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Re:[ILUG-BOM] Firefox World Tour Event at HBCSE: Photos
by Easwar Hariharan 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

> > Dear all, > > I have uploaded some low quality photos of event at: > http://flickr.com/photos/kartik_m/tags/firefoxworldtour/ > > Blog entry/report to list will be done evening. > > Notes: > Please don't do RSVP, if you don't want to appear at Event. > Be humble and please don't kill kittens. I profusely apologise.A event came up which I couldn't have predicted or postponed. Regards, Easwar PS:What's that about not killing kittens?

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Re: Keyboard dead after KDE starts. (Rony)
by Vivek Rai 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

> Is there any way to solve this problem without reloading the OS? Is my > file system corrupt? > > The lappy is ok as I can boot into the other os Mandriva 2007 and use it > flawlessly. good test - rules out any real hardware problem with the keyboard. i am also assuming the x keyboard layout was not changed, or the file being edited at the time was not xorg.conf or some xinput config one (;-) ) could be a kde specific setting (slow keys got enabled accidently or something?) try to rename the .kde directory inside $HOME for the user, and then restart. would reset all kde app settings for the user, but u can restore them later individually. > "Could not start kstartupconfig this could be due to issues with missing home dir, kde config files, or some permissions in the new user's home dir.?

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Chotha Beta 1 released (A wordpress client)
by Kushal Das 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

Hi, Chotha Beta 1 is released. Chotha is a blog client written in PyQt4. This is mainly for wordpress, will add support for others later. It is having basic HTML tag editing capabilities with saving blog entries locally in the system. You can also save it as draft in the server. You can preview your entry either in Firefox or in Konqueror. Or else you can click and go to visual mode to see quick preview (without images). Screenshot: http://flickr.com/photos/kushaldas/870308314/ Webpage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/chotha To understand the meaning of the name please ask any of your Bengali friend :p Comments are welcome :) Note: Few major bugs like layout one is there knowingly. Kushal Das -- Fedora Ambassador, India http://kushaldas.in

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Firefox World Tour Event at HBCSE: Photos
by Kartik Mistry 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

Dear all, I have uploaded some low quality photos of event at: http://flickr.com/photos/kartik_m/tags/firefoxworldtour/ Blog entry/report to list will be done evening. Notes: Please don't do RSVP, if you don't want to appear at Event. Be humble and please don't kill kittens. Cheers, -- -------------------------------------------------------- Kartik Mistry | Eng: kartikmistry.org/blog 0xD1028C8D | Guj: kartikm.wordpress.com --------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Solved] Re: Keyboard dead after KDE starts.
by Raghu Prasad 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

> I renamed the .kde dir and that solved the problem. I got the default > kde desktop and everything works fine. Keyboard is typing normally. > Thank you very much. I was planning to re-install the OS. :) > > I still cannot figure out why it happened mid-way during an OO document > editing. Whatever caused this was captured in the configuration files in original .kde directory. Assuming that you renamed old .kde directory to .kde_old, running the following command may prove useful to identify the difference between old and new configuration files. diff -r .kde .kde_old | less Raghu

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Dr. Nagarjuna on Groklaw - Proprietizing Standards
by jtd 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

A red letter day i suppose. Groklaw quotes Dr.Nags questions and responses to the usual red herring replies from M$' V. Kapur. This article is the result of acts of omission and commission by M$ in Portugal in getting ECMA approval for MS ooxml as a "standard". Hope similiar things dont happen here. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070720073215943 -- Rgds JTD

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] MTNL TRIBAND MODEM QUERY
by Joel Solomon 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote : >On 21 Jul 2007 18:42:22 -0000, Joel Solomon ><joel_joel72004(a)rediffmail.com> wrote: >> >-- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers >>i tired doing an ifup eth0 as given in the wiki..... but after i do that it says "eth0=eth0".... i don't even know what that means.... when i checked the hardware information.... it detects it as a dlink 502T adsl modem... but on the second line it says unknown device... > >Execute this command in your terminal and paste the output on list: > >dmesg | grep cdc_ether > > >-- Siddhesh Poyarekar >This document validates as Plain Text did do as you said...... but the prompt comes again... without any output... even tried running the same command as root!!!!

