- Linuxers - lists.fsci.in

[OT] What is keeping us from getting broadband?
by Dinesh Joshi 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

Hi, I was just talking with a Swedish friend and I wondered what is keeping India from going broadband? I mean people in foreign countries commonly have 2Mbit connections without download restrictions. My friend is currently studying in a university where he gets to share a 100Mbps 24x7 connection amongst 3 people and the authorities don't care about the downloads, only the uploads :O And he says the fees are included in the university's fees. I personally have logged into his server and downloaded many things, just for fun ^^ and it feels great to download at those speeds from international mirrors! Forget about 100Mbps. A friend in Netherlands has a 8Mbps DSL connection. No restrictions what-so-ever. The cost is very reasonable. In Indian rupees it works out to 1200-1500 bucks. I am not saying that foreign countries are a haven for those who feel the need for speed, rather I am simply saying that the conditions are much better than India. This is a big fact that the internet sucks in India and despite whatever measures our IT / Telecom minister(s) have taken to improve the situation, it hasn't made much of a difference. I still see MTNL DSL being overly priced. Yes, the 200MB / 400MB or whatever limit they put sucks. I can't see any *real* ISPs. Why is it so? Why is it so difficult for them to provide us with fast connectivity? Are the bandwidth prices so high that they cant afford to give us anything better? Are they just lazy? Are they just plain stupid? How are these ISPs "billed"? What are the costs they incurr? I think now TATA, Reliance and other Indian players own major underwater submarine cables, so they should be able to ease the congestion and provide super fast connectivity! What gives here? I read some where that TATA bought Tyco and Tyco's underwater submarine cables' _unlit_ capacity was some Terabits! Reliance purchased FLAG telecom. It too has a huge network and a huge capacity! WTF? India, as a *whole* uses some few hunderd Megabits of capacity and here we have terabits of capacity! Why are lagging behind then? I wan't some answers and I think you guys are best equipped to answer them. Are we really an IT super power? Or are we living a dream? -- Dinesh A. Joshi

4 9

Opera is now Free !!
by Rony Bill 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

Hello All, I read in google news that opera is now free, so grab the opportunity and get the latest download from the link below. http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=linux&x=165&y=24 It has so many packages as per your distro. Its great man, the only reason why I had earlier stopped using it was its adware which is no longer present in the latest free-for-all version. Enjoy, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

1 0

Squid Installation Docs
by Raghunandan Rao 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

Hi, I was given a task to implement the Squid, this is for blocking the messengers and job sites besides xxx, want to restrict the users, in order to have a good bandwidth... Please provide if any one has the Squid implementation and docs if available.. Regards, Raghunandan Raghunandan Rao Kanugo, System Administrator (Linux), Hyderabad, AP __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

5 5

MTNL triband
by V.K.Bharadwaj 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Friends, Sharing an observation regarding MTNL triband : During installation, the username (phone number) and password (CA number per phone bill) are supplied into the router and "saved" therein. Whenever switched on thereafter, the router must be automatically supplying the "saved" username and password to authenticate into the MTNL exchange/infra. The user is thus absolved of the need to submit username and password each time it is powered on. I use MTNL triband at home and at office. The MTNL exchanges are 2557xxxx and 2548xxxx respectively. A few weeks ago, my office connection stopped working. >From the symptoms and some investigations, I suspected the MTNL/Dlink502/ADSL router in the office is misbehaving. To confirm my doubts, I took the router from home to office; disconnected the suspect office router; reconnected the home router in the office; connection was working fine ! I logged my complaint on their helpdesk (dial 1504 from an MTNL line). followed up with the local MTNL office, and obtained a replacment for the defective MTNL ADSL router. Food for thought: ---------------- >From my test of swapping my home and office routers with NIL change to username/password (i.e. used my home router as-is in the office), it appears to me that : the MTNL exchange/infra is not verifying username submitted by router against the telecom network's caller-id mechanism. Vulnerablity to misuse apart, I guess the upside is that we now probably have a "roaming" (tri)band(width) Any guesses on "by design" or "by accident" ? --- vkb

