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Lenovo, Novell partner to offer Linux on the ThinkPad
by Vipul Mathur 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Lenovo, Novell partner to offer Linux on the ThinkPad By Eric Bangeman | Published: August 06, 2007 - 10:18AM CT http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070806-lenovo-novell-partner-to-offe… ThinkPad customers will soon have a new configuration option, as Lenovo and Novell have announced that the popular laptops will begin shipping with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED) preinstalled. Although the ThinkPad has been certified for Linux for some time, this marks the first time Lenovo will ship a laptop with Linux preinstalled—while providing both hardware and OS support. Novell will provide software updates directly to ThinkPad owners, however. Read more at: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070806-lenovo-novell-partner-to-offe… ~ViM

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Pushing Linux through small vendors
by Satish Alwani 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

Actually the X issues are pretty darn irritating. I had kubuntu running on my laptop, since I wanted to introduce my brother to it. Well, everything said and done, he wanted to connect it to his lcd tv. Now, we had it running before on windows, gave brilliant output. But somehow getting X to do it was a real PITA. Also, getting lcds to give you refresh rates of over 60 is another issue. To top it off, people in IRC just say to use LCDs at 60hz. Trust me when I say this, there is a difference between 60 and 72/75hz in LCD's. Even tho the LCD refresh rates are different to how CRT refresh rates work. Even CRT's on X can be an issue. My SyncMaster 793s w/ Geforce FX 5200 for example, gave the default of 60hz. The default settings kubuntu gives is at 60hz. Ofcourse a little tweakingin xorg.conf, I had it running at 85. Also, even tho kubuntu ships with the default nvidia kernel, it still uses the nv driver. Something I fail to understand because if you use the nvidia driver instead, you gain some performance increase, including refresh rates. (Ive seen some difference between nv@85 and nvidia@85). I had to move from nv to nvidia to get beryl working, but as soon as i did, the monitor adjustments and everything felt a bit sweeter. Kinda hard to explain. Considering the major GFX chipsets are either nvidia / ati. This really should be taken care at the distro level. I am not totally all anti MS and stuff. Thats not the way I think, but honestly its all about the freedom of choice. People today are looking more towards an iMac than they did some years ago. Why? Well, thanks to vista believe it or not. As the old saying goes, immitation is the best form of flattery, people know that vista is a pure rip off of the mac tiger. However, their main concern for moving out is backward compatibility with their existing OS applications. What they fail to realize isthey can get most of it working today either through the likes of Wine or virtualizing your old existing windows. In which case you are free to migrate while at the same time giving you the option of moving back and forth with a live system. Whats this got to do with pushing linux. EVERYTHING! Vendors and users alike are sometimes unaware of the power of virtualization and what Wine has to offer. Most office people today mostly use spreadsheets, word documents, and emails. Offices mostly run on intranet solutions. Most other applications they have access to are mostly written in Visual Basic. Of which these applications do seem to run fine on wine. If they do have any other applications, they can always boot into windows and use it as and when they need to, encompassing the security of the host OS onto the guest os within a sandboxed environment. Ofcourse the possibilities of this could be rather endless, as organisations which can look towards thin client computing, mostly dont due to their dependency on windows environment. This factor can eliminate that as well. If vendors and users are aware that their choice of moving can be complimented instead of complicated by dual boots etc., then they will feel more likely to accept a solution which can favour them, specially where licensing issues can be a concern. VMware does have alot of its application to support this for free so it would be a great way to get your feet wet. Regards, Satish

