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ILUG BOM websites
by Roshan 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi all, A few questions....(If I have the permissions to ask ;) ) Q1. No new user is allowed to log in to wiki of ILUG BOM? (I wanted to, but there was no page for registration) (How can I create an account Q2. There were pages which had a list of names of certain members. I seem to have lost the link! :( ..Does anyone know whether it exists? Q3. Who is responsilbe for updating the ILUG-BOm website ? (Announcements, pictures etc..?) __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Display name in devnagari
by Ninad Bapat 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi In many posts I have seen names displayed in devnagari. How can this be done Thanks Ninad

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Why are you here?
by Mitul Limbani 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

> Doing it for the sake of addiction. > AbhiSawa This means you can work for Rs. 2000/month or even for free, in case you get constant heavy doze of the sys admin drug :) all day. We would be glad to speak with such individuals, we can provide them with constant heavy doze of sys admin drug :) Thanks & Regards, Mitul Limbani, Founder & CEO, Enterux Solutions, The Enterprise Linux Company (TM), www.enterux.com

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ILUG Site Problem
by Puneet Lakhina 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Hi.. I tried acessing the lug site at www.ilug-bom.org.in but i get a message that www.ilug-bom.org.in couldnt be found.. Does anybody else also have simliar problems with the this domain name.. I tried the other domain www.glug-bom.org that works fine.. but i think the photos are still under a subdomain of the old domain name db.ilug-bom.org.in As for the connection details, currently I am in delhi using an airtel(landline) 128 Kbps connection. I also tried on Internet Exploder but to no avail.. thanks -- Puneet

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Re: [OT] Why are you here?
by Roshan 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

> On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:05, Roshan wrote: > > However, I was told this before by Philips Sir, > and I have my lines > > wrapped at 72 characters. (PLAIN TEXT) > > I dont use my signature when I send emails to the > mailing list > > wasn't the following text a part of your message(s)? > > >_____________________________ > >If you don't know something, its always better to > learn it and then > >experiment with components! > > > >PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! > > > >Visit http://www.somaiya.edu > > > > The internet is the biggest Library, laboratory > and the Classroom > > independent of location but dependent on computer > with an internet > > connection! > > > >"Intentions are written with pencil. > >Commitments are carved on Stones!" - CLINT A. > D'SOUZA > > > >--------------------------------- This may have accompanied my message when I had not realized what size my signature is of!.. However, I apologize for causing an oversized email to the list _____________________________ If you don't know something, its always better to learn it and then experiment with components! PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! Visit http://www.somaiya.edu The internet is the biggest Library, laboratory and the Classroom independent of location but dependent on computer with an internet connection! "Intentions are written with pencil. Commitments are carved on Stones!" - CLINT A. D'SOUZA __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Overquoting and me toos - please stop
by Philip Tellis 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

People, when replying to mails, please take a little time to make your fellow luggers' lives a little less difficult. Refrain from overquoting and sending me-too mails. Overquoting happens when you include a very large number of lines from the original mail just to include one or two lines of your own at the bottom. Your lines will almost certainly get lost. It's better to delete everything that is irrelevant to your reply, including old signatures and headers. Me-too mails happen when you reply to a reply for the sole purpose of saying 'me-too'. Do this only in the case of a poll, and not in any other case. If you do it, make sure you do not overquote. Standard rules of top-posting, upside down quoting, and long lines also apply. If you're not sure what they mean, search the net. Thanks, Philip -- Any given program will expand to fill available memory.

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Re: ILUG Site Problem
by Roshan 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

> Hi.. > I tried acessing the lug site at > > www.ilug-bom.org.in > > > but i get a message that www.ilug-bom.org.in couldnt > be found.. Does anybody > else also have simliar problems with the this domain > name.. I tried the > other domain > www.glug-bom.org I did face this problem a few days back! > that works fine.. but i think the photos are still > under a subdomain of the > old domain name > > db.ilug-bom.org.in > > As for the connection details, currently I am in > delhi using an > airtel(landline) 128 Kbps connection. I also tried > on Internet Exploder but > to no avail.. > > thanks > -- > Puneet May be there would be redirection now...for the old domain name. __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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How to unsubscribe from this list?
by Mahesh Naik 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

how do i unsubscribe. The list is tooo noisy for my mail box.

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Re: [OT] Why are you here?
by Roshan 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Dinesh A. Joshi wrote: >Please set your lines to wrap at 72-76. And I would be glad if you could >probably reduce the size of your signature. I dont use email clients. I use Yahoo! Mail directly on my web browser. However, I was told this before by Philips Sir, and I have my lines wrapped at 72 characters. (PLAIN TEXT) I dont use my signature when I send emails to the mailing list --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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RIP M$office? Not yet but ....[OT]
by JTD 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

The NSW govt. is replacing MSoffice with Staroffice. "Sun Microsystems has scored a publicity coup ahead of the much-heralded arrival of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in Australia, with a NSW government minister announcing today Sun would replace Microsoft in providing an e-mail and calendar system across 1,500 users in the state Roads and Traffic Authority. The move represents one of the largest rollouts of non-Microsoft based software within the state government. " http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39151355,00.htm -- rgds jtd

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Differential backups with tar.
by Nadeem M. Khan 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi. I've been trying to get differential backups with tar. I've got it working nice and fine except for one problem. If a file is modified after the last full backup, it gets included in my differential backup, as it should. But my differential backup also includes directories that have not been modified since the last full backup. These directories get included as empty directories. The files in them (rightly) do not get included in the differential. To create a full backup I do: tar cvf /backups/full.tar /home To create a differential, I use the timestamp of the full backup archive as a reference: tar cvf /backups/diff.tar --newer="`date -r /backups/full.tar`" /home Works well, except for the directory inclusion part. Am I missing something? Regards, NMK.

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Re: [OT] Why are you here?
by Roshan 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

>i didnt say open source model of business is a failure. i said, if >tomorrow if the bad time comes, there will be some who will stick to >their low paying job and their will be others who still in love with >open source, but will choose a better paying job. and we need both >kind of people. the earlier one will keep the momentum going in the >bad times, and some from the later ones will emerge to support open >source on financial terms. a successful invention has to be >sustainable in technological as well as economical terms, to be >adapted by the society as whole. we not just talking about some geeks >here. I suppose this is one important 'unbiased' answer to the question. It is only power that would drive a computer and hence.....if there was no power no other components would function...even though the components are equally significant! _____________________________ If you don't know something, its always better to learn it and then experiment with components! PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! Visit http://www.somaiya.edu The internet is the biggest Library, laboratory and the Classroom independent of location but dependent on computer with an internet connection! "Intentions are written with pencil. Commitments are carved on Stones!" - CLINT A. D'SOUZA --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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big indian banks dont allow firefox
by Harshal 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

sorry guys, i know this had been discussed earlier, but cant seems to find in archive. i wanted to know where to blacklist sites those openly do not support Firefox. the one recently launched by an indian bank (IDBI) for online share trading, http://www.idbipaisabuilder.in/ gives out this ridiculous message when viewed in FireFox, Sorry. This site can be viewed only using Microsoft Internet Explorer ver. 5.x and there is one more web site by another big indian bank, icici, their general insurance site, http://www.icicilombard.com/app/Calculators/two-wheeler-calculator.asp and, http://onlinemanager.icicilombard.com/icici/netproducts/view_policy.asp?Pol… though they are not as arrogant as idbi, but the pages above simply dont load in firefox. any ideas how to make sure they hear us? writing to web master, i dont have many hopes, unless they are pressured from above (sometimes i wonder, how these web masters get jobs, i mean, should it be the first thing on his mind to use a standard HTML so that is can be viewed from any browser?)

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Problem in LTSP with RHEL 4
by neel s Gurjar 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Hi I could execute LTSP on SUSE 9.1 succesfully. But I am facing following problem in executing LTSP with RHEL 4. I have installed RHEL 4 and LTSP on server. I did all settings as per guide. And everything is running well. But when I start client It get DHCP server but it struck at TFTP and it Shows PXE...: ARP time out TFTP cannot open connetction and it exit PXE. What should I do ? Please reply Neel

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apache suexec problem
by प़मिला 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Dear All, here is my suexec log - tail /var/log/httpd/suexec.log cannot run as forbidden uid all that i got from google is my uid (89) is below minimum number allowed by suexec to execute CGI. and I hv to recompile apache to change minimum number is there any other workaround to do this other than recompilation Regards, Pramila

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Re: [OT] Why are you here?
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Interesting question. I think I would be doing it still. Monetarily Free Software itself is not as rewarding as proprietary stuff, but then is it not the love of it that we do it rather than 'other' reasons?

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] big indian banks dont allow firefox
by Venkatesh Hariharan 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

The subject line is too generic. To give credit where it is due, I use ICICI Bank's online facility and it works fine on Firefox. I also have an account with HDFC and cannot recall having any problems with it (though the last time I used it was many months ago). On the other hand, the site for the US Visa application really sucks on Firefox. Venky

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Re:[OT] Why are you here?
by Roshan 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

Philip Tellis wrote: > Out of curiosity, I'd like to know how many people on this list > work with computers because it's their job, and how many do it for > other reasons. If computer programming/sys admin was the worst > paying job in the industry, paying something like Rs 2000/- per > month, would you still do it? I decided about my career long ago and only chose to work with computers; it is a passion and also my ROI for future. If it was the worst paying job, I would have probably worked at different places (if possible :-/) to earn enough to suffice important needs! As a student, I work with computers because of other reasons. However, it will continue even later if the job would pay atleast the bare minimun _____________________________ If you don't know something, its always better to learn it and then experiment with components! PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! Visit http://www.somaiya.edu The internet is the biggest Library, laboratory and the Classroom independent of location but dependent on computer with an internet connection! "Intentions are written with pencil. Commitments are carved on Stones!" - CLINT A. D'SOUZA --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Debian Easter Egg
by benoy 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

Hi Friends Have you noticed "This APT has Super Cow Powers." in the last line of apt-get help. Then Yahoo uncle took me to http://www.eeggs.com/items/36008.html Try "apt-get moo" Is there any more like this in GNU world? Best regards /Benoy

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[OT - humor] An imaginary US Congressional hearing on free software ...
by Arun K. Khan 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180203976

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squid Authentication problem in fedora core 4
by Santosh Laxman Kyadari 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Hi ,This is santosh Here. I need small need from you expertise. I have configured squid-2.5.STABLE11-3.i386 for ncsa authentication.In the squid .conf I have configured like this. auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/sqpasswd acl tifr proxy_auth REQUIRED http_access allow tifr In the browser it asks for userd ID and Password. But it says page not found after that. In the access.log it says TCP_DENIED/407. In the cache.out it says Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE9 for i386-redhat-linux-gnu... 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Process ID 10509 2006/02/22 10:52:13| With 1024 file descriptors available 2006/02/22 10:52:13| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32793, FD 5 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Adding nameserver 158.144.1.28 from /etc/resolv.conf 2006/02/22 10:52:13| helperOpenServers: Starting 5 'ncsa_auth' processes 2006/02/22 10:52:13| WARNING: Cannot run '/usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth' process. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| WARNING: Cannot run '/usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth' process. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| WARNING: Cannot run '/usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth' process. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| WARNING: Cannot run '/usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth' process. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| WARNING: Cannot run '/usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth' process. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| User-Agent logging is disabled. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Referer logging is disabled. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 10 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Swap maxSize 102400 KB, estimated 7876 objects 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Target number of buckets: 393 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Using 8192 Store buckets 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Max Mem size: 8192 KB 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Max Swap size: 102400 KB 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Rebuilding storage in /var/spool/squid (CLEAN) 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Using Least Load store dir selection 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Loaded Icons. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Accepting HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 3128, FD 12. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 13. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| WCCP Disabled. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Ready to serve requests. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Done reading /var/spool/squid swaplog (47 entries) 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| 47 Entries scanned 2006/02/22 10:52:13| 0 Invalid entries. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| 0 With invalid flags. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| 47 Objects loaded. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| 0 Objects expired. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| 0 Objects cancelled. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| 0 Duplicate URLs purged. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Took 0.3 seconds ( 163.4 objects/sec). 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Beginning Validation Procedure 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Completed Validation Procedure 2006/02/22 10:52:13| Validated 47 Entries 2006/02/22 10:52:13| store_swap_size = 284k 2006/02/22 10:52:14| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects I have tried eaven with squid-2.5.STABLE9-7.i386. But stiil it is same problem. Same Configuration is working on debian. But it not working on Fedora for authencation. Can anybody please help me ????????????????????????????????? Regards, Santosh K

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maillog format
by Pramila 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Dear All, I want to know what "did_0+0+1/" and "did_1+1+0/" mean in maillog format beacuse one mail was delivered to user while another didnt. This is my maillog - Feb 21 21:02:32 mail qmail: 1140535952.461819 delivery 2292: success: did_0+0+1/ Feb 21 21:02:32 mail qmail: 1140535952.872148 delivery 2291: success: did_1+1+0/ I tried to google but really didnt get answer. Thankx in advance Regards, Pramila

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[Commercial] [JOB] Google Engineering Opportunity
by Dinesh Shah 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Hi GLUGers, I have received following request for posting this info for opportunities @ Google. If you are interested please directly contact Marshall. Google is looking for Unix/Linux Systems Administrators, with programming/scripting, and networking experience. Must be fluent in English. Position is located in Mountain View, CA, USA for those who are eligible to work in the United States. For applicant's who are not eligible to work in the United States, the position is also located at Google's European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Google provides relocation assistance. Anyone interested in opportunities at Google should send me an email (choim(a)google.com) with their current Resume (Curriculum Vitae). Feel free to forward this information to friends or colleagues who would be interested in this opportunity. Marshall Choi Google Recruiting Team (650) 253-4119 -- --Dinesh Shah :-) <Dinesh(a)ShahMicro.com> Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906

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Firefox Issue
by Puneet Lakhina 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

I went to this website www.campus-connect.com .. It didnt display the side bar .. which has about , participating companies, registration, pep exam details etc. when i moved my mouse over the text then only the the text was displayed. I checked out the javascript console in friefox and it had a lot of css errrors. Some of these are ] "text-overflow" property not recognised Selector expected ruleset ignored due to bad selector. the site works fine in IE. Is there a problm with my browser configuration or is it a fireofx and IE issue. my firefox version is 1.5.0.1 thanks. -- Puneet

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Device Drivers for the Linux Desktop
by Venkatesh Hariharan 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Am forwarding a mail that members of this GLUG may find useful. Venky In recent times the desktop is the focus for GNU/Linux Operating systems. This includes making the desktop experience 'just-work'. To make that happen, a large number of peripheral devices need to be enabled namely, printers (laser jets, dot matrix), scanners, web cameras, modems, biometric devices, smart cards and the like. https://sourceforge.net/projects/oss-drivers/ is a Red Hat initiated (and Red Hat sponsored) project which intends to be a repository of Open Source Drivers for peripheral devices which are popularly used with a modern desktop Linux Operating System. The project has started off with a small subset of peripheral devices but it requires more input in terms of which devices are important for the desktop experience. Details for the devices includes make/model/manufacturer name (and perhaps if a website URL is available) To put across the device requests, one might use the oss-drivers-devicerequests(a)lists.sourceforge.net mailing list or the forums (https://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=157095) or even the Feature Request Tracker (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=157095). If all of the methods fail then drop a mail to sankarshanm(a)users.sourceforge.net with [Device Request] in the subject line. The files for this project would be released under GPL (or compliant licenses). We also welcome developers who would like to contribute, test out, report bugs and sort of get into the thick of things. Regards Sankarshan sankarshanm(a)users.sourceforge.net

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XAMPP query...
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

I have set up XAMPP[1] (a distribution of Apache+PHP+MySQL+ProFTPD etc) via SSH on a server located outside. It doesn't give any errors on start-up, but images fail to load. Images are broken links. Help? FN PS: There's no error in the logs... [1] http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Frederick 'FN' Noronha | Yahoomssngr/Skype: fredericknoronha Saligao, Goa, India | fred(a)bytesforall.org Independent Journalist | +91(832)2409490 Cell 9822122436 ----------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] WOW! ILUG Meet!...I'll ...
by Roshan 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

> -> Agenda : Talk on Qt/KDE development During the ILUG meet, Mr. Shanker, suggested that we have a discussion on Desktop Enivronments! The one that I am suggesting might not be among favourites.... 1) Migrating from Windows to GNU/Linux (Can be presented over multiple sessions) Every ILUG meet could have say 2 websites that tell something about GNU/Linux (may be that's a form of advertising...but its definitely helping us to reach many!) I do have a list of them, but I'll have to make a file for that..(its in bookmarks) ------------------------ >BTW, please configure your mail client to wrap long lines at around >72-76 characters I dont use any mail client. I directly log on to yahoo mail and write emails. I have kept the default settings which limit the composing window width to 72 characters. If there is something else that I should do to avoid such problems in my future emails to the list, kindly let me know. _____________________________ If you don't know something, its always better to learn it and then experiment with components! PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! Visit http://www.somaiya.edu The internet is the biggest Library, laboratory and the Classroom independent of location but dependent on computer with an internet connection! "Intentions are written with pencil. Commitments are carved on Stones!" - CLINT A. D'SOUZA --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] A photo or image to be seen on thye bash shell
by ryan coelho 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Hi All, I have downloaded and tried installing fbi . Pls remember I want to only work from command line . However thanks guys for all this support. In the case of fbi it has some prerequisites. So pls help me to view a loving photo of mine on a bash shell (kidding for the expression loving but help) Thanks & Regards Ryan Coelho. On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 Ananth A wrote : >On 2/17/06, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Not sure about an image viewer, > > <snip> > > > > I've been using fbi without problems for some time now. Nice little > > program to view images from console provided you have framebuffer > > support. > >ive been using 'fbi' for quite some time and its pretty good. it even >converts unsupported formats if you have ImageMagik automatically. but >requires framebuffer though. > >one thing it lacks is a directory browser/image preview like zgv. >perhaps someone can write a patch ? :=) ( the preview is available >in the xfbi though but its quite ugly imo) > >Ananth > >-- >http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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WOW! ILUG Meet!...I'll ...
by Roshan 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Hi, (completing the subject line) I'll...try my best to attend all future meets of ILUG!...I was really impressed with the content discussed in the meet....and I know what I have really missed out in the previous meetings.... Firstly, Thanks to Meena Madam!...I thought DTP related work was native to application in windows...but LateX proves it wrong! Thanks (can't recall the name) for info on Redhat Certifications Some points that I can recall...told by Dr. Nagarjuna "LateX has been a bug free software for the past 20 years..(hope I got the number right)..." That's really great!... and EMACS..makes it really simple to use LateX!.... --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time.

