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ubuntu dapper drake: apache tries to open PHP pages as phtml text files
by Abhishek Daga 28 Oct '06

28 Oct '06

My LAMP configuration (default install) on ubuntu dapper drake was working fine uptil now. I tried to install php curl and in the process uninstalled/reinstalled a couple of packages for php and restarted apache. ever since, my php files are being recognised as phtml files and firefox tries to OPen or Download it...i.e. the box pops up. The following packages are installed: apache2 apache2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils php5 php5-cgi php5-cli php5-cgi php5-common php5-curl php5-gd I added/these lines existed the following in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps AddType application/x-httpd-php .inc AddType application/x-httpd-php .class AddType application/x-tar .tgz AddHandler cgi-script .cgi any ideas as to why something that was working perfectly fine got messed up? thanks abhishek __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Mobile Data Card on Linux OS
by ming 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Hi We are looking for Mobile Data Card for sending and receiving SMS from Desktop PC running Linux OS. ( Drivers for Data Card on linux ) Any Make available. Any Vendor contacts available. Also what are the types of Interfaces available for card to install it in a desktop PC. What are the available speeds of reading SMS from the Data card Thanks Regards Mng --------------------------------- All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.

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Help: Configuring IQARA Broadband on FC5
by Rakesh Venkat 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Hi, I am dual booting FC5 with Windoze on a Toshiba Laptop(Tecra S2). I have a broadband connection from IQARA broadband. Has anyone got IQARA running on linux? Could you help me out with some instructions on how to go about this? I have tried the following so far : In Network Connections, I created a new xDSL connection named Iqara which uses dialup for getting IP information. Besides this, there is also an Inactive Ethernet connection on eth0 (the Ethernet Card--Marvell-something-something, recognized correctly). The Inactive ethernet connection is set to start up and determine IP information using DHCP. This sometimes fails to bring up the eth0 interface with the following error: Determining ip information.... <then gives Failed>. Now, on trying the Iqara connection, it starts up properly. But the problem is that this happens only sporadically.... bringing up eth0 more often than not is reporting the following error: Determining ip information:.... Failed; no link present, Check cable? If this happens then Iqara also fails to start up. At the same time, on Windows, the connection works properly... odd, since I would have expected it to say something like "Network Cable unplugged". RP-PPoE also doesnt seem to work, though I am not sure of all the settings. Any help in setting it up is highly welcome... Thanks a lot, Rakesh

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CD ROM doesn't mount
by Aniket Suryavasnshi 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

I've recently installed Ubuntu (Breezy Badger, 5.10) on my computer. The problem is that most times I boot into M$ XP, the CD ROM drive doesn't get mounted. I have to reboot the system, after which the CD ROM drive gets mounted. Is this problem caused due to the installation of Ubuntu (I'd encountered one error during the installation process, but I don't remember that error now) or is it caused due to some other malfunctioning in XP? -- With eggs so cheap these days, there's no point running behind chicks! ;)

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Re: CD ROM doesn't mount
by Roshan 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Aniket Suryavasnshi wrote: > Is this problem caused due to the installation of > Ubuntu (I'd encountered > one error during the installation process, but I > don't remember that error > now) or is it caused due to some other > malfunctioning in XP? Did you try mounting the CD-ROM in Ubuntu (if it has to be mounted manually) or does it mount automatically in Ubuntu? I had a similar problem, and I found that the drive was faulty, because, it didn't work in Windows, and even in Redhat Linux 9.0. You may also try unplugging the drive once, and check the cables and power supply of the drive. (I had tried this....) -- http://www.gnu.org.in __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Re: Forbes.com: Toppling Linux
by Vihan Pandey 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

> Asshole author who does not know the abc of what he is trying to > pontificate about. > > > > Asshole author who does not know the abc of what he is trying to > > pontificate about. > > didnot expect this from JTD or sud I say I sud have expected this from you > ? > >> Asshole author who does not know the abc of what he is trying to > >> pontificate about. > > > > didnot expect this from JTD or sud I say I sud have expected this > > from you ? > > i agree 100% with jtd - but didnt say anything because i knew he > would word it much better than i ever could A bit agressive JTD, but never the less justified. We ought to call these people what they are ;-) Anyway, i think the better way is to post comments on that article. At least people will be aware that the community will not take this lying down. i've posted my thoughts on : http://forums.forbes.com/forbes/board/message?board.id=stallmanreaction&mes… i've used an alias: edudkniht spelt backwards. i enchourage others to do the same. Regards, - vihan

