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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Mail Delivery Issues?
by Rony 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

Kamaleshwar Morjal [कमलेश्वर मोरजाल] wrote: > i wanna > increase the count-down timer's count that 10 seconds by default.. > how can i edit that.. anything more about GRUB would be appreciated > and wud > b great help too.. Hello, This will help you get comprehensive information about grub. http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/grub/grub.htm -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Test Mail Email Problem.
by Rony 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

Hello All, Sorry for this test mail. I have been facing a wall when sending mails to this list. In the past few days all my mails to the list have bounced. The technical reason is a qmail error "CNAME lookup failed temporarily. (#4.4.3)". This remained even after changing from Yahoo UK to India. Since there are many gmail users on this list, I created an id for the list too. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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FF Extension to help in bottom posting
by Mohan Nayaka 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

List, See this cool FF extension. Among other things, it helps post correctly in gmail. http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail/lifehacker-code-better-gmail-firefox-e… Screenshot: http://lifehacker.com/photogallery/Better-Gmail-Firefox-extension/2035718 Regards, Mohan S N -- Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves possess. -- Gandalf the Grey [J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"]

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Problems Regarding Installing scratchbox
by swapnil kamble 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

Hi all, I have downloaded scractchbox-core/libs/toolchain . According installation instructions I extracted those tarballs into /. So all extracted files comes in /scratchbox. Then I ran run_me_first. [root@localhost scratchbox]# /scratchbox/run_me_first.sh Do you want to use sudo mode? [yes/no] (no): Give the name of the scratchbox group (sbox): No such group! The group 'sbox' does not seem to exist! Would you like me to create the group 'sbox' for you? [yes/no] (yes): yes No such group! Creating group "sbox"... cp: cannot stat `/etc/hostname': No such file or directory Stopping Scratchbox: umount, mount: none already mounted or /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc busy mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc. Starting Scratchbox: binfmt_misc, mount. Now you should add one or more users with /scratchbox/sbin/sbox_adduser [root@localhost scratchbox]# /scratchbox/sbin/sbox_adduser user sbox=yes Scratchbox user account for user user added [root@localhost root]# su - user -bash: modprobe: command not found [user@localhost user]$ groups [user@localhost user]$ cd /scratchbox/ [user@localhost scratchbox]$ ./login Welcome to Scratchbox, the cross-compilation toolkit! Use 'sb-menu' to change your compilation target. See /scratchbox/doc/ for documentation. ERROR: Operation not permitted chroot(/scratchbox/users/user) [user@localhost scratchbox]$ Can Anyone tell me how to resolve this problem. Because I want the prompt of scratchbox, to carry out cross-compilation. However it error looks very logical even how a user can chroot to /scratchbox/users/user Thanks in advance. -- ...Swapnil -- ...Swapnil

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Re:SimplyMEPIS 6.5
by Easwar Hariharan 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

Hi all, Just to inform you that the CD request put up by me on the wiki for SimplyMEPIS was resolved.Thanks to Tapas. Regards, Easwar

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Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Phoronix] AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay(a)gmail.com> Date: Sep 17, 2007 4:50 PM Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Phoronix] AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs To: ILUG-Cal's principal mailing list <ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA1Mw Ending off the X Developer Summit this year, Matthew Tippett handed off ATI's GPU specifications to David Airlie on a CD (as reported by Daniel Stone). However, the specifications are also now available on the Internet! At http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ is the location of the documentation where you can freely download the files. Right now there is the RV630 Register Reference Guide and M56 Register Reference Guide. The RV630 Reference Guide is 434 pages long while the M56 Guide is 460 pages. Expect more documentation (and 3D specifications) to arrive shortly. The new open-source R500/600 driver will be released early next week. - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG7mL/XQZpNTcrCzMRAstrAJ0ey7Qr/cv7G7MvY1wOVhIMBsy/JgCdGjIC 5UCCpQrgAn+ZZpoHl4Z68qw= =Ds2S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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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[CROSS-POSTED] Fwd: Re: Free/Open Source Research
by Raj Mathur 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

Forwarding without prejudice... -- Raju ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: Free/Open Source Research Date: Monday 17 September 2007 14:34 From: "Nordine BENKELTOUM" <nordine.benkeltoum(a)ensmp.fr> To: raju(a)linux-delhi.org Hi Raju and thank you for your message, 2007/9/14, Raj Mathur <raju(a)linux-delhi.org>: > On Friday 14 September 2007 16:08, Nordine BENKELTOUM wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi Nordine, > > Before I share with the community, can you let me know whether the > results of this study will be public or not? The result of this study will be send to each participant. My PhD thesis will be also made available in the same website. Please also let me know > your privacy policy. The information collected in this study will be exclusively used for my study. If you can resend me the original mail with these > two pieces of information added, I'd be glad to forward it as a whole > to sections of the Linux community in India. The message is below: Hi, I'm carrying out a study on Free/open source software. Given the fact that the LUGs gather specialists of this topic, could you ask your members to take part in our research project by filling in the following questionnaire available on this link : http://orthonormed.free.fr The result of this study will be send to each participant. The information collected will be exclusively used for our study. Don't hesitate to transmit the questionnaire to your colleagues or members of the communities in which you're involved. Thank you for your participation. Best Regards Nordine BENKELTOUM PhD student Center for Organization and Management Sciences Ecole des Mines de Paris Regards, > -- Raju > > > I'm carrying out a study on Free/open source software. > > > > Given the fact that the LUGs gather specialists of this topic, > > could you ask your members to take part in our research project by > > filling in the following questionnaire available on this link : > > > > http://orthonormed.free.fr > > > > Don't hesitate to transmit the questionnaire to your colleagues or > > members of the communities in which you're involved. > > > > Thank you for your participation. > > > > Best Regards > > > > Nordine BENKELTOUM > > PhD student > > Center for Organization and Management Sciences > > Ecole des Mines de Paris > > nordine.benkeltoum(a)ensmp.fr > > -- > Raj Mathur raju(a)kandalaya.org > http://kandalaya.org/ Freedom in Technology & Software || September > 2007 || http://freed.in/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 > D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is > the mind that moves ------------------------------------------------------- -- Raj Mathur raju(a)kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ Freedom in Technology & Software || September 2007 || http://freed.in/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves

