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Any one interested in participating in workshops for teachers for 5th to 8th grade : ICT for schools
by jitendra 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

Any one familiar with school system, teachers therein or OLPC, Sugar desktop etc , or interested in evangelising FOSS in schools , please contact undersigned. -- jitendra

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GNU/Linux in AP colleges
by Dinesh Shah 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

http://m.livemint.com/srsstore/showPage.do?siteId=30482&pageId=20672893&htm… -- --Dinesh Shah :-) +91-98213-11906 Shah Micro System http://dineshah.wordpress.com Sent from iPhone!

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cannot set resolution to 1440x900 on Debian Etch
by rohit bhute 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

I have installed Debian Etch on a gigabyte motherboard GA-MA74GM-S2, having AMD 740G + SB700 Chipset. The website says it has ATI Radeon 2100 integrated graphics. Output of lspci is as follows: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 796e This driver selected for this is "vesa". If I try "ati", X server refuses to start. But the main problem is resolution - it is set at 1280x1024. I tried using "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and setting resolution to 1440X900, but at that, the resolution was set to 1400x1050 when X server was restarted. Even adding the resolution manually to the Modes lines in xorg.conf and restarting X server did not solve the issue. How can I fix this? Thanks. -- Rohit V. Bhute

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Wireless mobile with bluetooth for skills education v/s micro-campus based education
by Erach 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

> > My machine has something like 768 Kbytes of RAM. > No it is 768 MegaBytes of RAM. > Who is the certifying authority? why would anyone accept your > certification. > The answer to the "who is the certifying authority ? why would anyone accept your certification" is very long and given below. Hi, Wireless mobiles with bluetooth --- and huge screens --- somebody told me they are for Rs 3,500 ----- they will get there shortly perhaps and can at least be used to deliver audio education ----- that way no charity is involved. This is to deliver skills based education to very poor people who can afford a mobile but not even a television or a computer ---- in slums basically. On this mobile, you will have to have a network which gives them jobs based on the skills based education ----- all this may get possible with the data-based G3 mobiles coming out They don't need a certifying authority but good word of mouth clients and references which should be posted on the net. For a good worker, the boss will give references, for a bad worker or contractor nobody will give references. Now, can one distribute education which is: 1. Micro-campus based education or joint family like Education which keeps children together in groups of 10 for a long time ----- longer than the current 10th standard ---- is that feasible or desirable, by forming them into focus groups and business groups and friend groups. Nowadays, when families have only one or two children, do we need 10 students together in a joint family like atmosphere or "gurukul" for a long time. Best Regards, Erach ps. below portion is very long and may be discarded. Well, to answer the question ---- who will certify, what about distributed campuses for schools and colleges with online backup. So it is not purely online (is that ever feasible or one needs people present) but say daily or once a week meetings. WEll, If you go to a DEEMED University which has been opened by coaching-classes, they might see the justification for this :: "the University gives online degrees, but the face-to-face contact takes place in rooms of individuals everywhere---- so 10 students can learn at a time together", and they appear to "coaching classes say once a week". This can be opened all over the world ----- not just in Mumbai. What do u get from this ---- I don't know. For me, it is just the typing of an idea. Even schools, can go from 60 to 100 students per class that way ---- not every body should appear daily in the school, but can be taught at a teacher // associate's residence. Where is the cost to build new school buildings ---- new Universities buildings and so on ? Can we not do an hybrid of online learning ---- meet in rooms. People do satsangs in their own homes everywhere of the guru of their choice. You can call this an online University satsang. Erach NOW HOW DO YOU RECRUIT STUDENTS FOR A DISTRIBUTED CAMPUS // MICRO-GRAINED CAMPUS. With online training. It is very easy. Suppose there are TEN students in 12th standard or 11th standard or even in primary school (don't forget real-estate is now going vacant and prices are dropping). Well, there subjects are not ALL different. They decide to UNITE after 10th, or 11th, or 12th standard ----- they approach a DEEMED UNIVERSITY or a COLLEGE and say ----- give us your online training ---- we will do it from our HOME and perhaps then go abroad for higher studies. Neither, are we going to make our parents pay in lakhs which we don't want them to spend (especially in times of recession) nor in thousands of dollars, but we will study the online material together and contact a tutor such as tutorvista.com (if you are abroad) or live via phone in a call-center, old teacher live, or some one in not so premier cities ------------------- so the superb online college is made. This should be better than seperating students all the time in 10th, 11th, 12th, in the 3 years of bachelors, and so on -------- and let them build a stronger cohesive network which would last them all their life. For instance, I've never met you members on the mailing list ---- would I trust you ----- no, but I have to meet you in person and so on ---- and then the trust is built. Is this idea becoming better. Now, you can take it to a DEEMED UNIVERSITY (formerly merely a coaching class) in New Mumbai, and they might do it for South Mumbai students and save them the daily/weekly journey. Erach > 8. Re: Apologies. Content creation/kiosk. Opening of an online > university with automated testing followed by in-person testing. (jtd) > 2008 12:34, Erach wrote: > I had asked about "open University". Well Online Education in India : Punjab Technical University offers ...First virtual campus in India - Punjab Technical University offers internationally accredited degree & diploma programmes in mangement, engineering , ... www.ptuonline.com/ - 14k - Cached - Similar pages Comes up ---- I called the phone numbers they listed ----- it is there. Now, there are DEEMED UNIVERSITIES in Maharashtra which could give ONLINE also in additional to there normal courses. Yes, Windows is expensive ---- both Windows and LINUX are tools ---- if somebody goes to the management of a deemed University and points to www.ptuonline.com and its counterpart abroad (www.tutorvista.com) could one open a University which teaches foreign students. The person who goes there hopefully gets a project ------ and some funds ---- and perhaps more. Erach