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[COMMERCIAL] Software Engineer openings at Red Hat (Pune)
by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Red Hat has multiple openings for Software Engineers at Pune. Provided below are the job descriptions along with TAGs which should be used in $SUBJECT line of the application. Please ensure that you provide the CV in Open Document Format (ODF) to sankar {at} redhat {dot} com and jrajopad {at} redhat {dot} com. For both the openings participation in existing Free and Open Source projects would be an added advantage. * Sr Software Engineer (SrSWENGG) Software engineer with a strong technical background to ensure the reliability of Red Hat products and services. The primary focus will be to solicit and prioritize detailed feature requests to support software portfolios running within the larger Red Hat Enterprise Linux ecosystem. An ideal candidate would have demonstrated people, project management experience and excellent communication skills. Other skills include software skills to develop the test environment, create test automation, execute functional tests, deliver in depth defect reports Required Skills: Knowledge of Standards and Guidelines pertaining to the following: + FHS + LSB + Freedesktop Standards + Portland Project Guidelines + Packaging Guidelines + Knowledge of RPM + Python, Ruby + GNU Coding Standards + Autoconf/Automake + GDB Profile: o 5+ years work experience with a designing, coding, debugging, and deploying software in a leadership role. o Firm foundation in at least one object oriented programming language (Python or Ruby) with some experience of other technologies, scripting languages, databases and software engineering. (essential) o Robust experience of *nix /APIs/ ABI compatibility. (essential) o An understanding of how commercial software fits into an Open Source world. o Deep understanding of FHS, LSB, GNU coding standards, Guidelines. (Essential) o Strong proficiency with RPM and RPM specfile syntax. o Understanding of configuration management principles. o Must understand the general software development release cycle, source management and defect management methodologies in Linux environment. * Associate Software Engineer (ASWENGG) Software engineer with a strong technical background to ensure the reliability of Red Hat products and services. The primary focus will be to solicit and prioritize detailed feature requests to support software portfolios running within the larger Red Hat Enterprise Linux ecosystem. An ideal candidate would have demonstrated people, project management experience and excellent communication skills. Other skills include software skills to develop the test environment, create test automation, execute functional tests, deliver in depth defect reports Required Skills: Knowledge of Standards and Guidelines pertaining to the following: + FHS + Packaging Guidelines + Knowledge of RPM + Python, Ruby + GNU Coding Standards + Autoconf/Automake + GDB Profile: o 1+ years work experience with a designing, coding, debugging software o Firm foundation in at least one object oriented programming language (Python or Ruby) with some experience of other technologies, scripting languages, databases and software engineering. (essential) o Robust experience of *nix /APIs/ ABI compatibility. (essential) o Strong proficiency with RPM and RPM specfile syntax. o Understanding of configuration management principles. o Must understand the general software development release cycle, source management and defect management methodologies in Linux environment. - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGtqj2XQZpNTcrCzMRAn3yAJ46eQQsfsZ0TldU019fqYc13q5fdgCdEPHS 2Cb8nffxcS9KgYyyBRGmJ/o= =SEhO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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FOSS.IN/2007
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

Hello, So they announced FOSS.IN/2007. :) Watch out for more news! [1]http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foss-in/message/4187 Pradeepto -- 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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Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [COMMERCIAL] Software Engineer openings at Red Hat (Pune)
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

