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Distro release cycle
by Priyanka Sarkar 20 Sep '13

20 Sep '13

Dear All, We thought of coming up a good story on the distro release time span. Our question is 'With many distros going for a six-monthly release cycle, do you think the release cycles of distros are too short? (And users don't have to upgrade on a frequent basis?) ' What do you think on this? Would really appreciate if you share your views elaborately. Regards, Priyanka

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Ubuntu Global Jam India Saucy Cycle
by Rigved Rakshit 13 Sep '13

13 Sep '13

Hello, Ubuntu Global Jam in India to help make the next release awesome. All are invited. Bug Jam, Testing Jam, Upgrade Jam, Documentation Jam, Transalation Jam or Packaging Jam. Feel free to take part in any of these jams! Details of the various Jams: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam . The Jam is from 13 Sept. 2013 to 15 Sept. 2013. The event will be from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. on all three days. The Jam will be held on the #ubuntu-in Freenode channel on IRC. Visit this URL to attend the Jam: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-in . Visit this URL to register for the event: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/indian-team/2513-ubuntu-global-jam-india/ . Note: Due to the Ganapati festival in Mumbai, there is no venue available for the event. So, this year's event will be a virtual one! Hope to see you there! Best Regards, Rigved

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[commercial] LInux Sysadmin/Netadmin workshop in Mumbai.
by Arun Khan 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

A Linux Sysadmin/Netadmin workshop is planned for the week of 16/Sep/2013. The workshop will cover: - The FOSS model, various open source licenses - File Hierarchy - Command line utilities general. - System Admin, Network Admin. - Shell scripting basics - the ability to read and follow system scripts. - Setup/Configuration of basic services like DNS, FTP, DHCP ... - Expose the individual to multiple Linux distributions [a] The duration of the workshop will be approx. 40 hours of contact time + more with individual assignments. Attendees will meet 3 times a week for 3 hours each (90 min. lecture + 90 min. hands on exercise) in the evening hours (18:00 to 21:00). Our USP 1. Small class size - no more than 10 attendees per session. 2. training philosophy -- "Make New Mistakes and Learn from them" Thus the more effort the attendee puts in, the more s/he learns :) 3. Each attendee get his/her own system (guaranteed) to practice the hands on exercises. 4. Goal is to prepare the attendee to handle real life scenario. 5. We have prepared our own training material based up on our experience over the last several years. 6. The workshop is conducted by instructors who have at least 10+ years of Linux System/Network Administration. Interested persons, please contact me at the following email id: <info> at <silverarc> dot <biz> with subject line: "[2013-09] Linux Sysadmin / Netadmin workshop" Please do *not* send queries to this mailing list or to my address here (knura9 at gmail dot com). [a] Exposure to multiple popular Linux distributions, like CentOS (RHEL), Debian (Ubuntu), openSUSE (Novell SuSE) will prepare attendees to handle more than what the current commercial certification programs offer. Thanks and regards, -- Arun Khan I'd rather be called a moron, than walk around with doubts in my mind.

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Cryptoparty at VJTI, Mumbai on 07-09-2013
by Vikram Vincent 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hello, Free Software Movement Maharashtra (FSMM) in association with Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) is organising a cryptoparty at VJTI, in Mumbai on the 7th of September 2013. What is a cryptoparty? A CryptoParty is a hands-on training program where we introduce Internet users to the tools that help in protecting privacy in the online world. The training program will teach the ways in which communications and data can be encoded to prevent disclosure of their contents through eavesdropping or message interception, using codes (2), ciphers (3), and other methods, so that only certain people can see the real message. Agenda: Introduction Browsing Security TOR Browser security Password Management Email and IM Security Web based email Email clients (thunderbird) Mail encryption The session will also look at the legal and philosophical aspects of the issue as well. Where: VJTI, Matunga, CS lab, Mumbai When: 7 (Saturday) September 2013, 10AM to 1pm Contact: Vikram Vincent 09448810822 or Rahul Maganti 09029809860 Preparation: If you have a GNU/Linux system then it would be useful to install the above tools with your favourite package manager. While there are exe versions of the same tools for Windoze we do not promote the use of proprietary software. Registration: Registration is free but please let us know you are coming by filling this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1InZkZp2IMGY3xekbIUIezmf3gGjuEVPZ30ZHBSUhoi… Looking forward to your participation. Thanks -- Vikram Vincent

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[Commercial] Visiting faculty at Mumbai University
by Anurag 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Would anyone be interested in conducting weekend classes at MU's Kalina campus. Syllabus covers basic topics like working with Ubuntu/Fedora, using the shell interface and setting up simple services like httpd, nfs, postfix. Please get in touch with me if anyone's interested in taking this up. -- http://web.gnuer.org/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Good Server Motherboard
by gnulinuxist＠gmail.com 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

-----Original Message----- From: J T Dsouza Sent: 04/09/2013, 01:14 To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Good Server Motherboard Do the AMD boards have better graphics? JTD, the Asus boards I mentioned have good graphics and on the net it seems the core i5 and i7 have better performance. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:12 AM, J T Dsouza <jtd1959(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I was looking for a board with good 3d acclerated graphics for my nephews > workstation (architecture stuff). > Budget 10~14K. > > For the past several years i never cared about graphics, all my stuff > being essentially headless. > > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Arun Khan <knura9(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Rony <gnulinuxist(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Tuesday 03 September 2013 06:57 PM, Arun Khan wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Rony <gnulinuxist(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Budget around 10K to max 20K if the board is really good. >> >>> >> >> I recently finalized on an entry level server with a SuperMicro board >> >> X9SCM-F. It has 4 PCI-e slots for expansion + IPMI 2 (remote >> >> management). >> >> >> >> I have no idea about it's pricing; I ordered the full system from the >> >> system integrator. >> >> >> > Who provides support for SuperMicro motherboards in India? >> >> Mostly by a system integrator who is an OEM rep. of SuperMicro (there >> are a few in India). >> >> -- >> Arun Khan >> Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device >> (অরুণ খান্/अरुण खान) >> -- >> http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers >> > > -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Good Server Motherboard
by Rony 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Hello, I am looking for a locally available and not too expensive workstation motherboard to be used for file sharing running Debian OS for a small organisation. The graphics part is not important but need good SATA, USB3.0 and Gigabit LAN support. I was looking at this one but I feel its more for graphics which I do not need at all. http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8Z77V_PROTHUNDERBOLT/ Any other suggestions? -- Regards, Rony. http://ronybill.blogspot.com/

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Podcast Corner for MBA & FOSS
by Navin Dhanuka 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

Hi, I am Navin Dhanuka. I am an Information Architect and a Usability Analyst. I have launched a podcast corner on the web. Please check it at http://www.podcast.web.in . Current works: 1. MBA Book - A Good Hard Kick In The Ass 2. MBA Frameworks - Fayolism 3. Autobiography - Every Street Is Paved With Gold. Under Construction: 1. MBA Book - Easy Understanding of the Economics 2. FOSS - Free as in Freedom (The Crusade of RMS for Free Software) 3. FOSS - The Cathedral and the Bazaar You can reach me at email(a)geek007.com . Best Regards, Navin Dhanuka

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Views solicited for a story idea!
by Priyanka Sarkar 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Dear All, Would really appreciate if you share your views/opinion on a story we are planning to come up with in our forthcoming edition. ''What steps/measures should be taken by the open source community to attract new talent in the FOSS world?' We believe that your insights in the open source terrain will be enlightening to our readers and for anyone who wishes to take a plunge in the FOSS world. Regards, Priyanka

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[Jobs] Software Developer at HashCube
by Deepan Chakravarthy 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

Hi, This is to inform you of openings in HashCube for Software Developers. The details of the Company and Job are mentioned below along with the link to Apply for the position. If you're an awesome coder interested in developing kick-ass games for millions of users, get in touch! *The Company* * * HashCube is a social gaming company based out of Bangalore, with presence on Facebook and now expanding to Mobile. Our games have been played by over 2 million users over the years on Facebook with our flagship title, Sudoku Quest, being the #1 Sudoku game on Facebook and now aiming to be #1 Sudoku app on Mobile. We are porting our other Facebook games to the Mobile platform and will launch more classic casual games on Mobile. The aim is to be the #1 Casual gaming company. *What we look for* * * - Portfolio of self started projects - Passion for puzzles - Familiarity with Linux - Knowledge about webservers, mysql, shell scripts, version control systems (git prefered) - Experience with web technologies like PHP, Python, RoR, JavaScript, CSS - Be a Quick learner - You should make HashCube the primary focus of your life * * *What we offer* * * - Work on interesting problems that affect millions of users - Exposure to technical challenges as well as the business challenges of a startup - Best salary in the industry - Attractive stock options - Table Tennis at office To make your application stand out please include - source code or links to source code of projects you have worked on - link to your websites, blogs *Apply at * http://hashcube.com/careers.php

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [ilugd] [Ilugc] Off-topic: Bitcoin's Potential for Social Change
by Ashwin Dixit 15 Jul '13

15 Jul '13

Hello folks, I wrote a humorous article called "How to kill Bitcoin: A guide for governments". Please mod it up on Slashdot, if you enjoy it! http://slashdot.org/submission/2801565/how-to-kill-bitcoin-a-guide-for-gove… Cheers, - Ashwin. -- ================================================= Subvert the dominant paradigm. Repeat as desired. http://ownlifeful.net/ <http://ownlifeful.com/>

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Ubuntu 13.10 replacing X.org with Mir
by Siji Sunny 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Some of the recent announcement by Ubuntu clearly mentioned that their latest release 13.10 will replace X-window server (X.org) with their own Mir-Display Manager. I strongly feel this is going to make a big impact in the Linux Community/Developers. Even-though the license is GPL, I think they are planning to reach the Eco-system that Android and Apple is having. In some of the blog entires Ubuntu has mentioned that Unity 7 will run atop of XMir, an implementation of X that provides a compatibility layer that allows software, desktop environments, peripherals and multi-monitor setups designed for X to continue to work as expected. But am not sure about how feasible it is .Looking forward to hear your inputs. About Mir - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/ PS: Kubuntu has announced that they are not planing to switch to Mir. Below the comments made by Jonathan Riddell of Kubunut- "A few months ago Canonical announced their new graphics system for Ubuntu, Mir. It's a shame the Linux desktop market hasn't taken off as we all hoped at the turn of the millennium and they feel the need to follow a more Apple or Android style of approach making an OS which works in isolation rather than as part of a community development method. Here at Kubuntu we still want to work as part of the community development, taking the fine software from KDE and other upstream projects and putting it on computers worldwide. So when Ubuntu desktop gets switched to Mir we won't be following. We'll be staying with X on the images for our 13.10 release now in development and the 14.04 LTS release next year. After that we hope to switch to Wayland which is what KDE and every other Linux distro hopes to do." -- Siji Sunny

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [ilugd] [Ilugc] Off-topic: Bitcoin's Potential for Social Change
by Ashwin Dixit 29 Jun '13

29 Jun '13

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Tanveer Singh <web(a)tanveer.in> wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Supreet Sethi <supreet.sethi(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> It does provide safe haven for parking > > > You can use ssh tunnels for secure communication with your criminal >> friends.Does it make SSH evil? >> > > Excellent points, both. I think government security policies are based on these premises: 1. We can separate good people from bad people. 2. We can stop bad people by punishing them. 3. To punish bad people, we need to overpower them with superior force. The problem is, all these premises are false! Anything you use, a "terrorist" uses. Chairs, desks, computers, currencies ( both digital and non-digital ), weapons etc. We engage in an arms race to develop stronger crypto, deadlier weapons, and we think that this will help us overpower the bad people. Yet, sooner or later, everything you develop, falls into the "wrong" hands. And the consequences of your shiny new technology falling into the "wrong" hands are increasingly drastic. This is the age of Weapons of Mass Destruction. The "wrong" people already have all kinds of deadly power. It is time we stop at this precipice, and re-evaluate where the weapons race is taking us. Perhaps it is asking too much for Obama to have hugged Osama and disarmed him that way. NSA: "Yes, we scan!" Cheers, - Ashwin. -- ================================================= Subvert the dominant paradigm. Repeat as desired. http://ownlifeful.com/

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Letter to the Indian FOSS Community
by Ashwin Dixit 22 Jun '13

