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Etch-Xfce DVD burning errors.
by Rony 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Hello All, I wanted to copy a Fedora 8 DVD for a friend. I tried the default Brasero in Etch-Xfce but it would not even proceed further than the window where Read and Write drives are chosen. So gnomebaker was used. It read the master DVD and created the image but on writing the image back to a blank DVD, it completed the process halfway but with no errors. However the DVD is only half burned as can also be observed physically. Then my all time favorite K3B was installed but it too recorded halfway and said ok. What I observed in gnomebaker was that it uses the 'dd' command to write the DVD which I feel is outdated. I did not check the same in K3B as I did not expect it to do the same. All necessary packages like dvdrw+tools, and many more are installed in my system. I lost 2 blank DVDs. Finally for the third and last one in stock, Nero was used in the other operating system and that recorded properly. What could be possibly happening? I recollect gnomebaker showing messages like... Writing image using dd if=... of=..... Flushing Cache. Updating RVM (?) Google does not yield much information about this problem. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Net Radio in Linux
by Rony 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Rony wrote: "A friend of mine showed me this site for internet radio. It works in Linux too. Go to www.sky.fm and check out 'Listen Now' on the top and from the list, select 'MP3 Streams'. A playlist file .pls will be downloaded. Save it and load the playlist in your audio player. Listen to good music without RJ yak yak. I selected the 96Kbps stream. As per the theoritical calculations, one hour of listening takes about 43 MB download." There is a 24 Kbps stream also available for slow connections. The sound is mono but decent for listening. 24 Kbps also cuts down on the downloaded data for connections having data download limits. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Gparted question
by Nishit Dave 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

List, I want to create a partition on my laptop by freeing up space from my C: drive, NTFS. I have been reading documentation on Gparted, but I could not determine if it requires contiguous free space within a partition to shrink it and create a new one with free space. The defragmentation utility provided with Windows XP does not consolidate free space. Would using Gparted to repartition the disc, after such (suboptimal) defragmentation, result into loss of data, or will it use only the free space? It would seem visually that Gparted will use free space, but there are conflicting opinions everywhere. Can somebody provide a concise, unequivocal answer? Can somebody provide a feasible solution if there is a definite problem?

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Yum country specific mirror list
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

> I'm using Fedora 8. Nowadays yum is updating at extremely slow speeds > from Asian mirrors. I am assuming that your Yum is configured to fetch mirrorlists from the following URLs: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=x86_64 http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f8&arch=x… Now do you know which particular mirror you are using and finding it slow? Most of the time, the first two mirrors would be an Indian one. One of the Indian mirrors -- ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ -- allows only a limited number of anonymous clients to connect, and each client is allowed a maximum of 32KBps to 48KBps of bandwidth. The other Indian mirror -- http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/pub/fedora -- is also planning to do something similar, and they might be changing their configuration as I am writing this email. In case you are having problems with the Indian mirrors: Now both these mirrors are quite new, experience very heavy loads -- http://glug-nith.org/usage ; http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/awstats/awstats.pl -- and face the standard bandwidth shortage prevalent in India. The first one has an 8Mbps line, while the second has a 5Mbps line, which they are planning to increase. Even then, it has been my observation that apart from the heavily loaded Fedora mirror, the other mirrors which these two machines host are quite fast. eg., try downloading Emacs from http://gnu.glug-nith.org/emacs/emacs-22.1.tar.gz and ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-22.1.tar.gz and compare the speeds. So if we had some specific inputs from you as to which mirror(s) you find slower, what sort of bandwidth you have, etc. we can try to optimize the Indian Fedora mirrors accordingly. If the problem is with the other Asian mirrors, then you might take it up on Fedora's mirror mailing lists. > mirrorlist.txt is filled with asian servers only. > Is there any way that yum downloads Non Asian mirrors list from US or > Europe? or on what basis does yum downloads country specific mirror > lists. Is there any way to change the defaults? There is a way. You need to pass a country variable tothe mirrorlist URLs. Eg., for only Indian mirrors you would do: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=x86_64&count… http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f8&arch=x… Cheers, Debarshi -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU) * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP)

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[INFO] Changing default applications in Etch-Xfce Desktop
by Rony 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

Hello All, I had pasted some files on my desktop. These files opened with a preset default application. I wanted to use another one that I installed but on right-clicking the file, no option for opening in an alternate application was available. Even googling for help did not yield any usefull results. Finally while checking out some files in my home directory ( using the default Thunar browser) I found that inside Thunar the alternate application option is available and I could change it to my chosen one. Plus, those who do not have the archiving option on right click inside Thunar can install the 'thunar-archive-plugin' using apt-get. This will add the archiving options 'Extract Here' and 'Extract To' on right clicking files inside Thunar. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Net Radio in Linux
by Rony 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

