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[Commercial]Online Programming @ IIIT-H
by Vardhman Jain 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

Hello fellow programmers, We want to reach out to the best programmers around and what better place to find them then in the numerous mailing lists of software being developed by diverse people from all parts of the globe, students of reputed institutes all over, and the winners of various programing contests. We do not intend to spam people or to take up there precious time. This is just to bring to your notice a unique opportunity to pit your skills against thousands of programmers who like you love programming and a good challenge. we apologize if this mail caused you any inconvenience. The battle for programming supremacy is on... Information regarding the competition follows... International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad invites programmers and hackers from all over the world to pit their skills against each other in a battle for programming supremacy! This is a synchronous algorithm-intensive programming contest scheduled for Jan 26th,2004 from 1400 hrs to 1900 hrs. This contest is open for all students and professionals. CodeCraft - The Online Programing Contest being held at THREADS - The Techfest is 5 hours online programing contest where you will be given 8 problems to solve. Prizes(in INR) to be won are... Prizes for top 3 teams ... 1st Prize Rs 8,000 2nd Prize Rs 4,000 3rd Prize Rs 2,000 Prize for the first accepted submission of any problem... Rs 500 2 bonus questions will be released during the contest, which wont add to your contest score but will earn you... 1st accepted submission Rs 500 2nd accepted submission Rs 200 T-Shirts to be given to top 20 teams, team with first submission and bonus question winners. For rules and more information about the contest you can log on to http://students.iiit.net/~felicity/codecraft/ So gear up for hours of algorithms, programming, adrenalin, and of course, a LOT of coffee! And please try to spread this information in and around your institution/colleagues/friends helping us to getting more and more enthusiasts for the contest. -- CodeCraft Team THREADS '04 @ FELICITY '04 International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad http://students.iiit.net/~felicity

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AMC required:
by Krishna Dagli 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

One of our clients is looking for AMC of Linux machines. Following are the requirements, please email me if for numbers. -Krishna 1)Support required at Nariman Point 2) We have one server and one fire wall working on Linux. We need support for both (only software part). The hardware is currently being maintained by another vendor under annual maintenance. 3) We have about 8 clients (we plan to add 3 more) which should be able to access the server files, internet, email and fax. 4) The vendor will be responsible for keeping the systems working, for change of security features, user details, and other minor modifications. 5) Our turn around time will depend on urgency of matter. For example fornetwork problem / break down we would expect an enginer at the earliest (maximum downtime 2 hours). For all other matters we can wait 24 - 36 hours. Please give us an indication about your setup (preferbly a small write up). In case anyone wish to look at the current setup they may visit client's office during working hours anyday in order to have a clearer picture.

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Re: Spawning of a new gnu enthusiats group @ nanded
by Trevor Warren 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

Morning Manoj, On 2004.01.22 23:15 MANOJ PUROHIT wrote: > > Dear Trevor Warren > I sincerely appreciate your very prompt and honest gudance in starting > a LUG in my city. [snip] Thanks for writing in. We appreciate and support all your initiatives towards setting up a forum for all towards being able to discuss socio/political/technical issues regards Free Software and Open Source locally. As mentioned startup with a Mailing list and take things from there. Trevor > I am planning to start it soon in the first fortnight of Feb. > Once i start it, I'll be very sure to have your guidance one more time > in near future. > Till then thanks one more time and bye... > let's be in touch, be mailing, be updating > > Manoj G Purohit > NANDED, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 Trevor Warren wrote : -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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Problem with setting hostname.
by Rajendra Rait 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Hi Linuxers, I am new to Red Hat Linux 9, i have an fresh installation, my problem is that i want to change the hostname of my choice, i have tried going to /etc/sysconfig/network and try changing, but it doesn't work. Somebody said me to give the command "declare" and to check the environment variable "$HOSTNAME", i got my mistake, but now i want to change the variable value permanently, how do i do it. Any help would be really greatfull. Regards, Rajendra Rait.

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Re:Problem with setting hostname
by Ravi Desai 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

For setting the hostname, you could try using the 'hostname' command. I've tried this myself and it does'nt work. What I did in the end is set the '/etc/sysconfig/network' file to the new hostname And also the '/etc/hosts' file to the new hostname. After that you must reboot the computer and Voila, the comp has a new name :D Ravster _________________________________________________________________ Play the prediction game on MEZ. Win Sehwags autographed T-shirts. http://go.msnserver.com/IN/41491.asp Predict and win on myenjoyzone.com.