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GNOME Developers calling for Online Desktop
by Anivar Aravind 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

GNOME Developers calling for the next desktop revolution Future GNOME releases might have seamless integration with online services and store their configuration on the web - Novell and parts of the community seem to agree with Red Hats proposal.... Another feature of the Online Desktop: Most of the user preferences will be stored online, which opens up a few interesting possibilities, as Pennington points out: Thanks to this, it would be possible to start directly from a Live-CD and still get ones own - fully configured - desktop after logging into the online service. - http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2964567 -- Anivar Aravind moving Republic Peringavu.P.O Thrissur-18 Kerala http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/about

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] MTNL TRIBAND MODEM QUERY
by Joel Solomon 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote : >On 19 Jul 2007 09:10:51 -0000, Joel Solomon ><joel_joel72004(a)rediffmail.com> wrote: >>i tried the instructions on the wiki..... but it did not help.... is there any other way???? >>-- > >Could you tell us what it is that you tried and where did you get stuck? > > >-- Siddhesh Poyarekar >This document validates as Plain Text > >-- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers i tired doing an ifup eth0 as given in the wiki..... but after i do that it says "eth0=eth0".... i don't even know what that means.... when i checked the hardware information.... it detects it as a dlink 502T adsl modem... but on the second line it says unknown device...

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[JOB] Building Open Source weather visualization tools
by Prabhu Ramachandran 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

Hello, [Apologies for the cross-posting!] Project positions are open at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay for the visualization of weather data using open source tools. The project will involve creating tools for the visualization of atmospheric weather data using MayaVi. MayaVi is an open source, interactive, 3D visualization tool written in Python. More information on MayaVi is available from http://mayavi.sourceforge.net. In addition to directly working with MayaVi and its core development team, the project will require working with and contributing to several important open source projects like VTK (http://www.vtk.org), Python (http://www.python.org), Traits and the Envisage application framework (http://code.enthought.com). We are looking for people with the following skills: * knowledge of C and object oriented programming with C++. * passion for 3D graphics, visualization, software engineering and technology. * passion for open source software. * knowledge of Python is a plus. Qualifications: Basic BE/B.Tech./BSc/BCA degree Duration of project: 2007 to 2009. More details are available here: http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/~prabhu/Projects Regards, -- Prabhu Ramachandran http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/~prabhu

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] MTNL TRIBAND MODEM QUERY
by Aniket Bharaswadkar 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

> > > [ILUG-BOM] MTNL TRIBAND MODEM QUERY > HI > One of my friend's for whom i instaled Ubuntu 7.04 has a Triband > connection.... he connects through USB. But Ubuntu is not able to connect > to > the modem via usb.Please Help.For some odd reasons he does not want to use > the ethernet!!!! > ---- > Joel Solomon > > This is not with Ubuntu, but I thought I must pst this experience. I installed FC7 at a friends place . He has the white coloured modem(its UTStar Modem I think) from MTNL and connected via USB as his LAN card is not working. In FC7 in the network configuration GUI , the USB ethernet interface (it was ETH1 there) is autodetected as USB ethernet device in the hardware tab , and just worked by enabling it and setting it to DHCP. We also disabled the ETH0 interface from the GUI as it was not working anyway. -- The Future is Open...The Future is LINUX

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NRCFOSS Mumbai Seminars
by Mrugesh Karnik 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

Greetings. NRCFOSS Mumbai is pleased to announce a series of seminars on various topics related to FOSS. The first of them has been scheduled on Sunday, 22nd July. The topic of the seminar is Bash Scripting. It will be conducted at the FOSS lab in the Mechanical Department at VJTI from 1pm onwards. Everyone is invited to the seminar and the entry is free of cost. Please note that the PHP seminar will also take place in the morning on the same day. Thank you. -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------