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better package-management
by shirish 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

Hi all, I blogged about the need to have better package management (actually it should have been better distribution-management now that I look into it) but what do people think/feel for the same. Are my conclusions correct or not? http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/better-package-management/ Looking forward for comments here or there. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

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Reminder: ILUG-BOM December 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

H! All, Here is the final announcement for Dec. 2008 ILUG-Bom meet. The only change is Kartik's talk have to be drop due to his ill health. He may not be able to make it the meet. But if he can there will be BoF during/after the meet. Date: 21st Dec. 2008 Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM IST Venue: Directi (Thanks to Gaurav Chaturvedi) 330 Link-Way Estate, Link Road Malad (W) Above Greens hotel Directions: Get off at Malad/Goregaon station, ask for "greens hotel" (it is very close to in-orbit mall) Agenda: 1. Bazaar Version Control System by Prashant Shah 1. Introduction 2. Fundamentals of a version control system 3. Creating repository 4. Working with local and remote repository 5. Checkouts 6. Branching and merging 2. Creating Interactive Widgets with Qt. 1. Drawing and Painting in Qt, 2. Changing look and feel of Qt Widgets with style sheets, 3. The QGraphicsView Framework for Visualization. 4. A small demo app using QGraphicsView Framework having custom widgets and usage of style sheets. Wiki: http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/wiki/index.php/Current_events#Dec_2008_Meet Looking forward to large participation. See you all tomorrow. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Lily Tomlin - "I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

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Announce: ILUG-BOM December 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

H! All, I am pleased to announce one more addition of ILUG-BOM Meet for December 2008. Date: 21st Dec. 2008 Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM IST Venue: Directi (Thanks to Gaurav Chaturvedi) 330 Link-Way Estate, Link Road Malad (W) Above Greens hotel Directions: Get off at malad/goregaon station, ask for "greens hotel" (it is very close to inorbit mall) Agenda: 1. Bazaar Version Control System by Prashant Shah 1. Introduction 2. Fundamentals of a version control system 3. Creating repository 4. Working with local and remote repository 5. Checkouts 6. Branching and merging 2. Status of Debian GNU/Linux Distribution by Kartik Mistry (@Kartik OL Please) 3. One more topic open. Please come forward to talk on topic of your choice! Announcement on Wiki: http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/wiki/index.php/Current_events#Dec_2008_Meet Looking forward to you coming in large numbers With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Chevy Chase - "Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish."

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Disable Kernel Module from loading at boot on Ubuntu 8.04
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

H! All, On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) <dineshah(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I will know for sure if the issue is resolved after I reboot the system. > > The driver is Ubuntu 8.04 was r8169 > > I downloaded RTL driver from > http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFi… > > and compiled installed the same on the system. I have added # Replaced with r8168 --Dinesh Shah blacklist r8169 in file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist Still the r8169 module is loaded after reboot. I am not able to find using google any other way to disable the module loading at boot. Any pointers? TIA WIth regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Douglas MacArthur - "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."

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Strange issue with network card on Ubuntu 8.04
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

H! All, This on-board gigabit ether net gives strange problem. It works most of the times but at times it does not work. Distro: Ubuntu 8.04 (I am not upgrading/changing distro, it ain't broken, wont fix. ;-) ) Kernel Version: Linux matrix 2.6.24-18-generic #1 SMP Wed May 28 20:27:26 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux dmesg [ 126.566892] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out [ 127.381312] r8169: eth0: link up [ 204.415881] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out [ 205.229306] r8169: eth0: link up [ 677.674793] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out [ 678.489221] r8169: eth0: link up lspci: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev ff) lspci -vvv (Nonworking State): 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev ff) (prog-if ff) !!! Unknown header type 7f lspci -vvv (working State): 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device e000 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 221 I/O ports at a000 [size=256] Memory at d1010000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at d1000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at d1020000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: <access denied> Any ideas what's happening? TIA With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Douglas MacArthur - "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."

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Apologies. Content creation/kiosk. Opening of an online university with automated testing followed by in-person testing.
by Erach 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Hi, My apologies to the net for flooding them with requests and top posting and breaching netiquette (I apologized to both Easwar and Sanjay). Well, my Ubuntu 8.10 does NOT install on my Kubuntu 8.04 computer. And Canonical promises only 18 months of SECURITY updates ---- not ALL updates. Yet, I have ordered Kubuntu 8.10 from CANONICAL. My machine has something like 768 Kbytes of RAM. Now, what can a KIOSK do ---- why should cultural book depot or a college put a kiosk. How can you enhance the marketing appeal of a LINUX kiosk in any book-store (educational). Well, how about training courses English (from Hindi/Marathi/local Indian language) followed by online testing (a cybercafe would love this) followed by in-person testing or (in-camera testing in the cybercafe). The training course could be scheduled for 1 hour of adult training or 30 minutes of adult training daily and distributed via DVD / CD ---- computer should not be needed if you want to reach the very poor --- but if you wish initially computer could be needed. What are the consequences of boosting English, boosting Education, boosting even skill-based training and knowledge-based training ? Well, Google language tools translates web-pages into Hindi (written) and shows original Wikipedia pages in English. The IIT's have courses they distribute online. Why are you focusing on KIOSK and LINUX (Linux is merely a tool, Windows works just fine/see Wikipedia) ---- why not an entire University. (Sorry, I am a toothless PhD so I seek to inspire you to lift your vision for Education --- but I have no resources or labor to give). Flame me if you want. You have seen students smoking outside colleges ---- do you think you could inspire them to build open-source content (or content for a cheap fee). There is a website which sends you the revenues for free of all the videos loaded on it. I asked an old woman (67) whether she would put an Italian-Hindi cd (author it, she teaches Italian when she has students), she promptly said, what is in it for me ? Erach

