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Unfetter IT - Good articles
by Ramki Trivedi 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

http://gnulinux.in/article/agenda-unfetter-it-discussions http://gnulinux.in/article/unfetter-it-v10 http://gnulinux.in/article/unfetter-it-v20 http://gnulinux.in/article/unfetter-it-v30 The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/

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Monthly donations to Open Source Project
by Shirish Padalkar 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

Hello All, Almost we all use FOSS for daily works. I was thinking if we can contribute some money to some Open Source Projects. Idea is like this- We can collect monthly contribution (say Rs.100 each) from the people who want to contribute. Select an Open Source Project of the month. Make the donation. I don't think Rs. 100 per month is more challenging for all. Even less (or more ;)) contributions can be accepted. What are your thought? With regards, Shirish Padalkar

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linuxers Digest, Vol 81, Issue 8
by Suhit Kelkar 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

"lot of people offer to test software - the very fact that a person is offering and expecting some one to take him up on the offer shows he is not serious. Anyone even vaguely serious would go to the website, look at the software, download and try it out and then come up with ideas/bugs/requests." -- Kenneth Gonsalves, a fellow list user, said this, and I would like to register offence at his statement. Paradoxically, this gentleman emails me offline asking us to test *his* financial accounting package. Well,*that* involves downloading close to 30 mb dependency crud, after which we had to perform occult ceremonies with pythons, boas and other snakes in the grass just to get the darn thing to work. We are disinclined to waste productive time with installation arcana. We want work done, and do not spend all day trolling in mailing lists. Is there a .deb we can pick up somewhere? And yes, I would consider contact with the developer *is* essential. Mailing lists (like this one?) are rude and take a high-handed stand with genuine offers to help. Proprietary software people are more polite, less arrogant. Tally is working just fine. You want support from professionals? Come half way down the bridge first. I've had my say. I have contacted the GNUKhata dev team, and hope to get a reply. I would not have posted to this mailing list again, but unfortunately, the GNUKhata deb was unavailable from the notified download location. Suhit Kelkar

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Install Linux to HDD from Bootable Ubuntu USB
by RS singh 02 Jan '10

02 Jan '10

Dear Linux Users I have created a Bootable Ubuntu 9.10 USB I am booting Acer Laptop Travelmate 2310 with this USB Internet is working on this USB booted Ubuntu Laptop The CDROM of this Laptop is not working Can I install this Ubuntu on USB to HDD with some command Can any linux be installed on HDD over network Ravinder Singh Ludhiana The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/

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Multiply -- Sign Up
by Amey Salvi (via Multiply) 01 Jan '10

01 Jan '10

Check out my Multiply site I set up a Multiply site with my pictures, videos and blog and I want to add you as my friend so you can see it. First, you need to join Multiply! Once you join, you can also create your own site and share anything you want, with anyone you want. Here's the link: http://multiply.com/si/PrBPZYeEQG4Kb3GSvkA9yQ Thanks, Amey Stop e-mails, view our privacy policy, or report abuse: http://multiply.com/bl/PrBPZYeEQG4Kb3GSvkA9yQ We haven't added your email address to any lists, nor will we share it with anyone at any time. Copyright 2009 Multiply Inc. 6001 Park of Commerce, Boca Raton, FL 33487, USA

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Announcement: Free Software Media
by ஆமாச்ச ு|amachu 01 Jan '10

01 Jan '10

Free Software Media is an initiative to publish, promote & distribute, Free Software related text, audio and video contents across India, professionally. Inspired by the work of Network theory Ltd[1], We are pleased to announce this initiative with a similar objective for India. To commence We are happy to bring out three selected Titles from Network Theory Ltd themselves, at reasonable prices for the Indian audience. And they are, * An Introduction to GCC, by Brian J. Gough, foreword by Richard M. Stallman * An Introduction to Python – The Python Tutorial, by Guido van Rossum and Fred L. Drake, Jr. * Comparing and Merging Files with GNU diff and patch, by David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert, and Richard Stallman Currently We support three modes of purchase, Electronic Money Transfer or Money Transfer to our Bank Account Demand Draft/ Cheque Value Payable Post Details of all modes of purchase can be found at our website http://fsm.co.in We offer a portion of our profit to foundations that are related to each of the above mentioned titles or make use of it for appropriate Free Software related activity. Specific details can be found from each book’s page at http://fsm.co.in We hope the Free Software Community of India, Students, Teachers and the General Public would be benefited immensely as a result of this initiative. We thank Network Theory Ltd for the support they extended towards this initiative. So go & grab your copies, of the above mentioned titles, visiting http://fsm.co.in. You can also gift it to your dear ones studying Computer Science. We aspire more. If you are a geek, who could write on Free Software related Titles and is willing to offer it for freely distributable publication, contact us. Would you like to see specific Title to come up related to Free Software, may it be Technical, Philosophical, Legal or in your Language, write to us. If you like to extend your co-operation to us, in other ways, express it through http://fsm.co.in/site/contact. Let us revive the spirit of sharing & sustaining. And above all, help spreading the word across. Website: http://fsm.co.in [1] - http://network-theory.co.uk -- Sri Ramadoss M

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[X-POST]: Reading an image file
by Roshan 29 Dec '09

29 Dec '09

List, I have been trying to search on reading an image file via C. I haven't been able to find code without libraries. However, being aware of the 'binary' mode in Windows (Turbo C++), I had read it using fopen, fread and fseek to read the header and then the contents. However, this reading was done reading individual bytes and not reading it using structures. Apologies, ahead, because, I suspect I may be using wrong 'terms' or may have some incorrect information. (Correct me, thanks) For example, a .bmp (grayscale image) file has first 54 bytes as header (IIRC, correct me, if I'm wrong). Somewhere within that, there's the height and width of the image. Following the 54 bytes are the pieces of image data containing integers between 0 - 255 representing grayscale colors. This seemed to work in Windows because I could see the results. Now, I do know that there are libraries that make this task easier in various distributions of Linux but the purpose (or requirements, If I may say) here it to read it in the same way as it was done in Windows. Though I also do see 'b' mode in the manual page of 'man fread', but I'm doubtful about the results. If anyone has tried to read an image file or has good sample code that I can lookup, would like to have links to it. Alternately, if someone can put in a few details regarding this in a little more 'easy-to-understand' way, that would be helpful. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Roshan Baladhanvi

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need help with simple shell script
by Suhit Kelkar 29 Dec '09

29 Dec '09

Hello, Could anyone kindly suggest how to make a firewall activate automatically when I start my browser? The firewall also demands root password. When I close the browser, can the firewall be closed automatically? No need for the firewall when I am not browsing the internet, as I do not have an always-on connection. I use firestarter firewall on ubuntu 9.04. Thanks in advance. Suhit Kelkar

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Query about postfix.
by Rony 28 Dec '09

28 Dec '09

Hello, I have to setup an smtp server for a small office and I have zeroed in on postfix. I am going through the docs online but can't find the parameter that allows the sending of mails only to addresses listed in a whitelist type file. This is the peculiar requirement for the customer that emails can be sent outside the office, only to email addresses listed in a file. The *'smtpd_reject_unlisted_recipient" parameter works only for local recepients. Any pointers to this? * -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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[Call for edit] List_of_laptop_with_preinstalled_GNU-Linux_in_India
by narendra sisodiya 27 Dec '09

27 Dec '09

If you know laptops with preinstalled GNU/Linux (non windows, non-dos, non-freedos) , please help in improving the wiki page http://lug-iitd.org/List_of_laptop_with_preinstalled_GNU-Linux_in_India -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Society for Knowledge Commons │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org └─────────────────────────┘

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