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ZTE MC315 working on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu)?
by Frederick Noronha 11 Nov '06

11 Nov '06

Can anyone help me to get a Reliance datacard ZTE MC315 working on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu)? Is there a solution to that? FN -- FN 9822122436 +91-832-240-9490 (phone calls after 1 pm please) Free the airwaves... for India's sake (see the article at the URL below) [http://www.tehelka.com/home/20061111/20061111.asp?filename=18.jpg]

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BoF: 10th November 2006 (report)
by Roshan 11 Nov '06

11 Nov '06

Hello, If you couldn't attend the BoF yesterday, here's a description of what happened. http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Report101106 Barkha, Devdas, Gaurav, please confirm (permission), if I can display the pic taken on the wiki. I have asked Anurag and Vivek. Please confirm your approval. -- http://sankoobaba.blogspot.com __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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FOSS.in... Nov 24-26, 2006 Bangalore
by Frederick Noronha 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

QUOTE: FOSS.IN is one of the world's largest and most focussed FOSS events, held annually India. Over the years, it has attracted thousands of participants, and the speaker roster reads like a "Who is Who" of FOSS contributors from across the world. ENDQUOTE http://foss.in/2006/info/Final_List Addendum It was truly an herculean task to wade through the tons of amazing talks and tutorials, and we must admit that we have left out a lot of good talks for unavailability of slots. The organizers express gratitude to all the people who submitted talks and hope they will be involved with the event in some way. The List 1 A.R.KARTHICK OPENCLOVIS ASP - An Open Sourced Carrier Grade Middleware Talk 2 Aaron Seigo KDE4 And You Talk 3 Aaron Seigo Writing Applications With KDE4 Workshop 4 Aditya Godbole Porting the FreeBSD kernel Talk 5 Ajit Sabnis Open Source Portal Talk 6 Anandaraj Thangappan Eclipse plugin development Talk 7 Andrew Cowie On The Cutting Edge: solving the fundamental structural problem of the free software movement Talk 8 Andrew Cowie Opening GTK to Java programmers: the past, present and future of the java-gnome bindings project Talk 9 Aneesh Kumar K.V Linux Kernel Clustering Framework Talk 10 Anurag Shekhar Apache Derby 10.2 Talk 11 Archana Kumar Open Source IT Monitoring Tool - A look at Zenoss Talk 12 Ashutosh Dhanesha Project INVITE Talk 13 Ashwin Chaugule Linux WiFi Stacks Talk 14 Avik Sengupta OpenBSD in the wild - a personal journey Talk 15 B N Poornima Best Practices in Linux Kernel Testing Talk 16 B.C. Sekar Adding new protocol decode support in Ethereal Workshop 17 Bijon B Shaha A 'Toaster' in Service of Freedom Talk 18 Biju Chacko Using Gentoo Portage to Build a Sand Boxed Application Stack Talk 19 Biswaranjan Nayak The State of OTG in the Linux Kernel Talk 20 Charles Rose Software Change Management for Hardware Talk 21 Christof Wittig How we Fix the Software Industry with Open Source Talk 22 Christoph Hellwig Contributing to the Linux Kernel for fun and profit Talk 23 Christoph Hellwig The TFRC Tunnel Protocol - an XFRM-based tunnel driver for Linux 2.6 Talk 24 Danese Cooper The Truth about FOSS and Open Standards Talk 25 Dibya Prakash Porting Ruby into Symbian OS - Google SOC project Talk 26 Frederick FN Noronha Ten Tips To Turbocharge The Team: Getting Smaller User-Groups Moving Talk 27 Gopalarathnam Venkatesan JSON - a lightweight data-interchange format Talk 28 Guntupalli Karunakar Indic computing workshop Workshop 29 Harald Welte OpenPCD and OpenPICC: Free Software and Hardware for RFID Talk 30 Harald Welte Developing with OpenEmbedded on the Simputer Talk 31 Harsha Padmanabha Image builder for Embedded