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bash meeting in vjti
by Kenneth Gonsalves 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

hi, there appears to be some confusion regarding programmes at NRC-FOSS node vjti on Sunday. The IBM workshop is not being held at the NRC- FOSS lab and will in no way affect the NRC-FOSS programmes. The bash workshop will be held as scheduled -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Re: Offline Package Manager (RUM) version 0.0.1 released.
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

> Hi Deb, There is a nice article about you in this month's LFY. :) Yes, I know. :-) Cheers, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] MTNL TRIBAND MODEM QUERY
by Joel Solomon 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 Aniket Bharaswadkar wrote : >> >> >>[ILUG-BOM] MTNL TRIBAND MODEM QUERY >>HI >>One of my friend's for whom i instaled Ubuntu 7.04 has a Triband >>connection.... he connects through USB. But Ubuntu is not able to connect >>to >>the modem via usb.Please Help.For some odd reasons he does not want to use >>the ethernet!!!! >>---- >>Joel Solomon >> >>This is not with Ubuntu, but I thought I must pst this experience. >I installed FC7 at a friends place . He has the white coloured modem(its >UTStar Modem I think) from MTNL and connected via USB as his LAN card is not >working. In FC7 in the network configuration GUI , the USB ethernet >interface (it was ETH1 there) is autodetected as USB ethernet device in the >hardware tab , and just worked by enabling it and setting it to DHCP. We >also disabled the ETH0 interface from the GUI as it was not working anyway. > >-- The Future is Open...The Future is LINUX >-- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers i tried the instructions on the wiki..... but it did not help.... is there any other way????

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Sunday PHP Meeting on hold
by Prashant Shah 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

Hello friends, PHP Meeting which was going to be held at VJTI on Sunday morning is on hold till further notice. Extremely sorry for the inconvenience caused. Regards.

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Re: NRCFOSS Mumbai Seminars
by Kartik Mistry 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

On 7/19/07, Mrugesh wrote: > > NRCFOSS Mumbai is pleased to announce a series of seminars on various topics > related to FOSS. The first of them has been scheduled on Sunday, 22nd July. > The topic of the seminar is Bash Scripting. It will be conducted at the FOSS > lab in the Mechanical Department at VJTI from 1pm onwards. Sorry Mrugesh, But please give full address of VJTI. How to reach there? Also give contact number in case I (and other) lost in this big city ;) I will love to polish my bashism! Cheers, -- -------------------------------------------------------- Kartik Mistry | Eng: kartikmistry.org/blog 0xD1028C8D | Guj: kartikm.wordpress.com --------------------------------------------------------

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RSVPs for BASH and PHP seminars
by Roshan 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

List, Details of this BASH seminar and PHP seminar have been added on to the wiki. Please refer the following pages http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Seminar-Workshops The details of each seminar is available on the link beside each entry. The following pages list the RSVPs for each session. Please add your name if you can attend the seminars. http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/BASH_Session_RSVP http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/PHP_Session_RSVP -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc 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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Linksys wrt54g setup questions
by Mohan Nayaka 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Hi all, Yesterday I was trying to set up my home network using the Linksys WRT54G which I recently purchased from the US. The setup I am trying to achieve is: My TriBand connection is to be shared between my desktop (ethernet) and my laptop (by 802.11b/g). Some issues: 1) The router docs clearly say that I have to run an installer from the CD before doing any cabling. This is possible only for windows. What is the procedure for Linux users? 2) The power cable is rated for 120V/60Hz. I plugged this into a wall socket for a few minutes and did not notice any overheating. Can I conclude that this is ok to use? Anyhow using this power cable, the power LED did not glow. I will shop for a suitable cable today. Can you suggest what rating cable I should use? 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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Keyboard dead after KDE starts.
by Rony 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Hello All, My dad was working on the Kubuntu 6.06 laptop creating a document on Open Office. After some lines, he could not type anything. He saved the document using the touch pad and the File > Save option and shut down the system using the touch pad. When I had a look at the system, I found that the keyboard goes dead after desktop is up. Before that till the gui login prompt, everything works and I can go to Ctrl + Alt + F1 console. But after desktop is up no key works except Fn + Brightness, Fn + Touch pad on/off which are hard (ware) keys. I created a new user in console and gave it a password. At the gui login prompt when I enter the username and passwd, it cannot start the desktop and gives a message "Could not start kstartupconfig. Check your installation. ...OK" I can login to the original user without any errors but keyboard is not functional. I can open/close programs using the touch pad. Is there any way to solve this problem without reloading the OS? Is my file system corrupt? The lappy is ok as I can boot into the other os Mandriva 2007 and use it flawlessly. Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Offline Package Manager (RUM) version 0.0.1 released.
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

