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Reliance Phone OPtions
by Puneet Lakhina 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

hi all.. I want to buy a reliance phone mainly for net access.. are there any tradeoffs involved between a Reliance India Phone(landline type) and the reliance mobile and one more thing which one works better in RHL flavours.. im currently using core 2.. Thanks, PUneet

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IP Version 6
by deshpande＠vsnl.com 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hello Is IP Version 6 going to be the next Y2K Mahesh Deshpande Tel 09322034838

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Sub 10K pc
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1187596.cms What is included in 10K is not very clear. If it includes what the markettroid says it's a steal. Ajai Chowdhury, said that the new PC had undergone vigorous tests to make it perfect for the Indian conditions. "Most of the existing low-cost PCs are either stripped down versions or made of spurious components," he added. Wonder what he means by "spurious". rgds jtd

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I can not surf the NET
by Rajat malhotra 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hi rony > Just see if this helps. Add this line below in your > kppp in the script 'After Connect' section or simply >su after connecting to the net and issue the same >command. Logout from su and check if you can surf. > 'route add default ppp0' without the quotes. Did the same as you said but it doesn't work and i am not able to understand that i did the same thing on woody and had no problem even Fedora, No why Sarge? I also did this after seeing google usermod -G dialout pppusers dip user as i saw somebody saying about it, Made resolv.conf readable by all. Still only ROOT can surf. Help....... Rajat __________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends 'n family snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://in.photos.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

On Thursday 13 December 2018 03:36, Mukund Deshmukh wrote: > > VIA makes ITX mini board, which is as good as regular mobo but > small in size. > It also has 5.1 Dolby sound output , hardware MPEG4 and much more. > > It boots up via USB flash drive. Only a single pci slot. You always seem to require one more than available. That apart it is a great platform to do all sorts of stuff. And most important Via has gpld the drivers and provided documentation (mostly incomprehensible). The simputer guys should take a cue and use this platform. BTW what is the cost and availability. rgds jtd

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Mail server Valid IP
by Ramang G 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hi all, For installing a mail server (postfix) for an organisation, is it necessary to have one Valid IP? or not an issue. please explain? Raman __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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which perl extension
by onkar mahajan 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

I know C C++ java system level programming , I also know perl (general) , which perl extension is suitable for systems programming line.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 19:16, Rony Bill wrote: > Trevor Warren wrote: > > MP3_PCB_ASSEM MP3 Player Board, Fully Assembled and > > Tested $150 > > MP3_DISPLAY LCD Display For MP3 Player, 24x8, with > > Pushbuttons and Cables $42 > > CABLE_IDE_LAPTOP Cable for Laptop (2.5 inch) IDE Hard > > Drive, 1.4 Inch Length $9 > > STANDOFF Standoff Set For Mounting Laptop Hard Drive > > $3 > > PWR_12VDC 12 Volt DC Power Adaptor (US only) $8 > > SIMM_32M Standard 72 Pin SIMM, 32 Megs, Used $8 > > Totals :- 220$ > > For learning purposes see if you can manage with a normal HDD > instead of a laptop's. That will bring down your costs and use > locally available cables. Make your own power supply. Are the cables available?. > > JTD can guide on this. Can a pci i/o card (Rs. 1k2 only) be used > with some extra circuit (without any mobo) to get access to a HDD You can use an 8bit 8052 micon to connect an ide device (cdrom / hdd). You will get raw access at about 300kbps. Afaik filesystem drivers on 8052 will be useless due to performance issues (maybe dosfs on a 50Mhz device will work). > and then convert its signals into mp3 using an open source program > loaded into a memory chip? Software decoding of MP3 on 8 bitters is a no no. Hardware decoders / encoders yes. But the cost of 32bit arm / mips / sh micons with onchip flash, ram and mp3 encoder /decoders is about $8 retail. Adding an ide is easy. Or even better add usb driver ic at $1. Get USB to ide disk dabba from Lamington Rd. stick in 400gb hdd and freak out. The problem is that there is vast array of devices available to do a given job. Couple that with the even wider choice of GNU software and the decision making process becomes never ending - even for a fun thing. Was the 8051 and ISA better? I need to think before i decide |-/ > Can pci standards be used on a pci card > without a pci slot mobo? No. The PCI signals require special drivers to reduce signal bounce and switching power consumption in order to run at high speeds, apart from other requirements like irq routing and dynamic address and dma assignment etc. The old ISA bus was simple to interface with but was pathetic at i/o. Even on a 386 33MHz signal bounce was a nightmare with dma transfers. The RD and WR signals would pulse twice causing all sorts of problems. rgds jtd