Systems Talk 32 Indranil Das Gupta IT Asset Management using FOSS tools Talk 33 Isaac Praveen Developing web applications with perl/Catalyst Talk 34 Jaimon Jose Secure Linux Programming Talk 35 Jaya Kumar The Linux kernel, GPLv2 and GPLv3 Draft2 Talk 36 Jaya Kumar ALSA and OLPC audio Talk 37 Jayasankar Divakarla Linux Security Module. Talk 38 K .Sebi Kumar Open standards and CGL driving Telecom revolution Talk 39 K. K. Subramaniam FOSS tools in primary schools Talk 40 Kai Voigt MySQL 5.0 & LDAP Talk 41 Kalyan Varma Digital Photography and Linux Talk 42 Kartik Mistry How to become 3rd Indian Debian Developer Talk 43 Kushal Das Inside of Fedora Extras, a technical journey Talk 44 Luke Kanies Puppet - Portable System Automation Talk 45 MADHUKAR GUNJAN CHAKHAIYAR iSCSI - An emerging technology and its footprint in Linux. (( STANDARD- IETF 50 AND RFC 3720 )) Talk 46 Mahesh T. Pai Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodiet? Talk 47 Manu Konchady A FOSS Bridge to Cross the Digital Divide Talk 48 Mathew Varghese Open Source Product Documentation Framework Workshop 49 Natarajan Kannan Webmarker - Your marker pen for the web Talk 50 Nirav Mehta FOSS infrastructure for your organization Talk 51 Noor Ul Mubeen sUSBix - stick to it ! Talk 52 Pankaj Kaushal Monitoring Large Scale Web Applications with Nagios Talk 53 Peter Karlsson Application Perf Tuning on OpenSolaris using DTrace Talk 54 Philip Tellis libyahoo2 - the 'other' messaging library Talk 55 Pradeepto Kumar Bhattacharya Interview Tips - How to perform well in your next Interview? Tutorial 56 Prashanth Mohan Tutorial Session on LDTP Tutorial 57 Prashanth N Udupa Visualization on Linux with VTK Designer Talk 58 Priti Patil Project Talk: janabhaaratii: Localisation of Free/Open Source Software Talk 59 Raghu Venkataramana WET – A commercial grade opensource web testing tool Talk 60 Rahul Sundaram One Laptop Per Child - challenges & development Talk 61 Ramya B.B Pushing drivers to user-space Talk 62 Rasmus Lerdorf Getting Rich with PHP 5 Talk 63 Roger Persson Creating a Flexible Robot Controller using Python Talk 64 Russell Nelson Which Open Source License? Talk 65 Russell Nelson "But I'm not a hardware guy" Tutorial 66 Shyamal Misra SDL - The New Mantra of Game Development Talk 67 SijiSunny An Historical Merging from Xfree86 to Xorg Talk 68 Sirtaj Singh Kang Writing an SMS Service with Free Software Talk 69 Sirtaj Singh Kang Qt Graphics View - A Fresh Canvas Talk 70 Sivakumar Thyagarajan Building an open source Java EE 5 application server - Project GlassFish Workshop 71 Sony Kuruvilla Philip OpenVPN - A functional and easy VPN Tutorial 72 Sudhakar Thaths Chandra Hacking the Slug Workshop 73 Sulamita Garcia Makefiles - Dark Magic in Programming Talk 74 Sulamita Garcia Creating Load Balance environments Tutorial 75 Sunil Abraham Impact of Indian Copyright and Patent Law on FOSS Talk 76 Suparna Bhattacharya ext4 development - a work-in-progress update Talk 77 Suparna Bhattacharya Linux and the art of minimalist development Talk 78 Tim Pritlove Closing Keynote Talk 79 Vamsee Krishna Kanakala Strap on your rocket packs: Web Development in Common Lisp Tutorial 80 Venkata Kishore BrandZ: A framework for non-native vitualized operating enviroment in OpenSolaris Talk 81 Vivek K.S. OpenAlchemy Talk 82 Vrushali Mahalley Overview of Open Web Single Sign-On Talk * * * * * People who wish to attend FOSS.IN can now register themselves online and avail a 50% discount on the Rs.1000 delegate fee - if you register online and bring your registration code to the venue, you have to pay only Rs.500 Online Registration will be open till the 22nd of November 2006, after which registration opens at the venue (without discount). Please read the instructions carefully, and don't forget to bring your registration code to the venue! Here's the URL to go to: https://foss.in/2006/cfp/delegates/

