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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need Live CD Focused on "Education"
by Sameep 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

> Let the torrent be, it will help those who prefer torrents. It's been > noticed that some people don't get full speed with http/ftp but they > do get those speeds with torrents. I for one, can seed whenever I am > running my torrents. > -- Your talking about a scenario where there are thousands of seeds avaiable for a torrent. For this torrent you won't even have 5. And secondly , thanks to the pathetic service we call " BROADBAND " here , most people will be limited by their bandwidth for any download from ftp / http. Regards, Sameep

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need Live CD Focused on "Education"
by Sameep 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

----- Original Message ---- > From: "h.godavari(a)shaw.ca" <h.godavari(a)shaw.ca> > To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 7:03:13 AM > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need Live CD Focused on "Education" > > > > Sanjay B wrote: > > > > On Mon, July 28, 2008 10:07 am, Sameep wrote: > > >> Excellant idea/offer. Sameep can you make an *.iso > > >> of the Live CD, available for > > >> general public to download? > > >> > > >> regards > > >> hg. > > >> -- > > >> http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > >> > > > > > > Hi, > > > The LiveCD is ready. I made it using Kubuntu 8.04 > > > since a lot of educational software is KDE based. > > > > > > Any ideas on how you would like me to share it ? > > > > > Hey - this sounds very useful even for us -- if another space is not found > > to upload it, Sameep - can you contact me off-list and I can give you ftp > > access to some space we have to host it.. (we are on shared hosting and > > have all the constraints that that imposes so if someone else can offer to > > host it, that would be wonderful!) Or, can it be torrented and a few > > people offer to seed? > > Anyways, if there is no other solution in some time, I'll co-ordinate with > > Sameep and make sure its available for download somewhere ... > > Tc - and sounds like really useful work, Sameep - wtg! :-) > > -Sanjay > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Sameep > > > > Sanjay: > Samep has uploaded the torrent. But there seem to be no "seeds" . Bear > with me and elaborate on how seeding is done? Can I be of some use? > > Regards > hg. > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers We don't really need to bother with the torrent anymore. Naveen [ openvarsity.org ] has agreed to host it. I will also mirror it on another site. It should be up in a few hours. Hope everyone enjoys it. Regards, Sameep

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] kind att
by Sameep 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

> hi > i want to use linux for my day to day work, > but can i use my HP Photosmart All in one printer C6188 in it, > all functions print scan copy fax, CD with this printer does not contains > Linux Drivers > > also can i use FotoSlate of ACD Systems in Linux, or linux version of > Fotoslate, > something like that. > > can u suggest which Desktop flavor and version will be right for me > > P3 machine 512sd ram and 80 gb hdd > > pls confirm > thanks n rgds > > -- > IPS Khurana Sorry.. the earlier mail got sent accidentally. The link is http://helpforlinux.blogspot.com/2008/07/which-linux-distro-is-right-for-me… Hope it helps.. Regards, Sameep

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] kind att
by Sameep 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

> Subject: [ILUG-BOM] kind att > > hi > i want to use linux for my day to day work, > but can i use my HP Photosmart All in one printer C6188 in it, > all functions print scan copy fax, CD with this printer does not contains > Linux Drivers > > also can i use FotoSlate of ACD Systems in Linux, or linux version of > Fotoslate, > something like that. > > can u suggest which Desktop flavor and version will be right for me > > P3 machine 512sd ram and 80 gb hdd > > pls confirm > thanks n rgds > > -- > IPS Khurana Hi, I just found another site that can help you decide :

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] kind att
by Sameep 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Hi , You can check out support for your printer at this link : ----- Original Message ---- > From: IPS Khurana <ipskhurana(a)gmail.com> > To: linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:29:00 PM > Subject: [ILUG-BOM] kind att > > hi > i want to use linux for my day to day work, > but can i use my HP Photosmart All in one printer C6188 in it, > all functions print scan copy fax, CD with this printer does not contains > Linux Drivers > > also can i use FotoSlate of ACD Systems in Linux, or linux version of > Fotoslate, > something like that. > > can u suggest which Desktop flavor and version will be right for me > > P3 machine 512sd ram and 80 gb hdd > > pls confirm > thanks n rgds > > -- > IPS Khurana > ***************************** > Cell No: +91 9869019416 > > Khurana Sales & Services > Distributors & Wholesellers > Total IT Solutions! > Thane > http://ipskhurana.googlepages.com/ > > Member of BNI > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Kubuntu Remaster - Education Torrent
by Sameep 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Hi, I made a torrent of the distro. Please seed as long as possible. http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=fb689f24a878ed8d78c11e0ec78c731e294… Regards, Sameep

