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Problem: In open suse system mousepad of laptop does not work?
by Ganesh Gajare 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

Hello to all, I have faced two problem using OpenSuse in my one of the friends laptop. When i boot in open suse mouse pad does not support, it does not work. While the same thing just for checking what is the real problem may be, I tried to boot in Windows, and it support, it works. Second problem is Linux allows windows partition to mount, read write data in that partitions. Using openSuse i tried to use windows "ntfs" filesystem partion, which before do not allow mounting partition, but after using umonunt and remounting technique it allow to mount. I can list the data from that partition but not allow to create folder or edit data? Error: Permission Denied, Even i change to root as sudo user giving the same problem. Please give me solution!!!! Regards, Racewithg

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Workshop on Machine Learning @ C-DAC Mumbai
by Naveen Kumar 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Dear colleague, The Knowledge Based Computer Systems division at CDAC Mumbai is organizing *a two-day Workshop on "**Machine Learning**"* at our Navi Mumbai (Kharghar) campus *on 19-20 December, 2008*. The workshop provides a comprehensive overview of the field of machine learning with a hands-on practical experience on a machine learning tool - Weka. The following leaflet<http://naveenk.wikidot.com/local--files/start/ML_Brochure.pdf>gives you brief information on the workshop. Please circulate this call for participation to those who may be interested in the area of machine learning, and/or nominate a few from your institution to benefit from this exercise. Registration form for the workshop is enclosed in the leaflet<http://naveenk.wikidot.com/local--files/start/ML_Brochure.pdf>. If you require any further clarification or information, please do let us know. For more details, visit the following URL - http://www.cdacmumbai.in/ index.php/cdacmumbai/research_and_publications/research_ groups/kbcs_artificial_intelligence/events/upcoming_event <http://www.cdacmumbai.in/index.php/cdacmumbai/research_and_publications/res…> Looking forward to your support and participation. NB: For further inquiries please mail at *kbcs(a)cdacmumbai.in* -- Thanks & regards Naveen Kumar Assistant Software Engineer Open Source Software Division( http://ossrc.org.in/ ) C-DAC Mumbai ( http://www.cdacmumbai.in/ ) ( http://naveenk.wikidot.com )

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how to find failure harddisk ?
by ravi kuamar 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

hi friends. In interview i was asked a question that. If a server is located at some remote place and in a server one of the hard disk had failed. Then how do we find which hard disk had failed from the several hard disk in the server remotely. we need to hav certain command for this in linux. in IBM AIX there is certain command but in linux i dont't know. does any 1 know this than plz reply. Explore your hobbies and interests. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/

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sound card problem !
by IPS Khurana 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

hi i am using ubuntu 8.04 its working fine but my sound card C-Media is not working i got the following report by lspci -v in terminal 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: K.I. Technology Co Ltd Unknown device 0111 (rev 10) Subsystem: C-Media Electronics Inc Unknown device 0111 Flags: stepping, medium devsel, IRQ 255 I/O ports at ff00 [disabled] [size=256] Capabilities: <access denied> CMI8738 aplay -l aplay: device_list:205: no soundcards found... Multimedia audio controller /0/100/9 product: Harman International Industries Inc vendor: Harman International Industries Inc bus info: pci@0000:00:09.0 version: 10 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: PCI capabilities listing configuration: latency: 255 maxlatency: 24 mingnt: 2 this device hasn't been claimed i think it is either disabled or the module/package is not starting at boot up. what should i do can some one pls explain -- IPS Khurana ***************************** Cell No: +91 9869019416 Khurana Sales & Services Distributors & Wholesellers Total IT Solutions! Thane http://ipskhurana.googlepages.com/ Proud to be Member of BNI ! The World's Largest Referral Organization ! Turning Contacts into Contracts ! http://www.bni-india.com http://www.bni.com Get Free Ubuntu Desktop OS CD! http://www.ubuntu.com

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FOSS for enabling collective decision making /voting
by Kussh Singh 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Hi Dinesh, Saw your blog entry on electoral reforms. Is there any FOSS software which will help the voting process? I think we really need such enabling tools/ category of FOSS softwares. Once it becomes easy and convenient to vote, and it is ingrained as a habit from childhood, maybe some of your concerns will be addressed and India will become a REAL democracy rather than a SHAM one it is at present. The software would fulfill a need in myriad applications e.g. in 1 Housing societies AGMs 2 Company/stockholders Annual General Meetings 3 in panchayats 4 in classrooms 5 in companies, schools, adventure groups, theater audiences, neighbourhood meetings, in ngos etc etc --i.e. wherever collective decision making is required. I tried searching on http://directory.fsf.org and other places but have yet to find such a software. Maybe somebody will make it someday Almost all Swiss citizens participate in voting on important issues thru the sms/mobile route and they vote atleast once a month since it is so convenient. This is what I learned from a person who came to tell us about RTI from the CHRI -- www.humanrightsinitiative.org. Kussh -- Costs of everything have decreased with time but man's greed and fear are keeping prices artificially HIGH Traveller's homeopathy kit for Rs 30 only http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1202645 https://answers.launchpad.net www.altlinux.com

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Kubuntu 8.10 on Acer Aspire One (AAO) [Installation Notes]
by Rony Bill 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Hello, Before attempting Kubuntu 8.10, the AAO was tried out with Kubuntu 8.04 using a regular external HDD controller connected to a Mosher Bayer DVD R/W. It would keep stopping at the 'initramfs' prompt. Then I tried creating a USB LiveCD in my pen drive but that was not successfull in booting properly. Then the Kubuntu 8.10 CD ( which did not boot till the desktop in my Intel 845 GEBV2 PC) was tried out and it was able to boot into the live desktop on the AAO. My pre-installation worry was the single partition already installed with XP Home and the hidden rescue partition getting knocked out. I wanted dual boot. However fdisk -l showed that the rescue partition was the first one and the rest of the disk was XP. During Kubuntu 8.10's installation, in the partitioning section, there was already an option of dividing the XP partition into 50% XP and 50% Ubuntu. Installlation went smoothly and did not damage the XP pre-installed. On booting into XP after installing Kubuntu, Windows detected a file system error and went into automatic scandisk ( don't stop that process ). Then it automatically rebooted and went on to boot normally and all was well. Kubuntu 8.10 detected everything properly except the wireless LAN. The wired LAN kept going on/off even after upgrading all packages. However after a few reboots it appeared to take the wired connection properly. The wireless issue is simple to resolve by following instructions given in this site https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne110L#WLan For the webcam this site https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne talks about 'luvcview'. It works fine and has many detailed settings. Its buttons are tiny but anyway results are good. Don't follow the wireless instructions given here. Go to the earlier link for 8.10. I haven't tried the card slots as I don't have any such cards. However the website has some information on it. A word of caution. Don't mess with the wireless on/off switch on the front side of the AAO. It disables the wireless well but getting it back was next to impossible. Repeated attempts to bring it to life failed. In XP I would get the on-screen display for enable and disable but no sign of the hardware itself. Finally I shut down the system and gave the switch some exercise. That brought it back to life. Whew! Anyway this netbook and Kubuntu 8.10 are like fish and water. Installation with live partitioning is fully automatic. This mail is being sent from the AAO using the wireless connection. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Why are you using GNU/Linux?
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Hello FOSSers, I believe that there are many students on this list. I would like to ask them few questions about their FOSS usage and adoption. I would love to hear from you guys and gals using FOSS. I will compile the list of reasons and put it up for everyone. This should help people who conduct workshops and seminars in the colleges to create more appealing presentations for students. http://dineshah.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/why-are-you-using-gnulinux/ You can post your replies to list, personal email or comment on the blog. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Alfred Hitchcock - "Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."

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New site: gnowledge network
by Nagarjuna G. 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Sorry if you get multiple copies; I know there are many common members in the groups I am sending to. Dear fellow hackers, www.gnowledge.org <http://gnowledge.org> portal will be slowly transformed soon into a collaborative concept mapping (knowledge networking) site. Please check out the first edition with dependency maps. The old site will be slowly phased out, it is available from http://old.gnowledge.org/ New site is http://www.gnowledge.org/ Join, contribute, test, and help in this new initiative. Do spread the word around so that more and more people can add to the growing network. Soon to come: type map, part map, interaction map, cause-effect map, debian software map, translation map, and soon a new SELF Platform with automatically created course structure from the knowledge network. -- Nagarjuna G.

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Openmoko attcaked by mp3 patent troll
by jtd 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

If any one was in doubt about closed formats and patents. http://www.csamuel.org/2008/11/14/patent-trolls-attack-openmoko-project -- Rgds JTD

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[Positions] openings in gnowledge.org lab
by Nagarjuna G. 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Please follow the advertisement here. http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/Data/Objects/N/Notice1808/viewObject If you have any clarifications, you may write to me off the list. -- Nagarjuna G. http://www.gnowledge.org/

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Help for Server mirroring
by Dinesh Dalvi 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Hi Can we mirror entire one linux server with another server. If anyone done this pls. let me know how to do this. Thanks in advance Dinesh Dalvi P.s. Moderator pls. post this msg. in List

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[X-Post] KDE Posters @ FOSS.IN/2008
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Hi, We have made some posters for upcoming FOSS.IN/2008. One to showcase the "Pillars of KDE", and other to showcase the Indic localisation for KDE. All of them have been made using inkscape. [1]http://pradeepto.livejournal.com/16634.html [2]http://pradeepto.livejournal.com/16736.html Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Some FOSS news in mainstream media
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

Ubuntu Gets a Shot in the ARM - http://www.enterpriser.in/India/Know_It/Ubuntu_Gets_a_Shot_in_the_ARM/551-9… Demand for PHP Developers on a High - http://www.enterpriser.in/India/Know_It/Demand_for_PHP_Developers_on_a_High… Enjoy! With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Fred Allen - "An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer."

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Kubuntu on Acer Aspire One (AAO)
by Rony 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

Hello, I am trying to boot a live Kubuntu 8.04 ( KDE 3 as well as 4 ) CD into the Aspire One with XP Home pre-loaded but the boot stops at an initramfs prompt. There is an external HDD adapter that is plugged into the brand new Moser Bayer IDE DVD R/W and this combination was able to read media in Debian Etch's desktop, just like plugging in a pen drive. In the AAO, on hitting F12, the third option is the USB DVD drive and I get the initial boot options. After selecting the default live option, the boot process moves up to the initial part and then stops at the initramfs prompt. I believe this is due to some driver issue. Has anyone installed Kubuntu 8.04 on this netbook? The sites on google mostly mention Ubuntu 8.10 for this netbook so I will be downloading the Kubuntu 8.10 ISO. However what are other user experiences on this list? -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Server Mirroring
by Dinesh Dalvi 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

Hi Can we mirror entire one linux server with another server. If anyone done this pls. let me know how to do this. Thanks in advance Dinesh Dalvi

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adsl model problem
by manish mallan 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

Hi, I have a BSNL internet connection. When i am using azureus, after some time, my download stops, it again starts & does this couple of times. Every time, firestarter indicates a blocked connection. If i check the firestarter for blocked connections, i see this (not in any order): Port Source Protocol Service 57084 192.168.1.1 ICMP Unknown 4024 192.168.1.1 ICMP Unknown 62159 192.168.1.1 ICMP Unknown I tried to closely monitor this thing, as far i can tell, when ever this happens, download speed goes to 0 & then again increases. But some times i have to reset the modem. I am using Ubuntu 8.04. I have checked my pc at grc.com (i went through http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=510812) It shows my pc as passed the test. Can any body help in tackling this problem ? -- --------------------------------------- Microsoft gives you Windows, Linux gives you the whole house... -- regards, Manish

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Fwd: [FSUG-Bangalore] Boycott Novell Protesters Man-handled at National Conference on Free Software 2008
by Praveen A 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rakesh 'arky' Ambati <rakesh_ambati(a)yahoo.com> Date: 2008/11/15 Subject: [FSUG-Bangalore] Boycott Novell Protesters Man-handled at National Conference on Free Software 2008 To: fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in, fsug-bangalore(a)mm.gnu.org.in Hi, Boycott Novell Protesters Man-handled at National Conference on Free Software 2008 http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2008/11/boycott-novell-protesters-man-ha… Here is blow by blow account of trouble that brewed up on the second day of National Conference on Free Software 2008 in Cochin university. The activists put up posters against the Novell Corp (the main sponsor of this event) at the Free Software exhibition complex. The organisers called up Kochi police and man handled the Anivar Aravind a former student of the Cochin University and a well known free software activist. Cheers --arky Rakesh 'arky' Ambati Blog [ http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com ] Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ _______________________________________________ FSUG-Bangalore mailing list FSUG-Bangalore(a)mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsug-bangalore -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Fwd: [Fsf-friends] Free Software Free Society
by Praveen A 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arun M <arun(a)gnu.org.in> Date: 2008/11/13 Subject: [Fsf-friends] Free Software Free Society To: fsf-friends <fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in> Dear Friends, Kerala government is organising a conference on free software and free knowledge movements from 9th to 11th December. Please see http://fsfs.in for more details. We invite you to join us in this conference. Please inform other friends also about this conference. with warm regards, arun. _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Reminder: ILUG-BOM November 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Folks, We have a ILUG-BOM Nov. 2008 Meet at per below schedule Date: Sunday, 16th Nov. 2008 Time: 2:00-5:00 PM IST Venue: (Thanks to Aditya of R&H) Rhythm & Hues Studios India Pvt. Ltd. Prism Tower, A-Wing, 3rd Floor, Mindspace, Goregaon-Malad Link Road, Goregaon (West) Mumbai - 400062 Topics: 1. A Case Study of GNU/Linux usage in Production House by Aditya and his Team (1.5 hour) 1.1 The role and contribution of technology to Visual Effects 1.2 Our operating environment - the hardware which powers our servers and workstations 1.3 An overview of our Linux cluster environment 1.4 The role of FOSS in R&H. How we use Linux and other software in our systems and production pipeline 1.5 Managing large scale Linux deployments. The technical and human angles 1.6 Some of the technologies which we work with. Introduction to Bazaar Version Control (http://bazaar-vcs.org/) - By Prashant Shah 1. Introduction 2. Fundamentals of a version control system 3. Creating repository 4. Working with local and remote repository 5. Checkouts 6. Branching and merging 3. A demo on One Laptop Per Child Project and Indian Scenario - by Amit Gogna Announcement on Wiki @ http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/wiki/index.php/Current_events#Nov_2008_Meet Looking forward to meet you all at R&H. :) With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Steven Wright - "Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country."

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Installation Problem !
by IPS Khurana 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

hi i am facing problem while installing Ubuntu 8.10 currently i am using ubuntu 8.04 which is running fine.. system config is : Intel P3-550mhz, 512mb sd ram, 80 ide gb hdd Asus BX440 Motherboard. but when run 8.10 for installation it halts and show msg *initramfs> and does not goes further.. what can be the problem.. pls confirm ! thanks n rgds *-- Inder

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One Laptop Per Child Project Introduction to GLUG - Mumbai
by amit gogna 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Hi linuxers, This is my first mail to the group As per my telecon with Dinesh I look forward to participate and if possible give a small demo on* One Laptop Per Child Project and Indian Scenario* in the current meet this Sunday. For those who are new to the project can read the more about the project on the following site :- laptop.org wiki.laptop.org http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India Looking forward to the meet. Thanks, Amit -- A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi

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Sahana call for participants/contributors.
by Ajay Kumar 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Hi All, I have planned a workout at FOSS.in for Sahana which I have put up on the project wiki here, http://wiki.sahana.lk/doku.php?id=dev:foss_in_2008_ideas Request you guys to take a look and if the project interests you, would be glad to have some contributors to the project. I have contributed to the Messaging module for SMS features using SMSTools v3 in my Summer of Code 2008. So in case you have worked on SMS related interactive applications, your input would be helpful. And we are also looking for Language/Translation contributors for various Indic languages. Appropriate mailing list information can be found here: http://wiki.sahana.lk/doku.php?id=dev:mailing_list_policy Feel free to ping me in case you are willing to contribute to the project in any way or participate in the workout if you are attending the event in Bangalore. Thanks & Regards, Ajay Kumar "I code for SAHANA. Do you?" http://ajuonline.net

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[Commercial -- well, not really] An Invitation
by Steve 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Hi, Being involved with linux now for a long time, I have always researched the level of linux compatibility before buying any new hardware. I recently needed to buy a cheap wireless USB adapter (cheap because, i think i'd probably use it only a couple months before my laptop's bmc4310 wireless card is nicely supported -- ehe, that's an entirely different topic -- no, i have not got it to work on Fedora 10). Well, this didn't turn out as easy as I expected. Sure, 90% USB wireless cards just work with linux, but what if I chose a random one and it turns out to be from that 10%, so, I began researching. Unfortunately, a lot of 'cheap' wireless cards, don't come with tech. specs, so you have no clue what chipset the card is based on. For example looking at http://tinyurl.com/6p8tc3 (ebay.com search URL), I didn't know what to buy. I would have to research each of those individually, eliminating by price. Anyways, long story short, I got frustrated with the fact that I have to do this 'research' every time I need some new hardware, so, I thought of setting this up: http://tuxcompatible.com This is a 'classifieds' site where people looking for linux compatible hardware (/software/periperals/devices/services ..etc), can shorten or eliminate the research step. I would like to invite hardware vendors (or request you to invite those hardware vendors you know) who know the linux compatibility of devices they sell, to create their listings here. To prospective buyers, I request, please let the vendors know that you learned about their product from tuxcompatible.com, so that they are encouraged to keep posting. ...and to anyone else, I welcome you to comment or suggest improvement. You may also choose to help me out -- http://tuxcompatible.com/drupal/node/2 Please read more at the site. Thank you for your time, regards, - steve

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Commercial -- well, not really] An Invitation
by Steve 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Hi, Firstly, thanks all, for the comments about the site (I really appreciate it) and also about the suggestions on making bmc4310 work. I am sorry, I wasn't too clear about that bit, I should have said haven't got it working in my setup yet -- which means with WAP-PSK support. Right now, I am using the broadcom's (proprietory with binary blob) wl module[1] which works only in open networks (I have not tried WEP). Even using the windows driver with ndiswrapper works with just open and WEP enabled networks, not with WAP-PSK ...anyways, like I said, native upstream kernel support will come in a couple of months[2]. Anyways, about jtd's comments: > Plenty of resources are already available on the net. > However these are mostly about hardware available in the US and > Europe. Hardware available here are substantially different and for > shorter durations. So it is a constant battle to keep finding out the > best fit for linux. Exactly ! ...and that's the reason why I set up tuxcompatible.com. Most of the times, the hardware available locally would use same or similar chipsets, but they would be branded by different companies (sometimes chinese, taiwanese or korean) and this leads to confusion. The resources available on the net usually just discuss compatibility and/or performance. There is no (or at least no 'well known') linux centric *marketplace* online -- this is what I hope to achieve with tuxcompatible.com (or even encourage professional web-developers/companies to consider as an viable bussiness). > Further given the very random and one time requirements of desktop > users, their unwillingness to understand the soup they are in and > reluctance to change, supporting individual newbie desktops is a > major pain. Well, I totally agree with the unwillingness to understand compatibility issues ! My dad or Uncle (who are not just linux but /computer/ newbies) should not have to worry about the level of linux support a device has when purchasing it. It should *just work* ....of course this is far from ideal right now. The next best thing to do, IMHO, was to at least give then one place where they can go to purchase their hardware. That's what tuxcompatible.com hopes to achieve (or ever encourage ...blah blah ..) > Hardware compat is a minor issue. File formats and user > apathy are the main problems. Oh, that's is a different problem altogether. Users apathetic to change should best not venture to linux until they are ready, else it just screws up the experience for them. regards - steve -- Want hardware that Just Works on your linux box ? Try: www.tuxcompatible.com [1] http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php [2] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43?action=show&redirect=en%2Fuse… On Wed 12/11/08 11:54 AM , jtd jtd(a)mtnl.net.in sent: > On Tuesday 11 November 2008 16:46, Steve wrote: > > > Anyways, long story > > short, I got frustrated with the fact that I > have to do this> 'research' every time I need some new hardware, > so, I thought of> setting this up: > > > > http://tuxcompatible.com > Plenty of resources are already available on the net. > However these are mostly about hardware available in the US and > Europe. Hardware available here are substantially different and for > shorter durations. So it is a constant battle to keep finding out the > best fit for linux. > Further given the very random and one time requirements of desktop > users, their unwillingness to understand the soup they are in and > reluctance to change, supporting individual newbie desktops is a > major pain. Hardware compat is a minor issue. File formats and user > apathy are the main problems. > > > > -- > Rgds > JTD > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > >

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Announce: ILUG-BOM November 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Folks, We will have a ILUG-BOM Nov. 2008 Meet at per below schedule Date: Sunday, 16th Nov. 2008 Time: 2:00-5:00 PM IST Venue: (Thanks to Aditya of R&H) Rhythm & Hues Studios India Pvt. Ltd. Prism Tower, A-Wing, 3rd Floor, Mindspace, Goregaon-Malad Link Road, Goregaon (West) Mumbai - 400062 Topics: 1. A Case Study of GNU/Linux usage in Production House by Aditya and his Team (1.5 hour) 1.1 The role and contribution of technology to Visual Effects 1.2 Our operating environment - the hardware which powers our servers and workstations 1.3 An overview of our Linux cluster environment 1.4 The role of FOSS in R&H. How we use Linux and other software in our systems and production pipeline 1.5 Managing large scale Linux deployments. The technical and human angles 1.6 Some of the technologies which we work with. 2. We need more speakers to talk on subjects of their choice (45 min to 1.5 hrs) I would like more people to come forward and speak at the meeting. Announcement on Wiki @ http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/wiki/index.php/Current_events#Nov_2008_Meet Looking forward to meet you all at R&H. :) With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Jack Benny - "Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fr...