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need debain cds...;)
by Trevor Warren 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Morning Fellas, Holy grail....;) Have moved me server farm to Debian and in have decided to get me laptop moving too...;). Can someone lemme know if they could lend me a latest copy of Debian Stable and Debian Testing please. Trevor -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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squirrelmail setup in RH9.0
by scott max 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Hi All, I am newbie to linux and want to setup squirrelmail in Redhat 9.0. I found RH9.0 ships with squirrelmail package. But don't know how to configure the same. Any body can help me out in same regards. Thanks and Regards, Scott -- India.com free e-mail - www.india.com. Check out our value-added Premium features, such as an extra 20MB for mail storage, POP3, e-mail forwarding, and ads-free mailboxes! Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need debain cds...;)
by Trevor Warren 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Morning Ripunjay, Thanks for writing in. Wouldn't mind you downloading and burning for me the latest version of debian iso's. Where do i come and hand over the blanks to you??. Trevor On 2004.01.22 02:27 Ripunjay Bararia wrote: > Hi guys, > > i need about 30mins per cd max to download and burn, tell me when ever > you > need one of what ever... you get the blanks > burning is free... > > Ripunjay Bararia > Digital Dreams Consulting > Trevor > -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] gnuers....time to wake up and go workshopping....:)
by Trevor Warren 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Morning Raseel, We are looking forwards to have begginer/advanced workshops targeting the average joe who would be looking at answering his/her questions as to..... >> What does Open Source and Free Software mean to me. >> Where can i place Open Source and Free Software in my organsation >> Do i need to build an Business model based on Open Source/Free >> Software. Yes/No and Justify. >> Open Source and Free Software in the Enteprise >> Enterprise Application Support and Gnu/Linux >> Building scalable and reliable Infrastructure with Linux >> Web farms / Storage Networks / Clusters using Gnu/Linux. >> Me and my career based on Open Source and Free Software. >> Who is RMS????...;) These and much more based on i/p from the others we can incorporate later. Trevor On 2004.01.21 23:25 Raseel Bhagat wrote: > Hey Trevor, what are these commercial workshops that you are talking > about? Can you be more ellaborate about it coz it sounds interesting. > > > -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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gnuers....time to wake up and go workshopping....:)
by Trevor Warren 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Gnuers.....;) Its time to wake up and go ahead with another round of workshops across the state. Commercial ones in bombay we have to work out too. Wakeup.....wakeup. Trevor -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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Re : Why does linux access the hhd so much
by xterm 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

><victorjulietpapa(a)hotmail.com> > >I would really like to know why does linux access the >disk so much (in GUI >mode) to fire-up even a small application like terminals >windows? What is it >that it reads/writes so much? This is irrespective of >m/c configuration. > >veejay My swap is 4 times the RAM still i also face the same problem...

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Is there a 'free(dom)' variant of Knoppix?
by Rishi Gangoly 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Hi I got to know that there are non-free applications bundled along with Knoppix CD. Does anyone know if there is a variant of Knoppix? I figured it would be easier to just download and use / distribute that instead of removing the non-free packages from the Knoppix CD and creating one myself. Apparently RMS told me a few days back that the 'vrms' tool does not guarantee the results to be 100% true since it purely depends on the deb package maintainer. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/vrms.html Regards Rishi