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need Live CD Focused on "Education"
by Sameep 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Hi All, Around 2-3 Years back I handed over a "EduMorphix" CD to a kid. Recently I was surprised to find her using it even till date. I noticed that most of the applications on it are quite old compared with the versions that my daughter plays with. I want to give her a Live-CD with updated software since I cannot install anything on her dad's machine. Unfortunately EduMorphix does not exists anymore. EduMorphix was just perfect, I dont know why they decided to dis-continue it. Freeduc (http://www.ofset.org/freeduc-cd) is not updated in a long time either There is no Live CD for edubuntu. I am looking for any distibution including at least "TuxPaint", "TuxMath" and "gCompris". Can someone suggest a live CD focused on Education? Regards Aseem Hi, You can make your own LiveCD with whichever packages you need. You can remove whatever you don't need. Most distros have an option of making a custom LiveCD. It takes about half an hour. Alternatively you can tell me what packages you need and I'll make a LiveCD for you. :-) Regards, Sameep

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need Live CD Focused on "Education"
by Sameep 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

> | Can someone suggest a live CD focused on Education? > >Edubuntu....could be a good distro focussed on Educational software. I have a copy of it. Aseem wanted a Live CD. The custom CD I made contains all the Edubuntu Packages. Regards, Sameep

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [***** SPAM 2.1 *****] Re: Need Live CD Focused on "Education"
by Sameep 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

> How about posting a mini-howto for the process? Or the pointer(s) for the same? > > With regards, > -- > --Dinesh Shah :-) The custom iso is very easy to make. How much time it takes depends on the kind of customization your looking for. On a Ubuntu / Kubuntu based system , you can use remastersys or reconstructor. http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu-linux-mint-livecd-with-remastersys Thats a how-to on remastersys to get you started. The only thing to remember is that remastersys will automatically include all packages installed on your system into the custom distribution. So its best to use it on a new install. That will prevent installation of unrequired software. Here is the link for Reconstructor : http://reconstructor.aperantis.com/ This is a good tool as well. Has some more customizations. The best way is to make a Live Distro from scratch. That way you can keep it quite trim by removing all unnecessary packages. You can also have a different window manager if you want to keep it really small. There are also tools to customize fedora , knoppix, slax , DSL etc. Another tool worth mentioning is Insta Linux http://www.instalinux.com/ Its a online app where u can choose what apps you want. It generates a custom cd for you on the fly which you have 24 hours to download / distribute. The avaiable applications are quite limited though. Regards, Sameep

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [***** SPAM 2.1 *****] Re: Need Live CD Focused on "Education"
by Sameep 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

> > I'm going to aim for around 300 Mb. > > > Any reason why you want to cut down on size? > > Currently I am going through the long packages list that you sent me. > I will send you additional package names that I think should go in this CD > > Regards > Aseem Hi Aseem, The present size of the iso is around 1.2 Gb. Its not reall a Live CD anymore. Its more like a Live DVD. Anyhow, I don't plan to reduce any educational packages. I'l see what other things I can get rid off. Regards, Sameep

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need Live CD Focused on "Education"
by Sameep 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

Wow!!! I really didn't expect someone to create a customized CD for me that fast. Thank you very much. I will also have to learn this magic :) Any pointers? Hey no problem. I'm going to make another one tonight. I'm going to aim for around 300 Mb. I'll let you know how it goes. Any ideas on how you would like me to share it ? > I will contact you off list. Thanks once again. Regards Aseem -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Need Live CD Focused on "Education"
by Aseem Rane 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

