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Does SEBI dislike FOSS?
by Nishit Dave 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

In 2005, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) issued a circular to stock exchanges directing them to get affidavits from brokers / sub-brokers operating trading terminals, targeting use of unauthorised software. The link to the circular is here: http://www.sebi.gov.in/circulars/2003/cir3403.html Read the first clause of the affidavit format. The requirement that SEBI's prior approval be sought before modifying any part of the terminal software is directly in conflict with terms of FOSS licenses like the GPL. This may have a bearing on the use of open technologies on trading platforms. Can any of the enlightened comment on what can be done to level the playing field for FOSS? Have any of the developers come across emphasis on use of closed technologies for compliance with SEBI requirements?

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Hello
by Rehman 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

Hello All, Its good to see you all sharing ideas and contributing towards the open source revolution.Well, I got introduced to linux only a month ago by one of my coworkers, and I must admit that I found it a bit difficult to grasp at first.As I am starting to get used to it I am finding it more productive as compared to Windows and getting more excited about it I recently bought an eeePC, Its a marvellous combination of mobility and productivity, what more would you want in a notebook? Since I am really new to Linux, I would really appreciate if you'll could help me improving my linux skills.Could you please suggest me on whats the best way of learning Linux in your opinion ? I mean do you learn by yourself by means of trail and Error or Its worth attending some professional Linux Training ? Also does anyone know of Good Linux training Institutes in Vashi ? is anyone here from around Vashi area ? Thanks, Rehman

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[Commercial] Fedora Core 8 DVDs at cheap prices.
by Amit Joshi 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

I am selling Fedora Core 8 DVD -- x86 version on Ebay[1]. I would also like to give away Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu 7.10 CD (32/64bit) for free with every DVD. [1] http://cgi.ebay.in/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180219048652&ssPageName=A… More information can be found on the following site. -- http://mckagan.googlepages.com

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[cross post][ANN] Freebsd 7.0 released
by vivek khurana 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Hi! All, FreeBSD engineering team has announced release of Freebsd 7.0, first major release in last two years. More at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html . New features of freebsd 7.0 can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/relnotes.html This is what onlamp.com has to say about freebsd 7.0 http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2008/02/26/whats-new-in-freebsd-70.html The making of freebsd 7.0 http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0 Preview.pdf regards VK

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Bluetooth Support Linux
by Aniket Bharaswadkar 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

On Tuesday 26 February 2008 11:30:03 pm linuxers-request(a)mm.glug-bom.org wrote: > On FC6, I had to edit hcid.conf as per my requirements (it might work > without editing) > and run bluez-pin manually for the first time. I downloaded > kdebluetooth but it didnt work. > > But recently I upgraded kdelibs and kdenetwork packages and then I noticed > that it automatically asked for pin. But I didnt try kdebluetooth after > that, I believe it might > be working now. > > For file transfer I use obexftp command line client (phone should > support obex protocol) > and for contacts backup I use gnokii (had to compile latest one). My > mobile is Nokia N70. > > Btw how much speed are you getting with file transfer over bluetooth > for me 1MB takes > abt 45-50 seconds. But over USB cable it takes 2-3 seconds only. > > My motherboard supports USB1 only, so I got PCI2USB card with 5 USB2 ports, > but speed over bluetooth still is the same. I suppose thats because > mobile does not > support faster speeds or do I have to specify parameters to kernel > module to support > faster speed over PCI2USB card? > > Amish. Hi all I have been using bluetooth for the past few years. My experience has been improving all the time! The first time I got a cheap chinese bluetooth when I was using FC3. It was detected and running fine after installing bluez manually. And sometime later , I believe after FC5 , bluetooth kernel support was present . I use KDE , so I have been using kdebluetooth. The versions of kdebluetooth till fc7 , came with KBemused server too, which allowed me to control amarok, xmms and noatun from my Nokia Symbian SMartphone. The version in F8 is lacking this functionality. But the good thing is, if you click on Bluetooth icon in the tray, you get a window showing all detected devices. From there I double clicked on my Phone's (N75) icon, I saw 2 services, OBEX Push and OBEX FTP. On clicking obex-ftp , i can see 2 drives (C: and E:) as seen through USB!! And its usable to drag and drop files, I use this method to copy images clicked on my phone. Also one interesting application for the geeky types, if you have a shared computer at home with 2 siblings fighting for chatting acces :-( , one of you can chat through the cell phone using the computer's net connection via Bluetooth !! I have written a small hot-to for this, at http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=125682 I had written this when I was using FC5 . Some things may have changed in the bluetooth config since then , as I have not tried it in F8 . It worked fine with F7 . For contact sync with KDE, you can use kitchensync . You will have to install libopensync, its plugins and libsyncml using yum . And there is one more plugin needed libopensync-plugin-syncml whose packages are not available but source can be obtained at opensync.org . The contacts are synced with Kontact and even the reminders,notes and stuff I think( which I havent tried). Cheers -- Linux mymachine 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:48:34 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Dell Vostro 1400 , C2D 1.6Ghz , Nvidia 8400 128MB , Intel 3945 ABG , Intel HDA-Sigmatel 9228