22 Jun '13

Dear people, I believe in Free and Open Source Software, because I want to give our children the best possible tools we have, which they can adapt to their needs, and share on. FOSS is humanity's best hope. I have been an observer of the Linux community from the periphery, since I started using Linux in 1995. I have been programming since 1984, when my privileged parents got me a ZX Spectrum+ with 48Kb of RAM. So I would like to make a few semi-informed remarks. I invite your feedback. There seems to be too much diversity. Everybody can roll their own distro, which is great for special purposes. For the most part though, it confuses people that there's no "Linux UI". China has started transitioning to a single distribution of Linux. An Air Traffic Control officer told me that all offices are designed to be identical, so that one person can easily start working in another location. Let everyone customize their experience; that's great. Yet, there really is a need for adoption by the Indian government, of a single GNU/Linux distribution. We cannot remain at the mercy of the NSA any longer. There seems to be too much groupthink. We think too alike. There is not enough real debate which would foster innovation. Everyone is too locked-in into the status quo. For example, media statistics show that we as a community, are too male. Males like to take control, and drive stick shift cars. We would give up compilers, and dive into the logic gate and decide where electrons should go, if we could. This is entirely the wrong way to think! We "submit" to the machines all the time, without thinking about it. Machines should do our bidding and become ever more DWIM ( Do What I Mean ). After decades of programming in the trenches, I realized that programmers are really glorified clerks. We fill out forms for the machine all day long. Yet, we trust the CPU chip and rarely bother studying it. Who's ruling who here? Google's Notebook "Pixel" ( obsolete name on arrival, like calling something "gold" -- how quaint! ) has a great dual-mode concept -- Let the machine hide all its complexity in one mode, and expose it in great detail, in the other. What we have instead, is General Purpose programming tools that try to bridge this cognitive divide, unsuccessfully. So it's a lot of work for the user to get things done using Linux, because nobody has thought of the UX from the ground-up. Lots of sucky UI's that geeks fetishize, enlightenment, whatever. And, it's also a lot of work for the programmer to get things done. To develop a whole web application, one has to know for example: DDL, SQL, Perl, Template Toolkit ( yes, somebody invented a mini-language syntax just for templates! ), HTML/XHTML, CSS/or some more compact variant, JavaScript/CoffeeScript/some variant, and Backbone.js/jQuery/( some JavaScript ). So that's 8 languages, if you're counting! I jumped through all these hoops, and I have touched a dozen other languages in my life. And you know what? This needs to change! It really does. Domain-specific languages, such as those used by the Rails set of technologies, are obsolete. We need one language, to fluidly bridge these cognitive gaps between various kinds of people and machines. It has to be International! Every programmer can read comments in a language of their choice. No more -- "you must learn English to do this"! We must learn to delegate more to machines. They are, as "The Matrix" movies say, already beyond our comprehension. Do you want freedom? Then don't be slave to your machine. You have jammed your head full of telephone numbers, and IP addresses, and PIN's, and God-knows what garbage your machine has fed you! Your machine tells you -- learn this new language, and I will make you more powerful! And you gladly start learning new syntax. Is this really "knowledge"? We must discard the tools that Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds gave to us, and use their philosophy. The are fingers pointing to the Moon, not the Moon itself. They developed Free Software using closed source software, because it was the only way they could. We must use Free Software to really liberate ourselves, not bow to old Gods. We have let Linux become surrounded by ugly Java ( in the form of Android ). Don't worry, Samsung, and Google, and the NSA ( No Such Agency ) really are rich and powerful for a reason. And BSD? It's surrounded by some Apple crap. Rich=Trustworthy Beautiful=Good Free Software? Free Speech? We can barely tolerate trolls like Girish on this Free Software list. So we set our filters to ignore him. "..be cool and learn it", he says! Don't learn anymore! Rethink from scratch. We don't need no education! Cheers, - Ashwin. PS: Girish Guru-ji, if you would like, I'll arrange an interview with Microsoft for you. You will be appreciated there, and the whole world will be a much happier place. :-) -- ================================================= Subvert the dominant paradigm. Repeat as desired. http://ownlifeful.com/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Deleting read only partition data.
by gnulinuxist＠gmail.com 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

-----Original Message----- From: Arun Khan Sent: 17/06/2013, 09:47 To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Deleting read only partition data. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:08 AM, <gnulinuxist(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Friends, > > With so much espionage happening in computers, I was wondering whether a read only mounted partition is read only by software only or is there an electrical lock on the hdd, which does not seem possible for multi-partition disks as another partition may be writeable. No electrical lock. Anyone with root/sudo (with rights to mount) can do 'mount -o remount,rw <fs_dir_tree>' > > Can a malicious software gain control of the electrical side of the hdd and modify or delete data, even on a read only mounted partition? For the military then, would it be better to use an entire disk as a single partition and lock it down electrically? The 3.5" disks have pin outs, one of these pairs can be jumpered to make the *entire* disk 'ro' - this takes care of remote root/sudo scenarios. Anyone with physical access can easily remove the jumper and make the *entire* disk 'rw' -- Thanks guys for your responses and information. The recent events of US monitoring got me thinking about this remote controlled scenario. Regards, Rony.

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Deleting read only partition data.
by gnulinuxist＠gmail.com 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Friends, With so much espionage happening in computers, I was wondering whether a read only mounted partition is read only by software only or is there an electrical lock on the hdd, which does not seem possible for multi-partition disks as another partition may be writeable. Can a malicious software gain control of the electrical side of the hdd and modify or delete data, even on a read only mounted partition? For the military then, would it be better to use an entire disk as a single partition and lock it down electrically? Regards, Rony.

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Remove debian-multimedia repo
by Anurag 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

http://bits.debian.org/2013/06/remove-debian-multimedia.html -- http://web.gnuer.org/

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Long time Debian developer Ray Dassen died
by Siji Sunny 28 May '13

28 May '13

Long time Debian developer Ray Dassen died on May 18. Ray was a Debian Developer for an incredible 19 years. He joined the project in 1994, and continued to be an active contributor until recently. Ray was one of the founding members of the Debian GNOME team, his friendliness and willingness to help fostered a spirit of collaboration within the GNOME team. He continued his involvement within Debian as the maintainer of several packages, most notably the Gnumeric spreadsheet. Ref:http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130523 -- Siji Sunny

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Is having too many Linux distros a problem?
by Priyanka Sarkar 22 May '13

22 May '13

Dear All, A lot of debate happened on our FB wall on the topic 'What are the advantages & disadvantages of having multiple Linux Distros?'. Here is the link https://www.facebook.com/OpenSourceForU?ref=tn_tnmn#!/photo.php?fbid=101516…. We are planning to do a story on the same and we would really appreciate if you let us know your thoughts on *'Is having too many Linux distros a problem?*'. Please share your views on what you think on this. Regards, Priyanka

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Is having too many Linux distros a problem?
by gnulinuxist＠gmail.com 20 May '13

20 May '13

-----Original Message----- We are planning to do a story on the same and we would really appreciate if you let us know your thoughts on *'Is having too many Linux distros a problem?*'. Please share your views on what you think on this -- Could you describe the problem? Regards, Rony.

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[JOBS/INTERNSHIP] Openings for Junior Linux System Administrators
by Arun Khan 18 May '13

18 May '13

Position: Junior Linux System Administrators. No. of Openings: 2 Experience: One (1) to two (2) years experience with Debian 6/7, CentOS/RHEL 5/6, Ubuntu 10.04/12.04 server. Must be comfortable with: 1. Command line - no GUI for administration. 2. Shell scripting (sh/bash) 3. Remote administration with ssh 4. Grub, 5. Deb and RPM package management, 6. Network tools like tcpdump, wireshark, iperf, ... 7. Virtualization (Linux KVM, VirtualBox). 8. DNS (bind), DHCP Working knowledge of the following very helpful a. Directory Services (LDAP+Kerberos) b. Samba 3/4 c. FTP (vsftpd) d. Messaging (email + calendaring) - postfix, dovecot, roundcube, kolab e. Proxy server / Captive Portal f. Trouble ticket system Besides the above, the Candidate must be A. proficient in written/spoken English; some interaction with overseas colleagues. B. self motivated problem solvers - you are expected to resolve IT related issues on you own and escalate only those that are beyond your control. C. Taking and following instructions with diligence. Education/Certification: None. Application of Mind (knowledge) a *must* Location: Mumbai, Western suburbs Relocation: NONE. How to apply: Please send your professional bio data (ODT/PDF/RTF/TEXT formats only) to hr <at> silverarc <dot> biz with subject line as follows "[JOBREQ NO 20130518] Junior Linux System Administrators" Please note that any candidate who does not follow the above instruction, disqualifies him/her self automatically. Please circulate this among your friends/colleagues who may be interested. Thanks. -- Arun Khan Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [ilugd] [Ilugc] Off-topic: Bitcoin's Potential for Social Change
by Ashwin Dixit 12 May '13

12 May '13

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Supreet Sethi <supreet.sethi(a)gmail.com>wrote: ... > Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? > Thank you Supreet, for inspiring me to investigate the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. I think I have guessed the true identity: http://ownlifeful.blogspot.com/2013/05/bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto.html Cheers, - Ashwin. ================================================= Subvert the dominant paradigm. Repeat as desired. http://ownlifeful.com/

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Free Software Movement Maharashtra - Outcome of preparatory meeting
by Vikram Vincent 10 May '13

10 May '13

Free Software Movement Maharashtra - Outcome of preparatory meeting The preparatory meeting for formation of 'Free Software Movement Maharashtra' was a success. The meeting was held at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on 4th May 2013. 44 people participated in it. The agenda of the meeting was: 1. Discussion on the importance free software and knowledge as a commons 2. Discussion about the need for a movement in the free software domain 3. Forming an organising team to take forward activities in Maharashtra 4. Listing and approving of action items for the next few months The participants were welcomed by Vikram Vincent, Member, General Council, FSMI and Prof. Puru Kulkarni moderated the session. Prof. Kannan Moudgalya inaugurated the first agenda point by talking about the FOSS initiatives at IITB and the efforts to connect with the teachers and students from all over the country. Prof. D.B. Phatak explained about the role of Aakash and the need for large scale efforts to localise knowledge. He raised several points of importance, two of which are the need to create strong business ecosystems in the FOSS domain and the need for the end users to have the freedom to choose the products and services they want. Dr. T. Jayaraman of TISS highlighted the efforts of TISS in opening up knowledge and the challenges that arise out of such initiatives. He extended support both from himself personally and also of his colleagues at TISS for furthering the free software movement. Dr. Vivek Monteiro spoke a few words on the universalisation of knowledge. Venkatesh Hariharan of Knowledge Commons intervened in the discussions and provided the theoretical framework for knowledge as a commons. Kiran Chandra, General Secretary of FSMI, detailed the need for a strong people’s movement in the free software domain. He emphasised on the guiding principles of FSMI which allowed it to take up issues of human concern and society. The recent mandate of AICTE (to all its institutes) to implement Microsoft's Office365 suite of collaboration tools was discussed. A link to AICTE's announcement is here: http://www.aicte-india.org/downloads/AICTE_notice%20_3_.pdf Kiran Chandra pointed out FSMI's response to this, which is available at the following link: http://fsmi.in/content/fsmi-representation-aicte-against-deal-microsoft The possible effects of the implementation of the mandate to use Office 365 were discussed and there was unanimous agreement towards demanding reasons for the same from AICTE, through legal means and using RTIs etc., along with an agreement to oppose such an initiative. The meeting then called for volunteers to form a core team who would drive the activities for the next few months towards initiating the Free Software Movement Maharashtra. A team of 18 members was created, and Dr. Puru and Vikram will coordinate the same. The members of the organising team are Dr. T. Jayaraman, Mrunmayee Tayade, Rajesh Kumar, Nikita Belavate, Rahul Maganti, Deepak Pacha, Arun Khan, Siji Sunny, Kiran Eranki, Prof. Shishir Jha, Dinesh Jain, Rahul Muttu, Pradeep Mohandas, Krutikaa Jawanjal, Karthik Nadar, one for ERP-next. The meeting had representation from several organisations such as IITB, TISS, FSMI, Wikipedia, Knowledge Commons, DA-IICT, ILUG-BOM, Somaiya and other colleges. The ‘Free Software Movement Maharashtra' with the domain name of http://fsmm.in was declared functional. The following points were chosen as action points in near future: 1. FOSS sessions in colleges and schools 2. GNOME Marathi popularisation and supporting respective groups already working in this domain. 3. Office 365 4. Any other that may be feasible as and when opportunity arises. Photographs of the meeting. Courtesy of Venky https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/116931769998801651977/albums/58745079553…

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[CROSS-POST][OT][COMMERCIAL]Help me make it happen for 'Open Source Contribution Through Micro Finance' on Indiegogo
by Abhijit Navale 09 May '13

09 May '13

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Fwd: AICTE Removes mandatory clause
by Vikram Vincent 07 May '13

07 May '13

Cross-posting 07/05/13 Hyderabad In favour of Publication Sub :AICTE removes the mandatory clause from the notice on implementing Office-365. A delegation from the Free Software Movement of India and other groups have submitted a representation demanding the revision of the decision of the AICTE making the usage of Office-365 mandatory on the 30th of April 2013. A group of young parliamentarians led by P Rajeev also made a representation to the AICTE chairman raising concerns that were similar on 07-05-13. The signatories include Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Sitaram Yechury, KN Balagaopal, PK Biju CP Narayanan, Prashantho Chatterjee, Tapan Sen, Dr T Seema and MP Achutan. We understand that the AICTE has now agreed and is removing the mandatory clause from the notice. We welcome this decision. However, we demand that AICTE should revise the decision of using Office-365 totally, as it is not in the interest of the students, institutions and colleges. AICTE as a public funded body should not engage in supporting proprietary systems. We also thank all those in the academia, intellectuals, developer community, policy makers and parliamentarians who have taken it up with AICTE for revising the decision.

