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide Rs 475 * Wi-Fi Rs 250 * Write Great Code Rs 400 For FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software0 news from across Asia, please visit http://feeds.goa-india.org

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[commercial] - JOBS StartUp Company Based on Linux Platform
by shamshu shaikh 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Hi friends, Mine is a StartUp company based on Linux Platform in Bombay, i would like to have linux techies ( even freshers with attitude to deliver the best) to be on board with me to achieve their as well as company goals in the best and fastest possible way. People interested to join me can feel free to contact me at shamshu.s(a)gmail.com.Please send in your CV with contact details. The areas of work should be qmail,sendmail,apache,mysql,ldap,iptables,RPM's. Regards shamshu Regards shamshu shamshu_s(a)rediffmail.com

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] CUI (text-based) OS?
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Infra, Energy) 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

>"one letter DOS"(kindof emulator for DOS). Any user >who would run it, would just have to type a single >letter to execute / display something. For example, if >one wants to clear the screen, he has to just type the >letter 'b' (b for blank). 'h' for help! Life would be a lot simpler if users did just 26 things.. Seriously, we need both that's why all OS have a "command line" -- Gishu

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possibly a bug in ubuntu
by Mohan Nayaka 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Hi all I wanted to check before filing a bug report for ubuntu. Intermittently, i.e. about twice in five sessions, the whole UI boats up by about 1.5 to 2 times. This has become more frequent in 6.06 . This is a serious usability issue, as important configuration dialogs such users-admin are clipped at the bottom. This is observed in both gnome & kde. This has been an issue since the time of 5.04 However if this were a wide-spread issue, it would have probably been fixed by now. Hence, i am hesitating to raise a bug for the same. Please advise. Regards, Mohan S N -- There will be plenty of time to rest in the grave. - Paul Erdos

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Linuxformat in India
by Hemant Charya 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Hi, I am Hemant Charya. I work for a major publishing house in Mumbai, India. We intend to make Linuxformat (http://linuxformat.co.uk/) magazine availabe in India, at Indian prices. Linuxformat magazine is very popular in UK . It is accompanied by a DVD (July '06 DVD contains: Polished Mandriva spin-off PCLinuxOS, and rock-solid enterprise-ready CentOS, KOffice 1.5, Oracle 10g XE, games and more As a publisher we want to learn from the Indian Linux community and potential readers: 1. Whether the Linux users in India like to read an international magazine dedicated to Linux? 2. Would they be interested in subscribing to such a magazine. 3. What would be the most the most attractive cover-price in Indian Rupees? (The internatonal edition of Linuxformat is available in select bookstores of Mumbai. A single issue costs an exorbitant 600+ Rupees). Your feedback is extremely valuable for us. Only you can help us bring an awesome monthly read purely about Linux and at affordable Indian prices. The highlights of the July '06 issue of LinuxFormat are below. * Top kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman explains why binary drivers are evil * Lessons in Linux - In-depth feature on Linux growth in schools and universities * Reviews - Ubuntu 6.06, Oracle 10g Express Edition, Second Life, GnuCash 2.0, Ogre 3D 1.2, books, blog engines... More can be found at http://linuxformat.co.uk/ . Regards, Hemant Charya Mumbai

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Copy cat M$
by Puneet Lakhina 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

This a link to a review of vista beta with a humongous amount of screenshots. http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/31/windows_vista/ I am posting this link here coz i was shocked to find the extent of just simple plain copying of features that has been done in internet exploere 7. It borrows tabbed browsing, rss feed reader, explicit mgmt of add ons.. list is endless. Is this right?? Are they required to acknowledge it?? under some license clause of firefox. Coz they will now make glitzy videos demonstarting something thats been there for ages in mozilla and firefox. -- Puneet

