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ILUG-BOM meet after more than 4 weeks?
by Roshan 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

The last meet was on 19th February 2006. And now, its directly on the 26th March 2006? A very big gap in time? Earlier (probably) it was held every two weeks! I express this because, I may not be able to attend and I think I miss out on a great opportunity to learn something ! Any specific reasons for such a delay..? (Just curious) _____________________________ If you don't know something, its always better to learn it and then experiment with components! PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! Visit http://www.somaiya.edu You have the ability to change things so that they, not only benefit you but others as well, but you might resist to...think about it! The internet is the biggest Library, laboratory and the Classroom independent of location but dependent on computer with an internet connection! "Intentions are written with pencil. Commitments are carved on Stones!" - CLINT A. D'SOUZA __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] hlp plz
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

You can order some free Ubuntu Breezy Badger CDs from shipit.ubuntu.com. Although I have some, I am too far away geographically to help you. The Ubuntu guys will shipt it to you completely free of cost. You might as well wait a few days dor Fedora Core 5 (mar 15) and Ubuntu Dapper Drake (april) to be released. Cheerio, Debarshi

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Re: help plz
by Roshan 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

>Hi all, > > i wish to install linux on my home pc. Wow!.. > I don hve any CD. i stay in Thane. is there anyone I have many friends who stay in Thane and nearby locations. "Probably" they could meet you at Thane Station. > who can help me for geting a linux CD? I can give you 'a' GNU/Linux CD! for FREE...yes you saw it right! "FREE" . BTW, which distro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distro) are you interested in? Let me know, and then, we may communiate over the phone for further details ;) > i jus need the CD..i'll install it myself. Good! >thanks in advance, > > BTW..im a software eng. working in Atos Origin. I haven't heard of it..but that does not matter much ;) > bye all _____________________________ If you don't know something, its always better to learn it and then experiment with components! PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! Visit http://www.somaiya.edu You have the ability to change things so that they, not only benefit you but others as well, but you might resist to...think about it! The internet is the biggest Library, laboratory and the Classroom independent of location but dependent on computer with an internet connection! "Intentions are written with pencil. Commitments are carved on Stones!" - CLINT A. D'SOUZA __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installer hangs on "Installing bootloader" of Fedora Core 4
by Mandar Khanolkar 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

ANY HELP !!! -Mandar On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 Mandar Khanolkar wrote : >Hi, > >I am facing following problems while installing Fedora 4 on my machine. > >1 Probem: > When I start the machine with CD#1, I get boot: promt. If I hit enter to proceed installation it starts checking machine resorces. Here it gives me this error followed by some exception trace. > *** > RAMDISK: couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. > VFS: couldn't open root device or unknown block "NULL" or (8,3) > *** > After this messages it prints out some exception trace. > > If I enter some invalid value at boot: promp like "/" and enter, it gives error that not a valid boot image. After this it shows again boot: prompt. Not if I hit enter it proceed with instllation and doesnt give above error message (problem#1 error). > >2 Problem: > a# After this I went ahead and selected drives for / and swap through disk druid. I had prepared these partitions through partition magic. > b# I selected boot loader to be installaed on /dev/hda4 (Linux partition) and kept default starting os as windows partition. > c# I went ahead and selected custom packages to be installed. It asked me for all the cds one by one as installation made progress. > d# After completing the packages installation and post installation tasks it displayed a message box stating "Installing bootloader". Here it went wrong. It was showing me hour-glass mouse icon but I guess it was hung. It didnt give me any error message. Finally after waiting for a long time I restarted the machine and my windows os started w/o showing Fedora Grab loader window. > e# I thought it couldnt write bootloader on the /dev/hda4 linux partition as it physically appears in the end of my hard-disk. So i repeated the whole procedure by selecting boot loader installation on MBR (step b#). But this couldnt resolve the problem and I found the same result. > >Can anybody explain the reason behind these two problems? Also any solution to get Fedora core 4 installed on my machine without formatting existing windows partitions. > >The System Details: > MB : Intel D865GVHZ > CPU : Intel P4 2.4 GHZ > H-DISK : Samsung 80 GB (Linux ext2 "/" and swap partitions lies at the end of the physical hard-disk) > RAM : 256 + 256 Total 512 MB > >-Mandar > >-- >http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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help plz
by Ranjit Sapre 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Hi all, i wish to install linux on my home pc. I don hve any CD. i stay in Thane. is there anyone who can help me for geting a linux CD? i jus need the CD..i'll install it myself. thanks in advance, BTW..im a software eng. working in Atos Origin. bye all -Ranjit cell phone : 9892536237