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[X Post] Debian Installer lenny release candidate 1
by Kartik Mistry 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Try it out! Note that its RC1 so if you encounter any issue(s) during installation, Please file a bug (You can use `reportbug' tool, it is very easy to use). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Otavio Salvador <otavio(a)debian.org> Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:35 AM Subject: Debian Installer lenny release candidate 1 To: debian-devel-announce(a)lists.debian.org Cc: debian-boot(a)lists.debian.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Debian Installer lenny release candidate 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Debian Installer team[1] is proud to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Lenny. Improvements in this release of the installer * Improved support for Live-CD installation media (much faster and more reliable than earlier releases); * Support for some NAS devices based on Marvell's ARM-compatible Orion chip: o QNAP TS-109/TS-209 and TS-409; o HP Media Vault mv2120; o Buffalo Kurobox Pro; * Installer images for Netwinder have been added again; * Installer images for i386 Xen guests[2] * Support for hardware speech synthesis (speakup) has been added; * Upgrade of packages early in pkgsel, for example to get available security updates for base system packages; * Support for loading firmware from (removable) media during the installation; * i386/amd64: support for installing to and loading firmware from MMC/SD cards; * New translations: Welsh, Irish, Northern Sami, Serbian (Amharic and Marathi were added in beta releases). Known issues in this release * i386: for this release, installation from floppy disk is not supported; * PowerPC: the graphical installer should work on almost all systems with ATI graphics cards, but probably not others; * touchpads should work with the graphical installer, but support may be suboptimal - if you experience problems, you should use an external mouse instead. See the errata[3] for details and a full list of known issues. We do need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so please try it. Installation CDs and DVDs, other media, errata, and everything else you'll need are available from the Debian Installer web site[4]. The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this release. References ~~~~~~~~~~ 1. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team 2. http://wiki.debian.org/Xen#InstallLenny 3. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata 4. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ - -- Otavio Salvador Debian Installer Release Manager -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_

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[Fwd] [X] [Pyroom-team] PyRoom in Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu
by Kartik Mistry 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Give a try to pyroom. I am sure you will love it. You know how to install it :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Florian Heinle <launchpad(a)planet-tiax.de> Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:47 PM Subject: [Pyroom-team] PyRoom in Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu To: pyroom-team(a)lists.launchpad.net Hi, good news everyone! PyRoom has been packaged for Fedora and Debian. Now that Ubuntu Jaunty Development has begun, PyRoom has also been pulled into Ubuntu from Debian SID automatically. Thanks to Sven Lankes (Fedora) and Kartik Mistry (Debian) for their work! Bruno, I've edited our homepage repo with install instructions for Fedora, would you please pull rev34 to the server? -- Florian 'tiax' Heinle _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~pyroom-team -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ Homepage: people.debian.org/~kartik Blog.en: ftbfs.wordpress.com Blog.gu: kartikm.wordpress.com

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linux hardware shop in Mumbai, Pune
by Kussh Singh 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Hi, I have been telling a lot of people about ubuntu/linux and its advantages over windows etc in most cases. But the stumbling block that I find is knowing or recommending a one stop shop for all sorts of hardware which is linux compatible. In particular small irritating stuff like memory card readers, all in one printers, webcams and similar stuff. Can anybody here tell whether such an intelligent hardware vendor been found yet in Mumbai or Pune? The advantages in the niche linux market to such a vendor are enormous and will help the linux movement too as technology adoption will be hassle free. Kussh -- Costs of everything have decreased with time but man's greed and fear are keeping prices artificially HIGH Traveller's homeopathy kit for Rs 30 only http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1202645 http://www.ubuntu.com/ www.altlinux.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Commercial -- well, not really] An Invitation
by Steve 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Hello Kartik, On Tue 11/11/08 7:03 PM , "Kartik Mistry" kartik.mistry(a)gmail.com sent: >> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Steve <steve(a)lonetwin.net> wrote: >> so, I thought of setting this up: http://tuxcompatible.com > Thanks. > > Look at: http://www.linux.com/feature/118497 Thanks for posting that link. Yes, I came across that once when I was looking for some definite resource for linux compatible hardware. I would really like tuxcompatible.com (or any site with the same intention, really) to be the place one would go with the intention of *buying* the hardware/device/service ...etc, not only researching it's compatibility. To that end, i can imagine a possibility working with various web sites dedicated to listing or discussing compatibility and performance of hardware (for example, pciids.sourceforge.net, linux-printing.org, phoronix.com, linux-wireless.org, thinkwiki.org ...etc) and somehow integrate references to these in the the listings on tuxcompatible.com. Unfortunately, I know jack about the technologies involved to make this happen. So, yeah, I could use some help :-). Thanks for the comment, it make me feel less stupid for having done this :-). Btw, I could always use more help in letting people know about this site, since it'll work only if it has enough people using it. So, please spread the word around. Thanks and regards, - steve

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Internet Connection!
by IPS Khurana 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

how to set up internet Tata & Reliance Wireless Data Card Connection on Ubuntu Linux -- IPS Khurana ***************************** Cell No: +91 9869019416 Khurana Sales & Services Distributors & Wholesellers Total IT Solutions! Thane http://ipskhurana.googlepages.com/ Proud to be Member of BNI ! The World's Largest Referral Organization ! Turning Contacts into Contracts ! http://www.bni-india.com http://www.bni.com Get Free Ubuntu Desktop OS CD! http://www.ubuntu.com

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Release - Ayttm 0.5.0-82
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Yet another release. Many thanks to George Black, Barry Kauler and the Puppy Linux team and users for their contribution in testing ayttm and reporting bugs -- yes, lots of them :). So here's what we have this time: * New IRC protocol library * Remove the old AIM and ICQ protocols in favour of the AIM-ICQ (OSCAR) protocol * Buddy management now in IRC as well * Finally we have icons on menus. Cleaned up some of the older icons as well * Lots of bug fixes For a detailed changelog see: http://ayttm.cvs.sourceforge.net/ayttm/ayttm/ChangeLog?view=markup&pathrev=… -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.in

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Nov 2008 LFY worth collecting.
by Rony 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Hello All, This month's LFY has the Mandriva 2009 distro DVD plus another DVD that has more than 200 Free Software for Windows. The magazine too has some nice articles. I liked the one that explains GRUB in detail. The DVD packaging is good. LFY's getting more and more interesting. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Linux installation problems in Thosiba satelite A305-6858
by shishu naik 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

Hi All, I am getting few errors while installing centos 5.2 in my thosiba laptop (satelite A305-6858). I have search the net for solutions but couldn't get one. I have tried several times but no use..i get these erros Kernal panic --not-syncing -Fatal exception and there is some memory crash error.. In my laptop i have 4GB of ram but in the windows properties it is showing 2.99 GB. Regards, Shishu

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RIP Software patents
by jtd 08 Nov '08

08 Nov '08

http://www.pli.edu/patentcenter/blog.asp?view=plink&id=368 http://www.pli.edu/patentcenter/blog.asp?view=plink&id=371 Software patents are no more in the USA, even if linked to general purpose hardware. Probably even those linked to special purpose hardware. -- Rgds JTD

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Fwd: Person needed for short vacancy
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

H! Please get in touch directly with contact info given below. Short-term vacancy for Project Coordinator Requirement - immediate. Duration three months. Location - Mumbai based but would involve some travelling to nearby rural areas. Comet Media Foundation are carrying out a short term project whose purpose is carry out a study of the security and legal aspects of running a telecentre or cyber cafe and to convert this information into study and reference materials that can be used by telecentre operators and their staff to meet regulatory requirements, protect themselves and help their customers in the current security scenario. This need is felt due to risks to telecentres and users as well as legal liabilities faced by the operators in this regard. This is a good opportunity for a curriculum developer to gain hands-on experience in creating content to fit a context. The study involves designing a questionnaire, and meeting with 10 urban and rural telecente operators and about forty users of different profiles. Detailed interviews will need to be scheduled and conducted with a total of about 25 persons. The coordinator would also have to interact with external experts - a lawyer, cyber security expert, research associates, instructional design consultant, visual designer and coder as well as with the project partner who would function as a community leader among telecentre operators. With the help of these resource persons, we will convert the inputs into six training sessions of about 1-2 hours each. The coordinator and team members will then run two pilot workshops to test the materials with a target audience. The feedback from these sessions will be used to refine the content and methodology as required. In parallel, all activities will be documented and converted into a final report by the end of January, 2009. We are looking for a young person with at least one year of social research experience with a fair understanding of ICTs (Information & Communication Technologies) and fluency in Marathi, English and Hindi who can function independently in the field against tight deadlines and resource constraints. S/he must be based in Mumbai and familiar with nearby areas. Good relationship skills, communication (oral and written) and analytical skills are essential. Remuneration: A consolidated salary of Rs. 15,000 per month will be paid for a maximum of three months. Travel and related expenses will be reimbursed as per norms. If interested, please email your CV immediately to: cometmediafdn(a)gmail.com Comet Media Foundation is located at Topiwala Municipal School, Lamington Road, (Opp Lamington Rd Police Station - near Grant Rd Rly Stn.), Mumbai 400007. website: www.cometmedia.org To schedule a meeting please call: 022- 2382 6674. Comet Media Foundation Topiwala Municipal School, Lamington Road Mumbai 400007, India Tel: 91-22-2382 6674 or 2386 9052 e-mail: cometmediafdn(a)gmail.com website: www.cometmedia.org

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Fwd: Person needed for short vacancy
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Please get in touch with details given below if you are interested. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Comet Media <cometmediafdn(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:28 PM Subject: Person needed for short vacancy To: Dinesh Shah <dineshah(a)gmail.com> Dear Dinesh Please circulate this to people who may have a keen-ness for social aspects of ICTs ? We need someone with research capacity who can then turn the learning from reasearch into a short curriculum of 6 lessons. Please read on and circulate widely to likely people. We need the person immediately. Chandita ============================== Short-term vacancy for Project Coordinator Requirement - immediate. Duration three months. Location - Mumbai based but would involve some travelling to nearby rural areas. Comet Media Foundation are carrying out a short term project whose purpose is carry out a study of the security and legal aspects of running a telecentre or cyber cafe and to convert this information into study and reference materials that can be used by telecentre operators and their staff to meet regulatory requirements, protect themselves and help their customers in the current security scenario. This need is felt due to risks to telecentres and users as well as legal liabilities faced by the operators in this regard. This is a good opportunity for a curriculum developer to gain hands-on experience in creating content to fit a context. The study involves designing a questionnaire, and meeting with 10 urban and rural telecente operators and about forty users of different profiles. Detailed interviews will need to be scheduled and conducted with a total of about 25 persons. The coordinator would also have to interact with external experts - a lawyer, cyber security expert, research associates, instructional design consultant, visual designer and coder as well as with the project partner who would function as a community leader among telecentre operators. With the help of these resource persons, we will convert the inputs into six training sessions of about 1-2 hours each. The coordinator and team members will then run two pilot workshops to test the materials with a target audience. The feedback from these sessions will be used to refine the content and methodology as required. In parallel, all activities will be documented and converted into a final report by the end of January, 2009. We are looking for a young person with at least one year of social research experience with a fair understanding of ICTs (Information & Communication Technologies) and fluency in Marathi, English and Hindi who can function independently in the field against tight deadlines and resource constraints. S/he must be based in Mumbai and familiar with nearby areas. Good relationship skills, communication (oral and written) and analytical skills are essential. Remuneration: A consolidated salary of Rs. 15,000 per month will be paid for a maximum of three months. Travel and related expenses will be reimbursed as per norms. If interested, please email your CV immediately to: cometmediafdn(a)gmail.com Comet Media Foundation is located at Topiwala Municipal School, Lamington Road, (Opp Lamington Rd Police Station - near Grant Rd Rly Stn.), Mumbai 400007. website: www.cometmedia.org To schedule a meeting please call: 022- 2382 6674. =========================== Comet Media Foundation Topiwala Municipal School, Lamington Road Mumbai 400007, India Tel: 91-22-2382 6674 or 2386 9052 e-mail: cometmediafdn(a)gmail.com website: www.cometmedia.org -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Chris Rock - "You don't pay taxes - they take taxes."

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how to Capture Audio?
by IPS Khurana 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

How do you record *audio* from a tape *cassette* to the computer, and finally, to a *CD* recordable disc? in UBUNTU Linux -- IPS Khurana ***************************** Cell No: +91 9869019416 Khurana Sales & Services Distributors & Wholesellers Total IT Solutions! Thane http://ipskhurana.googlepages.com/ Proud to be Member of BNI ! The World's Largest Referral Organization ! Turning Contacts into Contracts ! http://www.bni-india.com http://www.bni.com Get Free Ubuntu Desktop OS CD! http://www.ubuntu.com

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Another Hall of Shame candidate
by Mehul Ved 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Hi, I have been trying to apply to MDI, Gurgaon for my MBA. They have put up online registration[1]. The online registration form[2] is designed in asp.net and has been tested to not work on Opera 9.60, Konqueror 4.1.2, Arora 0.4, Firefox3 on Linux; Firefox3 on Mac; Opera 9.53 and Firefox 3.0.3 on Windows. It works on IE 6(duh!) on Windows. Can the page[2] be added to the Hall of Shame? 1. http://www.mdi.ac.in/admissions/pgpm.asp?id=1 2. http://oams.blueshift.com/mdi/register/terms.aspx

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] New site: gnowledge network
by jitendra 02 Nov '08

02 Nov '08

> > Dr Nagarjun, > Nice to have this. > I dont understand much of this concept mapping. i hope some workshop will > enlighten me. Yet, I am adding this to the site > > www.mumbaiapplication.com > > as a learning resource for teachers and educationists to best use. > regards > jitendra

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[OT] Email archival without mailing list software
by Saurabh Nanda 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

Read my thoughts at http://nandz.blogspot.com/2008/10/email-archival-without-mailing-list.html -- does anyone know of something similar that exists already? Related post at http://nandz.blogspot.com/2008/10/in-support-of-top-posting.html (in support of top posting to cover up the lack of email archival). Saurabh. -- http://nandz.blogspot.com http://foodieforlife.blogspot.com

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Ubuntu 8.10 ISO
by Prashant Shah 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Those who need the Ubuntu 8.10 ISO email me off the list :)

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[COMMERCIAL] 3rd IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology, Pune, India
by Harshad Oak 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Dear Linuxers, Please note that the 3rd IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology will be held on 25-27 Nov 2008 in Pune. Pune is a short journey from Mumbai and the conference will certainly be well worth the travel. The conference this year has sessions on Ajax, Spring, Domain Driven Design, SOA, WebSockets, Scripting, HTML 5, Mock Objects, Java Persistence, Agile, Lean, GWT, OpenSocial and more... The speaker list consists of some of the most knowledgeable and reputed names in the field. Do have a look at the conference website < http://Conference.IndicThreads.com > for the latest list of speakers and sessions. Register soon to be assured of a place and also avail of the current discounted rates. [ http://conference.indicthreads.com/content/view/35/ ] Last but not the least, here's wishing you and your family a very happy diwali & a wonderful year ahead. Thanks, Harshad --- Founder, Rightrix Solutions, Oracle ACE Director, Sun Java Champion

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Fwd: [Freed] Final list of awards for the 2008 Sarai FLOSS fellowships
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gora Mohanty <gora(a)sarai.net> Date: Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:17 PM Subject: [Freed] Final list of awards for the 2008 Sarai FLOSS fellowships To: Free/Libre and Open Source Software Project List <prc(a)sarai.net> Cc: General Freed list <freed(a)lists.linux-delhi.org>, ILUGD main list <ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org> Hello everyone, It gives us great pleasure to announce the list of fellows for the 2008 Sarai FLOSS fellowship programme. The number of fellowships this year represents a dramatic increase from past years. We are thankful to NIXI, and in particular, to their CEO, Mr. Rajesh Aggarwal for their generosity in making so many fellowships possible. Below is the list of 21 awardees. The list is also available online at <http://www.sarai.net/fellowships/floss/2008-sarai-floss-fellowships-list> . We will be in touch with each of the fellows, and also with anyone who sent in a proposal by the coming weekend. Please feel free to write to me with any queries, and/or concerns. The final list is: 1. Debayan Banerjee/Sawood Alam: Joint award for OCR in Urdu, Bengali, etc., based on Google Tesseract 2. Abhishek Choudhary et al: Hindawi is a system to allow programming in Indian languages. This project proposes to build online courseware to introduce the various components of Hindawi, to improve the project documentation, create a syllabus around Hindawi, distribute live CDs, and hold lectures. 3. Hassath: Making of a short film using FOSS tools, documenting the process, and listing pros and cons of the applications. 4. Sachin Joshi: Integrating automated speech recognition (ASR) for Hindi into the Linux platform. 5. Aadil Kak: Kashmiri font completion, and localisation of KDE 4.2. 6. Friji Karthikeyan: Internet Radio framework, with interface to, and hosting on Giss.tv 7. Satya Komaragiri: Speech-to-text support in OLPC, with Hindi ASR. 8. Manu Konchady: FOSS online tutor to teach students new languages, using text-to-speech, and a web-based framework. 9. Ajay Kumar: Sahana client on Openmoko mobiles. Sahana is the disaster relief management system used for the Bihar floods, tsunami, etc. 10. Sangeeta Kumari: Maithili localisation of KDE4.2, Fedora, and the Chatzilla IM client. 11. Pranav Madhyastha / Sriram Chaudhary: Joint award to develop a system of machine translation (MT) from English to Hindi. This will consist of a web framework to assist improvement of the background engine, and work on an open-source MT engine, Anusaaraka. 12. Helen Mary: Open-source database, and tools to study mental retardation. 13. Kartik Mistry: Gujarati localisation of KDE 4.2, usability workshop, and some internationalisation work for KDE 14. Rajeev Sebastian: Indic text rendering in Scribus, a page layout (DTP) application, using the Harfbuzz library. 15. Shishir Sharma et al: Intelligent Transliteration from Romanised English to Hindi 16. Syed Shikeb: Urdu localisation of KDE 4.2. 17. Ravishankar Shrivastava: Chhatisgarhi localisation of KDE 4.2. 18. Sreeraj R: Adding feature to System Verilog support for ICARUS. System Verilog is a hardware description, and verification language (HDVL) used, e.g., to program FPGAs. 19. Srujanika: Addition to Oriya dictionary, including scientific and technical terms. 20. Shamail Tayyab: Web-based secure P2P. Promotes sharing in a community-based way 21. C S Yoganada: Extend Sagar (TeX) to Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Gujarati and Oriya Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ Freed mailing list Freed(a)lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/freed -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Linux Jobs
by Ashish Sirasao 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hi, If you look up and see you will see cellular phone towers everywhere. These unmanned structures house wireless basestations which make the cellular network function. These structures are known as shelter. Powertech Automation Systems, Pune has teamed up with leading wireless infrastructure companies in India and developed an innovative solution which is used to monitor these shelters over GPRS network. The solution uses Linux for both the embedded side as well as server side. If you are looking for an exciting growth opportunity and like to work on Linux platform. Please send me a mail at ashish(a)powertechautomation.com We are looking for following skills: 1. Linux Device Drivers 2. C/C++ programming on small footprint linux 3. Serial Programing for : Modems, Bluetooth, IRdA, scanneres etc 4. Network administration / networking scripts 5. Server side programming using Java, Python 6. Apache/Jboss web server 7. Ajax programming 8. Mysql and other database programming 9. SSL/TLS/Crypto 10. C/C++ programming 11. High performance systems Thanks, Ashish

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how to make money with free software
by Kenneth Gonsalves 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-make-money-with-free-software.… -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by Sourabh Daptardar 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

LinkedIn ------------ GNU/Linux, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Sourabh Accept Sourabh Daptardar's invite: https://www.linkedin.com/e/isd/391744198/u7P5kYX0/ ------------------------------------------ What is LinkedIn and why should you join? http://learn.linkedin.com/what-is-linkedin/ ------ (c) 2008, LinkedIn Corporation

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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by Sourabh Daptardar 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

LinkedIn ------------ GNU/Linux, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Sourabh Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/e/isd/391744364/zCqtLrMF/ ------------------------------------------ What is LinkedIn and why should you join? http://learn.linkedin.com/what-is-linkedin/ ------ (c) 2008, LinkedIn Corporation

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Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Commercial] Quality Engineer openings at Red Hat, Pune
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:18 AM Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Commercial] Quality Engineer openings at Red Hat, Pune To: ILUG-Cal's principal mailing list <ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org> My apologies if you are receiving this twice, I guess the other mail address hit moderation ~sankarshan Description: Capable of independently handling testing for one or more areas in a software product / component from Red Hat. Role includes collaborating with developers / software engineers in debugging aspects of components. Demonstrated expertise in usage of automated test infrastructure and / or scripting languages. Has developed test cases and has general understanding of testing processes Essential Responsibilities: + Developing Test Plans + Developing Test Cases + Creation, maintenance and enhancement of documentation to assist debugging and modification of Test Suites + Working on and extending Test Automation Tools + Executing Tests and Analyzing Failures + Participation in weekly team meeting and coordination of activities and tasks with functional teams Qualifications: + Bachelors Degree in IT or Computer Science or equivalent + Around 2 years of related experience (or an equivalent combination of the above) + Programming Skills in Python and related Scripting Languages + Prior knowledge of existing Open Source Automated Testing Framework CV to be sent to careers-in at redhat dot com with 'Quality Engineer' in the subject line. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list Ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Commercial] Software Engineer positions at Red Hat, Pune
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:19 AM Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Commercial] Software Engineer positions at Red Hat, Pune To: ILUG-Cal's principal mailing list <ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org> My apologies if you are receiving this twice, I guess the other mail address hit moderation ~sankarshan Note: There are multiple positions for the description below. Red Hat is looking for an experienced engineer with a strong technical background to work on software engineering for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The position requires working on system internals including creating tooling related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux system internals. Proficiency in creating and using APIs. Understanding of system ABI and standards are required as part of the role. Capable of working with upstream Open Source projects and building community around tools created. The current position of Software Engineer is expected to possess the following skills: * Demonstrated expertise in at least one object oriented programming language (Python or Ruby) with some experience of other technologies, scripting languages, databases and software engineering * Familiarity with init systems * Must be familiar with the general software development release cycle, source management and defect management methodologies in Linux environment * General awareness of RPM internals * General awareness of SystemTap or related tools * Familiarity with POSIX guidelines * Understanding of configuration management principles * Exposure to Free and Open Source Software Development Process * The candidate is required to have 1+ year of relevant work experience CV to be sent to careers-in at redhat dot com with 'Software Engineer' in the subject line. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list Ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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ayttm workout at foss.in
by Philip Tellis 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