Hi All, Around 2-3 Years back I handed over a "EduMorphix" CD to a kid. Recently I was surprised to find her using it even till date. I noticed that most of the applications on it are quite old compared with the versions that my daughter plays with. I want to give her a Live-CD with updated software since I cannot install anything on her dad's machine. Unfortunately EduMorphix does not exists anymore. EduMorphix was just perfect, I dont know why they decided to dis-continue it. Freeduc (http://www.ofset.org/freeduc-cd) is not updated in a long time either There is no Live CD for edubuntu. I am looking for any distibution including at least "TuxPaint", "TuxMath" and "gCompris". Can someone suggest a live CD focused on Education? Regards Aseem

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need Live CD Focused on "Education"
by Sameep 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

| Can someone suggest a live CD focused on Education? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education/Spin Sorry for the earlier post. I hadn't completed it. The Fedora Edu Spin is not yet complete. This is from the website Current status * Targeted release: Fedora 10 * Last updated: 2008-07-27 * Percentage of completion: 70% Regards, Sameep P.S. I have added Hindi support in the Custom Distro.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need Live CD Focused on "Education"
by Sameep 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

| Can someone suggest a live CD focused on Education? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education/Spin The Fedora Edu spin is not yet ready.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] encryption of password
by Raghu Prasad 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

Hi! Saeed, > I am having one shell / perl script , through which i am doing all > my server maintainance work like cleaning old logs etc. Script is > running fine without any issues. But i am remotly login to almost > 20 servers through this script and doing my stuffs for which i <snip> > Is there any way to encrypt my password in the same script > which system or script can understande but when any one else > open my script not able to read that password line. Please note > i am using Unix as OS and using vi editor. There are few possible solutions: 1. Keep the password in plain text in a separate file in your home directory and read it from the script. The permission of file/directory containing your password should be such that it is not readable by anyone but you. This solution doesn't save you from trouble if someone accesses your file with your own login name. 2. Do the same as above, but encrypt the password with some key and supply that key to the script to decrypt the password. This will force you to supply the key every time you try to run your script. This will prevent anyone from executing the script unless the key is known to that person. But there is a better ways to do it. See below. 3. Instead of cooking up an encryption scheme yourself, use ssh for all remote work. Remember to disable password based logins on remote systems. Choose key based login instead. You need to create your own private-public key pair for this purpose. There are lots of documents on the Net on how to do it. Some of them are: http://sial.org/howto/openssh/ https://wiki.systemsx.ch/display/ITDOC/OpenSSH+key+creation+HOWTO http://www.sshkeychain.org/mirrors/SSH-with-Keys-HOWTO/ http://www.openssh.com/manual.html Never attempt to implement ssh without reading all relevant documents thoroughly as misconfiguration of it can cause serious security breaches. Usually the standard configuration files which come with binary packages in various Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuSE etc.) are secure enough to be used on production systems. But still it makes sense to read and understand them before implementation. Remember to encrypt your ssh private key. Never leave it on the disk in raw form unless you have some compelling reasons to do so. Sometimes using passphrase based encryption is not feasible at all, like to auto-execute some commands on remote system when human operator is not present in front of the terminal to supply it. In such cases, the private key is kept on the disk in its raw form. I am assuming that your are present in front of the terminal from where your program is fired. This will allow you to supply the passphase on demand. If your program is fired multiple times in a session or connects to multiple systems in a session then these password prompts might become annoying. In such cases, consider using the utility ssh-add. It takes your passphrase while starting up and keeps it in the memory for on demand supply. Thus you can supply the passphrase once and then run your program without supplying it again. But remember to run "ssh-add -D" when all your ssh related work is over. > Can any one please advice or guide me how to achieve this > kind of encryption. If you mean a custom encryption scheme here, I would say that cooking up such a scheme is always a bad idea. It requires a lot of mathematical skills to develop a good encryption scheme. So it is better to leave this job to the experts (unless you are a good mathematician yourself) and enjoy the fruits of open and standards compliant encryption schemes already developed by great masters. cheers Raghu

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[commercial] [jobs] Immediate opening for Linux Sys. Admin
by Arun Khan 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