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Re: BE Project
by Venkatesh Hariharan 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:35:19AM +0530, Sanket Medhi wrote: > Hello friends, > > I am in my sixth semester of the B.E. (I.T.) course right now. I am required > to submit an abstract for my B.E. project within a month's time. I am > thinking over a few ideas but am not sure if they are feasible enough. So I > need you guys to suggest me some good ideas for a project that would serve > not only my purpose but also be a considerable contribution to the FOSS > community. Any suggestions are welcome. Sanket, take a look at the Red Hat Scholarships program. Details are at; http://www.in.redhat.com/community/rhscholarship.php Venky

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BE Project
by Sanket Medhi 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Hello friends, I am in my sixth semester of the B.E. (I.T.) course right now. I am required to submit an abstract for my B.E. project within a month's time. I am thinking over a few ideas but am not sure if they are feasible enough. So I need you guys to suggest me some good ideas for a project that would serve not only my purpose but also be a considerable contribution to the FOSS community. Any suggestions are welcome. -- Regards, Sanket Medhi.

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Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 35, Issue 7
by Gary Bonzo 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Ranjit Sapre" <ranjitsapre(a)gmail.com> > To: linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org > Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 17:38:21 +0530 > Subject: [ILUG-BOM] help plz > Hi all, > > i wish to install linux on my home pc. > I don hve any CD. i stay in Thane. is there anyone who can help me for > geting a linux CD? > i jus need the CD..i'll install it myself. Please have a look at LUG's wiki. You can get informations including contact number and distributions available. http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php Gaurav Khatri

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[OT] Biometric stand alone device. for access control
by Abhishek Daga 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Is anyone out here using a biometric access control device? I'd reckon that the simplest/most popular ones are thumb or fingerprint based. Say If I want a standalone device which can be used as a lock (or in conjunction with) is that possible? The only one I saw in the market was supporting Win platform (for pc access). So does it have a backup key? in case the batteries fail? I may be wrong here, but someone on this list had mentioned a long time ago that they program such devices. thanks abhi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[OT] Why are you here?
by Philip Tellis 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Out of curiosity, I'd like to know how many people on this list work with computers because it's their job, and how many do it for other reasons. If computer programming/sys admin was the worst paying job in the industry, paying something like Rs 2000/- per month, would you still do it? Philip -- Only great masters of style can succeed in being obtuse. -- Oscar Wilde Most UNIX programmers are great masters of style. -- The Unnamed Usenetter

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Minutes: Feb 2006 GLUG meet at HBCSE
by Anurag 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

*Minutes of February GLUG-Meet @ HBCSE* The GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai held its February GLUG meet on 19th February 2006 at HBCSE, Mankhurd. Meet was attended by about 25 people coming from all over the city. This meet consisted more of technical sessions with handson demonstrations. Following talks were held. * Backup and restoring We started with a talk about backup and restore of data. We saw the demonstration on how one can use the utilities like tar/cp/rsync to create incremental/differential backups. * Professional Certifications - By Mr. Shankar Iyer (RedHat) Shankar talked about the value of professional certifications in today's scenario, and the various certifications available from RedHat for upcoming professionals. --- tea break :-) * LaTeX document preparation system - By Ms. Meena (HBCSE) Meena talked about the oldest and best document preparations system availabe, LaTeX. Starting with few simple examples demonstrating the basic text formatting capabilities of LaTeX, we moved on to see how good LaTeX is at rendering mathematical equations, creating books, thesis, letters etc. LaTeX sources of examples covered in the talk are available here: http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/lug-meetings/Feb-2006/latex-examples.tar.gz ---- *Details of next GLUG meet* Date: To be decided -> Agenda : Talk on Qt/KDE development -> Location: To be decided * Pictures: Pictures taken in this meet have been posted on ILUG-BOM picture gallery ``http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/pics/''. Anurag -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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PHP query string parsing
by Sanket Medhi 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