Hello All, A friend of mine showed me this site for internet radio. It works in Linux too. Go to www.sky.fm and check out 'Listen Now' on the top and from the list, select 'MP3 Streams'. A playlist file .pls will be downloaded. Save it and load the playlist in your audio player. Listen to good music without RJ yak yak. I selected the 96Kbps stream. As per the theoritical calculations, one hour of listening takes about 43 MB download. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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[OT] Defective Linux For You Media.
by Rony 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

Hello All, This month Linux For You has done it again. The magazine costs Rs. 100/- like other computer mags but again their optical media is bad. This has become a tradition with them and they seem to be pretty thick skinned about it. I have decided to stop buying this magazine altogether as it is a waste of hard earned money. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Help on NDMP
by Kanika Rajani 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

We are working with NDMFS(an implementation of NDMP protocol) to take backup (on fedora 7 platform) but are facing a problem. When giving the "backup" command to take the backup ,it is giving the error-NDMP_NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR. Can u help?

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Commercial -- Opensource Navigation Client -- OT
by Akshay Mishra 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Hello list, I had posted earlier about requiring hands for development on our ARM platform. We are now pleased to inform a fully stable ARM9E platform available with DSPWorks. We are offering alpha samples for people who'd like to pay and play with and test our board (the hardware is fully stable and so is the software. It might still not be commercial grade though). We have gpsdrive working stably on our platform and we are now taking orders for intial samples. The delivery shall take some time (4-6 weeks) since we are gathering volumes so that we can reduce price and get some money to make hardware. The specs are: gpsdrive on a handheld. it'll work in your car or maybe also on a handy (battery unit up next). Maps from google maps. (it should take commercial maps, but you'll have to pay for it.). Any discussions for possible alliances are welcome. . All those interested can send me an email at: akshay <at> dspworks.in. Thanks, Akshay

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open source POS systems
by Abhishek Daga 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Hello, I am seeking recommendations on open source POS (point of sale) applications that includes support for bar code readers, label printers, etc.. The entire gamut related to a POS system in a retail (grocery store) environment. One suggestion was TINA POS but its no longer there on sourceforge. Then there is phppointofsale.com. Anyone used it? It seems like a good bet but personal experiences and first hand reports are highly valued. Thanks abhishek

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Fwd: Fedora 8/ARM available
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh(a)wantstofly.org> Date: 15 Jan 2008 05:03 Subject: Fedora 8/ARM available To: fedora-arm(a)redhat.com, fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com Hi all, We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial) Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture. The package repository has been built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float, little endian. The majority of the important and frequently used Fedora packages have been built for ARM. The Fedora/ARM architecture wiki page has more info: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM The easiest way to start using Fedora 8/ARM is to download the prebuilt root filesystem, which can be booted in QEMU, or chroot'ed into or booted from on any ARMv5 or later processor running in little endian mode. Additional packages can be installed by using yum, which is provided in the filesystem. A HOWTO which describes getting Fedora/ARM running in QEMU is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/HowToQemu There currently are a handful of known issues, which are described at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/TODO Please help us by using the Fedora/ARM port and reporting any issues you run into so that we can fix them. thanks, Lennert _______________________________________________ Fedora-devel-announce mailing list Fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU) * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP)

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not able to open network manager.
by mukesh yadav 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

hello friends. i'm using ubuntu...and xfce desktop environment. I'm not able to open the network manager to add the Ip address. and i dont know how to do this via terminal. so please help me how i can open network manager to change my static IP and gateway and other info... thanks in advance.

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Yum country specific mirror list
by Prashant 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hi, I'm using Fedora 8. Nowadays yum is updating at extremely slow speeds from Asian mirrors. mirrorlist.txt is filled with asian servers only. Is there any way that yum downloads Non Asian mirrors list from US or Europe? or on what basis does yum downloads country specific mirror lists. Is there any way to change the defaults? Thanks, Prashant

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Fwd: Report on Kolhapur workshop
by Kenneth Gonsalves 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Begin forwarded message: > From: "sudhanwa Jogalekar" > Subject: Re: Report on Kolhapur workshop > > Hi, > > Today at 11 am I saw the reporting about the event and the "phono" of > Prof. Kodawade Sir on the Star Majha channel. ( I think this was a > repeat telecast. The same program is telecast at 8 pm on Saturday) > > They had shown NRC-FOSS website video with Prof. Kodawade's telephonic > interview about the event. > > Congrats to all the people participating in the event, especially > Prof. Kodawade and Kenneth Gonsalves for organising/co-ordinating the > event. I am sure this is a major step in getting FOSS into various > colleges and courses. > > Regards > -Sudhanwa -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/

