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Etch-Xfce DVD burning errors.
by Rony 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Hello All, I wanted to copy a Fedora 8 DVD for a friend. I tried the default Brasero in Etch-Xfce but it would not even proceed further than the window where Read and Write drives are chosen. So gnomebaker was used. It read the master DVD and created the image but on writing the image back to a blank DVD, it completed the process halfway but with no errors. However the DVD is only half burned as can also be observed physically. Then my all time favorite K3B was installed but it too recorded halfway and said ok. What I observed in gnomebaker was that it uses the 'dd' command to write the DVD which I feel is outdated. I did not check the same in K3B as I did not expect it to do the same. All necessary packages like dvdrw+tools, and many more are installed in my system. I lost 2 blank DVDs. Finally for the third and last one in stock, Nero was used in the other operating system and that recorded properly. What could be possibly happening? I recollect gnomebaker showing messages like... Writing image using dd if=... of=..... Flushing Cache. Updating RVM (?) Google does not yield much information about this problem. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Net Radio in Linux
by Rony 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Rony wrote: "A friend of mine showed me this site for internet radio. It works in Linux too. Go to www.sky.fm and check out 'Listen Now' on the top and from the list, select 'MP3 Streams'. A playlist file .pls will be downloaded. Save it and load the playlist in your audio player. Listen to good music without RJ yak yak. I selected the 96Kbps stream. As per the theoritical calculations, one hour of listening takes about 43 MB download." There is a 24 Kbps stream also available for slow connections. The sound is mono but decent for listening. 24 Kbps also cuts down on the downloaded data for connections having data download limits. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Gparted question
by Nishit Dave 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

List, I want to create a partition on my laptop by freeing up space from my C: drive, NTFS. I have been reading documentation on Gparted, but I could not determine if it requires contiguous free space within a partition to shrink it and create a new one with free space. The defragmentation utility provided with Windows XP does not consolidate free space. Would using Gparted to repartition the disc, after such (suboptimal) defragmentation, result into loss of data, or will it use only the free space? It would seem visually that Gparted will use free space, but there are conflicting opinions everywhere. Can somebody provide a concise, unequivocal answer? Can somebody provide a feasible solution if there is a definite problem?

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Yum country specific mirror list
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

> I'm using Fedora 8. Nowadays yum is updating at extremely slow speeds > from Asian mirrors. I am assuming that your Yum is configured to fetch mirrorlists from the following URLs: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=x86_64 http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f8&arch=x… Now do you know which particular mirror you are using and finding it slow? Most of the time, the first two mirrors would be an Indian one. One of the Indian mirrors -- ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ -- allows only a limited number of anonymous clients to connect, and each client is allowed a maximum of 32KBps to 48KBps of bandwidth. The other Indian mirror -- http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/pub/fedora -- is also planning to do something similar, and they might be changing their configuration as I am writing this email. In case you are having problems with the Indian mirrors: Now both these mirrors are quite new, experience very heavy loads -- http://glug-nith.org/usage ; http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/awstats/awstats.pl -- and face the standard bandwidth shortage prevalent in India. The first one has an 8Mbps line, while the second has a 5Mbps line, which they are planning to increase. Even then, it has been my observation that apart from the heavily loaded Fedora mirror, the other mirrors which these two machines host are quite fast. eg., try downloading Emacs from http://gnu.glug-nith.org/emacs/emacs-22.1.tar.gz and ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-22.1.tar.gz and compare the speeds. So if we had some specific inputs from you as to which mirror(s) you find slower, what sort of bandwidth you have, etc. we can try to optimize the Indian Fedora mirrors accordingly. If the problem is with the other Asian mirrors, then you might take it up on Fedora's mirror mailing lists. > mirrorlist.txt is filled with asian servers only. > Is there any way that yum downloads Non Asian mirrors list from US or > Europe? or on what basis does yum downloads country specific mirror > lists. Is there any way to change the defaults? There is a way. You need to pass a country variable tothe mirrorlist URLs. Eg., for only Indian mirrors you would do: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=x86_64&count… http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f8&arch=x… Cheers, Debarshi -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU) * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP)

