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[Fwd: LinuxThane 2006]
by Anurag 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Forwarded mail from Mr. Abhijeet. -- Anurag

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Linux compatible motherboards.
by Rony 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hello All, Whenever there have been arguments on this list about linux compatible hardware, the experts are of the opinion that they select their hardware in such a way that its compatible to linux without any extra effort. So here is a request to all the experts to provide some information on the motherboards and processors they use, that are directly compatible to linux . Could you provide a small list of motherboard models that you have been using on desktop/workstation systems running linux, for the last 6 months? Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Note of thanks to Speakers and Volunteers for Introduction to GNU/Linux Seminar @ TSEC
by Dinesh Shah 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hi All, I would like to thank the speakers - Krishnakant Mane, Rajeev R K, Vihan Pandey, who have shared their knowledge. I would also like to thank the volunteers - Anurag Patel, Naveen, Mr. Rao and other two persons, for providing back end support before and during the seminar. I would also like to thank Venktesh Hariharan of Red Hat for providing Fedora Core CDs for distribution among participants. We have got excellent feedback on all the speakers and participants were of the opinion that the time allocated was not enough. :-) We will ask the College authorities to organise a full day seminar/workshop for GNU/Linux in near future. Looking forward to continued participation in all future GNU/Linux awareness activities. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-)

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GPL hardware - project for the project handicapped
by jtd 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

It keeps getting better. Sun released the T1 processor under the gpl. And a bunch of hardware guys derived a single core unit out of that. http://www.srisc.com/?s1 So all those final year sods just woken up in the morning and staring at a bleak projectless year, here is one waiting for u. http://www.opensparc.net/ -- Rgds JTD

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Re: how to enable root user with password prompting in knoppix (krishnakant Mane)
by Vihan Pandey 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

> From: "krishnakant Mane" <researchbase(a)gmail.com> but now I want the system to ask me for a password when I log in and > for root as well when I try to su in the bash prompt. > how can I enable both this things? > Krishnakant. Hello Krishnakant, You can do that simply by : # sudo passwd root This will enable a password for the root user. Also, please go through the documentation here : http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper Regards, - vihan

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Anjuta bounties
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Forwarded from the gnome-love list. Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:23:22 +0300 From: Naba Kumar <naba.kumar(a)gmail.com> Subject: [gnome-love] Anjuta bounties To: gnome-devel(a)gnome.org Cc: anjuta-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net, gnome-love(a)gnome.org Message-ID: <1159651402.15690.21.camel(a)localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Hi guys! We are starting to offer bounties for some of our Anjuta tasks. This has been done to encourage people to contribute to Anjuta development and to speed up some of our priorities. Now, in addition to enjoying helping Anjuta get better, you also get the chance to earn some incentives for your valued contributions. http://anjuta.org/tasks So those interested, please go ahead and grab the tasks you believe you would enjoy contributing and help us make Anjuta one of the best IDEs! Thanks. Regards, -Naba -- Microsoft does have a Y2K problem... it's called GNU/Linux!

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HSBC online services not working in Ubuntu/Firefox
by Rohit V Bhute 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

I opened an account with HSBC a few days back for my salary deposits. The online@HSBC services are not working in Ubuntu/Firefox. It requires IE 5.0+ or NS Communicator. I tried fiddling with the User Agent string (strangely, most of the IE User Agent strings I found on the net looked like Mozilla/<some stuff>) but to no avail. I've submitted a complaint form but I'm not expecting them to listen to it. Is there any way other than booting into Windows or using IE from Wine? Other than the fact that I would be using, well, IE or win32, I would lose face in front of my sister whom I berate for carrying out *her* online banking business in win32/IE :-( -- Rohit V. Bhute http://blog.rvbhute.org

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Fwd: Openoffice.org design Template/Clipart Competition
by Kartik Mistry 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hi all, Interesting mail. Any takers? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Russell Ossendryver <worldlabel(a)gmail.com> Date: Oct 2, 2006 1:42 AM Subject: Openoffice.org design Template/Clipart Competition To: kartik Hi It would be a great if you would post news about the Openoffice.org Template/Clipart competition on your blog so the FOSS community in India can help. We need all the help we can get!! Building a comprehensive gallery of OpenDocument Format templates I believe is essential for the movement and it will help everyone. Anything you do would be great, actually awesome. Thank you so much for consideration. Sincerely Russell Template & Clipart Contest The Openoffice.org Documentation Project is holding a competition for templates and clipart, and there is prize money! The goal is to increase our trove. Frankly, we don't have enough; users are feeling deprived. That means over 50 million people. You can help change that... and also maybe win some money. http://www.worldlabel.com, which has been long a strong champion of OpenOffice.org, has set aside USD 5,000 for prizes. Winners will also have the option of including their winning entries in the OpenOffice.org installation sets available from the site. If you are interested, visit the Documentation Project for more information. Everyone is eligible and everyone is encouraged to participate. The contest officially starts this week and ends 13 October 2006, on our birthday. Winning entries will be judged by a panel of three and winners will be announced 1 November 2006. http://documentation.openoffice.org/ -- Regards, ---------------------------------------------------------- Kartik Mistry | kartik.freemind.in 0xD1028C8D | kartikm.wordpress.com -----------------------------------------------------------