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Fwd: Serious help needed
by Suhit Kelkar 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: rahul srivastava <rahulks7(a)yahoo.com> Date: Jan 13, 2008 10:43 AM Subject: Serious help needed To: suhitkelkar(a)gmail.com Cc: matias(a)urbanology.org Dear Suhit, Many apologies for taking your time again! But I urgently need help and felt that you would be in the best position to help us with this. For the Koliwada workshop (and we are racing against time on that!) we urgently need a professional programmer. If you could forward this following job-description to your friends who are in this field, we will be very very grateful! Please do treat this as urgent. warmly, Rahul Professional Programmer Needed: Open source - Wikimedia Project We are currently looking for an experimented programmer, fluent in html and PHP, AJAX and C# a definite plus for a 3 months project starting immediately. The successful candidate will be working in close collaboration with other programmers based in San Diego (US) and a team of urbanists and social scientists based in Mumbai and Tokyo. The work will consist in customizing and adding new functions (such as video) to an existing open source wikimedia system. The system will be used by the residents of a neighbourhood in Mumbai and eventually put at the service of other communities. Knowledge of Marathi a plus. Location is irrelevant, although the programmer should be ready to travel to Mumbai a couple of times. Compensation commensurate with experience. Send CV and/or work samples to urbz08(a)gmail.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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KDE4 live CD: the latest of KDE + the latest of Fedora
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

http://www.deadbabylon.de/blog/2008/01/11/livecd-for-rawhide-with-kde-400/ "Today is the release day of KDE 4.0.0. The packages should find their way into the repository soon or they are already there. What's missing is another live image to test the new stable version of KDE without the need of installing rawhide." Here is the ISO and its checksum: http://www.fedoraforum.de/iso/test/rawhide-KDE4-i686-20080109/rawhide-KDE4-… http://www.fedoraforum.de/iso/test/rawhide-KDE4-i686-20080109/rawhide-KDE4-… Cheers, Debarshi -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU) * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP)

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In support of OLPC
by Rony 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hello All, Here is an interesting POV for those who are sceptical about OLPC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7138061.stm -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [OT] Fwd: [Gnu-arch-users] dear colleagues
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray <debarshi.ray(a)gmail.com> Date: Jan 10, 2008 4:14 PM Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [OT] Fwd: [Gnu-arch-users] dear colleagues To: ILUG-Cal's principal mailing list <ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org> One of the GNU Arch authors have lost his car. Regards, Debarshi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thomas Lord <lord(a)emf.net> Date: 10 Jan 2008 16:53 Subject: [Gnu-arch-users] dear colleagues To: gnu-arch-users <gnu-arch-users(a)gnu.org> Well, perfect end to a fucked up decade...... Really exciting night! Someone came pounding on my door to call me outside. Turns out, someone has totaled my car while it was parked on the street for the night. Why is this exciting? Because I can't walk much at the moment and that car was vital to day to day survival. I wonder how I'll manage to get groceries tomorrow. Wait, it gets better. Being poor, I'm fully paid up and current on lowest available rate insurance. So, I called the claims number tonight and, an experience familiar from the open source world, the number is disconnected. Watch us drown. If anyone would like to help either please do so or pass this message along to someone sensitive who can. Time is of the essence, if anyone happens to give a damn. -t _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users(a)gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/ -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU) * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP) _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list Ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss -- 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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Press interview
by alpesh gajbe 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

A recent interview of FSF Chairman in enterpriser.in on Swatantra software. http://www.enterpriser.in/India/Questions_n_Answers/Proprietary_Software_is… With Regards Alpesh

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[COMMERCIAL] MySQL session at OSIW; let's design the programme together
by Atanu Datta 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hi all! MySQL will conduct a session in Bangalore and Delhi during the OSIW (Open Source India Week) where they want feedback on the topics the attendees will be interested in knowing more about. Following are a few topics that came forth when we were cooking the programme with MySQL's David Axmark and Brian Aker. 1. Zero hassles transition from MS Access/Oracle to MySQL 2. How to do Stored Procedures, Triggers & Views in MySQL 3. How to write storage engines for MySQL Those are some of the things that our DBA wants to know more about. Obviously, there should be many more topics that you all want covered or wanna discuss. Please throw your ideas, we'll put all of 'em in the melting pot, and hand it over to the Brian so that he can design the final programme. Best, Atanu Datta Team LFY

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Usefull Titbits.
by Rony 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hello All, Here are some useful softwares you can use. 1. http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm The Smart Boot Manager is a floppy image that can be burned into a floppy to make it a universal boot utility. I discovered it accidentally in the Xbuntu 6.10 CD ( smb.bin ) when trying to run it on an old Celeron 300, 64 MB RAM machine that had a CD ROM but could not boot it due to the old BIOS. The beauty of this utility is that it lists everything that is bootable, including all HDD partitions and you simply select the required device and hit enter. It eliminates the need for dedicated boot floppies for every distro CD. It was usefull in installing Etch-Xfce on that machine. 2. http://www.blogbridge.com/ This is an open source RSS reader that can be installed in your system so you don't need to let third party reader web sites know what you are reading. Simply download the tar.gz package and run it directly. Do your own tweaking. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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greetings from a new member!
by Suhit Kelkar 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hello fellow gnus, I'm Suhit Kelkar, freelance journalist currently working with the research group PUKAR, and avid gnu enthusiast. (I use Mandriva 2008 now, and for the past three years have relied on free software for my writing work. I'm now pushing for it in my office.) Here's wishing you freedom in the new year. I look forward to catching up with you in the linuxers meeting. May I know the time of the next one, please, so I may make your acquaintance? Regards, Suhit.