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[INFO] Changing default applications in Etch-Xfce Desktop
by Rony 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Hello All, I had pasted some files on my desktop. These files opened with a preset default application. I wanted to use another one that I installed but on right-clicking the file, no option for opening in an alternate application was available. Even googling for help did not yield any usefull results. Finally while checking out some files in my home directory ( using the default Thunar browser) I found that inside Thunar the alternate application option is available and I could change it to my chosen one. Plus, those who do not have the archiving option on right click inside Thunar can install the 'thunar-archive-plugin' using apt-get. This will add the archiving options 'Extract Here' and 'Extract To' on right clicking files inside Thunar. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Net Radio in Linux
by Rony 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

Hello All, A friend of mine showed me this site for internet radio. It works in Linux too. Go to www.sky.fm and check out 'Listen Now' on the top and from the list, select 'MP3 Streams'. A playlist file .pls will be downloaded. Save it and load the playlist in your audio player. Listen to good music without RJ yak yak. I selected the 96Kbps stream. As per the theoritical calculations, one hour of listening takes about 43 MB download. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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[OT] Defective Linux For You Media.
by Rony 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

Hello All, This month Linux For You has done it again. The magazine costs Rs. 100/- like other computer mags but again their optical media is bad. This has become a tradition with them and they seem to be pretty thick skinned about it. I have decided to stop buying this magazine altogether as it is a waste of hard earned money. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Help on NDMP
by Kanika Rajani 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

We are working with NDMFS(an implementation of NDMP protocol) to take backup (on fedora 7 platform) but are facing a problem. When giving the "backup" command to take the backup ,it is giving the error-NDMP_NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR. Can u help?

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Commercial -- Opensource Navigation Client -- OT
by Akshay Mishra 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Hello list, I had posted earlier about requiring hands for development on our ARM platform. We are now pleased to inform a fully stable ARM9E platform available with DSPWorks. We are offering alpha samples for people who'd like to pay and play with and test our board (the hardware is fully stable and so is the software. It might still not be commercial grade though). We have gpsdrive working stably on our platform and we are now taking orders for intial samples. The delivery shall take some time (4-6 weeks) since we are gathering volumes so that we can reduce price and get some money to make hardware. The specs are: gpsdrive on a handheld. it'll work in your car or maybe also on a handy (battery unit up next). Maps from google maps. (it should take commercial maps, but you'll have to pay for it.). Any discussions for possible alliances are welcome. . All those interested can send me an email at: akshay <at> dspworks.in. Thanks, Akshay

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open source POS systems
by Abhishek Daga 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Hello, I am seeking recommendations on open source POS (point of sale) applications that includes support for bar code readers, label printers, etc.. The entire gamut related to a POS system in a retail (grocery store) environment. One suggestion was TINA POS but its no longer there on sourceforge. Then there is phppointofsale.com. Anyone used it? It seems like a good bet but personal experiences and first hand reports are highly valued. Thanks abhishek

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Fwd: Fedora 8/ARM available
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh(a)wantstofly.org> Date: 15 Jan 2008 05:03 Subject: Fedora 8/ARM available To: fedora-arm(a)redhat.com, fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com Hi all, We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial) Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture. The package repository has been built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float, little endian. The majority of the important and frequently used Fedora packages have been built for ARM. The Fedora/ARM architecture wiki page has more info: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM The easiest way to start using Fedora 8/ARM is to download the prebuilt root filesystem, which can be booted in QEMU, or chroot'ed into or booted from on any ARMv5 or later processor running in little endian mode. Additional packages can be installed by using yum, which is provided in the filesystem. A HOWTO which describes getting Fedora/ARM running in QEMU is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu There currently are a handful of known issues, which are described at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/TODO Please help us by using the Fedora/ARM port and reporting any issues you run into so that we can fix them. thanks, Lennert _______________________________________________ Fedora-devel-announce mailing list Fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU) * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP)

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not able to open network manager.
by mukesh yadav 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

hello friends. i'm using ubuntu...and xfce desktop environment. I'm not able to open the network manager to add the Ip address. and i dont know how to do this via terminal. so please help me how i can open network manager to change my static IP and gateway and other info... thanks in advance.