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Community networks
by shirish 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Hi all, I am a GNU/Linux user from Pune. I like to blog about the various happenings that take place or something which interests me in the happenings of GNU/Linux world. I would like very much to know if there are people who would like to do some kind of community based networking. http://freesoftwareexperiences.blogspot.com/2008/02/bandwidth-scarcity-last… Comments, suggestions all are welcome. :) -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

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[Commercial] Service, support, training in Ubuntu
by shirish 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Hi all, We are an p2p group named wikiocean (www.wikiocean.net) which uses & supports free software in whichever way possible. Most of the time when people are looking for solutions on GNU/Linux platform they are unsure of service support. In that context we are looking to make a database of freelancers, small & medium support centres who are providing GNU/Linux service support to Individuals, NGO's, small & medium organisations . As GNU/Linux is a wide-wide world for time efficiency's sake we have chosen ubuntu as it has the commercial support of Canonical while at the same time has the technical stability & expertise courtesy the Debian Universe. So if you are interested in knowing more, please join http://groups.google.com/group/wikiubuntu. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

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How to install iSCSI device on Linux
by Neelesh Gurjar 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Hi, I want to install one iSCSI device on my Linux machine. I installed open-iscsi on my Machine. Kernel of my Linux m/c is 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP. -- Regards NeeleshG neelesh_gurjar.livejournal.com LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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bluetooth from IVT Corp.
by Arun Khan 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

I have a bluetooth USB device from IVT Corp. Allegedly it has the CSR chip set (from the bluez hardware list). As soon as I plug it in I get the following message ad inifitum with the numbers in the [] ever increasing. [219.240000] hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for unknown connection handle 92 Searched for the above on the 'Net but with no conclusive solution. # lsusb -v does list the device but with a MAC address of 11:11:11:11:11:11 Under WinXP (with supplied drivers) it still shows the above MAC address. Is this is a legal MAC address? Any pointers to solutions appreciated. TIA -- Arun Khan

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Bluetooth Support Linux
by Rony 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Hello All, I am planning to buy a usb-bluetooth device from Lam. Road, that's compatible with Linux too. What are the devices used by you and how easy is it to setup and use? On the net BlueSoleil does not have any Linux drivers for download. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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bsnl database migration
by krazy lizard 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Dear friends, i'm trying to automate the process of finding numbers from the bsnl cd in one of my application. bsnl also provides directory in the form of a cd. i was trying to migrate the database of bsnl customers to mysql. the problem is that the cd is made to run specifically on windows using Visual foxpro & dbase. i can migrate the database, but there is another problem, the address field in the database is encrypted, so i get all the required data in the tables except the addresses. if i try to find the numbers manually, it shows the address but otherwise it's encrypted. any suggestions or work around to this problem? regds, krazy.

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where to report a _kontact_ bug?
by Pradnyesh Sawant 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Hey, I want to submit a bug for the kontact application for kde, but couldn't find anywhere to do so. Can someone please tell me where to submit a bug for kontact? -- warm regards, Pradnyesh Sawant -- If I learn from my mistakes, pretty soon I'll know everything. --Anon

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Goolag - a Google based web site vulnerability scanner
by Arun Khan 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

FWIW, came across this in an IT e-zine <http://www.goolag.org/>. -- Arun Khan

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[ANN] Voices in Indian languages released
by Kenneth Gonsalves 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

hi, NRC-FOSS is pleased to announce that IIT Hyderabad has released 4 voices - Tamil, Telegu, Hindi and Kannada under a CC license. This is possibly the first time that an educational institution in India has made such a release. The voices are available here: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/iiithyd/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/

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Linux on laptops: furthering the cause
by Nishit Dave 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

List, I wanted to bounce some thoughts off your collective minds. I recently saw an ad for a cheap laptop launched by HCL - probably trying to compete with the XO and the Eee, with a 7" LCD. Contrary to their image so far of being friendly to FOSS, they seem to be preloading MS-ware (discount versions?) on this PC. I think FOSS starts with a big handicap when manufacturers offer preloaded Windows even in case of computers intended for home or educational use. Should the community start the two following, connected initiatives? 1. Lobby local computer makers like HCL and Zenith to offer an option for loading Linux or selling systems without a pre-loaded OS (and with a tiny little discount). The pre-installed OS can be on a secondary partition, to allow Windows to be installed on a primary partition at the user's option later. I know, the manufacturers would risk paying the Microsoft Tax (TM) heavily if they tried to do anything like this, but this could at least help bring an unfair practice out into the open. 2. Build up an effort to force Microsoft to let its boot loader recognize and (hopefully) accommodate other operating systems that have been installed previously. This would at least keep them intact instead of being overwritten / rendered unusable when the user inevitably installs Windows, licensed or unlicensed, thus keeping up the possibility that it will get used sometimes, even out of curiosity. Your constructive comments please.