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Spawning of a new gnu enthusiats group @ nanded
by Trevor Warren 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Hiyee Manoj, Thanks for writing in. Its a great idea and a very noble deed indeed to have to spawn a forum where all like minded participants can come together towards discussing Free Software and Open Source related issues. The begginning could be made by having a mailing list hosted at yahoogroups for a start. Post the innaugration of the same we could help you to move the mailing list to a better location. The e-group could be named "GLEN" or Gnu Enthusiasts Group of Nanded. Think about the same and enure you spend sometime reading up on the philsosophies of Open Source and Free Software at www.gnu.org/www.fsf.org and www.opensource.org. We will be there with you along the way toward help building your community and supporting it all through the way. Trevor "MANOJ PUROHIT" <gres_manoj(a)rediffmail.com> Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book To: trevorwarren(a)yahoo.com Subject: Please guide Dear sir, hi! I am Manoj Govind Purohit, from Nanded, India, would like to start an ILUG centre in my city, Kindly guide me in this regards, cause I got lot more info from internet about it but certainly failed to get the thing, about what will be the fund raising procedures for such a group, since lot of activities are expected to be carried out and each of them involves expenses. Will you be please guide me in this regard. Thanking you. Manoj Govind Purohit Nanded, Maharashtra, India -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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RMS speech on Free Software
by Rishi Gangoly 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Hi RMS is going to talk about Free Software at 4:00 PM today. If you have questions or want to know about Free Software, please come for this speech today. Venue: V.J. Kulkarni Auditorium, Homi Baba Centre for Science Education, TIFR, Adjacent to Anushakti Nagar Bus Depo. Mankhurd. Phone: 25555242 / 25567711 Contact: Dr. Nagarjuna Please forward this to your friends that would be interested in this topic. Regards Rishi

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[Announce] getmail.com 1.0
by Philip S Tellis 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Announcing the release of version 1.0 of getmail.com http://sourceforge.net/projects/getmail-com/ Getmail.com downloads email from a mail.com account. It uses HTTP to log in to your account, get the inbox listing, and download messages along with attachments. Login name, password, and maximum message size can be specified through the interface or in the configuration file. It does not delete messages or look in folders other than Inbox. Caveats: The configuration file is called .gmcom.rc and is in your home directory. The program will prompt you to create it if it does not exist. The password is stored as plain text in the file, but the file's permissions are 0600 (-rw-------), so only you can read it. You may edit the file and delete any parameter from it. The program will either prompt you for it, or choose a default value (if it can). The file will be written only if it does not exist. Philip -- "If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything." -- A. L.

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[Announce] libyahoo2 0.7.4 released
by Philip S Tellis 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

It's on sourceforge, so go download it. http://libyahoo2.sourceforge.net/ Changes: auth fixed ext_remove_handler takes two parameters - the tag returned by add_handler and the client_id. Also note that I've decided to stop releasing rpms. It made no sense since anyone using this library would have to build it as part of his own project anyway. Yes, it would be cool if it were distributed as a separate library, but I don't see that happening. Philip -- I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Why does linux access the hhd so much
by I R Veejay 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe asked me : >When you say GUI mode, which desktop, and window manager are you >actually running? >Which terminal emulator are you using? What services and applications >were currently loaded when you started the terminal? >I doubt that ... what is your machine configuration? How much physical >memory? And to repeat, which services and which software currently >open? I am using RHL9, It's default WM and KDE as desktop. The system is a standard desktop installation. I mentioned a small utility such as a terminal emulator just as an example. Large utilities like Mozilla & OpenOffice take ages to open. The M/C is a P4 @1.6GHz, 128MB SDRAM, 40GB Seagate HDD. Size of the Swap partition is 256MB (approx). Veejay _________________________________________________________________ Marriage? http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/cgi-bin/bmclicks1.cgi?74 Join BharatMatrimony.com and get married.

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Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 9, Issue 22
by psawant＠nse.co.in 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

saravan wrote:- >HI guys, >When i am trying to connect to the internet from my suse desktop i am getting the following temporary failure in name resolution >My modem has been configured n its getting detected as well.Using PPP for the net. >Any inputs will be of immense help to me please check if your /etc/resolv.conf file is empty it is supposed to contain the ip addresses of dns nameservers in the following format nameserver <ip-addr> nameserver <ip-addr> please provide the ip-addr of vsnl/mtnl dns nameservers (or any other isp that you are using). then try connecting to the net. hope that helps! Pradnyesh Sawant.