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Photos of first OLPC pilot in India
by Venkatesh Hariharan 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

As 2007 was drawing to a close, I got a chance to visit the OLPC deployment in Khairat, India. This deployment is supported by Reliance, one of the largest industrial groups in India. I have uploaded photos from the visit and added a small description to each photo. These are at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/venky7/sets/72157603606772250/ I look forward to your comments, feedback, brickbats etc... Venky

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[Commercial] Linux CDs/DVDs at low prices.
by Amit Joshi 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

I am planning to sell Linux CDs/DVDs on an on-demand download basis. CDs -- Rs.20 and DVDs -- Rs.40. I already have a few Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu CDs that I wish to give away freely. I shall charge Rs.10 flat rate throughout Mumbai for every 3 CDs/DVDs. Payment and contact details shall be mailed to interested parties. :) Regards, Amit.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linuxers Digest, Vol 57, Issue 3
by Venkatesh Hariharan 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Chetan S" <cshring(a)gmail.com> > Great news indeed. > > Just a question : Have all the features including wifi been enabled too ? > Yes. It has a mesh network and the students use it to chat among themselves, share photos etc. > I admire this laptop for its robustness and the wonderful idea of > making students fix its problems. > > Can you detail the support level offered in this case ? Am sure there > is only marginal one ( a good thing ) as Negroponte rightly expects > students to fix the problems and learn while doing that. There is a team from Reliance that is supporting the OLPCs. Amit who is a Linux admin for Reliance and a few others regularly visit the site and fix the OLPCs. > What customizations have been made in this case considering they have > been given to Indian students ? Or is it the original stuff. None. It has the Sugar interface that is based on Fedora that is customises specially for children. This was built by the OLPC team and Red Hat along with others. One OLPC is now in the Pune center of Red Hat where some of the localization will happen. Interestingly, the students are Marathi medium students and not all of them use English fluently but they use the OLPC features quite well. Venky

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[Announce] Linuxchix Mumbai Meetup
by Barkha Khatri 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Hi All, A few Linuxchix.org.in members are meeting up in Mumbai on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at Cafe Coffee Day, Dadar. Meeting is open for everyone interested to join Linuxchix India. More details have been put up on the wiki.[1] Regards, Barkha. [1] http://www.linuxchix.org.in/wiki/index.php/CityMeetMumbai

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] .. Photos of first OLPC pilot in India
by jtd 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

On Friday 04 January 2008 13:31, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: > As 2007 was drawing to a close, I got a chance to visit the OLPC > deployment in Khairat, India. This deployment is supported by > Reliance, one of the largest industrial groups in India. I have > uploaded photos from the visit and added a small description to > each photo. These are at: Are they available in India? like the G1G1 schme in US and Eu. > http://www.flickr.com/photos/venky7/sets/72157603606772250/ > > I look forward to your comments, feedback, brickbats etc... > > Venky -- Rgds JTD

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] tata indicom online payment
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

> The Problem: The payment section of the site doesnt work in firefox and > works fine in internet explorer. I am a Tata Indicom subscriber from Kolkata. I use one of their 2Mbps plans. Recently I renewed the connection by making an online payment using a credit card and it worked fine. I am sure I used Firefox to do that, and can not remember any problems. Can you please elaborate on the exact problem? I will keep an eye open for it the next I make an online payment. ;-) Cheers, Debarshi

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tata indicom online payment
by Satish Alwani 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Hey, Alrite, I wanted to let you guys know that I've been using TATA Indicom Broadband, since quite some time, and well, they have this option to make online payments. Interestingly its been over 3 months of complaining and they still cant rectify the problem. The best part is the problem is extremely stupid. The Problem: The payment section of the site doesnt work in firefox and works fine in internet explorer. Honestly, Im so overwhelmed with the stupidity and idiocracy, I just had to share this IE experience. Perhaps, someone can talk some sense into their twisted js coder. Regards, Satish Alwani