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Re: .. [ILUG-BOM] [Semi-commercial][Discussion] What should Microsoft do?
by jtd 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

On Friday 14 September 2007 09:51, Janani Gopalakrishnan wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to seek your views on something... > > Microsoft is criticised much by the FOSS community -- one or the > other aspect of it. Their software, their ways of doing business, > their attitude, whatever. My belief is that whenever somebody > criticises they will also have a potential solution in mind -- and > I felt, why is it that the solution aspect is barely discussed wrt > the Microsoft issue :-) Wrong. It has been discussed ad nauseum. Grep the list archives. One of the issues that came up out of discussions in the FOSS community is open standards. The result is the ODF specs for documents. > So, I am throwing this question open to > you... > > "Is there some aspect of Microsoft that you do not like? If so, > what? And more importantly, how do you think they can correct this > flaw of theirs (if you think they can)?" M$ reactions to the ODF standard is a very very nice pointer to the real problem - M$ continued quest to perpetuate an illegal monopoly by foul means, without the slightest technical merit. Solution - break the monopoly by forcing open all existing and future M$ protocols. Fine them in hard cash (not stupid vouchers) for every violation of incomplete protocol definitions. Force governments to use only open standards No software patents. These are very simple. But M$ and their microserfs specialise in dishing out crap like multiple standards are good for competition, end users will suffer, our ip will be compromised and other rubbish, to the mainstream media. The reporters who print this crap have absolutely no understanding of these issues and make no attempt to undersatnd them either. And in my opinion much of the media are biased because lack of tech knowledge AND M$ ad money. I am yet not even talking of M$ sponsored "case studies" and reports. -- Rgds JTD

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Open Office Solution Required
by Rony 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

JTD wrote:- (Parts without quotes) > > OO is not ready for use IS an attitude problem. Especially when it is contrary to my (and hughe number of other people's) experience in using both Msorifice and OO (RB) If that was the case it would sell like hot cakes. Retail vendors are always looking out for equivalent solutions. If you had bad experiences with M$ that's fine because it helps promote linux faster. But my experience with M$ users is different. They are already used to the software and after I take over the systems, their problems get eliminated steadily and they use the systems with minimum or no hanging and crashes. Everything starts running smoothly and efficiently except for hardware issues or reckless users. In the end it becomes difficult to make them change to another environment when everything works fine. Added to that are the functionality problems like the one I described. The user has been using Excel since more than 10 years and has good knowledge of its working. he went through the help docs, spent almost a day trying to get it right, but ultimately decided to stick to M$. This doesn't make me happy in any way. > M$ softwares may have more bugs, be less stable than nix based ones > but when they are in the stable working mode, at least they do the > job they are intended to do. Utter nonsense unless u include Msoriffice and Xpee crashing 10 times a day and using antivirus as great features and part of HM BG's grand architecture. (RB) This is rubbish. If M$ Office and XP crash 10 times a day, most offices will shut down. There will be chaos. Lets not get biased so much that we exaggerate. If it's a bug say it's a bug and file a report, rather than make comments that are opposite to our daily experience. I have often asked about some problem or the other about various packages and ALWAYS it's the developer (amongst others) who have responded, usually within a few hrs. and Never later than 24 hrs. So what are u yakking about? (RB) If your experience is different, good for you. My yakking highlights problems so that other people should not face them. Your extreme and biased yakking steers people away from linux. > This is in response to Krish's reply to JTD's mail and I quote... > > "actually the entire problem is that people don't realise the > values of running a script. > and by the way running a script is "nothing to do " with > programming. I think clicking on next next finish etc is not a real > good way of software setup." > > Simplifying a procedure means that one can do more work instead of > wasting time running scripts. How would we feel if we got a mobile > phone where instead of pressing buttons, we had to create and run > scripts every time we wanted to dial a number U are thouroughly confused between setting up and using. If u are setting up the phone, that is precisely what you sorely miss. If i were selling 50 phones to a courier company, imagine what a pain in the ass it would be to click innumerable buttons to setup the phone book which would be 90% common to all. (RB) GUI is just an extension of a script. The script you mentioned can be run by simply clicking a gui shortcut to it. It is all about environment. If you have to work in a terminal only environment, naturally command line and scripts is the way. If you are in a gui environment, and if the gui is created well, it would do the same functions as script.What is important is to understand the concept of the job in hand, not expertise in a particular interface. For example in the ADSL and wireless routers there is a tiny linux system running and it can be configured using scripts. However if that was the only way, how many service engineers would be able to use the command line interface? Instead, there is a gui firmware interface which only the service personnel would understand and they correctly enter the values according to the customer's environment and the gui internally creates relevant scripts and runs them. That is technology. You can't fight it simply because it makes things easy for others. There are people who are at ease with a screen full of text but there are others who feel intimidated by it and require some graphical interface to interact. This means we are being more inclusive, catering to different needs of different service persons. > or access the phone > directory or any other function. The same process is happening in > the background but the programmers have provided a beautiful > interface to simply press a button. For the unbelievably simple task of clicking a button there is a script (software) running. When u customise (like the courier company case) u script. when you annotate a schematic, the annotation is different for every schematic, but the process is exactly the same, so you script. When u perform repetititive tasks in a spread sheet you macro (which is a script). And once u create a script u can reuse it forever. Without sitting in front of a machine clicking "Beautiful Buttons". (RB) Read above reply. > If scripting is so important, > why don't we start doing all our home and office work in assembly > language or machine code? You are. > This will give us better control of the > hardware. It is up to the programmer to make software intuitive and > easy to handle. It has no relation with scripting skills of the > vendor or user. Let each one do his job properly. You could not be more wrong. While there is nothing wrong in controlling pcs with thought or hand waves or clicks, doing so repetitively is a pain. If you feel differently good for you. Just dont pretend that your subjective preferences are god's ordained rules and hence some piece of code is not ready for this or that. As you can see my subjective preferences are most definetly holier than yours. (RB) Just because you feel that your way is the only right way to do things it does not make it so. There are other good ways too. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Software Freedom day event was a grand success
by Anivar Aravind 16 Sep '07