The ayttm team is proposing a workout at foss.in to accelerate the development pace of ayttm. We're actively looking for new developers to join the team. All currently active developers are from India, and more would be better. If you're not familiar with ayttm, check http://ayttm.sourceforge.net/ We need people to work on protocols, network related stuff, UI stuff, icon and emoticon design and more. If you're interested, join the ayttm-users@ mailing list (linked from the homepage) and state your intention there. You'll also need to register as a workout participant at foss.in. -- hello world

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No audio on Kubuntu with Acer Aspire One
by Sanjay Singhvi 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Hi, I'm new to Linux and have recently purchased an Acer Aspire One and loaded Kubuntu onto it. I find that I get no audio at all. Followed instructions at http://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne . However, after doing all the tweaks, found that it requires Alsa 1.0.17. Tried downloading Alsa 1.0.17 and compiling it. However, not successful. Any suggestions please? Thanking you in advance. Sanjay Singhvi

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Scan to OCR
by IPS Khurana 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

hi i am using Ubuntu 8.04, i want to scan documents to OCR to Office documents, so that i dont have to type all the matter (text), but it xsane and kooka converts in .txt files with junk characters, many times blank file .txt how can i convert directly into Office Doc files, it used to convent in WinXP, directly into MS Doc without or very less junk characters retaining the same format. can u suggest any good software for this on Ubuntu -- IPS Khurana ***************************** Cell No: +91 9869019416 Khurana Sales & Services Distributors & Wholesellers Total IT Solutions! Thane http://ipskhurana.googlepages.com/ Proud to be Member of BNI ! The World's Largest Referral Organization ! Turning Contacts into Contracts ! http://www.bni-india.com http://www.bni.com Get Free Ubuntu Desktop OS CD! http://www.ubuntu.com

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Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] OpenStreetMap contemplates licensing [LWN.net]
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:15 PM Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] OpenStreetMap contemplates licensing [LWN.net] To: ILUG-Cal's principal mailing list <ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org> http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/304218/624301b7f2f9c617/ The OSM project is not happy with this license, though, and is looking to make a change. The attribution requirement is ambiguous in this context; do users need to credit every OSM contributor? Does making a plot of OSM data with added data layered on top create a derived product? But the scariest question is a different one: can the CC by-SA license cover the OSM database at all? -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list Ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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[COMMERCIAL] Intelligent programmers required at Delhi to work on Linux platform
by Sudhir Gandotra 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

Hello, We are looking for intelligent programmers to work on Linux platform. Strong fundamentals of Programming, Scripting and SQL are the basic requirements and experience will be an added advantage. Freshers are welcome if they meet the following requirements. Precisely speaking, strong ability/knowledge of Perl, MySQL, PostgreSQL will be required. If you think, that on a scale of 1 to 10, you cross 5 as an average on every point, call us (on numbers given below) to fix the interview appointment and we meet to discuss further. Please send your resume offline to me. The posts (3 of them) are primarily in Delhi. Remunerations will not be a constraint for the suitable candidates. Please mail me your detailed resume off-list and/or call : Rajeev Kumar at 011-26014670 & 71 for fixing a meeting. --- With best wishes for Unity in thinking, feeling and action. Sudhir Gandotra. 98-101-20918 IIPL: B-220/2, 2nd Fl., Savitri Nagar, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi 110017, India Phone : +91-11-26014670, 71, 72. Fax : +91-11-26014672 OpenLX Linux OS, Linux Training, Support, Services, Product Development Affordable Business Desktop @ Just Rs. 500/- : http://kalculate.com/piracy.php http://www.openlx.com/openlx.html - FOSS award 2008 winner Linux from India http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/24867/news.htm http://openlx.com/features.html - OpenLX Linux features You don't need violence to shake the world Treat Others As You Would Have Them Treat You www.humanistmovement.org

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visiting Mumbai and OLPC
by Sameer Verma 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

Hello Linuxers, I am visiting from San Francisco on vacation. I have been working with the One Laptop per Child project in volunteer capacity for a few years now. I organize and host meetings for the OLPC San Francisco group. Most of my research revolves around FOSS as innovation, and sustainable IT infrastructures. Projects I've worked with: Ubuntu, Fedora, Asterisk, OpenMoko, Maemo, Nocat, Jabber, Moodle, Drupal, etc. I was referred to this group by someone, so this is a shot in the dark :-) I am not sure if any of you are involved in OLPC efforts both in India and worldwide. Here are a few basic facts: The OLPC project is based largely on Fedora (7 and 9) and runs on XO laptops that are powered by a 433MHz x86 Geode processor with 256 MB RAM. The laptop itself consumes a max of 8 watts. There are approx 600,000 OLPC XO laptops in the field with children worldwide - the next generation - with 55,000 laptops shipping out each month. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? ;-) I will be in Mumbai until the 26th. If there is any interest, I'd be happy to meet/present on the project, its approach, the role of FOSS, etc. Ping me on or offlist. I'm also copying Amit Gogna of Reliance who has worked with this project in India and has been instrumental in the first pilot study. Maybe some of you can connect with him. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/

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[Fwd: [ILUG-Cochin.org] National Conference on Free Software]
by Sudhir Gandotra 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Free Software . Free Knowledge . Free Humanity Hon. Minister for Education, Govt of Kerala Sri. M A Baby inaugurates the organising committee office at the Computer Centre (CIRM) in Cochin University of Science and Technology. Time : 9.30 AM on 24-10-2008 Monday. Venue : Computer Centre (CIRM) CUSAT. NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FREE SOFTWARE 15th & 16th NOVEMBER, 2008 Venue: CUSAT CAMPUS, KOCHI INAUGURATION Sri. V. S. ACHUTHANANDAN Chief Minister of Kerala Organising Committee Chief Patron Justice. V R Krishnaiyer (Former Judge Supreme Court) Patrons Dr. Gangan Prathap, VC, CUSAT Smt. Mercy Williams, Mayor Sri. K Chandran Pillai, Hon. MP Rajyasabha Sri. Sebastian Paul, Hon. MP Loksabha Sri. Thomas K V, Hon. MLA Sri. Yusuf A M, Hon. MLA Chairman Sri. Dinesh Mani, Hon. MLA General Convener Sri. Joy Job Kulavelil, Syndicate Member, CUSAT ORGANISERS Cochin University of Science & Technology IT@SCHOOL Project, Govt. of Kerala Appropriate Technology Promotion Society, Ernakulam Open Software Solutions Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd. Kochi For more information ---------------------->http://nfm2008.atps.in/ -- Althaf K Backer Cochin University of Science and Technology Department of Computer Science Kochin-21

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] visiting Mumbai and OLPC
by Sameer Verma 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:47 AM, -- Nicholas <nichalp(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > I was referred to this group by someone, so this is a shot in the dark > :-) I am not sure if any of you are involved in OLPC efforts both in > India and worldwide. Here are a few basic facts: The OLPC project is > based largely on Fedora (7 and 9) and runs on XO laptops that are > powered by a 433MHz x86 Geode processor with 256 MB RAM. The laptop > itself consumes a max of 8 watts. There are approx 600,000 OLPC XO > laptops in the field with children worldwide - the next generation - > with 55,000 laptops shipping out each month. Sounds like fun, doesn't > it? ;-) > > Don't worry about shots in the dark :) You have netted quite a few fish. I > have visited the OLPC office at MIT, at Cambridge, MA in 2006, and have > closely interacted with Samuel > on content. I'm curious about the project status. They were supposed to > release it in December 2006. How successful is the project till date? > > --Nicholas > > > Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download > Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php Hi Nicholas, Success is subjective ;-) However, considering that the outfit is about 26 people + volunteers, the fact that they shipped about 600k laptops in one year is success in my opinion. Most of the deployment reports are up on http://wiki.laptop.org/ Look for Peru, Uruguay, Mongolia, etc. A page with deployment details are up at What's needed is awareness that the laptop is not just another cheap laptop. There is a complete learning philosophy that underlies the project, where it allows the XO to be a simple laptop to surf the web, read e-books, etc. but can also switch over into an overdrive of sorts and become a collaborative platform. For instance you can use a word processor on two XOs and write a letter together, in real time. Think of it as an IM within a word processor type deal. Additionally, you can do this without being on the Internet, because the XOs talk to each other over Wi-Fi in a mesh or peer-to-peer mode. The Wi-Fi usually works across 700+ feet. We've run links across 2000 feet in San Francisco, and a guy in Australia has run links across 2km. It is difficult to explain these features to grown-ups who are conditioned to computers; they've never seen anything like it. Children are a lot more receptive. In their minds, everything is new and discoverable. In my professional opinion, this project is perhaps one of the most innovative IT projects *ever*. The best part is that a good proportion of its success relies on communities and contributors. Meritocracy at its best. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/

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ISPs Messing with TTL
by Mandar Joshi 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

> From: "Dinesh Joshi" <dinesh.a.joshi(a)gmail.com> > To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> > Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:35:29 +0530 > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] ISPs Messing with TTL > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Mandar Joshi <emailmandar(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Lets restrict the discussions on this mailing list to technical issues > > Are you the owner / moderator of this list? The name of this list > reads "GNU/Linux Users Group". Yes, believe it or not GNU is a part, a > LARGE part. GNU and GNU GPL were created for this very reason - > freedom. ISPs keeping us shackled to a particular operating system and > people like you who provide "workarounds" are doing nothing but > helping the ISPs prove their point - Linux users are a myth. > > And next time you might want adhere to the guidelines of this list and > reply in the same thread rather than creating a new thread. > > -- > Regards, > Dinesh A. Joshi > > > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > People see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear. The article clearly says that the information is for educational purposes only. So, using it as a workaround is YOUR choice. Whatever I've written in the article is my personal opinion which I do not wish to discuss or will entertain any comments on. Instead of saying "Lets restrict the discussions on this mailing list to technical issues", I should probably have said that. But I do admire your 'enthusiasm'! Haven't seen anyone get so excited, so soon!! Take Care! As for the creation of new thread. Thats my bad. I had deleted the previous emails. Thought Pipermail was smart enough to take an email with the same subject as part of an older thread. Lets do some constructive discussion, shall we? Has anyone tried what I've mentioned with their ISPs? Has anyone seen any other ISPs monitor/check for TTL values? - Mandar Joshi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have you been here yet? http://mndar.phpnet.us

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Ubuntu Server & Desktop
by IPS Khurana 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

hi i just have a query, that does Ubuntu Server edition includes Ubuntu Desktop features also, or it has only server features. Like SUSE contains both server and desktop features in a single DVD. Cause i want to apply for Ubuntu latest version, but i want both in one dvd only. Or do i have to register for both seperate desktop edition and server edition. pls confirm thanks n rgds -- IPS Khurana

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ISPs Messing with TTL
by Mandar Joshi 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

Lets restrict the discussions on this mailing list to technical issues -Mandar Joshi

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[HW/OT] HP Mini 2133 with Linux
by Arun Khan 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

Is this model available in Mumbai? If so, anyone had a look at it, price etc? I have seen a model in Dubai (8.9" dispay, 512MB RAM, 120HDD, V7 1.2GHz, 1.3 Megapixel Webcam) retailing for about AED 1550 (+100 AED for 1GB RAM upgrade). The OS is Novell/SuSE Linux desktop. The keyboard is larger (and IMO more useable) compared to Acer One and the new ASUS EEEpc. The downside is that the warranty on units sold in Dubai is not valid in India. -- Arun Khan

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KDE Project of the Day @ FOSS.IN/2008
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 19 Oct '08

19 Oct '08

Hey, I just submitted a KDE Project of the Day proposal [1] for FOSS.IN/2008. Thanks Sharan for helping me out with the proposal. Please feel free to send in your comments and opinions. [1] http://xinh.org/~pradeepto/fossin/kde-potd.txt Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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accounting related softwares in linux
by Kussh Singh 19 Oct '08

19 Oct '08

Could anybody here comment on kalculate.com and how it is when compared to Tally in terms of standard features, bugs, todolists, user feedback? Also cometmedia.org's Krishnakant Mane has been making a python equivalent for customising gnucash to do accounting work for small businesses/organisations. Anybody knows how these softwares are and are there any independent critics of the same who can tell the state of progress/development. Making linux favorable for desktop users, specially small organisations means there must be an accounting package relevant to India. The most resource constrained organisations are schools and colleges, training institutions etc but edubuntu, ltsp.org, moodle etc are hardly mentioned on most of our LINUX websites. Kussh -- Costs of everything have decreased with time but man's greed and fear are keeping prices artificially HIGH http://www.kalculate.com/costs.php --instead of Tally accounting software

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] UPDATE: Change in Venue: ILUG-Bom Oct. 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 19 Oct '08

19 Oct '08

Dear Kussh, On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Kussh Singh <kussh.singh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > So is the meeting at Goregaon or Powai? The LUG page is again showing > Aditya's place as the venue. > > and how does one get to the Powai location via the train. Here are the details of the venue. http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/wiki/index.php/Current_events http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=19.11988,72.89963&ie=UTF8&… If your coming from western suburb you can get down at Andheri and take bus for Powai. If you are coming from Central suburbs nearest station is Kanjur Marg from there you can take a bus for Powai. Unfortunately the page you are referring to is protected page and Roshan has not updated that page. I am marking a copy to list to ensure that people have accurate info. HTH With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Bob Hope - "A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live."

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Kind Attn:
by IPS Khurana 18 Oct '08

18 Oct '08

Is there any p2p software for Ubuntu Linux for searching softwares and songs on net like Ares and Limewire for Windows. Pls confirm. Thanks n Rgds -- IPS Khurana ***************************** Cell No: +91 9869019416 Khurana Sales & Services Distributors & Wholesellers Total IT Solutions! Thane http://ipskhurana.googlepages.com/ Proud to be Member of BNI ! The World's Largest Referral Organization ! Turning Contacts into Contracts ! http://www.bni-india.com http://www.bni.com

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Can someone explain this?
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 18 Oct '08

18 Oct '08

H! I was trying to visit this Temple site and I came across this from Google Search. http://www.google.co.in/interstitial?url=http://www.siddhivinayak.org/daily… And going there gives a strange warning. http://www.siddhivinayak.org/dailyaartischedule.htm Do you think this web site is cracked and used for malicious perpose? With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Lewis Mumford - "Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf."

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UPDATE: Change in Venue: ILUG-Bom Oct. 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Dear All, We have to shift to venue of the meet for this month's meeting. The only available venue is at Powai. Date: Sunday, 19th Oct. 2008 Time: 2:00-5:00 PM IST Venue: B-103, Powai Sarovar Co op Society, next to Powai Police station, Bldg no 1, MHADA, Rambaug Powai, Mumbai - 76 Agenda: 1. Advance QT Programing by Prashant (1 Hour) Prashant will continue with QT and show a demo of how to create a simple address book application. This will cover : 1. A Main Window 2. Toolbar 3. Statusbar 4. Popup 5. Dialogs 6. TableWidget 2. Presentation by Giovanni Maruzzelli - chan_celliax and chan_skypiax, how to add gsm and skype channels to Asterisk 1. Asterisk overview 2. Asterisk's Channel Drivers overview 3. Hardcore Asterisk development challenges 4. how chan_celliax works: audio, signaling, dsp 5. chan_celliax hardware: audiocables, datacables, cellphones 6. how chan_skypiax works: audio, signaling 7. celliax and skypiax dialplan usage 8. celliax and skypiax AMI manager usage 9. directoriax, app_directory on steroids 10. putting all together in a simple example 11. Q&A Session I have dropped Aditya's presentation which will be carried forward to next meeting when it happens in Rhythm and Hues. Since the venue does not have an OHP, we can Hire one from the market. I have checked the rate which is about INR 1500.00. If all attendees contribute INR 50.00 and if we have attendance of 30 we can easly bear the cost. Those who think they are OK with this cost let me know as I have to book the projector latest by tomorrow afternoon/evening. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Dennis Miller - "A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run."

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Final Announcement: ILUG-Bom Oct. 2008 Meet on Sunday, 19th Oct 2008
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Dear All, Sorry for all the confusion caused by wrong date in the earlier announcement. Here is the final programme and announcement. Date: Sunday, 19th Oct. 2008 Time: 2:00-5:00 PM IST Venue: (Thanks to Aditya) Rhythm & Hues Studios India Pvt. Ltd. Prism Tower, A-Wing, 3rd Floor, Mindspace, Goregaon-Malad Link Road, Goregaon (West) Mumbai - 400062 The office is located a couple of buildings behind the Hypercity mall on the Goregaon - Malad Link Road. Inorbit Mall is another popular landmark in the area and is just adjacent to Hypercity. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=100460710987674502295.000450ab01e… Topics: 1. Advance QT Programing by Prashant (1 Hour) Prashant will continue with QT and show a demo of how to create a simple address book application. This will cover : - A Main Window - Toolbar - Statusbar - Popup - Dialogs - TableWidget 2. Presentation by Giovanni Maruzzelli (Giovanni, please post the topic of your choice :-)) 3. A Case Study of GNU/Linux usage in Production House by Aditya and his Team (1 hour) 1) The role and contribution of technology to Visual Effects 2) Our operating environment - the hardware which powers our servers and workstations 3) An overview of our Linux cluster environment 4) The role of FOSS in R&H. How we use Linux and other software in our systems and production pipeline 5) Managing large scale Linux deployments. The technical and human angles 6) Some of the technologies which we work with. Looking forward to large number of people to attend! With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Everett Dirksen - "A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money."

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Need some help with sms related project
by Jai Vora 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Hello, Im a comp sci student from Mumbai . I need some help with regards to a project im planning to do . The project involves an application on the server side which records orders made by a user . A user can send his order details by sending an sms to a particular number . When the order is received, the system sends a confirmation sms back to the user. I indend to develop the backend system on Linux platform using PHP . But i have no idea as to how the sms communication part would work . I have heard of some open source sms gateway packages like Kannel, but dont have exact idea of how it can be applied in the above scenario . Will this involve purchasing a service from some wireless operator ? . Any helps or tips as to how the above system can be implemented would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.

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ISPs Messing with TTL
by Mandar Joshi 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Hey guys, Had seen a mail on this list a while back about someone being able to use their connection under Windows but not under Linux. Well, I looked into it. Seems like they are looking at the TTL values in the packets. I have described it here http://mndar.phpnet.us/tutorials/Tips_Tricks/ttl.html http://www.geocities.com/emailmandar/ttl.html -Mandar Joshi ________________________________ Have you been here yet ? http://mndar.phpnet.us

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[Cross Post] Ubuntu Getting Strong On Servers?
by Swapnil Bhartiya 16 Oct '08

16 Oct '08

I trust most of the friends are aware of this. There has been a lot of doubts over using Ubuntu on servers. But recently Wikimedia and Internet Achieve have started to migrate to Ubuntu servers. I guess this will build confidence in those who want to use Ubuntu on servers. Regards -- Swapnil Bhartiya http://ybfree.blogspot.com/ Mobile: 09910956518 ======================= I use Free Software, what do you use? =======================

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to uninstall Softwares ??
by Raghu Prasad 16 Oct '08

16 Oct '08

> > > To avoid any oops, suggest the following: > > > > > > $ cd $HOME > > > $ ls -d ./.wine > > > $ rm -fr ./.wine > > > > Could be a dumb question - won't this blow away all wine apps? What > > if there is a need to just uninstall *one* app? > > I think the OP wanted to blow away all apps. I was merely suggesting an > alternate to "rm -fr ~/.wine"; if you have a space between ~ > and /.wine then you have blown away your whole home directory. For those who fear unwanted spaces sneaking in-between the commands, GUI based file manager is preferred. This is one of the case where I suggest using a GUI tool while working on GNU/Linux platform. Konqueror, Nautilus etc. are good tools to remove selected files and directories from the file system. If Xwindow is not installed on the system, then mc can be used instead. They also allow recovery of deleted files as deletion usually means automagically moving them to your trash folder. Raghu

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to uninstall Softwares ??
by Raghu Prasad 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

"IPS Khurana" <ipskhurana(a)gmail.com> wrote on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:13:37 +0530: > i have installed Ubuntu 8.041 LTS Desktop, > then i installed Wine to install some windows based apps, > i have installed windows based apps, but they are not launching..some > error.. > so i want to uninstall them and re-install, them, but i dont know > how to *un install* those windows apps.. (ACD FotoSlate) By default wine installs software in ~/.wine/drive_c. Just delete the directory ~/.wine if you don't want to use any existing wine run applications. Running following command from the console should be good enough for this. rm -r ~/.wine WARNING: Make sure that there is no white spaces within ~/.wine Raghu

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Final Announcement: ILUG-Bom Oct. 2008 Meet on Sunday, 19th Oct 2008
by jitendra 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

Powai is available as repeat venue jitendra

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'Commercial' : A new Initiative
by Kaushik Somanathan 14 Oct '08

14 Oct '08

Hi, I am a serial entrepreneur and now moving to my third start up, The concept is interesting and sounds promising. It is a mix of technology and business process focused in the logistics domain. Am here because we are working with a variety of open source tools and may also want to contribute our development initiative to the community as no one has contributed in that segment. I do have a core team with immense experience in development and business process are am looking for developers who can help me build this dream into reality. I am open for discussion on terms and types of engagement. Will give more details about my back ground, Past Achievements and core team and of course the business plan if you find this an interesting opportunity. Warm regards Kaushik Somanathan -- ********************************************************************** The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. Thank You. Fleet Xchange Pvt LTD. **********************************************************************

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Tax Invoice Software !
by IPS Khurana 13 Oct '08