3 2

[Commercial]- Sr Perl Programmers/ Tech Lead
by Ritika K 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Hi all, We are currently on the lookout for Sr Perl Programmers for one of our clients in Mumbai. Following is the job description: Job Description Position: Technical Lead/ Sr. Developer No of position: 1 Location: Mumbai Qualification: B.Sc./ BCS / B.E. / B.Tech Experience: 3 6 yrs experience At least 1 year experience as Team / Project Leader Responsibility: Understand and analyze project requirements from the Project Manager to generate adequate information for delivering the project Lead projects to timely and successful conclusions while adhering to company standards, policies, guidelines and deadlines including the SDLC. Prepare the plans for sub-teams that describe how the work is to be done, track actual work against the plans, assign resources to specific tasks and coordinate internal team communications. Responsible for the technical decisions. Manage technical team of 8 to 10 programmers Technical & Operational Skills: Should be technically strong. Knowledge and exposure to Web Application development in Perl / LAMP. Analysis and Design abilities using Object Oriented methodologies. Proficiency in Product Development, SDLC Concepts, and Documentation. Strong Skills in development, team management, testing & implementation. Good planning, scheduling and analytical skills. Professional Certification & exposure to ISO environment, CMM Level processes will be an added advantage. Skills/ competencies: Good written & communication skills Self-motivated and proactive. Ability to work cross-functionally Ability to lead team effectively. Interested Candidates may email their profiles to hrconsultant9(a)yahoo.com Thanks Ritika Kartikeyan __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

1 0

MTNL triband
by Satish Alwani 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Has anyone been using the MTNL Night unlimited package? is there billing software working correctly? i have heard it doesnt. Their support service sucks.. bandwith seems decent. But they are pretty much deaf for a telephone company. I told them I wanted the NU package and they gave me AA package. I am either gonna change my plan.. or totally disconnect it.. So please do let me know if their billing software works correctly and doesnt charge for nightly usage. Satish

3 2

Re: Re : need some perl code to display multiple command output
by BIJU KRISHNAN 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Hi Naved, Could u please release the code in GPL\Opensource, or atleast unleash it to the community here..! However i have got what i wanted - the power of FSF, There's a gr8 tool that we system admins shd deploy its libstatgrab freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/ it gives a ncurses based output of multiple stats. In a SAN\NAS environ like ours - the cause of asvc_t or wio - this tool will surely help us. rgds biju __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

1 0

ILUG-BOM mailing list
by Peeyush Chomal 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Hi, Is this mailing list currently inactive or is it just that I am not receiving any mails from it? The last mail I received was timestamped "Sep 20, 2005 7:17 PM". Please lemme know if there is some problem at gmail end. Regards, Peeyush

3 2

FTP permission Problem
by jeetendra r poojari 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Hi, I have hosted one website in /domain/www.xyz.com/web i have created three 3 ftp users i.e., admin user1 user2 Home directory of admin is /domain/www.xyz.com/web Home directory of user1 is /domain/www.xyz.com/web/user1 Home directory of user2 is /domain/www.xyz.com/web/user2 Now the issue is admin should have all the rights on the /domain/www.xyz.com/web directory but I am unable to edit or delete files from /domain/www.xyz.com/web/user1 and /domain/www.xyz.com/web/user1 using admin FTP login I cant add user1 and user2 to admin group as user1 will be able to access user2 files Kindly provide me solution for this. Regards Jeetendra

1 0

RE: [ILUG-BOM] Need CDs of FC - 4
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

>i need cds of Fedora Core - 4 >Please Help, Where I can get it ? Just a Tip, you'll get it faster if you mention where you are located. Gishu

2 1

Re : need some perl code to display multiple command output
by shnn shnn 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