I am currently working on a small PHP project for my college. I am quit new to it, so this query might seem trivial to you. What I am trying to do is use the index.php to act as the front page of the site, as well as be able to handle queries using the GET method. For example, http://localhost/index.php?search=somestring should work as well. That is, there might or might not be a query string. All I want to know is whether such a query string exists or not. And if yes, what is(are) the parameter(s) (in this case, search is the parameter). Thanks in advance. -- Regards, Sanket Medhi.

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Fwd: [ilugd] Fwd: [Indlinux-group] Ubuntu Indian Local Community Team
by Baishampayan Ghose 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

Hello GLUGgers, I am forwarding my own mail :) Let's have a discussion on this ... Regards, BG --- Gora Mohanty <gora_mohanty(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: > From Gora Mohanty Fri Mar 3 11:31:51 2006 > Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 19:31:51 +0000 (GMT) > From: Gora Mohanty <gora_mohanty(a)yahoo.co.in> > To: ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org, orissa-it(a)yahoogroups.com, > oriya-group(a)lists.sarovar.org, ilug-bbsr(a)yahoogroups.com > Subject: [ilugd] Fwd: [Indlinux-group] Ubuntu Indian Local Community > Team > > Hi, > I am forwarding a message to indlinux-group from Baishampayan Ghose > about a proposal to put together an Indian LoCo team for Ubuntu. For > details of what such a team does, please see the appended message, > and > the links that it includes at the end. As I had discussed the > possibility of providing Ubuntu support with various people, I think > that it is great that Baishampayan has taken this initiative. > An Ubuntu council meeting to discuss this will be held via IRC, > from > 17.30-19.30 IST, on Tue., 3 Mar., 2006, in the #ubuntu-meeting > channel > on Freenode (freenode.net). It would be nice to have some discussions > on this beforehand, e.g., what kind of support can we provide for > Ubuntu, how it will be organized, what can we get out of it > (customized > Indian-language Ubuntu distros,...) etc. If you are interested, you > can > add yourself to the Indian LoCo team via the AddYourNameHere link in > the People section of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IndianTeam. > > Regards, > Gora > > > From: Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose(a)gmail.com> > > To: IndLinux Group <indlinux-group(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > > Subject: [Indlinux-group] Ubuntu Indian Local Community Team > > Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 00:21:56 +0530 > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hello everybody, > > We are thinking about forming a Ubuntu Local Community (LoCo) Team > > for India which will officially act as the support team for all > > Ubuntu related activities in India. > > The main functions of the group will be -- > > * Act as the official contact point for everything Ubuntu in India > > * Organise advocacy / technical sessions about Ubuntu > > * Represent Ubuntu in all major/non-major FOSS events in India > > * Look at the various Indic related issues in Ubuntu and push > fixes > > into Ubuntu main > > * Being a LoCo team will allow us to maintain our custom packages > in > > Ubuntu main repos, we can use that by having a package to > > distribute our customised packages, artwork, translations, etc. > > * More! > > So the main procedure to become an officially recognised team is to > > put our team on the next Community Council agenda and then the > > Community Council will discuss and grant us official status. > > I have created a wiki page for the IndianTeam in the Ubuntu wiki, > you > > are all invited to add your names there and edit the wiki to add > more > > content. I guess we also need to discuss among ourselves before the > > CC meeting which will take place on the 7th. > > Comments are welcome, and please go through the relevant links as > > given below. > > Regards, > > BG > > > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IndianTeam > > [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams > > [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil > > [4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Service Unavailability
by Anurag 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Hello, Due to routine maintenance work at TIFR's colaba campus, there would be no electrical supply tomorrow, Saturday 4th March 2006. All the services including mailing list and website would be unavailable throughout the day. Any inconvenience caused is regretted. Anurag -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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CGI in Apache
by Amit 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hi All, I have set up apache webserver(2.0.46/RHEL3) in one of our test-servers.. I want to apache to run cgi-script .. I have put ScriptAlias entry like this ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /etc/httpd/conf/cgi-bin there are certian cgi script inside this dir.. owner of the file is user : apache group : webserver i have given execute permission to these files.. still I am not able to run those scripts .. I do not have selinux installed Plz help Rgds Amit