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Devnagari Phonetic Input
by Aniket Bharaswadkar 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Hello All Wish you all a Very Happy New year Its been a long time since I posted to the list. I have been using fedora as my distribution. Currently on fedora 8. I used the ISIS applet for Devnagari text input in Gnome and I must say its a really great piece of software , its really impressive. http://www.bangla.name/isis/ But I noticed that there is no way to use the applet in KDE. I would really like to use this applet in KDE. I have friends who use linux too , and all of them work primarily with KDE. So can anyone please guide me as to how to use the applet in kde. If that is not possible, I was wondering if it is possible that the applet can be "ported" to KDE by the kde.in team? That would give a real boost to local-language computer use in linux. In KDE I tried using the keymaps (IN keymap -> Bolnagri variant for phonetic) options available in Kcontrol Centre , but the problem is that its mapping is not "really "phonetic" and efficient and fast as the ISIS Applet provides, atleast for me. Regards Aniket V Bharaswadkar Linux mymachine 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 #1 SMP Fri Dec 7 15:49:59 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Dell Vostro 1400 , C2D , Nvidia 8400 , Intel 3945 ABG ,

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GLUG-BOM Activity
by Rony 29 Dec '07

29 Dec '07

Hello All, Off late there seems to be very little happenning in Mumbai's GLUG activities. Even on the list there are hardly any technical discussions taking place. Are people loosing interest? -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Is it possible to write Unicode/ASCII characters directly in any text editor in Linux?
by Kamaleshwar Morjal 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

Hi all, I had a small problem with entering some ASCII and Unicode characters that are not available on the normal keyboard (En-US). Right now I have to use the character map to get those characters but that makes it really slow to work with such text. Is there a simpler, faster way to enter such characters using their ASCII or Unicode values directly in a text editor (I use gedit/kwrite/kate et al but would like to know a universal method, if it exists, that works with all the editors including the command line ones..). For example, in Windoze you can enter any ASCII character by holding down Alt - typing out the ASCII value of that character - then releasing Alt - the character is inserted at the cursor. I am currently using Gutsy Gibbon. Any help on this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks and regards. -- "Best things in the world are free; FREEDOM is priceless!" kamaleshwar morjal (कमलेश्वर मोरजाल) http://kamalx.livejournal.com/

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Linksys Router WRT54G v8 - Purchase/Use in India?
by Ayush Gupta 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

Hi Linksys has released v8 of their immensely popular WRT54G Wi-Fi router. The v8 series have a serial number starting with CDFF or CDFG as against the CDFE serial numbers used for v7. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G). The v7 router prevalent in the Indian market currently has Atheros chipset and the firmware cannot be replaced by third party open source firmware such as DD-WRT etc. This is not the case with the v8 router. These use Broadcom chipset and hence, third party firmware can be installed on them. I want to know if anyone has purchased or used the WRT54G v8 router in India? Also, have you tried to replace the firmware? Did you need any patches etc? I want to purchase WRT54G v8 but I cant find any shop that is selling one. Everyone is selling v7 only. In case you know of any dealer or shop that is selling v8, please send me their contact information so that I may purchase the same. With Warm Regards Ayush Gupta Phone : +91 99711 53393

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Etch-Xfce the little BOMB.
by Rony 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hello All, Someone wanted to install a light weight linux distro on his P2 hardware with 64 MB RAM. The Debian docs showed that the lowest RAM for Etch is 64 MB for Gnome/KDE desktops. However for lighter requirements, Etch with Xfce desktop would be fine. Next, downloaded Debian Etch-Xfce single CD iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r1-i386-xfc… and burned it into a CD. At the boot prompt, the help menu's installation guide mentioned that at least 32 MB of RAM is required for this distro. The target system has 64 MB. Before actual deployment that is yet to take place, I installed it in my system to test it out. Installation was smooth. The internet was kept switched off to load everything from the CD itself. It logged into a simple cute desktop that resembles Gnome and Mac. The top task bar of gnome and the bottom menu bar of mac. It comes preloaded with Iceweasel, the libre version of Firefox. The two missing packages were OpenOffice and IceDove (libre sibling of thunderbird). The volume control and net monitor icon was added to the top panel. Not expecting much from the distro, just for kicks I tried to play some music files and to my utter surprise it played all of them, like wma, mp3. More surprises, it played mov, 3gp and even my DVD out of the box. W-O-W! No hassles of setting up repos and downloading extra codecs and libs. A very good feature for no-internet type installation. It does not auto-mount CDs and DVDs but thats no problem, just manually mount it wherever you want to. Mounting it to /media/cdrom0 is just fine. The inbuilt media player can manually add the DVD to its playlist and play it. The tricky part is with OpenOffice. The distro has a base installation of OO but its not complete and does not run. It has no icons in the menu listing. I tried it in command line using openoffice -writer or -calc but it would give errors of no JRE installed. However that is not the real problem which I found after installing sun-java5-jre. The bundled OO is a base package only. For package downloads, first simply add the debian repos to the apt sources.lst. After an apt-get update, install synaptic, a gui for apt. Please note that this distro is more gnome oriented so avoid installing KDE based apps. as that will require heavy downloads of the KDE environment. Then scroll to the openoffice part in the list and select both packages for complete removal. Then manually install the complete deb packages (using sudo dpkg -i *.deb ) of OO from their site. I had the folder saved from my last Etch-KDE installation that needed these packages too. After installation OO did not start and got lost half way. However, a reboot of the system was all that was needed to get it up and running. It opens a default empty window for where we can select New -> Text/HTML/Spreadsheet/Presentation etc. Then icedove was added using apt-get and thats all. A simple and fast installation of the latest multi-media ready distro core with a light-weight desktop. Later will post results from the actual installation on-site. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Fwd: Presenting our next FreeIndian: Anant Narayan
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roshan <d_rosh2001(a)yahoo.co.in> Date: Dec 23, 2007 5:43 PM Subject: Presenting our next FreeIndian: Anant Narayan To: Chennai ILUG <ilugc(a)ae.iitm.ac.in>, Delhi ILUG <ilugd(a)lists.linux-delhi.org>, Ubuntu India <ubuntu-in(a)lists.ubuntu.com>, PLUG <plug-mail(a)plug.org.in>, kde-india(a)kde.org List, FreeIndian is all about introducing Indian FOSS contributors to the world. Individuals listed here contribute to various Free and Open Source projects. They include programmers, artists, translators, FOSS advocates, maintainers, packagers and many other direct or indirect FOSS contributors. Read on to know what Indian FOSS developers are all about, how they entered the realm of FOSS, how much time they spend on it, what are their opinions about FOSS, and what are their likes and dislikes. FreeIndian is based loosely on the format of BehindKDE, which features KDE developers across the world. Our current interviews features one more [http://code.google.com/soc Google Summer of Code GSoC] candidate who got involved in PHP initially, learned it alongside his course at Jaipur. He's a native Chennai-aite, born in Delhi and is pursuing his education in Jaipur. Read the interview, to know more about Gentoo user, here. http://kde.in/index.php/Anant_Narayan 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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Network driver problem
by PV Sundarram 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hi luggers, I am trying to install etch on a system with asus p5gc-mx motherboard which has a inbuilt network card. In the installation phase, it is not detecting the network card. Has any one faced a similar problem and solved the issue? Thanks, Sundarram P.V.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] ftp error: 500 invalid port connection
by Agnello George 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