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<Announce>Pad.ma Launch
by Sanjay Bhangar 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

Over the past few months, we have been working on a Public Access Digital Media Archive (www.pad.ma) and are having a beta-launch event on the 28th of February at JnanaPravaha Art Gallery at Fort. The interface has been written in Python (using the Turbogears frame-work) and Javascript and all the code is GPL. We are using Ogg Theora as the video encoding format for all the videos in the archive. The only browser it does not support is IE;-). Very much looking forward to larger involvement from the FOSS community and should be interesting for anyone who is interested in video, the web, and FOSS. All are welcome and very much looking forward to seeing some Linuxers there. For details of the event, directions, etc.: http://www.camputer.org/event.php?id=7 Warm regards, Sanjay

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New project on FLOSS
by Vinay Sreenivasa 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

Hello all, Greetings from IT for Change! ITfC (IT for Change) is a non-profit organisation located in India. ITfC envisions a society capable of, and comfortable with, innovative and effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) as a tool, to further goals of social change.We undertake research, advocacy and field-action projects in the area of ICTs for development. Wanted to share information on a new on FLOSS, which is being coordinated by the European Union. This project will look at increasing FLOSS uptake in various countries, including India. This project called FLOSS Include, will be carried out by a project team of research institutes, government agencies, private companies and non-governmental organizations in 9 countries - Argentina, Cambodia, China, Ghana, India, South Africa, Spain and the UK. The consortium is led by UNU-MERIT, a joint research and training centre of United Nations University and Maastricht University in the Netherlands and includes among other organizations, Canonical Ltd the sponsors for Ubuntu. In India, the FLOSS Include project will carry out an in-depth analysis of the technical, business and socio-political needs for the growth of FLOSS use, deployment and development in the target regions. In the larger effort, partners will implement FLOSS solutions, tools and services to ensure they are cost-effective and practical for each environment. The FLOSS Include aims to ensure a lasting impact beyond the project duration. A project fact sheet is available at http://flossinclude.eu ITforChange (http://www.itforchange.net/) and Sarai, India (http://www.sarai.net/) are the two organizations in India, which will be a part of this project. As part of FLOSS Include, ITfC will focus on FLOSS and the public sector and will study the role of public sector agencies in producing, organizing and stimulating production of FLOSS, including using FLOSS for public administration, and sharing of FLOSS applications among public sector bodies. Much of social processes, like public delivery of health, education and livelihood support services have a central role for public authorities and hence public systems have a crucial role in pushing FLOSS. Currently commercial, proprietary software is often preferred and the project would study the contexts for FLOSS being used in a larger way for Public administration. We will also study government polices for FLOSS an area where which tends to often have a pro-industry / commercial software orientation and not much support or enthusiasm for FLOSS. In addition, since the issues of standards have a strong connection to the role of public sector - both as a major bulk user of software and being able to set default standards through using them in public application , and through direct policy interventions the study will have a strong focus on the interoperability and open standards aspects in our research. The project activities have been kick-started now and the project is currently in progress. Thanks, Vinay Sreenivasa IT for Change 91-(0)821-2343527 91-98805-95032 vinay(a)itforchange.net www.ITforChange.net

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need help for ldap integration with qmail
by Advait Raut 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

hey guys... i need an help for integration of ldap with qmail on RHEL 5. if anybody has done this kind of stuff earlier then pls help me .. -- Regards Advait Raut

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] yum error ..unable to install
by Debarshi Ray 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

> I am trying to inall the yum installer ( yum-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm ) from > http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.2/ Which distribution (and version) are you using? > rpm -ivh yum-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm I do not know why you need 2.2.0, because 3.2.x has been the current series for sometime now. Cheerio, Debarshi -- "From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." -- Arthur Ashe

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yum error ..unable to install
by Agnello George 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Hi I am trying to inall the yum installer ( yum-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm ) from http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.2/ rpm -ivh yum-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm warning: yum-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 69886cc7 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:yum ########################################### [100%] i restarted yum and it started with no error [root@esha software]# /etc/init.d/yum start Enabling nightly yum update: [ OK ] but when i try to install gcc it give me the following error [root@esha software]# yum install gcc Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 6, in ? import yummain File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 23, in ? import yum ImportError: No module named yum [root@esha software]# can some one help me with this error ... thanks -- Regards Agnello Dsouza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com