13 Oct '08

hi, i am using ubuntu linux 8.4 i would like to know that is there any Tax Invoice Printing software for Ubuntu Linux i was suing http://www.quick-invoice.com in windows xp, it was very easy and small. is there any such software for linux ubuntu, or what will be the charges to if any one develops it for Ubuntu linux -- IPS Khurana ***************************** Cell No: +91 9869019416 Khurana Sales & Services Distributors & Wholesellers Total IT Solutions! Thane http://ipskhurana.googlepages.com/ Proud to be Member of BNI ! The World's Largest Referral Organization ! Turning Contacts into Contracts ! http://www.bni-india.com http://www.bni.com

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Suggestions needed for Wireless Router
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 13 Oct '08

13 Oct '08

Hi, I need a wireless router for network setup at my home. Basically for internet connectivity for 2 laptops and my desktop and for occasional other extra devices with wifi capabilities if and when required. Now what I want to know is - what would be good wifi router which could work across a 2 BHK flat and also work when the laptop/device is in an opposite flat, separated just by a passage and walls. The passage width is not more than couple of meters. I am looking at this [1] model, any suggestions? Thanks in advance. [1] http://shopping.rediff.com/shop/productdisplay.jsp?LINKSYS-WRT54GL-Wireless… Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] keyboard freezes in one session in kde
by Raghu Prasad 13 Oct '08

13 Oct '08

> On Saturday 11 October 2008 21:02:30 Rony wrote: >> I had faced a similar problem when using Kubuntu 6.06 on the laptop. >> After login, the keyboard would be useless. I could not pin point the >> problem but I deleted the .kde folder in the home directory and >> everything was restored to default settings. All customization of KDE >> was lost. However I got my keyboard back. > > I had thought of that, but didn't actually do it. I need to figure exactly > which setting caused this. Since all configurations in GNU/Linux are stored in plain text files, usually it is easy to figure out the root cause of such problems. Just move ~/.kde to ~/kde-old and re-login to the system in KDE. Then do diff -r ~/.kde ~/kde-old | less If there are missing files in ~/.kde or its sub-folders, then get them from ~/kde-old and check keyboard by re-login. Once that test is over and problem is not noticed, then merge change-sets from files in ~/kde-old to ~/.kde and repeat the testing. By analyzing the change sets in each file and then merging such sections from older file-set to the working one, we can figure out when keyboard settings break. If the deviations in files are more (heavily customized KDE apps), usually it will take longer to figure out the cause of the problem. Raghu

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Freedom Walk creating enthusiastic discussions about Free Software
by Praveen A 13 Oct '08

13 Oct '08

"The group of people we meet is very interesting - a very good mix of students, entrepreneurs and local software programmers. The discussion borders around the relevance of free software, the risks of opening source - especially in the context of local programmers, and software licensing issues. A lively debate ensues, and the matter is deferred for indepth discussion at a later date. The response is absolutely thrilling, given that this is exactly the kind of response hoped for from a local software community." http://www.freedomwalk.in/content/28/freedom-walk-day-8-kuttiyadi-to-thotti… They have completed first week successfully. The response have been amazing. I hope it will help make Free Software community across Kerala vibrant. Also with the kind of debate that is happening, I'm sure we will see a good response from more of the local software developers. Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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keyboard freezes in one session in kde
by Kenneth Gonsalves 12 Oct '08

12 Oct '08

hi, I have a mandriva spring 2008 box with kde which has 3 users. From today, for one of the users the keyboard does not work after entering kde, but for the other users it works perfectly. For the user for whom it doesnt work, login screen works, she can type password, and thats it. Any clues? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Final Announcement: ILUG-Bom Oct. 2008 Meet on Sunday, 19th Oct 2008
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 11 Oct '08

11 Oct '08

Dear Giovanni, Thanks for the out-line of the talk. Looking forward to meet and hear you. :) On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Giovanni Maruzzelli <gmaruzz(a)celliax.org> wrote: > Dear all: > > if you agree, I would like this kind of topic: > > chan_celliax and chan_skypiax, how to add gsm and skype channels to Asterisk > > 1) Asterisk overview > 2) Asterisk's Channel Drivers overview > 3) Hardcore Asterisk development challenges > 4) how chan_celliax works: audio, signaling, dsp > 5) chan_celliax hardware: audiocables, datacables, cellphones > 6) how chan_skypiax works: audio, signaling > 7) celliax and skypiax dialplan usage > 8) celliax and skypiax AMI manager usage > 9) directoriax, app_directory on steroids > 10) putting all together in a simple example > 11) Q&A Session > > If anybody has some hints, request, suggestion, etc, please let them > flow, there is time to taylor the session! > > Thanks a lot to all the peoples that had donated their time and > efforts to make this happens! > > Giovanni With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Imelda Marcos - "I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty."

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How to uninstall Softwares ??
by IPS Khurana 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

hi i have installed Ubuntu 8.041 LTS Desktop, then i installed Wine to install some windows based apps, i have installed windows based apps, but they are not launching..some error.. so i want to uninstall them and re-install, them, but i dont know how to *un install* those windows apps.. (ACD FotoSlate) also is there any other program like wine which supports windows apps.. actually i want some softwares to run on ubuntu, 1st one is photo print software like Acd Fotoslate (win xp based) it has ready templates to print multiple photos on each sheet. 2nd one is i want to view & print .dwg (autocad) files 3 rd i want Ares p2p like software on Ubuntu.. can anyone please help..in details and give links.. acutally i am not Linux savy.. i was using win xp ..but now i switched over to Ubuntu -- IPS Khurana ***************************** Cell No: +91 9869019416 Khurana Sales & Services Distributors & Wholesellers Total IT Solutions! Thane http://ipskhurana.googlepages.com/ Proud to be Member of BNI ! The World's Largest Referral Organization ! Turning Contacts into Contracts ! http://www.bni-india.com http://www.bni.com

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Wanted: A visual file manager.
by Rony 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Hello, I am looking for a file manager that visually displays drive/folder content sizes in the form of visual blocks. This is to get a quick idea of which folder is hogging huge space. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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[OT- Magazine] LFY has improved.
by Rony 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Hello, It appears that Linux for You has finally heeded to complaints and come up with a better packaged media in their magazines. This month's issue has 7 distro ISOs that one can try out. It would be more simpler to simply install virtualbox from your repos and boot the ISOs live into the virtual window. A cheaper, easier and environment friendly way to explore different desktop environments, instead of burning 7 CDs. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Blackle - Black Google -- saves energy.
by Amit Joshi 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Just came across this site today. Works like Google, but its all black.. Blackle[1] is powered by Google Custom Search. More info [2]. [1] http://www.blackle.com/ [2] http://www.blackle.com/about/ -- Regards, Amit Joshi

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[XPost] Why I think Foss.in/2008 is missing its target..
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

With his his 'Omelette Post' about FOSS.IN/2008 Call for Participation, Atul Chitnis, the FOSS.IN team 'leader' indeed sent an strong sign. For those who aren't aware of it, FOSS.IN is the longstanding major FLOSS event in India and, still (just like our beloved Debconf) only run by volunteers. Last year, along with Sam Hocevar, I had the chance to attend the event and share the groove of that big, huge, conference, with over 2,000 participants. Some other Debian fellows also made it in the past (Jaldhar, Bdale...). http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/10/04#foss-in -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Milton Berle - "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

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Interesting Article... Few comments there should go long way
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Which Business Desktop OS? Windows or Linux Microsoft Windows has been the ideal choice for the desktop because of its simplicity, ease of use, good application and hardware support and also because it's easy to pirate. Over the years we've also seen the emergence of Linux as the new desktop OS platform with operating systems like Ubuntu, Fedora, Linspire and SLED gaining acceptance. This new acceptance of these Linux flavors is because Linux is no longer the command line OS as it was perceived earlier. All these flavors come equipped with user-friendly features and they're also easy to use. Many businesses tend to shift from Windows to Linux based on preconceived notions and assumptions. http://www.enterpriser.in/India/Learning_Curve/Which_Business_Desktop_OS_Wi… -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Everett Dirksen - "A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money."

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Announce: ILUG-Bom Oct. 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

H! All, We are pleased to announce ILUG-Bom Oct 2008 Meet. Date: 18th October 2008 Time: 2:00-5:00 PM IST Venue: (Thanks to Aditya) (can someone please put MAP Location?) Rhythm & Hues Studios India Pvt. Ltd. Prism Tower, A-Wing, 3rd Floor, Mindspace, Goregaon-Malad Link Road, Goregaon (West) Mumbai - 400062 Topics: 1. Advance QT Programing by Prashant (1 Hour) (Prashant, please post the OL as follow up) 2. Advance JS Programing by Rakesh Pai (1 Hour) (Rakesh, please confirm with OL) 3. A Case Study of GNU/Linux usage in Production House by Aditya and his Team (1 Hour) (Aditya, please post the OL) 4. Status of Namazu? Looking forward to meet fellow LUGers in large numbers. :-) With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Mary Pickford - "Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo."

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fwd: Re: Asterisk phone opportunity
by Mitul Limbani 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Hello, I think let the LUG meet be at the destined place, but we can also organize another meeting on Sunday (18th Oct) with Giovanni addressing it. I can also give a helping hand to the subject under discussion... Regards, Mitul Limbani, Founder & CEO, Enterux Solutions Pvt. Ltd., The Enterprise Linux Company (R), http://www.enterux.com/ +91-98203 32422 ---- Msg sent via @Mail - http://atmail.com/

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[OT] Looking for a laptop
by shirish 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

Dear lazyweb, Looking for a laptop. Configuration :- Chip and Graphics chip :- AMD-ATI (5/6/7) 00 card Memory :- 2 GB DDR2 (upgradable upto 4 GB) Gigabit ethernet port Wireless :- Atheros 6k-9k chipset Budget :- Between 30-50,000 INR (inclusive of all) I looked up the Dell Vostro lappies but all of them are Intel-based :( Looking forward to comments and suggestions for the same. Also put up the same query at http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/looking-for-a-laptop/ so if anybody comes to know something please lemme know either here or/and at the blog. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

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Software Patenting
by Praveen A 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

"If formulaic Hindi films were protected by patent laws, we would be able to make only one film," joked Abraham. The system of software patenting wipes out smaller businesses and innovation, he said. "Software, like poetry and literary works, is already protected by copyright. After all, Bill Gates made his fortunes from copyright and not patents. But many software companies are trying to get additional protection." Copyright and patents are both part of intellectual property rights, but copyright restricts the expression of an idea while patents restrict the idea itself, according to Abraham. Under a patenting regime, even before a kid writes one line of code he has to read many patents." Full Coverage http://www.timeoutbengaluru.com/aroundtown/aroundtown_feature_details.asp?c… Another story by Hindu http://www.hindu.com/2008/10/05/stories/2008100559810400.htm Vote for it at FS Daily http://www.fsdaily.com/Legal/Software_patenting_will_harm_industry_consumer -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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seeing is believing campaign for linux advocacy in Mumbai
by Kussh Singh 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

Pls have a look at http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Kussh1234 --my first attempt on an idea I have only mentioned one place where i have seen ubuntu in action. Additional information can be added by collaboration Kussh -- Costs of everything have decreased with time but man's greed and fear are keeping prices artificially HIGH http://www.ubuntu.com/ linuxprinting.org

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Fwd: Re: Asterisk phone opportunity
by Rony 05 Oct '08

05 Oct '08

Forwarded on behalf of Vickram who is facing sending problems with Yahoo mail....... I tried to post this to the list already, with no luck. Anyway, it has been forwarded from ILUGChennai, so no matter. Does it make sense to include it in the 18th Oct LUG session? Giovanni writes that he will come here that day, if we like. Please mail me (and him) directly if you think this is a good idea. Alternatively, we can meet at Bandra (the Studio where we had the LUG some months back (I can ask Shaina/Ashok/Sanjay), or at HBCSE, Chembur (Nagarjuna, is that ok?), TIFR or IITB (I can try and arrange any of these venues). Actually, there is no reason for everyone interested to have to travel long distances. We can easily do two or three smaller meetings in different parts of town. What do you say? Please try and ensure Giovanni's visit plans are posted to Bengaluru and Hyderabad LUGs today or tomorrow, as he will be going there first, before coming to Mumbai. Many thanks. Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com http://vvcrishna.wordpress.com ----- Original Message ---- From: "linuxers-request(a)mm.glug-bom.org" <linuxers-request(a)mm.glug-bom.org> To: linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org Sent: Friday, 3 October, 2008 12:00:01 Subject: Linuxers Digest, Vol 66, Issue 3 I would be delighted to run sessions in LUGs, and/or short seminars, if interest arises. I'll be based in Chennai, and for sure I would like to spend some time in Auroville. Do you have any contact with the "bunch of wireless, tech and art enthusiasts" (sounds very nice!) there? I'm in India to get a first impression of the FOSS and ICT scene there, so I would like to move around too. If there is opportunity to meet FOSS people or groups, I'm available to come to Mumbai too (actually, I would like to :-) ). BTW, I'm almost to release two opensource channel drivers for Asterisk, one for driving gsm cellphones and one for driving the Skype client. So, I can speak or teach about the channels, about Asterisk development, or about opensource software development at large. I can also teach and speak about the business planning and evaluation of ICT and FOSS ventures, but maybe that's not so interesting to a LUG audience ;-). Following is a short bio and attached is a cv. ----- Giovanni Maruzzelli (born 1964) has 15+ years of experience with open source, industrial grade operations, and ICT startups (both at the investor or investee side). Industry experience includes publishing engines, open source messaging and networking, document indexing and retrieval systems, unified messaging. Giovanni primary skill is producing solutions that are "reality based" and business wise. A member of the worldwide open source community for over twelve years, Giovanni is the proud owner of the Mysql license n.1, and as a speaker, trainer and magazines writer he was instrumental to the introduction of Internet, Unix, Linux and open source to the Italian technical public. In the beginning of the Internet era, Giovanni was one of the founders of Italia Online, the most popular Italian portal and consumer ISP, and architect of its Internet technologies - www.iol.it Then supervisor of Internet operations and architect of the first engine for paid access to www.ilsole24ore.com, the most read financial newspaper in Italy and to its databases (migrated from mainframe). After that, he was CEO of venture capital funded Matrice, developing Telemail unified messaging and multi language phone access to email (Text To Speech), and CTO of incubator funded Open4, an open source managed applications provider. As a partner In3 fund Giovanni has often evaluated the technical and financial soundness of submitted business plans. Then he was for two years in Serbia as Internet and Telecommunication Investment Expert for World Bank - IFC. Giovanni is now consulting and is based in Milan, Italy. His email address: gmaruzz at celliax.org -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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How to run 32bit executables on 64bit Fedora 9
by Sandesh Singh 05 Oct '08

05 Oct '08

Hi. Does anyone know what it takes to run 32 bit executables on a 64 bit system (Fedora 9, in particular)? I guess it should be nothing more than a package with the right libraries, but I can't find the one if that's the case. -- sss http://sandesh247.googlepages.com

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Announce: ILUG-Bom Oct. 2008 Meet (Correction)
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

H! All, We are pleased to announce ILUG-Bom Oct 2008 Meet. Date: Sunday, 19th October 2008 Time: 2:00-5:00 PM IST Venue: (Thanks to Aditya) Rhythm & Hues Studios India Pvt. Ltd. Prism Tower, A-Wing, 3rd Floor, Mindspace, Goregaon-Malad Link Road, Goregaon (West) Mumbai - 400062 Topics: 1. Advance QT Programing by Prashant (1 Hour) (Prashant, please post the OL as follow up) 2. Advance JS Programing by Rakesh Pai (1 Hour) (Rakesh, please confirm with OL) 3. A Case Study of GNU/Linux usage in Production House by Aditya and his Team (1 Hour) 4. Status of Namazu? Looking forward to meet fellow LUGers in large numbers. :-) With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Joey Adams - "Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway."

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[jobs] Admins and programmers required
by Abhishek Ambe rkar [अभिषेक] 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

Posts : * PHP programmers : minimum 1 year experience * Perl (With CGI) programmers : minimum 6 months experience * GNU/Linux Administrator : minimum 1 year experience Skills : * writing secure and light codes * good R&D skills Qualification : Any Please note that entire developement is done on GNU/Linux platform. Contact: Mr. Anand Sharma anand.ramprashad(a)gmail.com +91-9870339028 Mr. Amit Gharat +91-9920908306 -- With Regards Abhishek Amberkar Born To Be Free... Born To Use GNU/Linux...

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Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Commercial] Software Support Engineer - Level 3 opening at Red Hat, Pune
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:07 PM Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Commercial] Software Support Engineer - Level 3 opening at Red Hat, Pune To: ILUG-Cal's principal mailing list <ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org> The role expects the Engineer to resolve complex customer problems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and related Red Hat products. The Engineer is expected to work closely with the Development Engineering Team and the Support Organizations. In this role, the Engineer will analyze upstream development against current reported defects and develop patches to resolve the issues. The role expects the Software Support Engineer to * Develop and recommend corrective workarounds. * Use skills as a seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of industry practices and company policies and procedures; resolves a wide range of issues in imaginative as well as practical ways. * Demonstrate considerable judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. * Interacts with senior internal and upstream communities * Participate in customer facing activities like customer calls and/or customer visits to present the technical details of a technical support issue * Works independently on tasks with minimal guidance on complex issues. Job Requirements : * 5 or more years related experience, BS or MS in engineering field * Excellent understanding of Linux kernel, virtual memory, networking and NFS concepts and protocols. * Upstream Linux Kernel engagement (patches submitted for upstream inclusion) preferred * Familiar with other operating systems including Linux, Solaris, AIX, Tru64 and Microsoft Windows Server desirable * Good understanding of hardware and computer architecture * Senior development level experience with C, be comfortable to write kernel patches * Good communication skills in English CVs to be sent to careers-in at redhat dot com -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list Ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Fw: FOSS.IN/2008: The Omelette Post
by Anurag 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Btw, Foss.in/2008 event announcement is out. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foss-in/message/5229 Anurag -- http://web.gnuer.org/

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Giovanni Maruzzelli, Celliax - possible meet
by Parthan SR 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Forwarded from a mail to ILUG Chennai === BEGIN === I would be delighted to run sessions in LUGs, and/or short seminars, if interest arises. I'll be based in Chennai, and for sure I would like to spend some time in Auroville. Do you have any contact with the "bunch of wireless, tech and art enthusiasts" (sounds very nice!) there? I'm in India to get a first impression of the FOSS and ICT scene there, so I would like to move around too. If there is opportunity to meet FOSS people or groups, I'm available to come to Mumbai too (actually, I would like to :-) ). BTW, I'm almost to release two opensource channel drivers for Asterisk, one for driving gsm cellphones and one for driving the Skype client. So, I can speak or teach about the channels, about Asterisk development, or about opensource software development at large. I can also teach and speak about the business planning and evaluation of ICT and FOSS ventures, but maybe that's not so interesting to a LUG audience ;-). Following is a short bio and attached is a cv. ----- Giovanni Maruzzelli (born 1964) has 15+ years of experience with open source, industrial grade operations, and ICT startups (both at the investor or investee side). Industry experience includes publishing engines, open source messaging and networking, document indexing and retrieval systems, unified messaging. Giovanni primary skill is producing solutions that are "reality based" and business wise. A member of the worldwide open source community for over twelve years, Giovanni is the proud owner of the Mysql license n.1, and as a speaker, trainer and magazines writer he was instrumental to the introduction of Internet, Unix, Linux and open source to the Italian technical public. In the beginning of the Internet era, Giovanni was one of the founders of Italia Online, the most popular Italian portal and consumer ISP, and architect of its Internet technologies - www.iol.it Then supervisor of Internet operations and architect of the first engine for paid access to www.ilsole24ore.com, the most read financial newspaper in Italy and to its databases (migrated from mainframe). After that, he was CEO of venture capital funded Matrice, developing Telemail unified messaging and multi language phone access to email (Text To Speech), and CTO of incubator funded Open4, an open source managed applications provider. As a partner In3 fund Giovanni has often evaluated the technical and financial soundness of submitted business plans. Then he was for two years in Serbia as Internet and Telecommunication Investment Expert for World Bank - IFC. Giovanni is now consulting and is based in Milan, Italy. His email address: gmaruzz at celliax.org === END === -- --- With Regards, Parthan "technofreak" <gpg> 2FF01026 <blog> http://blog.technofreak.in

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Session on Web 2.0 Security
by jeetendra r poojari 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

Hi all, Our company is sponsoring a session on Web 2.0 security Interested people can view details at http://wiki. directi.com/ display/tc/ October+11th+ -+Web+2.0+ Security+ -+Defending+ Next+Generation+ Applications And add your name by clicking on Attend event It's a free session. Let me know if you require more details -Jeetu

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Session on Web 2.0 security
by System Administrator 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi all, Our company is sponsoring a session on Web 2.0 security Interested people can view details at http://wiki. directi.com/ display/tc/ October+11th+ -+Web+2.0+ Security+ -+Defending+ Next+Generation+ Applications<http://wiki.directi.com/display/tc/October+11th+-+Web+2.0+Security+-+Defend…> And add your name by clicking on Attend event It's a free session. Let me know if you require more details -Jeetu