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more flame bait
by Kenneth Gonsalves 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

hi check this out: http://www.macnn.com/blogs/?p=133 -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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[OT] Unlimited Internet
by Rony 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

Hello All, On 21st Oct MTNL has advertised in the Mumbai Mirror that all customers of new CDMA 2000 1X Garuda FW and Garuda Mobile can get unlimited internet usage for an additional tarrif of just Rs. 299 per month under all the existing tarrif plans. It is yet to be updated on their website. So folks, the time is ripe for setting up that mobile wireless router in cars, taxis, buses for unlimited public internet usage without bothering about usage charges. The tiny motherboard discussed sometime back by others with integrated 266 MHz. processors and a simple external psu would be ideal for providing the tiny pc that dials through the MTNL phone and its ethernet output is given to the wireless router. This is just an imaginary concept..... Remember that bike advt. where the double decker bus is converted into a home because everyone is using that brand of bike for transport? "Public ka naya transport". I was imagining a Linux bus like that. A double decker bus that is dedicated to linux awareness. The lower deck has a lab with linux machines for demo and testing. It also has a counter that sells/distributes linux cds of different distros. The upper deck is for conferences and meetings, even ILUG-BOM meets. The bus will have its own power generator and wireless cum wired internet and LAN. If a chemical loo can be squeezed in, it will be totally independent of surroundings and can be parked in any area. Such a bus can regularly visit schools and colleges as they have the target audience and the space to park. It can also visit housing colonies to promote linux among the people with Linux 'melas'. The body of the bus is painted with catchy slogans and information that a person can read fast and get some idea of linux. Regards, Rony. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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DRM and starving artists [OT]
by jtd 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

"Weird Al" Yankovic had several hits in the past but could not get his newer works published by the music overlords. So he published it on the net. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061024-8064.html Which brings us to the DRM worm and gplv3. does drm protect copyrighted works or merely extends tenure of crooked monopolies on distribution. Recently Yoko ono (wife of beatles John Lennon) sued a music company for deliberately misstating sales (and hence royalties) - a rather difficult propsition with online downloads. -- Rgds JTD

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problem remastering knoppix for a 256 mb USB pen drive.
by krishnakant Mane 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

hello all. I have gone through the remastering knoppix howto manual. the manual spoke of every thing but my requirement. I want to make a customised knoppix distro that can run from a 256 mb pen drive. as I had emailed before, my talking book reader needs that. JTD, Thanks for the link for the manual. the reason I did not ask any questions for a long time is because I was confirming that I am rest ashured that my problem is unsolved in the manual before asking uselessly on this list and crowding the trafic. but alas it is indeed unsolved. I believe I will format my pen drive with ext3 or riserfs file system. mostly I will go with ext3. now my question is how do I get knoppix to boot from my pen drive. no, I don't want dam small linux or any pre customised distro. correct me if I am wrong, butdam small linux or any other custom distro will contain gnome/ KDE, office productivity, and other things which I don't need. all I need here is a simple distro with no gui. the list of requirement is as follows. 1. bash and related tools. 2. standard c libraries so that my custom c programs can run. 3. festival speach synthesizer. 4. scanning and OCR softwares. I may just choose to have the libraries without the gui interface. and if there are console based OCR softwares, nothing like it. 5. grub boot loder (I think that must be obvious, sorry to sound stupid.). 6. a menu driven program that will start instead of the bash prompt after the system auto login. I don't want user to enter any username or password. 7. python interpreter I believe with the above requirement, I think 256 mb is more than sufficient. I have seen knoppix distros of about 200 mb with gui and other stuff (except open office of course). and yes, I have mentioned before that my pen drive has booted once with a custom slackware distro. so no problems booting gnu/linux from my pen drive. the only problem I am stuck with is that I can't find a way to get the only the above mentioned apps and create a custom distro that will boot from my pen drive with ext3 file system. I want to have it come up with my menu driven application instead of the default bash prompt. can any one help out in getting this work exactly as I want? thanks and regards. Krishnakant.