16 Sep '07

http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/2007/smc-sfd07-wide-news-coverage-in-malay… Swathanthra Malayalam Computing(SMC) got widespread support from malayalam mainstream print media for the 2 day (14th & 15th september) software freedom day celebration & the release of 7 software packages developed during last year. It is the time to look at our history. SMC is reactivated from a dead state, as a result of personal discussions with praveen, hiran & vimaljoseph in the sidelines of GPLv3 Conference in bangalore. The new team is setup at last year SFD celebrations in Thrissur. Suresh, Baiju(the founder of SMC), Hussain KH (rachana), Anwar, Students in GEC etc also joined in the team at that time. Now we have more than 30 developers+localizers. The astounding progress within the short span of time is described below * December 2006: Debian Installer is Fully Translated into Malayalam ( The Work of Debian malayalam, a sub team of Swathanthra malayalam computing) * January 2007: Santhosh Thottingal of SMC done a complete architectural rewrite of Dhvani, the Indian language text to speech system by Ramesh hariharan & added Malayalam support to It. * March 2007 : participated & Conducted workshops in FOSS Meet@NITC, Kozhikkode * March 2007: Swathanthra Malayalam Computing selected as a participating Organisation ( and only Indian Organisation) in Google Summer of Code Project. 5 projects were allotted. * April 2007: GNU aspell supported Malayalam (major issues are resolved) * May 2007: Swanalekha: a Phonetic Input scheme for malayalam using SCIM * June 2007: Lalitha, Bolnagiri based xkb keyboard for malayalam by Jinesh * July 2007: Added pango support to Tuxtype by Mobin M as part of GSoC work. Now Tuxtype is usable for all Indian languages * July 2007:Debian package (Debconf )Translations. Malayalam is the Most translated indian language with 27% translation of configuration strings * August 2007: Malayalam Matrix screen saver Release, & First Public Release of Aspell- malayalam spellchecker with More than 137000 words list (It is the largest Indian Language Aspell wordlist. Second is hindi with 25000 words). * September 2007: Gnome Officially supports malayalam in Gnome 2.20 with More than 80% translations * September 2007: Sarika : The first Free Indian language speech recognition engine is developed by Shyam K (as a part of GsoC). It Currently identifies more than 50 malayalam words * September 2007: Tuxtype malayalam is Released by Mobin.M & friends (Vimal, Shreyas, Sreeranj, Prince) * Meera , a Malayalam Traditional opentype font with more than 900 glyphs is released under GNU GPL by Hussain K.H and Suresh P . It is developed for Suruma renderering scheme (not compatible with Uniscribe scheme for windows) . Authors are working on a Uniscribe compatible (windows) version now Pramode Sir wrote: A society and a culture is identified by its language - once the language is dead, the society starts losing its identity. A good way to keep a language alive is to take it to the digital world - the world of the PC/Communication devices and the Internet. This is one context in which developing regional language computing environments and popularising them has great significance. The theme for the 2 day event was "Swathantra Software and Malayalam computing" . Free software is touching the lives of common man now !! Digg It: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Wide_spread_coverage_for_Software_Freedom_Day_in… FSDaily: http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Wide_spread_coverage_for_Software_Freedom_…

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Open Office Solution Required
by Rony 16 Sep '07

16 Sep '07

Roshan wrote: Check your "Bulk" folder too. It is likely, it may have reached the bulk folder. (RB) I have set options to download bulk folder contents in POP access too. Its just that my inbox is not receiving all mails. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Re: [Ilugc] [Semi-commercial][Discussion] What should Microsoft do?
by vivek khurana 16 Sep '07