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Yum country specific mirror list
by Prashant 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hi, I'm using Fedora 8. Nowadays yum is updating at extremely slow speeds from Asian mirrors. mirrorlist.txt is filled with asian servers only. Is there any way that yum downloads Non Asian mirrors list from US or Europe? or on what basis does yum downloads country specific mirror lists. Is there any way to change the defaults? Thanks, Prashant

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Fwd: Report on Kolhapur workshop
by Kenneth Gonsalves 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Begin forwarded message: > From: "sudhanwa Jogalekar" > Subject: Re: Report on Kolhapur workshop > > Hi, > > Today at 11 am I saw the reporting about the event and the "phono" of > Prof. Kodawade Sir on the Star Majha channel. ( I think this was a > repeat telecast. The same program is telecast at 8 pm on Saturday) > > They had shown NRC-FOSS website video with Prof. Kodawade's telephonic > interview about the event. > > Congrats to all the people participating in the event, especially > Prof. Kodawade and Kenneth Gonsalves for organising/co-ordinating the > event. I am sure this is a major step in getting FOSS into various > colleges and courses. > > Regards > -Sudhanwa -- 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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Fwd: Serious help needed
by Suhit Kelkar 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: rahul srivastava <rahulks7(a)yahoo.com> Date: Jan 13, 2008 10:43 AM Subject: Serious help needed To: suhitkelkar(a)gmail.com Cc: matias(a)urbanology.org Dear Suhit, Many apologies for taking your time again! But I urgently need help and felt that you would be in the best position to help us with this. For the Koliwada workshop (and we are racing against time on that!) we urgently need a professional programmer. If you could forward this following job-description to your friends who are in this field, we will be very very grateful! Please do treat this as urgent. warmly, Rahul Professional Programmer Needed: Open source - Wikimedia Project We are currently looking for an experimented programmer, fluent in html and PHP, AJAX and C# a definite plus for a 3 months project starting immediately. The successful candidate will be working in close collaboration with other programmers based in San Diego (US) and a team of urbanists and social scientists based in Mumbai and Tokyo. The work will consist in customizing and adding new functions (such as video) to an existing open source wikimedia system. The system will be used by the residents of a neighbourhood in Mumbai and eventually put at the service of other communities. Knowledge of Marathi a plus. Location is irrelevant, although the programmer should be ready to travel to Mumbai a couple of times. Compensation commensurate with experience. Send CV and/or work samples to urbz08(a)gmail.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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KDE4 live CD: the latest of KDE + the latest of Fedora
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

http://www.deadbabylon.de/blog/2008/01/11/livecd-for-rawhide-with-kde-400/ "Today is the release day of KDE 4.0.0. The packages should find their way into the repository soon or they are already there. What's missing is another live image to test the new stable version of KDE without the need of installing rawhide." Here is the ISO and its checksum: http://www.fedoraforum.de/iso/test/rawhide-KDE4-i686-20080109/rawhide-KDE4-… http://www.fedoraforum.de/iso/test/rawhide-KDE4-i686-20080109/rawhide-KDE4-… Cheers, Debarshi -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU) * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP)

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In support of OLPC
by Rony 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hello All, Here is an interesting POV for those who are sceptical about OLPC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7138061.stm -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [OT] Fwd: [Gnu-arch-users] dear colleagues
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray <debarshi.ray(a)gmail.com> Date: Jan 10, 2008 4:14 PM Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [OT] Fwd: [Gnu-arch-users] dear colleagues To: ILUG-Cal's principal mailing list <ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org> One of the GNU Arch authors have lost his car. Regards, Debarshi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thomas Lord <lord(a)emf.net> Date: 10 Jan 2008 16:53 Subject: [Gnu-arch-users] dear colleagues To: gnu-arch-users <gnu-arch-users(a)gnu.org> Well, perfect end to a fucked up decade...... Really exciting night! Someone came pounding on my door to call me outside. Turns out, someone has totaled my car while it was parked on the street for the night. Why is this exciting? Because I can't walk much at the moment and that car was vital to day to day survival. I wonder how I'll manage to get groceries tomorrow. Wait, it gets better. Being poor, I'm fully paid up and current on lowest available rate insurance. So, I called the claims number tonight and, an experience familiar from the open source world, the number is disconnected. Watch us drown. If anyone would like to help either please do so or pass this message along to someone sensitive who can. Time is of the essence, if anyone happens to give a damn. -t _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users(a)gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/ -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU) * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP) _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list Ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Press interview
by alpesh gajbe 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