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Training in Linux kernel internals and programming
by Jojumon Kavalan 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

Hi, CDAC Mumbai wants to get some of its staff members to get trained in Linux kernel internals and programming. Any pointers to good institutions/individuals who provide such training? Thanks and regards, - Joju -- Everything should be made as simple as possible. But no simpler. - Albert Einstein Jojumon Kavalan KBCS Division, CDAC (Formerly NCST) Rain tree marg, Sector - 7, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai - 400614. Ph: 022 27565303 Ext: 305; Fax: 022 27560004 Home page: http://staff.cdacmumbai.in/joju Alt E-mail: joju(a)cse.iitb.ac.in

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Re: Training in Linux kernel internals and programming
by Roshan 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Jojumon Kavalan wrote: > Thanks for all the responses, though few were a bit > senseless! My Apologies, if I diverted it to Off-topic discussions > Unavailability of experts in one or the other area > is a problem being > faced by many organisations like NCST. And that is > inevitable when > the experts leave the organisation for more > lucrative jobs! :) As suggested earlier, I too, would recommend you to join one of the IRC channels, where you'll _probably_ find people who would ready to take up this task. For details on the channel visit: http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page -- http://foss.in __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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IBM sues Amazon [OT]
by jtd 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

IBM sues amazon for patent infringement. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/23/AR200610230… The dangers of software patents. Dont be surprised if sending a packet over a wire becomes illegal. This one would whittle down to a business methods thingy. what's so unique about putting up a webserver to display pics of stuff u want to sell?. GPLV3 anyone?. -- Rgds JTD

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Ubuntu mirror in India@IITM
by Aparna Appaiah 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Dear linuxers, I wanted to inform you that in addition to having a Debian i386 repository, http://ftp.iitm.ac.in now also has a Ubuntu i386 repository. It is also an official mirror of kernel.org. The Ubuntu repository is at http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/ubuntu Regards, Aparna -- Aparna Appaiah

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need a tally alternative on gnu/linux.
by krishnakant Mane 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

hello jtd, Abhishek, kenneth and other friends on the list. I could have specially sent this email off list to those whose names I mentioned at the top. but I want more people to read this email for spreading awareness because what I am going to ask is a new subject for me as well. I need an accounting software that falls under the FOSS model. it should compeet with Talli so that even common business men will use it. I remember Abhishek telling me the other day that probably Kenneth has done some work in this direction. the good news for me from what he further told me is that it is in python. kenneth, is that true? can I get your source code so that I too can work on it or may be even improve it? regards. Krishnakant.

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] PPPOE config problem at boot
by bimal pandit 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

Dear Osric, On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 osric fernandes wrote : >On 10/22/06, Dinesh Joshi <dinesh.a.joshi(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>How is the DNS configured? Prolly the DNS servers aren't getting >>configured. > >I have entered the Primary and Secondary DNS IP addresses in the >respective fields under the DNS tab of system-config-network. Is there >some other way to set it? > >-- >Regards, >OSRIC XAVIER FERNANDES > >-- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers You can also use "/etc/resolve.conf" file and could make entries as nameserver 202.138.103.100 nameserver 202.138.96.2 regards, Bimal Pandit

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PPPOE config problem at boot
by osric fernandes 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

Hi all, I am using Fedora Core 5 and I am connected to the internet using a cable broadband connection (Exatt net that is provided via a local cable provider in chembur called worldnet). I have configured the connection using system-cofig-network by first creating an Ethernet connection that uses static ip. Running pppoe -A gives me a list of access concentrators in which worldnet001 is mentioned (this is same as the service name that I use to create a pppoe connectoid in winxp using raspppoe). Next, I created an xDSL connection in system-config-network. I made the appropriate settings and I am able to connect. However the problem occurs whenever I boot my system. At booting it shows me Bringing up interface ppp0 [ OK ] But when I try to browse sites I am not able to do so. If I open system-config-network it shows that the device ppp0 is active. If I deactivate it and reactivate it, then I am able to browse websites. I am not able to understand why the link doesn't come up at boot. It used to connect at boot previously, but then I tinkered with some settings and I don't know what I did, but I am not able to get it to connect it at boot. Please give me your suggestions. Thanks in advance, Regards, OSRIC XAVIER FERNANDES