I hereby announce the release of the Fedora Offline Package Manager (RUM) 0.0.1. This program is meant to enable users who do not have a viable network connection to manage their packages, ie. install new ones and update existing ones, through the standard package management framework used in Fedora. If you are interested then you can read more about it at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/2007/DebarshiRay This is a beta release and offers the following features: 1. Profile management: a. Exporting the profile of the local system. b. Importing the profile of another system. c. Deleting existing profiles. 2. YumPack creation - Although I have tested this to the best of my ability, I would appreciate if you could try to create new YumPacks and verify whether the dependencies are being correctly resolved. To install package(s) from a YumPack, you would need to untar the YumPack, which is essentially an uncompressed Tar archive, and use 'system-install-packages' to install the RPMs as you would normally do. Tar ball: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebarshiRay/rum?action=AttachFile&do=get&tar… Pre-requisites: If you are using Pirut <1.3.9, then you would need to apply this patch on /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebarshiRay/rum?action=AttachFile&do=get&tar… Installation instructions: 1. $ tar -xzvf rum-0.0.1.tar.gz 2. $ cd rum-0.0.1 3. $ ./configure --prefix=/usr (Other prefixes are not expected to work. Please bear with it for the moment.) 4. $ make 5. # make install Execution instructions: 1. $ rum Documentation page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebarshiRay/rum This is lagging behind a bit, but will be eventually updated. Bug-reports and comments are to be sent to rishi(a)fedoraproject.org. Happy hacking, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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ubuntu 6.06 X error with ASUS m2nx motherboard. amd dual core
by Abhishek Daga 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

I just got an ASUS m2nx motherboard with AMD athlon dual core 3600. This has nvidia chipset. Tried loading ubuntu 6.06 on it and it gave X config error. Was wondering if anyone has encountered a similar problem and how it can be rectified? Would loading 7.04 fiesty fawn, resolve the issue? If yes, then does anyone have a copy handy and if within my reach, I can pick it up. (please email me offlist) Thank you, abhishek ____________________________________________________________________________________ Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/

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NRCFOSS Mumbai Seminars
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pradeepto Bhattacharya <pradeeptob(a)gmail.com> Date: Jul 19, 2007 10:43 AM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] NRCFOSS Mumbai Seminars To: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay(a)gmail.com> Cc: Mrugesh Karnik <mrugeshkarnik(a)gmail.com> Hi, On 7/19/07, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay(a)gmail.com> wrote: > All Hail the tireless energy of MK :). A few requests: Tell me about it. You have no clue how much we are scared of MK and his tireless energy. :P > > + put a web page or a web application that allows for the benefit of > tracking and metrics > - folks to propose courses > o ask specifically about infrastructure required and any special needs > - folks to put their names as attendees All (atleast in some form or the other) in pipeline and will be announced shortly. Watch this space. > + provide details of infrastructure provided For now there are ~20 boxens dual boot with Linux/Windows. > + provide directions to venue http://www.vjti.ac.in/home_roadmap.asp After reaching VJTI, ask/look for Mechanical Dept. The Foss lab is on the Ground Floor. > + provide time and duration of the seminar The PHP seminar is from 9 AM to 11 AM. The BASH one starts at 1 PM - 3 PM. After that we will have 20 minutes of Questions and queries regarding BASH. > + provide a tentative repeat date Umm not decided yet to be honest. But this will be a part of the larger plan and we will announce it here on this list soon as I mentioned before. > + provide if at all possible podcasts of the talks/tutorials Yes, soonish in the pipeline even. We are planning this even but not immediately since we have to arrange a few things for that but we have slowly started working on this front. 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 -- 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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problem with configure, linking
by Anish N 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Hi, I am trying to build some packages, as shared. While building, even though I specify -L<lib_directory> to configure, it is not fetching the libraries which are already in the library_directory(shared ones). The compilation stops in the middle showing missing libraries which are already present in <lib_directory>. I have to edit the Makefile manually and give the libraries as --rpath -Wl,<library_name> in LDFLAGS= which then compiles. Is there some way around this, like option to the configue ?. -- Thanks & Regards Anish N