Hi, ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankar(a)redhat.com> Date: Aug 6, 2007 10:20 AM Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [COMMERCIAL] Software Engineer openings at Red Hat (Pune) To: ILUG-Cal's principal mailing list <ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Red Hat has multiple openings for Software Engineers at Pune. Provided below are the job descriptions along with TAGs which should be used in $SUBJECT line of the application. Please ensure that you provide the CV in Open Document Format (ODF) to sankar {at} redhat {dot} com and jrajopad {at} redhat {dot} com. For both the openings participation in existing Free and Open Source projects would be an added advantage. * Sr Software Engineer (SrSWENGG) Software engineer with a strong technical background to ensure the reliability of Red Hat products and services. The primary focus will be to solicit and prioritize detailed feature requests to support software portfolios running within the larger Red Hat Enterprise Linux ecosystem. An ideal candidate would have demonstrated people, project management experience and excellent communication skills. Other skills include software skills to develop the test environment, create test automation, execute functional tests, deliver in depth defect reports Required Skills: Knowledge of Standards and Guidelines pertaining to the following: + FHS + LSB + Freedesktop Standards + Portland Project Guidelines + Packaging Guidelines + Knowledge of RPM + Python, Ruby + GNU Coding Standards + Autoconf/Automake + GDB Profile: o 5+ years work experience with a designing, coding, debugging, and deploying software in a leadership role. o Firm foundation in at least one object oriented programming language (Python or Ruby) with some experience of other technologies, scripting languages, databases and software engineering. (essential) o Robust experience of *nix /APIs/ ABI compatibility. (essential) o An understanding of how commercial software fits into an Open Source world. o Deep understanding of FHS, LSB, GNU coding standards, Guidelines. (Essential) o Strong proficiency with RPM and RPM specfile syntax. o Understanding of configuration management principles. o Must understand the general software development release cycle, source management and defect management methodologies in Linux environment. * Associate Software Engineer (ASWENGG) Software engineer with a strong technical background to ensure the reliability of Red Hat products and services. The primary focus will be to solicit and prioritize detailed feature requests to support software portfolios running within the larger Red Hat Enterprise Linux ecosystem. An ideal candidate would have demonstrated people, project management experience and excellent communication skills. Other skills include software skills to develop the test environment, create test automation, execute functional tests, deliver in depth defect reports Required Skills: Knowledge of Standards and Guidelines pertaining to the following: + FHS + Packaging Guidelines + Knowledge of RPM + Python, Ruby + GNU Coding Standards + Autoconf/Automake + GDB Profile: o 1+ years work experience with a designing, coding, debugging software o Firm foundation in at least one object oriented programming language (Python or Ruby) with some experience of other technologies, scripting languages, databases and software engineering. (essential) o Robust experience of *nix /APIs/ ABI compatibility. (essential) o Strong proficiency with RPM and RPM specfile syntax. o Understanding of configuration management principles. o Must understand the general software development release cycle, source management and defect management methodologies in Linux environment. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGtqiH+g4kmZ76nyERAg7XAJ9fvVk5puKQ2QfqymBtfInDVcBx+wCeJzSh Ulet82HqKwVfQTNOpqUJ2pk= =416T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list Ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss Cheers! Pradeepto -- 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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freed.in
by Nagarjuna G. 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

i suggest linking up freed.in at the glug-bom.org site and also explore the possibilities of participating. Anurag, can you add the link and logo at our site. Nagarjuna

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COMMERCIAL (php engineers)
by vatsal desai 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

Hello, We are launching a well funded startup. We are looking for senior/junior engineers. The junior engineers should be comfortable with PHP. The senior engineers should be expert in PHP and either C++ or Java. Everything will be done on LAMP platform. Please contact me if anyone is interested. Thanks, Vatsal Desai Cell: 9892718029 P.S. I am not a headhunter. --------------------------------- Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool.

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Pushing Linux through small vendors
by Dinesh Joshi 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

Hi people, A few days ago my computer vendor came to me with some real problems regarding Linux. Hes a small time guy who supplies assembled PCs to individuals and maybe some small companies. Anyway, he owns an office and himself is pissed off with Microsoft's products as he has to format the machines every other day. Another reason pushing him towards Linux is that hes now getting inquiries regarding installing Linux from home users. And Vista cracks are not yet stable and widely available :P After having a small chat with him, I got his requirements. For office use, he requires: 1. Microsoft Office - docs and excel spreadsheets 2. Internet Explorer - surfing / banking etc.. 3. Tally - accounting Now, I'm aware that he has the following alternatives: 1. Open office 2. Firefox 3. Tally ( Linux version ) But the problem with Open Office: 1. With average machines, it performs slow 2. The documents it generates are not 100% compatible with Ms.Office 3. Advanced features are not completely compatible But they need to inter-operate with the rest of the world which means a good compatibility is important. Another problems that one generally faces is that Linux doesn't always work out of the box. When it does, it works wonderfully well but when it comes down to tweaking it to get it to work, its like performing a brain surgery ( for a newbie ). One more issue that I perceive is that distros don't always have good hardware compatibility. Let me explain it in more detail. Ubuntu 6.06 worked well on my friend's machine. No issues. But Ubuntu 7.04 refuses to work on the same machine. Some driver compatibility issues. The other issue that people in India generally face is of bandwidth. Ubuntu installs well. It impresses them. But then it runs up HUGE bills downloading softwares. What are your thoughts on this? How can we work with these people to effective push Linux into homes and offices? This definitely is one of the best ways of boosting Linux user base :) -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi