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Postfix and ldap
by agencies_ad1＠sancharnet.in 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Hello, have configured postfix to query the ldap server to verify email addresses as follows: local_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases,ldap:ldap-usermap unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 450 The problem is if the ldap servers are unavailable postfix rejects all email without queuing for retry. Is it possible to configure postfix to defer delivery of any email when the ldap servers are offline. Thanks Regards, Komal ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using NWebmail, BSNL's Webmail Program

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A photo or image to be seen on thye bash shell
by ryan coelho 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Hi I have written a lot of shell scripts but have always wanted to see an image or put in a photo in one of my scripts . Honestly I have not looked for any such utility or rpm or package that will allow me to do this , but I ma now going to search for one , If anyone knows of this kind of feature for bash shell . Kindly let me know. Regards Ryan Coelho.

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Required html foo guys
by Philip Tellis 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Hi all, The lug list search engine is back online here: http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/search/linuxers We now need some html guys to make the template look more like http://www.ilug-bom.org.in/ You can grab the source files from http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/namazu-template/ Edit and send them to me. Try and make it valid semantic HTML. Philip -- Adapt. Enjoy. Survive.

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Querry about LTSP
by neel s Gurjar 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

hi I have installed Suse 9.1 on Server. I have one more PC with onboard Networking card with PXE. I have installed LTSP 4.1 on server. I have configured everything as per LTSP guide and NOVELL Cool Solutions Setting up LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) and SUSE Linux Enterprise 9 for PXE Support.htm but still I am getting error on client that PXE : Filename is not received... Now what exactly it is not getting ? What should I do ? Please reply Neel

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Free/open source alternatives for CAD softwares
by Jojumon Kavalan 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Hello, There was a query from the Mechanical Engg dept of a college in Tamil Nadu regarding the free/open source alternatives for following geometric modelling/CAD softwares. They would prefer to use free/open source softwares wherever possible for academic purpose. 1. I-DEAS 8.0 Master series 2. Unigraphics NX series 3. CATIA V5R15 Please let me know if you have come across good free/open source alternatives for above mentioned softwares. Thanks and regards, - Joju -- Jojumon Kavalan KBCS Division, CDAC (Formerly NCST) Rain tree marg, Sector - 7, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai - 400614. Ph: 022 27565303 Ext: 305; Fax: 022 27560004 Home page: http://staff.cdacmumbai.in/joju Alt E-mail: joju(a)cse.iitb.ac.in ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Jojumon Kavalan KBCS Division, CDAC (Formerly NCST) Rain tree marg, Sector - 7, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai - 400614. Ph: 022 27565303 Ext: 305; Fax: 022 27560004 Home page: http://staff.cdacmumbai.in/joju Alt E-mail: joju(a)cse.iitb.ac.in

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Anyone with Debian/Ubuntu AMD64 DVD
by Raj Shaz 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

Hi grp point-by-point: 1.Anyone with AMD64 DVD Debian<any> / Ubuntu <dapper-pref> 2.I have kinda big collection if anyone wantz lemme know. 3.Anybdy working on raw packet based <c/perl/python> based programming. bye

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Feb GLUG meet at HBCSE
by Anurag 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

Hello list members, As discussed a few weeks back, we'll be having the Feb GLUG meet at HBCSE this sunday. Date: Sunday, 19th Feb 2006 Time: 4:00 PM Venue: HBCSE, Mankhurd Reaching Venue: http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/Data/ObjectType/c/contact/viewObjectType Topics: 1) LaTeX document preparation system. 2) Professional Certifications. Everyone's invited to attend and benefit from the talks. Anurag -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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Net Monitor
by Rony Bill 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

Hello All, I was looking for a simple net monitor that provided the two monitor icons and gave visual indications of Tx/Rx traffic. My system, Kubuntu 5.10. For Kde, I found 'knemo'. I downloaded this and it now provides the two monitor icons indicating net traffic. When you run it for the first time, you need to add your net interface to the empty list. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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compilation error in cyrus-imapd-2.2.12
by subramani r 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

we tried to compile cyrus-imapd-2.2.12 with ldap and kerberos support. But it gives some error messages during compilation. we compiled with following options: ./configure --prefix=/usr/src/imapd --exec-prefix=/usr/src/imapd --with-auth=krb --with-ldap=/usr/src/ldap --with-krb=/usr/lib/heimdal-servers/ --with-krbdes=no --with-gss_impl=heimdal and We got the following error during make : In file included from mupdate.h:57, from mupdate-client.c:75: mupdate_err.h:20: warning: `struct et_list' declared inside parameter list mupdate_err.h:20: error: conflicting types for `initialize_mupd_error_table_r' mupdate_err.h:20: error: previous declaration of `initialize_mupd_error_table_r'In file included from mupdate-client.c:76: mupdate_err.h:20: warning: `struct et_list' declared inside parameter list mupdate_err.h:20: error: conflicting types for `initialize_mupd_error_table_r' mupdate_err.h:20: error: previous declaration of `initialize_mupd_error_table_r'make[1]: *** [mupdate-client.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12/imap' make: *** [all] Error 1 what may be the problem? thanks in advance r.subramani

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Problem while module programming in Debian sarge
by rakesh hazra 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Hi all, Can anybody tell me how to print hello world on kernel module loading in Debian GNU/Linux (sarge). As per the instruction mentioned in the book "Linux Device Driver",3rd edition, O'Relly publisher by author Rubiny, I tried to load module. But there are a lot of compilation errors concerning different header files. I failed to progress. Please help with details. Thanking you, linuxhazra(a)yahoo.co.in __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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mod_authz_ldap and ssl
by agencies_ad1＠sancharnet.in 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Hello, I am running RHEL4 ES and httpd comes with mod_authz_ldap. It seems there is no support for ssl in mod_authz_ldap but I can't believe that. However, I cannot see a single thing mentioned about ssl or certificates on the mod_authz_ldap homepage except client cert mapping. I neeed it to work over ldaps. Can you confirm that is does not support ldaps ? If i'm wrong, what directives can you use to point it to the cert file etc... I'm not using client certs. I just want to use ssl between httpd and the ldap box for authenticating users to webapps. Thanks Regards, Komal ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using NWebmail, BSNL's Webmail Program

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Invitation to the Open House at CDAC, Mumbai
by Naveen Kumar 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Dear Colleague, Invitation to the Open House at CDAC, Mumbai The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Mumbai (formerly known as National Centre for Software Technology) is a scientific society of the Department of Information Technology involved in Research and Development into the area of Software Technology. The current areas of R&D focus at the centre include Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, e-Learning, Network Security, Databases, Graphics, Localization and Open Source Software. Apart from R&D, the centre also undertakes development projects, conducts a variety of education/training programs and offers consultancy to industry. CDAC Mumbai is organising an OPEN HOUSE on the 18th of February 2006 at its Juhu campus where delegates can interact with our R&D staff and get a feel of the various research/development/educational activities in progress at the centre. This will broaden their exposure to the field of IT and pave way for closer interaction with CDAC Mumbai. There will be demonstrations of systems developed by us, presentations by some of the reseachers, etc. This is also an opportunity for people to get a feel of our research labs and know more about our educational programs. We invite you, your colleagues and your friends to the open house. Please find a poster about this event at: http://www.cdacmumbai.in/openhouse/2006/OpenHouse-Poster.jpg We request you to pass on this information to others and also publicise the event among your colleagues and friends. With warm regards, Naveen Kumar Project Engineer, Open Source Software Resource Centre, C-DAC Mumbai. Ph:- 09323738436

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Something this list should read...
by Mrugesh Karnik 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

This is for all those people involved in the recent flamewars, especially the "RTFM/Google" flamewars. Read this link that I've posted below, which points to the "KDM - KDE root problem" thread on the Gentoo-User mailing list. I think people should notice the obvious difference in the attitude of both the original poster, who's a newbie asking what may seem like a stupid question to the experienced users, and these very experienced users who are replying to him. Here's the link: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/153496 Mrugesh

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BEST Route Database
by Shekhar Krishnan 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

All: I have recently acquired the latest bus timetables, route information, and index of stop and location names from the transport planning wing of the BEST, which can be downloaded on http://freemap.in/data/best_transport in dbf format. If anyone in the community is interested in developing further applications with this database, please get in touch with me off list. In collaboration with BEST, a group of us are attempting to build a free (as in beer and speech) map-based transport information system, which will connect this route database to the Mumbai Free Map on http://mumbai.freemap.in -- we need volunteers with GPS devices to help us geo-reference the bus shelters and routes in their localities, as well as help in project development. I can be reached on this e-mail, or drop by #crit.org.in on irc.freenode.net. Best, S.K. -- Shekhar Krishnan CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust) B43, Shravasti Goregaon-Malad Link Road Malad (West), Mumbai 400064 India http://www.crit.org.in http://crit.org.in/members/shekhar

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Kmail, Gmail problem about seeing own's posts...
by Dinesh Joshi 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Hi, For those of you who are using Gmail with POP and Kmail and are unable to see their own replies, upgrade to KDE 3.4 or later. They seem to have fixed this issue. When I first started using Kmail with Gmail's POP servers, Kmail wouldn't fetch my own replies from Gmail's inbox. I could see my replies in the web interface but Kmail decided to ignore them. Recently I switched over to FC4 and the default Kmail client fetches my replies. Alas, this machine is still on FC2 and KDE 3.2 :( Just thought the list would like to know. ciao! -- Dinesh A. Joshi

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Sixth Annual Baramati Initiative on ICT and Development
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

[Would be great to have some GNU/Linux visibility here. -FN, Co-founder, BytesForAll] http://www.baramatiinitiatives.org/event_profile.htm Sixth Annual Baramati Initiative on ICT and Development Baramati, Maharashtra, India – March 9 - 11, 2006 Co-Organized by: Vidya Pratishthan's Institute of Information Technology & YES BANK The Potential of E-Agriculture This is the sixth in a series of conferences organized by Vidya Pratishthan's Institute of Technology (VIIT) in Baramati, Maharashtra, India. This year, the conference will focus on the use of Information and Communication Technology in Agriculture (e-Agriculture), exploring avenues through which governments, NGO's, development agencies and corporates can work to successfully promote e-agriculture to benefit the rural economy. Though over 65 percent of India's population resides in rural areas, with majority working in agriculture and allied areas, it contributes to a mere 23 percent of total GDP. Meanwhile, the services sector has raced ahead on the back of the phenomenal growth in the IT and ITES sectors,. The agents that funneled their growth - technology, information, and efficient processes - now need to be chanelised into the agriculture sector and assist India's remaining six fifty million to augment their earning power. Rural areas are predominately under-developed with poor infrastructure, electricity and roads and Indian farmers - like many of their counterparts across the world - are sustaining themselves on archaic methods and processes. To achieve a sustainable level of food production it is necessary that they have seamless access to: * Information on weather, production and cultivation techniques, seeds and fertilizers, plant nutrients and water usage * Funds and liability coverage through agri-finance and agri-insurance * Assistance from universities on new techniques (such as biotechnology) used to increase production yield * Market infrastructure like warehouses and Cold-chain management Thus, creative delivery of information and other resources to farmers becomes vital. E-agriculture aims to harness the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) to enhance the dissemination of vital information on agriculture to the rural population. Various agencies - including government, corporates and NGO's - have utilized ICT to implement innovate solutions and facilitate the access to knowledge. The Baramati Initiative seeks to synergize these learnings through presentations and panel discussions involving not only experts and practitioners from NGOs, corporations and government agencies, but also the grassroots partners , the ultimate beneficiaries. Panels include: * Innovative Practices showcasing the benefits of ICT for the Agriculture Sector * Role of ICT in facilitating Agri-Finance and Agri-Insurance * Research on use of ICT in Agriculture * Government and E-Agriculture: Government’s Support for E-Agriculture * Corporate experiences – Trade facilitation through ICT * The Power of Collaboration: Success stories * The Future of E-Agriculture and Critical success factors Further, the annual conference will continue to act as a platform for information exchange , exploring ways in which information and communication technology is being used as a tool to empower the poor. The event is a learning opportunity for participants allowing them to: * Interact directly with grassroots partners i.e. people who are using this technology, and to learn from them the difference that ICT has made a difference in their lives * Meet and interact with individuals and organizations that are financing these efforts * Learn about new trends via exhibits and demonstration booths The Baramati Concept The basic concept behind this event is to highlight the enormous potential of digital technologies and digital economy to help poor communities. Poverty-alleviation organizations, social entrepreneurs, government institutions, corporate enterprises and even uneducated, village entrepreneurs are continuously developing technological solutions to serve the often-overlooked customers at the bottom of the pyramid. These solutions are bringing the benefits of the digital age-increased access to markets, education, environmental information, and government services - to communities around the world. In so doing, they are helping to build the business, economic, and social cases for investing in systems and infrastructure needed to serve the poorest of the poor. Together, they are helping to empower hundreds and millions of the world's underprivileged to become agents of their own development. The purpose of Baramati initiative is to showcase how ICT is being employed to provide sustainable solutions to the needs of poor communities. The conference takes place in Baramati, a village located in rural Maharashtra where an ecosystem using ICT to aid the rural economy has been successfully created. This conference attracts over 150 participants each year with over 30-40 foreign participants. Over the last 5 years, the Baramati Initiative has become one of the key forums for people to exchange information on innovative efforts in the field of ICT and Development.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Error!!Kmail, Gmail problem about seeing own's posts...
by Tux user 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

On 2/14/06, Dinesh Joshi <dinesh.a.joshi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > *snip* > > Umm...gmail is freely available through online sign up. No need for > invitations any more ;) > > https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount > > -- > Dinesh A. Joshi > No my Dear Friend. The link which you have given points you to the same old link which is avaliable to create a google account and not a "Gmail" account :) Just read the following. http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=27440

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QT-based broadband dialer for Sify Broadband
by JTD 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

[002] - AntiDialer 0.0.1 by Siddhesh Poyarekar (http://freshmeat.net/users/theprogman/) Mon, Feb 13th 2006 17:46 Internet Utilities "About: AntiDialer is a QT-based broadband dialer for Sify Broadband users in India. It has features comparable to the Sify Windows dialer, such as password saving and autologin. Now Sify users no longer have to depend upon the old default dialer provided by Sify. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/antidialer/

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teaching spamassassin
by Kenneth Gonsalves 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

hi, recently installed spamassassin. Am running spamd as root and have configured it to work with postfix. I regularly put all the missed spam into a folder and run sa-learn on it. Only thing is, it doesnt seem to be learning. I have fed it over 500 mails so far - but still no learning. I am running sa-learn as root. Do i need to run it as any specific user? I have setup a separate user for postfix to call spamc as. Any clues? -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க!

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] teaching spamassassin
by Pramila 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

hi, recently installed spamassassin. Am running spamd as root and have configured it to work with postfix. I regularly put all the missed spam into a folder and run sa-learn on it. Only thing is, it doesnt seem to be learning. I have fed it over 500 mails so far - but still no learning. I am running sa-learn as root. Do i need to run it as any specific user? I have setup a separate user for postfix to call spamc as. Any clues? -- regards kg I am facing same problem with DSPAM. I have qmail with vpopmail and using mysql_drv as storage backend. created a spam and notspam account for a domain. any suggestions ? Regards, Pramila

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[Announce] OpenHouse 2006 at CDAC (earlier known as NCST)
by Vinayak Hegde 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Forwarding without prejudice. --> Vinayak H ------------------------------ Hi, We are organising an open house at CDAC Mumbai (NCST) on 18th Feb. During this we will be demonstrating a number of R&D projects that we are working on, along with presentations on the various divisions, courses, and a career advice desk. It will be a good opportunity for you and your friends to find out about advanced areas such as natural language processing and interact with people working in this area. Do visit us during the event, and also spread the word around to others who may be interested. You can find details at the site: http://www.cdacmumbai.in/openhouse/2006/ <http://www.cdacmumbai.in/openhouse/2006/> - Sasi ------------------------------

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RE: Know not what to say!
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

> When you subscribe to Yahoo or Hotmail, you create an account with them > and you knowingly use their computers. But if someone else offers you to > use its computers, they should have no business to know your account > details on the Yahoo/Hotmail computers. It is like using a banking > application created by a third party, to access your bank account. I dont care. That's not going to get me a pat on the back for my security consciousness, but I still trust meebo. If you do not, then good enough, but some people just might go for it. Its the degree of security and trust that matters.

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[commercials] Jobs-Linux Startup Company
by shamshu shaikh 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

Hi all, Mine is a StartUp company based on Linux Platform, i would like to have linux techies ( even freshers / free-lancers ) to be on board with me to achieve their as well as company goals in the best and fastest possible way.The company is based in bombay.You can post this mail in your group also and ask your friends to send in their resumes to me.Freshers with an attitude to work hard arealso welcome.People interested to join me can feel free to contact me at shamshu.s(a)gmail.com.Please send in your CV with contact details.The areas of work should be qmail,sendmail,apache,mysql,ldap,iptables,RPM's , PHP scripting , shell scripting

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Interesting.
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

It is indeed interesting to note how this list specializes in picking up a quarrel over some triviality.