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Lyx, My Beautiful GNU/Linux, Mind-Maps, and DP
by Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया] 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Some videos from Goa, mainly around Software Freedom Day at BITS Pilani Goa campus. FN My beautiful [GNU]Linux BITS-Pilani Goa campus has grown over the past four to five years, and now has over 2000 students on the outskirts of Vasco/Dabolim. At a Software Freedom Day held on the campus recently (Sept 27, 2008) we encounter students, and learn about their interest in Free Software and Open Source. Also some images from an event that saw talks and presentation span the better part of two days. This video starts with a showcasing of the potential of GNU/Linux, the largely volunteer-built alternative computing system... that's in fact better than the 'real thing' (my view)! http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=Py6YdW03YYE Lyx ... and all that LyX is a document processor following the self-coined "what you see is what you mean" paradigm (WYSIWYM), as opposed to the WYSIWYG ideas used by word processors. This means that the user only has to care about the structure and content of the text, while the formatting is done by LaTeX, an advanced typesetting system. LyX is designed for authors who want professional output with a minimum of effort and without becoming specialists in typesetting. The job of typesetting is done mostly by the computer, following a predefined set of rules called a style, and not by the author. Specific knowledge of the LaTeX document processing system is not necessary but may improve editing with LyX significantly for specialist purposes. DP explains how he uses this tool... (quote from the Wikipedia) http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=F-03AtOx1Ps Mind-maps? What's all that about? A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing. DP explains at the BITS Pilani, Goa centre. 27 September 2008. http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=k5689nG0FEU ------------------------------- On mind-maps, please check out some other excellent presentations also on YouTube. On Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map#Origins On YouTube.com: Maximise the Power of Your Brain - Tony Buzan MIND MAPPING http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=MlabrWv25qQ&feature=related Mindmeister - Mindmaps with team spirit http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=FChJkOch0Fw&feature=related Getting Things Done (GTD) with Mindmaps http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=THxauHwtUpM&feature=related Mind-Maps How to mindmap http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=qWz88RHQS4s&feature=related Smarter Mind Maps http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=3zdBkVvJkFU&feature=related Mind Maps and Self Coaching http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=K2xezdpNifU&feature=related Make Mind Maps with revolutionairy software from the creator http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=yY9IZoDjRwM&feature=related How Mindmaps can help you learn a language http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=XVYDcTNI-_s&feature=related MINDMAPS - my experience http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=mch8H7LHkHU&feature=related ------------------------------- DP-1 at SFD (BITS Pilani Goa campusa, Sept 27, 2008) Talk by young ILUG-Goa/ILUG-Ponda volunteer DP. He explains issues of documentation that could be useful to any student and researcher. http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=QktwiBicJ1E Other video shorts at: http://in.youtube.com/user/fredericknoronha -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org Blog: http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Tech links from South Asia: http://twitter.com/fn M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490

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kmail does not accept two different passwords
by Kenneth Gonsalves 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

hi, I have two email accounts at foo.com and bar.com. They have different passwords. Receiving mail is ok - but for sending, only the password for one account is used in both - the password for the first account gets changed to that of the second account when the second account is set up. How can one overcome this without having the same password for all accounts? Or is a bug? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Letting root send email to an application level user --- and using a crontabs job to forward it on -- or TCP/IP poke or a UDP datagram
by Erach 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hi, Root is system user --- has various privileges. The application users are completely distinct from the root user ----- but they can share the root user group "wheel". so unless you want very high thruput why are you modifying the kernel and making it bigger. You can just send an email to the application level user, have a crontab job pick it up every 1 minute or every 1 second and forward the email on. You can even change the group of the application level user. Or once you send the email --- u can send a datagram "pick/poke/UDP packet" tcp/ip signal to waken the user. You are only making the kernel fatter. Erach

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GNU/Linux primer
by shirish 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hi all, I made an attempt at making a GNU/Linux primer at http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/gnulinux-primer/ To put it simply, just something which tells newbies what it is all about without getting technical. What do you guys think? Do you think I may have missed something? Do you think something could have been put up in a better way? Or you think it plain sucks. Feedback and flames all are encouraged :) -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

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Canonical Not Great Contributor
by Swapnil Bhartiya 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

I just learnt from a friend of mine that I should stop using Ubuntu as Canonical is not contributing to the development of GNU/Linux systems as compared to other players. He also suggested that since most of its stuff, or nothing, is upstream so we cant trust it. Also his argument was, being run by one man, who may tomorrow change his mind and stop support to Ubuntu, then what? So, I am bringing this issue to the lista and have people's opinion as to how much Canonical has contributed and how wise is the decision to use Ubuntu? Here is the article of Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the USB and other subsystems in the Linux kernel mentioning Canonical contribution to be 100 patches viz a viz 230 by Mandriva and only 270 by Gentoo. Remember Ubuntu is quite young compared to Mandriva, Gentoo. http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/lpc_2008_keynote.html Please suggest. -- Swapnil Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] A request for Ubuntu 8.04/8.04.1 CDs
by Easwar Hariharan 27 Sep '08

27 Sep '08

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Kussh Singh <kussh.singh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Where is the install fest going to be and at what time? I can make some > Ubuntu 8.04 CDs but i don't have the ones which come from canonical thru > shipit. > The installfest is at Ramrao Adik Inst. of Tech.,Nerul,3rd Oct,4:00 pm to 5:00 pm.It's a given that List members can make Ubuntu 8.04 CDs,which I can do myself too because,as mentioned,I do have 28 CDs,the preferable thing is that the CDs were from ShipIt. Why we need the CDs is because most of the student of our college are day scholars and don't own laptops,and I'm skeptical that people would lug their desktop PCs to Nerul. Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065

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A request for Ubuntu 8.04/8.04.1 CDs
by Easwar Hariharan 27 Sep '08

27 Sep '08

Hello List, A few meetings ago,I had mentioned my plans for holding an presentation on linux which turned into an install fest after consultation with LUG members.the present situation is that the installfest is scheduled on 3rd of October and the likely number of participants at the installfest is turning out to be potentially more than the CDs I have available,which is 28. ShipIt would take too long a time to send the CDs,therefore,list members who have an excess of Ubuntu 8.04/8.04.1 CDs,preferably received from ShipIt,because they will be in the "official" (:P) covers,could you help out and contribute the excess CDs in your posession for the installfest? Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065

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[Cross posted] - National Free Software Conference -- 15 & 16 November 2008, Kochi (Cochin), Kerala
by Sudhir Gandotra 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

National Free Software Conference 15 & 16 November 2008, Kochi (Cochin), Kerala website : http://nfm2008.atps.in/ Program : The Seminar will Cover the following areas (suggested and being finalised from among these topics) Social Stream Swathanthra Software Philosophy and and its Impact on various sectors. Application of Scientific Socialism to the Information Era Knowledge Society and its impact Information Technology Workers – Myths and Reality. Co-operatives in Swathanthra Software. Information explosion & its impact on democratic advancement. Theory of Abundance in the context of Free Software. Knowledge Stream Freedom in Bio-Technology Public domain knowledge in Hardware Emerging Trends in Nano-technology Public Domain Knowledge Libraries. Medical knowledge systems Traditional and Indegenous knowledge Alternative Technologies Technology Stream Educational Projects E-governance Enterprises Resources Planning Geo Spatial Infrastructure Technology for Medias Software Stream Animation Tools DTP tools — Development & Dissemination Scientific Research Avenues Operating Systems – New Trends Localisation & Internationalisation Software Patents Free Software support General Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning (OpenERP) 3D Modeling and Animation using Blender Type setting using TEX and LaTeX Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) Digital Signature and Secure transmission Multimedia and FFMPEG tools Python Web Services Python Game Development Mobile Device Platform: Android and Mobilinux Discussion IPR: The New form of Private Property in Globalization Patent issues in IT and BT Malayalam Computing Python First or Last Language (High School/ Degree Course) Beginners GNU Compiler Collection and Microcontroller Python and High Level Object oriented languages Jython Language and JAVA Bytecode LAMP and Mod-Python Overview: PostgreSQL, MySQL, GUI, Eclipse Overview: GNU/Linux Servers: SMTP, POP3, DHCP,etc Workshop GNU/Linux installation ( Full Time ) Malayalam Localisation (Full Time) Products & Development Tools Open forum Expenricence of Swatanthra Malayalam Computing (By SMC) Prajasakti ERP (By Prajasakti ) BSNL case studies (By BSNL) Financial Sector Experience ( By Ernakulam P&T ) IT @ School ( By IT @ School) Askaya and Free Software ( By Akshaya ) KSEB Experience ( By KSEB ) Free Software Business Models ( By OSSICS) & any other that are requested and conforming to the theme of Free & Open Source Software. Exhibition Free Software platforms, tools, application packages & services. Hardware Networking concepts and practices. Educative demonstrations/presentations on various aspects of Information Technology Your Suggestions are Invited by the organisers at : email : program.nfm2008(a)gmail.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Creating multiple email addresses for a system users.
by Raghu Prasad 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

> In my perl Script I have written command > > `cat stat_file.txt | mail -s "Some subject" admin(a)server.name` > > and getting email properly on address admin(a)server.name > In this email I getting from: root(a)server.name, my question is, Is it > possible to change this email address to something like > do_not_reply(a)server.name. Use mailx instead. Try cat stat_file.txt | mailx -s "Some subject" -r do_not_reply(a)server.name -R do_not_reply(a)server.name admin(a)server.name Details of command line options are available at http://manpages.unixforum.co.uk/man-pages/linux/opensuse-10.2/1/mailx-man-p… Raghu

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[commercial]Web developers needed
by Justin Moore 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Hello, We have immediate openings for the following contract position: Web developer. We are an American based company that provides managed iPBX and Web hosting solutions, with a solid foundation in FOSS. Web developer: The ideal candidate will have solid experience with HTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL and be familiar with Web standards. We need someone with strong design experience. All development work is done under Linux with SVN. Previous experience with payment gateways/e-commerce solutions is a plus. Ability to work with minimal supervision is required. This is a contract position, but could be a temp to perm situation. You will be able to work from home, on timings of your choosing and will be paid monthly via wire transfer. Please submit all resumes/vitaes to me along with preferred timings, salary requirements, and any questions that you may have. Have a nice day. Justin -- Justin Moore SagiSys LLC (877)394-4838 ext. 101 (Toll Free) (727) 362-1423 (Fax) http://www.SagiSys.com

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Creating multiple email addresses for a system users.
by Meghanand Acharekar 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hi, I have written a perl/shell script on one of our servers which checks the server health and send alert emails to administrators.The script runs as a cron job under root privileges, it is working properly.But the email which we receive has From email address : root(a)server.name, Is there any way to change this email address ? Is this possible to chang 'from' email header ? If yes how ? and Is it possible to assign multiple email addresses to a single system user (not aliases) -- Regards, मेघानंद नं. आचरेकर Meghanand N. Acharekar " A proud GNU\Linux User " Reg Linux User #397975 Email : vasco.debian(a)gmail.com URL : www.debian.org

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Articles on Software patents and software freedom in today's(Sep 24) 'Hindu'
by vinay sreenivasa 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hello All, Apologies for cross-posting. On the occasion of 'International Day against software patents' , the Hindu has extensively covered the issues of software patents and software freedom. There are four articles below - 2 of them explore software patents (view from foss community, industry, academia) . 2 other articles cover software freedom (a generic article on software freedom and another on the absence of foss in school curricula) . *********************************************************** * Will patenting take the byte out of IT here? * Deepa Kurup BANGALORE: Picture this. Indian mathematicians came up with the concept of the “zero” — often touted as India’s greatest contribution to civilisation — and got a patent for it. By now they would have raked in inestimable amounts in royalty. Seems preposterous? Members of the Free Software community say that patenting every other algorithm would be somewhat in the same league. For full article pls read - http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/24/stories/2008092461910300.htm *********************************************************** * Why is it important to go the ‘free’ way? * V. Sridhar Bangalore: One of the most misleading aspects of the “debate” on free software — or Open Source software — pertains to what is meant by “free.” Those ridiculing the free software activists — typically dismissed as “the techie types” — portray them as a bunch of folks who just want software to be sold for free. However, those who passionately advocate free software argue that their emphasis is on free, as in freedom. “Let software be free from the shackles of full-fledged commercial exploitation” seems to be their refrain. It is important to steer clear of the pejorative connotations implied by those who adopt an adversarial stand on free software. For full article please read - http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/24/stories/2008092461920300.htm ************************************************************* * Black-and-white, with some grey areas ( * Anand Parthasarathy Bangalore: For the mainstream global IT players, software patenting is a clear-cut issue, and they have no time for ifs and buts: They are for it. In the wake of the ongoing public consultations on the Patent Manual, which throws up issues related to software patenting, /The Hindu /spoke to India leaders of some key IT players to find out what they thought: Naresh Gupta, Sr. Vice President, Print & Publishing Business Unit Adobe, and Managing Director, Adobe India, a leader of the imaging software and solutions business, says: “We believe in safeguarding of intellectual property rights. Adobe invests significant resources towards innovation and we expect protection of our Intellectual Property Rights, to be able to sustain business.” For full article read - http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/24/stories/2008092461930300.htm *************************************************************** *How would it be if you read only one type of book? * Deepa Kurup */ Wrong choice?/ Students are taught to use only proprietary software. * BANGALORE: A computer literacy programme in a public sector organisation teaches the following modules: MS Office, MS Power Point, MS Excelsheet and Internet Explorer. A glance through the “computer syllabus” in most schools, and the list is similar. All items on this checklist have one thing in common: proprietary software. So, if every computer user is being taught exclusively on proprietary platforms, would they ever be comfortable switching to the easier, cheaper and readily available alternatives? For full article please read - http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/24/stories/2008092461820300.htm *************************************************************** Thanks, Vinay Sreenivasa IT for Change http://itforchange.net http://india.is-watch.net/ http://is-watch.net

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[X-Post][ilugd] Serious e1000e driver issue in SLE 11 Beta 1]
by Parthan SR 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

[Forwarding without prejudice] +1 ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- ----- Forwarded by Sanjeev K Gupta/SG/eSys on 09/23/2008 10:37 AM ----- Novell PartnerNet <einfo(a)novell.com> 09/23/2008 04:23 AM Please respond to einfo(a)novell.com To sanjeev(a)esysmail.com cc Subject Serious e1000e driver issue in SLE 11 Beta 1 Dear Partner and Beta Tester, the Intel e1000e driver on openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Beta 1 might have a serious issue with the potential to damage the network card in a way that it cannot be used any longer. Intel and Novell are currently working to analyze and solve the issue. For the time being: Please do NOT USE openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 or SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Beta 1 on systems with Intel e1000e hardware. Any other hardware, including systems with Intel e1000 (without -e) network cards, is not affected. We will keep you posted. With kind regards Your SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Team -- Thorsten Kukuk, Project Manager/Release Manager SLES SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) ------------------------------------------------------- -- Raj Mathur raju(a)kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- --- With Regards, Parthan "technofreak" <gpg> 2FF01026 <blog> http://blog.technofreak.in

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[X-POST]Government going all-out to damn privacy in name of terrorism
by Easwar Hariharan 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

Hi, Some recent reports in the daily DNA in Mumbai point to alarming steps being taken by the government in the name of fighting terror.[1] talks about steps already in place and [2] is an opinion piece which looks possible considering the stealthy manner in which [1] has been implemented.I think the Free Software Community has much to say about this,and influence the government if possible, with a large enough outcry. [1]http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1192217&pageid=0 [2]http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1190790&pageid=0 Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065

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want FOSS fonts for malayalam and Hindi
by Farida Umrani 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

can any body please help? Thanks and best wishes - farida

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Reminder: ILUG-BOM September 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

H! All, The ILUG-Bom September 2008 Meeting is just a week away. The details are as follows. Date: Sunday, 21st Sep. 2008 Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM IST Venue: B-103, Powai Sarovar Co op Society, next to Powai Police station, Bldg no 1, MHADA, Rambaug Powai, Mumbai - 76 Topics: 1. Programing using QT by Prashant 2. This slot is open. I would invite people to make presentation on topic of their choice. 3. Understanding and countering Software Patents in India We need a portable projector at this venue. Sanjay, you have a portable projector which you can bring to the meet? Looking forward to meet many LUGers. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Gilda Radner - "I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."

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[COMMERCIAL] Fwd: Geodesic needs perl hackers
by Mrugesh Karnik 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Fwd: Geodesic needs perl hackers Date: Monday 22 Sep 2008 From: "Mrugesh Karnik" <mrugeshkarnik(a)gmail.com> To: mrugeshkarnik(a)gmail.com --- In linux-bangalore-jobs(a)yahoogroups.com, "Linux Bangalore Admin" <listadmin@...> wrote: Geodesic Information Systems Ltd. (http://geodesic.com) is a reputed, rapidly growing company, listed on the BSE and NSE, and well known for its Mundu range of products. We urgently require competent, experienced perl hackers, with both web and MIS processing experience. Additional experience in things like Asterisk, web frameworks, etc. are desirable, and should be highlighted. If you qualify, we want to hear from you. Send your resume to careers@..., and make sure to include samples of your work. Atul Chitnis Senior Vice President Geodesic Information Systems Ltd. http://geodesic.com --- End forwarded message --- -------------------------------------------------------

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Reminder: ILUG-BOM September 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Dear Linuxers, The ILUG-Bom September 2008 Meeting is tomorrow. The details are as follows. Date: Sunday, 21st Sep. 2008 Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM IST Venue: B-103, Powai Sarovar Co op Society, next to Powai Police station, Bldg no 1, MHADA, Rambaug Powai, Mumbai - 76 Topics: 1. Programing using QT by Prashant 2. Understanding and countering Software Patents in India 3. Check the status of Namazu We need a portable projector at this venue. Looking forward to meet many LUGers. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Stephen King - "French is the language that turns dirt into romance."

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a gnu/linux cd shop online
by Suhit Kelkar 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Hey, this might be useful. http://www.linuxbazar.com/

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[ILUG-Bom]Request for Xubuntu 8.04.1/8.04
by Easwar Hariharan 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

list, There are two pending requests for Xubuntu 8.04.1/8.04 on the wiki,one is by myself ;) and one by Ashish Tripathi.Could someone with some spare bandwidth download the distro for us please(knura,please note :P)?I would be attending the GLUG-Bom meet on 21st at Powai,so that should be a convenient location for exchange of media or burning.In case someone has the distro but is not attending the meet,please contact me off-list. Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065

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A CPIM Hijack of Free Software Foundation?
by Praveen A 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2008-September/005460.html My mail is not appearing in the list archive Posting it again ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind at gmail.com> Date: Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:02 PM Subject: A CPIM Hijack of Free Software Foundation? To: Principal Support List of FSF-India <fsf-friends at mm.gnu.org.in> Cc: rms at gnu.org, "Nagarjuna G." <nagarjun at gnowledge.org>, "Nagarjuna G." <nagarjunag at gmail.com> Today I came to know about an event called freedom and software happening in Chennai on 21st September through a blog. The event website is a google site http://sites.google.com/site/freedomandsoftware/ Most of the friends participating are our friends. But this mail is for some clarifications The invitation text says following <quote> M. Subramanian - The Mayor, N. Ram - Editor, The Hindu, Debesh Das - Minister of Information Technology, West Bengal, Kiran Chandra - Director, Free Software Foundation India & Prabir Purkayastha - Secretary, Delhi Science Forum, have been confirmed to be the panel of speakers. The objective of the event will be the launch of the project for the development of a Tamil Version of the GNU/ Linux operating system. The launch will be made by the Mayor, M.Subramanian. The project will be developed by engineering students with able technical support from the IT professionals & professors, and infrastructural support by the entrepreneurs. The logo and caption for the Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu will be launched by Mr. N. Ram. The event will be attended by the IT professionals, Entrepreneurs, Researchers and professors of reputed colleges, from all over the country and the registration will be open to all, so you can bring all your friends as well. There will be no entry fee for the same. </quote> My questions are Following 1.Is this event anyway related with Free Software Foundation? 2. This news is not announced in any Free Software Mailing lists, like FSF-Friends, FSF-Tn(http://mm.gnu.org.in//pipermail/fsf-tn/) ILUG Chennai etc . It is not announced yet in gnu.org.in also. Why This much secrecy around this? 3.. The above invitation text says "logo and caption for the Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu will be launched" in the function. Is FSF India decided to start regional FSFs? If yes why this is organising in a a secret maner? 3. The Invitation text says "The objective of the event will be the launch of the project for the development of a Tamil Version of the GNU/ Linux operating system", why there is a need of another distribution when tamil is well supported in most of the upstream distributions? . Let it be the work of Tamil Localisation groups. 4. The contacts provided in the website contact page is not at all familiar in Free Software Community. And There is no information on who is organising this event. On a quick checkup with friends in Chennai, they says it is an event Organised by Communist Party of India (Marxist) . Thats why the secrecy. I don't have a problem in a political party supporting free software cause. But If it is the case i am very suspicious on following points 1. The exclusion of the Free Software Movement in Chennai in Organising it, 2. Creating a body with power structure before Contributing anything . I dont think a free software Foundation is not needed for releasing a Localised GNU/Linux Distribution 3. Secrecy in whole process of a Public event I am expecting a reply from FSF India on this Anivar -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Online quick introductory books/notes.
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Hi, Bumped into this [1] via Ruby-lang.org. Lots of nice online books ( called $Topic Essentials ) - short and very fast introduction to various topics - from Xen to Fedora to PHP. Esp helpful if you want a quick intro to a certain topic. Have fun. [1]http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Main_Page Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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[OT][Commercial] opening for a Linux Sys. Admin
by P.S Rathinam 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Hi All, We have an immediate opening for a Linux Sys. Admin. Experience: 5-8 years of experience in Linux/Unix systems administration, Windows administration is a plus *****Should have necessarily handled a team ****** Profile: - Bachelor's degree in IT - Experience in My SQL administration and support, replication is a plus. - Working knowledge of administrating applications using Apache and MySQL - PHP/Perl/Python programming skills a plus. - Drupal and Joomla administration experience a big plus. - Previous experience of working in a globally distributed environment would be a plus. - System administration in a mixed Linux/Windows environment. The servers are Linux SUSE or Windows Server 2003 - Ability to work closely with technology teams to define the deployment end-state. - Ability to troubleshoot and resolve problems efficiently. - Ability to work with globally distributed teams. - Demonstrated good communication skills. - Self-motivated, with ability to work independently in a fast paced environment. - Strong in office productivity tools like Excel, Access, Visio Job Location: Mumbai. Interested individuals please contact me directly. Please mention your experience in the subject of your reply. Regards, Poornima Rathinam

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Free Software technologies for media streaming
by Chandita Mukherjee 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Dear Friends Have you ever thought of being able to set up your own audio and video server, creating on-line media using Free Software? A workshop on media streaming is planned on 28-29-30 September at the Gnowledge Lab of the HBCSE conducted by Yves Degoyan and Lluis Gómez i Bigordà of GISS (Global Independent Streaming Support) Visit http://giss.tv for details. It will be intensive but a great opportunity for those who value it. If this idea intrigues you, please write to cometmediafdn(a)gmail.com with the same subject line, asking for the detailed schedule or look it up at www.cometmedia.org under forthcoming workshops. G Nagarjuna for the Gnowledge Lab at Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education of TIFR Chandita Mukherjee for Comet Media Foundation.