On 12/22/07, Benoy George <bgenix(a)gmail.com> wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [ILUG-BOM] ftp error: 500 invalid port connection > From: Agnello George <agnello.dsouza(a)gmail.com> > To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> > Date: Friday 14 December 2007 04:58:39 PM IST > > > HI > > I am trying to access a ftp server . I am able to connect to it with the > > user name and password. However when i connect to the server and do a dir i > > get the following error. > > > > C:\Documents and Settings\Admin>ftp XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX > > Connected to XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX > > 220 Microsoft FTP Service > > User (XXX.XX.XXX.XXX:(none)): user-name > > 331 Password required for user-name > > Password: > > 230 User user-name logged in. > > ftp> dir > > 500 Invalid PORT Command. > > 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. > > I got a fire wall running and i have opened port 21, The entry in the > > iptables is as follows . > > > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 21 -j > > ACCEPT > > > > why am i getting the error ?? when i am able to ftp to other ftp site with > > out authentication ( like ftp://202.96.64.144/pub/ ) > > > > Thanks !! > > Sorry for the late reply, since I am not marking to the list. > From your previous thread I have noticed that you have not > added ftp-data port(20) to the policy. > > see > $cat /etc/services | grep -i ^ftp > on your linux machine. > > and try with > #modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp > > But still sometime we are getting errors with ftp service from > M$ platforms. > > best regards > Benoy > Thanks for all the answers but here is what i did Passive ftp A PORT command is again issued, but this time it is from the server to the client. The client connects to the server for data transfer. Since the connection is in the same sense as the original ftp connection, passive ftp is inherently more secure than active ftp, but note that this time we know even less about the port numbers. Now we have a connection between almost arbitrary port numbers. Enter the ip_conntrack_ftp module once more. Again, this module is able to recognize the PORT command and pick-out the port number. Instead of NEW in the state match for the OUTPUT chain, we can use RELATED. The following rules will suffice: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 1024: --dport 1024: -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 1024: --dport 1024: -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT add the following to the kernel modprobe ip_nat_ftp -- Agnello . G .Dsouza

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unable to access http://manage.resellerclub.com/reseller throgh firewall
by Agnello George 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

HI I have a Linux based fire wall ( iptables) that allow access to client on the Internet, I have current allowed all ports open both incoming and out going . I can access all site and all ports accept the site http://manage.resellerclub.com/reseller or http://manage.answerable.com/kb ( which i currently really important site for a dept in my company ) . i have no error logs to work with ... no logs what so ever .... except it give me page cannot be displayed on the browser. I had squid configured on my sever but have current stoped it . This problem has occurred since yesterday i flushed the cache ( # > /var/spool/squid/swap.state) but i don't think that should be a problem since i stoped squid !! . How do i go about troubleshooting this issue ?? Thanks -- Agnello . G .Dsouza email : agnello.dsouza(a)gmail.com agnello(a)qualispace.com www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com www.study-the-word.blogspot.com