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Re: Training in Linux kernel internals and programming
by Roshan 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

"Arun K. Khan" wrote: > Depends on the experience of the person in the field > s/he is > researching. An analogy to this is the packet switched network (Internet). A packet has its headers,(source and destination), along with necessary information (its data), but to reach the destination, each router has to route the packet through the best possible way, where the router has the knowledge of how the network is. Dinesh Joshi wrote: > Research inherently is without guidance. Therefore, A packet, may not on its own reach anywhere it wants. Though, we may assume, the packet themselves will become intelligent, in the near future, to have all information contained within itself. With respect to the OP, and the subject line, "Understanding the Linux Kernel", Oreilly Publications, is a good book. -- http://sankoobaba.blogspot.com __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Re: Training in Linux kernel internals and programming
by Roshan 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

Shakthi Kannan wrote: > The Internet and the Free/Libre/Open Source > Community? http://www.kernelnewbies.org Dinesh A. Joshi wrote: > Research is dead in this country :( Or possibly, there aren't enough guides for research. --http://sankoobaba.blogspot.com __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Re: Where Redhat Linux 9.0 created a big problem!
by Roshan 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

Dinesh Joshi wrote: > Yes. And the behavior is quite justified for a > server class OS. The OS > didnt halt, did it? It prevented XOrg from starting > so that further > complications could be avoided. I know it may not be > the best way to > tell the user that you shuold replace the mouse but > still... :P The OS didn't halt. It prevented the X from starting. But I see this as a *big* problem for not so, technically inclined users. In Windows, usually, Windows 98 would pop up a message saying the mouse isn't detected or something of that sort. However, the normal user still has the GUI and can find out some way to work out. Redhat Linux 9.0, left only the konsole to run, leaving a normal user helpless. -- http://sankoobaba.blogspot.com __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Where Redhat Linux 9.0 created a big problem!
by Roshan 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

This isn't a big problem as such for me. But for windows users, moving to GNU/Linux (or GliNUx) possibly could be. My mouse failed working properly, tonight and I was really surprised to see what redhat linux 9.0 was trying to do. Somehow, there was a dependency in starting the console mouse service, which failed, and in turn, disallowed the X to start :( It asked me to attempt starting the X, and I tried a few times, assuming it would start without the mouse. It failed, and I quit. Shut the system, replaced a mouse (yes, I had a spare, won at a computer quiz competition in Ruia College ;) ) and restarted, and everything started working fine. Now, since it was Redhat Linux 9.0, I assume the OS is older and would consider the non-availability a big issue and avoid starting the GUI. However, do _newer_ and _different_ distro's face the same problem? -- http://sankoobaba.blogspot.com __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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FlashPlayer 9 beta available for Linux
by Arun K. Khan 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

FWIW FlashPlayer 9 beta available for Linux: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html -- Arun Khan

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Ask Bono To Stand With Us Against DRM
by പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Hi, Defective by Design ( http://wwwdefectivebydesign.org ) is running a campaign encouraging Bono to take a stand on DRM will send a powerful message. Its your chance to be a prt of this campaign by signing the petition. We have reached about 5000 signatures and we are looking at 10000. So pass it on to your friends as well. <quote> Dear Bono, You have dedicated a major part of your life's work to fighting for good causes, bringing pressure to bear on the powerful and political elite to effect positive change. In the same way that you have called for action from world leaders, we now call upon you to look at the facts surrounding Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), and join us in demanding an end to handcuffs on technology and culture. </quote> Read the full petition and sign http://defectivebydesign.org/petition/bonopetition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bono Regards Praveen -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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ADMIN: Greetings
by Devdas Bhagat 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Please do not send festival greetings to a mailing list full of people you do not personally know. If you want to send a greeting, send it to individual contacts directly. Devdas Bhagat

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Flash on Linux
by Saswata Banerjee & Associates 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Hi Please check out http://news.com.com/Adobe+releases+beta+of+Flash+for+Linux/2100-1012-612742… This should make many people happy. Regards Saswata

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