16 Sep '07

On 9/14/07, Janani Gopalakrishnan <writetojanani(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to seek your views on something... > > Microsoft is criticised much by the FOSS community -- one or the other > aspect of it. Their software, their ways of doing business, their attitude, > whatever. My belief is that whenever somebody criticises they will also have > a potential solution in mind -- and I felt, why is it that the solution > aspect is barely discussed wrt the Microsoft issue :-) So, I am throwing > this question open to you... Hmm.. why do you think M$ is singled out? We have companies like IBM, sun microsystems etc. respected by FOSS community. Those companies are also doing business, writing software. So why not throw the question to M$, why they are not ready to accept others ? BTW, cross posting and having discussion across multiple lists is a very bad idea. regards VK

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Open Office Solution Required
by Rony 16 Sep '07

16 Sep '07

Hello All, An OO user in Windows is facing some problems with Spreadsheet. He uses the .xls format. Problem 1: His file consists of many rows and columns. Cells in each row are related to each other. Now in Excel he can sort columns individually and during each sorting, entire rows get sorted. So after every sort, the cells in each row are the same. It is the entire row that gets sorted. In OO he can sort columns but it sorts cells in that column only and this breaks the row and ultimately the table cells get cross connected. Problem 2: In Excel, he can secure a file but allow partial changes like changing the cell background colour. This is needed as his job status indicator is colour coded as the job progresses. His employees can only change colours as they progress with the job. In OO he can secure a file but it is like ON/OFF. Once secure, no partial changes are allowed. Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Open Office Solution Required
by Rony 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Osric Fernandes wrote:- Oops, its not a bug. Its a feature ;-) Comment from OpenOffice.org's Issue 28296: (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=28296) "this is not a bug of OOo Calc. If you use the buttons in the toolbar to sort your data, these buttons are not capable to do what you want. They are designed to do a quick Sort from A-Z, 0-9 and vice versa. (RB) Even if it does a quick sort, the cell data and cell colour should be attached to each other. I did the same in M$ Office at HBCSE and there cell colour moved with cell data. To solve your problem, mark the cell range A5:N55 and select Sort from the data menu. Make sure 'include formats' is tagged on the Options tabpage. The problem with the document supplied is that cells with formats can't be sorted if the range contains merged cells." (RB) In the figure A5:N55 what does :N55 mean? -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Open Office Solution Required
by Rony 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Krishnakant wrote:- dear roni, why do you tend to take comments wrongly? I did not say any thing rood. (RB) If you did not intend it then choose your words carefully to avoid mis-understandings. And don't be in a hurry to bash windows users. Take your time to compose mails. rather I am stressing on the point that you did face the problem and time and time again I did say that you faced it and that it is not true that this did not happen. you can read my previous few emails to confirm this. but the fact is that without telling or instructing any one, every one did the thing in exactly the way open office had kept it. (RB) Open office itself has kept tools in the tool bar. what it means is that only use that button for a usual task of normal sorting of data. the kind of sorting where even the colour needed to be moved was there in the menu. so sun is clearly making it appear to be different. (RB) Once cell data moves under any situation, all its contents have to move together. Segregation cannot take place with a cell's data. and I don't think that JTD said any thing extreme. you seam to fail to realise that most people using m$ software just say "oh, buggs and crashes? computer hang? all this is the part of it and we have no choice ". (RB) No they don't say that. They say "Rony, after you took over, our problems have practically disappeared and we learnt a lot from your technical description of various processes that we did blindly before". I am not exaggerating, these are real comments. so people do face daily problems and my experience matches with JTD and many others. (RB) Many problems are related to third party software. Windows is only a platform. I will even add that all those professional clients of mine who r now switched to gnu/linux, they all bless me for putting them out of all daily rubbish of windows. (RB) That's great. GLUG admins please do something about my email delivery problem. Could you check your logs to see if Yahoo is giving any errors when list mails are delivered to it? Should I switch over to Yahoo India? -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Firefox users never watches movies!
by Riyaz Usman 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

It's a proven fact! In a recent research done by Indian Multiplex theaters. So they have decided to make their websites compatible only for Internet Explorer (Yeeks!). Why waste time for people who doesn't watch movies. The two best Cinemas in Hyderabad are PVR Cinemas and Prasadz Multiplex. Seems that both have worked hard to make their online ticket booking websites non-compatible with Fx. (The site only works with IE. It doesn't work with Opera, Firefox in both GNU and Windows and Epiphany and Konqueror in GNU). OK, Now that both of the sites are not working, Let me Google for other options. Found that there's a Website BookMyShow, who can do the trick. Well... Bingo! It doesn't work with Fx either. So, it's a proven fact. Firefox users doesn't watch movies. They are simply open source nerds who spends time with terminals. So, if here are some Fx users, who still watches movies in Cinemas, Please send a mail to Pradadz - prasadz(a)prasadgroup.org PVR Cinemas - feedback(a)pvrcinemas.com, support(a)pvrcinemas.com Book My Show - helpdesk(a)BookMyShow.com to have some mercy to you. -- Riyaz Usman http://riyaz.bitinc.co.in 1d:c5:fb:59:df:ec:79:88:ec:81:d9:3a:87:28:10:25

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BusinessWorld vote on ODF versus OOXML
by Venkatesh Hariharan 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

BusinessWorld magazine has an article on the recent standards battle at the Bureau of Indian Standards over Microsoft OOXML proposal. As you know, the OOXML proposal was rejected unanimously by the LITD15 committee formed by BIS to review OOXML. The ODF Alliance which includes FSF, Red Hat, IBM and Sun worked hard to ensure that OOXML was not approved. The reasons for this can be read at www.noooxml.org BusinessWorld is now running a vote on its web site asking readers: "Which documentation standard do you want to vote for?" The link for this article and the vote (see right hand top corner of the page) is: http://www.businessworld.in/content/view/2458/2536 I request all FOSS supporters to vote for ODF. Regards, Venky