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Fwd: Debian 7.0 Wheezy released
by Kartik Mistry 05 May '13

05 May '13

Enjoy! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Francesca Ciceri" <madamezou(a)debian.org> Date: May 5, 2013 6:28 AM Subject: Debian 7.0 Wheezy released To: <debian-announce(a)lists.debian.org> Cc: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ > Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released press(a)debian.org > May 4th, 2013 http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > After many months of constant development, the Debian project is proud > to present its new stable version 7.0 (code name "Wheezy"). > This new version of Debian includes various interesting features such as > multiarch support [1], several specific tools to deploy private > clouds [2], an improved installer, and a complete set of multimedia > codecs and front-ends which remove the need for third-party > repositories. > > 1: http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110726b > 2: http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120425 > > Multiarch support, one of the main release goals for "Wheezy", will > allow Debian users to install packages from multiple architectures on > the same machine. This means that you can now, for the first time, > install both 32- and 64-bit software on the same machine and have all > the relevant dependencies correctly resolved, automatically. > > The installation process has been greatly improved: Debian can now be > installed using software speech, above all by visually impaired people > who do not use a Braille device. Thanks to the combined efforts of a > huge number of translators, the installation system is available in 73 > languages, and more than a dozen of them are available for speech > synthesis too. > In addition, for the first time, Debian supports installation and > booting using UEFI for new 64-bit PCs (amd64), although there is no > support for "Secure Boot" yet. > > This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as: > > * Apache 2.2.22 > * Asterisk 1.8.13.1 > * GIMP 2.8.2 > * an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 3.4 > * GNU Compiler Collection 4.7.2 > * Icedove 10 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird) > * Iceweasel 10 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox) > * KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.8.4 > * kFreeBSD kernel 8.3 and 9.0 > * LibreOffice 3.5.4 > * Linux 3.2 > * MySQL 5.5.30 > * Nagios 3.4.1 > * OpenJDK 6b27 and 7u3 > * Perl 5.14.2 > * PHP 5.4.4 > * PostgreSQL 9.1 > * Python 2.7.3 and 3.2.3 > * Samba 3.6.6 > * Tomcat 6.0.35 and 7.0.28 > * Xen Hypervisor 4.1.4 > * the Xfce 4.8 desktop environment > * X.Org 7.7 > * more than 36,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from nearly 17,500 source packages. > > With this broad selection of packages, Debian once again stays true to > its goal of being the universal operating system. It is suitable for > many different use cases: from desktop systems to netbooks; from > development servers to cluster systems; and for database, web, or > storage servers. At the same time, additional quality assurance efforts > like automatic installation and upgrade tests for all packages in > Debian's archive ensure that "Wheezy" fulfills the high expectations > that users have of a stable Debian release. It is rock solid and > rigorously tested. > > You can install Debian on computers ranging from handheld systems to > supercomputers, and on nearly everything in between. A total of nine > architectures are supported: 32-bit PC / Intel IA-32 (i386), 64-bit PC / > Intel EM64T / x86-64 (amd64), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Sun/Oracle > SPARC (sparc), MIPS (mips (big-endian) and mipsel (little-endian)), > Intel Itanium (ia64), IBM S/390 (31-bit s390 and 64-bit s390x), and ARM > EABI (armel for older hardware and armhf for newer hardware using > hardware floating-point). > > Want to give it a try? > If you want to simply try it without having to install it, you can use a > special image, known as a live image, available for CDs, USB sticks, and > netboot setups. Initially, these images are provided for the amd64 and > i386 architectures only. It is also possible to use these live images to > install Debian. More information is available from the Debian Live > homepage [3]. > > 3: http://live.debian.net/ > > If, instead, you want to directly install it, you can choose among > various installation media, such as Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, CDs, and USB > sticks, or from the network. Several desktop environments — GNOME, KDE > Plasma Desktop and Applications, Xfce, and LXDE — may be installed > through CD images; the desired one may be chosen from the boot menus of > the CDs/DVDs. In addition, multi-architecture CDs and DVDs are available > which support installation of multiple architectures from a single disc. > Or you can always create bootable USB installation media (see the > Installation Guide [4] for more details). > > 4: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual > > The installation images may be downloaded right now via bittorrent [5] > (the recommended method), jigdo [6], or HTTP [7]; see Debian on CDs [8] > for further information. Wheezy will soon be available on physical DVD, > CD-ROM, and Blu-ray Discs from numerous vendors [9], too. > > 5: http://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/ > 6: http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/#which > 7: http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ > 8: http://www.debian.org/CD/ > 9: http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors > > Already a happy Debian user and you only want to upgrade? > Upgrades to Debian 7.0 from the previous release, Debian 6.0 (codenamed > "Squeeze"), are automatically handled by the apt-get package management > tool for most configurations. As always, Debian systems may be upgraded > painlessly, in place, without any forced downtime, but it is strongly > recommended to read the release notes [10] as well as the installation > guide [11] for possible issues, and for detailed instructions on > installing and upgrading. The release notes will be further improved and > translated to additional languages in the weeks after the release. > > 10: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes > 11: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual > > > About Debian > ------------ > > Debian is a free operating system, developed by thousands of volunteers > from all over the world who collaborate via the Internet. The Debian > project's key strengths are its volunteer base, its dedication to the > Debian Social Contract and Free Software, and its commitment to provide > the best operating system possible. Debian 7.0 is another important step > in that direction. > > > Contact Information > ------------------- > > For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at > http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <press(a)debian.org>.

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Workshop on Essential Abstractions in GCC, 2013
by Uday Khedker 03 May '13

03 May '13

Workshop on Essential Abstractions in GCC, 2013 (http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/grc/gcc-workshop-13) Organized by: GCC Resource Center (http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/grc). Venue: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay (http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in). Dates: 29 June to 3 July (Saturday to Wednesday) 2013. Registration starts on: Wednesday 1 May 2013 Registration closes on: Friday, 31 May 2013 Our apologies if - you have received multiple copies of this notification, or - if this notification has reached you erroneously. Please forward this to people who you think might be interested. If you would like to avoid receiving further emails, please reply to this mail by adding the word REMOVE in the subject line. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Uday Khedker Professor Department of Computer Science & Engg. IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India. Email : uday(a)cse.iitb.ac.in Homepage: http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~uday Phone : Office - 91 (22) 2572 2545 x 7717, 91 (22) 2576 7717 (Direct) Res. - 91 (22) 2572 2545 x 8717, 91 (22) 2576 8717 (Direct)

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Invitation: Preparatory meeting for formation of Free Software Movement Maharashtra (FSMM)
by Vikram Vincent 02 May '13

02 May '13

Dear Friends, Greetings on behalf of the Free Software Movement of India. Free Software Movement of India (FSMI) is a national coalition of various regional and sectoral free software movements operating in different parts of India. The formation of FSMI was announced in the valedictory function of the National Free Software Conference - 2010 held in Bangalore during 20–21 March 2010. To know more about FSMI please see [1][2] FSMI has been a coordinating platform in promoting the culture of free knowledge, free culture, free speech and free society through the use and development of free software, free hardware and free bandwidth in India. In order to build a strong free software movement in Maharashtra we are trying to create a 'Free Software Movement Maharashtra ' to promote the ideas of a free society via freedom in the digital realm and in this regard a preparatory meeting is being organised. We request you to kindly participate in this meeting and help build the movement in Maharashtra . Details: Preparatory meeting to organise a Free Software Movement Maharashtra Venue: IIT Bombay campus, Powai, Mumbai. Date: May 4th Saturday 2013 Time: 4pm - 6pm Contact: Vikram Vincent: 09969249984 With warm wishes, Vikram Vincent Member, General Council, Free Software Movement India(FSMI) References: [1] http://www.fsmi.in/about [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Movement_of_India [3] For more details on the concept of 'free as in freedom' software http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

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Fwd: [fosscomm] FSMI representation to AICTE against the deal with Microsoft
by Arun Khan 01 May '13

01 May '13

Forwarding without any prejudice. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alagunambi Welkin <alagunambiwelkin(a)fsftn.org> Date: Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:52 AM Subject: [fosscomm] FSMI representation to AICTE against the deal with Microsoft To: mailinglist(a)fsftn.org Cc: network(a)lists.fosscom.in, kanchilug(a)freelists.org, ILUG-C <ilugc(a)ae.iitm.ac.in> Dear All, Please find the link below for the document and key concerns raised by FSMI representation to Chairman of AICTE. http://fsmi.in/content/fsmi-representation-aicte-against-deal-microsoft -- Alagunambi Welkin Executive Committee Member, Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu, part of Free Software Movement of India. www.fsftn.org

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Invitation: Preparatory meeting for formation of Free Software Movement Maharashtra (FSMM)
by Amit Gokhale 01 May '13

01 May '13

Hi, I would be interested in participating FSMM meeting. Regards, Amit Gokhale Thane 9619147571 On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:30 AM, <linuxers-request(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in>wrote: > Send Linuxers mailing list submissions to > linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > linuxers-request(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > You can reach the person managing the list at > linuxers-owner(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Linuxers digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Linux Advocacy Document (Ashwin Dixit) > 2. Re: Invitation: Preparatory meeting for formation of Free > Software Movement Maharashtra (FSMM) (Rajagopal Swaminathan) > 3. Re: Invitation: Preparatory meeting for formation of Free > Software Movement Maharashtra (FSMM) (Rajeev R. K.) > 4. Re: Invitation: Preparatory meeting for formation of Free > Software Movement Maharashtra (FSMM) (Venkatesh Hariharan) > 5. Re: Invitation: Preparatory meeting for formation of Free > Software Movement Maharashtra (FSMM) (Vikram Vincent) > 6. Fwd: [fosscomm] FSMI representation to AICTE against the deal > with Microsoft (Arun Khan) > 7. Re: Invitation: Preparatory meeting for formation of Free > Software Movement Maharashtra (FSMM) (???? ??????? ??????????) > 8. Re: Invitation: Preparatory meeting for formation of Free > Software Movement Maharashtra (FSMM) (Vikram Vincent) > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand(a)gmail.com> > To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > Cc: > Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:53:12 +0530 > Subject: > Re: [ILUG-BOM] Invitation: Preparatory meeting for formation of Free > Software Movement Maharashtra (FSMM) > Greetings, > > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram(a)gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Dear Friends, > > Greetings on behalf of the Free Software Movement of India. > > > > > > We request you to kindly participate in this meeting and help build > > the movement in Maharashtra . > > > > Details: > > Preparatory meeting to organise a Free Software Movement Maharashtra > > Venue: IIT Bombay campus, Powai, Mumbai. > > Date: May 4th Saturday 2013 > > Time: 4pm - 6pm > > > > Contact: Vikram Vincent: 09969249984 > > > > > I would be interested in participating and hoepfully contributing to this. > > -- > Regards, > > Rajagopal > Thane, > 09930633852 > > >

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Linux Advocacy Document
by Ashwin Dixit 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

Dear Linux-ers, I have the rare privilege of getting the attention of someone who frames technology policy for India. I have been asked to prepare a document in 1000 ASCII characters or less, that makes the case for Linux. My contact is highly educated, yet not very technical. Here is the document I wrote. In Open-Source-style, I am opening it up to the public, before I submit it to the powers-that-be. Please, help me improve it! Thanks, - Ashwin. http://ownlifeful.com/ #########BEGIN Open-Source Software ( Linux ) is peer reviewed by the public, and is generally considered more secure than Closed-Source Software ( Windows ), which is reviewed by the company that made it. Windows has gained a stronghold since Linux became comparably user-friendly much later. Linux is free to download and use indefinitely. China is realizing benefits by adapting to this changing technology landscape, and standardizing on Linux. This gives China a significant advantage in security, and education, and goes a long way towards ending their financial dependence on foreign software. Our government is driven on vehicles whose engines can only be fixed by paid foreign mechanics. Our cars should be opened to Indian mechanics. Microsoft Office, and Windows are opaque to our students. Chinese students will gain an edge on us by using Linux, an operating system whose source they can freely study, improve, and share. Open-Source Software in government and education is recommended. #########END

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BeagleBone Black For 45$
by Siji Sunny 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

TI has announced their new series of development board Beaglebone Black for 45$ . http://beagleboard.org/ Below the specification of the board: RAM - 512MB DDR3600 Mhz Flash - 2GB & SD card Processor - 1Ghz AM3359 Ethernet10/100 Mbs USB1 client1 host Video - HDMI Audio - Via HDMI Periperals - SPI, I2C, SPI, CAN, Timers, LCD, MMC, Analog -- Siji Sunny