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hard-disk queries
by rohit bhute 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Hi friends. Does Linux auto-powerdown a SATA hard-disk, if none of its partitions are being used/mounted? I have a WD 250GB drive on a SATA port, with ext3 partitions. 2-3 times I heard swishing sounds and clicks. This morning I fired up the Partition editor after one such event and found that the drive was not listed in the partition editor. A reboot fixed the problem. Another issue was I am getting 'could not read block <7-8 digit number>' errors (which would terminate all the operations) when I tried to merge two partitions on this drive - by deleting one and growing the other. I got same error when I deleted the second one and created a new one of size equal to sum of earlier drives. I succeeded when I tried again second time. I monitored the drive for 2-3 hours this morning by frequently loading the partition editor, but it appeared in the editor without fail. Is a HDD failure imminent? Regards. -- Rohit V. Bhute http://rvbhute.org/

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Need SMS Gateway for Organization
by Neelesh Gurjar 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi, We need a Bulk SMS Gateway on Linux for an Organization. Please tell me if anybody knows company which provide enterprise solution for this. -- Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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Unable to mount folders exported by NFS Server
by Pankaj Kumar 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi, I am having three linux system in my LAN with details as follows: 1. Open SUSE 10.2 with Static IP Address 192.168.0.2 and treating as Server. 2. Fedora Core 6 with Static IP Address 192.168.0.3 and treating as Client1. 3. Zenwalk Linux 5.2 with Static IP Address 192.168.0.4 and treating as Client2. Now I want to export one fixed folder to Client1 and another fixed folder to Client2 from Server so that I can work on Server from Client Systems using the concept of NFS. For this purpose I made following entry in the /etc/exports file: ======================================================================= # See the exports(5) manpage for a description of the syntax of this file. # This file contains a list of all directories that are to be exported to # other computers via NFS (Network File System). # This file used by rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd. See their manpages for details # on how make changes in this file effective. /home/rashid 192.168.0.4(rw) /home/ccpplinux/public_html 192.168.0.3(rw) ======================================================================= Then I started nfs server on the Server system with the following command: ======================================================================= linux-server:/etc # /etc/rc.d/nfsserver restart Shutting down kernel based NFS server done Starting kernel based NFS serverexportfs: /etc/exports [1]: Neither 'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export "192.168.0.4:/home/rashid". Assuming default behaviour ('subtree_check'). NOTE: this default will change with nfs-utils version 1.1.0 exportfs: /etc/exports [2]: Neither 'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export "192.168.0.3:/home/ccpplinux/public_html". Assuming default behaviour ('subtree_check'). NOTE: this default will change with nfs-utils version 1.1.0 done linux-server:/etc # ======================================================================= Then from the Client2 system I tried to mount the folder exported from the Server as follows: ======================================================================= root[~]# mount 192.168.0.2:/home/rashid/ /root/server/ mount.nfs: internal error root[~]# ======================================================================= But as you can see I am getting the message of internal error. Similarly from the Client1 system I tried to mount the folder exported from the Server: ======================================================================= [root@FedoraClient ~]# mount -t nfs 192.168.0.2:/home/ccpplinux/ /root/server/ mount: 192.168.0.2:/home/ccpplinux/ failed, reason given by server: Permission denied [root@FedoraClient ~]# ======================================================================= As you can see I am getting message of Permission denied. So I am unable to make use of NFS in my LAN. Can you please help me so that I can start using the facility of NFS on my Linux Systems? I will remain thankful to you all for this forever. -- Best Regards ... Pankaj Kumar

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Crossover Linux
by Ashwin Shah 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

I would like to know the experience of Crossover Linux , a program which allows to load all windows programs on linux or any other programs similar to this -- Ashwin R Shah Dec 18

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Why distribute only FOSS LINUX OS's by kiosk. Why not cheap english/hindi/marathi/chinese teaching CDROMs DVDs Educational movies the works.
by Erach 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hi, > > Definetly doable. Instead of colleges, set it up in Cultural book > depot and or some popular mobo vendor. This will provide much wider > exposure than a college. Setup one such in each major metro. > Followup in the form of install fests in the vicinity would add punch. > Have you thought --------------- once the kiosk is made. And now you get 1 TERABYTE HARD-DISKS for $ 100 ------------- why not put all types of content on the kiosks. Then the commercial vendors will get interested // so will the colleges. I mean, any reason the kiosk stores only FOSS LINUX. Erach

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[OT] [COMMERCIAL] Get listed for FREE in India's first Yellow Pages for FOSS & Linux firms
by Atanu Datta 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [X-Post] Reliance WiMax
by kmkale＠anantcorp.com 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