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Help required
by Yogesh Kulkarni 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

Dear All, I need help in installing JDK & JRE on debian 2.6.18-6-386. I had tried my level best to install them but could not. Please help me in getting it done. Regards, Yogesh Kulkarni -- योगेश: कुळकर्णी http://yogamegha.blogspot.com https://launchpad.net/people/swamiyogesh

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And the winners for FOSS India Awards are...
by niraj＠efyindia.com 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

Here's some great news that I (on behalf of the Linux For You team) wanted to share with all of you... The Gist... Top 20 winners for FOSS India Awards were finalised on 15th of Feb during Open Source India Week's Delhi edition. NRCFOSS sponsored these awards by taking care of the prize money, which is Rs 5 lakh-- where each winner will get Rs 25,000! Here's what M.R. Rajagopalan, director, NRCFOSS, shad to say w.r.t. the awards, Through such incentives, NRCFOSS expects to stimulate young minds, encourage innovative contributions to the FOSS ecosystem and address the digital divide." Complete details about the awards announcement can be had at: http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/24867/news.htm <snippet from the announcement> Here is the complete list of the winners: * Hindawi Indic Programming System * Zmanda Recover Manager for MySQL * Dhvani Indian Language Text to Speech System * Fedora (games and localization spins) * KDE 3.5 Hindi * MayaVi * Jtrac * DeepOfix * Tuxtype * WanEM * Mac4Lin * OpenLX * Anjuta * HarvestMan * Get it I say * KIWI-LTSP * Ffmpeginstall * Belenix * TVTK: Traited VTK * GNUSim8085 </snippet> For more details about the FOSS India Awards, visit: www.openits.com/awards/ Soon, registration will be opened up for FOSS India Awards 2009... Regards, Niraj Sahay

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OFFTOPIC: From India, a magazine that looks at Open Publishing ...
by Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया] 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

i4donline.net's February 2008 magazine focuses on open publishing. Some of the articles it has include: * Gutenberg Project * Moodle CMS * Widgit Software * Open Webcasting * Open Architecture Network * Digital Library in India, the million book project * Cape Town Open Education Declaration * Information on the Farm Front * Interview: Gregory Newby and Michael Hart * Workshop on Science Commons * ACIA: Intl Workshop on Asia and the Commons in the Info Age * Training programme on biomedical info retrival * BytesForAll summaries * Books: Community radio guide, empowering tools * Etc You can download it at http://i4donline.net/feb08/feb08.pdf FN -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +91-832-2409490 The Goa books blog: http://goabooks.wordpress.com Goa1556 (alt.publishing.goa): http://goa1556.goa-india.org

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query about double firewalls
by Rohit V Bhute 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

Hi people. Some of you might remember I had asked about the chaotic performance of a LAMP server a few months ago. My team finally brought the local server where we had tested our sites earlier online. We eliminated each component of the stack. Finally, we were left with the firewalls. At the ISP where we have co located, we have two firewalls - one dedicated hardware firewall shared among three servers and one on the machine itself. There is some NATing also involved since the LAMP server has a 192.168.x.x address. The test server which we were using as our baseline had just its own firewall (iptables). At the firm suggestion of the ISP's tech/network guys, today, we switched off the LAMP server's iptables firewall. Now sites are working like smooooth! <http://pastebin.com/m63e4e613> This is our test server's iptables listing. The LAMP server has ports 21 and 443 also open in addition to one listed here. The OUTPUT chain counters also show a lot of traffic. Otherwise, both iptables are also same. So my doubt is: was the double firewall (and NATing) the reason for the earlier chaotic performance? Is there some configuration we have to do to the iptables before we start it again? Regards. -- Rohit V. Bhute http://rvbhute.org

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Sabayon Linux
by Rony Bill 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

Hello All, This month's LFY comes with live + install Sabayon 1.1 Linux. My vendor too has co-operated to exchange defective media. However this month LFY appears to have improved its media quality and I have not found any problems yet. I tried out the live Sabayon DVD and there is only one way to describe Sabayon Linux :- TOO SEXY. It gets even better. Sabayon uses KDE, the great desktop environment. Sabayon is already loaded with popular multimedia codecs and works out of the box. The sound was not coming from my speakers and it was because the 'headphones' channel in the mixer (kmix) did not have its green dot highlighted. Once that was clicked, sound was perfect. Firefox comes pre-loaded with flash player so you can watch/listen flash content too. My system has a 512 MB RAM but I am sure even 256 MB RAM machines will load the live session without a problem as it appears to be quite light on the system. I am writing this mail from the live session. Even if one has his/her own favourite distro, this live DVD is definately worth a look. As one of our members would have put it, it takes the pants off Windows desktops. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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