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Online petition to make HDFC Mozilla friendly
by bombay news 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Dear Linuxers, I have created an online petition with an aim to persuade HDFC bank and its associate www.hdfcsec.com to become more receptable to open source software. At present HDFC's tradiing site- www.hdfcsec.com can only be accessed by Internet Explorer with no support at all extended to Mozilla Firefox or Opera. This forces a lot of open source enthusiasts to keep IE on their PCs or hit cybercafes to access their online trading accounts. Hopefully this petition with some help from the open source community will result in HDFC becoming more responsive to the needs of the growing open source community in the country. Please sign the petition on: http://www.petitiononline.com/freehdfc/petition.html Also forward this message to other open source enthusiasts so that enough pressure can be built up on HDFC Bank and its associates. Regards Shiv Kumar _________________________________________________________________ How good are you in a Formula One car? Play now http://server1.msn.co.in/sp05/tataracing/onlinegame.asp

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Moderation ?
by Saswata Banerjee & Associates 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Hi guys, I posted a job offer from one of my clients, I put the [commercial] tag. But I got a message from the list saying : Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.The reason it is being held: Message has implicit destination Can someone tell me what this means ? I couldnt figure it out. Regards Saswata

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Triband problems
by bombaynews 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Just installed Linspire on a partition. I am unable to stay connected using MTNL's Triband for long though i have no such problems when using an old GNOME live CD. I am therefore forced to switch back to Windows XP to get online. Shiv Kumar

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Checking MTNL broadband usage using ifconfig or logs
by Aparna Appaiah 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Dear List, I am using the MTNL Triband broadband service with Debian Sarge. I connect to the modem using DHCP, and get on and off by using /etc/init.d/networking (start|stop) Now, I am looking for an unobtrusive way of measuring how many bytes I use up every session, especially as I find the MTNL account check very unreliable. I heard that the TX bytes and RX bytes are the correct indicators in the output of /sbin/ifconfig eth0. I wanted to know whether noting these down is a measure of how much I have used in that session. Also, I wanted to know whether these details are logged elsewhere on my PC, in some file, so that I can extract the details from that file. (It can be assumed that I connect to the internet only from Sarge). Thank you. Aparna

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Adrenaline rush ...
by Steven Joseph 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Hi I use suse super and i experimented a bit and found out that using a flashdisk for a swap partition significantly improves performance. +set /cat/proc/sys/vm/swappiness a high value like 80 a must try . Steven -- Life would have been a lot more easier if we could look at the source code.

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Kernel Panic: Fatal Exception.
by Nadeem M. Khan 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Hi. I got a Kernel Panic: Fatal Exception error when my RHEL3 system was up and running. After this, the system crashed. Rebooting it solved the problem. The strange part here is that I got the error when the system was up and running and not during boot which is normally the case. Strangely, the messages file does not have any entry about the error. Is there any way by which I can determine the cause of the problem and hence avoid it in the future? Regards, NMK.

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very intresting distro ...
by Steven Joseph 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

hi, Any one's tried out SLAX itsa really neat distro. Boots from cd usb ... only 2[0-9][0-9] MB comes in different flavours ... downloadable install packages (modules)... modular KDE and a selection of the best oss out there If u dont have an fast internet connection then this is what u are looking for. http://www.slax.org/ Steven -- Life would have been a lot more easier if we could look at the source code.

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[Commercial] SysAdmin Job
by Saswata Banerjee & Associates 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

FOUB interactive, the company that developed and operates the portal http://www.bombayharbour.com is looking for a system administrator. The company operates fully on Linux Platform and uses primarily open source tools for its work. Any interested candidate my contact Mr. Harjit Singh Ubhi on Harjit <harjit(a)gsimail.com> or call him on 9821384562. (Please do not send resumes to the group ID or to me.) They are looking for persons of 2-3 years experiance. Knowledge of php based development will be an added advantage. Regards Saswata

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Motorola SM56 modem in linux
by Samir 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi List, I m using RHES 4 n want to use my motorola sm56 pci data/voice/fax modem in linux also. can u plz tell me how do i configure it n frm where do i get the drivers for the modem to get it installed on linux. -- Friends are like an treasure,so if you want to become rich in your life make as many friends as possible in the life. Samir.A.Sanghvi [B.E. in EXTC] 9820812842