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wrong url in firefox redirects to searchportal.information.com
by Abhishek Ambe rkar [अभिषेक] 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

I am using Firefox 3.0.1 on CentOS 5.2 Whenever I enter wrong url in address bar it redirects me to http://searchportal.information.com/ I didn't find any info on google regarding how to stop this. I used to get orkut login page upon entering just "orkut" in address bar and pressing enter, when I was using Firefox 2. But it now redirects to searchportal What's the exact problem? and how to get rid of this? Is this a DNS issue? I use MTNL Broadband, so both the DNS listed in router are DNS IPs provided by MTNL. Entering searchportal.information.com in address bar redirects to information.com These domains are owned by http://www.oversee.com/ as shown by 'dig'. -- With Regards Abhishek Amberkar Born To Be Free... Born To Use GNU/Linux...

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Windows Swap file in Linux Swap Partition
by Surya Pratap 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Hi, yesterday night I was plain bored of tweaking out windows on my dual boot system, and got fed up of trying to defrag the page file which was sooooo fragmented so I did a bit of googling to see if the linux swap space can be used for the swapfile and guess what ;) .... Check out SwapFS at http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/ Hope it is useful Regards Surya

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OSM sprint
by Kenneth Gonsalves 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

hi, report is here: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/full/59/NW/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Conference on Open Source Softwares.
by gaurav dadhich 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

Dear Sir/Madam, I am the webmaster of the IEEE(International Electronics &Electrical Engineers) student branch of (TSEC)Thadomal Shahni Engg. College,Mumbai,now on referred as IEEE-TSEC. IEEE-TSEC organises a 3-day national level technical festival,ISAAC,every year in the beggining of October.This year, the festival is on the 28th Sept,2nd & 5th Oct.This festival is attended by approximately 8000 students on these 3 days collectively.ISAAC is the largest technical festival in the Mumbai Unversity. We have organised a *Conference* on *Open Source Software* on the *2nd October,2008*.The conference will be taken by people from various IT companies.The conference aims at discussing the various open source technologies and their implications on the IT industry.We thus greet you to attend the conference. For registration and other such details,contact me at 9867002017 or visit our website at http://www.isaac08.info.You can also write in at gd1410(a)gmail.com. Looking forward to a positive response from you. Thanking You, Gaurav Dadhich

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unable to install printer
by Neelesh 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

Hi , I am facing problem installating HP 1020 laserjet usb printer on Redhat linux 5.2 client. please suggest the solution. -- मनापासुन..... मनापर्यंत..... Neelesh

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when and where is the lug meeting for september 08?
by kwest 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

Pls let me know as i have recently rejoined the list and would like to come for the meeting if i can. thanks kussh -- For good governance 1 Get the courts /regulators working properly 2 Put a better HUMAN RESOURCE MGT system in place http://www.ubuntu.com/

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Bengali Debian Installer Translation (Was: Fwd: Lenny installer string freeze status 20080913)
by Kartik Mistry 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

Dear List, We need help in specially Bengali for Debian Installer translation updates. Please forward this mail to groups which can help in this. Contact Me and/or Christian Perrier for more details. ~ Kartik ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christian Perrier <bubulle(a)debian.org> Date: Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:35 AM Subject: Lenny installer string freeze status 20080913 To: debian-i18n(a)lists.debian.org, debian-boot(a)lists.debian.org 8 days left before the end of the string freeze NEW for today: Wolof completed sublevels 1 and 2 Languages meeting the release criteria: 46 ------------------------------------------ Already activated and complete for level 1: 41 Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, German, Dzongkha, Greek, Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Galician, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Khmer, Korean, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese Already activated and complete for sublevels 1 and 2: 5 Belarusian, Esperanto, Hungarian, Punjabi, Wolof Not yet activated languages complete for sublevels 1 and 2: 0 Languages failing to meet the release criteria: 31 -------------------------------------------------- Activated languages: 17 Amharic, Bengali, Bosnian, Catalan, Danish, Estonian, Kurdish, Latvian, Macedonian, Northern Sami, Slovenian, Albanian, Tagalog, Ukrainian Not yet activated languages: 14 Afrikaans, Welsh, Persian, Irish, Armenian, Icelandic, Kazakh, Kannada, Malagasy, Malay, Serbian, Telugu, Urdu, Xhosa (chances to get these in lenny are quite low) If your language is listed in "failing to meet the release criteria", please do not scream out. For many of these languages, only very few translated strings are missing and the needed update is very small. But, still, do your best for this to happen. The D-I i18n documentation is available at http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/i18n/ -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ Homepage: people.debian.org/~kartik Blog.en: ftbfs.wordpress.com Blog.gu: kartikm.wordpress.com

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roadjams.info
by Akshay Mishra 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Hello All, We have started an effort, by means of website www.roadjams.info, to provide real-time traffic information to Mumbai. Would appreciate if people who are interested to contribute can contact me or mumbai<at> roadjams.info. The development requires people to have a GPS enabled phone, (external or internal GPS) and a small utility that sits on the phone and updates location to the server. The software on the mobile is available under GPL. Currently the software works very well on Nokia phones. Support for other phones is being developed and should be possible in near future. Thanks, Akshay

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Announce: ILUG-BOM September 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

H! All, We are pleased to announce Sep. 2008 ILUG-Bom Meet Date: Sunday, 21st Sep. 2008 Time: 2:00-5:00 PM IST Venue: (Thanks to Prof. Jitendra Shah of VJTI) B-103, Powai Sarovar Co op Society, next to Powai Police station, Bldg no 1, MHADA, Rambaug Powai, Mumbai 76 ph: +91-22-25702537 Contact Person : Ganesh Gajre Topics: 1. QT Programing Basics by Prashant Shah 2. Advance JavaScript Programing by Rakesh Pai 3. Check the Status of Namazu 4. Discussion on Software Patents in India We need a portable projector. Does any one have a portable projection system who is willing to bring it to the venue? Prashant and Rakesh - Please post the abstract of your talks. Also, Please post your presentations on ILUG-Bom Wiki for archival. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 A. P. Herbert - "A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso."

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Microsoft Vs Open source on NREGA ICT infrastructure
by vinay sreenivasa 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

On the NREGA ICT infrastructure page - http://nrega.nic.in/ictinfrastructure.htm I found this --> http://nrega.nic.in/ict/ict3.asp check the columns titled - No. of Applications Running and it shows number of 'applications' running on Microsoft platforms and those running on 'open source' platforms. Not too sure what this means. Why would for e.g some state have 450 s/w applications ??and why would they be all different? Does anybody know what exactly this means? I'm guessing they mean number of machines running on MS or open source. Whatever it is, the fact that open source has a count of 0 in most states is something worth looking into. Vinay Sreenivasa IT for Change * *

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[OT][Commercial-Jobs] Urgent web developer requirement -- Linux, Perl, Java/C++
by Sophia De 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

Hello all, Ours is a world-class software boutique with an impressive development record that spans a number of major projects. Headquartered in the US, we are currently seeking expert Linux programmers to create Web software in our posh New Delhi office. We expect excellence from our staff. In exchange, you would be rewarded with key roles in high-profile projects, valuable experience, a great salary, and lucrative bonuses. A friendly atmosphere and state-of-the-art equipment make office life enjoyable and relaxing.Our custom Web applications have become fixtures of the Web, and are used daily by millions of people. I am attaching the details of the position below. If interested, kindly send your updated CV along with the following details, also kindly forward it to the people you think would be interested: Current CTC: Expected CTC: Notice Period: --------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Computer Scientist Job Description: Linux-based Web software development for high-traffic, high-recognition clients. Candidate Profile: Expert Linux programmer with experience developing software using Perl/Java/C++. Strong computer science background with knowledge of systems programming. Remuneration: Best in the industry. We offer a great salary, lucrative bonuses, and overtime pay. -- Regards, Sophia sophia.sds(a)gmail.com

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Thunderbird 2 bug?
by Rony 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

Hello, There is Kubuntu 8.04 KDE4 on a PC and it has been upgraded to the latest apt packages. Thunderbird 2 was installed from apt packages. A gmail account was setup but it fails to authenticate the password and returns a normal wrong password error. After wasting a lot of time rechecking and suspecting the keyboard, I setup the account in Kmail and it worked fine. So there appears to be a bug in that Thunderbird package. I would also like to add that KDE4 does not allow editing of its menus and Kmail's icon which was missing from the 'Internet' sub-menu, could not be added manually. Some people on the net appear to have similar problems. Even creating a new application shortcut on the desktop as well as task bar is not possible with a right click as that option itself is missing. KDE4 is still a little 'nangu'. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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[COMMERCIAL] Linux-Windows System Admin required
by Homyar Bhathena 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

SideFX (www.sidefx.co.in) is a visual effects facility to serve the customers in film, media and entertainment industry globally. SideFX is looking for System Administrators to setup and manage their network, workstations and IS systems. SideFX office is located in Karve Nagar, Pune. SideFX is looking for a person fitting the following profile: - 1 year work experience - Administration and Scripting in Linux & Windows - Networking (high bandwidth network knowledge preferable) - Configuration Management (using SVN/ Bazaar) - Web programming knowledge an added advantage - Familiarity with animation and graphic tools is an added advantage The person should be open to take on challenges and try/ suggest new software/ tools as per requirements. Those interested can mail their resumes to homyar.b(a)gmail.com & rathoramit(a)gmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Thank you for choosing LinuxQuestions. http://www.linuxquestions.org

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G.I.S.S. comitee visiting India
by yves degoyon 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

hola/namaste, we are 2 members and developers of the G.I.S.S. collective ( http://giss.tv ), an international collective dedicated to free media through open-source technologies ( streaming ). G.I.S.S. is an open infrastructure for giving voice to alternative, minoritarian and non-commercial voices in the official media landscape. we ( lluis gomez i bigorda and me, yves degoyon ) have been developping open source technologies since many years now... and have been to brasil, palestina to make workshops before.. we will be in india from the 15th of September to the 15th of October. our original plan was to make a free media workshop in Dahanu near Mumbai with Nomad India ( http://nomadindia.net ), that i first met in brasil in the World Social Forum. yesterday, Hemant from nomad india sent us a notice that they won't be able to organize this workshop, as they are helping people victims of the flood in the region of Bihar ( Nepal ), as you must know... all the original plan is documented here: http://giss.tv/wiki/index.php/Workshop_India including the program of the workshop. so we are looking for other possibilities of meeting people working in open-source and free media. we could organize a short presentation, some workshop or even an informal meeting with people interested in these subjects. we have some funding from NL Net foundation to cover our travel and hosting expenses, so this is not a request for funding ). we could travel within this month across the country to Bangalore or New Delhi for example... so, let us know what would be possible to organize in these dates, knowing that we have to reorganize our activities in a short period of time, it can be some informal meetings ( in a hacklab for example, we like that ) ). hope all the situation will get back to normal in Nepal too.. ( we perfectly understand that Nomad had to cancel our workshop ) hope to meet some of you soon, we arrive in Mumbai on next Sunday 14th... all the best, yves degoyon, lluis gomez i bigorda and GISS team.

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Debian Lenny Live Becomes Reality
by Swapnil Bhartiya 06 Sep '08

06 Sep '08

Dear Friends, The Debian Live team is pleased to announce the first beta of Debian Lenny's Live images. Although we missed releasing images for Etch along with the installer images, we are now prepared to release live images within the regular Lenny release process. This is the first official release of Debian Live and the whole team has been working hard during the past 2.5 years to make Debian's own live systems become a reality. Nevertheless, we do need your help to find more bugs and improve the live systems, so please try them out. The images are available at: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_live_beta1/ SWapnil Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/

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Interesting points about privacy with Google Crome
by Rony 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Hello, Here is a page where some people discuss the privacy issues related to Google's new Crome browser. http://www.sportsshooter.com/message_display.html?tid=30605 -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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[OT][Crosspost] Python Is Not Java
by Subhodip Biswas 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

hi all ! have a look on this : " I was recently looking at the source of a wxPython-based GUI application, about 45.5KLOC in size, not counting the libraries used (e.g. Twisted). The code was written by Java developers who are relatively new to Python, and it suffers from some performance issues (like a 30-second startup time). In examining the code, I found that they had done lots of things that make sense in Java, but which suck terribly in Python. Not because "Python is slower than Java", but because there are easier ways to accomplish the same goals in Python, that wouldn't even be possible in Java." Read more here : http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html -- Regards Subhodip Biswas Fedora Ambassador West Bengal , India GPG key : FAEA34AB Server : pgp.mit.edu http://subhodipbiswas.wordpress.com http:/www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SubhodipBiswas

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GNU/Linux News and Views
by Rony 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Hello, Here are some links worth reading. First is a user who tried to install Ubuntu on his eeepc after knocking off Xandros. He mentions popping in a cd in the drive. He may have forgotten to mention that it was an external drive. This is an interesting statement reproduced. "Geek Squad, a tech support service partnered with the Carphone Warehouse, is more used to dealing with problems with broadband and e-mail but later that night, Agent Jamie Pedder walks me through it over the phone. Download a couple of bits of code from one of the Linux help sites on to a memory stick. Whack the memory stick into the offending laptop. Bang a couple of lines of code into the terminal window to tell the machine to install what we've downloaded. Bingo, we're cooking on gas. Ubuntu's running my wireless network and I'm back on-line. Easy when you know how." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7594249.stm Nice to know there is a phone support service there, to help in installing tricky device drivers for GNU/Linux. Second is news about Dell supporting GNU/Linux for its computers after a user survey revealed that out of 100,000 people who participated in a survey, 70%+ wanted GNU/Linux. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6506027.stm And 5th September is the new date for the release of Dell's Mini Inspiron that should be shipped with xp or Ubuntu 8.04. Keeping my fingers crossed about the actual release and final pricing. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Fwd: [Jobs] PHP Team Lead + Project Manager openings
by Parthan SR 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

----- Forwarded Message ------- Hi, We currently have several openings for PHP Team Lead positions and for Project Managers for leading open source projects. We're an open source consulting company working extensively on PHP based Content Management Systems and Frameworks (TYPO3, Drupal, Symfony, Seagull), Ruby on Rails and a bit on Django/Python. The job descriptions for these are posted at: * PHP Team Lead: http://blogs.srijan.in/2008/03/01/php-team-lead/ * Project Manager : http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p7fub_vJsx_uk7OIVuIEnew Should you be interested in the openings, please do write in with your CVs and expected salary. Please mention the opening you are applying for in the email subject. Thanks, Rahul Dewan -- Web: http://www.srijan.in | Email: business(a)srijan.in Blog: http://blogs.srijan.in/ CSR: http://www.srijanfoundation.org/ _______________________________________________ -- --- With Regards, Parthan "technofreak" <gpg> 2FF01026 <blog> http://blog.technofreak.in

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Invitation to Workshop on Rule Based Expert Systems
by Naveen Kumar 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

Dear colleague, The KBCS division at CDAC Mumbai, is organizing a two-day Workshop on Rule Based Expert Systems at the Navi Mumbai (Belapur-Kharghar) campus on 17th and 18th October, 2008. The workshop is meant to provide a comprehensive introduction to Expert Systems, focusing on the practical application. This workshop is targeted at academicians, IT Managers, consultants, domain experts, professionals working on advisory systems and potentially anyone who feels a need for building systems with human expertise. The brochure gives you a brief information on the workshop, which can be located at the C-DAC Mumbai website, at this URL: http://www.cdacmumbai.in/index.php/cdacmumbai/research_and_publications/res… Kindly forward the details about the workshop to all those whom you feel may be interested in participating in the workshop. You may also go ahead and blog about it, post it to mailing lists, groups, and communities etc. Do keep us informed about it. * Contact:* Dr. M. Sasikumar Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (Erstwhile NCST), Mumbai Knowledge Based Computer Systems (KBCS) Raintree Marg, Near Bharati Vidyapeeth, Sec 7, CBD Belapur, Opp. Kharghar Railway Station Navi Mumbai, 400614 India *Voice:* 91-2227565303 *Fax:* 91-2227560004 *E-mail:* kbcs [at] cdacmumbai.in *URL:* www.cdacmumbai.in/index.php/cdacmumbai/research_and_publications/research_g… -- Thanks & regards Naveen Kumar Assistant Software Engineer Open Source Software Division( http://ossrc.org.in/ ) C-DAC Mumbai ( http://www.cdacmumbai.in/ ) ( http://moebiuscurve.livejournal.com/ )

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Md5sum Input/Output Errors Crash System
by Rony 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Hello, I have downloaded the first 10 Debian Etch CDs and out of 10 ISOs, 2 or 3 had an md5sum problem. While the good md5 returns a proper checksum value, the bad ones return an Input/Output error. The problem is that when this error occurs, the link between the system and HDD is lost and no further commands are accepted as they need to be picked up from the HDD. The system blanks out and I have to force shutdown and reboot it. Yesterday I kept the Lenny live CD for download and its md5sum gave the same problem today morning. I had mentioned this problem earlier too and the HDD was suspected. However for the good ISO checksums there is no problem whatsoever. Why can't the system decently tell me that the checksum is bad, why does it have to break all connections and crash? -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Error in Jboss server.logs
by Samir 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Hi List, I am getting an exception in server.log for Jboss, ERROR [org.jgroups.protocols.UDP] exception=java.io.StreamCorruptedException: invalid stream header at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(ObjectInputStream.java:764) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.(ObjectInputStream.java:277) at org.jgroups.protocols.UDP.handleIncomingUdpPacket(UDP.java:670) at org.jgroups.protocols.UDP$IncomingPacketHandler.run(UDP.java:1332) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) Any sort of help would be appreciated. -- Friends are like an treasure,so if you want to become rich in your life make as many friends as possible in the life. Samir.A.Sanghvi

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Fwd: [OT] Sahana translation to Hindi required.
by Arun Khan 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Help needed with Hindi translation for Sahana. Came across this in ILUG-Chennai list. -- Arun Khan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ajay Kumar [AJuOnLiNE] <ajuonline(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:24 AM Subject: Sahana translation to Hindi required. Hi Guys, There has been floods in the state of Bihar, India and Sahana team has responded and working on custom deployment and installation for the scenario. Information on Sahana Response to Bihar Floods: http://tinyurl.com/5ge8ns 1. Immediate help to Sahana can be provided in terms of Translating Sahana into Hindi. Or asking someone you know involved in Hindi translation for any other projects to contribute. Tip: Pass it on to the other mailing lists too. Online Translation Engine available at: [This engine provides a web interface to translate text into language by just browsing through the keywords and pasting/typing corresponding text.] http://translate.sahana.lk/ 1. Sign up & Activate Account 2. Add Hindi to your language profile first Login to the Pootle, go to "My account", scroll to the bottom of the page, click on "Change Options", scroll down to "My languages" and select Hindi from the List (to make multiple selections, hold Ctrl-Key pressed while selecting), then click on "Save changes". 3. Translate by pressing "Suggest" button after putting the corresponding text. The suggestions will be moderated by the admin, which is currently me for Hindi, and will merge it to the main file. I have a target to get this done in 3 days. Any and all help is welcome. Feel free to contact Ajay Kumar or the Sahana Mailing List regarding this. -- Thanks a lot -------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [Freed] [X-Post][Commercial] FLOSS position available at Sarai
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gora Mohanty <gora(a)sarai.net> Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:00 PM Subject: [Freed] [X-Post][Commercial] FLOSS position available at Sarai To: ILUGD main list <ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org> Cc: General Freed list <freed(a)lists.linux-delhi.org>, reader-list(a)sarai.net, Free/Libre and Open Source Software Project List <prc(a)sarai.net> Hello everyone, Please note that this message is widely cross-posted, and be careful of follow-ups. The FLOSS programme at Sarai, CSDS is looking for a senior person to work with us, as per the description in the advertisement below. While we would prefer someone well-versed in Indian-language computing, we would also be happy to consider strong candidates with other backgrounds. Also, while we need a senior person in light of the job duties, it might also be possible to offer a junior-level position for a talented candidate. So, please do not hesitate to send in a resume. The last date for receiving submissions is midnight Sun., 28th Sep., 2008. For any questions, please contact me off-list, or send email to floss(a)sarai.net . You can also call me at +919868527992. Please also feel free to circulate this announcement, and the link at <http://www.sarai.net/practices/software/senior-floss-position-available> Regards, Gora -------------------------------------------------------- Senior FLOSS position available at Sarai, CSDS -------------------------------------------------------- The Sarai programme of the Centre for Studies of Developing Societies (CSDS), is pleased to announce the availability of a position for a senior person for one year, with renewal subject to performance, and to the availability of funding. The FLOSS programme at Sarai is involved primarily in Indian language computing, and one of the focal points of the work this year will be (a) putting together customised versions of popular Linux distributions like Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu that are specialised to Indian language computing, and (b) organising documentation to cover the installation, and usage of applications on these distributions in Indian languages. The goal is to have Indian language computing on free operating systems become at least as easy as it is with English. Besides, we also work on various open-source technologies including mobile computing (especially, the use of Indian languages on mobiles), GPS, GIS, electronics, embedded devices, and robotics. The successful candidate is also strongly encouraged to have open-source interests of their own, and they can be allocated time to work on these. A brief description of the responsibilities of the position include: o Coordinating with major Linux distributions for ensuring up-to-date Indian language packages for fonts, input methods, etc. o Coordination with major applications like OpenOffice, Mozilla, and Scribus for incorporation of Indian language packs, and the building of releases. o Facilitating development work in Indian language computing by working with various external developers such as Scribus, aspell, desktop publishing, and semantic analysis folk, etc. o Driving documentation by making an outline of the documents needed for installing and using Indian languages on FLOSS operating systems and applications. o Keeping abreast of new technology, and facilitating the development of cutting-edge technologies for Indian languages, such as speech-to-text, optical character recognition, etc. o FLOSS Evangelism, and support for people seeking to deploy FLOSS Indian language solutions. Besides this, the person will also be expected to take up part of the managerial tasks associated with the current FLOSSINCLUDE projects, and other ongoing FLOSS projects at Sarai. Some infrastructural, and travel funds will also be made available. It is possible for the selected candidate to work largely from outside the physical environs of Sarai, though someone from the Delhi NCR region would be strongly preferred. If interested, please email a (max.) one-page statement of interests, in light of the above expectations of the position, and a current resume to floss(a)sarai.net . Potential candidates are also encouraged to visit Sarai beforehand, and can set up a time by sending email to the above address. All submissions for the position should reach us by midnight IST, on Sun., the 28th of September. Please direct any further queries to floss(a)sarai.net . -------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Freed mailing list Freed(a)lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/freed -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Freedom Toaster launched in India!!!
by Joju Joshua 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Hey, September first was that amazing day, when the first freedom toaster was launched in India. Please check <http://www.zyxware.com/articles/2008/09/01/zyxware-announces-launch-of-indi…> We are conducting GNU/Linux install fest at technopark, trivandrum and it will be there till 5th september. The GNU/Linux users group, trivandrum is organizing the fest. it was inaugurated on 1st sept, at the technopark by the Kerala State IT Mission Director, Mr. Kelkar. The Freedom Toaster was also unveiled during the same time. If any of your friends are working at the Technopark, Trivandrum, kindly encourage them to visit the fest and take advantage of it. It would be good to have people with us. About the Freedom Toaster - www.freedomtoaster.in Joju Joshua GNU/Linux Users Group, Trivandrum