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Charity shuns open source code
by Rony 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Hello All, Below is an example of how M$ salesmen brainwash people. The charity head just needs a few viruses and trojans to understand that his 90m pounds are more safe under Linux and open source means opening the source code, not the compiled code that makes the OS software. ""We are a funding organisation that ships £90m around the world - the last thing you want to do is open up your systems to anybody to have a look at to deal with bugs," he said." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6124582.stm May I suggest that instead of bashing the charity, we could write a nice email to them explaining the differences in the closed and OSS concept and what misconceptions they have about linux. Regards, Rony. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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problem with sound server
by Pradnyesh Sawant 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

hello, i have debian 3.0 installed on my AMD 2600+ system. i'm using the alsa sound server, and have the nvidia-nforce2 soundcard. i'm getting the following problem with my sound server. when i try to run any music using either xmms or amarok, the system kinda hangs for a few seconds. i say "kinda" because the sound keeps on playing, but nothing else works for quite some time. i cant cycle between windows, can't open new applications. the only thing i can do is to use the amarok global shortcut to stop the current song, which stops after about a min or so, and then the system starts functioning properly. logging off or even restarting the m/c doesn't help. googling suggested that only one application can use the sound system at a time, so i should disable the sound server usage in KDE (for notifications, kalarm, etc), but that didn't help. and neither did the other suggestion, which was to use alsaconf to reconfigure the sound server. thanks for the help in advance :) -- warm regards, Pradnyesh Sawant -- A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle --Anon

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Re: Microsoft Novell Collaboration
by Vihan Pandey 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

FACT : At the end of the day, a corporation's primary goal is to make money and take care of their self interest. In their spare time/expense they would probably want to do charity/social work(for various reasons). Thus Novell by default can do what it wants under the prescribed laws. The only way this can change is if a majority stock holder(by the way i don't who owns how much of Novell, but that data can be got from the U.S - S.E.C) decides a motion to oppose a company decision and gets enough share holder votes with him. Yes, the Novell ``user" does not and CAN NOT decide, its the share holders CAN, and if and only if they have a majority. If they don't, then whatever was done is done. If users are unhappy with the company policy, they can certainly complain(about a major business decision) but that is effective only if they have enough numbers to impact Novell's revenue. Even if that does happen, its all on the company business guys to see where ``more revenue" comes from and thus take a decision. Its about where the $$$ and the more $$$ comes from. So if the more $$$ is coming from M$ . . . need i say more. Also, if one play's with corporate fire, one must be ready to get burnt. Let me make one thing very clear. i don't oppose all commercial organisations. But it is very naive on anyone's part to think that all of them would be selfless in terms of protecting value systems, integrity and freedom at the cost of profits. Moreover if a person is using some free(as in freedom) software(partially/wholly developed by a commercial organisation), that organisation takes a decision which the customer is not happy with, and he/she doesn't have shareholder clout - there's really little to do in terms of changing that company's policy. What one can do is, STOP using that software and use alternatives. If there are components that are unavailable then use what is available and develop what is not. Is it difficult: YES, Is it going to be a path of pain: YES, Is it even possible: YES!!! The GNU project set out to do that and succeeded and getting most of the stuff needed, and over a period of time other people(Linus, etc etc etc.) and communities(BSD, ASF etc etc etc.) also contributed and at the end of the day, a working system did emerge. i think that says it all. It's Stallman and the printer all over again. Stallman wasn't a Xerox majority share holder and his efforts in getting the driver source code did not bear fruit, so he did what had to be done. The only question is are the users of Novell products going to do the same? Only time will tell. Regards, - vihan

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Microsoft-Novell Collaboration
by Vihan Pandey 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