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Grub issue
by V.K.Bharadwaj 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

From: "Puneet Lakhina" <puneet.lakhina(a)gmail.com> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 00:52:10 +0530 Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Grub issue I have two hard disks. THe hard disk which is connected as slave has grub on <snip> But when i try and boot into the xp installation of the master disk, it boots into the xp installation of slave only. The entry for the master xp installation in menu.lst is as follows root (hd1,0) makeactive savedefaults chainloader +1 I have added this entry myself. COuld anyone suggest what the problem could be?? -- Puneet I believe the primary harddisk in your situation will be referred to as "hd0" (and not "hd1"), irrespective of your BIOS boot device settings. --- VKB

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internal modem drivers for 2.6 kernel , anyone ??
by sharan rao 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

I have a (Dlink) DFM - 560IS +++ internal modem. I wanted a driver for Linux kernel 2.6 for it. When i bought the modem, a year back,i got a driver for the 2.4 kernel with the modem. So i am forced to use the older version of the kernel to connect to the internet using the entire bandwidth. Has anyone bought a Dlink internal Modem (connexant chipset) recently,... ? Maybe you have the driver for the 2.6 kernel. linuxant.com does provide drivers for 2.6 but one can connect only at speeds of 14.4Kbps using it. The full version is something around 20$ .. I called up Dlink (knowing i won't get anywhere) today.The guy at the call center after making me wait for atleast 10-15 minutes, gave me the linuxant url... :-) with a disclaimer that it wasn't supported by Dlink..!! He kept saying that Dlink doesn't support Linux et all.I asked him why Dlink didn't tell the modem vendor to explain that to me when i was buying the modem. I expected a reply like "Microsoft Windows is more popular ... blah blah" but what i got was this -- "You need OpenSource drivers for Linux and 'it' keeps changing, so it is difficult to support Linux ".. I tried to reason out with him politely, but he kept giving me the same answer like a tape recorder..!! (and yes... he didn't know that Dlink provides drivers for Linux with the product...!! ;-) ) sharan rao.

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Re: Linuxformat in India
by Roshan 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

> > As a publisher we want to learn from the Indian > Linux community and > > potential readers: > > 1. Whether the Linux users in India like to read > an international > > magazine dedicated to Linux? > > 2. Would they be interested in subscribing to such > a magazine. > > 3. What would be the most the most attractive > cover-price in Indian > > Rupees? (The internatonal edition of Linuxformat > is available in > > select bookstores of Mumbai. A single issue costs > an exorbitant 600+ > > Rupees). 1. Considering the amount of penetration of Microsoft's Windows Operating System, in Mumbai, only a handful of Linux users would be interested a magazine dedicated to Linux (GNU/Linux). 2. Desktop Users who use Linux (GNU/Linux), but do not have access to the internet at home, would be interested in subscribing to the magazine. But as mentioned in the first point, the share of Linux (GNU/Linux) as operating system is fairly less. 3. On the stands, between Rs. 80 - 130 and/or attractive subscription schemes for 1 year / 3 years / 5 years with savings for the subscriber along with contests / great prizes should be considered for pricing issues. > 1. Yes I would very much like to read such a > magazine not because its an > international magazine but because hopefully the > quality of this is > better than most magazines that we see currently in > India. > > 2. Yes. > > 3. I guess Rs.100-150/- should be reasonable. You > should print several > editions for different pricing and different > goodies. > > > Your feedback is extremely valuable for us. Only > you can help us > > bring an awesome monthly read purely about Linux > and at affordable > > Indian prices. Possibly, there should be some pre-marketing for using GNU/Linux (in the magazine), (collaborating a few issues of the magazine with Digit / PCQuest etc. ) so that people become aware of what they can do at less cost. People should understand, that there are operating systems that can be purchased for low prices / downloaded free from the internet and used. (A computer can run operating systems other than windows!) Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com Stay connected with your friends even when away from PC. Link: http://in.mobile.yahoo.com/new/messenger/