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MTNL TRIBAND MODEM QUERY
by Joel Solomon 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

HI One of my friend's for whom i instaled Ubuntu 7.04 has a Triband connection.... he connects through USB. But Ubuntu is not able to connect to the modem via usb.Please Help.For some odd reasons he does not want to use the ethernet!!!! ---- Joel Solomon

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Re: Meeting with Firefox Team on 21st at HBCSE: Updated Announcement
by Kartik Mistry 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

vivek khurana wrote: > > guys, mind doing a video recording of meet and posting on net ? Hi, No idea right now. Feel free to do it!! But, I will definitely take some pictures (upto my memory card capacity). Cheers, -- -------------------------------------------------------- Kartik Mistry | Eng: kartikmistry.org/blog 0xD1028C8D | Guj: kartikm.wordpress.com --------------------------------------------------------

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setserial and pnpdump
by Nagarjuna G. 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

hi, I found out recently that Ubuntu distro does not have setserial, pnpdump commands. I could install setserial later from the archives. the question is, which other alternative exists to configure the serial ports other than setserial. Similarly for pnpdump. any clues will be appreciated. btw: What is the status of the same in Debian GNU/Linux? Nagarjuna

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Meeting with Firefox Team on 21st at HBCSE: Updated Announcement
by Kartik Mistry 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

Hi all, Seth Bindernagel (Community Program Manager), JT Batson (Head, International Marketing Efforts) and Chris Hofmann of Mozilla Foundation are coming to Mumbai on 21st. The purpose of the trip is build further community involvement and start to find people who can help localizer drive the adoption of Firefox 3. This includes both supporting current volunteers in contributing more and providing resources. The details: * 10.30AM - Registration * 11AM - Introduction & Welcome * 11.30AM - The State of Mozilla * 12.00AM - Do we need an EN_IN version of Firefox? Local English, local search providers, certain spellings and other India specific items. Brainstorming, and team formation. * 1.00PM - Lunch break * 2.00PM - Brainstorming on promoting Firefox in India (Spread Firefox.in?) * 3.00PM - How to localize Firefox? How did we localize for Gujarati/Other language? Experience from different teams on development with Mozilla/Firefox- small workshop * 4.00PM - Firefox 3 - what's up the sleeve? * 5.00PM - Completion Who should attend? * Everyone who's helped in localization of Firefox / other Mozilla Software * Students and Open Source evangelists who want to promote Mozilla / Firefox * Community organizers & marketing enthusiasts * Anyone who's interested in Mozilla / Firefox Where? Many thanks to HBCSE for hosting this event. To reach at HBCSE, please see: http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/Data/ObjectType/c/contact/viewObjectType RSVP: Please add your name to wiki (link below), if you wish (you should!) to attend the event: http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Upcoming_meet_RSVPs -- -------------------------------------------------------- Kartik Mistry | Eng: kartikmistry.org/blog 0xD1028C8D | Guj: kartikm.wordpress.com --------------------------------------------------------

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networking query -- wifi
by Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

Ok, As I wrote some time ago, I am trying to connect two pcs via wifi. I can see the other card via iwlist device scan. But I can't ping each other, this is what I get. --------------------------------------------------- sharukh@natrum:~$ ping -c5 192.168.1.203 PING 192.168.1.203 (192.168.1.203) 56(84) bytes of data. From 192.168.1.202 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.202 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.202 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.202 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable --- 192.168.1.203 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time 3998ms , pipe 3 ----------------------------------------------------- So what do I need to do ? What more info should I send ? thanks, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer. Guys: No Shirt, No Service - Gals: No Shirt, No Charge.