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M$ spyware in action - two steps towards promoting linux.
by jtd 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=143 WGA (windows Genuine Advantage) in Vista checks your drive for pirated stuff of ALL copies of windows and reports back to the mothership. If u have any M$ stuff illegally obtained - in this case even legally obtained - it will prevent access of the new and old software. I love M$. I adore BG. XP is good. Vista is great. Hope they release it today. $-E -- Rgds JTD

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GLUG BoF meet
by Anurag 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

Hello, Kenneth Gonsalves will be in city this week. We are planning to have a BoF meet on 5th Oct evening at some place. Can list members suggest some good place where all of us can meet? Anurag -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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[OT] Cross platform sites/Migration of sites to mozilla
by Vinayak Hegde 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

Recently there has been talk about websites not supporting Firefox. Also there are certain hurdles in making applications (mostly intranet apps) work on Linux when a certain organisation tries to migrate to linux. The following document is a good starting point for such initiatives. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Migrate_apps_from_Internet_Explorer_to… -- Vinayak

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Fedora core
by Debasish Das 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

Hi friends, I am very new in this group. I am a member of ilug-cal and Madhyamgram GLT. Presently I am in Mumbai. I need FC5 or FC6. It is very urgent as other option is to use MS windows. I am giving my contact no. If any one is having this I can meet you to take this. Regards, Debasish Das Mob-no 9820578852

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how to install dosemu for foxpro on ubuntu?
by krishnakant Mane 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

hello, I am going for a big demo of gnu linux on tuesday. I will be demonstrating ubuntu dapper to some retail pharmacies and they expect me to show how do I propose to runn foxpro on the gnu/linux box. I will like to know how I can setup dosemu to bring up foxpro on dos session in ubuntu. Krishnakant.

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FC5/FC6
by Debasish Das 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

Hi friends, I am very new in this group. I am a member of ilug-cal and Madhyamgram GLT. Presently I am in Mumbai. I need FC5 or FC6. It is very urgent as other option is to use MS windows. I am giving my contact no. If any one is having this I can meet you to take this. Regards, Debasish Das Mob-no 9820578852

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how to open multiple terminals in knoppix?
by krishnakant Mane 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

hello, I want to know how can I open multiple terminals on the shel using knoppix. with all other distros like debian, redhat etc ctrl + alt + f1 - 6 opens terminals. I however could not do the same with knoppix. will installation on the hard disk give that facility? Krishnakant.

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GPL Violations: DLINK bites the dust
by jtd 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

Dlink was one of the crooked companies that violated the gpl and was taken to court by Harold Welte. They lost the case. Their defence shows their crookedness and greed. Dlink contended that linux indulged in price fixing by keeping price at zero and hence was indulging in monopolistic behaviour. Therfore by magic Dlink was allowed to violate the terms of the GPL. The court said that irrespective of the allegation of price fixing, Dlink ceased to be a licencee of the gpl if it violtates any clause of the gpl. Case was filed by Harold Welte of iptables fame. Krishnakant could u put this in the press. This is a great victory cause it immediately fixes all responsibility on the distributor without exceptions due to alleged gpl. Time to boycott dlink. Alternative is DAX for switches and low end network stuff. I belive that i have found another gpl violation from one of the largest IT houses in the country. They had developed an embedded kernel on arm for another multinational. The multinational's local contact says that thay dont have the source cause the IT house did not give them the source, and seemed to be unaware of the gpl requirements. Further investigation continues. I am not disclosing names until I am very sure. The company has already lost an order of Rs.30 lacs. If it can play dirty with the gpl it will most certainly do the same to me. -- Rgds JTD

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[commercial] PHP web scraper writers
by Abhishek Daga 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

I need scrapers written in php for several sites (6 or 7). These are https sites having username and passwords. There wil be several stages of navigation that require entering more data/criteria that would need to be pulled from the existing mysql DB. And finally, the data would need to be extracted. If there is anyone who is interested in taking up this project on a contract basis, please contact offline and we can discuss this further. -abhishek __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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how can I create openoffice .odt files in emacs?
by krishnakant Mane 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

hello all, here is one more strange yet interesting query. if I want to use emacs to create, format, open and save .odt files from openoffice word processor, how can I accomplish it? I will be first interested to create odt documents and then even spreadsheets. I find emacs desktop very comfortable to use. I don't know how good it looks on the desktop but liked it very much. now if I can use it for createing formatted documents and spread sheets, nothing like it. I am already seeking some help for browsing internet with emacspeak. hope some one will drop in with the help for that as well. thanking all. Krishnakant.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] GPL Violations: Elitecore should bites the dust
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

> I might be stating the obvious here but using GPL licensed software and making > changes and using them internally (like within a company) is okay. Google, > Yahoo, Amazon and other companies does this and this is not a violation of the > GNU GPL license. Also providing a hosted service such as hardened FTP server > space (with patches whose source code is not available) also does not fall under > the purview of the GNU GPL license. It is perfectly legal to do that. It is only legal if the original package is licensed under the GPLv2 or earlier, which obviously it is. The GPLv3 tends to look at it differently as of now. Regards, Debarshi -- Microsoft does have a Y2K problem... it's called GNU/Linux!