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Connect LG-LSP350T to internet
by िऩऩाद 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi I have taken a FWP of Tata Indicom(LG-LSP350T). I got a usb data cable and am trying to connect to the internet but to no avail. Sometime back I had read in these forums how to connect the 350R phone of Reliance. It was also mentioned that FC4 automatically detected the modem. I have installed FC4. How do i find out whether the modem is detected and how do i connect to the internet िऩऩाद बापट

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Checking MTNL broadband usage using ifconfig or logs
by Amish Mehta 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Aparna Appaiah wrote: > Dear List, > > I am using the MTNL Triband broadband service with Debian Sarge. I > connect to the modem using DHCP, and get on and off by using > > /etc/init.d/networking (start|stop) Try bridged mode(instead of DHCP) to get a PPP session. > Now, I am looking for an unobtrusive way of measuring how many bytes I > use up every session, Everytime PPP session ends, the ip-down script is called with environment variables BYTES_SENT and BYTES_RCVD set as per that session. Simply 'cat' that to a log file with timestamp. For more details: man pppd, adsl-setup Amish

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Online petition to make HDFC Mozilla friendly
by bimal pandit 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 bombaynews wrote : >I sent a link to the online petition to the HDFC guys and got this wishy-washy response in return. Maybe the webmaster at hdfcsec.com (webmaster(a)hdfcsec.com) needs to be educated on open source software... > >shiv kumar > > > >Dear Sir, > >This is with reference to your below mentioned mail. > >Please note that functioning of our Website, HDFC SECURITIES LTD depends >upon your Browser, which in turn depends upon your Internet Service >Provider. > >Kindly note that our new site is compatible only to Internet explorer 6.0 >with Cipher Strength : 128-bit and it is very important to set your screen >resolution to 1024 X 768 for viewing the demo and also when logging in to >the new trading site. > >Further we have made a note of your suggestions mentioned below, and the >same will be forwarded to the concerned desk who will look in to the same. > >Please continue to write to us your valuable suggestions and inputs, which >will help us serve you better. > >Hope the above information suffices, kindly revert to us should you need >further assistance. > >Thanking and assuring you of our best services always. > >With Regards, >Yamini Potti. >Customer Care Desk >HDFC Securities Ltd. >Contact : 28346600 (Mumbai) > 1800-22-9700 (Toll Free) >Email : customercare(a)hdfcsec.com > > > > > > >>Please sign the petition on: >> >>http://www.petitiononline.com/freehdfc/petition.html >> >>Also forward this message to other open source enthusiasts so that enough pressure can be built up on HDFC Bank and its associates. >> >>Regards >>Shiv Kumar >> > ha... ha... ha... I remember a quite "Har Shaakh pe ULLU baithen hain, anjamain gulistaa kya hoga!!!" ha... ha... ha... by the way the person is looking for "in case you need further assistance" so whats up??? ha... ha... ha... Bimal Pandit

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Re:Which (Fedora, Redhat) based distro; best?
by अिनकॆत (Aniket) 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

> If the subject line confuses, or indicates, best of > distros, the body of the email isn't. > > What I am interested to know, is which distro among > Fedora Core would be best for the hardware > configuration I have > > I plan to buy a new HDD and interested to know, which > Redhat / Fedora Distro would be best > > Microprocessor: Pentium IV 1.7 GHz > RAM: 256 MB DDR > Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse > SAMTRON 15" Monitor > SONY CD-RW CRX23EE 52x / 32x / 52x > Realtek Ethernet Card > > (here comes the odd part) > ASUS Motherboard P4S333VM > SiS 7012 Soundcard > SiS 650 onboard Graphics card > > Though the sound card was detected in Redhat 9.0 (the > one I am using currently), none of the sound modules > (arts, ALSA) worked properly. > > I am not interested in Debain Distros because, I have > absolutely no idea of a lot of things. Once, I have > some introduction (through different sources on the > internet), I'll dual boot... > > But, can I dual boot among different distro's > Something like Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE 10.2? > > Also, if anyone has used GAIM on MTNL TRIBAND, please > let me know. > > I also plan to buy a new keyboard. Any suggestions for > a new keyboard ? (Simple ...no MM) > I would suggest you should definitely go for Fedora 5 . Its just the best of all the Fedoras (atleast I have experienced so). Hardware detection is just great unless you have any exotic hardware...and you dont seem to have any. I never had a sound problem with Fedora. And in RH9 the sound problem is very common , many of my friends' and even my college comp went without sound in RH9...and SUSE10.0 too. Networking with ADSL/PPPOE is a breeze in fedora . Triband will work just fine...and gaim too. Also my MM Keyboard works fine in Fedora with the iTouch plugin for XMMS. I couls not get MM keys to work in Ubuntu Dapper at all. -- The Future is Open...The Future is LINUX