<snip> > More questions: When were Novell SUSE customers > asked if they wished Novell to negotiate a agreement with Microsoft on > their > behalf? When were Novell SUSE customers asked about the terms of said > agreement? ... <snip> > Did > Novell truly represent the best interest of their customers using Power of > Attorney? Can Novell legally assume Power of Attorney for their customers > without a written grant? Do Novell customers have the ability to "opt-out" > of this agreement? Is this agreement binding on customers? " > Who gave Novell rights to decide on behalf of you just because you > happened > to buy a Novell product????? FACT : At the end of the day, a corporation's primary goal is to make money and take care of their self interest. In their spare time/expense they would probably want to do charity/social work(for various reasons). Thus Novell by default can do what it wants under the prescribed laws. The only way this can change is if a majority stock holder(by the way i don't who owns how much of Novell, but that data can be got from the U.S - S.E.C) decides a motion to oppose a company decision and gets enough share holder votes with him. Yes, the Novell ``user" does not and CAN NOT decide, its the share holders CAN, and if and only if they have a majority. If they don't, then whatever was done is done. If users are unhappy with the company policy, they can certainly complain(about a major business decision) but that is effective only if they have enough numbers to impact Novell's revenue. Even if that does happen, its all on the company business guys to see where ``more revenue" comes from and thus take a decision. Its about where the $$$ and the more $$$ comes from. So if the more $$$ is coming from M$ . . . need i say more. Also, if one play's with corporate fire, one must be ready to get burnt. Let me make one thing very clear. i don't oppose all commercial organisations. But it is very naive on anyone's part to think that all of them would be selfless in terms of protecting value systems, integrity and freedom at the cost of profits. Moreover if a person is using some free(as in freedom) software(partially/wholly developed by a commercial organisation), that organisation takes a decision which the customer is not happy with, and he/she doesn't have shareholder clout - there's really little to do in terms of changing that company's policy. What one can do is, STOP using that software and use alternatives. If there are components that are unavailable then use what is available and develop what is not. Is it difficult: YES, Is it going to be a path of pain: YES, Is it even possible: YES!!! The GNU project set out to do that and succeeded and getting most of the stuff needed, and over a period of time other people(Linus, etc etc etc.) and communities(BSD, ASF etc etc etc.) also contributed and at the end of the day, a working system did emerge. i think that says it all. It's Stallman and the printer all over again. Stallman wasn't a Xerox majority share holder and his efforts in getting the driver source code did not bear fruit, so he did what had to be done. The only question is are the users of Novell products going to do the same? Only time will tell. Regards, - vihan

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D-LINK WLAN card configuration regarding...
by George John 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Hi all, Can anyone let me know how to install and configure my "D-Link WLAN card on RHEL 4. The details of the D-LINK WLAN card is as follows: AirPlus G DWL-G510 Wireless G Desktop Adapter (PCI card) H/W Version : C2 F/W Version : 5.00 Also please suggest me any WLAN card that by default will install in RHEL/FEDORA. Thanks & Regards, George ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com

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Microsoft-Novell Collaboration
by Mrugesh Karnik 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Ah hello! I'm really surprised no has bothered throwing this piece of meat into the doghouse yet. Maybe everyone is dumbstruck? Well, anyway, for the unknowing: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/default.mspx http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/ Comments people? -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------

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[COMMERCIAL] Immediate Job Oppportunity (LAMP Technology)
by Dharmesh Kothari 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