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Opinion solicited for a story idea
by Priyanka Sarkar 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Dear All, We were overwhelmed by the responses we received from you on our story 'Will Certifications Related to FOSS Help You Get a Job?' This story definitely wouldn't have happened without your valuable inputs. Please find the link: http://www.linuxforu.com/2013/04/will-certifications-related-to-foss-help-y…. For our next edition, we are planning to come up with a story on '*What Takes To Be a FOSS Expert'?* Many of our readers, who are also open source enthusiasts, seek answers to this question. Would really appreciate and if you chip in and let us have your views/opinion on the same. We value your inputs and we are sure, this will help our readers who are planning to make a career in this terrain. Looking forward for your inputs. Regards, Priyanka

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Ubuntu 13.04 Release Party Mumbai
by Rigved Rakshit 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Hi, Come celebrate the release on the new and most-awesome-version-yet of Ubuntu on Saturday, 27th April 2013 at Elphinstone Building, Fort, Mumbai. Ubuntu 13.04 installation images and wi-fi access will be available. For the brave at heart, bring your Android devices and get Ubuntu Touch flashed to them! For a list of compatible devices, check this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices . Date: 27-04-2013 Time: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Venue: Starbucks Coffee, 10, Elphinstone Building, Horniman Circle, Veer Nariman Road, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India – 400001 For registration, check this page: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/indian-team/2338-ubuntu-1304-release-party-mu… . Best Regards, Rigved

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [ilugd] [Ilugc] Off-topic: Bitcoin's Potential for Social Change
by Ashwin Dixit 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Tavish, I couldn't agree more. It's not BitCoin, it's the idea of private P2P transactions. It's not Linux, it is the idea of radical transparency. These things are pioneering technologies, but ultimately, it is their successors that will thrive.

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Off-topic: Bitcoin's Potential for Social Change
by Ashwin Dixit 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Greetings fellow-Linuxers, I have a vision to share with you. Whether you call it a utopia, or a dystopia, I leave up to you. There is great power in people's numbers. I feel that a critical mass is gathering behind FOSS and BitCoin. I feel that these Davids can potentially overthrow Goliaths. Please read my latest blog article and share your opinion: http://ownlifeful.blogspot.com/2013/04/bitcoins-potential-for-social-change… -- ================================================= Subvert the dominant paradigm. Repeat as desired. http://ownlifeful.com/

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Microsoft Office 365 for Education made mandatory for approved institutions by AICTE
by Balachandran Sivakumar 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hi all, I came to know about this when my alma mater, Thiagarajar College of Engineering where we have been running our own mail servers with just free software was asked to migrate to AICTE by pointing the MX records to some domain of Microsoft. Here is the release from AICTE - http://www.aicte-india.org/downloads/AICTE_notice.pdf Here is an article about this on Microsoft's site - http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-Office-365/All-India-Council… It already seems to be too late to do anything about this, or is something possible ? -- Thank you Balachandran Sivakumar Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached. - Swami Vivekananda Mail: benignbala(a)gmail.com Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/

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How to detect a power failure?
by Binand Sethumadhavan 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

I am thinking of something like a mobile charger that would plug in a regular 3-pin plug at one end and a computer at the other, and some software/sensor combo that would read the (DC) voltage at the computer end. If there is no voltage, there is no power in the mains and ergo - we are in the middle of a power outage, so take action. Know of something along these lines? (idea is to detect power failures, while powered by a "dumb" UPS unit - one that cannot communicate with the a computer. Any other solutions/suggestions?). Binand

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Article on Linux, China, and India.
by Ganesha Computes 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Greetings, I have written an article about China switching to Linux, and the tremendous opportunities this brings to India. It is available at: http://bit.ly/chinalinux I cordially invite your comments. Warm Regards, - Ashwin Dixit.

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Inputs solicited for a story
by Priyanka Sarkar 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Dear All, We value and always love to have your thoughts on our story. We did get an interesting set of comments from you all on our last story idea ' How important are FOSS certifications when it comes to the job market?' We have incorporated your views/ opinions in the story and we will soon share the article with you. (This is scheduled for our forthcoming print edition). Well, we bring you another idea and we would appreciate if you share your thoughts on the same. The latest news that is generating a lot of buzz in the open source circuits is that Linux and Mozilla smartphones may hit the markets this year! So this prompts us to come up with a volley of questions...'If phones based on Linux and Mozilla OS make their way in the market, which open source OS you would prefer to switch on to..and why.?' (Linux, Mozilla, Ubuntu or will you stay with Android?)..Do you see this a long term threat to Android? What's your take on the same? Please let us know! Regards, Priyanka

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Fwd: [ilugd] M.Sc. CS-FOSS online distance education programme
by Arun Khan 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

FYI - might be of interest to the members of this list. -- Arun Khan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Srinivasan Sundararajan <srini.it(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:15 PM Subject: [ilugd] M.Sc. CS-FOSS online distance education programme To: ILUG-C <ilugc(a)ae.iitm.ac.in>, The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org> hi all, you might be aware (thru earlier mails sent by Ramadoss) that Anna University is offering M.Sc. (CS-FOSS) 4-semester programme thru distance education mode. The lectures are delivered in online mode on saturdays/sundays and the programme is coordinated through AU-KBC Research Centre, MIT Campus, Chromepet, Anna University Chennai. You can get details about the course curriculum at the "M.Sc. (CS-FOSS)" links the following url : http://au-kbc.org/ Primary Target group : working/non-working persons who have completed B.Sc. Maths/Physics/Comp Science. (though B.E. students have also joined the programme). Course duration : at least 4 semesters, but the students (especially the working persons) are advised to not to take the full load of 5 subjects per semester, but spread it over 6 plus semesters. So far about 100 plus students have registered and attended two batches of this programme. The third batch is about to begin by end April 2013 and the registration is likely to close by 2nd week of April. I would appreciate if you could spread the word about the programme so that students across the country could check it out. For further details, contact me <srini.it(a)gmail.com> or Prof C N Krishnan <cnkrish(a)au-kbc.org> or Mr. Senthil Anand (senthils(a)au-kbc.org> at AU-KBC I am sure FOSS community members will have many queries/comments/suggestions regarding this programme and alternative modes of drawing students into FOSS. We could discuss in the group mail or you could catch me at my personal gmail id. A half-day seminar is being organized at AU-KBC on 27th March (10.00 A.M to 1:00 P.M.). Those interested, especially in and around Chennai could attend the same -- preferably pre-register by contacting AU-KBC. [Since the Arts & Science Colleges in TN are closed, you could help out by forwarding this mail to your acquaintances -- students/staff/alumni-mail groups or give me the contact info so that I could reach out to them.] thanks and best wishes Srinivasan Dr. S. Srinivasan Cell: 94443 02439 Shrini/Raman/Arun Khan/Shakthi/Dr. Gora/Mr. Mani: would be grateful if you could forward this msg to other LUG groups. thanks, Srinivasan. _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

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Reviewer for tutorials Joomla and gChemPaint (proprietary equivalent is ChemDraw)
by Shahid Farooqui 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Dear Friends, Greetings from Spoken Tutorial Project at IIT Bombay. The Spoken Tutorial project is the initiative of the "Talk to a Teacher" project of the National Mission on Education through Information Communication through Technology, launched by MHRD, Govt of India. Spoken Tutorials team creates tutorial on various Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in various Indian regional languages. Please visit http://www.spoken-tutorial.org for more details. We are looking for a reviewer to review the outline, scripts and video tutorials on gChemPaint (proprietary equivalent is ChemDraw) and Joomla (CMS). Reviewer should be either a faculty member of an institution/university or a person with 2-3 years of working experience in gChemPaint (proprietary equivalent is ChemDraw) and Joomla (CMS). A reasonable honorarium will be paid to the reviewer. Those who are interested, please get back to us at the earliest. Thanks & Regards Shahid Farooqui

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Fwd: [Ilugc] Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Announcing the Ubuntu SDK Days
by Mehul Ved 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Shrinivasan T" <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com> Date: Mar 13, 2013 6:22 AM Subject: [Ilugc] Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Announcing the Ubuntu SDK Days To: "ILUG-C" <ilugc(a)ae.iitm.ac.in> Cc: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Daniel Holbach" <daniel.holbach(a)ubuntu.com> Date: Mar 12, 2013 10:28 PM Subject: [Ubuntu-phone] Announcing the Ubuntu SDK Days To: "ubuntu-phone" <ubuntu-phone(a)lists.launchpad.net>, < ubuntu-touch-coreapps(a)lists.launchpad.net>, " ubuntu-app-devel(a)lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-app-devel(a)lists.ubuntu.com>, "Ubuntu Developers" <ubuntu-devel(a)lists.ubuntu.com> Cc: Hello everybody, Hot on the heels of the announcements of the Ubuntu SDK and the Touch Developer Preview, we bring you the first ever Ubuntu SDK Days. On Thursday, 14th March and Friday, 15th March a number of app developers and Ubuntu SDK creators will get you started writing apps for Ubuntu on multiple devices. It's surprisingly simple, and since the announcement we've seen many early adopters try out the SDK and the first apps up and running. We will answer your questions, talk about best practises and show you the power of the SDK. Here a quick overview over the sessions we'll run: Installing and Configuring the SDK Writing your first app with the SDK Writing games with QML and Javascript Live update from the development progress of the Touch Core Apps Several Q&A sessions Making the best of the Ubuntu App Design guidelines More about the SDK skunkworks projects Introducing Friends and Gwibber QML Writing a new generation of Scopes Lightning talks and Project demos How to join Participating is easy: just head to http://ubuntuonair.com to watch the sessions on the schedule. Videos will be available after the event, to ensure you can watch the content even if you couldn't make it to the session you wanted. Check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuSDKDays/ to see the timetable of the event, be there for lots of fun and bring your friends - and your questions too! Have a great day, Daniel -- Get involved in Ubuntu development! developer.ubuntu.com/packaging Stay up to date: follow @ubuntudev on identi.ca/twitter.com/facebook.com -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone(a)lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Ubuntu Global Jam Mumbai 2013 for Ubuntu Raring Ringtail
by Rigved Rakshit 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

> The dates are tentative because Canonical themselves have not released > the dates. Once that is done, I will let you guys know the final > dates. This is one of the "problems" of planning events ahead of time. > But I am hoping that this will give everyone enough time to plan and > attend the event! Dates have been finalised. Now, it will be on March 2 and 3. Here is the event page: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/indian-team/2235/detail/ . As of now, I have kept the event only on Saturday and Sunday. But if people are interested, I can keep it on Friday as well. Best Regards, Rigved Rakshit

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Inputs solicited for a story
by Priyanka Sarkar 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Dear All, Few weeks back, your valuable comments helped us come out with an interesting article on rooting one's Android device. We are back with a story idea and would really appreciate if you chip in and share your views on this. So the story idea goes like: How important are FOSS certifications when it comes to the job market? Please let us have your insightful suggestions on the same. Looking forward to see some great takes... Thanks and Regards, Priyanka

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[Commercial] A sneak peek into OSFY March 2013 issue
by Priyanka Sarkar 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

Dear Members, OSFY's March issue lets you explore the power of the virtual world and brings you some interesting reads on virtualisation. Special Read --Ensuring security on Open Source Virtual Platforms. --Going virtual with OpenVZ --For SMB's, virtualisation is the way to go. Developers' Terrain --A few Things You Should Know About Futexes. --Plan an Android based Device For an Enterprise. --Introducing Celery with Python+Django. Admins' Corner --Open Source Access To MS Exchange Server using DavMail. --A look At the Basics of LVM. --Deploying A Ticket Request System With OTRS. For U& Me: It's For Everyone --How OSS helped A Construction Company Almost Halve its IT Budget. --A review of Viridis:A Low-Power Linux-Powered Super Server. --Red Hat top honchos get up close and personal with Team OSFY. This issue comes bundled with a free DVD: PCLinuxOS. It also includes ISOs of Snowlinux, Arch Linux and Zorin OS. You can get a copy of our magazine from your nearest newsstands or you can subscribe at http://electronicsforu.com/electronicsforu/subscription/subsc2scheme.asp#. To locate some dealers selling OSFY close to your home, you can check our website: dealers.efyindia.com. If you face any issue related to availability of our magazine, contact us off the list. Regards, Team OSFY

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Thanks a lot for the inputs on our story.
by Priyanka Sarkar 02 Mar '13

02 Mar '13

Dear All, Few days back, we did seek your inputs on a story we were doing on rooting your Android Phone. We want to thank you all for sparing your valuable time and sending us your thoughts promptly. We have compiled a story based on your quotes and published it on our website http://www.linuxforu.com/. Thank you so much again! Here is the link. http://www.linuxforu.com/2013/03/to-root-or-not-to-root/ Regards, Priyanka

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Using grep 'AND'
by gnulinuxist＠gmail.com 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hello, I am using a script where I check if /home and /backup are present in /etc/mtab but can't manage the 'and' operator in grep. Currently I use the 'if grep -q "/home" ; then ......... then I do 'fi' and again 'if grep -q "/backup" to finally go to my commands. I tried to make grep do the AND combo but got errors as it works only on one line. I want my command to start only if both /home and /backup are present in mtab. With my dual check method it works, but I want a clean lean script. Regards, Rony.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Using grep 'AND'
by gnulinuxist＠gmail.com 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

-----Original Message----- From: Rajeev R. K. Here you go..... mount | grep -q home HOMESTATUS=$? mount | grep -q backup BACKUPSTATUS=$? if [ $HOMESTATUS -eq 0 -a $BACKUPSTATUS -eq 0 ]; then echo "You got both man, do your thing..." exit 0; else echo "Error -- either home or backup missing -- Or is it BOTH !%$!!@#%!" exit 1; fi Regards R. K. Rajeev Thanks Rajeev and Binand for your tips. I noticed a '-a' option in the if statement so will this below work? If [grep -q "/home" mtab -a grep -q "/backup" mtab ] then......... Regards, Rony.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Using grep 'AND'
by gnulinuxist＠gmail.com 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Thanks friends, I will try out combos and post my final script once I get on that server again.