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ubuntu
by bombaynews 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

has anyone on this list test driven the new ubuntu 6.06 LTS (DAPPER DRAKE)? shiv kumar

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Which (Fedora, Redhat) based distro; best?
by Roshan 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

LO, If the subject line confuses, or indicates, best of distros, the body of the email isn't. What I am interested to know, is which distro among Fedora Core would be best for the hardware configuration I have I plan to buy a new HDD and interested to know, which Redhat / Fedora Distro would be best Microprocessor: Pentium IV 1.7 GHz RAM: 256 MB DDR Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse SAMTRON 15" Monitor SONY CD-RW CRX23EE 52x / 32x / 52x Realtek Ethernet Card (here comes the odd part) ASUS Motherboard P4S333VM SiS 7012 Soundcard SiS 650 onboard Graphics card Though the sound card was detected in Redhat 9.0 (the one I am using currently), none of the sound modules (arts, ALSA) worked properly. I am not interested in Debain Distros because, I have absolutely no idea of a lot of things. Once, I have some introduction (through different sources on the internet), I'll dual boot... But, can I dual boot among different distro's Something like Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE 10.2? Also, if anyone has used GAIM on MTNL TRIBAND, please let me know. I also plan to buy a new keyboard. Any suggestions for a new keyboard ? (Simple ...no MM) Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com Stay connected with your friends even when away from PC. Link: http://in.mobile.yahoo.com/new/messenger/

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Re: tar question ...
by Amish Mehta 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Arun K. Khan wrote: > >On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 21:11 +0530, Amish Mehta wrote: >> Arun K. Khan wrote: >> ># tar -cvjf /data2/sys-backup.tar.bz2 / --exclude-from=/exclude-file >> > >> >/exclude_file is a text file with (directories space separated on one line): >> >/home /data1 /data2 >> >> Specify each on separate line (not separated by space). > >Does it work for you (version of tar)? My verions of tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 --- packaged with RH9 Command I run is tar czvp -X bkpexclude base libs demo website > bkp.`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.tgz base, libs, demo, website are directories to backup bkpexclude contains base/bin demo/bin website/notimp Amish.

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[OT] Harddisk required for Linux server...
by Dinesh Joshi 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Hi list, I need a harddisk to setup a new server. I am not looking for a big one. Anything from a 10GB to 40GB will do. Preferrably 20GB. If someone has a seagate which is _less_ that 3 years old and has no bad sectors then please contact me off list. I am willing to pay Rs.800-1000/- at the most. Thanks. -- Dinesh A. Joshi

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[OT] Any reliance powersurfer downtime?
by Dinesh Joshi 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Hi list, Are there any powersurfer (power sufferers :P ) customers here? Their andheri network has been down for the past 7 days i.e. from 31st May. The reason they are citing is that their switches got damaged in the rains. AFAIK this hasn't happened in the past. This down time is killing... Any good alternative ISP in andheri area who you guys would suggest? I am willing to pay upto 600 bucks a month for a 64Kbps (8kBps) connection and 800 bucks for a 128Kbps (16kBps). All I want is a public IP (doesnt matter whether its static or dynamic), no port blocks, consistent uptimes, stable speeds and ofcourse should be compatible with Linux. Airtel is available in our area but not in my particular building... Help! -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] ubuntu
by अिनकॆत (Aniket) 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