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DHCP client configuration
by Omkar Raut 04 Aug '07

04 Aug '07

I am trying to configure fresh install of slackware 12. I configured eth0 to use DHCP. When I run `dhclient eth0`, I get messages like DHCPDISCOVER 255.255.255.255 ...no response DHCPDISCOVER 255.255.255.255 ...no response ..... .... And I cannot get any IP from my ISP. DHCP and pppoe works fine in windoze. While in ubuntu there is entry for eth0:avah and DHCP as well as rp-pppoe works fine there. Do I have to specify DHCP server ip? In that case how do I find DHCP server's ip on my network? I use internet from pacenet. -Omkar.

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2 NIC
by Ramang G 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Hi all, I have 2 nic's in my machine with FC6 loaded....... iam assinging two same range ip's i.e 10.0.10.1 & 10.0.10.2 with all the subnet mask and gateway address being the same for each of the interfaces...... i am taking the lan cable and inserting to the first interface and pinging the gateway, its pinging and its ok. but when i take the same cable and insert into the other NIC it is not pinging the gateway....... What could be the problem kindly explain.... Thanks, Raman. --------------------------------- Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool.

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can some one explain how to install the official openoffice rpm on ubuntu?
by krishnakant Mane 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

hello all, as mentioned by Chetan on another thread, I am aware that rpms of open office 2.0.3 are very fast and stable as well. can some one explain me how to convert these rpms with alien and which rpms to install for getting the latest of openoffice? I need to know exactly the order in which the files must be installed. may be chetan can suggest the right (exact) version of 2.2 or 2.3? regards, Krishnakant.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] 2 NIC
by Raghu Prasad 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

> I have 2 nic's in my machine with FC6 loaded....... This particular problem has nothing to do with FC6. Any distribution of GNU/Linux will show the same result, I guess. > iam assinging two same range ip's i.e 10.0.10.1 & 10.0.10.2 with all > the subnet mask Is there any particular reason for allocating the IPs of same network to these interfaces? Why not assign IPs of two different network numbers? > and gateway address being the same for each of the interfaces...... The entry of default gateway in the routing table has a special meaning to it. It is to be used by the kernel when the destination address of the packet being pushed out is not reachable by using the other entries in the routing table. So it is not interface specific, but system specific. If there is an entry for the default gateway, then that address must be reachable via one of the other entries in the routing table. And every entry in the routing table has an interface attached to it. > i am taking the lan cable and inserting to the first interface and pinging > the gateway, its pinging and its ok. > > but when i take the same cable and insert into the other NIC it is not > pinging the gateway....... It won't; until the kernel knows that you have removed the cable and decides to use the other interface to move the packets to the gateway. It doesn't happen in the kernel automagically. The problem here is pertaining to possibility of reaching same destination via two interfaces. That's why I asked in the beginning, why you want to create that possibility by assigning same network number to two interfaces. A packet goes out of the system via one interface only, even if the other is configured to carry it. In this particular case, the kernel is pushing the packet to the gateway via first interface. When you remove this interface from the switch/hub and connects the cable to second interface, kernel doesn't care. It uses the first interface only. You need to bring down the first interface using command "ip" or "ifconfig". Then only the second interface will be used to reach the gateway. Hope that clears the matter. Raghu