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[OT][crosspost]India's First Freedom Toaster Released
by Anoop John 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Dear All, GNU/Linux users group, Trivandrum (www.ilug-tvm.org) and Zyxware Technologies are conducting a 5 day install fest at Technopark,Trivandrum, primarily targeting the IT professionals working at Technopark.This 5 day mega install fest is being conducted at Park Center, Technopark, Trivandrum from September 1-5. With this event we at GNU/Linux users group, Trivandrum, hope to carry the message of Free Software aggressively to one of the largest IT parks in the country. We have also released India's first Freedom Toaster during the inauguration of this Install fest. This Freedomtoaster was designed and developed by Zyxware Technologies and is being jointly promoted with GNU/Linux Users Group Trivandrum. You can read more about it and check out available resources and photos at www.freedomtoaster.in. The whole concept was based on the original Freedomtoaster developed by the Shuttleworth Foundation. A Freedom Toaster is basically a self contained kiosk that will burn any one of the free software distributions onto user supplied optical media. The freedom toaster serves as an easy way to distribute free software(mainly GNU/Linux distributions). Such a dispensing mechanism is highly relevant in a country like India where unlimited broadband internet is not exactly cheap, whereas the chief source of free software remains the internet. The freedom toaster intends to bridge that gap and thus make free and open source software easily accessible to the public, minimal human intervention being an added advantage. Along with the install fest we are also conducting a technical seminar series on various Free Software topics. Also visitors will have the opportunity to try out different GNU/Linux distributions and also many software including popular Free Software games. There will also be opportunities for visitors to get their questions regarding free software applications answered by experts. Kerala State IT Mission, SPACE Kerala and FSF India are the other partner organizations who are behind this and BSNL is sponsoring the event. Together, we have been successful in organizing similar events in the city this year. We hope that, the event and our freedom toaster initiative will get support from all like minded people all over the country and hopefully this will become an inspiration for other people to take the initiative and further strengthen the free software movement in our country. You can read more about the install fest at www.ilug-tvm.org. We also welcome you to join our mailing list - ilug-tvm(a)googlegroups.com - and help us out with the increasing support requests Cheers Anoop -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.anoopjohn.com http://www.thondomraughts.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Be the change you wish to see in the world", M. K. Gandhi ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Making DVDs videos from youtube.com is that possible using KUBUNTU LINUX tools. Is it legal. Use of Kubuntu LINUX to watch "naughty" sites.
by Erach 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Hi, I noticed that nobody is interested in a secure operating system like Kubuntu LINUX (CD-ROM available in 10 weeks by shipping). But with dual-boot Kubuntu LINUX can one watch any videos and any image sites without getting spyware and viruses and ad-ware -------------- that is very serious --------- some idiots might want to turn off google preferences from advanced to "watch everything" and then type in "naked mary" or some thing. On youtube.com can you make DVDs off videos off youtube.com I mean MTNL is free download at night and some idiot might make a huge DVD off videos of youtube.com Those would show all over the world. Of course, uploads by MTNL are free so nice, decent photos and videos can be posted for free. BUT is all this possible using KUBUNTU LINUX or any other linux. Erach

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foss workshop for hardware vendors
by Kenneth Gonsalves 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

hi, why do hardware vendors recommend customers to go for windows rather than linux? Most common reason is that they know nothing about linux, or are not confident of supporting linux. No one wants to admit lack of knowledge - so they recommend against it. Not evil minds - just ignorance. Check it out here: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/full/56/NW/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/

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windows dlls v/s wine --- would need all older versions of WINE too to run under virtualboxes running LINUX
by Erach 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

From: "Mehul Ved" <mehul.n.ved(a)gmail.com> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:22:59 +0530 Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installing Windows applications via virtualbox or WINE On 8/27/08, Erach <erach27(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It seems my Visual Basic, Visual Windows C++ and Microsoft Windows 98 > edition are finally obsoleted if I try to use Wine but not if I use > virtual box. Yes, cos the dll's available in wine are newer. Wouldn't it be the same in case of using later versions of windows? No, virtualbox emulates the Intel hardware and you select the version of the hardware and the guest and host operating system. Then you install your copy of Windows and then run visual c++ and visual basic on it. Do do the same in linux, one would have to run different instances of virtual box on linux, below the virtual box, run different (older) versions of WINE and then the visual C++ and visual basic would run legally under the different versions of WINE. By the way, I did run Microsoft Office under WINE, and TALLY under WINE but the next day they did not run. I wish somebody would come up with an open source / free ERP version / or at least a TALLY. Erach

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Request for the venue for Sep 2008 ILUG-BOM Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

H! Folks, We would like to conduct ILUG-BOM meeting in IITB/KReSIT. Are there in IITian lurkers on the list who can book the venue for Sep meet? Alternately, we would like people from central suburbs (Dadar to Thane) to come forward and offer venue for the next ILUG-BOM meet. The date for next meeting will be either 21st or 28th Sep. 2008. We have following topics and speakers confirmed for Sep. 2008 Meet. 1. Programing with QT by Prashant Shah (Thanks Prashant for coming forward to share knowledge) 2. Advance JavaScript Programing by Rakesh Pai (Thanks for your last and very good session and looking forward to the next one!) 3. Action Plan for Opposing Software Patent (Nagarjuna will brief the community about the topic and status, if he is around in Mumbai) With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 George Burns - "I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age."

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[OT] Mini Laptop Makers Hoodwink Potential Buyers.
by Rony 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

Hello, I am looking for a good mini laptop with the new Atom processor but find the manufacturers using gimmicks to promote their products. First they announce a product launch by a certain date in order to apply the brakes on the rival products and still there is no mention in the news about the launch. Even during the initial unveiling of the product, they mention very low prices like 300 to 400 USD as the likely price and after the product is launched it is much above 600 USD. For the Indian buyer it is a whopping 10K above the previous rate. Even the iphone 3G is sold at a much lower rate in the US and in India which is price sensitive it is priced too high, almost double. Are people in developing countries richer than those in developed ones? -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Installing Windows applications via virtualbox or WINE
by Erach 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

I have a comment on virtualization v/s WINE. WINE does not run my old Visual C++ or Visual Basic Compiler which runs on the Windows 98 because it says "sorry the new DLL's of Internet explorer 6.0 or 7.0 are here and conflict with the internet explorer 3.0 dll's of visual basic). So I prefer virtualization. That time, less memory was needed --- so it is easy to run multiple Operating System's on one machine. Of course, one should upgrade to keep enhancing the software ---- but I only want to learn my Visual Basic again. It seems my Visual Basic, Visual Windows C++ and Microsoft Windows 98 edition are finally obsoleted if I try to use Wine but not if I use virtual box. Erach

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Software patents Wiki archive link.
by vivek v 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

This might a bit ahead of the posting of the minutes. Yesterday there was this discussion about bringing together all the issues of Software patents as a whole and find answers. As this effort was initially started in lug Delhi couple of years ago . http://web.archive.org/web/20070311000422/http://www.lug-delhi.org/wiki/Sof… Original stub, http://kandalaya.org/Docs/patent-faq.html Thanks to Raj Mathur(ILUGD, founder )

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Kindly provide me with xubuntu linux
by Ashish Tripathi 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

Hello friends. Kindly provide me with a Xubuntu linux cd. I stay bhayander,mumbai. Kindly help

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I stay at bhayander. Mumbai.
by Ashish Tripathi 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

I stay at Bhayander, mumbai. Can you help me. My no. Is 9870891889. I can collect it personally or by post will do.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Smart kiosks as an extention to manned counters.
by Rony 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

Abhay Jaykar wrote: > This is all already thought of at > > www.intellvisions.com > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Rony > > I find this technology has tremendous potential for use in various Govt. > as well as private organizations where there are long queues on manned > counters. For example bill payments for MTNL, BEST. The Post Office is > another department that would benefit very much from this. Multiple PO > kiosks inside the PO could offer services like stamps, money-order as > well as registered letters. Just like the current manned counters, you > simply enter the sender and destination address and 2 identical sticker > labels with bar codes will pop out. One is to be pasted on the letter > and the other is the sender's copy. A smart plate on top of the machine > can be the weighing scale for determining the postage as per the weight > of the letter/parcel. The letter/parcel is then dropped inside a > designated box. An extra feature would be to optically scan the movement > of the letter inward as proof of dropping. This kiosk can also be placed > in banks and enterprising shops who can be given....say 5% of all > earnings through that kiosk. so now the Post Office is not far away but > right near your home and the Postal Dept. does not have to invest in > land or office manpower to extend its reach. The same technology can be > used by courier companies too. MTNL's telephone exchanges too can use > these kiosks for bill payments and adding/removing extra services to > their subscription like changing plans, enabling CLIP. The kiosks can be > linked with wireless networking so that it is immune to cable problems. > So any office that experiences long queues for payments can take > advantage of this technology. > > Various kiosks already exist. This idea was to have an extended office counter for Govt. offices and extending their reach and services to new territories without major investments in premises and office staff. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Provide me with the cd of either Xubuntu-Linux or Puppy Linx.
by Ashish Tripathi 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

hello friends, This is C.A. Aashish tripathi, im in a desperate need of a Linux OS for my pc, whose configuration are as follows: 1. 256 MB RAM 2. PIII Intel Processor 3. 700 Mhz Processor 4. 40GB of HDD. I am looking out for Xubuntu/Puppy Linux but since my internet is very slow I cannot afford to dowbnload it. kindly help me & provide with a CD of it as soon as possible. regards, C.A Aashish Tripathi a.k.a NEEL

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Request to post minutes of the Aug 2008 ILUG Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Dear Mehul, Please post the minutes of yesterdays meeting. You have taken quite good notes! TIA for your efforts. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Emo Philips - "I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator."

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Minutes of August 2008 GLUG Meet
by Mehul Ved 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Date: Sunday, 24 August 2008 Time: 1400 hrs to 1700 hrs Venue: HBCSE, Mankhurd Attendance: The meeting was attended by 22 members from the community Talks: * Rakesh Pai - JavaScript Mr. Rakesh Pai started off the August GLUG meet with an introduction to JavaScript, beginning with the history of JavaScript, how the name JavaScript came about and where it is headed in the future. Then he explained the features of JavaScript, how loosely typed nature of JavaScript enhances creativity, object oriented nature of JavaScript, the available data types, math library. The topic then got more indepth with practical demonstration and discussions covering the datatypes, operators, loops, functions, keywords, deep object structures. The session ended with a small overview of Aptana IDE and Firebug for debugging. * Mr. Sanjay B. - jQuery After getting familiar with the basics of JavaScript, it was time to move on a little higher. Sanjay then intoduced us to a fascinating JavaScript library called jQuery. We started off with names of some popular JavaScript libraries like dojo, prototype, jquery. Then Sanjay put up a demo on jQuery to explain the concepts. Various of useful and fun stuff like getters, setters, event handlers, JSON objects with animate, handling AJAX were covered with examples. Then he covered on the overhead of using jQuery library in your page, cross browser compatibility, documentation, working with CSS. The talk ended with a small discussion on processing.js by John Resig. * Discussion on software patents This section got deferred due to unavailability of Dr. Nagarjuna at this point of the meet. So, Mr. Dinesh Shah took the initiative of discussing what software patents are and why should we care for them. It surely introduced some new attendees in the meet to the real side of software programming, where patents play an important role. Anurag and Vivek Iyyer joined in to explain more on the same. Some of the highlighted points were o hardware-software patent combinations o software only patents are not allowed o effect on mobile industry and opencourseware o can similar software be written on different hardware if hardware-software combination has been patented? o question and answers covered a few years back on ILUG-D wiki on the topic o how LUG as a community can help organisations like FSF challenge the patents eg. documenting the process o publishing of patent information as image PDF's Fixing Namazu: After the talks were done with Anurag and Dinesh Shah started the process of fixing up namazu. Apparently generating index is a long process, so it had to be left unfinished at that point.

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[INFO] Finally Linux catches up in India !
by Chetan S 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Check out this article on popularity of Linux across the Globe ... http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=340 Surprisingly as per their methodology India comes out on the top !!! regards, C

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KDE 4.1 for debian lenny
by Joju Joshua 24 Aug '08

24 Aug '08

Hi, lenny backport of KDE 4.1 though not official, it is prepared by the same folks who package kde for debian http://kde4.debian.net/ cheers -- Joju Joshua Zyxware Technologies Trivandrum www.zyxware.com Ph: +91-471-243-7711 Mob: +91-989-587-7134 >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------< "Be the change you wish to see in the world" M K Gandhi >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<

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MCA Correspondence Courses
by Jay Mistry 24 Aug '08

24 Aug '08

I have a background in Medicine; but being interested in computers, esp. use in biostatistics & data analysis; would like to do an MCA correspondence course; to learn such concepts as Basics of computers (hardware)/Operating Systems (UNIX), Programming Basics (eg 'C language), Databases/SQL, etc. Any suggestions for a good course (*correspondence)*? I was thinking of IGNOU & Sikkim Mainpal Univeristy. Have installed the recent openSUSE 11.0 Linux distribution (till now was using only MS-Windows XP & related applications), & learning about Linux basics (that may serve as an intro to Unix OS also.) Thanks,

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Reminder: ILUG-BOM August 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 23 Aug '08

23 Aug '08

H! All, Here are the details of the upcoming ILUG-BOM meet. Date: Sunday, 24th August 2008 Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM (IST) Venue: HBCSE, Near BARC Bus Depot, Mankhurd, Mumbai Agenda: 1. Progamming JavaScript 2. JavaScript Framework(s) 3. Fixing ILUG-BOM Mailing List Archive Search (Namazu) 4. Strategy and action plan for countering software patents. Looking forward to large attendance. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Mike Ditka - "If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms."

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chech_snmp ..... how to determine OID
by Agnello George 23 Aug '08

23 Aug '08

Hi I have installed nagios on one of my server and now i am tring to understand how to query my client machine using OIDs. But i just not understaing is one thing is how does one determine a a OID. I am following a tutorial by http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/linuxoids.htm . But what i don't seem to understand is how do they determin a OID. Can some on help me with the concept of OIDs and how do i come up with my own OID i followed the above tutorial and tried to query my clinet server to get the path where the disk is mounted but was not successful here .. [root@vps libexec]# ./check_snmp -H 121.XXX.XX.11 -C public -o 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.9.1.2.1 SNMP problem - No data received from host CMD: /usr/bin/snmpget -t 1 -r 5 -m '' -v 1 [authpriv] 121.XX.XX.XX:161 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.9.1.2.1 can some one help me here Thanks a million !! -- Regards Agnello D'souza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com

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[X-POST] [SECURITY] Hold all Fedora updates
by Raj Mathur 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

If you're running Fedora please hold off updating your system until the Fedora Project issues a new package signing key: http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/1130 Original announcement: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg00012.h… -- Raju -- Raj Mathur raju(a)kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves

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Bangaloreans Say No to Software Patents
by Anivar Aravind 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Bangaloreans Say No to Software Patents http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Say_No_To_Software_Patents/PressRelease On 23rd August, 2008, a group of Bangaloreans is to gather outside Town Hall to protest software Patents under the aegis of Free Software Users Group, Bangalore at 5.30 PM. This protest comes in the wake of attempts by the Indian Patent Office to push software patents, despite the same having been rejected categorically by the Parliament of India in March, 2005. At that time a particular lobby had tried pushing Patents for Software through a Presidential Ordinance. This having fallen through, software patents are now being pushed through the back door in the form of a manual ostensibly to help people file patents. While the draft in circulation glosses over the fact that software is not patentable in law, it instructs people that software patents can be filed in combination with hardware. The manual is trying to permit something that is explicitly forbidden by the Indian Patent Act, 2005. Further, it is amusing the way the manual tries to get around the legal obstacle posed by the Patents Act, by positing a category of "software in combination with hardware" . It leads one to wonder whether software can exist independent of hardware In this regard, former Supreme Court Judge, Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer has commented that "neither the controller nor the central government has authority or sanction of law to publish a manual of the kind put on the website". The Free Software Users Group also would like to point out that software is a form of knowledge and software patents would amount to propertisation of knowledge and would be detrimental to the pace at which software is growing. Software patents further kill innovation and competition and turn software publishing into the privilege of a few. As software today pervades all walks of life, any dent in the pace of its growth would have a cascading effect on the economy in general. The Free Software Users Group also would like to point out to the lobby that is trying to push for software patents through the back door that; * Software is already protected under copyright law, and no additional protection either to individuals or industries is required * Hardware innovations are already patentable under the regular innovations; therefore all innovators are already covered * The current ICT revolution happened with science and technology under public domain and it is important for the growth of software that this remains so. For Free Software users Group Bangalore 1. Anivar Aravind +92 9449009908 /080 23435606 2. Praveen A +91 9986348565 3. Renuka Prasad +91 9901945674 4. Vikram vincent +91 9448810822 PDF Version: http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Bangaloreans_Say_No_to_Software_Patents.pdf Event Posters http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Say_No_To_Software_Patents#Candle_Light_Vigil Digg it http://digg.com/tech_news/Bangaloreans_Say_No_to_Software_Patents Vote for it : http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Bangaloreans_Say_No_to_Software_Patents -- Anivar

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Windows/LINUX development times. Now replying to JDT's response --- firefox v/s windows for WIFI security
by Erach 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hi, I was busy. Happy Parsi New Year. JTD replied whose reply I intepret as follows that Windows (am I correct ---- does not have a secure kernel like UNIX)---- then how is Windows security done. Now, for all over Mumbai/INDIA, WIFI can we say that we have to have a secure kernel ---- for banks can one advocate a "develop new applications / enhancements over LINUX development tool with Windows running on top of LINUX using the emulator VIRTUALBOX which is open source). Now the key issue is that has anyone taken a software project of say one year and shown it is cheaper to develop using Windows v/s LINUX for the "easy to use touted set of Windows tool v/s which tool set to use of LINUX". Not over the entire life-cycle, but just over six months time to go live. What if we take a fresh graduate of say visual basic/ASP from a windows school and put him thru linux programming ------ how will the development cycle be cheaper/prototyping cycle be cheaper. Erach

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OSM sprint
by Kenneth Gonsalves 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/OsmSprint add details here -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/

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[OT] small cabinet for miniITX boards.
by Arun Khan 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

I am looking for a cabinet similar to the PC thin clients (the size of a thick oversized book). On Lam. Rd., the smallest cabinet I have found is the iBall Baby 306 or 207. Please share the source if you know of any place that stocks the PC thin client cabinets. TIA -- Arun Khan

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Fwd: Warning: maharya@usindia.com - User unknown!
by Kenneth Gonsalves 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

how many of you are getting this message? Begin forwarded message: > From: "MDaemon at usindia.com" <MDaemon(a)usindia.com> > Date: 21 August 2008 1:15:24 AM GMT+05:30 > To: lawgon(a)au-kbc.org > Subject: Warning: maharya(a)usindia.com - User unknown! > Reply-To: MDaemon(a)usindia.com > > maharya(a)usindia.com - no such user here. > > There is no user by that name at this server. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linuxers Digest, Vol 64, Issue 30
by Joju Joshua 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Hey, Did you all know that you can order various kinds of FLOSS and most flavors of GNU/Linux and have them delivered at your door step at a very very nominal cost? check this page: http://www.zyxware.com/requestcd -- Joju Joshua

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Fwd: Warning: maharya@usindia.com - User unknown!
by Kenneth Gonsalves 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

this is the full headers Begin forwarded message: > From: "MDaemon at usindia.com" <MDaemon(a)usindia.com> > Date: 21 August 2008 10:46:18 AM GMT+05:30 > To: lawgon(a)au-kbc.org > Subject: Warning: maharya(a)usindia.com - User unknown! > Reply-To: MDaemon(a)usindia.com > Return-Path: <linuxers-bounces(a)mm.glug-bom.org> > Envelope-To: lawgon(a)au-kbc.org > Delivery-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:16:34 -0700 > Received: from [122.169.107.93] (helo=usindia.com) by > shire.symonds.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from <linuxers- > bounces(a)mm.glug-bom.org>) id 1KW2XB-0002mO-O8 for lawgon@au- > kbc.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:16:34 -0700 > Received: from usindia.com by usindia.com (via RAW) (MDaemon PRO > v9.6.6) for <lawgon(a)au-kbc.org>; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:46:18 +0530 > X-Mdaemon-Deliver-To: lawgon(a)au-kbc.org > Message-Id: <MDAEMON0008200808211046.AA4618921(a)usindia.com> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > X-Actual-From: MDaemon(a)usindia.com > X-Return-Path: <linuxers-bounces(a)mm.glug-bom.org> > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="0821-1046-18-PART-BREAK" > X-Mdav-Processed: usindia.com, Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:46:19 +0530 > > maharya(a)usindia.com - no such user here. > > There is no user by that name at this server. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/

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Fwd: Warning: maharya@usindia.com - User unknown!
by Kenneth Gonsalves 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

how many of you are getting this message? Begin forwarded message: > From: "MDaemon at usindia.com" <MDaemon(a)usindia.com> > Date: 21 August 2008 1:15:24 AM GMT+05:30 > To: lawgon(a)au-kbc.org > Subject: Warning: maharya(a)usindia.com - User unknown! > Reply-To: MDaemon(a)usindia.com > > maharya(a)usindia.com - no such user here. > > There is no user by that name at this server. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/

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Red Hat Partners in Mumbai
by Amit Joshi 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Hi, I have completed my engineering and seriously looking at System Administration as a career option. Can you tell me about the career prospects? Also, I am thinking about taking the RHCE exam. I am not able to spot much training institutes in Mumbai, CMS Computer Institute and Gates Training being the only ones I have been able to come up with. Can you please comment on the teaching quality of these computer institutes and such stuff? Looking forward to your replies. Regards, Amit.