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Open Office Solution Required
by Rony 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Kiishnakant wrote: this is not to say that roni is stupid. but just to say that open office in this case implemented a feature and kept it in a place where most people are likely to search. and that is why most people got it right and could never reproduce the same effect as roni had. (RB) That was rude; Krishnakant. Watch your words. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Open Office Solution Required
by Rony 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Hello All, I have not received any mails lately but I can see them on the glug site. This is in response to Kenneth Gonsalves's mail quoted below. "I am not laughing. What exactly is a bug? When, for example, in kword I save a file in OOo format and OOo is unable to open it, is that a bug? Or is it a failure of software - just bad software? As far as I know, the approach to writing software is to first write a use case, or all possible use cases that you can think of. Then write the software. Then write tests to cover all the above use cases, and release the software when it passes the tests. There will be unusual use cases and edge cases which are not anticipated and for which tests havent been written. Failure in these cases are bugs. But no failure in the main use-case. In the case of saving in OOo format and OOo not opening it, this is not a bug. Because it is the main usecase of the particular feature. A simple test - open an OOo file, save it in OOo format and open it in OOo would have detected this, and the feature should not have been released. Yes, bugs will be there - but when a main/common use case fails - I dont think it can be called a bug and it is no laughing matter either. I havent gone into kword code to find if there are test suites, I hope there are ..." Kenneth has echoed my thoughts exactly and put it nicely in words. Having bugs in a software is possible but after more than 5 years if a software behaves as if it was a beta and released just yesterday for the first time, then this is a flaw in the software not some mistake or attitude problem of the installing person. There is nothing hilarious about a person complaining about such grave issues in the software. The cell colour problem I had highlighted was not even connected to any proprietary file formats. It happens in Open formats. M$ softwares may have more bugs, be less stable than nix based ones but when they are in the stable working mode, at least they do the job they are intended to do. And if FOSS fans feel it is below dignity to compare libre software with M$ ones, then why is it that whenever a problem is pointed out in the libre software, they start counting the bugs in M$ ones. Why can't they except that the particular software has serious flaws that need to be corrected. Free software is no longer the free blood donation camp. Today major libre software and distro development is taking place through huge sponsorship and donations and by corporate participation. The programmers are compensated for their efforts, so while the institution is giving away the software for free, the developer is not doing any charity. Then why not expect quality work instead of a 'Fix it yourself' community kit. This is in response to Krish's reply to JTD's mail and I quote... "actually the entire problem is that people don't realise the values of running a script. and by the way running a script is "nothing to do " with programming. I think clicking on next next finish etc is not a real good way of software setup." Simplifying a procedure means that one can do more work instead of wasting time running scripts. How would we feel if we got a mobile phone where instead of pressing buttons, we had to create and run scripts every time we wanted to dial a number or access the phone directory or any other function. The same process is happening in the background but the programmers have provided a beautiful interface to simply press a button. If scripting is so important, why don't we start doing all our home and office work in assembly language or machine code? This will give us better control of the hardware. It is up to the programmer to make software intuitive and easy to handle. It has no relation with scripting skills of the vendor or user. Let each one do his job properly. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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[OT] SICP lecture video
by Mohan Nayaka 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Hi all, I recall having heard at a LUG meet that one LUG member has the whole lecture set. Can someone burn me a DVD, starting with lecture 1a? http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ TIA, Mohan S N -- The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles

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iptables setting problem
by Agnello George 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

HI I have a (website ) behind my filrewall, but cannot connect to it when my firewall is on , but when i stop my fire wall ( /etc/ini.d/iptables stop ) I am able to view my website. My firewall setting is as follows from ( /etc/sysconfig/iptables) ####################################################### Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel # Manual customization of this file is not recommended. *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0] -A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 5353 -d 223.0.0.231 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited COMMIT # Generated by webmin *mangle :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] COMMIT # Completed # Generated by webmin *nat :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] COMMIT # Completed ##################################################### What changes do i need to the above setting in order to see my website ( even if the fire wall is on ) Thanks -- Warm Regards Agnello . G .Dsouza

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postfix : pipe daemon
by Agnello George 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

what does the pip daemon do ??--- from the doucument it mention that it send a request frm the queue manage to the an external command ..... what is this exteranal command. ?? -- Warm Regards Agnello . G .Dsouza

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Firefox blocked?
by Dinesh Joshi 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Hi list, take a look at this site: http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/ ??? -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi

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[Semi-commercial][Discussion] What should Microsoft do?
by Janani Gopalakrishnan 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Hi, I would like to seek your views on something... Microsoft is criticised much by the FOSS community -- one or the other aspect of it. Their software, their ways of doing business, their attitude, whatever. My belief is that whenever somebody criticises they will also have a potential solution in mind -- and I felt, why is it that the solution aspect is barely discussed wrt the Microsoft issue :-) So, I am throwing this question open to you... "Is there some aspect of Microsoft that you do not like? If so, what? And more importantly, how do you think they can correct this flaw of theirs (if you think they can)?" I would really appreciate it if you could share your views on this. Look forward to your response. ----------------------------------------- And before I end this email, some clarifications... (a) I was actually discussing this subject off-list with some FOSS veterans and users, when a friend suggest that I "get out of the acquarium" and throw the question open to the LUG mailing lists. Sensible! So, some of you might have already received my query on this off-list. Apologies for the repetition. (b) This post is not commercial because I am raising this discussion in an individual capacity. That said, it might end up commercial in the future... because if this discussion turns out very interesting, I wish to offer snippets to Linux For You for publication (with the permission of those I wish to quote, of course). (c) I am posting this query on more than only ILUG mailing list BUT I shall make sure the summary of the entire discussion reaches all the LUGs. If I offer it for publication, it will be available (licensed under creative commons) on the Open Content section of LFY's website openitis.com, so it will be available for all to see. If not, I will post a summary on the LUG mailing lists. ---------------------------------------- Cheers! Janani http://gjanani.googlepages.com