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Grub's splash screen.
by Sameer Niphadkar 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 Shakthi Kannan wrote : >Hi, > >--- Raj Shaz <rajshas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I just want to make a cool grub > > splash screen and i > Try these steps to colour and make your own Grub boot screen Here's how: (You need to have root access) 1)Start the GIMP. 2)Click on File->New or type Ctrl+N 3)In the new image dialog, change Width to 640 pixels and Height to 480 pixels. (The image should be of size 640x480 pixels.) Now click OK. 4)Create the image which you would like to be the splash image. It's quite fun to experiment with the various tools of the GIMP! 5)After you have finished creating the image, hit Alt+i or right click on the image and click on Image->Mode->Indexed... 6)In the Indexed Color Conversion dialog that appears, click on the radio button "Generate optimal Palette" and in "# of colors" enter 14. Click OK.(The image should be of only 14 colors) 7)Now right-click on the image and click on File->Save As...Save the file as splash.xpm in a directory of your choice. 8)Now open a terminal window and navigate to the directory where you have saved splash.xpm 9)Now key in gzip splash.xpm 10)You will find that a file named splash.xpm.gz is created in the directory where splash.xpm used to exist. 11)Copy this splash.xpm.gz to the /boot/grub directory. You may want to back up the pre-existing splash.xpm.gz file in the /boot/grub directory first. That's it! When you reboot, you will find your image in the background, with the menu of operating systems etc. in the foreground 'You will be what you WILL to Be' -James Allen

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[announce]Prabhat Workshop at KRESIT IITB
by Sameer Niphadkar 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi, For your updates do check this out http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/ita/workshops/prabhat05/index.php?id=home rgds Sameer 'You will be what you WILL to Be' -James Allen

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Freedom Toaster
by Ninad Bapat 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi Look at this link. http://edison.tsf.org.za/toaster/ It is a vending machine which writes linux cd's for you. How about some thing like this in India may be for a start Thanks Ninad

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 09:56, Trevor Warren wrote: > That totals to about 220$ with i do not know how much > for a Laptop HDD. Rs.4k afair > Apart from this all we need to also > account for a custom casing to have these plugged in. > It will turn out to be about 15Grand over all. > > For that price we can purchase an AppleIpod which is > far more compact and robust and pretty portable out of > the box. Since i know a close friend who has just > obtained one for 14Grand with about 20Gb in storage. > > Whatda say????. U can load uclinux on some models. http://www.ipodlinux.org/ Or buy some taiwnese clones at about 7k. But u still cant beat the combo in my previous mail. rgds jtd

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I can not surf the NET
by Rajat malhotra 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi I am a newbie to the list and linux. Lately i installed Sarge 3.1 and when i try to surf the net from root i can but when i try to do the same from user, mozilla says "Website not found" Same with GAIM, Kopete and others. SO presently i pull up my terminal and issue the su command and from there fire mozilla to surf. Is there a way where i can surf as a normal user. I channged pppd to suid "chmod 4660 /usr/sbin/pppd" even that doesn't work. Can somebody help me here. THanks in Advance . Rajat __________________________________________________________ Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player
by vaibhav samant 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

>Not sure if it will meet your requirements, but, you >can check out LART, worth 230 UK pounds: > >http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/ > >SK Why go pounds ??? Apna desi Simputer costs only about 10K, and has an inbuilt MP3 player. Unless ur idea is to learn making ur own MP3 player.... Vai

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[announce]Prabhat Workshop at KRESIT IITB
by Sameer Niphadkar 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi, For your updates do check this out http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/ita/workshops/prabhat05/index.php?id=home rgds Sameer 'You will be what you WILL to Be' -James Allen

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[Announcement] Upcoming Agile Conferences in India
by Naresh Jain 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Namaste Team, The Agile Software Community of India [ASCI] is organizing 2 more conferences in India 19th and 20th Aug 2005 - Pune 27th and 28th Aug 2005 - Mumbai [revised dates] Details of the same can be found @ http://agileIndia.org Naresh Jain

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

On Monday 01 August 2005 08:24, vaibhav samant wrote: > >Not sure if it will meet your requirements, but, you > >can check out LART, worth 230 UK pounds: > Why go pounds ??? > Apna desi Simputer costs only about 10K, and has an inbuilt MP3 > player. Unless ur idea is to learn making ur own MP3 player.... For real bang for the buck nothing can beat the i386 pc. The compromise is power consumption (as in cant use a battery) and size (as in cant carry around). A via cle266 based mobo with 1.6Ghz onboard cpu costs around Rs.3100. Add 128mb ram, 40gb drive, cd and box. Total Rs. 8600/-. Add 2 line lcd and remote =Rs.1200/-. Add 15" LCD, pixelview tuner card, audigy sound card and creative speakers and DVD/cd combo = Rs.26800. Load Mythtv and friends. You have a full blown home entertainment Personal Video / Audio Recording system which should last for the next 5 yrs. It should beat the crap out of commercial stuff costing 4 times as much. You need a 105db noise floor sound card to match the pros. I am renovating my place and am doing precisely the above. I am going to add an LCD projector. My amp is a home brew 200w rms mosfet thingy. For starters i will be using my 100w 3way 20 yr old homebrew speakers (after limiting the amp ofcourse). I might build a pair of Electro Static Loudspeakers tho. The mid and high clarity and definition is astounding with ESLs. I will be loading linux bios for fast booting and will run it from a usb pendrive. In order to reduce harddisk wear load all songs into ramdisk and stop the hd.One problem area will be the SMPS. The ones in the pc are perfect audio and rf noise sources. Embeded boards are expensive because of miniscule volumes. Their advantage is battery operations, low heat, no moving parts and compact size. Relative to their cost the performance is pathetic. If you do not need the embedded intrinsic advantages use the i386. rgds jtd