We have an immediate opening for a Linux Sys. Admin. Experience: 4-5 years hands on experience in Sys. Admin. of Redhat/ SuSE/ Debian (also Ubuntu) Linux in the following areas: - RHEL/ openSUSE/ Ubuntu installation, maintenance. - Management of server farms 30+ machines, experience. with blade servers a plus. - Rapid deployment of new workstations (clonezilla) - Network monitoring (Nagios, Cacti, ...), integration of alerts via SMS/email. - UPS configuration. - one large UPS powering several machines. Proper system shut down of all machines connected to the UPSs - "heart beat" over the LAN. - Intermediate/Advance. scripting (bash, Perl) to automate admin. tasks. - Backups of large data sets (> 3 TB) - Networking - LAN (Gigabit) / WAN/ VPN, subnets, interoperate with Windows desktops. - LDAP - integration into network login and usage of network resources. - with LDAP integration. - Install/ configure services like DNS, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, NFS and Samba and integration with LDAP (if applicable). - DrQueue experience a plus. - Security - experience in securing hosts and networks a plus. Personality: Hands on and proactive; anticipate needs and make suggestions rather than wait for the situation to blow up or look at immediate manager to tell what to do exactly. Thirst for knowledge and the ability to pick up new "stuff" on the fly. Certification: Helpful but not mandatory. Communication: Must be able to articulate your thoughts in clear/unambiguous English. Ability to prepare reports for upper management with costing/savings numbers a plus. Relocation: None. Job Location: Mumbai. Local travel: Greater Mumbai/Navi Mumbai. Compensation: Commensurate with experience and knowledge. Interested individuals please contact me directly. If you know anyone who may be interested in the above, amongst your friends, family, and colleagues, please forward this and have them contact me. Thanks in advance. -- Arun Khan

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Fwd: Reminder: Fedora RPM Packaging 101: 3 PM today
by Debarshi Ray 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> Date: 2008/7/28 Subject: Reminder: Fedora RPM Packaging 101: 3 PM today To: The Fedora Project Community in India <fedora-india(a)redhat.com> Hello folks, We are going to host a *public* IRC session in #fedora-india, freenode today, July 28th 2008 at 3:00 PM and do a quick walk through on the basics of RPM packaging in Fedora. More details at https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-india/2008-July/msg00136.html Preliminary reading at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CreatingPackageHowTo Everyone interested in welcome to join us. For those, who won't be able to attend. Don't worry. We will post the IRC log and plan to host similar sessions in the future too. Thanks. Tidbit of the day: We have over 10,000 binary software packages and nearly 6500 source packages in the Fedora repository. # yum repolist Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit fedora Fedora 9 - i386 enabled : 9,897 updates Fedora 9 - i386 - Updates enabled : 3,032 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/collections/ Rahul _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india

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Software Patents Issue" Meeting on 7th August
by Venkatesh Hariharan 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

If there are articulate FOSS developers in the Mumbai LUG, I would request them to be present at the 7th August 2008 meeting and explain to the group why software patents are against the interest of the developer community. Venky ===== http://osindia.blogspot.com/2008/07/patent-office-meeting-in-mumbai-on-7th.… Sunday, July 27, 2008 Patent Office Meeting in Mumbai on 7th August: Please attend if you can<http://osindia.blogspot.com/2008/07/patent-office-meeting-in-mumbai-on-7th.…> This is a call for FOSS developers in Mumbai who are interested in the software patents issue. The Patent office has called for a stakeholders meeting<http://ipindia.nic.in/whats_new/StakeholderMeeting_24July2008.pdf>on the Draft Patent Manual <http://ipindia.nic.in/ipr/patent/DraftPatent_Manual_2008.pdf>. On behalf of Red Hat, I have submitted our comments on the manual<http://ipindia.nic.in/ipr/patent/Patent_Manual_Feedback/REDHAT_INDIA_PVT._L…> . In 2005, I was involved in the Patent Amendment Act 2005 and on behalf of Red Hat, we had made representations to policy makers on why software patents are bad for the Indian software industry. At that time, Lawrence Liang and Prashanth Iyengar of the Alternative Law Forum had done a fantastic job of putting together a position paper on this issue virtually overnight. Happily, our lobbying was successful and software was kept out of the Amendment. What makes me hopping mad is that the Draft Manual seeks to bring in through the backdoor, something that was explicitly rejected by the Indian parliament. To say the very least, this is a very dubious practice. Interestingly, Infosys and TCS are in favor of software patents. Those who followed the OOXML fight on this blog would know that both these organizations had voted in favor of Microsoft's OOXML proposal. If there are articulate FOSS developers in the Mumbai LUG, I would request them to be present at the 7th August 2008 meeting and explain to the group why software patents are against the interest of the developer community.