It works quite well except for infrequent dhcp no ip address issues. I am using it with both Ubuntu & Fedora with a wi-fi AP cum router in between the reliance wimax router and my laptop.. The wimax router requires power so u need some ups/inverter for use during power cuts. Regarads Koustubha Kale Original Message: ----------------- From: Abhishek Amberkar [à¤à¤à¤¿à¤·à¥à¤] abhishek.amberkar(a)gmail.com Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 00:16:38 +0530 To: linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [X-Post] Reliance WiMax On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya <pradeeptob(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Has anybody use the Reliance WiMax (Broadnet) services? I am > more interested in their services in Mumbai. Good, Bad, Ugly? > Apparently they install separate antenna for each connection. The size > of this is as big as a laptop monitor or such, thats what the > marketing exec told me. > > What I want to know is - 1) compatibility with Linux Boxes > 2) does it work during the rainy season? Considering that rains in > Mumbai or Panvel is slightly on the extreme side ;), does it work fine > during the rainy season? I guess the same applies to the DTH setup > even. > > Only reason, I am thinking its worth a try is because I won't > have to depend on availabilty of power and such because I will be > responsible to provide power to the setup which I can in case of load > shedding as well. Thanks in advance. Any more experiences? I want to try it. -- With Regards Abhishek Amberkar Learn to appreciate a beauty within... -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web

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Build up of CD requests on wiki
by Easwar Hariharan 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Hello. There is a backlog of requests on the wiki CDs Wanted list at http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/CDs_Wanted#Requests_List .I don't deny this mail is more out of my own needs,though everyone will benefit. :P Anybody having the relevant CDs/DVDs [or] ISOs please contact the members requiring said CD/DVDs.The list is as below: - Debian Etch DVD Joel D. joel_divekar[at]rediffmail[dot]com Cost of Media or Media provided - Fedora 8 x86_64 DVD Prem Anandh P anandhame[at]gmail[dot]com Central Railway line Cost of Media or Media provided - Cent OS 5 DVD/CD Nilesh Patkar npatkar[at]gmail[dot]com Anywhere in Mumbai Cost of Media or Media provided - Fedora 8 x86_64 DVD/CD Nilesh Patkar npatkar[at]gmail[dot]com Anywhere in Mumbai Cost of Media or Media provided - Fedora Core 9 DVD/CD Santosh Shetye santoshwshetye[at]gmail[dot]com Anywhere in Mumbai Cost of media or Media provided - Xubuntu 8.04.1 / 8.04 ashishdtripathi [at] ymail [dot] com Cost of Media or Media provided - openSUSE 11.0 DVD Easwar Hariharan meindian523 [at] gmail.com Cost of Media or Media provided - Ubuntu Kubuntu 32 bit 64 bit 8.10 [Intrepid] Easwar Hariharan meindian523[at]gmail[dot]com Cost of media or media provided. In my case,I need both Ubuntu and Kubuntu 8.10 and both 32 bit as well as 64 bit archs. Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065

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Dvd Writer Drive not showing!
by IPS Khurana 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

hi i have upgraded Ubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 8.10 using Ubuntu 8.10 i386 dvd, upgrade was sucessful, but after restart (after upgrading to 8.10) its not showing my dvd writer. What should i do now? Pls Confirm! Thanks n Rgds Inder

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] ILUG-Bom Wiki Admin
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Nicholas, On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:31 PM, -- Nicholas <nichalp(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Dinesh, I can take this up. I am a Wikipedia administrator. (been one for > four years now) Thanks for your initiative. I will create appropriate SysOp account on ILUG-Bom wiki. > --Nicholas With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Chevy Chase - "Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish."

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Star Trek had politics in it. Does linux have tools (is that DVD blender) to make a play come science fiction story cheaper read --- http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/MEPP/exofile/sftv.html
by Erach 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

Hi, Read for seeing how science made politics in USA on Star Trek, Star Trek -- Next Generation and so on on: http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/MEPP/exofile/sftv.html Is it possible for Indians to make a movie on Science mixing Science and politics. We only mix religion and politics and family drama and politics and politics and politics. But the most non-political show (I thought so) of Star Trek has USA politics in it. Erach

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] ILUG-Bom Wiki Admin
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

Easwar, On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Easwar Hariharan <meindian523(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > There is a backlog of requests on the wiki CDs Wanted list at > http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/CDs_Wanted#Requests_List .I don't deny > this mail is more out of my own needs,though everyone will benefit. :P How about you taking up the Wiki Admin? Currently Roshan is really busy and we need someone to take care of the wiki. If you can take this up, we can discuss this on next LUG meet. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Chevy Chase - "Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish."

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Need a movie production DVD distribution for LINUX with people trained on it
by Erach 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

I need a movie production distribution from LINUX and people trained to operate that distribution. So I guess the issue is not "this distribution v/s that distribution" but movie production distribution v/s music production distribution v/s server distribution v/s easy to use distribution. Now, I wish somebody could produce science fiction, peaceful movies (or even plays) that could become hits on television etc. Hi, Read for seeing how science made politics in USA on Star Trek, Star Trek -- Next Generation and so on on: http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/MEPP/exofile/sftv.html Is it possible for Indians to make a movie on Science mixing Science and politics. We only mix religion and politics and family drama and politics and politics and politics. But the most non-political show (I thought so) of Star Trek has USA politics in it. Erach

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Talk-in] OSM in Mumbai Wikipedia Coverage
by Kenneth Gonsalves 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