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[Commercial] Highlights - LFY November 2006
by Niraj Sahay 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Dear Readers, With the Fedora team, as usual, pushing the release date of FC6 again and again (before finally releasing it on 24th and it getting available for download on 25th), we were left with no option but to go for the next most requested distro on the bulletinn board - Mandriva Linux 2007. This distro is a treat for users who like to work on multi-architecture platforms (32-bit and 64-bit). Coming to the editorial highlights, we have a mega interview with Javed Tapia, founder Red Hat India, who speaks to the media for the first time after stepping down from his position of director - India. In the trends section, this month we discuss about the use of Linux in tghe supercomputing world. We have two very interesting case studies this month, one that discusses the first mover advantage taken by Samsung by incorporating the 'Linux-compatible' logo in their printer advertisement and the other about Bombay high court adopting Linux/OSS. In our opinions section, this month, the community opines on how whether IPR is a boon or a bane. Also, in the 'Down Memory Lane' series, we look at the history of the KDE project. FOR YOU & ME * KDE: Kudos All the Way! * Mandriva Linux 2007: The Ia Ora Magic Casts a New Spell * Enigmatise Youe E-mail * Opinions: IPR - Incentive or Disincentive to Innovate * Linux in Telecommunication: A Mighty Combo * The Director's Cut: Interview - Javed Tapia * From e-Governance to Open Governance ADMIN * WLAN Cards on Linux: Tweak Your Way Out * Getting Wireless with Tux * Get SMART! * Easing Data Migration with Portable Data Containers DEVELOPERS * The Basics of JVMTI * Perl Development on Linux with Eclipse IDE * A uClinux Primer * Simplifying Audio Conversion with Glade * Build and Integrate Your Own Small Office Intranet POLICYMAKERS * Linux is the Way to Go, Your Honour! GEEKS * Linux Rules the Supercomputing World PLAYERS * Will Tux Boost Samsung's Printers into the No.1 Position? * Wind River - Embracing Tux with Open Arms: Venkatesh Kumaran, Wind River India COLUMNS * BraveGNUIndia: When Governments Promote FLOSS * FreedomYug: Steal This Film ON LFY DVD * Mandriva Linux 2007 (Free Edition) The latest distribution from the Mandriva stable, Mandriva Linux 2007 (free edition) is simply fabulous. A highly versatile distribution, this DVD is readily installable on both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. ON LFY CD * 3D applications software: Blender 2.4, OpenSceneGraph, Irrlicht SDK 1.1, Art of Illusion, myStudio - Free/Open source 3D software, JPatch, K-3D, screenhack, Aqsis, Ayam, gSculpt, Aztec 3D Modeller, * Newbies: KIso 0.8, Sweep, JACK Rack, Ardour, Rosegarden 1.4.0 * Power Users: GNOME Partition Editor, QTParted, RRDTool, John the Ripper, GNU FreeIPMI * Fun stuff: Open Noid, Fighter 2, HoloRacer, Pang Zero, Elephants Dream, SolarWolf, LinCity-NG, Extended Death Match, Danger from the Deep * Updates: Kernel 2.6.18, Clam AntiVirus We hope you enjoy reading the issue. Please send all your feedback on lfyedit(a)efyindia.com WHERE TO GET YOUR COPY? Problems getting a copy of LFY? Feel free to reach out to our distributors (IBH) listed below: # Ahmedabad - Mr. S. K. Sharma (079-26577068) # Bangalore - Mr. Devaru Bhatt (080-22261305, 080-22252385) # Chennai - Mr. Vijay Rengan (044-28273893) # Hyderabad - Mr. Ramesh Rajgopal (040-27564945, 040-27561140) # Kolkata - Mr. Mehta (033-22498096/97) # Mumbai - Mr. Indur Vaswani (022-24943707) # New Delhi - Mr. P. K. Das (011-23313014/15) # Pune - Mr. Ashok Basant (020-26131261) # Trivandrum - Mr. Hari Kumar (0471-2475443) HOW TO SUBSCRIBE OR COMPLAIN? Go to our website www.lfymag.com OR email at support(a)efyindia.com OR call at 011-26810601/02/03

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Wiki Report on Freespire.
by Rony 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hello All, With the help from Vivek Patankar on how to wiki, I have posted the Freespire 1.0 installation report on the Lug-Bom wiki. http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Freespire_1.0_Installation Thank you Vivek. :) Regards, Rony. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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connecting to "tata indicom broadband" using ubuntu
by Pradnyesh Sawant 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

hello, can someone kindly help me with connecting to the "tata indicom" broadband connection using ubuntu 6.06? i know how to connect to the Internet using dialup (with modem), and also direct connection (even through proxy). but am stumped about the "tata indicom" connection; especially coz i dont have a modem, and still have to give a login username/password to connect. so i can't use dialup, nor direct connection. thanks for the help in advance :) -- warm regards, Pradnyesh Sawant -- If you are going through hell, keep going --Anon