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learning alphabets
by Kenneth Gonsalves 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

hi, there is a program called Klettres in KDE for teaching alphabets in any language. We have done the Tamil, Kannada and Telugu versions of this - details at http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/klettres hindi is already there - so just 18 languages to go -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] learning alphabets
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Hi, ( cc-ing to the list so that there is no duplication of work ) On 8/3/07, Kartik Mistry <kartik.mistry(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/3/07, Pradeepto Bhattacharya <pradeeptob(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Annma, I am hoping that 3 more Indian languages will be > > added soon to KLettres. Thank you for your damn cool work :) Oh and if > > you are confused, these three gentlemen above speak different > > langauges and are foss contributors in different projects. I hope you > > get stuff from three new languages - Gujarthi, Marathi and Bengali > > other than the ones that Kenneth listed in the original post. > > Man, > > Why did I have not seen this damn cool KLettres yet? Well, I am up for > Gujarati Language work, but it will take time (as recording need to > do..), but I and team definitely want to do that. Probably we can have a session at VJTI or some place. I know that Mrugesh has some know-how about sound foo on Linux-y systems. Mrugesh? Kartik, to be honest, a lot of KDE-Edu packages should be l10n or video demos of them should be done - in local languages - esp if we are targeting schools / colleges. Just for starters have a look at the KDE-Edu packages. Apps like KGeography, KAlgebra, Kalzium et al can be a huge hit in localised stuff. Actually Kushal Das did make some videos in Bengali. > > Thanks for sending this mail!! No problemo! Pradeepto -- 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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KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released!
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Hi Just incase somebody missed the dot announcement [1] ( or otherwise ). Try out the distro packages if you are interested or better yet try the svn :) ( really rocks! ). Seriously Marble rocks! And thats just one of the really good things :) . [1] http://dot.kde.org/1186051550/ Cheers! Pradeepto -- 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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Not able to ping two ethernet interfaces connected using cross cable in same PC.
by Bhavesh Kamani 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Hi Team, I want to test ethernet driver for NIC, I have only one PC with two different NICs(for both drivers are different), So I disabled loopback and connected both the NICs using cross cable. Output of "ifconfig" is displaying both the interfaces and ip address is also set for both the interfaces. I executed following to set ip address : #ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 #ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 #ifconfig lo down After that I tried to execute following commands, #route add -net 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.0.5 dev eth0 #route add -net 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.0.1 dev eth1 but those comands are giving error like : " route: netmask doesn't match route address" I also put "1" in ip_forward file. I am not able to ping anyone of those interfaces using ping command. Can anyone give some inputs on this? Thanks, Bhavesh.

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Useful tips in Open Office
by Rony 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hello All, I was struggling to remove an envelope from a document and google showed this useful page. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Writer/Printing -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Pushing Linux through small vendors
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

> I haven't touched upon the hardware part. All I would like to know is > actual case reports about small offices that were doing their work > earlier in doze and later migrated everything to GNU/Linux. Rony, you may be pleasantly suprised to know that the West Bengal University of Technology (http://www.wbut.ac.in/) uses Free Software (specifically GNU/Linux) exclusively on their computers. This goes to the extent that the Vice-Chancellor had (atleast the last time I met him a few weeks back) only GNU/Linux on his laptop, and no proprietary operating system is allowed to use the university network. To know more just drop in the ILUG-Cal.org mailing list (http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss) and place a query. Some of the ILUG-Cal.org members have been instrumental in this effort, and they will be happy enough to let you in on their secrets. :-) Cheers, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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network adapter installation problem with fedora core 5
by Meghnathan Naidu 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hi I am trying to install fedora core 5 in one of our server, problem was my network adapter was not detected. i download the source for intel pro 1000. which as per the instructions when i "make install". i get error "make file:66: *** Linux kernel source not found. stop." I tried for kernel compilation. but coudnt find kernel in /usr/src i can only find a folder redhat there. i am newbie with fedora. can somebody help me with this