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Debian 3.1 rocks
by Rony 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

Hello All, This is a mini installation report on Debian 3.1. The linux26 kernel option was selected at boot prompt and Debian 3.1 was installed with a 2.6 kernel. The system was P4 2.4 GHz. and Intel 845 GEBV2 mobo. During installation itself the packages were updated from the net ( 120 MB). It detected the video with vesa drivers upto 800 x 600 resol. and sound was detected too. Printer setup was tricky as the kde could not initiate a setup for lpd printers. After a lot of googling I came across this unusual method of setting up a printer and it worked. I downloaded packages using synaptec. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=8302 Another problem was that sound did not work for the other user created for my family members. I looked up /etc/groups and added the new user in the line for 'audio' but still no good. Then after more googling I found this useful link http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps-sarge.html#a36 I downloaded the latest alsa-base alsa-oss and the new user too can access sound. Best part was that the 'totem' movie player could play VCDs and DVDs directly without the usual extra downloads. Still I installed the win32 codecs and libdvdcss later. The usb pen drive was also detected, though I had to manually mount it, but it was fun. In synaptec package manager, I came across a kernel for speech called speakup. The details are given below. Krish can try out this kernel for speech processing. The description is given below. "...Linux kernel image for version 2.4.27-speakup This package contains the Linux kernel image for version 2.4.27-speakup, the corresponding System.map file, and the modules built by the packager. It also contains scripts that try to ensure that the system is not left in a unbootable state after an update. If you wish to update a bootdisk, or to use a bootloader to make installing and using the image easier, we suggest you install the latest fdutils (for formatting a floppy to be used as boot disk), and LILO, for a powerful bootloader. Of course, both these are optional. Kernel image packages are generally produced using kernel-package, and it is suggested that you install that package if you wish to create a custom kernel from the sources. This kernel package contains a Linux kernel patched with speakup, a screen reader for the Linux console. Speakup currently supports the following hardware speech synthesizers: * DoubleTalk PC/LT * LiteTalk * Accent PC/SA * Speakout * Artic Transport * Audapter * Braille 'N Speak / Type 'N Speak * Dectalk External and Express * the Apollo2 NOTE: We don't claim this drivers to be stable, use them on your own risk...." All in all, Debian 3.1 is a good distro for those who want to get some installation experience. Its not too difficult. The online helping community is simply fantastic with so much online help available. This distro rocks. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ Now you can scan emails quickly with a reading pane. Get the new Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Firefox Howto
by Rony 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

Hello All, First, I want to thank all those who gave tips on installing debian 3.1 with linux26 kernel. I have downloaded firefox 1.5 but it is a self running software and I want to avoid duplicating it for every user. So what is a common location that I can use for installation for all users and only their profile is stored in their own home folder? Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] how to open multiple terminals in knoppix?
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

> I want to know how can I open multiple terminals on the shel using > knoppix. > with all other distros like debian, redhat etc ctrl + alt + f1 - 6 Check whether your /etc/inittab has some lines like these or not: # Run gettys in standard runlevels 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:234:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:234:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:234:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:234:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 If you have exactly these lines then. you will have 6 terminals in runlevels 2,3,4 and only 2 terminals in runlevel 5. Cheers, Debarshi -- Microsoft does have a Y2K problem... it's called GNU/Linux!

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Re: how to setup raspppoe internet on linux?
by अिनकॆत (Aniket) 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

well access concentrator is just server on the LAN which is offering PPPOE services. So there can be many on the LAN , and you need to select one. SO.... After you install rp-pppoe-3.8 , run the following command, "/sbin/pppoe -A " You will get a list of access concentrators and services on the command prompt., then make a note which one is yours.... Then , instead of "go-gui" ..just run "go" from the rp-pppoe directory, this will start the PPPOE dialer from command prompt without the GUI.. Also , if you need more assistance , you can give me a call, contact me off the list.

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Web server
by Mukund Deshmukh 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

Hi, I am looking for compact Webserver for manipulating data received from embedded devices. The requirements are, 1. Free 2. Works on linux and window. 2. Support for CGI and perl (if possible) 3. Fast, light weight. Any inputs? Best Regards, Mukund Deshmukh. Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd 10/1, IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur-440022 Cell - 9422113746

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With 4, 000 students and just 21 computers, the Cotton Hill Girls High School in the south Indian city of Trivandrum wouldn't appear to be at the vanguard of anything related to information technology. Linux spreads its wings in India
by Dinesh Shah 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

With 4,000 students and just 21 computers, the Cotton Hill Girls High School in the south Indian city of Trivandrum wouldn't appear to be at the vanguard of anything related to information technology. Yet the 71-year-old school is abandoning Microsoft Windows software in favor of its free, open-source rival, Linux. So when students -- typically eight to a machine, seated at two benches -- turn on their PCs they see Linux desktop software that helps them navigate their way to all manner of math, graphics, and writing programs. http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/sep/27linux.htm -- --Dinesh Shah :-)

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