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Net Telephony on Linux
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

Hi, I've been searching for a Net Telephony solution today and realized that none of the providers (atleast from the ones I found) provide a non-windows dialer. MTNL seemed to come closest with a browser based dialer. But there was a catch. The javascript of the browser based dialer seems to be IE specific; it doesn't work on Firefox and Konqueror. I also tried running all dialers (VSNL, MTNL, WorldPhone) with wine but with no success. I couldn't get past much of the VB runtime crap (esp. MS Forms 2.0) inspite of installing the runtime and manually downloading and registering individual dlls. Does anyone around here know of a cheap net telephony solution which can work on my linux system? Regards, Siddhesh

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[commercial] linux/computer books for sale.
by Akshay Salkar 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Dear All, I have some good books for sale. Discount for New books ranging from 20%-25% approx. off the normal price. Old Books at discount more than 40%-60% approx. off the normal price. BOOKS ON C AND C++ : 1) Write TSR's now - Ras - Rs. 75 2) Professional Linux Programming - Mathews - Rs. 410 - Wrox 3) Understanding Pointers in C - Kanetkar - Rs. 113 4) ObjectOriented Software Engineering - Haladay - Rs. 150 BRAND NEW: (Costs after Discount) 1) Teach yourself UML in 24 hours - Schmuler - Rs. 113 2) Java Software Solutions - Lewis - Rs. 260 3) Write TSR's now - Ras - Rs. 75 4) Problems in General Physics - Irodov - Rs. 113 5) Programming Perl 3/e - Wall - Rs. 450 6) Professional Linux Programming - Mathews - Rs. 410 - Wrox 7) Professional PHP - Wrox Edition - Rs.350 8) Apache Web Server - Rs. 120 SECOND HAND: (Costs after Discount) 1) Teach yourself HTML4 in 24 hours - Oliver/Holshwag - Rs. 80 - Techmedia 2) Mastering Foxpro 2.5 Special Edition - Siegel - Rs. 100 - BPB 3) ObjectOriented Software Engineering - Haladay - Rs. 150 4) Understanding Pointers in C - Kanetkar - Rs. 113 5) Using Linux - Gunter - Rs. 270 6) DNS & Bind - Liu - Rs.100 - Oreilly anybody wanting any of the above books plz. contact me at email : akshaysalkar(a)gmail.com or telephone on Mobile: 9821599801 akshay.

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[Commercial] Required Server/Web Administrator
by Hanisha Vaswani 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Hi, My company Pinstorm (www.pinstorm.com) requires someone with the following skills for the post of server/web administrator. 1) Database : MYSQL , Oracle 2) O/S: Linux RedHat , UNIX , Sun Solaris , Windows Servers 3) Configuration , Installation , Performance Tuning with the following: a) Database Servers b)Hardware / Software, Firewalls c)WebServers (Apache, Tomcat) d)MailServer (SendMail, QMail, Postfix) 4) LDAP / OpenLDAP, NFS, Terminal Services 5) Fetchmail, PostFix, VS-FTP, NTP, DHCP, DNS 6) Tools: SSH, TCP Wrappers, IPTables, IPChain 7) Perl & Shell Scripting / Bash Script 8) Backups 9) Patches/Updates - Antivirus 10)Handled Multiple Servers & More than 100 Pcs 11)Remote Logging in / Configuring / Troubleshooting If you fit the profile and are interested, or know someone who would be, please write to namrata(a)pinstorm.com or raj(a)pinstorm.com. Thanks, Hanisha __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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reinstalling grub
by Ninad Bapat 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Hi I have 2 hard drives installed and I have WinXP, Slackware,FC3 on hda1 and Ubuntu,Kanotix on hdb Recently Windows XP started giving some errors. For e.g whenever an application(Excel,firefox etc) was opened I got a popup message "Windows-Corrupt file C/WINDOWS/prefetch/xxxx.pf is corrupt and unreadable please run chkdsk" The application then would continue to run without any problems. Especially firefox always gave errors and all the files in profiles/mozilla went corrupt. I could not access my bookmarks and history. When I attempted to do chkdsk It complained that the File System is RAW and chkdsk does not support such filesystem. I tried to repair this XP installation by booting from the XP CD. Here also setup complained that C: is corrupt and cannot be repaired. So I tried to install XP again. Here when I select the option to install setup automatically selects my D drive (extended partition) and when I change it to C and select delete and proceed to install new it does not ask for any formatting option and gives the same error above. Now after all this exercise my Grub menu has been wiped off and now when I start my computer I get 2 options 1. Win XP professional 2. Win XP professional Setup. When I boot into Windows my display has become 640x480 and this cannot be changed. How do I restore Grub to atleast boot into Linux. Grub was installed when Ubuntu was installed Thanks Ninad

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networking help: Allowing inbound ssh requests. (MTNL router)
by Abhishek Daga 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

Hello folks, wondering if anyone has tried this and has worked for them? Need someone from the outside (remote location) to access a *nix machine here. Setup is: MTNL Triband (no static IP assigned to me.). Using Dlink DSL 502 router. LAN IP being 192.168.1.1. WAN IP is what the outsider would use to get in. Connected to Netgear Router. (WAN IP = 192.168.1.2, LAN IP = 192.168.0.1). Machines are connected to this netgear router as 192.168.0.X) Earlier when I had Tataindicom broadband with a static IP, the only configuration was required at the netgear router level where i did port forwarding of the service to the desired machine. The TATA router had a different interface and a bridge was enabled there. I do not see a similar option here with mtnl. I tried to allow under advanced--filters, inbound access to the router IP (192.168.1.2) since this is the one connected to the mtnl dsl router. It says ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by host. Telneting to same IP gets me to the mtnl router (linux box) with no worries. Is it possible to ssh to any machine of mine with the current setup? thanks! -abhi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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How can I access my memory card ?
by neel s Gurjar 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

Hi I have Nokia 6670 mobile. And I have installed Suse 10 on my pc. When I connect phone to my PC It detects it as modem. It doesnt show removable disk as windows shows ? What should I do ? Please Help Neel

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Help for Internet
by Dinesh J Dalvi 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

I'm using Novell Linux desktop and MTNL broadband Internet. Some sites are get open properly but very slow, while some site name does not get resolve at all. I put DNS entrie manually in resolve.conf but no use. If I dig the site and got the IP associated with site I can brows the site. Pls someone help me. DD

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Segmentation fault, wvdial
by Javed Rahman 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

i'm connecting to the internet with a reliance lg-lsp350r using wvdial.. there is no problem connecting to the internet but after a few hours it disconnects giving the error "Segmentation fault"... i tried in FC4 and in ubuntu 5.10... same thing is happening in both operating systems... however it is running smoothly on cluster knoppix 3.6... any suggestions as to how i can fix this???? -- javed...

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Know not what to say!
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

>> Remind me again, what are we arguing about? > Some one called Philip 'raving mad' which was *out of line* > to his valid post of not presenting your online acc info > to a random website on a platter. I stick to my comment, since I found Philip's reply sarcastic, illogical and uncalled-for. He has not yet been able to justify his position as to how the meebo guys are untrustworthy while Yahoo! and Hotmail are. Sure big brandname counts, but how much does it count is the issue? Its about to what degree you trust whom, and entirely a personal issue. Thank you, Debarshi

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Kernel Panic, Can't boot to rescue mode.
by Nadeem M Khan 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

Dear all, I' am getting a kernel panic: no init found on my RHEL AS 3 database server. This happened after the system was rebooted after UPS maintenance activity. I know the best solution would be to enter rescue mode and examine the files. But I have a strange problem. When I enter rescue mode and it attempts to mount /mnt/sysimage, instead of getting the shell, the screen gets distorted with error messages. The error lines do not appear one below the other but diagonally. Something like this: errorno 5: input/output error some binary characters you may safely reboot the system now. Also, when I try have a look at the partition labels with druid, it works okay till the manual/automatic disk partitioning screen. After that, it says "Cannot read partition table. The partition table needs to be recreated and all data will be lost". We have configured LVM on the system with four scsi disks. Ther server is IBM xseries 365. The sytem alarm LED is off. I googled for the whole of yesterday night , and also called a few experts, but their solution was all the same...rescue...chroot...fsck. etc. I know the system is more or less dead with a bad superblock, but has any of you experienced the distorted screen in rescue mode before? And yes, please don't ask me to RTFM because I've been doing that the whole night. Also, getting official support from RH would take time as these servers were shipped from Chennai. I am not inviting any flames here, I am not asking any of you to do my research as well. All I'm asking for are inputs from your experience. Thanks a lot. Regards NMK.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Know not what to say!
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

>> People have given me loads of 'gyan' on how to configure Gaim, Kopete >> and the like. Let me tell you friends, I have spent the better half >> of a year trying to configure them, I have tried the so-called normal >> easy settings. They do not work. I can not comment on people who >> claim to have got them working from behind a SQUID proxy, but in my >> case they do not work. The proxy blocks ports such as 5050 and 5222, >> which are directly used by Google Talk and Yahoo!, and since our >> sysadmin left its not possible to get them opened. At this point let >> me point out that my purpose was to make a post to help out others, >> and not seek help for myself. If you find it unacceptable, then very >> well, but do not spoil the fresh air. As one of the members have >> pointed out, I can do some hacking on Gaim by downloading its source >> code, etc.. I am already on my way my dear friend! And by the way I >> had tried contacting Google long time back but to no avail. I >> definitely find your patronosing attitude exteremely disgusting. But >> do you realise that there are scores of people who do not give a damn >> about hacking Gaim, who would love to use GNU/Linux if only they had >> an easy way to solve some of their problems. > Look. If those proxy settings dont work on Linux then nothing probably > will.... If they dont work then you need to use ethereal / tcpdump to understand > what the heck is going on. > Tough luck. Thats not the point my dear. I have already figured out the issue. I think I clearly mentioned it earlier. Moreover someone took the pain of pointing out how his CVS > If windows clients use HTTP proxy to get their messages through Squid then Linux > clients should as well. Thats exactly what I want to say. But its not feasible to hack through every problem that I encounter in GNU/Linux. I already spent a lot of time to find out a way to get my touchpad working flawlessly in Fedora Core 2. I agree with Kenneth's view that Linux is for everyone and not for the 'elite'. I do not know how you are going to meet the FSF India's goal of spreading Free Software to the masses (especially in rural areas), if you think otherwise. I would love to hear Dr. Nagarjuna's views on this. To strengthen my point regarding what Mark Shuttleworth was talking about that day, I can site the example of how Ubuntu has decided not to include the developer tools in their desktop seed. Doubting Thomases are invited to view the debate on this at the Ubuntu FAQ. The need to take GNU/Linux to the masses has been clearly and repeatedly stated. I love hacking, maybe more than what some people on this list do. But I do _not_ have the time to hack around every odd problem I encounter. Just switching over to Windoze would have a much simpler solution for many people in my position. However now that this whole discussion is becoming more an more of a flame war, I would want to desist from participating in it. The sole intention of my initial post was to help out people who have been encountering the same problem as myself, and not to beg for needless advice from so-called 'gyaani' people.

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Know not what to say!
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Infra, Energy) 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

>Remind me again, what are we arguing about? Some one called Philip 'raving mad' which was *out of line* to his valid post of not presenting your online acc info to a random website on a platter. and then detour to mailing-list-Wonderland, where posters play n blind-men and the elephant (any word/jargon)... except that here the elephant can't just sit on them and squish the spiral argument. - Gishu

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Know not what to say!
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Well I have had enough. I had made a simple post to help out the multitude of people who I know are not shifting or opting for GNU/Linux because of their IM problems. I am appalled to hear that people find my pompous attitude disgusting. Actually its me who should have been disgusted long ago. Its strange that people on this mailing list can not take some simple tips in a healthy way. People have given me loads of 'gyan' on how to configure Gaim, Kopete and the like. Let me tell you friends, I have spent the better half of a year trying to configure them, I have tried the so-called normal easy settings. They do not work. I can not comment on people who claim to have got them working from behind a SQUID proxy, but in my case they do not work. The proxy blocks ports such as 5050 and 5222, which are directly used by Google Talk and Yahoo!, and since our sysadmin left its not possible to get them opened. At this point let me point out that my purpose was to make a post to help out others, and not seek help for myself. If you find it unacceptable, then very well, but do not spoil the fresh air. As one of the members have pointed out, I can do some hacking on Gaim by downloading its source code, etc.. I am already on my way my dear friend! And by the way I had tried contacting Google long time back but to no avail. I definitely find your patronosing attitude exteremely disgusting. But do you realise that there are scores of people who do not give a damn about hacking Gaim, who would love to use GNU/Linux if only they had an easy way to solve some of their problems. Someone also pointed out that Mark had asked us to leave the WIndows users alone, and concentrate on new users. Interesting point, but can you tell me how you would keep the 'new' user 'glued' to GNU/Linux after they find that they can not use their favourite IM service from behind the proxy? Not everyone has the energy to scour the net and hack around to arrive at a solution. I have the time to do it, but hardly any one else has. So Mr. Philip, Mr. Joshi, and the others, if you can not stand some healthy tips, do not stand them, but do not spoil the atmosphere by your raves and rants!

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(no subject)
by Karia Amit 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Hi All, We Have added route by using route add <ip> <gateway> the added ip is in different network. Now the problem is we are able to ping the that ip but not able to traceroute the machine.. it shows multiple interface found. and if we use traceroute -i <ip> interface .. It drops the trace route packet.. remember WE ARE ABLE TO PING THE SERVER.. Both the machine are solaris machines.. Any ideas?? Rgds Amit "Courage is not to go on with strength, It is to go on knowing u dont have any strength" Rgds Amit

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ssh as root?
by Kenneth Gonsalves 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

hi, i have 10 websites on a particular server. Each site has its own user and is housed on the user's home directory. Currently, to maintain each site i ssh into it as that user and do the work. I also have to have root ssh'd in one terminal for restarting apache etc. This means keeping 11 terminals open and remembering which is which. Also when the net connection goes down i have to do a lot of work to relogin on each terminal. How safe would it be if i just used one terminal and su from root for each user as and when required. What are the best practices for such a setup? -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க!

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Re: How to IM from behind a SQUID proxy on a GNU/Linux box? Here is a solution...
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

> Heh, so if I start a website of my own, with pretty pictures and > colours, will you give me your IM passwords as well? I think Philip is raving mad! What prompted you to think that only meebo and not Yahoo!, Google or Microsoft will be having our IM passwords and sneaking into our privacy? By the way I will greatly appreciate it if Philip is able to come up with a solution to IMing from behind a proxy.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: How to IM from behind a SQUID proxy on a GNU/Linux box? Here is a solution...
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

>> I think Philip is raving mad! What prompted you to think that only >> meebo and not Yahoo!, Google or Microsoft will be having our IM >> passwords and sneaking into our privacy? > To be able to authenticate to Yahoo!, you need to know a username and > password from that service. You are not supposed to share that with > anyone else. > Meebo is effectively able to MITM your IM conversations. But thats not the point. Yahoo! may very well read every e-mail IM that I have ever sent. Who told you that the Yahoo! guys ae absolute saints not prone to mischief. Its a matter of trust. If you trust Yahoo!, very well, go forward and use its services. If you trust meebo then go ahead. If you do not then, very well again. But do not spread your mistrust, until you have very sound reasons to back your claims. Can you prove how Yahoo! is more trustable than meebo? >> By the way I will greatly appreciate it if Philip is able to come up >> with a solution to IMing from behind a proxy. > There is always Jabber. Plus, if you _do_ need IM from work, you should > be able to get a hole poked in the proxy. Alternatively, you could > always telecommute, or even get another job. Hahaha my dear friend, you have got it all wrong. I do not do a job, I study in an university where every other Windows IM client works. Yahoo! MEssenger, Google Talk, Rediff Bol, etc.. Therefore the university has no policy to block IM. But not a single UNIX based client works. Not even Gaim, Kopete, Yahoo! Messenger for UNIX. Needless to say that I have tried using Jabber on Gaim. The simple reason being that the Windows clients piggyback the IM packets on HTTP packets and use port 80 for their job, while the UNIX based ones do not. Hence the problem. Those who have attended Mark's talk on making GNU/Linux more desktop friendly, we have to work out solutions that work on Windoze and GNU/Linux equally well. So do not talk about stuff that require obscure hacking to make them work. I do not have any problem with them, but laymen do have problems doing so! For your kind information a lot of UNIX based utilities like CVS are very difficult to get to work from behind a proxy (in my case SQUID)! I expect an answer to my poblems...

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HELP !!! vsftp
by Sushant Gulati 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

hello all, i am in a major problem at present, i need help regarding an error "OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable anonymous root". Actually i hav to give a demonstration of my project and this ftp portion is a critical part of that. But the problem arises, when i uses ncftp for uploading a file to the ftp server. When i use ncftp command via a shell script, this errot pops up. Also wheni try connecting to the ftp through terminal by giving command ncftp or ftp, and try using any of the commands available within the ftp prompt, it gives an errot "not connected" tell me what my problem is and help me out. I have enable all the anonymous user related options in the vsftpd.conf file. KINDLY HELP ME OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Warm regards, Sushant __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Diskless Networking
by neel s Gurjar 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

Hi I have suse 10. & I want to do diskless networking. My server is P4 2.Ghz 256 MB RAM. And I have clients (which will be diskless) of P2 333 Mhz 32 to 64 MB RAM. I need GUI on clientside. How can i do it ? without using LTSP ? Please help me Neel

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how to change my yahoo id
by madina bikiteyeva 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

good day every body please advise me how to change my yahoo id thanks --------------------------------- Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses!

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OpenLX at Linux Asia
by Sudhir Gandotra 05 Feb '06

05 Feb '06

KalCulate & OpenLX Alliance Invites you to the Yearly Event on Linux Linux Asia 2006 8th, 9th & 10th February 2006 09 am till 6 pm (on all days) Stall No. A-12, India Habitat Center Lodhi Road, New Delhi Please consider this a personal invitation and do visit to encourage and bless us with your best wishes To all those who have been and are supporting us, having faith in us and making us stronger; To all those who opposed us & made us stronger; To all those who manipulated us & made us stronger; We are happy with what we have achieved, We feel stronger to achieve more & more, Our thanks to all, that we can have our own stall, at this prestigious event. Kalculate is being bundled by OEMs & has over 3000 users, OpenLX Linux is bundled by OEMs, 25,000+ copies distributed and being used in 30+ countries, with daily Downloads happening across the InterNet, and positive & encouraging reviews across the globe, OpenLX Alliance has partners in India, Mauritius, Middle-east, USA, UK and growing bigger. We are working to achieve our Global aims. We will be launching more products & services at the show. -- Peace, Force & Joy! Sudhir Gandotra. 98-101-20918 / 93-124-65666 OpenLX Linux OS, Linux Training, Support, Services, Product Development Legal.Software @ Fractional Cost : http://kalculate.com http://openlx.com - International Alliance of LINUX companies You don't need violence to shake the world Treat Others As You Would Have Them Treat You www.humanistmovement.org

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PPPOE keeps disconnecting
by Shekhar Sherikar 05 Feb '06

05 Feb '06

Hey people Will someone please help me out with this? I access the Internet via pppoe. I am using Fedora Core 3 and Win XP dual boot machine. Prior to FC3 (1 year), I had been using FC1 (1 year), Red Hat 8 (1 year). The connection is working fine with WinXP's (using default pppoe option in connect setup). The problem is with the connection and my Linux install - that the connection works fine for say, a minute ot so. Then though ppp0 shows to be up in ifconfig, ping <domain> (say, ping google.com) gives me "Host not Found" messege when I ping. Needless to say that my browser gives me the same error when I try to access a website. The funny thing is that previously resolved DNS (such as an on-going download) continues, but new queries do not resolve after a minute or so of the network start. When I restart the network using /etc/init.d/network restart, the same story repeats - DNS resolving fine for some time and then it doesn't work. I even tried using latest FC3 update of rp-pppoe, but things look the same. The most frustating thing is that things worked perfectly with the same connection since I got it in September till a week ago. Then my provider changed something that made the pppoe connection not connect at all. The guy kept telling me that my system had a 'virus' or 'bad sectors' and to re-install some 'ras-pppoe' for Windows. After I told the guy that I cannot connect despite threatened the provider that I'll throw out his connection along with the switch (which connect 1 more connection beyond mine), he sends his incompetant Windows guys who tell me all sorts of crap including boo-boo stories of viruses and what not. Eventually, I got them 4 lan cards and one more machine to test things on and had them admit that the only problem was with their server setup. Then a day later the incompetant guy at the server made some changes and now the connection works with Windows. But not with Linux. Since I mostly like to use Linux for everything, I am pretty depressed and frustrated. If anyone can help me with this issue, I'd be grateful.