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FSF announces release of gNewSense 1.0
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Sullivan <johns(a)fsf.org> Date: 02-Nov-2006 17:07 Subject: FSF announces release of gNewSense 1.0 To: gnu-prog(a)gnu.org BOSTON, November 2, 2006 - Free Software Foundation announces release of gNewSense version 1.0. (Screenshots available at http://www.fsf.org/news/gnewsense) gNewSense (http://www.gnewsense.org) is a free software GNU/Linux distribution created by two Irish free software advocates, Brian Brazil and Paul O'Malley, and is based on the Ubuntu and Debian distributions. The goal of gNewSense is to provide users with a software package that offers the stability of Ubuntu with the addition of freedom. In announcing the release of version 1.0, the gNewSense developers stated, â€œFrom a philosophical perspective we wanted to create a GNU/Linux distribution where the user has access to all the sources for all software on the system. This includes everything from the heart of the kernel through to the everyday desktop applications." With the avowed goal of providing a completely free distribution - one without non-free kernel binary "blobs" or any other non-free software, the Free Software Foundation has announced sponsorship of the project. Ted Teah, FSF's free software directory maintainer explained, "With all the kernel firmware and restricted repositories removed, and the reliance on Ubuntu's proprietary distribution management tool gone, this distribution is the most advanced GNU/Linux distribution that has a commitment to be 100% free." gNewSense will provide users with full security updates and is available for immediate download in LiveCD ISO format along with a version of the Ubiquity graphical installer. Furthermore, the gNewSense team has created a set of software called Builder which allows users to create their own gNewSense-based distributions. gNewSense provides detailed instructions on how to use the software and the recipe to roll out a customized distro. The Free Software Foundation is providing the gNewSense team with a high end build machine (running with a free BIOS), with bandwidth and with assistance in developing artwork. The FSF plans to aid widespread adoption of the distribution and, with the release of gNewSense 1.0, is making a call for volunteers who have the skills to act as the following: * Developers; * Website Maintainers; * Graphic Artists; * Freedom verifiers to monitor package additions and mailing lists; * Documentation Writers. To volunteer, please, sign on at irc.freenode.net and /join #gnewsense. You can also join the mailing list via the project website http://www.gnewsense.org/ ----30---- About the Free Software Foundation The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software - particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants - and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software. Their Web site, located at www.fsf.org, is an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support their work can be made at http://fsf.org/join They are headquartered in Boston, MA, USA. Press contact: To schedule an interview with the developers of gNewSense, please contact Ted Teah at the Free Software Foundation (+1 617-542-5942) or Peter Brown (+1 617-542-5942) or email pr(a)fsf.org ---------- -- John Sullivan Program Administrator | Phone: (617)542-5942 x23 51 Franklin Street, 5th Fl. | Fax: (617)542-2652 Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA | GPG: AE8600B6 -- http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-prog -- "India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather a developed nation in an advanced state of decay." --Shashi Tharoor

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FC6 Display Problem
by dipankar das 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Dear Friends After installing FC6 on my Athlon 1800+ machine, with SiS VGA ('lspci' detects Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760/761 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter), and the monitor being LG Flatron E700S, the X was problemsome in the sense that a lot of black border was getting there on the console on all the four sides. I tried to fix it in FC6, but it was showing only generic 'CRT' display and an outlandish screen resolution. The way out was a bit stupid. I just copied the 'xorg.conf' from the SuSE 10 installation, without the file section obviously, and pasted it in the '/etc/X11' directory. And, really to my surprise, now everything X started working nice in FC6. But, as expected, there are problems: when i want to log out from X, at times it works and at times it hangs. Is there a not so stupid way out from this X fix in FC6? Till i am in X, FC6 is really working nice, and i need it particularly for its Bangla support, that is the best among the distributions i know, so i need to keep this installation. Thanking in advance, das

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November Meet
by Anurag 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hi, Some of us list members are meeting for a cup of coffee at Barista (near Shopper's Stop) Andheri on 9th Nov, Thursday 7PM. Do join in if you free and can make it to andheri :) Anurag -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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[JOB] Software Engineer - Expertise in C
by Harish S 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hi, We are in a need of couple of people with the following skill set: Expertise/Skill : C, Perl, Shell Scripting. Experience: 2 yrs Company: TooMuch Semiconductor Solutions, 3/B, 2633, 7th Main, Jeevan Bhima Nagar, HAL III Stage, Bangalore. www.toomuchsemi.com Candidates with hardcore C knowledge and ability to work in GNU/Linux Systems please send your CV careers(a)toomuchsemi.com Rgds Harish -- Visit me at :http://freeshell.in/~harish/blog Computers are like air conditioners - They can't do their job properly if you open windows