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UEFI shenanigans
by J T Dsouza 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Linus gets it spot on. http://www.zdnet.com/torvalds-clarifies-linuxs-windows-8-secure-boot-positi…

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Ankit Fadia redux...
by Binand Sethumadhavan 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

http://forbesindia.com/article/beyond-business/ankit-fadia-revealed/34793/0 (Charles Assisi is an editor at Forbes). Binand

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Opinion solicited for an article
by Priyanka Sarkar 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Dear All, One of our journalists is doing a story on 'How safe is rooting your android phone? Or is it worth rooting your android phone. Would be great if we get some great inputs from you on the same. Please let us have your your opinion/ views. Regards, Priyanka

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Unable to reactivate a RAID10 mdadm device
by Arun Khan 23 Feb '13

23 Feb '13

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Arun Khan <knura9(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Any help in solving this problem would be highly appreciated. > Fortunately, I have been able to recover the data due to sheer luck! For details please see <http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=136163159413360&w=2> -- Arun Khan

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Ml woes
by J T Dsouza 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

host mm.ilug-bom.org.in [74.207.228.67]: 450 4.7.1 <mail.sparc.net>: Helo command rejected: Host not found exim4 -Mvh 1U7A6g-0002Re-Q9 1U7A6g-0002Re-Q9-H Debian-exim 102 102 <jtd(a)mtnl.net.in> 1361130062 0 -helo_name debamd.localnet -host_address 192.168.0.16.43515 -host_name debamd.sparc.net -interface_address 192.168.0.8.25 -received_protocol esmtp -body_linecount 46 -max_received_linelength 81 XX 1 linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in 234P Received: from debamd.sparc.net ([192.168.0.16] helo=debamd.localnet) by mail.sparc.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <jtd(a)mtnl.net.in>) id 1U7A6g-0002Re-Q9 for linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in; Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:11:02 +0530 022F From: jtd(a)mtnl.net.in 032T To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in 055 Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to detect a power failure? 038 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:22:24 +0530 And exim -brw jtd(a)mtnl.net.in sender: jtd(a)mtnl.net.in from: jtd(a)mtnl.net.in to: jtd(a)mtnl.net.in cc: jtd(a)mtnl.net.in bcc: jtd(a)mtnl.net.in reply-to: jtd(a)mtnl.net.in env-from: jtd(a)mtnl.net.in env-to: jtd(a)mtnl.net.in I am fairly sure nothing has changed in the local mail server since 2005. Mails to the list were just fine until it came back online after the last years outage. HELP. I hate mail servers.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to detect a power failure?
by Arun Khan 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

Changed the subject for it to be relevant to the OP On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Joel Rebello <joelmadzu(a)gmail.com> wrote: ........... trimmed a lot of the irrelevant quote from the *digest* message > Hey, > > Im from Vasai, where we have frequent powercuts. I run a linux box at home > which basically acts as my home server(box) > I currently use the GPIO pin on my wifi router(running openwrt) to 'sense' > powercuts, which in turn powers off the box and turns it back on when power > resumes. > Let me know if you'd like more details on the setup and code, I'd be happy > to share :) Thanks for sharing your idea. *However* - when you reply make sure you 1. Change the subject line to that of the Original Post 2. Trim *all* other messages in the digest and only include that is relevant to what you are responding to. It takes a few more seconds to do so *but* it does make your post a lot more enjoyable to read. -- Arun Khan

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How to detect a power failure?
by J T Dsouza 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

On Friday 15 February 2013 19:57:59 Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: > I am thinking of something like a mobile charger that would plug in a > regular 3-pin plug at one end and a computer at the other, and some > software/sensor combo that would read the (DC) voltage at the computer end. > If there is no voltage, there is no power in the mains and ergo - we are in > the middle of a power outage, so take action. Know of something along these > lines? My mails to the list are getting rejected, so the direct post. You will need either a serial or parallel port. if you have a parallel port connect the output of the psu (PSU ouput must be 5v ) thru a 1 K resistor to pin 2 of the 25 pin dshell connector. Use this program to read the printerport http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/portcontrol.tar The link below provides nice info http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/parallel_output.html You can also use the serial port with the psu wired to one odf the following inputs dcd, RI, CTS or DSR. RTS and DTR can be used as o/p via a opto isolated relay to fire your dg or alarm etc. > > (idea is to detect power failures, while powered by a "dumb" UPS unit - one > that cannot communicate with the a computer. Any other > solutions/suggestions?). you might wire the ups batteries thru a LM393 comparator and feed the op/ to pin 3. then you will be able to shut the pc when the ups is about to shut. Or if you are up to it use a small microcontroller (pic or avr arduino) with an ADC and connected to USB. BTW we do a server room monitoring system that monitors rack temprature and ups + mains 3 phase and send smses on failure of any of the above. Kindly forward to the list. > > Binand

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linuxers Digest, Vol 104, Issue 7
by Joel Rebello 17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:30 PM, <linuxers-request(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in>wrote: > Send Linuxers mailing list submissions to > linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > linuxers-request(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > You can reach the person managing the list at > linuxers-owner(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Linuxers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Ubuntu Global Jam Mumbai 2013 for Ubuntu Raring Ringtail > (Rigved Rakshit) > 2. Re: How to detect a power failure? (gnulinuxist(a)gmail.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:21:02 +0530 > From: Rigved Rakshit <r.phate(a)gmail.com> > To: mumbailug(a)googlegroups.com, Mumbai LUG > <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Ubuntu Global Jam Mumbai 2013 for Ubuntu > Raring Ringtail > Message-ID: > < > CAEuhoydO7nY5nHW_4vpj96GKgBNRq4sa7370WbC+UK7fz4DWmA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > The dates are tentative because Canonical themselves have not released > > the dates. Once that is done, I will let you guys know the final > > dates. This is one of the "problems" of planning events ahead of time. > > But I am hoping that this will give everyone enough time to plan and > > attend the event! > > Dates have been finalised. Now, it will be on March 2 and 3. Here is the > event page: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/indian-team/2235/detail/ . As of > now, I have kept the event only on Saturday and Sunday. But if people are > interested, I can keep it on Friday as well. > > Best Regards, > Rigved Rakshit > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:54:55 +0000 > From: "gnulinuxist(a)gmail.com" <gnulinuxist(a)gmail.com> > To: "linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to detect a power failure? > Message-ID: <5120ef43.8148420a.567d.ffffb7ad(a)mx.google.com> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Arun Khan > Sent: 16/02/2013, 01:45 > To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to detect a power failure? > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan <binand(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > I am thinking of something like a mobile charger that would plug in a > > regular 3-pin plug at one end and a computer at the other, and some > > software/sensor combo that would read the (DC) voltage at the computer > end. > > If there is no voltage, there is no power in the mains and ergo - we are > in > > the middle of a power outage, so take action. Know of something along > these > > lines? > > > > (idea is to detect power failures, while powered by a "dumb" UPS unit - > one > > that cannot communicate with the a computer. Any other > > solutions/suggestions?). > > > > Good idea. You could use one of those AC Mains to USB > adapter/charger; which I think gives out 5V on the USB power line. A > USB cable into the computer USB port should be a good starting. > > -- Arun Khan > -- > > This usb idea is good. A usb powered device can be used where power comes > externally for on/off and the system gives signal to detect that device is > down. A cheap 200 rupees usb lan can be opened and modified. Every few > minutes, the output of ifconfig can be grepped to detect the presence of > eth(n). Battery power detect option is only in laptops. > > Hey, Im from Vasai, where we have frequent powercuts. I run a linux box at home which basically acts as my home server(box) I currently use the GPIO pin on my wifi router(running openwrt) to 'sense' powercuts, which in turn powers off the box and turns it back on when power resumes. Let me know if you'd like more details on the setup and code, I'd be happy to share :) Regards, Joel Rebello -- Be yourself , just better.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to detect a power failure?
by gnulinuxist＠gmail.com 17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

-----Original Message----- From: Arun Khan Sent: 16/02/2013, 01:45 To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to detect a power failure? On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan <binand(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I am thinking of something like a mobile charger that would plug in a > regular 3-pin plug at one end and a computer at the other, and some > software/sensor combo that would read the (DC) voltage at the computer end. > If there is no voltage, there is no power in the mains and ergo - we are in > the middle of a power outage, so take action. Know of something along these > lines? > > (idea is to detect power failures, while powered by a "dumb" UPS unit - one > that cannot communicate with the a computer. Any other > solutions/suggestions?). > Good idea. You could use one of those AC Mains to USB adapter/charger; which I think gives out 5V on the USB power line. A USB cable into the computer USB port should be a good starting. -- Arun Khan -- This usb idea is good. A usb powered device can be used where power comes externally for on/off and the system gives signal to detect that device is down. A cheap 200 rupees usb lan can be opened and modified. Every few minutes, the output of ifconfig can be grepped to detect the presence of eth(n). Battery power detect option is only in laptops.

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Unable to reactivate a RAID10 mdadm device
by Arun Khan 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