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Create a custom GNU/Linux network install image
by प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A) 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

Hi, Built on LinuxCOE a powerful set of tools recently open sourced by Hewlett Packard, Instalinux makes installing Linux easier than ever. http://www.instalinux.com/ LinuxCOE http://linuxcoe.sourceforge.net/ News stories: http://linux.sys-con.com/read/176353.htm Almost the same - http://www.pclinuxonline.com/article.php?sid=10355 Cheers Praveen -- "GNU is the system, and Linux is the kernel." A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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centOS 4.2: Does anyone have it? south mumbai or otherwise?
by Abhishek Daga 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

Hi, Anyone has the CDs for CentOS 4.2? Could I borrow your copy and burn and return or if you can spare yours can I have them ? in return you can have the blanks and/or ? thanks! abhi ps: mail me direct with your number and I'll call you. *********************************************************************** According to the theory of aerodynamics, a bumble bee cannot fly. A bumble bee is not aware of this theory and so it decides to fly anyway. *********************************************************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Workshops for Awareness
by Roshan 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Kind Attn: Rony Sir I had made a request earlier for a Seminar on GNU/Linux and got a good response for the same. Novell India's Employee decided to conduct but due to some time constraints, it could go further. Recently, I read the minutes of the past meeting, and found that GLUG MUMBAI plans to conduct workshops for awareness. I study in S. K. Somaiya College of Arts, Science and Commerce pursuing Third Year BSc (I. T.). We have department of I.T. and Computer Science and a few students would be interested to know about GNU/Linux. Kindly inform me how does GLUG plans to go about this and what I am supposed to be doing and who to be in touch with. _____________________________ www.geocities.com/d_rosh2001 If there's anything that you want to ask about related to computers and information technology email me at any of the following addresses 1) d_rosh2001(a)yahoo.co.in I think I should be able to help you If you don't know something, its always better to learn it and then experiment with components! PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! Visit http://www.somaiya.edu The internet is the biggest Library, laboratory and the Classroom independent of location but dependent on computer with an internet connection! --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket

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How to IM from behind a SQUID proxy on a GNU/Linux box? Here is a solution...
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

How many times have we heard people complaining that its difficult to use IM services like Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, etc. on a GNU/Linux box, from behind a proxy? In fact, I asked the same question at the GLUG meeting held on 22 January. Well for those who are still scratching their heads in search of a solution, here are a few of them: 1. http://www.e-messenger.net: The worst of the lot. It allows you to IM through a web interface. As far as I recall, the chat room facility is still not available. 2. https://gtalkr.com: Its beauty is definitely unquestionable but beauty does come with its 'nakhra' (tantrums) as well. Flash player is required, and although its much quicker than the e-messenger, its not as fast as having the client on your machine. On Mozilla Firefox it keeps on asking to install Flash Player 8, even after downloading and installing it. :-( Moreover its only for Google Talk. 3. http://www.meebo.com: The most efficient of the lot. Although voice is absent on Google Talk, and the thing is still in the alpha stage, this is the best option in my opinion. So go on and convert those friends of yours (I have a few) who were complaining about IMing on GNU/Linux into the world of freedom. After all the best things in the world are free!

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Debian v/s CentOS & RAID 1
by Abhishek Daga 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Hi, Looking for some advice here especially practical ones faced. Situation: Have to start converting many servers (Rack mounted) from Rh 7.3 to either FreeBSD or Debian. Now someone did some name dropping and CentOS was added to the list. The machines will have hardware RAID level 1 and 250 GB Hard Drives and 3.0 Ghz processors and 1-2 GB RAM. The advice sought is, 1) Which OS to go for ofcourse keeping in mind that there can be compatibility issues with the hardware for RAID. Any combination (specific models) known to work without a hitch? I am leaning towards Debian assuming the freeBSD 5.4 may have greater compatibility issues with the hardware. Am I right? 2) Instead of 250 GB sata drives, should be have smaller drives? Or, in other words, does the 250 GB drive inhibit performance? 3) Idea about costs? thank you. *********************************************************************** According to the theory of aerodynamics, a bumble bee cannot fly. A bumble bee is not aware of this theory and so it decides to fly anyway. *********************************************************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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masking email addresses in mailman archives
by Kenneth Gonsalves 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

hi how do you mask email addresses in mailman archives as done for this list? -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க!

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Next LUG meeting?
by Philip Tellis 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

Sometime Today, A cobbled together some glyphs to say: > Please enable javascript in your browser. HBCSE site wont bite :) Its what about lynx users? Philip -- - "It could be a torture chamber or a dungeon or a hideous pit or anything!" - "It's just a student's bedroom, sergeant." - "You see?" (Men at Arms)

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Branded Servers that support Debian GNU/Linux
by Rishi 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

Hi Anyone knows of any Branded (HP/IBM/Dell etc.) Server that supports Debian GNU/Linux (Sarge) I need to order a server for a customer with the following specs or higher. CPU: P-IV RAM: 512 MB HDD: 160 GB I need the following to work. (a) 1024x768 Resolutin Display for X Windows (b) Network card for accessing the Network (c) Disk Controllers / Drives for accessing and partitioning the hard disk. Thanks Regards -- Rishi

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[Commercial] A Few Good Engineers
by Vinayak Hegde 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

We are looking for a few good engineers (developers and testers) at Akamai. Introduction: We are seeking skilled software engineers who are experienced, self-motivated and highly-productive to work on new and exciting products. In geek speak they should be able to help themselves and have good problem solving skills :). This is a unique opportunity to be part of the highly-dynamic and motivated Performance Analytics team and implement cutting-edge software that runs on the Akamai Global network. The Akamai Global network spans 1100+ networks in 69+ countries and is one of the largest distributed systems in the world. Almost all of the machines on this network run the GNU/Linux operating system. Common Requirements: * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field required. * 3+ years of C/C++ development experience. Proficient in scripting languages such as Perl, Python or Shell. * Must possess strong written and verbal communication skills. 1) Software Engineer (Development) Requirements: * Strong knowledge of Internet protocols, standards, and technologies, including TCP/IP, HTTP, RTSP, HTML, XML, and JavaScript. * Must be eager to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, team-oriented environment. * Knowledge of systems and network programming in GNU/Linux. * Strong knowlegde of Data Structures and Algorithms. 2) Testing Engineer Requirements: * Scripting knowledge of Perl/Python/TCL * Experience supporting testing activities for multiple applications/releases preferred * Strong attention to detail and excellent problem solving/troubleshooting skills required * Previous work experience and hands-on knowledge of HTTP, TCP/IP and Streaming * Working knowledge of using databases (Oracle/MySQL) * Experience with Apache and application servers like Tomcat preferred 3) Portal Engineer Requirements: * Experience with Perl 5 including HTML: Mason, SOAP::Lite, and DBI. * Experience with Java/J2EE including JSP, Struts and JDBC. * Experience with RDBMS (Oracle/MySQL a plus) including data modeling and SQL query tuning. * Experience with XML and SOAP (Web Services) interfaces. * Experience with web development in HTML, JavaScript, embedded scripting languages, and CSS. * Experience with Apache web proxy and Tomcat configuration a plus. * Understanding of Internet technologies especially HTTP content delivery and Streaming content delivery. Knowledge of Internet routing and TCP/IP a plus. If you think you fit the bill, mail your resumes to the following address. vinayak [dot] networking [at] gmail [dot] com Regards Vinayak H

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Qmail prob.
by Karia Amit 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

Hi All, Suppose i have changed my domain name from xyz.com to abc.com and still find few users sending mails in old domain, How would i configure my server to accept user mails from old domain as well, I know it can be done thru domaintable file in sendmail, But how about qmail? Rgds Amit "The More Arguments you win lesser friends You'll have" Rgds Amit

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MySql server on RHEL AS 3.
by Nadeem M. Khan 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

Dear all, When I try to start mysqld by service mysqld start, I get "mysqld: unrecognized service". I selected "Everything" during the RHEL installation, so all packaged must have been installed. When I do the same on RH9, mysqld starts successfully and I get the mysql shell. I also tried this on RHEL 4, but get the same error as on RHEL 3. I did a locate mysql and found lots of files containing "mysql", but nothing called "mysqld". Is there an issue with RHEL and the mysql server? Do I have to install it separately? Regards, NMK. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Never put off till run-time what you can do at compile-time. -- D. Gries

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Mouse help
by manish mallan 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

hi Thanks for your replies on "suggest motherboard". I bought MSI K8MM-V. its working fine under linux. But my GIGABYTE Optical Mouse (GK-6PB) is not working under linux. Its works under windows. My friend has DEXXA optical mouse, it works fine on linux on my system. But the gigabyte mouse behaves the same way on my friend's pc. I tried it on Kubuntu (breezy) and Knoppix 3.9. I would be grateful if somebody can suggest me a solution. Manish

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Need an App to run on Linux? Request it here!
by SeekingGyan 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/16646.html <snip> If you've got any critical applications that you MUST be able to use on Linux, please take a minute to let us know what they are. We'll monitor the submissions to see what the most popular requests are, and do what we can to nudge the vendors in that direction. Together, your voices will count for more than they would separately. Note: If you have more than one product to request, you'll need to fill out a separate submission form for each one. We may contact you via email for additional information if your request is particularly intriguing. </snip> Regards Harsh

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Experiment 3310
by Puneet Lakhina 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Hi, i have a sort of in barely in working condition nokia 3310 with me that I am not using. So i was thinking if i can perform any Linux related experiments on it like porting a bare minimum version of kernel on it. Selling it wont fetch anything that the experiment might teach me. So if u guys have any suggestion, criticisms (knowing the list, these will be a fare share ;-) ) please shoot them. And if anybody has a bit of spare time on weekends.. we can collaborate as i have no experience in stuff like device drivers and kernel hacking. thanks -- Puneet

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Next LUG meeting?
by Venkatesh Hariharan 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Anurag said: >Next meet is probably at HBCSE on 19th Feb. Keep in touch with the >list as venue/topics are discussed here itself. If members of this LUG are interested in certifications, I can check with the head of Learning Services at Red Hat to give a (non-salesy) overview of Red Hat's certifications and the new programs that are being launched. This can be a 30-40 minute interactive session. Venky

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Next LUG meeting?
by Krishna Kumar 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Hello everybody, Would anyone be able to let me know when the next LUG meetinmg, in Mumbai is, and where ? Thanks a lot, Regards, Krishna

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[OT] porting/developing an app for a set-top box
by Pankaj Dekate 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

Hi all, Anyone in the group has an idea of porting an app to a set-top box running OS-20 on STM chipset. Or if anyone has ported/developed an app for any set-top box would also suffice. 1)Basically I would like to have a general idea of the development environment used.the SDK's used? 2)How is an app loaded on the set-top box? 3) Are the SDK's available for linux/windows? 4) Is localization possible for such embedded apps? I tried googling for info on OS-20 and STM chipset but could not get hands on much info. With warm regards, Pankaj

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[OT] regarding porting an app to a set-top box
by Pankaj Dekate 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

Hi all, Anyone in the group has an idea of porting an app to a set-top box running OS-20 on STM chipset. Or if anyone has ported/developed an app for any set-top box would also suffice. 1)Basically I would like to have a general idea of the development environment used.the SDK's used? 2)How is an app loaded on the set-top box? 3) Are the SDK's available for linux/windows? 4) Is localization possible for such embedded apps? I tried googling for info on OS-20 and STM chipset but could not get hands on much info. With warm regards, Pankaj

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[OT} specifyin constraint in postgres
by Puneet Lakhina 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

i m using postgresql... i want one of my columns to reference diff tables and refernece them in or relation wat i mean is that for the column foo in table foo_table the values should come from column ref1 in table 1 orref 2 in table 2 and so on eg in foo_table id foo 1 123 (referneces table1) 2 124 (referneces table1) 3 223 (referneces table 2) table 1 id ref1 otherfields id01 123 kasdhfaks id02 124 asdkjasl table2 id ref2 02id01 223 so is there anyway i can specify these constraints i hope i was clear in the description... thanks -- Puneet

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Redirecting FTP
by Rajendra Rait 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

Hi Friends, I have a debian system with 2 NIC's one with a public ip and another with a private ip, also i have a domain which is been pointed to the public ip address of this debian system. What would happen is anyone on the net would ftp to the domain and reach this public IP. Now what i want is to divert all ftp traffic comming to this public ip to anoher machine with a private ip address. Someone said me that is possible through IPtables, but i don't know how to do it, i tried a lot but was not successfull, please if anyone is aware of this stuff, let me know. Regards, Rajendra Rait.

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CLI <> GUI Problem solved
by Rony Bill 29 Jan '06

29 Jan '06

Hello All, I was trying out a game (on M$) that did not work on my client's pc. Ininitally it had a display problem as my resol. was 1072 x 768. So I went to the BIOS and just for kicks, increased the display frame buffer from 1MB to 8MB for my on board video. That helped me in playing the game at high resol. Then I booted into Kubuntu 5.10 and I was able to shuttle back and forth between CLI ( ctrl+alt+F1) and GUI with ease and no hanging or eratic display problem as before. :) Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ NEW Yahoo! Cars - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars online! http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/

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wlan query linux box <-> zaurus
by Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. 29 Jan '06

29 Jan '06

Okay this is what I have: one linux box running FC4. eth0 connects to the net via a cable modem. This has a static IP address. eth1 is a SMC2802W wi-fi card working (I think :)) with ndiswrapper. This is what I have: [root@carbon ~]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:20:24:D3:9C inet addr:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Bcast:202.88.160.191 Mask:255.255.255.224 inet6 addr: fe80::213:20ff:fe24:d39c/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:22175 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1002 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2044288 (1.9 MiB) TX bytes:120283 (117.4 KiB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2555 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2555 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1829154 (1.7 MiB) TX bytes:1829154 (1.7 MiB) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:F7:06:AB:76 inet addr:192.168.129.202 Bcast:192.168.129.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::213:f7ff:fe06:ab76/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:11 Memory:ff8fe000-ff900000 I also have a Sharp Zaurus 5500 w/ Openzaurus 2.5.4rc1. I managed to get a SanDisk cf wi-fi card. I finally got the wi-fi card working with a little help from google. The light in the card goes blink-blink so I know its working. Now I want to connect my zaurus to my linux box over wi-fi. On the zaurus the wi-fi card has a ip of 192.168.129.203. I have tried to ping 192.168.129.202 (ip of eth1) fromthe zaurus but am unable to do so. Trying to ping the ip of the zaurus from the linux box gives an error saying detination host unreachable. The lights on the wi-fi card ligt up when I try to ping the zaurus. What do I need to do ? some pointers please. I can of course provide any more info required. regards, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer. taxidermist, n.: A man who mounts animals.

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bug in Nautilius ?
by Mohan Nayaka 29 Jan '06

29 Jan '06

I thought I'd confirm with seniors here before filing a new bug in Nautilius. I took a 8-sec avi format video in today's session by Mark S at IIT. I tried to check its size via right-click->Properties in File Browser. Result: The window closed & opened my home folder again. Notes: The file was in my home folder. I moved it to a subdir & tried same action. The result was the same i.e. a new file browser opened again with my home folder. I have opened the file under the other evil OS & hence it is not corrupted. The file is attached. Regards, Mohan S N

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OT Sending extra variables to a php script
by Francis 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

I spent the whole morning trying to figure out how to create an extra variable in a html page and sent it to a form processing php script . "<input type="text", name="firstname" size =" 34">" this creates a variable "firstname" which can be collected for processing in a php script as $_POST["firstname"] , but along with this say I also want to sent the text "this is coming for form 1" how do I do that . I just can't generate a text box and put the text in there and then sent it thats would be pretty stupidd ... So how do i generate a variable to hold this value in a webpage .. PLease helpp !!! Thanks in Advance ; Francis Pereira

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Suggest a motherboard
by manish mallan 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Hi i m planing to buy pc based on AMD 64. Can anybody of you suggest me which motherboard should i go for? i need one that is well supported in linux. the vendor has suggested MSI K8MM-V. Also there is an option for opteron with ASUS A8N-VM, which has nvidia 6100 graphics chipset. Please suggest me one which will work under linux flawlessly!! Thanks & regards Manish

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Software similar to MATLAB
by Saumyadeep Paul 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

hello everyone me and my friends are doing an Video and Image processing experiment for which unfortunately we'r having to use MATLAB for WINDOWS..We'd love to do the work on the LINUX platform but unfortunately we are not aware of softwares wich would give us the same degree of control and freedom on the Linux platform..we're aware of Matlab for Linux...considering cost issues we'd like to learn about a more viable option. Any suggestion and guidance will be of great help!!! Thank you

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[OT] Picture, Document preview
by Puneet Lakhina 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Hi, how is the preview for say a jpeg image or say a pdf document generated, say in nautilus or something. actually i have to write an application in java(the crappy programmer that I am :) ) that has to generate some document preview... thanks, -- Puneet

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Re: Suggest a motherboard
by Roshan 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

I dont know the complete name of the motherboard but most ASUS based motherboards would be better. But before buying, just find out the chipset and the distros supported from here http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showcat.php/cat/37 There have been some issues with the drivers for NVidia according to the above mentioned website, but most have been solved. _____________________________ www.geocities.com/d_rosh2001 If there's anything that you want to ask about related to computers and information technology email me at any of the following addresses 1) d_rosh2001(a)yahoo.co.in I think I should be able to help you If you don't know something, its always better to learn it and then experiment with components! PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! Visit http://www.somaiya.edu Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

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Want to setup a Secure Lan for Univ network
by Rohan Poojary 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Hi Friends, I am a graduate level Environmental engineer, We at our modeling group are planning to establish our own network. My Lab description . 2 Clusters with 7 nodes, 10 linux machine , 3 windows machine. 2 printers and 2x300TB storage device. Our problem is secure our network from intrustion from external network ( we have exp it ). I need a model that will be able achive this goal. I am planning to setup one Linux machine to act as router between the college network and our network . I also want to install DHCP server, FTP Server (for some external organisaton to access data ). Kindly help me to get a prefect model for our network as we process and genrate gigs of data in our center . eagerly awatiing for ur replies thanx in advance Rohan Poojary Air Quailty Modeling Center Lamar University TX, USA

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[OT][INFO] HUAWEI SmartAX MT882 Manual
by Rony Bill 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Hello All, I came across this interesting page having some pdfs on the HUAWEI SmartAX MT882 ADSL modem used by BSNL's Dataone service. http://my.opera.com/boxopen/blog/show.dml/55566 The file, http://my.opera.com/boxopen/homes/blog/SmartAX_MT882_V200R002C01B021_User_M… has instructions for Linux too. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ NEW Yahoo! Cars - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars online! http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/

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loksatta invitation
by Kenneth Gonsalves 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

did anyone else on this list receive an invitation to join a loksatta group? wondering whether to complain to yahoo -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க!