In Reply to bijucyborg(a)yahoo.com >From bijucyborg(a)yahoo.com Wed Sep 7 21:22:07 2005 >From: bijucyborg(a)yahoo.com (BIJU KRISHNAN) >Date: Wed Sep 7 21:23:22 2005 >Subject: [ILUG-BOM] need some perl code to display multiple command output >Hi, >I need to display multiple command outputs on a single console, this is basically >to display multiple outputs of commands like netstat, sar, vmstat on the same screen. by that, i think u mean u wish to query multiple system parameters and then display them in a tabular form. The best way to do that is to parse the /proc file system and pick up whatver info u need. As for coding it in perl, it's really a matter of opening these /proc files and using regular expressions to pick what u need. i might have the code u need ...but tahts gonna cost u buddy ;) Hope this helps, -- Naved Kazi

2 2

Help for Linux Distribution for Intel EM64T Architecture.
by Amol K. 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

Hi, I am Hon. working for a Leading NGO in Western Suburbs as IT Head. Recently we purchased a new pc of below mentioned Configuration: Intel P IV 3.0 Ghz 531 with EM64T (64 Bit Tech.) Intel 915G Original Mother Board 512 MB DDR RAM 400 Mhz 80 Gb SATA Hard Disk (Samsung ST380017AS) and rest of the things (Keyboard, Mouse M/Media Speakers Ect) I am trying to install Redhat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS/WS on the same but my hard disk is not recognised during installation. It shows no hard disk found and asks for the SATA Driver Disketts. Even i tried to install Fedora Core 4 Provided with Digit Aug 05 Magzine. But it also does not recognise my Hard Disk. One of my friend told me that i have to use a distribution which supports 64 bit Technology. Can any one provide me the necessary Distribution of RHEL 3.0 AS/WS or Fedora Core 4 or Mandriva 10 and Driver disks required for the same. Awaiting Reply, Thanks and Regards, Amol. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail

3 2

problem with kernel compilation
by Nikhil Prabhakar 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

hi all, i recently compiled linux 2.6.6 on debian.while booting the new linux kernel i'm getting the error message: RAMDISK: image too big!(38180/8192blocks) VFS:cannot open root device "hda9" or unknown block (0,0) please append a correct "root="boot option kernel panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on unknown - block(0,0) plz help. regards nikhil "live life ethically"

2 1

RE: [ILUG-BOM] stable version of Linux
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

>> Ubuntu's kernels are not compiled with HIGHMEM and SMP support. >> However compiling/installing -smp kernel from debian can fix this. >> Other distros mostly carry an smp kernel. >Fedora Core 4 :) SUCKS! (Installation keeps crashing with unhandled exceptions)

2 1

GNU Jagruti 2005 (VIT, Pune )
by Amit Karpe 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Hi all , This is For Your Information from Ashish Karpe . Please contact him at ashishkarpe(a)gmail.com . _____________________________________________________________________________ Namaskar, We in our college ( VIT Pune) have arranged FREE SEMINAR SERIES for complete 3 Days & WORKSHOPS on GNU/Linux & FOSS Tools. The main attraction of the event are : 1> Dr. Nagarjuna (scientist TIFR) Chairman FSF(FREE SOFTWARE MOVEMENT) India. 2>Niyam Bhushan (Mr. Niyam Bhushan Technology Writer, Editor, Columnist and a Digital Imagery). He is going to gv seminar on each of the 3 three Days. His talk on DAY 1 @ 5:30pm has not been updated in the schedule on the website. It will be on " 7 Steps Of Software Samadhi ". He is coming for this event from Delhi. 3>On DAy 3 there are Big shots like MD/CEOs of redhat, codito, IBM. 4>Technical seminars are to be covered by speakers from Codito, Redhat, IBM, Xandros You can check for more details -> www.gnujagruti.tk http://www.geocities.com/amitkarpe123/gnujagruti/ http://www.vit.edu/techstasy/events.html#gnu Dates: 20,21,22 September 2005 . Venue : VIT College , Pune . -- -Ashish Mobile : 9890066682 Home : 020-24482425 _____________________________________________________________________________ -- Amit. ______________________________________________________ param vaibhavam netum etat swaraashtram samrthaa bhavatwaashishaa tebhrusham || Bharat Maata Ki Jay ||