Recovery OS -- System Rescue CD v 2.8.0 Production OS - Debian Squeeze (6) 2.6.32 stock kernel, using mdadm raid /dev/md0 in raid level RAID10 - members /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1, /dev/sdd1, /dev/sde1 all with partion id=fd HDD /dev/sdb went bad, replaced it with another disk with same size partion (id=fd) using System Rescue CD v2.8.0 1. System Rescue CD recognized the md devices but it comes up as 'inactive' Searched for possible solutions and I have tried several things including zeroing the super block and adding them back to the array. Still unable to bring back /dev/md0 with all 4 partions in active mode. I have included below, the entire transcript of the commands I have tried to recover /dev/md0 I have data on /dev/md0 that I need. I do have back ups of critical files (but not all). I prefer solving the problem v/s recreating the /dev/md0 from scratch. Any help in solving this problem would be highly appreciated. TIA, -- Arun Khan --------------- transcript of mdadm activity with System Rescue CD v2.8.0 ---------------- # mdadm -V mdadm - v3.1.4 - 31st August 2010 # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : inactive sdd1[2] sde1[3] 312574512 blocks super 1.0 # mdadm -S /dev/md0 mdadm: stopped /dev/md0 # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] unused devices: <none> # mdadm -v -v -A /dev/md0 -R /dev/sd[bcde]1 mdadm: looking for devices for /dev/md0 mdadm: /dev/sdb1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 0. mdadm: /dev/sdc1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 1. mdadm: /dev/sdd1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 2. mdadm: /dev/sde1 is identified as a member of /dev/md0, slot 3. mdadm: added /dev/sdb1 to /dev/md0 as 0 mdadm: added /dev/sdc1 to /dev/md0 as 1 mdadm: added /dev/sde1 to /dev/md0 as 3 mdadm: added /dev/sdd1 to /dev/md0 as 2 mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md0: Input/output error mdadm: Not enough devices to start the array. # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : inactive sdd1[2] sde1[3] 312574512 blocks super 1.0 unused devices: <none> from /var/log/messages Feb 12 06:13:59 sysresccd kernel: [ 7593.339015] md: md0 stopped. Feb 12 06:13:59 sysresccd kernel: [ 7593.374016] md: bind<sdb1> Feb 12 06:13:59 sysresccd kernel: [ 7593.374417] md: bind<sdc1> Feb 12 06:13:59 sysresccd kernel: [ 7593.374604] md: bind<sde1> Feb 12 06:13:59 sysresccd kernel: [ 7593.374869] md: bind<sdd1> Feb 12 06:13:59 sysresccd kernel: [ 7593.374899] md: kicking non-fresh sdc1 from array! Feb 12 06:13:59 sysresccd kernel: [ 7593.374903] md: unbind<sdc1> Feb 12 06:13:59 sysresccd kernel: [ 7593.379016] md: export_rdev(sdc1) Feb 12 06:13:59 sysresccd kernel: [ 7593.379041] md: kicking non-fresh sdb1 from array! Feb 12 06:13:59 sysresccd kernel: [ 7593.379044] md: unbind<sdb1> Feb 12 06:13:59 sysresccd kernel: [ 7593.386010] md: export_rdev(sdb1) Feb 12 06:13:59 sysresccd kernel: [ 7593.387382] md/raid10:md0: not enough operational mirrors. Feb 12 06:13:59 sysresccd kernel: [ 7593.387410] md: pers->run() failed ... # mdadm -D /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.0 Creation Time : Fri Apr 29 04:27:04 2011 Raid Level : raid10 Used Dev Size : 156287232 (149.05 GiB 160.04 GB) Raid Devices : 4 Total Devices : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Mon Feb 11 13:43:52 2013 State : active, FAILED, Not Started Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : near=2 Chunk Size : 32K Name : brahmaputra:0 UUID : f2d4e898:2e026f85:244a7e9c:908e1af7 Events : 783527 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 0 0 0 removed 1 0 0 1 removed 2 8 49 2 active sync /dev/sdd1 3 8 65 3 active sync /dev/sde1 # mdadm -E /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.0 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : f2d4e898:2e026f85:244a7e9c:908e1af7 Name : brahmaputra:0 Creation Time : Fri Apr 29 04:27:04 2011 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 312574512 (149.05 GiB 160.04 GB) Array Size : 625148928 (298.09 GiB 320.08 GB) Used Dev Size : 312574464 (149.05 GiB 160.04 GB) Super Offset : 312574640 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 2fbc103e:ca40e0c2:b8e4d64f:0fbc7b94 Internal Bitmap : -8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Mon Feb 11 13:43:52 2013 Checksum : 2e8e9fad - correct Events : 0 Layout : near=2 Chunk Size : 32K Device Role : spare Array State : ..AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) # mdadm -E /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.0 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : f2d4e898:2e026f85:244a7e9c:908e1af7 Name : brahmaputra:0 Creation Time : Fri Apr 29 04:27:04 2011 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 312574512 (149.05 GiB 160.04 GB) Array Size : 625148928 (298.09 GiB 320.08 GB) Used Dev Size : 312574464 (149.05 GiB 160.04 GB) Super Offset : 312574640 sectors State : clean Device UUID : e27c187b:9004cb93:5bb05639:164822cd Internal Bitmap : -8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Mon Feb 11 13:43:52 2013 Checksum : 5ea77bd0 - correct Events : 0 Layout : near=2 Chunk Size : 32K Device Role : spare Array State : ..AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) # mdadm -E /dev/sde1 /dev/sde1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.0 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : f2d4e898:2e026f85:244a7e9c:908e1af7 Name : brahmaputra:0 Creation Time : Fri Apr 29 04:27:04 2011 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 312574512 (149.05 GiB 160.04 GB) Array Size : 625148928 (298.09 GiB 320.08 GB) Used Dev Size : 312574464 (149.05 GiB 160.04 GB) Super Offset : 312574640 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 78fc82bc:2eb18f07:56c98922:7639269e Internal Bitmap : -8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Mon Feb 11 13:43:52 2013 Checksum : ce19a703 - correct Events : 783527 Layout : near=2 Chunk Size : 32K Device Role : Active device 3 Array State : ..AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) # mdadm -E /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdd1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.0 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : f2d4e898:2e026f85:244a7e9c:908e1af7 Name : brahmaputra:0 Creation Time : Fri Apr 29 04:27:04 2011 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 312574512 (149.05 GiB 160.04 GB) Array Size : 625148928 (298.09 GiB 320.08 GB) Used Dev Size : 312574464 (149.05 GiB 160.04 GB) Super Offset : 312574640 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 1dce2f63:fef488cb:1a362c57:7ed908ac Internal Bitmap : -8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Mon Feb 11 13:43:52 2013 Checksum : 7b44c944 - correct Events : 783527 Layout : near=2 Chunk Size : 32K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : ..AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) # mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb1 # mdadm -E /dev/sdb1 mdadm: No md superblock detected on /dev/sdb1. # mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb1 mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/sdb1 as 4: Invalid argument from /var/log/messages Feb 12 06:52:26 sysresccd kernel: [ 9900.298880] md0: ADD_NEW_DISK not supported

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Fwd: [MumPy] hackathon at CAMP on Saturday, 9th feb
by Mehul Ved 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sanjay Bhangar <sanjaybhangar(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:51 PM Subject: [MumPy] hackathon at CAMP on Saturday, 9th feb To: mumpy(a)googlegroups.com Hey all, Sorry for the delayed notice on this -- We're hosting a hackathon at CAMP [1] [2] on Saturday 9th Feb, 3pm onwards. The broad agenda is to build an open platform for book-sharing in the city. A few artist's organizations have come together as the Umbrella group to collaborate on spaces and projects. As part of this, we plan to index all the books in our various collections, and enable access to them. We're using http://openlibrary.org to enter data about the books and associate them with groups / people that own them. The plan is, to start with, build a simple website to find books you're looking for and who to contact to get access to them, using the openlibrary.org API, but is completely open to ideas to facilitate sharing of things, both digital and analog. The event also marks solidarity with Aaron Swartz. [3] If this seems interesting, bring your laptop / coding device and come - wifi, food and beer shall be provided. Please circulate if you know anyone who maybe interested. Thanks, Sanjay [1] http://camputer.org/directions.html [2] http://camputer.org/campstudio.html [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2013Jan/0017.html -- -- _________________________________________________ Mumbai Python Users Group - http://www.mumpy.org/ Mailing Group - http://groups.google.com/group/mumpy/ Membership Management - http://groups.google.com/group/mumpy/subscribe/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mumpy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mumpy+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- With Regards, Mehul Ved

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[Commercial] A sneak peek into OSFY mega anniversary issue (Feb 2013
by Priyanka Sarkar 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Dear Members, OSFY's mega 10th Anniversary issue (Feb 2013) brings you a melange of interesting articles on your platter. Special Read for Developers: --Protecting Systems Intents in Android --Implementing HTML5 WebSockets Using Java --Dynamic Program Analysis Using Valgrind: A Jump-Start Guide Admin's Domain --A Peek Into Best open source security tools --Combat virtual threats with IPCop Firewall --A look at top 10 open source Web log Analysers For U & Me: It's the stuff for everyone ---Ten open source cloud computing resources you should know about ---The Top Mind Mapping tools in Android ---Explore the power of bench calculator Expert Speak: Exploring Software by Anil Seth: Creating Massive open online course Joy of Programming by SG Ganesh:Learning From Mistakes Codesport by Sandya Mannarswamy This issue comes bundled with a free DVD: Fedora 18 and an additional CD Clear OS. (The CD is only for newsstands) You can get a copy of our magazine from your nearest newsstands or you can subscribe at http://electronicsforu.com/electronicsforu/subscription/subsc2scheme.asp#. To locate some dealers selling OSFY close to your home, you can check our website: dealers.efyindia.com. Regards, Team OSFY

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Serious Problems With USB Controller in Raspberry Pi
by Siji Sunny 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

It seems like the usb controller used* *in Rspberry pi SOC (Broadcom BCM2835) has some serious issues , since it can only supply low amount of current to its USB devices (Approximately 140 mA). This will cause continues restart of RPI specially while connecting USB Network Card, USB Modem or GPS devices. This may be a bug in USB driver, which has not fixed yet and may not be an easy task because : (Ref: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/08/24/2228251/serious-problems-with-u… ) 1) Documentation on the Broadcom USB controller is proprietary and is not made openly available by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. 2) The USB core for the Broadcom SoC was bought from a 3rd party, and we are told that not even Broadcom has full documentation, nor understands the driver. 3) The Foundation has discovered that the controller and its driver expect realtime response from the ARM core, and if Linux's non-realtime scheduling doesn't respond in 1 ms, a split transaction USB event can be dropped. Not surprisingly, this occurs regularly and produces lost mouse clicks, stuck keyboard keys, etc.. -- Siji Sunny

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Fwd: Will you be at LibrePlanet? Register today for March 23-24
by Shahid Farooqui 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Free Software Foundation <info(a)fsf.org> Date: Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:40 AM Subject: Will you be at LibrePlanet? Register today for March 23-24 To: Shahid Farooqui <shahidfarooqui(a)gmail.com> [image: Register now]<http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2013> Hi Shahid, We're excited to announce that registration is now open for LibrePlanet 2013: "Commit Change."<http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2013> LibrePlanet is a yearly conference where the global free software community comes together to learn from each other, face challenges and welcome newcomers. This year, the conference focuses on bringing together the diverse voices that have a stake in free software, from software developers to activists, academics to computer users. The theme is called "Commit Change," and it's about drawing ideas from everyone to create the software freedom we need. If you're an FSF associate member, you can sign up now<http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2013>at no cost! Otherwise, we invite you to become a member <http://www.fsf.org/associate/benefits> for gratis admission and a host of other benefits, including an account on our brand new Jabber chat server<http://www.fsf.org/blogs/membership/help-us-sign-up-71-new-members-by-janua…>. You can also attend the conference at the non-member rate<http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2013> . The conference will feature a keynote address by Karen Sandler, executive director of the GNOME Foundation and renowned software freedom advocate. LibrePlanet will also include workshops in using free programs, talks and discussion panels with free software luminaries, plentiful networking opportunities and a pre-conference social gathering. In addition to Karen, the program includes sessions with Stefano Zacchiroli, Project Leader at Debian, Wendy Seltzer of the W3C, and our own Richard Stallman. If you're interested in technology's role in struggles for justice, community, and freedom, then you will find a lot to be excited about at LibrePlanet. Join us at LibrePlanet 2013 and help Commit Change. Register for the conference now<http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2013>or become a member<https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom/join_fsf?referrer=2442>to attend at no cost. Hope to see you at LibrePlanet! Zak Rogoff, Campaigns Manager PS: Today is the very last day of our recruitment drive, and we're very close to reaching our goal of 120 new members. If you become a member<https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom/join_fsf?referrer=2442>today, you'll help us shatter our goal and do more for software freedom in 2013. *Read this message online at http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/will-you-be-at-libreplanet-register-toda… .* -- Follow us at https://status.fsf.org/fsf | Subscribe to our blogs via RSS at http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Join us as an associate member at http://fsf.org/jf *Make sure we have your correct location information<https://crm.fsf.org/civicrm/profile/edit?gid=34&reset=1&id=28233&cs=6aab93b…>— please do not forward this email with this link intact. * Sent from the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street Fifth Floor Boston, MA 02110-1335 United States You can unsubscribe to this mailing-list by visiting the link https://crm.fsf.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe&reset=1&jid=127…. To stop all email from the Free Software Foundation, including Defective by Design, and the Free Software Supporter newsletter, click this link: https://crm.fsf.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/optout&reset=1&jid=127109&q… .