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User logging
by Richard Chang 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi all, How do I keep a log of a user logged in. I mean I want to know what is he doing right now and what commands he has run and also what is he currently running. Is there a way to keep log all these. I want it to be automated if possible. Thanks, rc

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Re: Cyberoam trouble
by dushyant sharma 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

> he upgraded it. Now it uses Cyberoam version 6.5.0.5. linc-daemon is unable to login :(. It does say "login sucessfull" but I am unable to connect to > any websites. The same configuration was working fine before he upgraded. He >> wasn't very co-operative the last time I had enquired about getting his >> connection working on Linux. Plus he has this weird idea that Linux is a > "hacker" (or cracker) OS. I am 100% sure that the configuration is correct. > Nevertheless I tried I tried the client which is distributed by cyberoam. It >> doesn't work either. It says "You have successfully logged into > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" yet I can't connect to websites. It just get stuck after > name resolution. As I said earlier I am 100% sure that there is no > configuration problem. It is definitely due to some misconfiguration on the > ISP's side or the protocol isn't supported by linc-daemon. u can u can call them on this #56450200, this is their customer support and just ask for tech support i hope this helps

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2 hard disks and formatting
by Ninad Bapat 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi I have 2 hdds both 40gb. ( Say D1 and D2) I have 2 pc's (say P1 and P2) P1- new with P4,256mb ram CDR/DVD combo drive etc.and D1 is connected here P2 old IBM branded celeron 500 64 mb RAM 52x CD ROM drive BIOS does not support CD booting and D2 is connected here The P1 pc boots XP and FC3 as XP is used by my brother. Also I have installed 2 more distros on this. As the P2 pc does not have a FDD and CD boot is not possible I was not able to load any distros except ubuntu so it was lying idle for some time I removed D2 from the old PC P2 and connected in the P1 Pc The P1 Pc is detecting it as Primary master and Primary slave. Even FC3 recognises it as hdb. My problems 1.I do not remember what filesystem I have created on D2 although FC3 shows some partitions. I am unable to mount them. 2. Sometimes after booting FC3 or even Slackware when I run dmesg I get some errors of DisK_read io error 3.How do i format D2 and create partitions on the same 4.My D2 is showing as 32gb even though it is 40 gb. Can this be resolved by formatting it new Thanks and regards Ninad Bapat

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Grub's splash screen.
by Raj Shaz 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

hi grp need to know few things. If u tried ubuntu the grub which comes has a table format , how is that made? can that be removed without compiling a new kernel? . I just want to make a cool grub splash screen and i dont want that box and those notes. one solution is to change the color of the box and the text. But itz not the correct way. Any Idea? Raj

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rate oss
by Trevor Warren 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

FYI fellas. http://news.com.com/Rating+system+to+evaluate+open-source+software/2100-734… Trevor |------|____________________________________|------| ( >- / Scaling FreeSoftware & OpenSource \ -< ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_ \____________________________________/ _|_| __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[ot]cableTV+linux+wireless
by Trevor Warren 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Afternoon Guys, Have been trying to find someone who can help me bridge a solution for me wireless needs. At home we have a x86 box with gnu-linux on it and am planning to have a combo card fitted on it. The Co-Ax for the cable TV will terminate on it. From here i will want to transmit these signals to tbe bedroom where i want to install a smaller TV set. Does anyone have any idea of the options i should be looking at. If you have any URL's please send them across and i will gladly RTFM. Thanks fellas and take care. Trevor |------|____________________________________|------| ( >- / Scaling FreeSoftware & OpenSource \ -< ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_ \____________________________________/ _|_| ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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core 4 cds
by linstar linux 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hi friends, i wanna ask if anybody has fedora core 4 cds not dvd. i stay at borivali. u can mail back on this and i can get in touch with you to collect a copy of it. thanks, Anthony. --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page

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need to build an embedded mp3 player
by Trevor Warren 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Evening Fellas, Am looking to build an MP3 player based on Gnu-/linux. This would be based essentially on one of the embedded processor architectures either the MIPS or the x86. The whole issue is as follows, i have a 25x25rms amplifier at my residence and would like to have an mp3 player with an LCD-Remote Control connected to it. The building of the mp3 player is the easiest part. The tough part is finding hardware that would be the right fit. What are the boards i should be looking at?. Any ideas or url's that i could RTFM???. Thanks and take care. Trevor |------|____________________________________|------| ( >- / Scaling FreeSoftware & OpenSource \ -< ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_ \____________________________________/ _|_| ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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