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qmail error ... pls help
by Agnello George 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

hi i am trying to configure a qmailserver as per qmail rocks as per my httpd conf file looks like this <Directory "/usr/local/cgi-bin/vqadmin"> AllowOverride AuthConfig AllowOverride All Options ExecCGI Order deny,allow deny from all </Directory> wen i view the following : http://mydomain/cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi i am able to view this , but wen i am trying to view "qmailadmin" ( http://mydomain/cgi-bin/qmailadmin ) i get the error ====> **You are not authorized to view this page** my eror_log looks llike this [Tue Jul 31 11:10:24 2007] [error] [client 210.211.142.17] client denied by serv er configuration: /usr/local/cgi-bin/qmailadmin ======================================================== But if i change my httpd.conf to : <Directory "/usr/local/cgi-bin/vqadmin"> AllowOverride AuthConfig AllowOverride All Options ExecCGI Order deny,allow allow from all ===================.> i hve made change here </Directory> i can view http://mydomain/cgi-bin/qmailadmin but then i cant view http://mydomain/cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi pls help me out ... thansk -- Warm Regards Agnello . G .Dsouza www.agnellogeorge.blogspot.com

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Pushing Linux through small vendors
by VKB 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

> Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Pushing Linux through small vendors > From: Dinesh Joshi <dinesh.a.joshi(a)gmail.com> > Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:53:41 +0530 > To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> <snip> > But the problem with Open Office: > 1. With average machines, it performs slow > 2. The documents it generates are not 100% compatible with Ms.Office > 3. Advanced features are not completely compatible > > But they need to inter-operate with the rest of the world which means a > good compatibility is important. > Case 1: WHEN the recipient needs to read or view the file THEN use OpenOffice to create/edit, then export to PDF, and send the PDF to the recipient. I think this above case covers 65% of nett usage and context. Case 2: WHEN the recipient must read or view the file with M$Office THEN use OpenOffice to create/edit, then save as the M$Office format (doc, xls, ppt) and release that file. I have not experienced any issues in traffic FROM OpenOffice TO M$Office. I think this above case covers 25% of nett usage and context. Case 3: WHEN sender and recipient must collaborate on a document, i.e both contribute to editing/marking/revising the file via electronic file exchanges THEN it is most practial or efficient to work with the same application/tool on both sides, and this case is NOT specific to OpenOffice; it is equally applicable to almost all computer applications, especially those that do not support open standards/specifications of data storage. I think this above case covers 8% of nett usage and context. Case 4: WHEN something other than above THEN I need to know more, to share my prescription for that case ;-) I shall presume this above case covers the last 2% of nett usage & context. LASTLY, if you take two similar segment cars for example, how much of compatiblity is expected ? Do we expect say an Indica and a Santro to be the same, with all parts to be interchangeable ? This example many can easily comprehend. However, when it comes to M$Office and OpenOffice, many of us tend to struggle with explaining or realising compatiblity. I guess we have to EITHER pay-up (and remain a loser) OR move-up to open standards (with longer term gains). > The other issue that people in India generally face is of bandwidth. > Ubuntu installs well. It impresses them. But then it runs up HUGE bills > downloading softwares. Figure out how to re-configure the linux-desktop so that it does NOT get upates automatically via the internet - thus manage their internet usage better. Instead use CD's to effect updates, as other posters have suggested already. With the virus-risks on Linux-based desktops being relatively lower, not having the latest releases is often a non-issue, in terms of real-life utility of the environment/computer, for most average desktop users. If you want to be up-with-the-Jones with the latest release, then paying some price is inevitable (internet bandwidth costs). Thanks Vydya