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Fwd: KDE Meetup
by Arun Khan 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

Forwarding without any prejudice. -- Arun Khan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shahid Farooqui <shahidfarooqui(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:46 AM Subject: [PLUG] KDE Meetup To: Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List <plug-mail(a)plug.org.in> Hi.. Google Developer Group, DA-IICT and the renowned International KDE Community are glad to announce "KDE Meetup 2013". This two day conference scheduled in February will bring together Qt Developers, KDE contributors, open source enthusiasts and users from all across the nation. The meetup will give you the opportunity to learn, share, contribute, innovate and create limitless possibilities by using most emerging technologies. KDE Meetup is the first large scale open source conference to be held in Gujarat and the largest KDE/Qt event in India since conf.kde.in in 2011. This meetup is an excellent platform for you to learn about FOSS and start contributing to it. The participants will experience the KDE world, understanding the latest developments happening in it. The Talks, Tutorials, Interactive Sessions, Coding Jams will lay your foundations to become a part of KDE community and even participate in programs like Google Summer of Code and Season of KDE. Last year, KDE was biggest participating organizing in GSoC with selection of 60 students.The sessions will range from the beginner to advanced level, to facilitate all kinds of participants. This meetup will prove to be of immense importance to anyone who is starting or contributing to the developer's world using Qt (Desktop, Mobile or Embedded Applications). Teachers and trainers, will also benefit from this event by gaining knowledge about the latest Qt and KDE based FOSS technologies and using them in their day to day lives. The conference will be headlined by four keynote speakers combined with some hands on experience with contributing to KDE. The meetup is primarily designed to bring the research and developmental interests of people in open source to the forefront. KDE Meetup will result in networking, mentoring, and increasing the visibility for KDE contributors. Date & Venue Venue: Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar Date: 23rd - 24th Feb, 2013 The registrations for the conference are now open. Please register yourself on http://www.gdgdaiict.com/kdemeetup/ Thanks Regards, Shahid _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

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CFP :: gnuNify 2013 @ Pune 15/Feb/2013 to 17/Feb/2013
by Arun Khan 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Greetings, gnuNify 2013 @ Pune is an annual FOSS event organized by the Pune LUG and SICSR (Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research) This year's event will run from 15/Feb/2013 to 17/Feb/2013 (Fri - Sun). The CFP (call for paper) is open. The agenda for the three days are as follows: Friday 15/Feb/2013 All day OpenStack miniconf Saturday 16/Feb/2013 General Cloud Computing Sys Admin tracks/workshops. Sunday 17/Feb/2013 Mozilla Hackathon Wikipedia Language Summit. Alongside, there will be talks and workshops on other topics. If you have an interesting / compelling talk/workshop to share, please visit the site, register yourself and submit your CFP. For details please visit the gnuNify website <http://www.gnunify.in> For more info on track / events <http://www.gnunify.in/2013/events> Speakers from out of Greater Pune area -- boarding and lodging will be provided. Travel -- your home town <> Pune is reimbursable (up to Rs. 5000). Any specific query not answered on the web site or the FAQ. Please use the Contact form <http://www.gnunify.in/contact>. Please do not post query to this mailing list and/or send personal emails. Hope to see many of you at the event. Thanks and regards, -- Arun Khan

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[OT] Recommendation for Wi-Fi AP.
by Arun Khan 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Greetings, I am looking for Wi-Fi AP that: 1. Is stable (does not require frequent reboot or power OFF/ON) 2. Supports 802.11 b/g/n 3. Supports up to WPA2-Enterprise (RADIUS auth) - a *must* 4. Has external Antenna Desirable - Accepts DD-WRT / OpenWRT images. Many list members may be using these Wi-Fi features in their own office / home and I would appreciate if you could share you experience. Please mention brand/model. PS - There are lot of brands claiming features and performance. Unfortunately, they can be verified only after one has purchased such an unit. In the past, I have used Linksys and Buffalo. Linksys has been OK but with internal antenna, range is suspect (at least in my experience). The Buffalo APs, on paper have great feature and few models do accept DD-WRT firmware. However, I have had heating issues - over a period of time the WLAN would disappear. The only way I could solve it was to power them OFF, let it cool and then power them ON. Buffalo was great in the RMA dept. but the brand new replacements had the same problem. TIA, -- Arun Khan

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FOSS Meet + Minidebconf @ NITC
by pavithran s 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Hi ILUG Bombay , Nice to see you all back , FOSS Meet[1] is happening this year with a Minidebconf [2] track . Try attending it :) 1. http://fossmeet.in/2013/content/mini-debconf 2 .MiniDebconf - http://fossmeet.in/2013/content/mini-debconf --- FOSSMeet 2013 will be held from February 22nd to 24th at National Institute of Technology Calicut. FOSSMeet will feature wide range of workshops, talks, discussions and hands-on sessions. Be a part of FOSSMeet 2013 by being a speaker, delegate or an exhibitor. To view speaker proposals, rate or discuss, please see http://funnel.fossmeet.in External Student and Professional Registration is now open. Regards, Pavithran

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ping
by Anurag 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Hello, Thanks to push from Arun and Dinesh, the mailing list is back online. ILUG-BOM was left without a mailing list server for a year, but is now nested within FSF-I infrastructure. Anurag -- http://web.gnuer.org/

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Ubuntu Global Jam Mumbai 2013 for Ubuntu Raring Ringtail
by Rigved Rakshit 26 Jan '13

26 Jan '13

Hi, Firstly, sorry for cross-posting but I do not know which list is currently being used by everyone. It's time for another Ubuntu Global Jam! This time, it is for the Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (13.04) cycle. Since this is too early for an official announcement, I will update this thread when the Ubuntu Loco website opens up for UGJ registration. Tentative Dates: 15 March 2012, 16 March 2012 and 17 March 2012 Venue: Directiplex, Andheri (W), Mumbai Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on all the days There is nothing planned on these days as of yet. I am looking for suggestions. Come and fix bugs, test the new OS installation process, fix documentation etc. Specifically, I am hoping that we can fix Ubuntu bugs and forward the patches upstream. So, if any Debian Developers (or other upstream developers) are free at this time, please attend the event so we can get help with the same. Looking forward to a great Jam! Best Regards, Rigved

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] ping
by Joel A Divekar 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

From: Dinesh Shah ( / ) <dineshah(a)gmail.com> Sent: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:29:34 To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] ping Anurag, On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Anurag <anurag(a)gnuer.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks to push from Arun and Dinesh, the mailing list is back online. > ILUG-BOM was left without a mailing list server for a year, but is now > nested within FSF-I infrastructure. Thanks for doing all the hard work for bringing the MM backup. > Anurag With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System Pvt. Ltd. +91-98213-11906 +91-9833-TICKET http://www.shahmicro.com http://iopt.in http://crm.iopt.in Blog: http://dineshah.wordpress.com -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers This is really cool guys !!!  Regards Joel Divekar Mumbai, India Mob : +91 9920208223 Blog : http://joeldivekar.blogspot.com/ Linkedin : http://www.linkedin.com/in/joeldivekar Slideshare : http://www.slideshare.net/JoelDivekar

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] ping
by gnulinuxist＠gmail.com 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Sent from my Nokia phone -----Original Message----- From: Arun Khan Sent: 18/01/2013, 18:34 To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] ping On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Anurag <anurag(a)gnuer.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks to push from Arun and Dinesh, the mailing list is back online. > ILUG-BOM was left without a mailing list server for a year, but is now > nested within FSF-I infrastructure. > Anurag Yay! This is good news indeed. However, what happens to the Google Group that Binand started? -- Arun Khan Arun, we can have a dual forwarding type system across both lists. Regards, Rony. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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What's wrong with db.ilug-bom.org.in/db.glug-bom.org?
by Philip Tellis 04 Dec '11

04 Dec '11

I'm trying to find my sendmail rewriting howto which used to be on the lug webserver here: http://db.glug-bom.org/lug-authors/philip/docs/Hdr-Env-Masq-miniHOWTO.txt however the server does not seem to be active any more. The alternate URL: http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/lug-authors/philip/docs/Hdr-Env-Masq-miniHOWTO.txt doesn't work either (404). Does anyone know where these pages were moved to? -- hello world

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A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
by Siji Sunny 03 Dec '11

03 Dec '11

I know every one might have read this since it's in wikipedia.So it's a gentle reminder to all who hasn't contributed yet. "Google might have close to a million servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 95 staff. Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 450 million different people every month – with billions of page views. Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong here. Not in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park. It is like a temple for the mind. It is a place we can all go to think, to learn, to share our knowledge with others. When I founded Wikipedia, I could have made it into a for-profit company with advertising banners, but I decided to do something different. We’ve worked hard over the years to keep it lean and tight. We fulfill our mission, and leave waste to others. If everyone reading this donated ₹100, we would only have to fundraise for one day a year. But not everyone can or will donate. And that's fine. Each year just enough people decide to give. This year, please consider making a donation of ₹100, ₹200, ₹300 or whatever you can to protect and sustain Wikipedia. Thanks, *Jimmy Wales* Wikipedia Founder -- Siji Sunny

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US has become a dangerous place for software development: RMS
by Swapnil Bhartiya 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

RT (Russia Today) yesterday conducted an interview with Richard M Stallman, the founder of Free Software Foundation and the writer of the world's most advance license GNU GPL. RT asked readers to ask questions and then they would pick questions for RMS. http://www.muktware.com/news/3056 We asked two questions on RT's Facebook page and both those questions were presented to RMS. Muktware: Do you think USA is becoming hostile to innovation and competition as the companies like Apple and Microsoft are gaming the system? RMS: I have to point out that innovation is not my highest value. Human rights are my highest values. So I don't to get into the dialogue that treats innovation as a primary goal. With software patents the US has become a dangerous place for software development, including innovative software development, because when a program is innovative, that means it has some new ideas in it. But it also has lots of well-known ideas in it. A large program combines thousands of ideas. So if you have some new ideas and you want to use them, in order to use them you have to combine them with a lot of other ideas that are well-known. And if you are not allowed to do that because those other ideas are patented, you can't use your new idea. Muktware: How much control should the USA have over the Internet? RMS: No more than anyone else. I don't think it will be safe to have any global control over the internet. because we could predict that that global control will work for the empire of the mega corporations and would attack human rights. Read more here: http://www.muktware.com/news/3056 -- Swapnil Bhartiya Editor: Muktware.com Skype: No Way...its non-free. Looking for alternatives Facebook: http://facebook.com/muktware Twitter: http://twitter.com/muktware Google+ : https://plus.google.com/109027644713767623413/posts

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Reminder - Lug-Mum meeting Tomorrow
by Siji Sunny 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

Reminder : LugMumbai Meeting Date : 3rd December,2011 Time : 4PM Venue : Favourites Bakery and Restaurant Shop No. 5, 6-A, Sonwadi Mansion, 209 LJ Road, Shivaji Park, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400016 -- Siji Sunny

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UID and FOSS
by Rony 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

Hello, The purpose of this thread is to move further from where we had left it in the earlier one and as suggested by Dinesh Shah, discuss how we as FOSS people can provide alternate solutions to the shortcomings of the current system. Lets keep this purely technical and not pro or anti Aadhar. I have been looking up official as well as technology information about the Aadhar UID system and some important links are posted below. My observations are as follows. 1) The Aadhar project uses 2 forms of biometric identities, the fingerprints and the iris. 2) The fingerprint system used is the standard 2D system which is prone to errors due to various factors as explained in the links. There is a new system which is the 3D fingerprint scan that is yet to be available commercially (IMHO). It has better accuracy with good image quality as it is contact-less. The pdf link to the same is here.... Quality and Matching Performance Analysis of 3D Unraveled Fingerprints http://vis.uky.edu/~realtime3d/Doc/Manuscripts/Quality%20and%20matching%20p… Fingerprint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint 3) In iris scanning, there are chances of cheating by using fake iris contact lenses. To eliminate this problem, iris scanners use 'live-tissue verification' techniques to detect natural tissue. Iris recognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_recognition 4) The Aadhar PoC ducument does not mention whether the live-tissue verification system is in place for iris scanners. proof of concept trial http://uidai.gov.in/images/FrontPageUpdates/uid_enrolment_poc_report.pdf 5) It is surprising that though they take multiple photos of the subject during the enrolment process, there is no face recognition software to take advantage of this bio-identity for more accurate results. Although this should be a fringe benefit and not the main basis of checking id. 6) Blood group which is an important and constant bio-identity for life is not included in this project. If implemented, proper sterile needles should be used for every sample collected. This information may not be necessary for regular business but useful for security agencies for id lookup of suspicious persons. 7) The software used for the devices is a custom software "A reference implementation of the enrolment software was created to standardize the process and have a uniform look-and-feel of the application across all three states. However, since the devices used were different in each state, the enrolment software used in each state was a custom version which followed the reference design. The UID technology team worked with each of the three agencies to create the customized software to be used in the corresponding state. There were also variations in the capture process followed, particularly in iris capture, because of the variations in capture devices." As devices vary in hardware, their accuracy will vary too. Since the software is the custom type, there will be total dependency on the hardware suppliers for software. In addition to this cost, for every computer that they use across the country, a license fee will have to be paid for every operating system that is the commercial proprietary type. Conclusion: 1) Instead of leaving this project in the hands of private hardware and software suppliers, the entire project should be centrally controlled by a Govt. institution that is actively involved into computing and software development like CDAC etc. 2) They should test devices from various vendors across the country and list them according to their accuracy. Only those devices that conform to FOSS software support should be included in the list. The entire report of this testing should be posted openly on the internet. 3) Software for this entire project including the server side too should be developed in-house by that Govt. institution and made the standard to all computers involded in the Aadhar project across the country. 4) Use only free as in freedom and free as in cost and open source software for the Aadhar system. This will eliminate the per computer license fees for operating systems in every Aadhar computer across the country. Given the total number of Aadhar computers in tens of thousands, this will be a significant amount. The added advantage of POSIX confirming systems will be immunity against common computer viruses as the systems will be on-line all the time for faster transactions. Some more lniks.... Unique Identification Authority of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Identification_Authority_of_India De-duplication – The Complexity in the Unique ID context http://www.4gid.com/De-dup-complexity%20unique%20ID%20context.pdf -- Freedom is a shared resource. Take some, leave the rest for others. Please trim your replies. Avoid cross posting to other lists. Post your replies below the relevant original text, leaving a line space. Regards, Rony. http://ronybill.blogspot.com/