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[COMMERCIAL] 6/12 mths exp Java Swinger. Eclipse/SWT preferred. JSP+linux a plus.
by Abhishek Daga 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

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creation of smbk5pwd.so
by Praveen Krishnamoorthy 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

when i compiled openldap for the first time with some options and with all overlays (i need smbk5pwd an overlay for passwd syncing) i got a file by name smbk5pwd.c with which i again made a make and got smbk5pwd.la & smbk5pwd.so.but due to other needed dependencies i made a make clean and again made a compilation of openldap and i got the smbk5pwd.c & when i made a make i could receive only the smbk5pwd.la.what could be the problem? --PraveenKrish-- Read my Blog at http://praveenkrish.blogspot.com

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wlan query linux box <-> zaurus
by Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

Okay this is what I have: one linux box running FC4. eth0 connects to the net via a cable modem. This has a static IP address. eth1 is a SMC2802W wi-fi card working (I think :)) with ndiswrapper. This is what I have: [root@carbon ~]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:20:24:D3:9C inet addr:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Bcast:202.88.160.191 Mask:255.255.255.224 inet6 addr: fe80::213:20ff:fe24:d39c/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:22175 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1002 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2044288 (1.9 MiB) TX bytes:120283 (117.4 KiB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2555 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2555 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1829154 (1.7 MiB) TX bytes:1829154 (1.7 MiB) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:F7:06:AB:76 inet addr:192.168.129.202 Bcast:192.168.129.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::213:f7ff:fe06:ab76/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:11 Memory:ff8fe000-ff900000 I also have a Sharp Zaurus 5500 w/ Openzaurus 2.5.4rc1. I managed to get a SanDisk cf wi-fi card. I finally got the wi-fi card working with a little help from google. The light in the card goes blink-blink so I know its working. Now I want to connect my zaurus to my linux box over wi-fi. On the zaurus the wi-fi card has a ip of 192.168.129.203. I have tried to ping 192.168.129.202 (ip of eth1) fromthe zaurus but am unable to do so. Trying to ping the ip of the zaurus from the linux box gives an error saying detination host unreachable. The lights on the wi-fi card ligt up when I try to ping the zaurus. What do I need to do ? some pointers please. I can of course provide any more info required. regards, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer. taxidermist, n.: A man who mounts animals.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Redirecting FTP
by Rajendra Rait 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

I tried the below commands, no luck. iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d 195.50.101.11 -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport > 21 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.143:21 > > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d 195.50.101.11 -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp > --dport 20 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.143:20 > > iptables -A PREROUTING -d 195.50.101.11 -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport > 60000:65535 -j DNAT --to 192.168.0.143 > > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d 192.168.0.143 -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp > --dport 21 -j DNAT --to-destination 195.50.101.11:21 Rajendra Rait.

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Webcam hangs system
by Saumyadeep Paul 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

hello everyone i have a Logitech QuickCam Express(USB) webcam and my system runs on UBUNTU 5.10, i've downloaded and installed the drivers and the required s/w with Synaptic, but the problem is whenever i try to access the webcam the system just hangs not just the xserver. Is there a out of this problem?

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Linux Asia, New Delhi
by Sanket Medhi 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

Me and a couple of friends are planning to attend the 3-day LinuxAsia conference and expo in New Delhi. Are there any more people on the LUG who are planning to go? If yes, we can prolly go together for the same. We can keep this thread for those who are planning to attend the summit. Those who are not interested better stay away! :P -- Regards, Sanket Medhi.

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Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu will address the Mumbai ILUG on 22nd Jan at 2PM
by Venkatesh Hariharan 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

This is a quick heads-up to the ILUG-BOM group. Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu will address the Mumbai ILUG on 22nd Jan at 2PM. The venue is most likely to be IIT Bombay. Will keep you updated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Linux Venky

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bug in nautilius ?
by Mohan Nayaka 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

I thought I'd confirm with seniors here before filing a new bug in Nautilius. I took a 8-sec avi format video in today's session by Mark S at IIT. I tried to check its size via right-click->Properties in File Browser. Result: The window closed & opened my home folder again. Notes: The file was in my home folder. I moved it to a subdir & tried same action. The result was the same i.e. a new file browser opened again with my home folder. I have opened the file under the other evil OS & hence it is not corrupted. The file is attached. Regards, Mohan S N

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LinuxAsia 2006: Hurry! Get your Technology One-Day Pass for Rs 149 ONLY!
by LinuxAsia Tux 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

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[COMMERCIAL] ETDC courses... in Goa, India
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Electronic Test & Development Centre, Goa announces software/IT courses: Linux Sysadmin (consists of Linux Administration modules for professionals). Pre-requisite: Knowledge of Linux installation commands, KDE and GNOME Desktops. Course dates 30 Jan - 2 Feb. Course fee: Rs 4500 + Rs 459 service tax per participant Information Security Management Systems Framework and Implementation ISO/IEC 17799 2000/ISO 27001 : 2005 Course date: 13-14 Feb 2005 Course fee Rs 4500 + Rs 459 service tax per particpant Linux Resource & Security Management Pre-requisite: Must have attended ETDC's Linux Sysadmin Course date: 15-17 FEb 2005 Course fee Rs 3500 + Rs 357 service tax per participant Group discount 10% for three or more participants. Venue: ETDC Conference Hall. Timing 10-17 hrs Further details: OIC (Computer) / OIC (Training) Director / PA to Director Electronics Test & Development Centre GMC NIO Road, PO Goa University Goa 403206 Phone 0832.245 8680-83 Telefax (0832) 245 9784 Email etdc_goa(a)sancharnet.in Payment: Course fees: DD in favour of "Pay & Accounts Officer, Dept of Information Technology" Payable at New Delhi Service Tax: DD in favour of sBI Treasury Branch Service Tax a/c payable at Panjim. Note: For outstation candidates, economical staying arrangements can be made on request.

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Nmap
by Puneet Lakhina 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Hi i use internet from behind a proxy server. I want to use nmap to scan some external hosts but iam not able to do that. It resolves the ip address but fails to access them reporting that the host may be down. I tried pinging the hosts but that also doesnt work My env variable has the followinf format http_proxy=username:secret@proxy.com:80 is it because my proxy is blocking icmp packets.. is there someway i can verify that?? thanks -- Puneet

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Announcing the first Fedora User and Developer Conference (FUDCon) in India!
by LinuxAsia Tux 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

LinuxAsia is proud to announce the first ever FUDCon in India on February 9, 2006 in New Delhi. Highlights of the full day programme include: * All about Fedora - Greg DeKoenigsberg, Community Manager, Fedora * Fedora Desktop Roadmap - Chris Blizzard, Fedora * How to contribute to Fedora - Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay * L10n from a Developer's Perspective - Ramakrishna Reddy * Desktop Gaps: Device Drivers, Usability and Testing - Chris Blizzard * Enabling Devices - Satish Mohan * Bug Zapping: Testing and Triaging - Rahul Sundaram * Community and Contributions BoF (Birds-of-a-Feather) meeting INCREDIBLE OFFER: Technology One-Day Pass for Rs 149 ONLY! ********************************************************** For a LIMITED TIME ONLY, register with a 'Technology One-Day Pass' for the INCREDIBLY LOW PRICE of Rs 149. Don't miss out on this offer. RESERVE YOUR SEAT at FUDCon TODAY! REGISTER at http://www.linuxasia.net/register/attendee See you at LinuxAsia! ************************************** LinuxAsia Conference & Expo 2006 February 8-10, 2006 | New Delhi, India http://www.linuxasia.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Mark Shuttleworth meets the lug
by Philip Tellis 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Mark Shuttleworth met with the Bangalore linux users group today. It was a great meet with over 150 people. He spoke about Ubuntu, and how they work with developers, about source control at a distribution level rather than at a project level, and also on his trip to space. Don't miss the meet at IIT. Philip -- Han Solo: Chewie and I will check it out, you two stay here. Luke Skywalker: Quietly. There may be more of them out there. Han Solo: Hey, it's me.

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Help, IF U COULD (Internet Sharing)
by s paul 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

hello linux fans, i have a linux machine with redHat 9 installed with squid proxy working as SERVER and the CLIENT linux machines use this proxy server to connect to internet. But i would like the CLIENT machines to directly connect to Internet without any proxy settings in web -browser. i used the command netconfig and gave the following. gateway : Servers loacal ip DNS server : ISP's dns server ip but after all these settings, i was not able to connect to internet please HELP, if u could. bi s paul

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[OT] PPPoE login failure - DLink 502t TriBand modem
by Arun K. Khan 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

I have a small "expect" script to login in to the modem and reboot the unit @ 08:00 and 00:00 hours. This was working fine up until a few weeks ago. Now, after a reboot (thru the expect script) the unit is unable to login to the MTNL network. The following log shows PPPoE login failure: <log-failure> Jan 1 12:00:25> Connecting PPPoE socket: 00:90:1a:41:78:b6 6b0b nas0 0x1000d378 Jan 1 12:00:25> Connect: ppp0 {--} nas0 Jan 1 12:00:25> PAP authentication failed Jan 1 12:00:25> Connection terminated. Jan 1 12:00:25> Doing disconnect Jan 1 12:00:29> pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Jan 1 12:00:29> Unexpected packet: Ether addr: 00:90:1a:41:78:b6 (PPPOE Discovery) PPPoE hdr: ver=0x1 type=0x1 code=0x07 sid=0x0000 length=0x002d (PADO) PPPoE tag: type=0102 length=0009 (AC Name) data (UTF-8): BRAS-PRBD PPPoE tag: type=0103 length=000 Jan 1 12:00:29> Got connection: f10d Jan 1 12:00:29> Saved Session ID: 0 Jan 1 12:00:29> Connecting PPPoE socket: 00:90:1a:41:77:c7 f10d nas0 0x1000d378 Jan 1 12:00:29> Connect: ppp0 {--} nas0 Jan 1 12:00:29> PAP authentication failed Jan 1 12:00:29> Connection terminated. Jan 1 12:00:29> Doing disconnect ... above repetition snipped ... </log-failure> However, if I **power cycle** the modem, most times it is able to login (PPPoE) successfully in to the MTNL network. The log for a successful login starts off a little differently (the first line of the log). <log-success> Jan 1 12:00:12> Valid Configuration Tree Jan 1 12:00:12> DSL Polling Timer Started succesfully. Jan 1 12:00:12> Firewall NAT service started Jan 1 12:00:16> starting on port 80 Jan 1 12:00:16> Bridge Created: br0 Jan 1 12:00:16> No Module Description from Interface Below Jan 1 12:00:17> Bridge Interface Added: eth0 Jan 1 12:00:18> Bridge Interface Added: usb0 Jan 1 12:00:18> Bridge Interface Added: nas1 Jan 1 12:00:18> Add Bridge Iface Error: 1 Jan 1 12:00:18> Duplicate Bridge Iface: nas1 Jan 1 12:00:22> DSL Carrier is up Jan 1 12:00:23> pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Jan 1 12:00:23> Unexpected packet: Ether addr: 00:90:1a:41:78:b6 (PPPOE Discovery) PPPoE hdr: ver=0x1 type=0x1 code=0x07 sid=0x0000 length=0x002d (PADO) PPPoE tag: type=0102 length=0009 (AC Name) data (UTF-8): BRAS-PRBD PPPoE tag: type=0103 length=000 Jan 1 12:00:23> Got connection: fb09 Jan 1 12:00:23> Saved Session ID: 0 Jan 1 12:00:23> Connecting PPPoE socket: 00:90:1a:41:77:c7 fb09 nas0 0x1000d378 Jan 1 12:00:23> Connect: ppp0 {--} nas0 Jan 1 12:00:24> WAN IP address 59.183.23.230 Jan 1 12:00:24> PPPoE Connect with IP Address 59.183.23.230 Jan 1 12:00:24> PPPoE Connection Successfully Established Jan 1 12:00:24> PPPoE Connect with Gateway IP Address: 59.183.63.254 Jan 1 12:00:24> WAN gateway 59.183.63.254 Jan 1 12:00:24> primary DNS address 203.94.227.70 Jan 1 12:00:24> secondary DNS address 203.94.243.70 </log-success> Occasionally, even power cycle does not work. I keep getting PPPoE login failure. In such case, I have had to open a trouble ticket and typically within 12-18 hours the unit is able to login successfully. Not sure if MTNL really did something or the problem auto corrected itself :( In both scenarios, the web interface "Status>ADSL" does display the "Line State" as connected. I first reset the unit to factory settings and reprogrammed my custom settings. That did not help. Then I reflashed the firmware on the unit and reprogrammed my custom settings - no help. I am wondering if I have a flaky modem and how to prove it. Talking to MTNL is of no help. According to them, if all the LEDs are on then my modem is good. Any pointers as to what could be wrong would be highly appreciated. TIA, -- Arun Khan Linux is like a wigwam - no gates, no windows, apache inside

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Which Driver for SMC2635W??
by Linux Rocks 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

Hello all: I am having difficulties trying to get the right driver for the SMC2635W wireless card. I've done some searches in google but can't get to the right driver for this card. Some results say the card has a ADMtek chipset which uses the ADM8211 driver; others say is another (can't remember). Can someone please guide me to where I can get the correct driver. I tried downloading the ADM driver but it sends me a website where I cannot download it. I'm running Debian sarge and 2.6.15 kernel. Thanks in advance for your help. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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driver for hp 1020
by Advait Raut 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

hi is there any driver for hp laser jet 1020. coz on site there is no driver support for Linux. so i tried an third party driver it worked but was unable to print on the page. -- Regards Advait Raut

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A journo in Mumbai...
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

Can someone help my journalist friend in Mumbai. Since Dionne writes a lot about alternatives, it would also help if able to use an alternative operating system! Thanks in advance, guys... FN > From: > Dionne Bunsha > <dionne11(a)rediffmail.com> > Reply-To: > Dionne Bunsha > <dionne11(a)rediffmail.com> > To: > fred(a)bytesforall.org > Subject: > linux > Date: > 21 Jan 2006 06:30:26 -0000 (12:00 > IST) > > > hi fred, > hope you are well.. > i just wanted to ask you something.... > i want to switch to linux but everybody is discouraging me because > they say it that you have to learn it and also there are not many > engineers who know about linux in case you face any problem. is that > true? do you know ordinary people in mumbai (who are not so tech > savvy) who are using linux? > thanks, > d

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reliance air card
by Kenneth Gonsalves 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

any one got a reliance aircard working with linux? -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க!

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installing pen drive driver on redhat enterprise
by Balwinder Arora 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

hi guys i have a pen drive, driver cd i m unable to install the linux version of the driver any comments, driver download links.. send ur suggestions warm regards.. Balwinder.

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Regarding: Mark Shuttleworth Lecture Details
by Puneet Lakhina 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

hi , i was just going through the schedule http://www.techfest.org/schedule.phpof IIT Bombay techfest and it mentions that lecture by Mark Shuttleworth is on Days of the fest i.e. 21st at 11 AM. I think this is a separate arrangement than the address to GLUG on 22nd, so if anybody can just confirm this I think it wil just sort things out. BTW there are some other pretty interesting speakers at IIT B this time so in case any of u intrested http://www.techfest.org/lecture_series/index.php -- Puneet

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Does NVIDIA 128 MB RAM (Pine) AGP Card support 1280x1024 and play mpeg videos in X windows?
by Rishi 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Hi I have a VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 86C326 5598/6326 (rev 0b) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) But I'm unable to play mpeg videos in 1280x1027 resolution. I need to change to 1024x768 resolution and then I am able to play videos I posted a message on the SiS forum here to get some help. http://www.winischhofer.at/sisforum/viewtopic.php?t=175 However, I'm assuming that it may not be possible. So therefore I wanted to know if I buy this video card: Pine, 128 MB NVIDIA AGP Card, FX model, that it would work on my Debian Sarge system - meaning get high resolution and play mpeg videos? Thanks Regards -- Rishi

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Screen Goes Black after running X
by Linux Rocks 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Hello Everyone; I have a problem running Debian on a Acer TravelMate 260 laptop: The system boots up and I can login in the command prompt and change to different screens (ctrl-alt-f1 to f7). But, Once I startx I CANNOT change screens. I know I can "kill" X by pressing ctrl-alt-backspace but when I do this the monitor just goes black and I cannot do anything else. The only choice I have here is to ctrl alt del and restart the system. I've done some searches in google but no help. I am running: kernel 2.6.15 on a Acer TravelMate 260 Laptop; 1Ghz over 200 Meg of ram Debian 3.0 Thanks in advance for your help. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re:Re: [ILUG-BOM] QT Problem
by BIJU KRISHNAN 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Hi, Thanks for responding. Do you have the rpms available for the packages you have mentioned. I presume the packages installed on my system provide the required libraries. I'am now trying to scan through the configure file to get a workaround. [root@bastion /]# rpm -qa | grep qt qt-3.1.2-13 qt-devel-3.1.2-13 [root@bastion /]# cd /usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib/ [root@bastion lib]# ls libdesigner.a libqt-mt.so.3 libqt.so.3 libqui.so.1 libeditor.a libqt-mt.so.3.1 libqt.so.3.1 libqui.so.1.0 libqassistantclient.a libqt-mt.so.3.1.2 libqt.so.3.1.2 libqui.so.1.0.0 libqt-mt.so libqt.so libqui.so Regards Biju --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP.