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BoF meet anyone?
by Philip Tellis 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Anyone up for a BoF meet this Sunday evening at 5 gardens near VJTI? Philip -- hello world

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book of postfix
by Agnello George 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Hi Does any one know where you can downlaod the pdf version of ""The book of postfix"" by Ralf Hildebrandt and Patrick Koetter thanks -- Warm Regards Agnello . G .Dsouza

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Most Basic Commands for a newbie
by Roshan 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

List, Found an article explaining the most basic commands in under Linux distributions for file management. The article is available at the following URL http://polishlinux.org/console/file-management-in-linux/ -- http://www.gnu.org.in ubunturos @ freenode Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. To know how, go to http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html

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[Announcement] BarCampMumbai2
by Raxit Sheth 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Hi, We have announced BarCampMumbai2, Link : http://barcamp.org/BarCampMumbai2 Venue : SOM-IIT Bombay Date : 13 Oct 2007 Please visit the link for more details, -Raxit Sheth http://barcamp.org/BarCampMumbai2 <----BarCampMumbai2

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remote MYSQL connection error
by Agnello George 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Hi i am trying to connet to a mysql databse whose servers IP is( 203.1123.28.111 ) from a remote PC and get the following errors [root@server ~]# mysql -h 203.1123.28.111 -u root -p Enter password: ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 203.1123.28.111 (113) Also on the server i cannot stop the firewall setting cuse of security reasons ..... most of the help on line say that the problem is resolved if the server's fire wall is disabled . Does any one have any ideas how to get around this !!! -- Warm Regards Agnello . G .Dsouza

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Re:Linux workshop at Thadomal Shahani COE Techfest
by Easwar Hariharan 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

> > How is this OT? Maybe not,but I tend to err on the side of caution..... ;) If nobody's involved,I think we SHOULD be involved! Regards, Easwar

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postfix query
by Agnello George 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Hi Al I have a postfix server and have a query on its functioning : What is the difference between Local Delivery Agent ( LDA ) and virtual delivery agent ... Do these two daemons work simultaneously.In my main.cffile i have thne following statements #virtual_transport=virtual ....... does this men that the LDA is not running. ?? My second question is what is spawn then following is an extract i got from the net , but if some one can give me a an explination in a more understandable language ( spawn The spawn process creates non-Postfix processes on request. It listens on a TCP port, Unix domain socket, or FIFO connected to the standard input, output, and error streams. ) thanks -- Warm Regards Agnello . G .Dsouza

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Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] Fedora India Mailing list
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay(a)gmail.com> Date: Sep 12, 2007 10:06 AM Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] Fedora India Mailing list To: ILUG-Cal's principal mailing list <ilug-cal-discuss(a)list.ilug-cal.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi We now have a new mailing list available at http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india for communication and collaboration between a growing list of Indian contributors to the Fedora Project. We intend to use this mailing list for increasing and strengthening the existing contributors and contributions from India, mentoring, promoting Fedora, event coordination and regional help. If you are a contributor or interested in being one, be it Packaging, Documentation, L10N or anything else, join in and say Hi. If you are a end user interested in the discussions, you are welcome too. :Sankarshan - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG52zKXQZpNTcrCzMRAo4FAJ9Neg/aXujWwffn9Dvfyrm5I7JyNACgwiJA AeitpYrOZfmcQ/gU8g3IMtE= =yzTI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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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Colour on the command line
by Kumar Appaiah 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Dear Linuxers, This page has some nice tips on colourifying your XTerms: http://wiki.clug.org.za/wiki/Colour_on_the_command_line Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036

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postfix question !!!
by Agnello George 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

what is the difference between SMTPD server and smtp client ??? -- Warm Regards Agnello . G .Dsouza

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[([OT])squared]Linux workshop at Thadomal Shahani COE Techfest
by Easwar Hariharan 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Hi all, Today I found out that the techfest being held at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College on Sept 30,Oct 2 and Oct 7 includes a Linux workshop as part of their workshops and seminars apart from the usual robotics,C/C++ competitions,LAN gaming,etc.Just a little curious,I decided to find who's holding the workshop....turned out to be a prof of the college supported by volunteers.What I want to know now is that Is any of our list members among the organizers/Supporters/material providers of this workshop? Regards, Easwar

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[JOB] Web Consultant (JSP/Servlets/SEO/Payment Gateways)
by Rohan Dighe 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