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How can I unsubscribe from this list?
by Heenal Rajani 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

How can I unsubscribe from this list? Thanks! Heenal -- Heenal Rajani +502 4283 5042 www.HugItForward.org ~ be the change ~

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Aadhar on Wiki --> Edit it.
by Rony 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

Hello, There is a wiki article on the Aadhar UID project and has very little content on the risks of the current system. So add your inputs to it. Keep the temperature low. -- Freedom is a shared resource. Take some, leave the rest for others. Please trim your replies. Avoid cross posting to other lists. Post your replies below the relevant original text, leaving a line space. Regards, Rony. http://ronybill.blogspot.com/

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Indian UID, Aadhar Project Is A Proprietary, Non Open Source Project?
by Swapnil Bhartiya 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

http://www.muktware.com/bitsnbytes/2983 I worked on the story and found oss is only a smoke screen. The entire UID project seems to be a pure Microsoft stack. This document provides step-by-step instructions to install the AADHAAR Enrolment Client and Biometric components needed for Biometrics capturing. The document is not intended to be a user manual for the AADHAAR Enrolment Client. The application has been built to work with the given pre-requisites. 1.1 Installation Pre-requisites • Operating System: Windows XP SP3 OR Windows 7 (only 32-bit editions) • Windows Installer 4.5 • Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express • Aadhaar QSS SDK Setup • Vendor Device Manager You can see how the UID project has made Microsoft technologies mandatory. You can't use it without Microsoft. There is no mention of Linux in this important document. That clearly states that other than the already popular and powerful open source technologies such as Apache and MySQL rest of the stack is proprietary. Calling UID/Aadhar and Open Source project is like calling a Tata tractor a Mercedes just because one of its four tyres is a Mercedes tyre. -- Swapnil Bhartiya Editor: Muktware.com Skype: No Way...its non-free. Looking for alternatives Facebook: http://facebook.com/muktware Twitter: http://twitter.com/muktware Google+ : https://plus.google.com/109027644713767623413/posts

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[Job Opportunity] Linux System Admin
by Ashish Disawal 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Company : www.affinity.com Located at : Charkop, Kandiwali (W), Mumbai No of positions : 2 Position : System Administrator Experience : 2 - 4 years Skills: * Supporting and Administrating Linux (Debian and Redhat based distributions) * Ability to work in a large scale environment * Strong Linux administration and networking skills * Experience on Apache, bind, nagios, iptables and svn * Knowledge on virtualization technologies * Knowledge of cloud computing and clustering * Any *nix certification preferred * Good knowledge of TCP/IP * Strong shell scripting skills. Perl/Ruby would be a plus * Experience on Kernel upgrade * Good understanding on security practices Role & Responsibilities: * Server Installation, Configuration & Management * Automation * Documentation * Research & Development lnxnubie - Always a Linux Newbie

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Is Linux Lagging Behind After Its Initial Headway?
by Rony 27 Nov '11

27 Nov '11

Hello, Without trying to sound pessimistic, I get the feeling that Linux is lagging behind M$ and at a time when its chances of catching up were the best. The gaps that Linux had created in the M$ environment through alternate compatibility appear to be getting slowly filled by M$ through the process of vendor lock-in. Small changes are taking place but in a way that brings people back to Windows. My bank's netbanking website worked superbly in Linux but a recent upgrade in their software has made the entire system Windows IE7+ only. OpenOffice upto 3.3 is unable to save .docx files so it is being rendered useless for the new office systems. Mobile phones still come with Windows only software for their 'Suites' for full functionality on the pc. There is not much happening in accounting, architectural CAD and multi-media packages too, in a way that can replace the use of current commercial Windows based software. It looks like it has hit the pause button. The big Linux giants do not look interested either. -- Freedom is a shared resource. Take some, leave the rest for others. Please trim your replies. Avoid cross posting to other lists. Post your replies below the relevant original text, leaving a line space. Regards, Rony. http://ronybill.blogspot.com/

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LUGM-Planning Meeting
by Siji Sunny 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

Hello All, After having discussion with some of the group memebers,this meetup will be only a "planning meeting" and there won't be any technical sessions.So I request all of you to attend this for discussing and finalising 2012 LugMumbai's activities. Agenda : LugMumbai's Activities/Action plan for next 1 yr. -Workshop for students -FOSS Technical sessions/Conferences -Contribution to OpenSource Projects -Website/Wiki activities. Pls feel free to add your points. Date : 3rd December,2011 Time : 4PM Venue : Favourites Bakery and Restaurant Shop No. 5, 6-A, Sonwadi Mansion, 209 LJ Road, Shivaji Park, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400016 PS :Everyone who's attending will be assigned actionable items.People who can give sensible,implementation ideas also invited. -- Siji Sunny

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Stopping monitor / pc from going into standby
by jtd＠mtnl.net.in 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

This is one mystery that I have failed to crack. in xorg.conf Section "ServerFlags" Option "blank time" "0" Option "standby time" "0" Option "suspend time" "0" Option "off time" "0" EndSection in the XFCE gui set everything to never. But the freakin thing will go into standby without mouse or keyboard activity. Monitor is a HDMI TV. The Monitor DOES NOT go into standby and will show check HDMI input. As an added consolation, the behaviour is the same with a regular TV with VGA input and a regular vga monitor. Motherboard Intel and AMD. Any suggestions.

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LugMum- Meetup in December
by Siji Sunny 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

Hello, Should we plan for a meetup /Technical session in December? Date : December 3rd Saturday ? Venue : Dr,Nagarjun &Ganesh, will it possible to arrange HBSE seminar hall? Technical Sessions : 1.Disko - UI frame work for Embedded Linux - By myself . 2. 3. -- Siji Sunny

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[OT]: FLOSS Start-Ups In India?
by Swapnil Bhartiya 20 Nov '11

20 Nov '11

Hi, We are planning a series of stories and interviews of open source start-ups from India (Linus' interview triggered the need). So, if you know any such start-up please let me know. You can contact me at Muktware.com. -- Swapnil Bhartiya Editor: Muktware.com Skype: No Way...its non-free. Looking for alternatives Facebook: http://facebook.com/muktware Twitter: http://twitter.com/muktware Google+ : https://plus.google.com/109027644713767623413/posts

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[OT] Malcon?
by Binand Sethumadhavan 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

I came across (on Slashdot) this conference happening in Mumbai: http://www.malcon.org/ Anyone knows anything about the organizers, speakers etc.? Binand

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America Heading Towards The Internet Dictatorship?
by Swapnil Bhartiya 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

The greedy Hollywood is about to change the world as we know it. The entertainment industry which is failing to keep up with the innovation and is relying on Flintstone's model is conspiring with the US congress to break the Internet and freedom on the web. http://www.muktware.com/blogs/2948 -- Swapnil Bhartiya Editor: Muktware.com Skype: No Way...its non-free. Looking for alternatives Facebook: http://facebook.com/muktware Twitter: http://twitter.com/muktware Google+ : https://plus.google.com/109027644713767623413/posts

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CsvToFootprint released.
by Balwinder 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hello, CsvToFootprint converts CSV file to Kicad footprints. It is similar to CsvToKicadSch. Please download it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/csvtofootprint/ Distribution also includes lot of example footprints and a demo PCB created using this utility. For any support/feature request please contact. Best Regards Balwinder Singh

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Harald Welte wins again.
by jtd＠mtnl.net.in 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

German DSL router vendor AVM had attempted to stop Cybits, which produces children's Web-filtering software, from modifying any part of the firmware used in its routers, including a key piece of Linux-based free software. Cybits won. Harald Welte argued on behalf of cybits. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/243607/german_court_rules_tha…

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Google Releases Honeycomb Code!
by Swapnil Bhartiya 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

While everyone is talking about Android 4.0 code, what is worth mentioning is that Google has also released source code of Honeycomb as well. Despite Google's repeated clarification that holding back Honeycomb code was not intended to make it close source but to stop OEMs from starting to put it on their devices. Honeycomb was a work-around to put Android on the tablets while Google works on Android 4.0. But now Google has released the source code for honeycomb as well. Queru writes in his post, "This release includes the full history of the Android source code tree, which naturally includes all the source code for the Honeycomb releases. However, since Honeycomb was a little incomplete, we want everyone to focus on Ice Cream Sandwich. So, we haven't created any tags that correspond to the Honeycomb releases (even though the changes are present in the history.) Read here: http://www.muktware.com/news/2937 Swapnil Bhartiya

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Android IceCream sandwich Source Code released
by Siji Sunny 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

*Announced by Jean-Baptiste Queru* Hi! We just released a bit of code we thought this group might be interested in. Over at our Android Open-Source Project git servers, the source code for Android version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is now available. Here's how to get it:Follow the instructions at http://source.android.com/source/downloading.htmlCheck<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://source.android.com/source/downloadi…>out the 'ics-release' branch:repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=https://android.googlesource.com/platform/…>-b android-4.0.1_r1 That's it! However since this is a large push, please be aware that it will take some time to complete. If you sync before it's done, you'll get an incomplete copy that you won't be able to use, so please wait for us to give the all-clear before you sync. This is actually the source code for version 4.0.1 of Android, which is the specific version that will ship on the Galaxy Nexus, the first Android 4.0 device. In the source tree, you will find a device build target named "full_maguro" that you can use to build a system image for Galaxy Nexus. Build configurations for other devices will come later. Unfortunately we still don't have our Gerrit code review servers back online. That remains our top priority though, and we hope to have them back soon. This release includes the full history of the Android source code tree, which naturally includes all the source code for the Honeycomb releases. However, since Honeycomb was a little incomplete, we want everyone to focus on Ice Cream Sandwich. So, we haven't created any tags that correspond to the Honeycomb releases (even though the changes are present in the history.) JBQ, on behalf of the AOSP team. -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Software Engineer, Android Open-Source Project, Google. -- Siji Sunny

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Commercial- Needed Android Trainer
by Siji Sunny 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Hello All, One of my friend is looking for a android trainer for giving a 10 day training on android application development at her company on urgent basis.If anyone interested pls contact me or Mrs.Padmaja Johi ( padmajanjoshi(a)gmail.com) off list. Thanks -- Siji Sunny

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Website redirected to FSF
by pavithran s 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Is it me or the LUG website is being redirected to FSF India ? I was even unable to get to the mailing list page . Regards, pavithran

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by Anurag 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

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Beaglebone hacking session at Droidcon
by Siji Sunny 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

DroidCon : Nov-18 & 19,Bangalore http://droidcon.in/2011/ Khasim's Mail from beagleboard maillist : Hi all, We will be introducing Beaglebone running Android from arowboat.org for the first time live at http://droidcon.in/2011/ What's more ? There will be a big hackers corner with : - Lots of beaglebone(s), beagleboard xm (s), pandaboards, craneboards, flashboards, lot more - Instructors from arowboat.org community to teach/discuss Android internals - Beginners sessions will be conducted every 3 hrs. - Tools and sources will be provided handy - Win exciting prizes - You could win a "beaglebone" Thanks to Android porting, arowboat.org communities for helping us. Looking forward to meet you there, if you have more inputs, suggestions, please write to me directly. Regards, Khasim -- Siji Sunny

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Video of Linus Talking about Indian contribution
by Swapnil Bhartiya 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Extracted the chunk where Linus talks about India. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=worGBIx-pdU -- Swapnil Bhartiya Editor: Muktware.com Skype: No Way...its non-free. Looking for alternatives Facebook: http://facebook.com/muktware Twitter: http://twitter.com/muktware Google+ : https://plus.google.com/109027644713767623413/posts

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Complete Docu-Interview of Linus Torvalds
by Swapnil Bhartiya 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

Hi we just released the video of interview with Linus Torvalds. Its here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3a_HVnJSMHU -- Swapnil Bhartiya Editor: Muktware.com Skype: No Way...its non-free. Looking for alternatives Facebook: http://facebook.com/muktware Twitter: http://twitter.com/muktware Google+ : https://plus.google.com/109027644713767623413/posts

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Boot to Gecko : Web based Mobile Operating system My Mozilla
by Siji Sunny 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

** *Mozilla announced more details and a project roadmap for its Android-based, web-centric Boot to Gecko (BTG) mobile operating system, including plans to release a version in the second quarter of 2012. It also announced an updated Firefox 8 web browser for desktop and mobile devices, featuring improved HTML5 support, Twitter integration, and an enhanced password function for Android.* Read More : https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G -- Siji Sunny

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Plasma Active : Technology for an intelligent user experience
by Siji Sunny 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

Plasma Active is innovative technology for an intelligent user experience (UX). It is intended for all types of tablets, smartphones and touch computing devices such as settop boxes, smart TVs, home automation, in-vehicle infotainment. The goals for this KDE open source project are: - a fast embedded UX platform with minimal memory requirements - customizable and modular to support different form factors - an interface that adapts as users change Activities. http://plasma-active.org/ -- Siji Sunny

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