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lvm with 2.4.21
by santosh rao 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

hello, i was interested in knowing as to whehter kernel 2.4.21 would have to be patced to get dev-mapper support. because in menuconnfig it just shows lvm. whereas in new kernels it shows specificly dev-mapper support. ? any ideas guys. actally my aim is to setup lvm without havin to patch or upgrade the kernel ? -- "He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself does not become one." - Friedrich Nietzche

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[ot][hardware] making redundant connections between switches and a router
by Abhishek Daga 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hi folks, I did attempt a google for this but did not know what search term would actually pull up a meaningful result for this. Apparatus/Equipment. a) SMC wireless dsl router (3 port) b) three 8 port switches, (dlink, dax, smc) Setup: 4 ports in each are used to connect to various PCs. 1 port used up to connect to the wireless router. Problem: I have had issues with routers where frequent reseting is required. So to prevent the entire internal network going down because of a bad router, I decided to make the connections redundant. So connected Port 6 of dlink to port 6 of Dax. Port 7 of dlink to port 6 of smc. Port 7 of dax to port 7 of smc with the assumption that even if the router fails, i'l have uninterrupted access. But this was not to be. Things got messed up, despite enabled connections, machines would not ping each other or the router. Then finally removed the links from Switch 1 and 2 to the router and also the connection from dax to smc and it started working fine. So what got messed up in the above setup? I am thinking its something to do with conflicts but not convinced as to why there would be a conflict? Can anyone throw some light on this? thanks abhi *********************************************************************** According to the theory of aerodynamics, a bumble bee cannot fly. A bumble bee is not aware of this theory and so it decides to fly anyway. *********************************************************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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MTNL Triband with DSL-Ethernet bridge and Linux PPPoE?
by Amish Mehta 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hello All, Has anybody tried MTNL Triband with entry level (but reliable) DSL-Ethernet bridge/converter? i.e. simple device which converts DSL signals to Ethernet signals? My idea is NOT to go for full fledged router(like DLink-502T) but use Linux with PPPoE because afterall DLink modem itself uses Linux. I have read that it works with DLink-502T in bridged mode so it should work with simple and cheap bridges. eBay shows such bridges to cost just 5-7$ but I am not sure if it works with Triband and PPPoE on Linux. That way one can avoid DSL modem deposit(and have their own bridge at same cost) as well as monthly rental. And have all the power of Linux firewall/NAT/cron jobs etc. Please let me know if someone has tried this and which bridge/converter was used and how much does it cost? Thanks in advance. Amish.

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Re: [ilugd] [OT] Service Tax Applicability on Open Source Software Services
by Manish Kathuria 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Manish Kathuria wrote: > >>Is Service Tax applicable on open source software services namely >>installation, configuration and customization ? Please let me know if >>someone has clarity on this issue. > > > IANAL :) > > Open Source Software Services *is* a service/consultative practice and > thus would (ideally...) have a Service Tax component included > > - -SM As per available information with me, if you classify the services as "Information Technology Services" then probably the services wont fall under the Service Tax net. There is a service category called Business Auxiliary Service (added in 2003) which excludes "Information Technology Services" from the service tax net. Please refer to the Section 2 of the following circular available on the service tax web site: http://www.servicetax.gov.in/servicetax/circular/st_circ_62-2k3.htm There are some news reports also which add to the confusion: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/01/23/stories/2006012300241700.htm http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/10/15/stories/2005101502421100.htm It would be great if any of the firms / companies charging or paying or not paying service tax can shed more light on this. -- Manish

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[OT] Service Tax Applicability on Open Source Software Services
by Manish Kathuria 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Is Service Tax applicable on open source software services namely installation, configuration and customization ? Please let me know if someone has clarity on this issue. Thanks, Manish

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search looks good - thanks benoy
by Philip Tellis 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Thanks to benoy, our search page now looks like the rest of our website: http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/search/linuxers/ -- Computer programmers never die, they just get lost in the processing.