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mplayer from java
by Puneet Lakhina 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Hi all, i am sorry if you dont think this is relevant to the list... but i thought i could get help here... I have a java application from which i am tryin to execute mplayer... Runtime.getRuntime.exec("mplyaer -fs myfile.mpg"); when i do this i get full screen window of mplayer but the actual video is just a small square at the centre whereas if i execute the command directly from command line it works fine!! if uv got any clues plz tell me... -- Puneet

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QT Problem
by BIJU KRISHNAN 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Hi Luggers, I have kinda hit the roadblock trying to compile quickdc, a direct connect client. The ./configure ends with this error. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If I --disable-mt it ends with (library qt) not found. Being quite used to this mess of qt, I have done the following. 1. ln -s /usr/lib/qt-3.1/ /usr/lib/qt3 ## Created a symlink 2. Ran configure with the ./configure --with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib/qt-3.1 Gives the same error. Some inputs [root@bastion quickdc-kde-0.1.0]# rpm -qa | grep qt qt-3.1.2-13 qt-devel-3.1.2-13 [root@bastion quickdc-kde-0.1.0]# cat /etc/ld.so.conf /usr/kerberos/lib /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib /usr/lib/sane /usr/lib/mysql /usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib Regards PP BIJU KRISHNAN --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever.

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Configure Tomcat with apache
by Karia Amit 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Hi all, Can any one let me know how to configure tomcat with apache.. i have tomcat 5.5 and apache 2.4 , also need to implement openssl along with that Rgds Amit "The More Arguments you win lesser friends You'll have" Rgds Amit

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[OT] ARP Layer 2 or 3 ?
by Shahed Moolji 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

For all you networking gurus :- Is ARP considered to be a layer 2 or layer 3 protocol ? I googled, but I cant still seem to get a proper answer. Although I tend to agree that its a L3 protocol, it does not encapsulate a L3PDU on to the Data Link Layer, as its messages are put directly in the data part of the L2 frame. Or is it best defined as a L3 protocol without any header ? Thanks Shahed

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[Commercial] Required Sr. System Administrator
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Hi guys, This vacancy is for Orios Ltd. Those interested may submit their updated Resumes with salary expectations and notice period to zeligsolutions(a)gmail.com. Regards, Siddhesh Job Title: Sr. System Administrator Location : Mumbai Qualification: * An Engineering Graduate from the I.T. stream. OR A Graduate / Masters degree holder with post graduation qualifications in software development with work experience in the day to day management of tech team members * RHCE certifications a distinct advantage. Age: 28+ years Experience: * Should have worked of a reputed IT company for more than 4 years. * Experience in a E commerce company preferred. * Highly proficient in Linux and Windows Principal Accountabilities: 1 Good Communication Skills 2 Implementation of best practices for IT infrastructure 3 Good Vendor Management Skills 4 Capacity to secure networks, well versed with intrusion detection and other security related concepts 5 Well versed with Windows and Linux OS 6 Ensure smooth running of IT infrastructure 7 Management of Web servers

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Proxy with username/password for apt-get and Synaptic
by Sanket Medhi 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

We have a proxy server in our college which I am handling. Every machine in the college has to enter a username/password to get access to the internet. The only problem I am facing is that there is no way to configure apt-get and Synaptic for the proxy alongwith username/password. They just give an option of entering a proxy server entry, nothing for username/password. Is there anything to configure proxy with username/password in apt-get and Synaptic? (Actually, there is one I know but its unethical and insecure to be used on the local network.) -- Regards, Sanket Medhi.

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ILUG-BOM's smtp slow?
by Rony Bill 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hello All, Is there some problem with the mail servers of ilug-bom? Mails are going after some hours. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Jan 14th meet report.
by Rony Bill 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hello All, The Jan 14th meet was held at five gardens from 4 pm to almost 7.30 pm. It was attended by 12 people and the concept of meeting in a public place like a garden had a good response. Dr. Nagarjun even suggested an idea of having a wireless access point network to make the gardens hot spots for people to come in the free open space with their laptops and do their work without any restriction of wires or walls. The topics covered in the discussions were, faxing in Linux and later on we had a very interesting talk by Dr. Nagarjun on free software. For the faxing solutions, Dr. Nagarjun, Anurag and Benoy spoke about their experiences with fax softwares and Hylafax was the clear choice for everyone. Then Dr. Nagarjun gave a very in depth talk on the Free Software Movement. He updated us on how the software patents bill would have killed software freedom in India and how it was withdrawn in the nick of time after a lot of interaction with the Govt. and political parties. He went on to tell us the difference between open source and free software and how open source did not necessarily mean free software. Please note that here free is freedom, not price. He has also suggested conducting a Linux installation workshop for hardware vendors in Mumbai so that they can get an actual hands on experience with linux. They can be invited to bring their own setup, without monitors, to the workshop and go back with a working linux system. Overall it was a good meet and I am sure all those present share this view. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Rtl 8139D linux support help.
by Francis 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

I have been trying to get the Rtl 8139D lan card running on linux 2.6.14 and also looked up the internet but with no hope if anyone has used or seen support for this card on *nix please help and point me to the required modules. Thx, Francis Pereira Ps : The rtl 8139A/B/C have support in the 2.6.14 kernel.

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Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu on 22nd Jan at 2PM
by Venkatesh Hariharan 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu will address the Mumbai ILUG on 22nd Jan at 2PM at the FC Kohli Auditorium, Kanwal Rekhi School of IT (KRESIT), IIT Bombay. You can read more about Mark here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth and about Ubuntu Linux here: http://www.ubuntu-linux.org/ For directions to KRESIT, see: Getting to IIT Bombay IIT Bombay is located in an area called Powai in the Central suburb called KanjurMarg in Mumbai. The best way of reaching there is by a combination of Road and Rail. Mumbai has two main suburban train tracks respectively called after the Central and Western Railways. The suburban trains of Mumbai are called 'local' trains. If you are on the Central Railway, get down at Kanjurmarg or Vikhroli and take an auto to IIT. The auto will take around Rs. 10 - 15. To board any of the buses, you'll have to walk slightly till a bus stop on the main L.B.S.Road and take any Andheri/Borivali bound bus. The fare is around Rs. 3. If you are coming from the Western Railways, get down at Andheri and take any of the buses going to Mulund from the eastern side of the railway station. The fare would be roughly Rs. 6. Alternatively, you could take an auto which will take around Rs. 45 to IIT. Getting to KReSIT within IIT The new KReSIT building is now fully operational - one of the most impressive structures in the IIT-Bombay campus! The KReSIT building is the first big structure one comes across when entering IIT. Approximately a 5 minute walk from the Main Gate, it is situated on the right side of the road after Hostel 10 and the wide road going right to the Y-Point gate. It is equally close to the Y-Point gate; turn right after entering the Campus, and take the first left where you will see the Central School Ground. Continue walking and enter the second gate on the right. You can see the white and blue KReSIT building right away! Note that the building is not connected to the long corridor that links all the department building. Important landmarks close-by * Hostel-10 * Computer Center * SJM School of Management (in case you drift too far) A map of the campus is at: http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/contacts/visitors/ See you all at IIT Bombay on 22nd at 2PM. Venky

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Distros needed
by Sameer Niphadkar 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

Hello guys! I am in need of some Open source distros. It would be great if somebody could exchane them for blank CDs. Nevertheless, if you have any of these distros please do let me know. 1) FC 4 or Open SUSE 10 PPC version 2) FC 4 or Open SUSE 10 64 bit 3) Open Solaris 10 (x86) I know that, I may be asking too much but I seriously need these for some personal work. Thanks A lot rgds Sameer 'You will be what you WILL to Be' -James Allen

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Minutes: January GLUG-Meet @ Five Gardens
by Anurag 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

*Minutes of January GLUG-Meet @ Five Gardens* The GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai held its January GLUG meet on 14th January 2006 at Five Gardens, Matunga. This meet was attended by about 15 people coming from all over the city and far suburbs. This meet was much more interactive and more issues were discussed than it would have been possible in a classroom like environment. Following discussions were held. --- tea break :-) * Miscllaneous problems/solutions related to FAX/multimedia/desktop. * Pradeepto demoed the KDE india T-Shirt logo and was wondering wether the swirls in tricolor were voilating the national flag code. --- tea break :-) * GPLv3 and its implications on software developers and users. Why patenting of software is a so dangerous and how it kills innovation. * Rony Bill raised some of the issues faced by hardware vendors while providing service to customers. The biggest problem faced by vendors is lack of person who are ready to experiment with something new. The Mumbai GLUG plans to conduct awareness workshops especially suited to hardware vendors/retailers, cyber cafe operators, jr-college students etc. Please get in touch with the list if you can help us in any respect. ---- *Details of next GLUG meet* Date: 12 February 2006 -> Agenda : to be decided -> Location: Some garden at another location. * Pictures: Pictures taken in this meet would be posted on ILUG-BOM picture gallery ``http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/pics/'' as soon as they are transfered to comp. * Upcoming Events: Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu/Canonical will address the Mumbai GLUG on 22nd Jan at 2PM. The venue is most likely to be IIT Bombay. Interested people can keep checking the homepage or mailing list for more details. Anurag -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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Ominous message in the logs
by Sandesh Singh 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

Hi. I am using the videolan-client on Fedora Core 4 x86-64, and saw this message using dmesg. I guessed there was trouble vlc's output in the terminal. Is this just a harmless application error, or is something else wrong? Thanks! (Output of dmesg follows) vlc[6894]: segfault at 00002aaaaaab4000 rip 00000000005d64d4 rsp 0000000046408fa8 error 6 Unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffff3680330e26 RIP: [<ffffff3680330e26>] PGD 0 Oops: 0010 [1] CPU 0 Modules linked in: ipv6 sunrpc pcmcia yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core vfat fat dm_mod video button battery ac uhci_hcd ehci_hcd shpchp i2c_viapro i2c_core snd_via82xx gameport snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore 8139too via_rhine mii ext3 jbd sata_via libata sd_mod scsi_mod Pid: 6918, comm: vlc Not tainted 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 #1 RIP: 0010:[<ffffff3680330e26>] [<ffffff3680330e26>] RSP: 0018:ffff810003a79ef8 EFLAGS: 00010296 RAX: 0000000000000080 RBX: 000000640040d970 RCX: ffff810014e1b5c0 RDX: ffff81002c8ac140 RSI: ffff81002c8ac140 RDI: ffffffff8049aa40 RBP: 0000003000000000 R08: ffff810003a78000 R09: 0000000000000003 R10: 0000000000001612 R11: ffff810014e1b5c0 R12: 000000620000000e R13: 000000388e60d060 R14: 0000003700000000 R15: 0000003100a00000 FS: 0000000043204960(0063) GS:ffffffff804f7000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: ffffff3680330e26 CR3: 0000000025cf1000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Process vlc (pid: 6918, threadinfo ffff810003a78000, task ffff81002c8ac140) Stack: 0000000000000000 0000000000200200 000000010040d970 000000004b87ad6e ffffffff8013a59e ffff81002c8ac140 ffffffff804bebe0 ffffffff80110d93 00000000432049f0 0000000000000000 Call Trace:<ffffffff8013a59e>{process_timeout+0} <ffffffff80110d93>{syscall_trace_enter+217} <ffffffff8013af70>{sys_nanosleep+179} <ffffffff8010e850>{tracesys+209} Code: Bad RIP value. RIP [<ffffff3680330e26>] RSP <ffff810003a79ef8> CR2: ffffff3680330e26 <0>Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'kswapd0', page ffff810001179078) flags:0x4000000000000008 mapping:0000000000000000 mapcount:-255 count:0 (Not tainted) Backtrace: Call Trace:<ffffffff80159e69>{bad_page+135} <ffffffff8015a29a>{free_hot_cold_page+126} <ffffffff8015a366>{__pagevec_free+41} <ffffffff8015ef51>{__pagevec_release_nonlru+145} <ffffffff80156252>{__remove_from_page_cache+28} <ffffffff80160deb>{shrink_zone+3277} <ffffffff801a3b20>{mb_cache_shrink_fn+123} <ffffffff8033175b>{_spin_lock_irqsave+9} <ffffffff8016122a>{balance_pgdat+571} <ffffffff801614ad>{kswapd+269} <ffffffff801462d0>{autoremove_wake_function+0} <ffffffff803317b8>{_spin_unlock_irq+9} <ffffffff8012e6bb>{schedule_tail+66} <ffffffff8010f20e>{child_rip+8} <ffffffff801613a0>{kswapd+0} <ffffffff8010f206>{child_rip+0} Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed -- Sandesh Singh

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"About ILUG-Bom" wiki page
by V P 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

Dear All, The "ILUG-Bom Wiki:About" currently has no text in it. http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/wiki/index.php/ILUG-BOM_Wiki:About Would one of the "old timers" spare a few minutes of their time to write a short introduction? Vivek -- Registered Linux User #374218 Minister of Offense, Preserver of the Way of the Great Llama, Ambassador to India for the Republic of Loungevania

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GUI Broadband Dialer for Sify
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Obvious Disclaimer: This is for Sify Broadband users on this list. Others may ignore this email. Hi, I've written a GUI dialer program for Sify Broadband using the QT toolkit. You can find the first release here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/antidialer/ Its very raw -- hacked up in a few days time actually... just to get my Mom to use GNU/Linux full time ;-) Current features: * XML based configuration (options file in ~/.antidialer/antidialerrc) * AutoLogin * Password Saving (with encryption) * Account Details/ Signup/ Renew/ Password changing buttons * HeartBeat Requirements: QT development tools (uic, moc, qmake) in addition to g++ development libraries for qt, mcrypt and x-windows (libqt3-mt-dev, libmcrypt-dev, x-windows-system-dev) Regards, Siddhesh

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Linux meet tomorrow.
by Rony Bill 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Hello All, This month's linux meet will be held tomorrow as per schedule. The venue is Five Gardens at Matunga at 4 pm. If you come from Dadar station then get down to the east at the Swaminarayan temple. Walk straight along the road parallel to the railway tracks towards Matunga. At the Ruia college junction turn right and come straight towards Five Gardens. There is a small mini garden group just before the main gardens. Our garden is the first main garden on your right and it has a tree in the center that grows slanting from the ground and later goes vertical. Thats your landmark. If you are coming from Sion side then get down at the Ruia junction bus stop and go eastwards to the gardens. If you are coming from Dadar Parsi Colony side, this garden is the first on your left, adjacent to the school. If you come from Wadala St. Joseph side, its the second garden to your left. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] 7 star cable ISP
by Vivek Rai 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

> > From: आनंद (Anand M R) <libld.so(a)gmail.com> > I've used the cyberoamLinux client with with exactt connection. Thanks for the pointers Anand, cyberoamLinux is my next hope now! From: "Rohan R. Almeida" <arcofdescent(a)gmail.com> I use linc, and it works great. Simple to configure too. > > This is my config: > > srvaddr = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > srvport = 6060 > password = xxx > username = xxx > hwaddr = xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > > Save it as /etc/lincrc and you should be done. Rohan, we tried just that, initially lincdaemon cribbed about not finding /root/.lincrc file, when we copied /etc/lincrc as /root/.lincrc, we still kept getting connection timed out. :-(. we used the latest version of linc-daemon. also, is the serveraddr is the same as the gateway IP that you see on Windows? (some 10.x.x.x?) From: DJ dinesh.a.joshi(a)gmail.com > > I was a long time user of this ISP. It sucks. The speeds are quite good > but the support for Linux sucks. You have to pursuade (beg / threaten > or whatever) their non existant tech support. The cyberoam client that > they provide for linux is pathetic. It seg faults all the time. If > Linc-daemon doesnt work then it means the protocol has changed. Thats what I also feared, but have some renewed hope seeing that it has worked with both linc daemon and cyberoam. Anyways, shall try this weekend, and let you guys know. Thanks again to all of you for the prompt replies. p.s. maybe we should have a wiki page with details of any successful and working configs for various ISP's and connection methods. (ppp, wvdial, etc etc) I have compiled a list of wvdial.conf settings and some for kppp, but since I dont have all these accounts, I cannot confirm/test if they are really OK.

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Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu will address the Mumbai ILUG on 22nd Jan at 2PM
by Venkatesh Hariharan 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

> I second this, we know ubuntu is good and all taht but if he is addressing > LUG the its got to be something a lot more developer oriented not just > evangelism. > > Mrugesh All I can say is, those who don't come for Shuttleworth's talk will miss a rare opportunity :-) Venky

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RAID mirror problems
by Ravishekar 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hi Linuxers...We are facing trouble during configuration of a Hardware RAID (Level 1 - Mirroring) Bios configures SCSI and could build RAID 1 using the system utility. But while installing RH Linux EL, diskdruid shows two different HDD instead of One drive for RAID 1. we are using RHEL 4[2.6.9-5] for the configuration of a IBM X series 236 server. We Tried loading latest drivers from IBM's website while installing linux, but no use. While installation of a software RAID, Linux gets installed, but we are unable to use the On-Board RAID controller for hardware RAID. Any help ??? with Thanks in Advance old man mozz

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problem with GPPP
by Saumyadeep Paul 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

helo everyone i have a reliance web conn (Reliance LSP350R), the problem is i just cant get a stable conn in linux n gppp, i configured the dialer n the modem, but the conn usually resets itself in 60-90 secs, renderin it virtually useless to do any work. if i disconnect n reconnect then it gives error that modem not found or busy n sometimes in the process table the wvdial has an unterruptable status which i cant kill n which stays in the process table even if i disconnect the phone. my system is a UBUNTU 5.10. can anyone sort out the problem.