A recent interview of FSF Chairman in enterpriser.in on Swatantra software. http://www.enterpriser.in/India/Questions_n_Answers/Proprietary_Software_is… With Regards Alpesh

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[COMMERCIAL] MySQL session at OSIW; let's design the programme together
by Atanu Datta 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hi all! MySQL will conduct a session in Bangalore and Delhi during the OSIW (Open Source India Week) where they want feedback on the topics the attendees will be interested in knowing more about. Following are a few topics that came forth when we were cooking the programme with MySQL's David Axmark and Brian Aker. 1. Zero hassles transition from MS Access/Oracle to MySQL 2. How to do Stored Procedures, Triggers & Views in MySQL 3. How to write storage engines for MySQL Those are some of the things that our DBA wants to know more about. Obviously, there should be many more topics that you all want covered or wanna discuss. Please throw your ideas, we'll put all of 'em in the melting pot, and hand it over to the Brian so that he can design the final programme. Best, Atanu Datta Team LFY

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Usefull Titbits.
by Rony 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hello All, Here are some useful softwares you can use. 1. http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm The Smart Boot Manager is a floppy image that can be burned into a floppy to make it a universal boot utility. I discovered it accidentally in the Xbuntu 6.10 CD ( smb.bin ) when trying to run it on an old Celeron 300, 64 MB RAM machine that had a CD ROM but could not boot it due to the old BIOS. The beauty of this utility is that it lists everything that is bootable, including all HDD partitions and you simply select the required device and hit enter. It eliminates the need for dedicated boot floppies for every distro CD. It was usefull in installing Etch-Xfce on that machine. 2. http://www.blogbridge.com/ This is an open source RSS reader that can be installed in your system so you don't need to let third party reader web sites know what you are reading. Simply download the tar.gz package and run it directly. Do your own tweaking. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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greetings from a new member!
by Suhit Kelkar 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hello fellow gnus, I'm Suhit Kelkar, freelance journalist currently working with the research group PUKAR, and avid gnu enthusiast. (I use Mandriva 2008 now, and for the past three years have relied on free software for my writing work. I'm now pushing for it in my office.) Here's wishing you freedom in the new year. I look forward to catching up with you in the linuxers meeting. May I know the time of the next one, please, so I may make your acquaintance? Regards, Suhit.

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Photos of first OLPC pilot in India
by Venkatesh Hariharan 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

As 2007 was drawing to a close, I got a chance to visit the OLPC deployment in Khairat, India. This deployment is supported by Reliance, one of the largest industrial groups in India. I have uploaded photos from the visit and added a small description to each photo. These are at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/venky7/sets/72157603606772250/ I look forward to your comments, feedback, brickbats etc... Venky

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[Commercial] Linux CDs/DVDs at low prices.
by Amit Joshi 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

I am planning to sell Linux CDs/DVDs on an on-demand download basis. CDs -- Rs.20 and DVDs -- Rs.40. I already have a few Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu CDs that I wish to give away freely. I shall charge Rs.10 flat rate throughout Mumbai for every 3 CDs/DVDs. Payment and contact details shall be mailed to interested parties. :) Regards, Amit.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linuxers Digest, Vol 57, Issue 3
by Venkatesh Hariharan 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Chetan S" <cshring(a)gmail.com> > Great news indeed. > > Just a question : Have all the features including wifi been enabled too ? > Yes. It has a mesh network and the students use it to chat among themselves, share photos etc. > I admire this laptop for its robustness and the wonderful idea of > making students fix its problems. > > Can you detail the support level offered in this case ? Am sure there > is only marginal one ( a good thing ) as Negroponte rightly expects > students to fix the problems and learn while doing that. There is a team from Reliance that is supporting the OLPCs. Amit who is a Linux admin for Reliance and a few others regularly visit the site and fix the OLPCs. > What customizations have been made in this case considering they have > been given to Indian students ? Or is it the original stuff. None. It has the Sugar interface that is based on Fedora that is customises specially for children. This was built by the OLPC team and Red Hat along with others. One OLPC is now in the Pune center of Red Hat where some of the localization will happen. Interestingly, the students are Marathi medium students and not all of them use English fluently but they use the OLPC features quite well. Venky

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