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[Commercial] : Management institute needs Linux support engineer
by Koustubha Kale 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

Hi All, A large Management institute needs Linux support engineer for supporting a server cluster and about 150 thin clients plus few desktops. All on Centos. RHCE will be a distinct advantage. Excellent career prospects for qualified candidate. Please contact me directly if interested. -- Regards, Koustubha Kale

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[OT][Job/Freelance] Need for PHP programmer for Khoj Studios
by Parthan S R 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, A friend of mine is looking for a freelance programmer who can work with an interesting project in Drupal/PHP. Interested people may contact him directly. Details regarding the project are as follows. *if not able to reach him, do not mind pinging me :) - -------- Original Message -------- *Developer working in PHP needed for Khoj Studios* Khoj is an international artist led initiative based out of Delhi that concentrates on cutting edge art practices and collaborating artists and organisations from Asia to build a strong platform of contemporary art practices in the region. As a part of its extended outreach and ambition to reach out to new and remotely located artists, Khoj is looking at building a strong online presence that enables artist participation for community building and extensive professional networking with other Khoj nodes in the networks. The Khoj CRECHE (Comprehensive Resource for E-Community Hosting and Expansion) project was envisioned a year ago to achieve these ambitions. In one year, it has completed the first of the three phases of implementation (www.khojworkshop.org <http://www.khojworkshop.org/>) using PHP based Drupal CMS. We are looking at young and motivated programmers who have experience working with Drupal or are comfortable with PHP and can work with Drupal to implement the second phase of the CRECHE project at extremely competitive market rates. The programmer can be based in or outside of Delhi and can agree to work full-time or part-time depending upon their time availability. If you are interested in the project, please get in touch with Pooja Sood (Phone: +91-11-65655874, +91-11-65655873. E-mail: interact(a)khojworkshop.org <mailto:interact@khojworkshop.org>) Or Nishant Shah (Phone: +91-0-9740074884. E-mail: itsnishant(a)gmail.com <mailto:itsnishant@gmail.com> - -- Nishant Shah Ph.D. Student, CSCS, Bangalore. Project Manager, COMAT, Bangalore. # 0-9740074884 - -- With Regards, Parthan aka Technofreak [web] http://technofreak.in [blog] blog.technofreak.in [photos] photos.technofreak.in [irc] teKnofreak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) [mobile] BLR +919845446647 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHaQNEk4vYYS/wECYRAmugAJ9W7fd4xapY/IZWquBCNervDCGvNwCeOS9r Uz7oh6FJqAeqEuxPKwvY9Vs= =w/kn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[OT] HTML5 Working Group Rejects Open Media Formats
by Kamaleshwar Morjal [कम लेश्व र मो रजाल] 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

Hi Linuxers, I got this recent Sitepoint newsletter ( issue 180 ) that appears worth sharing. Where are the web-standards leading? Will these DRM kingpins always keep playing with standards and making things ever more difficult for the developer who is the one finally affected by this 'dog-fight for the biggest slice of bread'. Its a really sad realization that the wealthiest businesses in the Industry have the cheapest of ways and policies; the two things, apparently, can never be mutually exclusive! [quote src='sitepoint'] First up, after selecting Ogg Vorbis audio and Ogg Theora video as the standard formats for multimedia in HTML5, the HTML Working Group backed down under pressure from Apple and Nokia, removing these formats from the spec. Faced with the prospect of yet another version of HTML with no clear standard for including multimedia content, developers were up in arms. Then, while all our backs were turned, Opera filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission over the company's tying of Internet Explorer to Windows, and its persistent failure to support web standards in IE. Instantly, pundits began trading theories over whether the complaint had merit, or was simply an irresponsible publicity stunt from Opera. [/quote] [quote src='[1]'] Nokia and Apple have succeeded in removing Ogg Vorbis and Theora from the current draft, citing patent uncertainties (read: a reluctance to back a standard that has no provision for including DRM). Manuel Amador has detailed why he believes the decision to omit these open formats to be an "outrageous disaster:" "(Given) the fact that there are widely available patent-free implementations of Ogg technology, there is really no excuse for Apple and Nokia to say that they couldn't in good faith implement HTML5 as previously formulated." [/quote] Full story at [1] [1] http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/viewissue.php?id=3&issue=180&format=htm… -- "Ignorance is short-lived, knowledge is forever!" -- Anonymous kamaleshwar morjal (कमलेश्वर मोरजाल) http://kamalx.livejournal.com/

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how to block yahoo chat and gtalk from squid proxy
by Agnello George 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

how do i block a client from accessing yahoo chat My current set ups is as follows -- have a firewall and behind it have a proxy server running on port 3128. now to block yahoo chat access i did the following in my squid.conf acl special_url url_regex -i chat.yahoo.com|messenger.yahoo.com http_access deny special_url but this still allows clients to log to yahoo chat . Do i need to block certain ports , and if so which ones Thank you !! -- Agnello . G .Dsouza email : agnello.dsouza(a)gmail.com agnello(a)qualispace.com www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com www.study-the-word.blogspot.com

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Today's Economic Times poll on Free Software (Please Vote)
by Venkatesh Hariharan 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

Today's Economic Times has an online poll that asks, "Should India support free software to take PC penetration to the next level?" Please login to www.economictimes.com and scroll down to the voting section on the right hand side of the web page and vote "Yes." This vote will be on only today, so please vote at the earliest.