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Re: Freespire 1.0 Installation Report.
by Roshan 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Rony wrote: > Anurag wrote: > > Why dont you blog it, or atleast put it > > somewhere on a wiki or something. > I don't know how to post on blogs or wikis but I > will find out our own > list wiki and post there. http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Howtos Rony, you can post it on the above link. -- http://sankoobaba.blogspot.com __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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foss spreads in rajasthan
by Kenneth Gonsalves 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

hi this may be of interest to foss enthusiasts: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/full/16/NW/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Shiv Kumar's Tribune India Article
by Vihan Pandey 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hi Shiv, i checked out your article, one query however you mention : `` The recent scandal involving software engineers at the National Security Council Secretariat who leaked information to the American Central Intelligence Agency allegedly saw some of them swap secrets including information on India's nuclear doctrine for jobs with Microsoft." i don't remember hearing about this, and could not find any info on the same online. If you could please forward the link of this story that would be most appreciated. One complaint however, you mention the terms ``Linux Operating Systems", ``Linux Ubuntu Dapper Drake" and ``General Public Licence Linux OS" would it not be fair on your part to also mention GNU, ASF, BSD and other communities without whom you cannot call that entity an operating system. If the article's purpose is to raise awareness, it makes sense to also tell people about the community(s) Anyone have any comments on what i've written ? Regards, - vihan