> I recently dist-upgraded to Ubuntu Dapper Drake. Its awesome i must > say. I downloaded the Live+Install Cd and it refused to recognise the partitions on my first hard-disk . So people on the Ubuntu Forums suggested me to use the alternate CD. I downloaded that and got the same results. I am at my wits end tring to figure out the problem . Here is my Fdisk output from Fedora 5 ..I want to use /dev/hda2 to install Ubuntu. Also the current GRUB is installed in MBR of hda . Fedora and XP workin fine. [root@aniket aniket]# /sbin/fdisk -l omitting empty partition (5) Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 638 5124703+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 639 1275 5116702+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1276 4865 28836675 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda4 1914 3591 13478503+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda5 1276 1318 345334+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 1319 1913 4779306 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda7 3592 4865 10233373+ b W95 FAT32 Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 1305 10482381 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 1306 9733 67697910 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdb5 1306 3916 20972826 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hdb6 3917 6527 20972826 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hdb7 6528 9688 25390701 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hdb8 9689 9733 361431 82 Linux swap / Solaris Also i want to know how to configure pppoe in Ubuntu. What I did in the Live Cd was , "sudo pppoeconf" . Then I followed the wizard. But it never asked me the service/access concentrator name . I need to enter those as there are multiple pppoe services on my LAN. Please help me as I really want to use Ubuntu.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] ubuntu
by अिनकॆत (Aniket) 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

> > /dev/hda2 should be the Extended partition. For your first HDD, its not > the case. I think the partitions are numbered in the sequence any > detected Primary, detected Extended, then the ones inside Extended. hdx1 > to hdx4 are kept for the four main (for a lack of better term) > partitions (i.e. upto a max of 4 primary or 3 primary and one extended). > hdx5 onwards are given to the ones encountered inside the Extended > partitions. > > Thats what I've seen on my installs. If your FC is working (as it > obviously is), then maybe my reasoning is off-target. Well I found out the error ...... If you can see the entry for my extended partition , it says cylinder 1276 to cylinder 4865 . so , a partition from 1914 to 3591 (ie hda4 shown above) should be a logical partition inside this extended partition. But the partition hda4 above , from 1914 to 3591 is listed as a primary partition . So cylinders 1914 to 3591 were being counted twice causing the windoze partition manager to report my 40GB HDD as 59GB hdd. , and Gparted to not detect any partitions at all. Screw M$ and Winblows. Also I dunno how FC5 was working just great even with that error. I have to keep a copy of XP so that my local internet provider can debug it when the connection goes down, he cant use Linux at all, else I would have junked it for good. > > > Also i want to know how to configure pppoe in Ubuntu. What I did in > > Break into its config file somewhere in /etc/ppp. I forgot to check it > when hopping back from Linux. You will have to do a pppoe <some option> > to get your access concentrators listed, I believe. > I found out from the man pages that the kernel mode pppoe installed in Ubuntu cannot handle multiple access concentrators. Its designed to be used with Triband etc ie.DSL modems. If you have only one service on your LAN its ok, else you have to use rp-pppoe package from roaringpenguin website. It also has a GUI config utility to enter service name. Posting from Ubuntu Dapper now, its great but I just say not easy to configure repos in synaptic as Fedora/Yum . The utility itself is great but the default repo config did not work for me and had to be edited manually as it had some in.ubuntu... mirrors listed which gave 404 errors. -- The Future is Open...The Future is LINUX

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FYI - SuSE 10.1 DVD w/ LFY Jun/06
by Arun K. Khan 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Without prejudice and FWIW, LFY Jun/06 includes the SuSE 10.1 DVD (32 bit). Have not installed it but the _all_ the RPMs check out OK. -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) She liked him; he was a man of many qualities, even if most of them were bad.

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Re: tar question ...
by Amish Mehta 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Arun K. Khan wrote: ># tar -cvjf /data2/sys-backup.tar.bz2 / --exclude-from=/exclude-file > >/exclude_file is a text file with (directories space separated on one line): >/home /data1 /data2 Specify each on separate line (not separated by space). Amish.