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Ruby On Rails screencasts available
by Prashant Shah 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

I have downloaded the entire Ruby on Rails screencast collection from http://railscasts.com/ Its around 1.5 GB. Email me on pshah.mumbai AT gmail.com if someone wants it (no charges for it). -- Elite System. A open source company http://www.freewebs.com/elitemumbai/index.htm elite.mumbai(a)gmail.com

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GPL vs BSD, a matter of sustainability
by Praveen A 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

Hi, This is not to start another flame war. We have had this debate earlier and when I saw this blog nicely summarising the issue, I thought I should share it here. http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2007/12/15/gpl-vs-bsd-a-mat… "The BSD gives greater freedom, the GPL gives more freedom. Choose which one you value more." Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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unable to configure two gateways
by Agnello George 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

HI I have installed cent OS on one PC with 2 network cards eth0 and eth1 eth0 is 192.168.0.244 and eth1 is 10.0.0.1 my gateway to access the net is 192.168.0.254 In order that the 10.X network range can access the internet i added the a route # route add -net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 gw 192.168.0.254 And ""route -n"" gives me the following resulth [root@squid ~]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 10.0.0.0 192.168.0.254 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 My resolv.conf file looks like this search linuxbox.com nameserver 203.199.113.44 nameserver 203.199.113.27 Now is have one client with ip 10.0.0.5 , when i try to ping 10.0.0.5 ( following is the result ). I am neither able to ping 10.0.0.1 from my client machine ( 10.0.0.5 ) . My firewall is stoped and SElinux is disabled. [root@squid ~]# ping 10.0.0. 8 PING 10.0.0.8 (10.0.0.8) 56(84) bytes of data. >From 203.199.24.154 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >From 203.199.24.154 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable >From 203.199.24.154 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable >From 203.199.24.154 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable >From 203.199.24.154 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable >From 203.199.24.154 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable >From 203.199.24.154 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable too wired !! from where did i get this IP address ( 203.199.24.154 ) ??? so finally my question is , how is it possible to route traffic through another network class ? Thanks ! really appreciate all the help this forum provides -- Agnello . G .Dsouza [Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile ]

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fossconf update
by Kenneth Gonsalves 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

hi, things are progressing well for fossconf. You can see the talks proposed so far here http://registration.fossconf.in/web/talks/ - and not a *single* junk talk so far. This is a good opportunity for first time speakers to share their work and get experience in talking. Keep em coming guys! -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/

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Boot problem in Fedora core 7
by Debasish Das 15 Dec '07

15 Dec '07

Hello Friends, I use Fedora core 7 in my laptop. I am getting a pecuiliar problem. The problem is that when I choose fedora from grub menu, sometimes my machine does not boot. It just hangs. It has no problem for other distros which are installed in my machine. When I had fedora core 6 I never faced this problem. I am confused. Is it any issue with acpi? If it's a hardware problem then it should happen with all the other distros. Can anybody help me out of this problem? Thanks in advance. Regards, Debasish

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ftp error: 500 invalid port connection
by Agnello George 14 Dec '07

14 Dec '07

HI I am trying to access a ftp server . I am able to connect to it with the user name and password. However when i connect to the server and do a dir i get the following error. C:\Documents and Settings\Admin>ftp XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Connected to XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 220 Microsoft FTP Service User (XXX.XX.XXX.XXX:(none)): user-name 331 Password required for user-name Password: 230 User user-name logged in. ftp> dir 500 Invalid PORT Command. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. I got a fire wall running and i have opened port 21, The entry in the iptables is as follows . -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT why am i getting the error ?? when i am able to ftp to other ftp site with out authentication ( like ftp://202.96.64.144/pub/ ) Thanks !! -- Agnello . G .Dsouza email : agnello.dsouza(a)gmail.com agnello(a)qualispace.com www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com www.study-the-word.blogspot.com

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[OT] pacenet + wifi + voip
by Harsh Busa 14 Dec '07

14 Dec '07

hi folks i m planning to switch to pacenet isp . i do know it is possible to setup pacenet for linux box but wanted inputs on following 1) setting up pacenet with wifi . i have usr wifi access point and a wifi netgear router 2) using voip service like vonage with pacenet. any help will be appreciated harsh -- __________________________ http://www.ebackend.com/blog

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