1 0

FN'sEyeOnFLOSS *** F[L]OSS TV gets going *** 091619
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

................................................................ FN's Eye on FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software ........ ................................................................ ONLINE MOVIES RELATED TO FLOSS: FOSS.tv is a website for Podcasting and Vodacasting news from the world of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). Navin Dhanuka <dhanukanavin(a)gmail.com> is now announcing that besides a 1hr movie on Linux Localization he is planning to have CBTs (computer-based training) on FOSS.tv And, yes, they will be released in Creative Commons License. He is zeroing on the following topics 1. Basic Shell 2. OpenOffice 3. Networking 4. PHP & MySQL 5. Python ... Your suggestions are welcome. You can see the video @ vlog http://www.foss.tv/wordpress/?p=6 Also, do long on to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fosstv/ "so that we can discuss about the same". If you know about ppl/groups who would be interested in helping in creation of CBTs, please fwd the message to them. [</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>] SFD IN UGANDA: From Wire Lunghabo James <lunghabo(a)LINUXSOLUTIONS.CO.UG> http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/Uganda [</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>] CREATING LEARNING OBJECTS... IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Burrokeet is an open source software project that is building an electronic system for creating Learning Objects. Funded by IBM, Burrokeet's development resides at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago. The Commonwealth of Learning is dedicated to promoting educational and academic improvement throughout the Commonwealth of Nations, especially in the English-speaking developing world. They sponsor a variety of interesting and useful face-to-face conferences and online resources. Their report on a "Virtual University for Small States" is of particular interest. UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning has a set of Virtual University resources. http://www.freecurricula.org/links.php [</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>] FROM CAPE TOWN: Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town is online at http://www.cet.uct.ac.za Stephen Marquard <marquard(a)CHED.UCT.AC.ZA> says, "My portfolio is learning technologies, which includes online learning environments. We use (free/libre and) open source software extensively for web-based applications. UCT built an inhouse learning environment (connect) from open source components, including the w-agora discussion engine. Last year we adapted this platform to host an online conference http://emerge2004.net, and released the resulting package under the GPL http://eduforge.org/projects/emergecolab/ We also have a multi-year project to migrate to the open source Sakai Project learning environment http://www.sakaiproject.org, which we're excited about for many reasons, including the Sakai community, interesting tools and applications emerging for Sakai, and of course the cool technology. On the social software side, we have recently started a blog service for a staff development programme (though we expect its application to be much wider) using plog http://www.plogworld.net , and are at various stages of using 4 different wikis for different purposes - swiki, Wikka, mediawiki and a Sakai wiki. We're also interested in eXe for offline content editing. [</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>] Copyleft -- verbatim copying, with credits -- allowed/encouraged.

1 0

(no subject)
by Karia Amit 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Hi, I Have a problem using su command it gives me following error -->su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted<-- kindly help, regards Amit

2 1

[OT] Spam?
by ASHISH TRADING CO. 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Hi list, I received a particular email from a certain company claiming to do research on "people who use linux". It's ok to do "research" but what got my attention was this particular line: >It would be grest if you could give us some time of your`s.We assure >you that you will not be told to buy anything ....it is just a pure >research for about an hour ...we will be giving you a gift for >attending this group. What "gift" ? "not be told to buy anything" ? Hmm...that seems quite suspicious. From when did *anyone*, in Mumbai, become so benevolent to give out free gifts? I used to receive several telephone calls where I would be invited to a "meeting" for an "hour" at the end of which we would get "gifts". I never attended one but I know they are scams or stupid marketing gimmicks. Apart from that, there are several spelling mistakes, no professional tone and the email is quite sloppily drafted. Could these guys be genuine? or is it just a scam? Looking forward to hearing from the more "experienced" luggers :) Regards, Dinesh.