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encryption of password
by saeed ansari 27 Jul '08

27 Jul '08

Hello Every one, I am having one shell / perl script , through which i am doing all my server maintainance work like cleaning old logs etc. Script is running fine without any issues. But i am remotly login to almost 20 servers through this script and doing my stuffs for which i have to hardcode my user name and password (only one) in same scritp which i feel is scurity thread. Is there any way to encrypt my password in the same script which system or script can understande but when any one else open my script not able to read that password line. Please note i am using Unix as OS and using vi editor. Can any one please advice or guide me how to achieve this kind of encryption. Thanks a lot for all your help and advice. Regards, ansa

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RHCE course
by Sameep 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

hi again me i would like to join a rhce course so would u pls tell me is there is any official partner of red hat is there in mumbai (if possible give address) or suggest a good course thanks -- sincerely, योगेश You can check here. Its the most authentic source of info. http://www.redhat.in/training/ Regards, Sameep

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Mylyn for bash
by Puneet Lakhina 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

Hi, I use an eclipse plugin called Mylyn [1]. Mylyn allows me to group my work into tasks (integrates with things like Bugzilla, trac etc.)[2]. The best thing that Mylyn provides is that it creates separate contexts for each of these tasks. The context influences what I see in a particular eclipse view. So for example, in the file explorer view in eclipse, I only see files that I have changed while working in this context. Additionally it also influences the auto suggest options. The context feature works great when you have to frequenly switch between tasks. It allows you to get back into the mode for solving a particular task. I was wondering if something similar for the shell would be useful. It could for example alter the history to only have the commands that you used in the context of working on a paritcular task. It could maybe even set up env accordingly. Requesting your thoughts. 1. http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/ 2. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-mylyn1/ -- Puneet http://sahyog.blogspot.com/ Latest Post: javac -g -- Puneet http://sahyog.blogspot.com/ Latest Post: javac -g

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RHCE course
by yogesh kunjir 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

hi again me i would like to join a rhce course so would u pls tell me is there is any official partner of red hat is there in mumbai (if possible give address) or suggest a good course thanks -- sincerely, योगेश Saddest quote of funniest man "I like to walk in rain because no one can see my tear"

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PC hangs on md5sum DVD.ISO
by Rony 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Hello, Off late I am having problems with downloaded DVD isos. Earlier I have downloaded 4 Debian DVD isos as well as the Etch Updates DVD iso and all their md5sum results were fine. Now I find that the Sabayon as well as the Debian DVD1 isos throw an 'Input/Output Error' and after that the link between the system and my HDD appears to be lost as no command is accepted and the system as well as the display goes for a toss. With CD isos this does not happen. Any similar experiences, suggestions? -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Error Opening Red Hat Linux Manual Tarball
by Abhishek Ambe rkar [अभिषेक] 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/ The Html Tarballs in .tgz format failed to open with "Ark" as well as "gtar" command. It says "not in gzip format" Are those files corrupted, or Am I doing something wrong? -- With Regards Abhishek Amberkar Born To Be Free... Born To Use GNU/Linux...

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Screencast project - Call for contributions?
by Sameep 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

----- Original Message ---- From: Roshan N Baladhanvi <dhanvirosh(a)rediffmail.com> List, In the recent meet, Naveen, described a project that called for contributions. I have lost the leads to what are the requirements, but as far as I remember, it is about creating screencasts that'll help those who want to have a self-controlled e-learning environment. This email is also directed towards Naveen (since I don't have his email id, and I assume, he has subscribed to this list) who can add more details to this. The website hosting the screencasts is http://www.openvarsity.org Naveens email address is naveen(a)openvarsity.org Regards, Sameep

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