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Bengalureans to come out with candles against monopolising knowledge
by Praveen A 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Free Software User Group Bangalore is organising candle light vigil to say no to software patents on 23rd Saturday. More details here http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Say_No_To_Software_Patents#Candle_Light_Vigil Invite your facebook friends at http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=27662916862 Regards Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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[Commercial][Jobs] Experienced System Administrator for Zoomin.com
by PV Sundarram 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Zoomin.com <http://www.zoomin.com> is looking for a highly qualified Systems Administrator to help administer our engineering infrastructure. Perfect Fit: - You have top notch hacking skills, including Unix/Linux/Windows/SQL administration experience. - You have administered a high-growth website handling millions of users. - You are obsessed about good security and reliability practices, and you have built systems with no single point of failure. - You can program well enough to write maintenance applications (for example, automate code release in all the servers). - You have the ability to stay levelheaded and organized even in the most chaotic of situations. - You have attention to detail, curiosity and constant need to learn new things. Zoomin.com is a venture backed startup operating at startup execution speed, you can read more about us at http://www.zoomin.com/htdocs/AboutUs.aspx. Benefits: - competitive salary - incentive stock options - healthcare and fitness benefits - generous vacation time - very best computing equipment - excellent view from office You'll work with a small team of very smart people who'll talk about the latest tech stuff and take pride in what they do. If this sounds interesting to you, send a resume and cover letter telling us some real information about you and what you find interesting to jobs(a)zoomin.com. You'll be joining at a time when everyone's able to make a real difference. P.S. For a limited time only, if we hire someone you recommend you can earn a $500 referral bonus. Simply have the person you are referring include your name and email address in their cover letter when they apply. Please remember to only have the person applying contact us directly. The bonus will be paid out after 2 months of their start date. For more details visit http://www.zoomin.com/htdocs/Careers.aspx?from=fb. -- keep klickin' Sundarram P.V. -- http://blog.pvsundarram.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Red Hat Partners in Mumbai
by Neelesh Gurjar 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

From: "Amit Joshi" mckagan(a)gmail.com > Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Red Hat Partners in Mumbai >prospects? Also, I am thinking about taking the RHCE exam. I am not able to >spot much training institutes in Mumbai, CMS Computer Institute and Gates >Training being the only ones I have been able to come up with. Can you >please comment on the teaching quality of these computer institutes and such >stuff?-- I know onw Guy who teaches linux very well and in depth. His name is Mr. Rajeev Banerji. He lives in Vashi. He explains Basics of Linux in very nice way. However currently he is taking rest because of got Heart Attack. He will recover in next 2 months. So if you can wait, you can wait for 2 months but again I am not sure he will conduct class again.. Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Red Hat Partners in Mumbai
by yogesh kunjir 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

The problem is finding the "good" institute and the "proper" faculty combo. I have gone through products of practically all the name brand insti's in Mumbai conducting RHCE. i am also willing to join a RHCE course i see on redhat.com and i found a red hat official partner as vibrant technologies at Anheri (west) the study material provide by red hat it self > institute where I did the course, the 3 months course got dragged to > 9 months. We were migrating from one room to another and almost every they say that a full time course will take only 1 and half month to complete the whole RHCE from basic concept and week-end batch (a day in week) will take 3 month May I ask how much did this place charge per student? they charge 15,000 for RHCE per student any suggestion for me -- sincerely, yogesh Saddest quote of funniest man "I like to walk in rain because no one can see my tear"

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Need help for getting system board
by Neelesh Gurjar 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

Hi All, I have downloaded Voyage Linux and have customized it as per the requirements of Firewall n Router for my home. Do anybody have idea regarding where can I get following kinds of boards ? http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2c3.htm I will copy linux into SD compact flash card and then I can use that card with this board. -- Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Red Hat Partners in Mumbai
by Raghu Prasad 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

Hi! Amit, > I have completed my engineering and seriously looking at System > Administration as a career option. Can you tell me about the career > prospects? Its nice to know that we still have engineering graduates among us who think system administration is a challenging field. When I suggest this field to freshers, they usually can't believe that I am sane enough for their further attention. For most of the freshers, learning Java and DotNet are the ultimate goals in computing career. True system administrators will be in demand as long as companies keep using computer systems. It would be interesting to know what the term _True_ means here. System administration, in general, requires following skills: 1. Understanding how hardware works. You don't have to be a wizard in digital electronics. But you need to be familiar with terms like SATA, PATA, Routers, Modems, USB1, USB2 etc. Basic understanding of functionalities of various components in a computer system is a must. 2. Knowing how to program. If one opts for system administration to remain in the IT field, even if he/she lacks programming skills; then it is a bad choice. You can't administrator multiple systems in a smooth way without doing some sort of automation. The tasks like getting a failure notice via SMS, automatic backup of data at odd hours of nights, detection of some intrusion etc. do require programming. Though various tools are already available to carry out these tasks, one can't create a tool generic enough to solve all the problems possible in a setup. So the skills of _glue programming_ is necessary. On Unix/GNU-Linux you need to learn bash, perl or Python etc. For Windows administration, you need to know VB script, perl/Python or power shell for scripting purpose. 3. Knowing various software components used in the system. As a system administrator, one needs to know how to set up various services required in a company. It is necessary to understand how various services are provided. One needs to know how mail sytem works, how DNS and DHCP functions etc. Ability to set up mail servers, file and print servers, Active Directory/LDAP, document repository etc. is a must for a sysadmin. Sometimes one needs to set up additional tools for project management, time tracking, knowledge base management, wikis etc. As a system administrator, one needs to know how to set up and configure these tools. Also required is the skills to fix problems as and when they are detected. Without a proper understanding of underlying components, it would be easy to feel helpless when your users ask you to solve their problems. 4. Knowing how to manage stress. System administration is a stressful job if you are providing service to large number of users. One needs to know when to say _no_ and how to say it. Managing people and their needs is one of the most important part of system administration. The idea is to provide smooth services even when the system and the admin both are under stress. Usually point 1 can be taught to a person. Except point 3, the other ones are generally inherent in people. These things are difficult to teach but may be easy to learn by looking at others' examples. Point 3 requires some good experience. I am yet to see a coaching class where they teach everything required to master point 3. > Also, I am thinking about taking the RHCE exam. I am not able to > spot much training institutes in Mumbai, CMS Computer Institute > and Gates Training being the only ones I have been able to come up with. After observing the computer institutes in Bombay for over a decade; and after teaching in some of them many years back, I can safely say that you can only learn 10 to 20% of required skills in any institute. The best way to learn is to experiment on your own computer system. It is a long and tortuous route. But it is the best one leading you to be a _true_ sysadmin:) Since you are fresh out of the college, no one is going to take you to administer their critical systems. The best bet for you is to join some company as a trainee and learn the secrets of the trade for next two to four years. That experience will be counted to get a fat pay check afterward. People with good sysadmin skills are always in demand. I have seen many who earn more than those so called _real programmers_ of similar experience level. But one thing to remember is that, sometimes programmers can fake it, but not the sysadmin. You do need to know the internals of the systems you manage. Wishing you a challenging and enjoyable career in system administration. Raghu

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] tftp installation How-to
by bimal pandit 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Dear All, On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 Ratnakar Koli wrote : >Hi friends, > >I am trying to do a tfpt installation of Centos 5.1, i've been googling around since yesterday morning and hv tried various things but was not able to get it running. All I was able to get is the DHCPD running. > >Can someone please direct me to some good documentation, as to how to setup a PXE boot installation from Centos? > >Thanks > >Ratnakar Koli I would suggest you to read the theory of "LTSP" it works with tftp and the theory is very well explained on the site in its documentation. http://www.ltsp.org/ http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Documentation regards, Bimal Pandit

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tata indicom and firefox
by Kenneth Gonsalves 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

hi, you may recall a previous thread on this subject. When I first bought the usb modem I blogged about it here: http://lawgon.livejournal.com/42968.html as you can see, a tata guy read my blog and asked for complaints. He took up the matter and solved my problems. When I had problems with firefox compatibility he again asked for details and I pointed him to our archives. He has now mailed me saying that he has taken up the matter with the tech guys and they now assure him that all defects are rectified and the site is 100% firefox compatible. I dont have any pending bills, so cannot check. Can anyone check and verify this? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/

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[listadmin@linux-bangalore.org: [foss.in] FOSS.IN/2008: Event Announcement]
by Devdas Bhagat 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

----- Forwarded message from Atul Chitnis <listadmin(a)linux-bangalore.org> ----- Team FOSS.IN is happy to announce that this year's edition of Asia's biggest Free and Open Source Software contributor conference will be held on November 25th to 29th, 2008, at the National Science Symposium Centre, of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. As always, this event is focused on actual contribution to FOSS projects, not evangelism or advocacy, in line with the event motto "Talk is cheap - show me the code" The conference website at http://foss.in will have all the information you will need about the event, including the Call for Participation, schedules, speaker, volunteer and delegate registration, etc. The website is currently being populated, and will be opened over the next couple of days. To stay informed about the event and to participate in the discussions about it, subscribe to the event mailing list at http://foss.in/list, follow the FOSS.IN Twitter account at http://twitter.com/fossdotin, subscribe to the website's RSS feed at http://foss.in/feed, or simply keep an eye on the website at http://foss.in Cheerio! Atul Chitnis Project Lead FOSS.IN http://foss.in ----- End forwarded message -----

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tftp installation How-to
by Ratnakar Koli 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi friends, I am trying to do a tfpt installation of Centos 5.1, i've been googling around since yesterday morning and hv tried various things but was not able to get it running. All I was able to get is the DHCPD running. Can someone please direct me to some good documentation, as to how to setup a PXE boot installation from Centos? Thanks Ratnakar Koli Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] tftp installation How-to
by Sameep 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

> I am trying to do a tfpt installation of Centos 5.1, i've been googling around > since yesterday morning and hv tried various things but was not able to get it > running. All I was able to get is the DHCPD running. > > Can someone please direct me to some good documentation, as to how to setup a > PXE boot installation from Centos? You can try this link. Hope it helps. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/DisklessClients Regards, Sameep

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] tftp installation How-to
by bimal pandit 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Dear All, On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 Ratnakar Koli wrote : >Hi friends, > >I am trying to do a tfpt installation of Centos 5.1, i've been googling around since yesterday morning and hv tried various things but was not able to get it running. All I was able to get is the DHCPD running. > >Can someone please direct me to some good documentation, as to how to setup a PXE boot installation from Centos? > >Thanks > >Ratnakar Koli I would suggest you to read the theory of "LTSP" it works with tftp and the theory is very well explained on the site in its documentation. http://www.ltsp.org/ http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Documentation regards, Bimal Pandit

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] tftp installation How-to
by bimal pandit 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Dear All, On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 Ratnakar Koli wrote : >Hi friends, > >I am trying to do a tfpt installation of Centos 5.1, i've been googling around since yesterday morning and hv tried various things but was not able to get it running. All I was able to get is the DHCPD running. > >Can someone please direct me to some good documentation, as to how to setup a PXE boot installation from Centos? > >Thanks > >Ratnakar Koli I would suggest you to read the theory of "LTSP" it works with tftp and the theory is very well explained on the site in its documentation. http://www.ltsp.org/ http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Documentation regards, Bimal Pandit

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] tftp installation How-to
by bimal pandit 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Dear All, On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 Ratnakar Koli wrote : >Hi friends, > >I am trying to do a tfpt installation of Centos 5.1, i've been googling around since yesterday morning and hv tried various things but was not able to get it running. All I was able to get is the DHCPD running. > >Can someone please direct me to some good documentation, as to how to setup a PXE boot installation from Centos? > >Thanks > >Ratnakar Koli I would suggest you to read the theory of "LTSP" it works with tftp and the theory is very well explained on the site in its documentation. http://www.ltsp.org/ http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Documentation regards, Bimal Pandit

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Announce: ILUG-BOM August 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

H! Date: Sunday, 24th August 2008 Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM Venue: HBCSE, Mankhurd, Mumbai (Nagarjun/Anurag, please confirm the venue booking) Agenda: 1. Programing JavaScript (Subject to speaker's availability - Anurag, Please confirm) 2. Fix mailing list archives search (Namazu) 3. Add any other required collaboration software on ILUG-BOM server. 4. Discuss strategy and action plan to oppose and defeat Software Patents in India. More details to follow. Please RSVP on ILUG Wiki. See you all in great numbers. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Lucille Ball - "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

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Http access to Remastered iso's
by Sameep 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Here is the blog-link to the iso downloads hosted at Naveens website. http://sameepk.wordpress.com/ I'm planning to add a few more custom distros. Any ideas on what to include ? Regards, Sameep

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kind att
by IPS Khurana 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

hi i want to use linux for my day to day work, but can i use my HP Photosmart All in one printer C6188 in it, all functions print scan copy fax, CD with this printer does not contains Linux Drivers also can i use FotoSlate of ACD Systems in Linux, or linux version of Fotoslate, something like that. can u suggest which Desktop flavor and version will be right for me P3 machine 512sd ram and 80 gb hdd pls confirm thanks n rgds -- IPS Khurana ***************************** Cell No: +91 9869019416 Khurana Sales & Services Distributors & Wholesellers Total IT Solutions! Thane http://ipskhurana.googlepages.com/ Member of BNI

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Marketing point for LINUX. Can Windows / Linux be made totally safe for WIFI
by Erach 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi, Can Windows / LINUX ever be made totally safe for WIFI ? After reading the fact that government wants WIFI security before getting WIFI computers all over Mumbai, I was asked by a friend whether WINDOWS can ever be made totally safe for WIFI all over Mumbai. What about LINUX ? Erach

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Linux with ASUS P5K64, Intel Q6600(?)...
by km 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Subject: Linux with ASUS P5K64, Intel Q6600(?) Experience in buying a WS running Linux? Any problems worth knowing with mid-high-end hardware? Hi List, I have lately decided to assemble a new rig for my graphics work, and your help / suggestions are sincerely solicited. This is a long mail, so please feel free to skip and read at leisure if you may. The primary concern being that it should play well with Linux. Sadly, the ASUS' site only states Windows OS compatibility; //mentioning ASUS here because the MoBo i have rounded up on is mfd by ASUS (Link [1]). Please share if you have any experience or suggestions with the below mentioned configuration. I am really looking forward to some `good` experiences as I am really anxious to get the rig home :) Any help/suggestions/experiences (with vendors even) will be gratefully appreciated. The config: COMPONENT MAKE/MODEL NO. -------------------------------------------- MOTHERBOARD P5K64 WS PROCESSOR Core 2 Quad Q6600 (All vendors in Vashi have denied availability of Q6700 that, I believe is a better processor!) GPU NVidia GeForce 9800 GT 512 MB (denied availability of all specific makes i mentioned; ZOTAC, XFX, ASUS) :( RAM 2 X 2GB Transcend Modules (I've heard that windoze xp (32 bit) etc do not support more than 3GB of RAM; never confirmed though. But I would be most interested to learn, if there is any such limitation with 32 bit Linux distros too! I would be mostly using 32-bit platform for now) -------------------------------------------- With vendors nearby my place playing a game of chess, I really can't expect any help from them regarding OS compatibility and, for that matter, even honest hardware prices. (Will soon post a blog on my experience with vendors while going for this hardware, which was quite a saga!) So, that gives me another genuine reason to turn to the Linuxers for help. :) <OT> Going a bit OT with my experience here: In fact, the vendors have even denied availability of ASUS P5K64 WS, in which case, I might go for an ASUS P5K WS. (Link [2]) "poore India mein kahin nahi mil raha hai! I have spoken to all major distributors" (sic), as a vendor told me for MoBo, Q6700 as well as the ZOTAC graphic card. Sad! He's denied availability of any MoBo about which I have gathered detailed information, while the hardware `remains available` until I do not know the genuine price (-slot, for the Indian market, as I see it, no consistency at all!) </OT> I believe the other components (HDD, Monitor, etc), should not be a matter of any concern in this regard, however, please share any experiences if you will :) Thank you very much for your precious time reading through the long mail :) [1] http://in.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=534&l4=0&model=1692&modelmen… [2] http://in.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=534&l4=0&model=1691&modelmen… PS: The fact that I have had bad experience with a couple of vendors in Navi Mumbai does not, in any way, mean that I would generalize that there might not be any good vendors in the region; may be, its just that I wasn't lucky enough to find one. TIA Regards, kamal morjal

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Tata Indicom CDMA USB Modem not working with GNU/Linux
by km 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Hi list, Please enlighten me if you have any experience with using the Tata Indicom USB Modem under the Plug 2 Surf scheme. I have recently taken their subscription and facing problems using it with Kubuntu 7.10 It works fine in windoze, but fails to get any data transfer in Linux. I tried connecting using wvdial and also using KPPP. The following is a copy of what i get at the terminal on running wvdialconf: $ sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf Editing `/etc/wvdial.conf'. Scanning your serial ports for a modem. ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- failed with 2400 baud, next try: 9600 baud ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- failed with 9600 baud, next try: 115200 baud ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- and failed too at 115200, giving up. Modem Port Scan<*1>: S1 S2 S3 WvModem<*1>: Cannot get information for serial port. ttyACM0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- OK ttyACM0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 Z -- OK ttyACM0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 -- OK ttyACM0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 -- OK ttyACM0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 -- OK ttyACM0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 -- OK ttyACM0<*1>: Modem Identifier: ATI -- ERROR ttyACM0<*1>: Speed 4800: AT -- OK ttyACM0<*1>: Speed 9600: AT -- OK ttyACM0<*1>: Speed 19200: AT -- OK ttyACM0<*1>: Speed 38400: AT -- OK ttyACM0<*1>: Speed 57600: AT -- OK ttyACM0<*1>: Speed 115200: AT -- OK ttyACM0<*1>: Speed 230400: AT -- OK ttyACM0<*1>: Speed 460800: AT -- OK ttyACM0<*1>: Max speed is 460800; that should be safe. ttyACM0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 -- OK Found an USB modem on /dev/ttyACM0. Modem configuration written to /etc/wvdial.conf. ttyACM0<Info>: Speed 460800; init "ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0" //////// It appears that it successfully detected a USB modem and created a wvdial.conf file accordingly. But on trying to dial using "sudo wvdial", i get the following on the terminal: kamal@kMax:~$ sudo wvdial WvDial<*1>: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.56 WvModem<*1>: Cannot get information for serial port. WvDial<*1>: Initializing modem. WvDial<*1>: Sending: ATZ WvDial Modem<*1>: ATZ WvDial Modem<*1>: OK WvDial<*1>: Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 WvDial Modem<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 WvDial Modem<*1>: OK WvDial<*1>: Modem initialized. WvDial<*1>: Sending: ATDT#777 WvDial<*1>: Waiting for carrier. WvDial Modem<*1>: ATDT#777 WvDial Modem<*1>: CONNECT WvDial<*1>: Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt. WvDial<Err>: Connected, but carrier signal lost! Retrying... WvDial<*1>: Sending: ATDT#777 WvDial<*1>: Waiting for carrier. WvDial Modem<*1>: ATDT#777 WvDial Modem<*1>: CONNECT WvDial<*1>: Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt. ... and so on and so forth.. it keeps repeating connection attempts and gives the same error "WvDial<Err>: Connected, but carrier signal lost! Retrying..." I have used wvdial for MTNL Garuda's USB modem on the same installation and it was working fine back then. Also, there was an existent wvdial.conf file with those old settings for MTNL Garuda connection until i executed "wvdialconf" again for the tata indicom USB modem. [* wvdial gave the same problem even with Ubuntu 7.04 installed on the same machine.] While when i tried connecting with KPPP on Kubuntu 7.10, it did succeed in connecting, that is, it showed me that its connected and the USB modem's indicator too indicated a connection. But i still could not surf the net (or ping any websites) Am i missing out something while configuring the connection. Could this be an issue with the DNS? The same modem is working fine for windoze on the same machine. Any help or your experiences in this regard are greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Regards kamal { LINUXERS http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers /}

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Announce: ILUG-BOM August 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Dear Prashant, On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Prashant Shah <elite.mumbai(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I will give talk on > > "Short introduction to GUI Programming with QT 4 (~ 1 Hr)" > > I will go first. Thanks for volunteering a talk. You are ON if the JavaScript talk does not materialize. Else, we will schedule your talk for Sep Meet. Is that OK with you? Once again thanks for volunteering. I hope others also starts coming forward to speak! With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Douglas William Jerrold - "The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon."

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