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pls test my LAMP installation
by Agnello George 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Please test my LAMP instalation aqnd let me know if you find any errors .... this wud be really gr8 help 1. Installing Apache 2.2.3 a) Download the Apache 2.2.3 source files from http://httpd.apache.org b) Extract the source from the gunzipped file using tar or gunzip c) change the working directory to the directory containing the extracted source files d) Run the following command for basic apache installation ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --enable-shared=max --enable-module=rewrite --enable-module=so --enable-shared=ssl --enable-ssl --with-ssl=/RPM/openssl-0.9.8d make make install 2. Installing PHP 5.2.0 a) Download the PHP 5.2.0 source files from http://www.php.net b) Extract the source from the gunzipped file using tar or gunzip c) change the working directory to the directory containing the extracted source files d) Run the following command for PHP installation ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php5 --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-libxml-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-zlib --with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config --with-gd --enable-soap --enable-sockets --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --enable-exif e)Build the PHP configuration using the following command make f) Install PHP make install 3. Installing MySQL 5.x a) Download the MysQL source files from http://www.mysql.com b) Extract the source from the gunzipped file using tar or gunzip c) Create the mysql user and group using the following commands groupadd mysql useradd -g mysql -c "MySQL Server" mysql d) Create a symbolic link to the MySQL source directory in a directory of your choice. (I use /usr/local/). Here is an example of the same ln -s /software/mysql-max-4.1.22-pc-linux-gnu-i686 /usr/local/mysql e) Change the working directory to the symbolic link that you have created in the server. f) Execute the following command ./scripts/mysql_install_db The above command will install the mysql and the test database g) Change the ownership of /usr/local/mysql using the following command chown -R root:mysql /usr/local/mysql Where root is the user and mysql is the group h) Change the ownership of /usr/local/mysql/data using the following command chown -R mysql:mysql /usr/local/mysql/data i) Copy the default configuration file for the expected size of the database (small, medium, large, huge) cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf chown root:sys /etc/my.cnf chmod 644 /etc/my.cnf j) Now we have to tell the system where to find some of the dynamic libraries that MySQL will need to run. We use dynamic libraries instead of static to keep the memory usage of the MySQL program itself to a minimum. echo "/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql" >> /etc/ld.so.conf ldconfig k) Now create a startup script, which enables MySQL auto-start each time your server is restarted. cp ./support-files/mysql.server /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql chmod +x /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 mysql on l) Then set up symlinks for all the MySQL binaries, so they can be run from anyplace without having to include/specify long paths, , etc cd cd /usr/local/mysql/bin for file in *; do ln -s /usr/local/mysql/bin/$file /usr/bin/$file; done m) First, we will assume that only applications on the same server will be allowed to access the database (i.e., not a program running on a physically separate server). So we'll tell MySQL not to even listen on port 3306 for TCP connections l ike it does by default. Edit /etc/my.cnf and uncomment the skip-networking n) Start MySQL -- Warm Regards Agnello . G .Dsouza www.linuxitsolutions.org

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[OT] Breathing life into old speaker sets.
by Rony 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

Hello All, I had an old Lamington Road power amp with equilizer that went kaput twice and finally its speaker set that I had made from discarded huge wooden speaker boxes and 8" Phillips Hi-Q speakers were lying idle, gathering dust. I was using a 2.1 channel computer speaker set for my TV set top box. As an experiment I removed the small satellite speakers and replaced them with my old speaker boxes and now I am enjoying theatre like sound for programs and movies. Just take care not to go full volume as the impedence and power ratings differ greatly. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Knemo problem solved in Kubuntu 6.10.
by Rony 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

Hello All, I was facing a problem in Knemo. The ip address and other interface details would not show in the version installed from apt-get. So I posted a bug report and finally with help from some nice souls, the problem got solved after I installed the updated package from the link provided. http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144411 -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Re: SCP command line within PHP
by Raghu Prasad 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

> I am currenty SCping using the command line, where i am asked for the > password in order to run the command. > > Now I wish to run the SCP command from within a php script. > I'd rather enter the password each time in a form rather than store it > within the script itself. > > How can I handle the password request? i.e., pass the password to the > remote system when it asks for it. PHP has a module to handle SSH2 related activities. Following link explains about sending data using scp; along with a small example. On the same page, hyperlinks with details of other ssh2 functions are provided too. http://in2.php.net/manual/en/function.ssh2-scp-send.php Raghu

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