CodeWalla, based in Pune , India , is a young group of passionate product developers, focusing on gaming and digital media delivery. The founders of CodeWalla have over 2 decades of product development experience in Games, realtime Graphics (2d-3d) and digital media delivery systems. Designation Part-time Web Consultant Job Description The consultant will be part of a web2.0 project. Responsibilities include: * Help in Module design * Code reviews * Guide testing ( we follow agile development) * Participating in design and review meetings Desired Profile * Hands on experience on JSP/servlets * Should have very good web design skills. * Candidate must have knowledge of Seach Engine Optimization (SEO) * Candidate should have hands on experience on payment gateways (PAYPAL,etc) Experience 2+ Industry Type Software Services Functional Area IT Software Education UG - Any Graduate - Any Specialization Remuneration Best in industry Location Pune Contact Mr. Rohan Dighe (+919890326596) CODEWALLA SOFTWARE DEVELOPEMENT PVT LTD Telephone (20)40044120 Email rohan.d(a)codewalla.com Website http://www.codewalla.com -- Rohan Dighe Fedora Ambassador India. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RohanDighe -- You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. -- Albert Einstein

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postfix: PPT
by Agnello George 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Hi Does an one have a PPT presentation on how postfix works -- Warm Regards Agnello . G .Dsouza

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[ILUG-BOM] How-to: Configuring Kate to compile C, C++, Java programs
by Roshan 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

List, I have created a How-to on configuring Kate to compile and/or run C, C++ and Java programs. The URL is http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Compile_C_CPP_and_Java_programs_using… BASH scripting is used here and if there are users on the list who use a different shell and can add commands for (compartively popular) shells other than BASH, please feel free to do so. Explanations for the script are provided at the end of the document. They may not be complete and /may/ require corrections. If you locate any errors, please correct them. If one could put up a simple explanation of parameter expansion (PE) (the list archive has it) with respect to the script used, please do so. I'll be adding details about PE soon. (Wonder, if this could get into KDE docs of Kate as well, Docbook programmers around? ;) /Yes, too much !)) -- http://www.gnu.org.in ubunturos @ freenode Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. To know how, go to http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html

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{Commercial} Trainers for Jhoomla / Drupal needed
by Vinayakam Murugan 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Hello all My friend Sunil Sharda (http://www.advan-t-edge.net / advantedge(a)gmail.com) is looking for someone who can train his employees in Jhoomla / Drupal. Please contact him offline in case you know somebody who can do that. -- Warm Regards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vinayak http://theregoesanotherday.blogspot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Setting up PPPoE connection on Debian
by osric fernandes 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Hi list, I'm using a PPPoE connection to connect to my ISP - worldnet. (it's what's commonly referred to as "cablewalla ka net"). Under Windows I use the RASPPPOE protocol. I've been able to connect to it under Fedora using the nice "system-config-networking" tool. Under Debian I couldn't find any GUI tool. There is a command-line tool called "pppoeconf". I've performed the steps given on this site: http://users.pandora.be/Asterisk-PBX/PPPoE.htm The strange thing is that although this utility prompts for username and password, it doesn't give an option to select the Access-Concentrator and Service-Provider name. (The list of service-providers and access-concentrators can be obtained using pppoe-discovery). This is what I get in the system log: Sep 8 11:06:50 localhost pppd[3973]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. Sep 8 11:06:50 localhost pppd[3974]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0 Sep 8 11:06:51 localhost pppd[3974]: PPP session is 43360 Sep 8 11:06:51 localhost pppd[3974]: Using interface ppp0 Sep 8 11:06:51 localhost pppd[3974]: Connect: ppp0 <--> eth0 Sep 8 11:06:52 localhost pppd[3974]: Remote message: Login incorrect Sep 8 11:06:52 localhost pppd[3974]: PAP authentication failed Sep 8 11:06:52 localhost pppd[3974]: Connection terminated. Sep 8 11:07:22 localhost pppd[3974]: PPP session is 152 Sep 8 11:07:22 localhost pppd[3974]: Using interface ppp0 Sep 8 11:07:22 localhost pppd[3974]: Connect: ppp0 <--> eth0 Sep 8 11:07:27 localhost pppd[3974]: CHAP authentication failed: I don't like you. Go 'way. Sep 8 11:07:27 localhost pppd[3974]: CHAP authentication failed Sep 8 11:07:27 localhost pppd[3974]: Connection terminated. The username and password were correctly entered. I have checked that multiple times. Are those authentication failures generated because it is attempting to connect to other access-providers? Any suggestions to get me connected? -- Regards OSRIC XAVIER FERNANDES

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DEBUGGING CONTROL ???
by Agnello George 08 Sep '07

08 Sep '07

this is the explaination of DEBUGGING CONTROL The debug_peer_level parameter specifies the increment in verbose logging level when an SMTP client or server host name or address matches a pattern in the debug_peer_list parameter. debug_peer_level = 2 but wat does it really do ????? -- Warm Regards Agnello . G .Dsouza

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mailing list feature ??
by Agnello George 08 Sep '07

08 Sep '07

does any one know if the default psotfix installation have a mailing list feature and if so how do one enable it ???.... how wud it work with postfixadmin ?? -- Warm Regards Agnello . G .Dsouza

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] installing fedora 7 through LAN
by bimal pandit 08 Sep '07

08 Sep '07

Dear Mukesh, On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 mukesh yadav wrote : >hi, > i want to install >FC 7 in my college PC....the problem i'm facing here is that in my >college's LAN there is >only one computer which got Combo Drive.. and i want to install it >in another PC. >I have heard thet we can install through LAN or from harddisk but i dont >know the procedure.. >please tell me the procedure step by step. >-- Yes, you can do it, its called network installation, in which you have the following three options as... 1) FTP 2) HTTP 3) NFS for all of these you need to setup a server(any of the above), which has all the packages in fact you could dump your CD/DVD content in a directory on that server, make a bootable media like CD, boot your client and then for installation method select any of the above(that you had already set up),give server IP/Name, directory(of packages) and thats all. hope this will be of some help. regards, Bimal Pandit