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Hardware RAID on IBM xSeries 236 server for Linux (fwd)
by swanandp＠softhome.net 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

The Problem Description: Server: IBM xSeries 236 Two HDD to be mirrored OS: RHEL 4[Recommended ] Required: Hardware RAID (Level 1 - Mirroring) Bios configures SCSI and could build RAID 1 using the system utility. But while installing Linux, diskdruid shows two different HDD instead of One drive for RAID 1. RHEL 4[2.6.9-5] Tried loading latest drivers from IBM's website while installing linux, but no help. With software RAID linux gets installed, but not able to use the On-Board RAID controllerfor hardware RAID. Any more details, let me know. Thanks..... -- Regards, Swanand Pathak http://techieinfo.freeservers.com ---- Life Is GAME , Game Is LIFE ---- Server: IBM xSeries 236 Two HDD to be mirrored OS: RHEL 4[Recommended ] Required: Hardware RAID (Level 1 - Mirroring) Bios configures SCSI and could build RAID 1 using the system utility.<= /div> But while installing Linux, diskdruid shows two different HDD instead = of One drive for RAID 1. RHEL 4[2.6.9-5] Tried loading latest drivers from IBM's website while installing linux= , but no help. With software RAID linux gets installed, but not able to use the On-Bo= ard RAID controllerfor hardware RAID. -- Regards, Swanand Pathak [1]http://techieinfo.freeservers.com ---- Life Is GAME , = ;Game Is LIFE ---- References 1. 3D"http://techieinfo.freeservers.com=/

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7 star cable ISP
by Vivek Rai 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hi Guys, I am trying to "convert" and persuade a friend of mine to Linux. His ISP is 7 star cable based "broadband". I tried searching on google, and found a forum posting about suggesting the use of linc daemon. However, we couldnt get it working. I suspect it was an authentication issue. His account page on the 7star website recommends use of cyberoamLinux client, and provides a download of it, but doesnt carry any specific guidelines on how to specifically configure it for 7 star settings. Has anyone used this ISP? What client did you use (linc daemon/ cyberoam/anything else)? Any pointers, sample config files that worked for the client, would be most welcome. All we have at hand is the gateway IP, username, password and the DNS servers. Thanks in advance, Vivek

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LinuxAsia 2006: Voice Your Opinion! - Voting now open for LFY Awards
by LinuxAsia Tux 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Voting is now open for LFY Awards! The nominees in each category were sent in by you - the members of India's open source ecosystem. The process is simple. Select your choice in each category and submit your ballot. Vote now at http://www.linuxasia.net/lfy_awards/vote ************************************** LinuxAsia Conference & Expo 2006 February 8-10, 2006 | New Delhi, India http://www.linuxasia.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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AppArmor goes opensource
by SeekingGyan 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Hi The little heard but Apparmor is now opensource chk here http://www.opensuse.org/Apparmor Regards Harsh

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] High end animation softwares on linux
by Rajesh Rajani 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Hi, >On 1/9/06, Rony Bill <ronbillypop(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > > JTD wrote: > > > > If you or anyone else has a cluster running somewhere for graphics, > > could I get a short writeup on the hardware used, how it is joined > > together (pc to pc) and just a wee bit on its software and setup. It is > > just for virtual practicals. :) > > >Rony there are only 2 large installations that I have seen. A render farm >typically consist about a few tens to few hundreds of dual processor HT / >xeon (em64t) class systems with some expensive display cards and atleast a >few gigs of high speed ram . needless to say about raid sata / scsi disk . > >say if there are 11 boxes the first box serves as the grid master with 10 >boxes running the grid engine client. the master distributes the task to the >clients . the task can be copied over a nfs share on a network . this is for >a company that some real anim work for movies etc. > >u can certainly setup a lowerend system for small testing etc ... sun grid >engine project might be a nice place to start. > >maybe sejal can do a write up once they are up > Check out this month's PCQuest for instructions on setting up your own clustered super-computer. Uses the openmosix kernel patch for process migration. Other options are also discussed. -RR

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LG LSP350R on FC2
by Javed Rahman 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

my fc2 finally detected the lg lsp350r on /dev/input/ttyACM0.. my wvdail.conf is as follows [Modem0] Modem= /dev/input/ttyACM0 Init=ATZ Init2=AT+CRM=1;$LGPKT=3 Baud= 115200 SetVolume= 0 DialCommand=ATDT FlowControl= CRTSCTS [Dialer R] Username = my phone number Password = my phone number Phone = #777 Stupid Mode = 1 Inherits = Modem0 when i connect using wvdial it detects the carrier and connects but disconnects immediately saying bad username and password.. i double checked my usermane and password but still cant get it to work.. it returns error code 19... can anyone please help me solve this problem.. however it is currently working with cluster knoppix 3.4 using the same wvdial.conf file except that my modem is set to /dev/ttyACM0... i do not want to change to any other version of linux because i have a lot of other things configured on fc2... please help... thank you... -- javed...

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High end animation softwares on linux
by Sejal Patel 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Dear Linuxers I work for a small animation/graphics studio.We use MAYA,Houdini and some other applications on windows. Now we are in a process of shifting the whole studio systems to linux.We have used debian as well as suse but we had issues with the installation of some application like XSI. So we are now using RedHat EL AS. Currently all is fine but we would like to use some kind of clustering software to use network rendering. This can speed up the rendering process. Anybody pointers on which software to use for this. Sejal Patel Linuxer!! Linux Registerd User : #406578

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Gaim Locales
by Salil Wadhavkar 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Hi, I have gaim 1.5.0 on a Mandriva 10.1/kernel 2.6.8/x86 box. I also have IndLinux-Hindi-0.9 (Unnati) installed. Following the instructions in this page: http://freedomink.org/node/55 I now have Gaim in Hindi, but I can't seem to revert back to normal English Gaim. Not that it's bad but some of the hindi translations for the menus use vocabulary for which I have to refer to a dictionary. The only way I was able to get English Gaim was by (re)moving the file /usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/gaim.mo Without this file gaim loads with english menus. Is there a way to switch between hindi and english gaim using command line variables? I have also tried setting the locale environment variables to en_US.UTF-8 but still gaim loads with hindi menus. I would appreciate if anyone could suggest a solution. Thank you, Salil Wadhavkar. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers.indiatimes.com Bid for for Air Tickets @ Re.1 on Air Sahara Flights. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now!

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Linux Laptops
by neel s Gurjar 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Hi I want to buy higer end laptop for linux n windows. Please suggest me which laptop is suitable for me ? I need following configuration : CPU. - 2.0 Ghz to 2.3 Ghz RAM - 512 MB to 1Gig HDD - 40 to 80 GB DVD RW Battery Backup - 3 to 6 hrs Please Help Neelesh

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help needed urgently for problem in linking the shared libraries ( .so )
by swapnil kamble 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Hi all, I am Swapnil . I wanted to link the shared libraries . Let me tell you how I tried to link them but I am not too sure whether it is correct or not ,I did it according to tutorial . I wrote some libraries by using X lib for instance some header "test.h" in which I wrote function prototypes , a sample program sample.c and body of functions defined in header is in file def.c . As all files are in same dir then there no problem while compiling and running . Next I created Makefile it consists of following statements all: gcc -lX11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib/ -lncurses -lm sample.c def.c -o try till here everything is OK after this I modified Makefile to create shared libraries like this all: gcc -lX11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib/ -lncurses -lm -shared sample.c def.c -o try.so Shared object created successfully . then I copied header test,h to /usr/include then I copied try.so to /usr/X11R6/lib then I run command #ldconfig to update library database (No errors here) Next If try to compile program , then I get error for functions which I have included , "sample.c:(.text+0x2a3): undefined reference to `function_name' If you know something is wrong here or way is to do it this then please tell me immediately I would have been very thankful to them . Hare Krishna ...Swapnil

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A pointer to the List rules, please.
by Sriram N 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Hi: I'm one of the moderators of a mailing list for discussing Object Oriented Programming. Today, we received a request for a soft copy of some programming book. We've decided to put together a mailing list policy. One of the points in the policy will be a clear statement that we don't support piracy of any form. Could someone point me to the list rules of the linuxers mailing list, please? Thanks in advance. -- Sriram __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

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Anchor Links to subjects/topics
by Roshan 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hi, Was wondering whether, there could be some sort of "personalization" to the mailing list members. What do I mean by this, is very simple! Though the thought of having this appears to be quite easy but I really dont know how this mailing list is actually made up! In every email received, I get the list of subjects and I have to scroll down to any specific subject. Instead, Could anchor links given to those subjects to directly jump to a specific topic? Roshan _____________________________ www.geocities.com/d_rosh2001 If there's anything that you want to ask about related to computers and information technology email me at any of the following addresses 1) d_rosh2001(a)yahoo.co.in 2) dhanvirosh(a)rediffmail.com I think I should be able to help you Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

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Query
by Dinesh Kumar 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

> I guess he has a 256MB chip with 8MB shared for video? :| The PC is having a 256 MB Chip. 8MB RAM is reserved for FRAME BUFFER. Dinesh Kumar

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] [OT?]Tech, Business and Entrepreneurship
by Rane, Aseem 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

First of all my apologies for my organization's disclaimer that will get appended at the end of my mail. That's the reason why I keep silence on the list. The external mails are blocked as well and I do not intend to change the job just because of this reason. On Friday 30 December 2005 13:09, Dinesh Shah wrote: > And this is no excuse to hide the > fact that the country's rules, regulations, procedures, infrastructure > need to be changed. Excuse me but even though we are moving into 2006 > but our country's rules, regulations, procedures, infrastructure is > still stuck in the "good" ol' British days. > > Countless successful entrepreneurs have complained that procedures, > licensing terms, rules and infrastructure _sucks_ in India. And what do > we do? Nothing. We just want to transform Mumbai into Shanghai. Short > attention span eh? <aseem> The rules, regulations and procedures today are much better/simpler than those a few decades ago. Well they might not be the best or simplest but we are changing. A system so huge does require due time to change. We are changing much faster in past few years IMO. </aseem> > Ok then, starting importing sniper rifles and lets begin hunting down > each and every politician we can find. That'll get us 99.999999% out of > is shit. I'll personally settle for the round off error > ( 0.0000001% ). <aseem> Are you serious? Or is it just the frustration erupting? Think before you suggest such extreme steps. What happens after you kill all the politicians? I would rather suggest you to go out and vote for the best (least corrupt?) candidate available. Or be a candidate yourself. I believe killing somebody does not solve <em>any</em> problem. </aseem> > Stop denying the fact that we need to overhaul _ALL_ procedures in this > country. Not a _single_ procedure is freakin' straight forward. <aseem> Who is denying that we need an overhaul? The process has already started IMO. </aseem> > We call this country secular but in almost _all_ forms we ask for the > person's religion, cast, sub-caste? Gathering demographic data, are we? > > We say everyones equal but we still have SC/ST, NT, OBC?? Why? > > Women "empowerment" groups want 33% reservation for women. When has > reservation made anybody stronger, more competent, more talented? <aseem> Is everyone really equal? Or are we just saying that? Open your eyes, Look around. Look at the matrimonial ads. Most of them specifically mentions even the sub-cast required. Don't make up your opinions just by looking at the BCs/OBCs in metros. And even in the metros the situation is far from good. Look at the workers at various construction sites/roads. Look at the beggars (Jari-mari, snake charmers etc) people cleaning the city, people sorting the junk, People doing all the dirty jobs they are from a specific section of our society. They don't know where their kids were born let alone the birth certificate and cast certificate. This is the section largely away from even primary education. And reservation does help people to become stronger. But again it is a gradual process which spans across generations. You cannot expect to undo the effects of a system which was running smoothly for millions of years within 50 odd years. There are tribes where deaths due to malnutrition are common. Being a father myself I can only imagine how it feels to watch your kid dying in front of your eyes due to hunger. That explains the existence of extremist groups like Naxalites. And reservations not reaching right people does not mean we should not have reservations at all. Just as we do require laws despite the numerous loopholes in it. <disclaimer>I do not get benefits from any of the reservations</disclaimer> </aseem> > When was the last time someone was judged based on his / her talent in > this country? > > Let me answer it for you. > > ***_NEVER_*** <aseem> Again I doubt if you really mean what you say. If we take this very list as a sample you will find that almost everybody is At the current position due to his/her talent. Even our President, Prime Minister, Finance minister are on those positions only due to their talent. I would expect you to be more responsible while making statements on a public forum. You just cannot make grossly incorrect statements like that. </aseem> > Oh boi. We are in deep shit, aren't we? :| > > We suck. India sucks. > > Mera Bharat Mahan. Sau mein se 99 beimaan! > > Patriotism anyone? <aseem> So I guess you would grab the first opportunity to get out of this shit by migrating to greener pastures. I would rather stay back here and do my Rs. 0.02 worth of efforts to make this country a better place to live for the generations to come. Attitude expressed in your mail will do more harm than good to the nation. I am not overly patriotic who would cry after hearing "aye mere watan ke logo" or blame Pakistan at every opportunity. I strongly recommend reading the latest "Business Today". People _are_ thinking about the issues our country is facing and efforts are being made to improve the conditions. Just being cynical does not help. Grow up. </aseem> -- Aseem This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of the Capgemini Group. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message.

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FC4 package managing problems.
by Rony Bill 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hello All, Some months back when there was a discussion on using a caching name server so at that time I used the local package manager to install bind and co. but at that time something had happened and the system went into a runaway process with the HDD continuously active. After a forced restart, the package manager showed bind and co. ticked (installed) but they are actually not in the system. When I uncheck to remove the packages, it gives an error that these packages were not found. Today I tried it out again but same result. So now I used yumx and selected 3 packages bind, caching-nameserver and chrootbind(?). This time too the system went into a tizzy and the hdd was running continuously and even the screen froze and went hollow (only outlines, no solids). Again I had to force restart. Is there any way I can clean up my act without a clean re-install? Thanks in advance and Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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Ubuntu AMD64 DVD
by Bhushan Tiwari 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hi Linuxers, I need Ubuntu 5.10 DVD for AMD64, anybody has it ? or anywhere i can buy it ? Thanks and Regards, Bhushan Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

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Squid ICAP proxy
by Ashish Chawan 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hi Has anyone used SQUID with ICAP (Internet Content Adaptation Protocol) for proxy server setup? Is it stable? Regards Ashish

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Fwd: help on Virtual Machine
by Saurabh Mehta 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Dear All, I have installed 4 operating system on my laptop, XP, Win Server 2003, Ubuntu Linux 64 bit and Fedora Core. Now interested in running more than 1 OS at the same time. Looking on internet I found something like virtual machine concept. There is a product from Microsoft name Virtual PC / Server. VMware is also in to same product line. I read about xen and qmenu, but could only understand that only image provided by them can be used and loaded as virtual machine. At the most, it may be possible to create an Image of my own. If any one know, please tell me that can I use my exisitng OS installation, and use these OS as virtual machine or no option but to load from image only. -- Keep Smiling and Mailing, Regards, Saurabh

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[Commercial] PHP Programers
by Saswata Banerjee & Associates 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hello Everyone, Our clients, SaiTech Ventures Pvt Ltd (now being renamed Digital Bliss Pvt Ltd) based at Saki Naka, Mumbai is a subsidiary of an American Software Solutions and Services company. It does work in Software Solutions, Graphics Design and Data Services. You can see more about the company at www.saitechventures.com Recently, they have started using more or open source softwares, both for inhouse use and for solutions for thier clients. They now need PHP developers to work for them, primarily in maintenance and customisation of open source software like CKERP, WebERP, EGroupware, Drupal, Urchin, OSCommerce. Many of these customisation involves developing new reports or changes in the modules to suite business requirement in India and USA markets. (Before any of you think of flaming me, the new reports and changes are being submitted back to the authors of the software to consider in the next version). The company is constantly installing and evaluating open source software to offer as solutions to their clients. In addition, the company wishes to move all new websites and web-solutions they develop to PHP instead of asp / asp.net platform. The company has already installed its own Linux Server in their US DataCenter to host these software. The corporate mailing system (covering over 40 domains of STV and its clients) has been moved to open source. The company is looking for software developers with good knowledge in PHP and MySQL & PostgreSQL. Knowledge of additonal languages like pythone and perl will be added advantages. Good Knowledge of Linux is a must. Ability to experiment with new software and find solutions will be an important attribute for the right candidate. We are also looking for freelance PHP developers and small PHP development firms who want to work with the company on regular basis for projects and assignments. If this is of interest to you or to anyone you know, please forward the details to ceo(a)saitechventures.com Regards Saswata

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Cross-platform OLE programming in Python?
by Abhijeet Oundhakar 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Hi, I'm trying to develop a "technical word processor", with features to import & export data & results to & from other programs. The main stumbling block I'm facing is importing images, spreadsheets, etc. into a document. Is any control available in Python (or other cross-platform language) to do this? Thanks in advance Abhi

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[commercial] computer books for sale.
by Akshay Salkar 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Dear All, I have some good books for sale. Discount for New books ranging from 20%-25% approx. off the normal price. Old Books at discount more than 40%-60% approx. off the normal price. BOOKS ON C AND C++ : 1) Write TSR's now - Ras - Rs. 75 2) Professional Linux Programming - Mathews - Rs. 410 - Wrox 3) Understanding Pointers in C - Kanetkar - Rs. 113 4) ObjectOriented Software Engineering - Haladay - Rs. 150 BRAND NEW: (Costs after Discount) 1) Teach yourself UML in 24 hours - Schmuler - Rs. 113 2) Java Software Solutions - Lewis - Rs. 260 3) Write TSR's now - Ras - Rs. 75 4) Problems in General Physics - Irodov - Rs. 113 5) Programming Perl 3/e - Wall - Rs. 450 6) Professional Linux Programming - Mathews - Rs. 410 - Wrox 7) Professional PHP - Wrox Edition - Rs.350 8) Apache Web Server - Rs. 120 SECOND HAND: (Costs after Discount) 1) Teach yourself HTML4 in 24 hours - Oliver/Holshwag - Rs. 80 - Techmedia 2) Mastering Foxpro 2.5 Special Edition - Siegel - Rs. 100 - BPB 3) ObjectOriented Software Engineering - Haladay - Rs. 150 4) Understanding Pointers in C - Kanetkar - Rs. 113 5) Using Linux - Gunter - Rs. 270 6) DNS & Bind - Liu - Rs.100 - Oreilly anybody wanting any of the above books plz. contact me at email : akshaysalkar(a)gmail.com or telephone on Mobile: 9821599801 akshay.