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Mplayer running slowly in full screen mode
by manish mallan 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hi, I compiled Mplayer on ubuntu breezy. It's working fine except that when i change to full screen mode, it runs slowly. The picture moves slowly. I have AMD 64 with MSI K8MMV motherboard. It has unichrome video card. I m using 1280x1024 resolution in vesa mode. I tried changing to VIA Unichrome, but X fails. Can anybody suggest me solution for this. Thanks & regards Manish

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[ANNOUNCE] Finance::Bank::HDFC version 0.12
by Rohan R. Almeida 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi, I would like to announce the availability of Perl module Finance::Bank::HDFC version 0.12 on the CPAN. >From the docs: NAME Finance::Bank::HDFC - Interface to the HDFC netbanking service SYNOPSIS use Finance::Bank::HDFC; my $bank = Finance::Bank::HDFC->new; $bank->login( cust_id => xxx, password => xxx, ); print $bank->get_balance . "\n"; $bank->logout; DESCRIPTION This module provides an interface to the HDFC netbanking service at https://netbanking.hdfcbank.com/netbanking/ Changes in v0.12: - Module Readonly used for constants - Added method set_timeout - All methods die on errors - Code cleanup - sample script in scripts/get_balance.pl - Added TODO file in distribution You can read more about it and download it here: http://search.cpan.org/~rohan/Finance-Bank-HDFC-v0.12.0/lib/Finance/Bank/HD… - Rohan http://rohan.almeida.in

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Installer hangs on "Installing bootloader" of Fedora Core 4
by Mandar Khanolkar 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi, I am facing following problems while installing Fedora 4 on my machine. 1 Probem: When I start the machine with CD#1, I get boot: promt. If I hit enter to proceed installation it starts checking machine resorces. Here it gives me this error followed by some exception trace. *** RAMDISK: couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. VFS: couldn't open root device or unknown block "NULL" or (8,3) *** After this messages it prints out some exception trace. If I enter some invalid value at boot: promp like "/" and enter, it gives error that not a valid boot image. After this it shows again boot: prompt. Not if I hit enter it proceed with instllation and doesnt give above error message (problem#1 error). 2 Problem: a# After this I went ahead and selected drives for / and swap through disk druid. I had prepared these partitions through partition magic. b# I selected boot loader to be installaed on /dev/hda4 (Linux partition) and kept default starting os as windows partition. c# I went ahead and selected custom packages to be installed. It asked me for all the cds one by one as installation made progress. d# After completing the packages installation and post installation tasks it displayed a message box stating "Installing bootloader". Here it went wrong. It was showing me hour-glass mouse icon but I guess it was hung. It didnt give me any error message. Finally after waiting for a long time I restarted the machine and my windows os started w/o showing Fedora Grab loader window. e# I thought it couldnt write bootloader on the /dev/hda4 linux partition as it physically appears in the end of my hard-disk. So i repeated the whole procedure by selecting boot loader installation on MBR (step b#). But this couldnt resolve the problem and I found the same result. Can anybody explain the reason behind these two problems? Also any solution to get Fedora core 4 installed on my machine without formatting existing windows partitions. The System Details: MB : Intel D865GVHZ CPU : Intel P4 2.4 GHZ H-DISK : Samsung 80 GB (Linux ext2 "/" and swap partitions lies at the end of the physical hard-disk) RAM : 256 + 256 Total 512 MB -Mandar

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to unsubscribe from this list?
by shunya＠vsnl.com 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

thanks . I will learn linux with my resources and then only trouble this noisy group again. To me it sounded like a lot of irrelevant chattering. May Be, it is very useful to the posters and current readers. mahesh naik

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