On Saturday 06 Dec 2008 11:38:05 pm Mikel Maron wrote: > > unfortunately the OSM data for this area is still b0rked > > What can we do? There's been some editing in Coloba recently, adding places > involved in the attack. With the attention right now, we certainly harvest > some work and could get Coloba sorted out in short order. The Yahoo imagery > could help as a first pass. Seem like a good idea? Any thoughts on how to > proceed? people who know Mumbai have to do it - we have verified that the satellite data is accurate and had a sprint where a few major roads were done. I did some stuff in the Versova area and in worli too. We just have to wait until people in Mumbai start work. New areas, apart from Chennai, Ludhiana, Delhi and Ooty where good work is going on are Coimbatore and Hyderabad. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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debian software dependency to gnowledge dependencies
by Nagarjuna G 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Several of us use Debian GNU/Linux and among other features we have all appreciated the way Debian software package dependencies are calculated to give us a stable package. At gnowledge.org we harvested the data from the packages.tgz file of Debian 4.0 and created a program that graphically displays the dependencies, called dependency maps. Search for your favorite package and see how dependent a software is on other packages. Few examples: http://www.gnowledge.org/debmap_view?objid=python http://www.gnowledge.org/debmap_view?objid=emacs21 Search for your favorite from: http://www.gnowledge.org/search_debmap?val=1 One of the main reasons why we are interested in Debian dependency maps is that we are inspired by that model and now wants to create a similar knowledge.tgz file for all concepts and activities as gnowledge.org is in the process of creating a gnowledge distribution. You will also be able to see how we are using the idea of Debian for knowledge domain. gnowledge.org is waiting for all of you to spread the message, specifically among the teachers of any subject whatsoever to add the dependency relations so that we can soon have a gnowledge (free knowledge distribution) distro. -- -- Nagarjuna G http://www.gnowledge.org

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Reliance WiMax
by Neelesh Gurjar 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

From: "Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक]" <abhishek.amberkar(a)gmail.com> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:19:04 +0530 On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Neelesh Gurjar <neel.hjs(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Abhishek Amberkar [à¤…à¤à¤¿à¤·à¥‡à¤•] abhishek.amberkar(a)gmail.com >> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 00:16:38 +0530 >> To: linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org >> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [X-Post] Reliance WiMax >> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya > <pradeeptob(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Has anybody use the Reliance WiMax (Broadnet) services? I am >>> more interested in their services in Mumbai. Good, Bad, Ugly? >>> Apparently they install separate antenna for each connection. The size >>> of this is as big as a laptop monitor or such, thats what the >>> marketing exec told me. >>> >>> What I want to know is - 1) compatibility with Linux Boxes >>> 2) does it work during the rainy season? Considering that rains in >>> Mumbai or Panvel is slightly on the extreme side ;), does it work fine >>> during the rainy season? I guess the same applies to the DTH setup >>> even. >> >> i have used reliance wimax with centos linux in panvel. it works nice. > >reliability is also good. >> i felt it is cheaper also. i have taken static ip from reliance as i got >> some issue with their dhcp service on linux. >> >> now it is working fine. >Thanks for the info. What was the issue with DHCP service? Do you >recommend Static IP? It will be better with Static IP as per my experience in Panvel. I am not sure about other places. Regards NeeleshG

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Individual CPU allocation in a multiple CPU architecture?
by Steve 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Hi Jiten, On Wed 10/12/08 1:59 PM , PenguinPuPPy penguinpuppy(a)gmail.com sent: > Guys i have a question and need some one to answer .The question is as > follows. > > 1 ) I have a multiple CPU machine say with 4 CPU's .Now I have 3 > instancesof an application running on the machine and the OS takes care of the > CPUschedule by default.I want to know is there a way in Linux or any other > UNIXwherein I can allocate 1 complete CPU to 1 instance of this > application. man taskset -- for doing it from 'outside' the process man sched_setaffinity -- for doing it from within the code and man cpuset -- for a really loooong description HTH, - steve -- Linux Centric Marketplace: http://www.tuxcompatible.com

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Individual CPU allocation in a multiple CPU architecture ?
by PenguinPuPPy 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Guys i have a question and need some one to answer .The question is as follows. 1 ) I have a multiple CPU machine say with 4 CPU's .Now I have 3 instances of an application running on the machine and the OS takes care of the CPU schedule by default.I want to know is there a way in Linux or any other UNIX wherein I can allocate 1 complete CPU to 1 instance of this application. Thanks Jiten -- To Love The Penguin(aka TUX) You Need To Be As Faithful As A Puppy

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Supercomputer for rental --- any takers for research / university / what rental commercially possible with LINUX
by Erach 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Hi, Suppose I had a 150 TB / 74 CPU dual quad Intel on Rental.Connected by dual Ethernet of 1.0 Gigabits second. Would it help advance research in India ? Would new pharma drugs come out of it ? Should it be given to students say at the rental of Rs 500 a month/Rs 1000 a month (they can easily afford that from their UGC scholarships ---- what max can I charge for it). In 2 years time it wouldn't cost much. And it would generate tonnes of parallel programmers. Currently, would it be good for high-tech research all over India/third world countries all over the world ---------------- can such a super-computer be used for destruction/ I say NOT. This would spur tremendous research in the next 10 years as Universities churn out people over a Beowulf cluster. Erach

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Watch FSFS on your desktop online
by Praveen A 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Eben is starting his talk right now http://fsfs.in/content/watch-out-conference-online-your-desktop -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [X-Post] Reliance WiMax
by Raghu Prasad 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