4 3

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam?
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

On Friday 16 September 2005 22:13, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > > No, i havent visited them....ever :) Whats MLM? > Multi Level Marketing. Amway, though amway is not a scam cause they have consumable products with continuos demand (unless everyone follows RMS and stop bathing). rgds jtd

1 0

[COMMERCIAL]
by Skill Search 17 Sep '05

17 Sep '05

Hi, We have a requirement for a Linux Sys Administrator with 1 yr + exp, having the following skill sets "Linux LAN/WAN MYSQL and MSSQL LDAP RADIUS VPN and SNMP". rgds kd

1 0

fortune tag files
by Harshal 17 Sep '05

17 Sep '05

just discovered how to use insert random signature while composing email in gmail. it accepts the fortune tag files. i am right now collecting some very good fortune tag files for the same. if anyone would like to share their fortune tags files please send them offlist (not everybody will like those attachments). waiting..... -- "The 'C' language can order structure members anyway it wants." - Richard B. Johnson

3 4

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Spam?
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 17 Sep '05

17 Sep '05

On Thursday 15 September 2005 18:59, ASHISH TRADING CO. wrote: > Hi list, > > I received a particular email from a certain company claiming to do > research on "people who use linux". It's ok to do "research" but > what got my attention was this particular line: > >It would be grest if you could give us some time of your`s.We > > assure you that you will not be told to buy anything ....it is > > just a pure research for about an hour ...we will be giving you a > > gift for attending this group. Research and u visit them??. Strange. Unless they are demoing a desktop or handheld or something. Usually the researcher comes to your office by prior appointment and gives u a fair idea of what he is researching. Even if u have to visit some place for the research u are visited first so that the researcher can ensure that ur profile fits their product target market etc. U will be asked to sign some nda or the other. In the abscence of the above it is most likely to be one of the MLM scams aka kudos, japan life, sherigar etc. etc. If u have not been to one of these do go. It will provide great insites into the pschology and logistics of scam organisers and victims. How perfectly sane and logical bean counters can part with lakhs for something as mundane as matresses is something u should not miss. For more fun speak logically and poke holes in the scheme (warning be ready to get thrown out, even threatened). rgds jtd rgds jtd

3 2

Re: Req. Linux Administrators (Brijesh Mishra)
by Dinesh J Dalvi 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Brijesh Pls. provide the contact details to conatct you for your requirement. Dinesh Dalvi 1. [commercial] Req. Linux Administrators (Brijesh Mishra) 2. Squid Installation Docs (Raghunandan Rao) 3. Re: printing problem (Lintech) 4. Re: [OT] Spam? (sherlock(a)vsnl.com) 5. FN'sEyeOnFLOSS *** Freedel on Sept 17/18 at New Delhi *** 09162005 (Frederick Noronha (FN)) 6. Re: Squid Installation Docs (V P) 7. Re: Squid Installation Docs (Kenneth Gonsalves) Hi, we require Linux Administrator having 2+ years of experience at Linux Server. We are into open sources. The candidate will have lot of opportunities to learn and implement new functionalities in Linux. With Regards, Brijesh Mishra.

1 0

[OT] Online Programming Contest
by Senthil 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Sir/Madam, As a part of our national level technical Symposium Cyber'05 organised by the Dept of Computer Science & Engineering of Thiagarajar College of Engineering, we are conducting Online Programming contest on September 18th from 11am to 2 pm.This competition is open to all & we request you to participate in the contest.Please visit www.cyber-tce.org for more info and for registration. Regards, Senthil Kumaran.

1 0

Need CDs of FC - 4
by neel s Gurjar 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

hi i need cds of Fedora Core - 4 Please Help, Where I can get it ? Neel

5 4

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

Linuxers