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[OT] You are being watched.
by Easwar Hariharan 08 Sep '07

08 Sep '07

> > I am curious to know, how do search engines get user details when a > person uses the search facility. Normally only the IP address of the > computer is available and that too changes dynamically. So except for > city location of the computer, how do they know the user details? Er,cookies?? Regards, Easwar

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[CROSS-POST]: Cursor theme selection disables GUI
by Roshan 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

List, I was trying out cursor themes in Kubuntu and changed it to a theme that was called "X Cursor themes" or so. I selected it and logged out to set the current cursor theme as "X cursor theme". However, the file seems to be missing and Kubuntu disables starting X because, it is unable to find the file. I'm clueless about which file it (cursor) has manipulated that instructs it to load the cursor when it has to start the GUI. Alternatively, if it is possible, can I change the cursor them from the CLI? I tried disabling the InputDevice (mouse, cursor) by commenting them in /etc/X11/xorg.conf so that mouse is disabled and then, I could just reset the cursor theme, but that fails as well. TIA. -- http://www.gnu.org.in ubunturos @ freenode 5, 50, 500, 5000 - Store N number of mails in your inbox. Go to http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html

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postfix: postfix command
by Agnello George 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Hi All I have a postfix mailserver which connnect to the databes to delever email, i am currently useng postfix admin to creat the user , if however i dont want to use a post fix admin, how wud i manually create virtual users, aliases and domains, and also mailing list. Pls if any one knows could you provide me this information with a an example -- Warm Regards Agnello . G .Dsouza

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Fwd: [barcampmumbai] Barcamp Mumbai 2
by Dinesh Shah 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

H! List, Just though that some of the Mumbai LUGers would like to pitch in? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arpit Agarwal <arpit105 .at. yahoo .dot. com> Date: Sep 5, 2007 12:17 PM Subject: [barcampmumbai] Barcamp Mumbai 2 To: Barcamp Mumbai <barcampmumbai(a)yahoogroups.com> Hi All, Some of you might have been caught unawares but a few of us have recently gotten together to host another Barcamp in Mumbai. We have been successful in booking two halls (SOM Seminar Hall and Institute Audi) in SJMSOM, IIT Bombay for Oct 13, 2007! It is now up to all of us to get our hands together and make it a successful Barcamp! Do you know someone who can pitch for sponsorships? And do you have media (mainstream/otherwise) contacts to get this message across? Is yes, please try to push this through. I am working on the Wiki and a basic page will be up soon. Let's rock it this time! Cheers, Arpit PS: In case you were wondering, I have been involved in organization of 3 barcamps at Bangalore. People who have been to a BCB would know me. I have recently relocated to join SJMSOM at IIT Bombay. So, I was wondering why NOT another Barcamp in Mumbai. Hence this. ------------------------------ Once upon a time there was 1 GB storage in your inbox. Click here for happy ending.<http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_mail_3/*http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mai…> __._,_.___ Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/barcampmumbai/join;_ylc=X3oDMTJnOHQ5dGxtBF9TA…>(Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest<barcampmumbai-digest@yahoogroups.com?subject=Email+Delivery:+Digest>| Switch to Fully Featured<barcampmumbai-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com?subject=Change+Delivery+Format:+Fully+Featured> Visit Your Group <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/barcampmumbai;_ylc=X3oDMTJlZTFjY2ZrBF9TAzk3ND…>| Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> | Unsubscribe <barcampmumbai-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe> __,_._,___ -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Join the Revolution!

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Problem setting date in debian "testing" with KDE 3.5
by Pradnyesh Sawant 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Hello, I have a peculiar problem with my system date. I'm using debian "testing" with KDE 3.5. When i set the date, either through the KDE control center, or through the backend using the "date" command (as root ofcourse), it gets reset everytime i reboot my m/c. Btw, i have a hp (Compaq nc6400) lappy. Actually, the problem seems to be with the locale. In control center, if i set the time, with the locale, after a reboot, the same time is shown as UTC. Whereas, if i set the UTC time through the "date command" (i don't know how to pass locale to date command, so i'm assuming that it sets the UTC time), then after reboot, the UTC time itself moves 5.5 hrs ahead :( Thanks a lot in advance. regards, Pradnyesh.

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postfix : postmap comman eror
by Agnello George 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Hi I have a issue here, i have a postfix server that uses mapping files to query the database. In my senerio i have a domain called niteshn.info. and i have a mapping file in /etc/postfix called mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf which ahs the following content --> user = postfix password = postfix hosts = 127.0.0.1 dbname = postfix query = SELECT goto FROM alias WHERE address='%s' AND active = 1 In my main.cf file i have a entry -----> virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf When i query this database with the postmap command i get the following error : postmap -q -v "@niteshn.info" mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf (enter) postmap: fatal: open database @niteshn.info.db: No such file or directory how do i check is my mapping files work??? -- Warm Regards Agnello . G .Dsouza

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[CROSS-POST] [ANNOUCE]: KDE 4.0 Beta 2 Released!
by Roshan 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

List, KDE 4.0 Beta 2 has been released. The screen-shots really look superb! I'm waiting for KDE 4 :) Read it here: http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0-beta2.php -- http://www.gnu.org.in ubunturos @ freenode Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. To know how, go to http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html

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