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USB in kernel 2.6
by Chirag Arjun Bhangale 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Hi, I use Reliance phone thru a USB data cable to connect to the internet on my Red Hat 9 system. Recently I have upgraded to kernel 2.6.1. However now i cannot connect to internet via my Reliance phone. the script for the connection is: pppd /dev/ttyUSB0 230400 debug usepeerdns defaultroute connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v "" at+cta=30 OK "atdt#777" CONNECT' mtu 264. Also when i try to communicate with dev ttyUSB0 i get error : No such device I have built a monolithic kernel with UHCI support and USB serial support. Please Help

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[ILUG-BOM] next meet and upcoming workshops at Engineerning colleges
by Trevor Warren 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Morning Fellas, Its time to resurrect the sleeping goliaths. Cmong Gnuers....:). Whats the schedule for the coming month regards workshops. Lets get them rolling. Does anyone have ideas on moving ahead????. Commercial workshops by the ilug-bom on FSF and OS are pretty much what i am think about too. Trevor -- ( >- -< ) /~\ __ Gnu/Linux, Its all about Choice __ /~\ | \) / trevor.w(a)pvision.biz \ (/ | |_|_ \ Need a consultant, Call 9820349221 / _|_| \____________________________________/

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Why does linux access the hhd so much
by I R Veejay 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

I would really like to know why does linux access the disk so much (in GUI mode) to fire-up even a small application like terminals windows? What is it that it reads/writes so much? This is irrespective of m/c configuration. veejay _________________________________________________________________ Marriage? http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/cgi-bin/bmclicks1.cgi?74 Join BharatMatrimony.com and get married.

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] tcp util library
by Sthitaprajna 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

> I ask because if there isn't one already, I'd like to release > ayttm's tcp library as a separate project that would be of > use to others. Let us know if you find good ones > > I would also like to look at a separate library that does > asynchronous dns lookups. > adns. By the same guy who has written "putty" for win32. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/ --\ cheers

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] Re : Why does linux access the hhd so much
by Sthitaprajna 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

> ><victorjulietpapa(a)hotmail.com> > > > >I would really like to know why does linux access the >disk > so much (in > >GUI > >mode) to fire-up even a small application like terminals > >windows? What > >is it that it reads/writes so much? This is irrespective of > >m/c configuration. > My swap is 4 times the RAM still i also face the same problem... > Why do you need a swap 4 times the RAM? Do you need a swap at all? How much RAM do you have? The 2.4.x pre kernels might have had a logic for the swap = 2xRAM rule, but what now? Unless you are seriously short of RAM, and use a tonload of swap, there is no need to use a lot of swap. And if you really have that less RAM, then you should'ntbe complaining about "speed" issues. Also, for special purposes like suspend to disk/ACPI on laptops, you might have a case for swap = 2x ram. The installation howto was written when people used 4M-32M RAM, we've come a long way after that. Maybe the howto needs updation.

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Adding Windows to GRUB
by K C 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hi Friends, I have just installed Red Hat 9, and I need help with some issues I have 2 harddisks hd0 is 80 GB and hd1 is 10 GB Linux is installed on hd1 partition 4 (Loads normally via grub) Win 98 on hd1 partition 0 primary partition Win XP on hd 0 partition 0 (Loads normally via grub) Grub is installed on hd0 1) I need to configure grub to load windows 98 which is on hd1 partition 0 I tried using the following commands in grub rootnoverify (hd1,0) / root(hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 The commands run successfully but it says "Non system disk, replace " whereas if I configure the bios to boot from this harddisk windows 98 boots normally. What is the mistake in the configuration and what will be the solution to it. 2) How do I mount the 80 GB harddisk in my linux system 3) I use a PPP over ethernet type connection in XP to connect to my cable internet provider, what is the same for in Red Hat Kindly, help me out if anyone is aware of the solutions to the above queries thanx in advance Regards, KC Everybody wants to be the SUN that lights up your life. but I'd rather b your MOON so I can shine on you during DARKEST NIGHT. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes

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tcp util library
by Philip S Tellis 17 Jan '04

17 Jan '04

Is there an existing project to build a tcp util library? I mean one that will do the following: int tcp_connect(host, port); int tcp_connect_async(host, port, connect_callback, status_update_callback, callback_data); void tcp_connect_async_cancel(int id); int tcp_readline(fd, buff, maxlen); int tcp_writeline(fd, buff, nbytes); etc. I ask because if there isn't one already, I'd like to release ayttm's tcp library as a separate project that would be of use to others. I would also like to look at a separate library that does asynchronous dns lookups. It is important that none of these libraries use multiple threads, or any extra toolkit. It will have to be in vanilla C or C++. Philip -- Make input easy to prepare and output self-explanatory. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plaugher)

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