> Has anybody use the Reliance WiMax (Broadnet) services? I am > more interested in their services in Mumbai. Good, Bad, Ugly? > Apparently they install separate antenna for each connection. The size > of this is as big as a laptop monitor or such, thats what the > marketing exec told me. I have been using it for many months now at Kharghar. The plan I have chosen gives me 25 to 30 kBytes of download and upload speed. There is an outdoor antenna which is powered over ethernet. It is placed on my rooftop. In my case, I am using a 4 port router and configured it to obtain WAN IP address over DHCP. Using NAT, I can share this connection to multiple PCs at home. For user-authentication, they provide a web interface which work beautifully on Firefox. Unless you authenticate, all web-requests are re-directed to their authentication server. Earlier they used to sell 2mbps connections, but when I approached them many months ago, they told me that that scheme had been terminated. Then I had been promised 300kbps bandwidth. For unlimited data transfer, I pay around Rs.1150/- per month(including taxes). This connection though expensive, is reliable most of the time. > What I want to know is - 1) compatibility with Linux Boxes If you configure your Linux machine to obtain IP address on its network interface via DHCP, you don't need a router and can use any GNU/Linux distro. > 2) does it work during the rainy season? Considering that rains in > Mumbai or Panvel is slightly on the extreme side ;), does it work fine > during the rainy season? I guess the same applies to the DTH setup > even. During rains too I have used this system without problems. But I can't confirm whether it works reliably over an extended period of time during heavy rains. I am afraid of toasting my router in lightening, and hence keep it disconnected from the wire during heavy rains. I have faced no major problems except some irritants (see below) which I can live with. At least their service is hundred times better than Sify's. The experience with Sify and their local cablewalla contacts were pathetic, to put it mildly. > Only reason, I am thinking its worth a try is because I won't > have to depend on availabilty of power and such because I will be > responsible to provide power to the setup which I can in case of load > shedding as well. This is a major advantage compared to any wired connection. Especially if you provide services to your clients in real-time, something like this is necessary. Now the irritants with Reliance Wi-max: 1. Their DHCP connection is not very reliable, at least on Linux machines. The strangest part is, whenever I use a Windows machine, I get an IP allocated to me immediately. But it takes about 5 to 10 minutes to get an IP on my Linux box (it used to run SuSE 10). Even on my router, I have to carry out following procedures in exact order to get an IP fast: a. Switch-on the power to antenna. b. Wait for two minutes. c. Switch-on the power to the router. d. Wait for at least one minute. e. Check whether IP is allocated or not. Most of the time you get an IP. But if you fail to get it, go to web based admin console of the router and click on buttons meant to renew DHCP release and/or re-new. Then you get the IP and the connection remains rock solid for the rest of the session. 2. On some rare occasions the connection fails after some usage. If that happens, then there is no way I can get authenticated again immediately. Whenever I re-try authentication by submitting the web form, I get the message of authentication failure. This problem gets rectified automatically after half-an hour. It seems they have placed some mechanisms to prevent password-guessing-attacks. Raghu

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Reliance WiMax
by Abhishek Ambe rkar [अभिषेक] 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Neelesh Gurjar <neel.hjs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Abhishek Amberkar [à¤…à¤à¤¿à¤·à¥‡à¤•] abhishek.amberkar(a)gmail.com > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 00:16:38 +0530 > To: linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [X-Post] Reliance WiMax > > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya > <pradeeptob(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Has anybody use the Reliance WiMax (Broadnet) services? I am >> more interested in their services in Mumbai. Good, Bad, Ugly? >> Apparently they install separate antenna for each connection. The size >> of this is as big as a laptop monitor or such, thats what the >> marketing exec told me. >> >> What I want to know is - 1) compatibility with Linux Boxes >> 2) does it work during the rainy season? Considering that rains in >> Mumbai or Panvel is slightly on the extreme side ;), does it work fine >> during the rainy season? I guess the same applies to the DTH setup >> even. > > i have used reliance wimax with centos linux in panvel. it works nice. > reliability is also good. > i felt it is cheaper also. i have taken static ip from reliance as i got > some issue with their dhcp service on linux. > > now it is working fine. Thanks for the info. What was the issue with DHCP service? Do you recommend Static IP? -- With Regards Abhishek Amberkar Learn to appreciate a beauty within...

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by Neelesh Gurjar 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Abhishek Amberkar [à¤…à¤à¤¿à¤·à¥‡à¤•] abhishek.amberkar(a)gmail.com Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 00:16:38 +0530 To: linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [X-Post] Reliance WiMax On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya <pradeeptob(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Has anybody use the Reliance WiMax (Broadnet) services? I am > more interested in their services in Mumbai. Good, Bad, Ugly? > Apparently they install separate antenna for each connection. The size > of this is as big as a laptop monitor or such, thats what the > marketing exec told me. > > What I want to know is - 1) compatibility with Linux Boxes > 2) does it work during the rainy season? Considering that rains in > Mumbai or Panvel is slightly on the extreme side ;), does it work fine > during the rainy season? I guess the same applies to the DTH setup > even. i have used reliance wimax with centos linux in panvel. it works nice. reliability is also good. i felt it is cheaper also. i have taken static ip from reliance as i got some issue with their dhcp service on linux. now it is working fine. regards neelesh