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Freespire 1.0 Installation Report.
by Rony 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hello All, The client who was given Mandriva 2006 yesterday is having the same problems in thunderbird that I was facing when I had 2006 installed in my system. It goes dead slow almost as if it hangs and the client has been giving me desperate calls. So I decided to install a new OS. I was sifting through my cd collection and found 'freespire 1.0' in the 'PCWorld 2006' DVD. I tried it out on my system before I do it at the client's place. It is a single cd iso and is a live + install version. Freespire 1.0 is a debian based system but please note that it is personalized to some extent and is not a look alike to debian or ubuntu. It also contains a little dose of non-libre packages like flash player and the windows codecs and mp3 player etc. all pre-loaded. But the best part of this distro is is is fully self contained with no extra download necessary and yet its not very heavy on the hardware. It is multimedia ready except for a dvd player. It has the latest firefox and thunderbird 1.5 versions so no updating or installation required. It uses terms like My Documents and My Computer and that makes it ideal for windows to linux migration. Another feature of this distro is that it is a live + install distro and installation time is very short. In the live as well as install option, after the preliminary desktop appears, it gives a set of options to be set, like display resolution, refresh rate, gamma, sound etc and that is a very good feature. Its desktop looks very sexy compared to other distros. A note of caution. Freespire does not recognise other linux distros installed so it will boot with only its own and windows options. New linux users who are already using another linux distro are advised not to install freespire, unless they have some knowledge of mounting partitions and editing grub menu files. For only windows users there will be no problem with dual boot. After installation I was unable to boot into my existing Kubuntu 6.06. Even the rescue option in the kubuntu cd did not work. Although I mounted my partition and did a chroot, it could not do a grub-install. So I mounted the partition and added lines from Kubuntu's boot menu into freespire's boot menu. Still Kubuntu would not boot. When it could boot into kubuntu single user option, I found that it did not have the 'savedefault' line. Therefore the line was Hashed in the main boot option. Then kubuntu booted properly and I did a grub-install to restore its grub. The freespire's lines were then added to it and now I can boot into all distros. Another important point to note is that during manual hdd install it only allows you to select an existing partition, it does not allow you to create a new one in free space or delete a partition. So you will have to do it manually before you install freespire. That can be done by first booting live and then rebooting again to install. Fdisk is available in the system. I was able to play a vcd and sample .oog files on the music player. Firefox already had flash built-in so I could play on-line videos too ( from reuters.com site ). There is a package manager called CNR which requires a free subscription. It asks for an email address and password. Please don't put your email password there. You leave it blank and create a separate password later in the next screens. However, I found later that apt-get works in command line and requires no log-in. Its repos are already in the list. Thunderbird does not use its default .thunderbird directory. It uses .lmail and one simply has to open .thunderbird and copy all its contents into the .lmail directory. The grub menu uses a peculiar format for root=/dev/hdax. It uses root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/partx So overall this distro is great for windows to linux users as it saves a lot of time in getting latest packages and codecs. Its only a little different compared to other debian distros, yet its debian and I hope to get a good screen resol at the client's place. Regards, Rony. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Linux on Intel 845 GLVA
by Rony 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Hello All, I was looking forward towards installing a debian based distro for my client who uses Mandrake 10.1 on a Celeron 2 Ghz. and Intel 845 glva mobo and Intel ethernet card. However to my surprise, neither Ubuntu 5.10 live nor kubuntu 6.06 live+install gave a screen resolution of more than 640 x 480 in spite of the xorg.conf having entries for 1024 x 768 and 800 x 600. So I installed Mandriva 2006 on his system and it worked out of the box with no driver or extra installation needed. Even the HP 690 printer was auto detected and configured during installation itself. Those who intend to install this distro need to keep one thing in mind that after the install configuration is done, it will show up as a list containing all the hardware like mouse, printer, video, sound, network etc before it actually does the installation. This is not just a list, it is a configurable list where the devices can be configured manually and it will be needed if you want to make changes just before install. For eg. Ethernet from dhcp to static, boot loader from lilo :P to grub, video system resolution and such tweaks. After installation, It has a very good package manager that can search for repository mirrors and lets you add from a big list of servers in different regions. It keeps the existing cd packages list too. Regards, Rony. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Marathi... and GNU/Linux
by Frederick Noronha 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Invitation for Marathi Translators and Wordlist Editors "janabhaaratii" a Govt. of India funded project, are pleased to invite "English-Marathi Translators" having • Computer Operation knowledge • Fluent with Marathi language and Computer Terminologies Desirable: • Familiarity with Indian Language text processing using GNU/Linux platform • Familiarity with different kinds of translations & issues thereof • Familiarity with tools to support translations • Knowledge of Data Entry in Marathi is essential "Marathi Wordlist Editors" are expected to contribute to the wordlist having variety of words from various domain, in terms of editing existing wordlist and making it qualitatively and quantitatively better. For registration visit: http://www.janabhaaratii.org.in/page_gen.php?lang=en&body=/announcement/tra… or send email to: Alka Irani alka(a)cdacmumbai.in Priti Patil prithisd(a)cdacmumbai.in Gracy Abreo gracy(a)cdacmumbai.in No registration fees. Registration is a MUST. Agenda 1st Orientation Programme for Marathi Translators and Marathi Wordlist Editors Date: 10th Nov 2006 Venue: C-DAC Mumbai (Formerly National Centre for Software Technology) Air-India Bldg, 8th Floor, Nariman Point, Mumbai- 400 021 Telephone: +91 22 2202 4641, +91 22 2283 6924 Fax: +91 22 2204 9573 Time: 10:00 - 17:00 hrs • Concept Introduction (30 min) • Dos and Don't of Translation and wordlist Edition (60 min) • Introduction of Translation Tools (60 min) Lunch Time: 12:30 - 13:30 hrs • Practice Session (60 min for getting familiar with Marathi text input process) • Actual work (till 17:00 -- FN 9822122436 +91-832-240-9490 (phone calls after 1 pm please) Free the airwaves... for India's sake (see the article at the URL below) [http://www.tehelka.com/home/20061111/20061111.asp?filename=18.jpg]

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Overriding pppoe DNS servers
by अिनकॆत (Aniket) 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

In Ubuntu , you will find a config file.. /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf In this file, there is an option called "Usepeerdns" Just set the value value to "no". Should do it. I use fedora, and there is no such file in fedora, but I remember seeing it in Ubuntu Live CD some time back...post your feedback. -- The Future is Open...The Future is LINUX

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Overriding pppoe DNS servers
by Sandesh Singh 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

Hi. I am usig Ubuntu 6.06. I connect to my local ISP using DSL. I set up the connection using 'ppoeconf'. Upon connection, the pppd daemon automatically(?) downloads the list of dns servers. However, the list of servers it downloads are not very good. I tried to stop this behavior by saying 'No' in the appropriate dialog of 'pppoeconf', but that did not help. The /etc/resolv.conf file keeps getting updated with the list at regular intervals. I want to override this behavior, and provide my own list of DNS servers. How can I do this? Thanks. -- sss http://sandesh247.googlepages.com/

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