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httrack query
by nipra 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Hi, While using httrack to get all the contents of URL http://foss.in/2005/slides/,I couldn't retrieve a few files.Details are as given below: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nipra@debian:~/New Docs/httrack/foss.in 2005 slides$ httrack --continue -%v2 http://foss.in/2005/slides/ Mirror launched on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 00:49:41 by HTTrack Website Copier/3.33-2 [XR&CO'2005] mirroring http://foss.in/2005/slides/ with the wizard help.. Bytes saved: 72,81MiB Links scanned: 200/278 (+0) Time: 2s Files written: 122 Transfer rate: 0B/s (0B/s) Files updated: 0 Active connections: 0 Errors: 0 Current job: receiving files ready - foss.in/2005/slides/?C=D;O=D 33,39KiB / 33,39KiB Requested Range Not Satisfiable - foss.in/2005/slides/DBI-Link.pdf 387B / 387B Requested Range Not Satisfiable - foss.in/2005/slides/DeployJ2EEOnApacheGeronimo-Srikrishnan-FOSS.pdf 387B / 387B Requested Range Not Satisfiable - foss.in/2005/slides/Embedded_Systems__GCC___GCC_Backend.pdf 387B / 387B Requested Range Not Satisfiable - foss.in/2005/slides/FOSS.IN_2005Conference_Equivalence_Presentation.odp 387B / Request387B Requested Range Not Satisfiable - foss.in/2005/slides/Pit_falls_of_LKMs.ppt 314B / 314B Requested Range Not Satisfiable - foss.in/2005/slides/The_FOSS_Audio_Studio.odp 387B / 387B Requested Range Not Satisfiable - foss.in/2005/slides/foss_in_talk_v1.43.ppt 387B / 387B Requested Range Not Satisfiable - foss.in/2005/slides/fossin2005_selinux_developments_draft.sxi 387B / 387B Requested Range Not Satisfiable - foss.in/2005/slides/gentoo-who-says-its-for-ricers-final.odp 387B / 387B Requested Range Not Satisfiable - foss.in/2005/slides/gnumeric_and_spss-sas.ppt 387B / 387B Requested Range Not Satisfiable - foss.in/2005/slides/DraftFive9.ppt 387B / 387B Requested Range Not Satisfiable - foss.in/2005/slides/Equivalence_Presentation.pdf 387B / 387B Requested Range Not Satisfiable - foss.in/2005/slides/FOSS-kernel-performance_measurement.ppt 387B / 387B Done. Thanks for using HTTrack! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks in advance. Regards Nikhil Prabhakar

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Files modified since yesterday.
by Philip Tellis 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Sometime Today, NMK cobbled together some glyphs to say: > Simply using 1 and omitting the d works. > > [root@server root]# ls -ld `find /root -mtime 1` no need of doing it this way. use: find /root -mtime 1 -exec ls -ld {} \; > But why is it showing files that are modified on 5th Jan, ie > day-before-yesterday? It's supposed to show files with mtime rounded to the next highest 24 hour period from the time specified. FWIW, it shows me the right thing (Jan 6th current time to Jan 7th current time). Philip -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste (ksh(a)cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93)

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Files modified since yesterday.
by Nadeem M. Khan 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hello All. How do I find the list of all files modified since yesterday? I know one option would be find / -mtime N But this is a bit confusing. Should N be 1 or -1? Is there a better way? I don't have any IDS like tripwire installed on my servers. I have five IBM servers running RHEL 3 and one running AIX. Regards, NMK.

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] httrack query
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Infra, Energy) 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

On Friday 06 January 2006 01:38, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > >> a senior member of the foss movement cross posting - depressing >> >Whats the big deal with cross posting? Logically it increases the >chances and the amount of views that you get from various people. >Dinesh A. Joshi Methinks it splits up a thread into n parts/locations making it difficult for anyone to make sense of later... Gishu

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sound problem in UBUNTU linux
by Saumyadeep Paul 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

hello everyone i m usin UBUNTU 5.10 on my desktop and i have a Realtek AC'97 inbuilt soundcard, the problem is that i m gettin a slight disturbance from my right speaker i have tried with speakers from friends n its the same, from which i gather that the problem doesnt lie with the speakers, can any one tell me what the problem is and how to get around it.

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Re:FC4 package managing problems
by swapnil kedar 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Rony Bill <ronbillypop(a)yahoo.co.uk> > To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:56:48 +0530 > Subject: [ILUG-BOM] FC4 package managing problems. > Hello All, > > Some months back when there was a discussion on using a caching name > server so at that time I used the local package manager to install bind > and co. but at that time something had happened and the system went into If you can remember what exactly happend > a runaway process with the HDD continuously active. After a forced > restart, the package manager showed bind and co. ticked (installed) but > they are actually not in the system. When I uncheck to remove the > packages, it gives an error that these packages were not found. > > Today I tried it out again but same result. So now I used yumx and > selected 3 packages bind, caching-nameserver and chrootbind(?). This > time too the system went into a tizzy and the hdd was running > continuously and even the screen froze and went hollow (only outlines, > no solids). Again I had to force restart. > > Is there any way I can clean up my act without a clean re-install? > > Thanks in advance and Regards, > > Rony. try first updating the 3 packages bind, caching-nameserver and chrootbind if right now it is installed- rpm -Uvh bind9.x.x.rpm , and other rpms one by one. if it doesnt work then try checking which files in use in your system requires those packages that you want to uninstall by- rpm -q --whatrequires bind9.x.x.rpm & rpm -q --requires bind9.x.x.rpm May be the some bind utility or graphical bind9.x.x.rpm installed is causing the system to hang. also try to rebuild rpm database by- rpm --rebuild & rpm --init -try all this in RUNLEVEL 3 , on console without running X Bye Take care, Swapnil --The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His. -Roger Ebert, film-critic (1942- )

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iptables Vs route
by Shahed Moolji 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Hi All, I have a RHEL 2.4 kernel server, running as a router. While trying to investigate why I am having certain routing problems, I came across references that mention that both the "route" command, as well as iptables manupalate kernel routing tables. Do they both act on the same routing tables ? If I add static routes with # route add ....... how will it affect forwards in iptables ? Thanks Shahed.

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Re: sound problem in UBUNTU linux
by swapnil kedar 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Saumyadeep Paul <saum.paul(a)gmail.com> > To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 00:17:12 +0530 > Subject: [ILUG-BOM] sound problem in UBUNTU linux > hello everyone > > i m usin UBUNTU 5.10 on my desktop and i have a Realtek AC'97 inbuilt > soundcard, the problem is that i m gettin a slight disturbance from my right > speaker i have tried with speakers from friends n its the same, from which i > gather that the problem doesnt lie with the speakers, can any one tell me > what the problem is and how to get around it. > Hi, Apart from the usual graphical utility "Volume Control" there is a master console utility aumix* (* means its a binary) use it to check the pcm sound and save before exit.

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[ANNOUNCE] Finance::Bank::HDFC version 0.03
by Rohan R. Almeida 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Hi, I would like to announce the availability of Perl module Finance::Bank::HDFC version 0.03 on the CPAN. >From the docs: NAME Finance::Bank::HDFC - Interface to the HDFC netbanking service SYNOPSIS use Finance::Bank::HDFC; my $bank = Finance::Bank::HDFC->new; $bank->login( cust_id => xxx, password => xxx, ); print $bank->get_balance . "\n"; $bank->logout; DESCRIPTION This module provides an interface to the HDFC netbanking service at https://netbanking.hdfcbank.com/netbanking/ Changes -------- * Added tests for login, get_balance and logout methods * Using Test::MockModule to mock LWP::UserAgent's request method * Minor code cleanup You can read more about it and download it here: http://search.cpan.org/~rohan/Finance-Bank-HDFC-0.03/lib/Finance/Bank/HDFC.… -- Rohan http://rohan.almeida.in

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comparison between Red Hat and XP
by Abhishek Sood 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Hi I need an indepth details about the comparison between Red Hat and XP Also the security issues Awating reply Adios Abhi

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difference between linux file systems and other OS
by Abhishek Sood 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Hi I would like to know the comparison between Linux OS with Windows also their file system and it security it has Awating for a positive reply Adios Abhi

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India Drupal Users Group
by Kaustubh Srikanth 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Ladies and Gentlemen, To complement the the ever-growing Drupal Community(http://drupal.org) in India, I announce the "India Drupal Users Group" mailing list. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/drupal-india/ Step in! and contribute :) Cheers, -K -- Kaustubh Srikanth

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] getting IBM r40e modem working in linux
by animesh＠neolinuxsolutions.com 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

> My friend has an IBM r40e with Agere systems modem. She has Yoper running > on > it but it didn't recognise the modem. Does anyone have a r40e with a > successful detect of the modem. If yes please tell me which distro. I have > found a driver but not tried it yet. > Yeah! I have been using the IBM R40E modem successfully on a 2.4.18 Kernel with slmodemd (http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=slmodemd&btnG=Google+Search&meta=) I dont remember the version number. But it did work well enough. If you need more info I could look into the version number, etc and let you know. I haven't used much of the modem since Reliance and Dataone. > Nikhil -Animesh

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getting IBM r40e modem working in linux
by Nikhil Marathe 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

My friend has an IBM r40e with Agere systems modem. She has Yoper running on it but it didn't recognise the modem. Does anyone have a r40e with a successful detect of the modem. If yes please tell me which distro. I have found a driver but not tried it yet. Nikhil -- ******************************************** * do u want to learn web programming? * * Visit http://pagetutor.superihost.com * ********************************************

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GNUnify 2006 Call for Speakers
by Devendra Laulkar 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Announcement: GNUnify 2006, 4-5 Feb 2006 @ Pune Website: http://gnunify.sicsr.ac.in GNUnify 2006 is an event on FOSS organized by Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR) and Pune Linux Users Group (PLUG). Call for speakers and attendees: Registration is now open for speakers for Techie Talks and Workshops. There are five streams - Embedded/Kernel, Using Linux desktops : Orientation to New Users , Programming and Development, System Administration and Education. Attendees registration will start soon. Please visit the website on http://gnunify.sicsr.ac.in for registration. The website is being updated. Please check out for updates and further announcements. You may contact us at the given contact details or to me directly. Thanks.

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Postfix and content filter
by agencies_ad1＠sancharnet.in 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Hello We are currently running Postfix on our E-mail server and wish to implement a content filter. The one we are now using (Amavisd-new) does not allow us to strip a mail from an undesired attachment but rather quarantines the whole e-mail. We would like your advise on a product / add-on that would be able to achieve this. Thanks Regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using NWebmail, BSNL's Webmail Program

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Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 33, Issue 8
by swapnil kedar 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

> From: Mitul Limbani <mitul(a)enterux.com> > To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:09:37 +0530 > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] AIX LDAP Radius DNS > Swapnil, > > > Dear All, > > Hi i am Swapnil Kedar, working as EDP Mngr at colaba. > > This is my first mail. i have joined the forum yesterday. > > Please Help me to find right docs / tutorial for LDAP, RADUIS, DNS > > servers running on IBM AIX RS6000 SP machine. > > I will be very thankfull coz its kinda urgent. > > Welcome to the community. > Few things to be done before posting. > A) Search for relevant terms on google. > B) Search Mailing List archives if things have been discussed earlier. > C) Have a proper subject line which would be more meaningful. > D) Read the guidelines document thorougly, to make sure you dont get > flames for your posts. > > Infact your answer lies in the keywords that you posted in the mail. > Google for : AIX LDAP Radius DNS RS6000 and you shall find some good doc. > > Also AIX comes with its own proprietory Radius server as seen here : > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.a… > > Get registered with IBM's Developeworks portal, you shall find more > howtos over here : > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/library/es-radius1/ Dear Mr Mitul, Thank You for your reply , i searched google before posting but couldnt find the right stuff and it is urgent for me, so i thought of seeking help from Splendid men like you! :) Sir > > > > Its wonderfull to get in touch with people who share the same passion > > - Linux Rules. > > Linux surely Rules, but you are using AIX ;) thats propreitary Unix :) > > Thanks & Regards, > Mitul Limbani, > Founder & CEO, > Enterux Solutions, > The Enterprise Linux Company (TM), > www.enterux.com > I wanted the info for my interview :) which is today afternoon!

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advanced programming in linux.....
by Sukku 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Hi all, I am new to mumbai. i would like to know, is there any training center giving training program in linux internals(advanced programming in linux). such as multiprocessing and multithreading, memory management. file system. I/O etc...if any one is giving training let me know. Thanks and Regards, Sukumar.

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[OT] Hardware Query.
by Rony Bill 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Hello All, Right now I am in a dilemma situation and need some help from the experts. Has anyone installed a Decklink Extreme Video Edit card before? http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/sd/specs/ I have to install it in a new studio grade system whose mobo is Asus A8N SLI Premium. The main PCI Express slot will be used by a high end Nvidia graphics card. http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=0&model=539&modelmenu=1 The stupid part is that even the Decklink people don't know which slot to mount the card. They sell the card only. It is a PCI Express card and the site says its compatible to PCI Exp. x1, x4, x8 and x16 slots. This 'washing of hands' by the dealer is taking place after the order is under execution, so I just need to know which slot can I install the card. I understand, the card is not related to linux but if anyone has hardware experience on this, please help. Thanks and Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 33, Issue 6
by swapnil kedar 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

>On 1/3/06, linuxers-request(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in <linuxers-request(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> wrote: > Send Linuxers mailing list submissions to > linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > Dear All, Hi i am Swapnil Kedar, working as EDP Mngr at colaba. This is my first mail. i have joined the forum yesterday. Please Help me to find right docs / tutorial for LDAP, RADUIS, DNS servers running on IBM AIX RS6000 SP machine. I will be very thankfull coz its kinda urgent. Its wonderfull to get in touch with people who share the same passion - Linux Rules. Thanking You, Swapnil Kedar

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Debian DVDs for AMD 64 anyone got it?
by Raj Shaz 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi grp,anyb'dy with amd64 bit linux distro ( other then ubuntu,kubuntu and fedora ) has please let me know. kinda urgent... i like debian so itz the priority no 1 ...if u have it nuthing like it chow raj

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Firefox profile migration
by Puneet Lakhina 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

hi, i have downloaded a few themes for firefox and a few extensions and some plugins. is there someway i can migrate all this stuff to another machine without having to download everything again......... -- Puneet

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Hardware Query.
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Infra, Energy) 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

>under execution, so I just need to know which slot can I install the >card. I understand, the card is not related to linux but if anyone has >hardware experience on this, please help. >Rony. Since you asked I'm tempted to donate some of my cynicism >From the mobo pic,I see a single PCIe slot, so that means ONE card. Now how then how does it work in SLI I don't know... maybe you get an add-on module or it is meant for those cards that have multiple GPUs on a single card. (Did I dream about that one...) Either way it looks bad from my perspective.. Gishu

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[COMMERCIAL] Recruitment - Linux Professionals
by Shaks 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi all, We are looking for Linux professionals with 3 to 5 years experience in Java-Linux combination for handling Asia-Pacific operations based out of Mumbai. The candidate would need to work with global teams in multiple timelines and this profile would involve some amount of traveling for client installations across Asia. Technical Skills: Web server and Java technology administration skills (JBOSS, BEA, APACHE, TOMCAT), Database administration skills (including backup and recovery), J2EE, Java, Jython, XML, HTML and WML skills, Scripting skills (Python), Working knowledge of Networking and TCP/IP. Linux system navigation and scripting. Remuneration - negotiable. If interested, pls revert with your updated resume to sakthi(a)enpocket.com Regards, Sakthi +91-98670-07277 www.enpocket.com

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mail server problem
by Advait Raut 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

hi i am having problem accessing my mail server. i can ping to it. but the mail server is not able to ping router & any other machine on network. when am trying to login in my account i gives me following error. *Warning*: fsockopen(): unable to connect to umail.mu.ac.in:143 in * /srv/www/htdocs/mail/functions/imap_general.php* on line *454.* Error connecting to IMAP server: umail.mu.ac.in. 111 : Connection refused our DNS can also ping the mail server. we have suse9.0 on mailserver. & our mail server is postfix. i have restarted all services. i rebooted the server but the problem persist. pls give soluation.. -- Regards Advait Raut

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[COMMERCIAL] Recruitment - Linux Professionals
by Shaks 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi all, We are looking for Linux professionals with 3 to 5 years experience in Java-Linux combination for handling Asia-Pacific operations based out of Mumbai. The candidate would need to work with global teams in multiple timelines and this profile would involve some amount of traveling for client installations across Asia. Technical Skills: Web server and Java technology administration skills (JBOSS, BEA, APACHE, TOMCAT), Database administration skills (including backup and recovery), J2EE, Java, Jython, XML, HTML and WML skills, Scripting skills (Python), Working knowledge of Networking and TCP/IP. Linux system navigation and scripting. Remuneration - negotiable. If interested, pls revert with your updated resume to sakthi(a)enpocket.com Regards, Sakthi +91-98670-07277 www.enpocket.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Venue for January 14th meet.
by JTD 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

On Tuesday 27 December 2005 10:57, Rony Bill wrote: > JTD wrote: > > Fax? I thought that was obsolete. In the 80s and early 90s I sent > > and recieved 20 to 30 a day. This has fallen to 2 in the whole of > > 2005. Scan and mail is a lot cheaper and far more accurate for > > the rare doc that is required as a facsimile of the original. > > True. Fax messaging is getting rare but it is still very much in > use. A lot of my clients now want fax software loaded in their pc > so that they can avoid using a fax machine. Windows XP now comes > with an inbuilt fax software that makes things easier. I am looking > for something like that in linux for those who use external modems. hylafax, gfax, tkhylafax, movifax. Hylafax was common and in use 4 yrs ago. U can easily build a mail to fax gateway-relay, saving your multilocation client several thousand on STD and even more on ISD. <Glorification on> btw i used to design fax machines and built several prototypes, including a fax relay network and a telex-fax gateway in the days when dialing several places in India (particularly Delhi, Gauhati) required a steady supply of spare index fingers. rgds jtd

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] [OT?]Tech, Business and Entrepreneurship
by Rane, Aseem 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

> On Friday 30 December 2005 13:09, Dinesh Shah wrote: <snip> Oh, I am sorry. It was Dinesh Joshi whom I was addressing to in the earlier mail and not Dinesh Shah. Sorry once again Mr. Shah for my misleading editing of the post. Regards Aseem This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of the Capgemini Group. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message.

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How to convert NTFS to FAT32
by amit453d 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Hi All, I have a dual boot machine winXP Sp2 and RHEL v3 using Grub loader, now the problem is, sitting on Linux I cant access the three drives in windows (C-NTFS/D-FAT32/E-FAT32) where the Master boot record is in the C-ntfs drive. Also the INtel m/b is 865gev 2.8Ghz and a single sata HD. Also the linux is unable to recongnize the m/b sound card. PLz provide some solution for this. Cheers, Amit.

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