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] From Freedom of Software and Technology to Freedom of Speech!
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Mukund, On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Mukund Deshmukh <mukund.deshmukh(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> True... We somehow collectively always reach wrong conclusions and >> policies. I have seen many so called educated, inteligent and savvy >> people demanding dictatorship, army rule and emergency! Can you >> believe that? > > I am educated, intelligent and savvy and demand dictatorship, army rule, > and emergency! :-( > It's lot better than ruled by bunch of jokers.... I empathetic to your anguish and frustration with the existing system. And those "jokers" are elected represantatives of you. You may have either directly elected them by voting for them or indirectly elected them by NOT VOTING for them. Let us start by owning our own responsibility. > But then how it's related to Linux , except FREEDOM ;-) Yes, though it is OT, we users of Free Software and Technology also WANT and NEED Freedom in other areas of our life too. Discussing this on this or any other technology related mailing list is not totally irrelevant. Slashdot also has sections for Politics and YRO too! I have changed the subject line but kept the thread as is. > Warm Regards, > > Mukund Deshmukh, > Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd. > 10/1 IT Park, Parsodi, > Nagpur -440022 India. > Web site - http://betacomp.com With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Joe E. Lewis - "The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love."

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Invitation to speak at Dec. 2008 ILUG-Bom meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hello Guys and Gals, We will possibly have a ILUG-BOM Dec 2008 meet on 21st or 28th. I know many of you are surely working on cool FOSS Stuff and you are always eager to share your experiences. :-) I would like to invite you to speak on the topic of your choice. Please let me know what would you to speak on and I will work with you to finalize the topic. BTW, we already have one Talk from Prashant Shah. So we need one or two more talks. Looking forward to many people coming forward to share the knowledge. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

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[X-Post] Reliance WiMax
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi, Has anybody use the Reliance WiMax (Broadnet) services? I am more interested in their services in Mumbai. Good, Bad, Ugly? Apparently they install separate antenna for each connection. The size of this is as big as a laptop monitor or such, thats what the marketing exec told me. What I want to know is - 1) compatibility with Linux Boxes 2) does it work during the rainy season? Considering that rains in Mumbai or Panvel is slightly on the extreme side ;), does it work fine during the rainy season? I guess the same applies to the DTH setup even. Only reason, I am thinking its worth a try is because I won't have to depend on availabilty of power and such because I will be responsible to provide power to the setup which I can in case of load shedding as well. Thanks in advance. Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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[OT] Anyone know a place for hard drive recovery in Mumbai? <eom>
by Sandesh Singh 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

-- sss http://sandesh247.googlepages.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Talk-in] OSM in Mumbai Wikipedia Coverage
by Raghu Prasad 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

>>> The reports say of how the terrorists used these same digital maps >>> to plan their actions and reduced the requirement of having to stay >>> in Mumbai and do a proper reconnaissance. >>> At this time, you will not find many people favouring update of >>> digital maps. Any technology/instrument can be used by people bent on destruction. If positive effects of something outweigh its negative effects, then we allow it to be used by the society. One such example is Mumbai's rail network. Everyday over half-a-dozen people die on the railway tracks of Mumbai, but we continue to use our local trains without banning them. Same is true for the knives used to chop vegetables. One can kill someone with it. But can we ban them? Now general public is getting a chance to use digital maps which were only available to government agencies, a few years back. It would be pretty sad if we are forced to give up this technology just because some terrorists and their masters used digital maps. By the way, there were terrorist attacks in India, even before Google or OSM came into existence. >> The Issue goes a little further, >> In a place like Mumbai with nearly 2 Crore population, the terrorists >> killed about 200, >> hardly a nudge in the yearly death rate, > > WOW ! > The attitude is interesting. > I am sure for the people who lost family and friends in the attack will > appreciate that its hardly a nudge in the death rate. > Good thing people like you are not in control of the country. > Or Wait ! They are actually. I think what he said was technically correct but emotionally offensive. If we mix facts with emotions, we don't reach anywhere in a public discourse. It should be noted that the family and friends of Indian citizens are not suffering for the first time. Every week we see many people dying in terrorist attacks in different parts of our country. The Mumbai offensive was a high decibel one and hence it got higher visibility in public. This has shaken the establishment. The government could have lived with multiple low decibel terror strikes spread over a longer period of time, even if their cumulative score of victims were more than 200. For example, just count the number of such victims in different parts of our country in last five years. Regarding loss of life of near and dear ones; if one dies in terror attack or in the hands of workers of some political party, the loss is the same. While looking at the issue of rights of citizens being usurped by our government, we need to look at hard facts, sans any emotions. Are we supposed to give up our right to privacy just because terrorists are striking us whenever they want? We also need to look at the experience of people in other countries like US, UK etc. where citizens have lost a lot of their privacy after 9/11. In US, there are some draconian laws in place in the name of homeland security. Is US safe just because of these measures? What are the views of experts residing in those countries on these issues? These are the questions one should be asking and discussing in detail. Well, being a mailing list for GNU/Linux, it is not be the appropriate forum for it. >> politicians use this as a chance to pass regulations that will harass >> rest of the population for a lifetime, There is a real danger of it to happen. It is necessary to be vigilant against terrorists as well as the government itself. Democracy doesn't come cheap. If citizens in general don't care, then we would be enslaved by people in power on one pretext or other. > this is a cause worth fighting for, freedom is a precious thing. Very true. Raghu