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Re: Viamatic foXpose
by Roshan 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

> It is already there in Firefox. It is an add-on by > the name of > Viamatic foXpose by Vivek Jishtu. Here is the link: > https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1457/ I have installed this plugin. The only difference I see from the screenshot of Vista, is the so called "3-D" effect of tabs ! But, no problem, it serves the purpose of thumbnails of tabs! That's enough for me Thanks for the link! --------------------------------- If you don't know something, its always better to learn it and then experiment with components! PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! Visit http://www.somaiya.edu You have the ability to change things so that they, not only benefit you but others as well, but you might resist to...think about it! The different distros of GNU/Linux pretty much resemble the different cultures of indians all having the same foundation (the kernel) Use OpenOffice.orgDownload it for windows from http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.0/ "Intentions are written with pencil.Commitments are carved on Stones!" - CLINT A. D'SOUZA Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

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FC4 CDs needed : south mumbai
by Abhishek Daga 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Hi, Does anyone have FC4 CDs in south mumbai? I would like to borrow them, so if available please contact me off list and I can pick them up and make a copy and return them to you. thanks abhi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[OT] TriBand DSL/POTS question
by Arun K. Khan 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

I have a MTNL land line and TriBand DSL on the same copper pair. Since 14.00 hours today no dialtone on the telephone thus cannot make any outgoing calls but DSL is working. On the flip side call my land line number from my mobile and I get audible indicating that the exchange does not think there is any problem with my line. This happened to my line last year during the 26/July downpour but auto corrected a few days later but voice quality was poor. Complained to MTNL and they replaced the splitter subsequently restoring acceptable voice quality. So ... to eliminate the possibility of a damaged splitter, I disconnected everything and hooked up the phone instrument directly to the pair coming in from MTNL - no dial tone. Anybody experienced this before? Any suggestion what/where the problem could be? In the mean while will lodge a complaint with MTNL as well. TIA, -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him.

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Red Hat developer program & test suite
by Venkatesh Hariharan 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Recently, Red Hat launched a developer program called 108 for * Enterprise developers building solutions around open source technology * Systems integrators combining open source and proprietary software * Developers looking to discuss, learn, and collaborate Users can sign up for this program at https://www.108.redhat.com/ Another announcement that application developers may like is the release of dogtail, a GUI test tool and automation framework written in Python, under the GPL license. More info on this is available at http://people.redhat.com/zcerza/dogtail/ Regards, Venky

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sgid permission
by samir sanghvi 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Hi, Can u explain me the concept of SGID special permisssion. Actually I m not getting the application of this special permission.

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Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 38, Issue 5
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

> Ok as far as something to learn from it.. well they have something called a > preview feature whereby all open windows are like displayed as thumbnails.. > like tiles.. which i think could be a really good.. It is already there in Firefox. It is an add-on by the name of Viamatic foXpose by Vivek Jishtu. Here is the link: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1457/ Cheers, Debarshi

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tar question ...
by Arun K. Khan 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

/dev/sda1 is mounted on / /dev/sda2 is mounted on /home /dev/hda1 is mounted on /data1 /dev/hda2 is mounted on /data2 OS - SuSE 10.0 x86_64 # tar -cvjf /data2/sys-backup.tar.bz2 / --exclude-from=/exclude-file /exclude_file is a text file with (directories space separated on one line): /home /data1 /data2 The tar man page describes --exclude-from=FILE should skip the entries in FILE. However, in my case tar merrily backed up /home, /data1, and /data2 i.e. ignored --exclude-from option. what the ????? There is no example of the entry format of FILE. -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) Finagle's fourth Law: Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.

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Unionfs on Kernel 2.6.15
by Sameer Bagwe 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Hello all, I'm not able to successfully compile unionfs with the above kernel version. Any pointers plz. Or if any1 has the compiled unionfs.ko for the this kernel so that I can insert this module. I'm working on a custom restricted live CD based on Fedora core 5 for the kiosk machines in our company.. Many thanks.

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