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System set up for Studio on Linux
by Aniruddha Dasgupta 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi friends, We are currently in talks with some of the Big Movie house about making 3d Animated TV serials in India. We would be starting from January. Now we would be having a studio with a team of around 50 people and 30 Workstations, Servers, Render farms, Storage solutions etc. Now we want to utilize the full potential of our Hardware. Windows does not have this ability. We want the entire Setup in Linux. We would like to know, if there is a group or people in this List who can undertake This kind of work. If yes, we would like to talk immediately. Next, we shall work on Maya, Adobe software's etc. So the Linux Flavor should support that. Please suggest a Distro which also has a large hardware compatibility. If any Positive response, please contact Aniruddha on: 09324696842, 09860931588 Aniruddha Dasgupta Director-Animation & Technical E-dutainment Unlimited Nerul, Navi Mumbai

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How to divide single storage on multiple servers? Storage Cluster
by Neelesh Gurjar 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi, I want 150 TB Network storage. However buying NAS from EMC takes Rs. 1 lak / TB. and from Fortunestart takes Rs.50K/TB. Which is pretty costlier for an NGO. Can I make one NAS from Multiple servers ? For eg. If I setup 5 servers with 1 TB space then after seting up cluster I should get 5 TB space accession outside the cluster. Is it possible? I heard that google is using same thing with their Filesystem. Please help -- Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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A quick BoF tomorrow at Andheri (W) @ 4:00 PM
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Guys, Philip is here after a long time and we thought of catching up. So we have setup a BoF tomorrow (Sun, 7th Dec. 2008) @ Andheri (W) at 4:00 PM We will all meet 1st at McDonald's and after 15 Minutes we will move to any nearby coffee house. So those we would like to catch up please drop by. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Steve Martin - "I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't."

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Talk-in] OSM in Mumbai Wikipedia Coverage
by Kenneth Gonsalves 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

On Saturday 06 Dec 2008 12:49:46 am Mikel Maron wrote: > Wikipedia is using OpenStreetMap for Mumbai, to illustrate the locations of > the attacks last week. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2008_Mumbai_attacks unfortunately the OSM data for this area is still b0rked > > Despite the tragedies, I firmly believe that open access to knowledge > ultimately makes the world safer and better. OSM is a key part of > understanding and illuminating the world. agreed > > I hope all of you, and and your friends, families and colleagues are safe > and well. thank you for the sentiment and support -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Fwd: [Talk-in] OSM in Mumbai Wikipedia Coverage
by Kenneth Gonsalves 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

-- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Solidarity from Italy
by Giovanni Maruzzelli 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

In this difficult moment, I wish all my friends, colleagues, and acquaintances in India to be well, sure, and safe. Also, I'm sure Indian people will be soon over this moment. A strong hug from Italy. Sincerely, Giovanni Maruzzelli ========================================= Contact person : Mr Giovanni Maruzzelli Company : celliax Website: www.celliax.org Address : via Pierlombardo 9, 20135 Milano Country/Territory : Italy Business Email: gmaruzz at celliax dot org Phone : 39-347-2665618 Fax : 39-02-87390039

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Vsftp help
by Neelesh Gurjar 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Richard Victor Correia" <richard(a)florix.net> wrote: >I am facing problem in setting up vsftpd. >System: CentOS 5, vsftpd-2.0. >I am able to connect to server using windos inbuilt ftp program, but >filezilla and winscp fails to connect. >Then I turned OFF SELinux and IPtables to check if active/passive mode >is creating problem. Still no luck. >Can someone help me resolve this? <http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers>While making connection with WinSCP or Filezilla please check port and protocol.. I think by default with WinSCP it uses Port 22 and SSH portocol. My suggetion for you is instead of setting up FTPserver use SFTP server. It is more secured. Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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Vsftp help
by Richard Victor Correia 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Hi I am facing problem in setting up vsftpd. System: CentOS 5, vsftpd-2.0. I am able to connect to server using windos inbuilt ftp program, but filezilla and winscp fails to connect. Then I turned OFF SELinux and IPtables to check if active/passive mode is creating problem. Still no luck. Can someone help me resolve this? Thanks Richard

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3D model from gps data
by Kenneth Gonsalves 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

hi, can anyone give me a clue as how to go about generating a 3D model of an area using GPS data? What software to use? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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[commercial] Looking for LDAP consultant
by Arun Khan 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Duration: 1-2 days assignment. Domain expertise: LDAP installation/configuration (openLDAP or Fedora DS) We want to implement LDAP for: 1. User login/authetication from any Linux workstation on the network. 2. NFS integration (instead of NIS), mounting /home from NFS. 3. Access to resources on workstation, e.g. users restricted to using local devices like CDROM, USB ports, etc. 4. SMTP/POP3/IMAP integration (postfix, dovecot) 5. Samba integration - windows domain login via Samba/LDAP Please contact me off list (knura at yahoo dot com) if you have the LDAP experience to implement the above setup. I know the LDAP basics and can work with off location consultant over chat/phone. -- Arun Khan

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Special Permissions as those in NTFS
by Rony Bill 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Hello, In the NTFS file system, under the security option in a folder's properties, there is an advanced option where a user/group can be restricted from writing or deleting existing files in the directory but at the same time can be granted permission to create a new file or folder. So while existing data on that folder cannot be edited or deleted, the user can paste new files in that folder. Can such special permissions be granted in EXT3 or JFS file systems? On the net I find that advanced ACLs mainly have 3 options of read write and execute. If write permission is granted, user will delete files. Without read permission, user cannot paste new files. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Fedora 10 DVD
by Vinod Raghavan 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Hi Any one has Fedora-10-i386-DVD thanks. Vinod Raghavan Mumbai

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