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PHP sessions and upcoming GLUG meet
by Roshan 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

List, The upcoming GLUG meet details (plus Firefox meet) have been updated on the wiki and also posted to the list (annoucement). (some of you may have got it and for some, it is somewhere on the internet ;) ) Please refer the following page for details: http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Monthly_Meetings Also, please note, for RSVP's on PHP sessions by Prashant Shah, fill in on the following page: http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/PHP_Session_RSVP Psst ... Since, it (PHP) is on a Sunday, it is likely, I'll make it. I'm a bit doubtful about the GLUG meet, though (Saturday). -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc 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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[Commercial] Presenting LFY August 2007: Debian Special
by niraj＠efyindia.com 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

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Sify - Deja Vu ... port 143/993 - IMAP :/
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

Hi List, Apparently, somebody at Sify is having a lot of fun at customer's expense. So today sometime in the afternoon some nice admin or someone with admin rights decided - "OK, lets see what happens if I block 143 and 993. Should be fun, I am sure." Or probably the dude pressed the wrong next and "Are you sure? OK" button. Afaics, I can't telnet to port 143/993 on IMAP servers that I use. I am sure the servers are working because I know others are using it just fine and I even saw their telnet output. I have lodged a complaint with sify helpline - it took few hours to get through the executive. First hit - some dude in Vile Parle kept me on hold for few minutes. I cut the phone and called them again, this time the call was directed to Chennai ( even thought I selected "Technical query" ). The dude listened to me and suddenly popped the most important question ever - "Do see the network card?" . I pretty much went "Huh?". I explained to him that everything else is working - like surfing, chatting, emailing - yes those words they understand easily. I was promised that the techie dude will call me in an hour. I am waiting. In the meanwhile I called again and this time a girl spoke to me who ended the discussion with "Yes yes, I can see your complaint. We will call you as soon as it is solved. I would really appreciate, some users in Mumbai, if they could some how check if IMAP is working from their Sify accounts. I know that many people don't use IMAP so chances might just be low. Thanks in advance. Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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PHP Meeting Finalized 1/4
by Prashant Shah 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

First meeting on 22nd Sunday morning 9.00 to 11.00. Venue - VJTI (Matunga) Mechanical lab (FOSS lab) Part 1 / 4 The topic covered will be : Short introduction PHP and HTML (server side scripting) Basic language structure Echo statement Variables Arrays Please email me : pshah.mumbai AT gmail.com to register

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Search for PERL web developers
by Kashyap Dalal 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

Hi All, I am heading a startup currently and am looking for a bit of help on the web-development front. We are looking for someone who can handle website development in PERL. I can't seem to find anyone for this through the normal route of contacting web development companies. A friend suggested that I try getting in touch with people at LUG Mumbai and hence this mail. Any help will be appreciated and apologies for this being spam to some of you. Cheers, Kashyap

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ubuntu dapper doesn't work NEED HELP
by bombay news 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

dear all, My ubuntu dapper has gone dead! while trying to log on i get the following message: loading drivers ok mounting root file systems ok and then nothing. while try to boot using ubuntu kernel 2.6.15-27-386 (recovery mode) I get a lot of numbers. the last set of numbers are like this: run -init: /sbin/init :error 20 [17179578.49 2000] kernel panic - not synching: attempting to kill init! and the system just stands still! shortly before i downloaded and installed skype. could that be a reason? please help sk _________________________________________________________________ Wedding bells are ringing. When's your time to walk the aisle? http://ad.in.doubleclick.net/clk;112111293;17571293;v?http://www.simplymarr…

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[Technical] Using the Motorola A1200 mobile phone with Linux
by Raj Mathur 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

As promised, I've done a terse write-up on using the Motorola A1200 (MotoMing) mobile phone with Linux. Rough first cut is available at: http://wiki.kandalaya.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/MotorolaA1200 Feedback welcome. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur raju(a)kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves

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Interesting Read: Im In Your Leenucks Box Changing Your Password
by Roshan 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

List, The following article describes an event that took place in a "lab" like classroom. Though, there are few setups such as these in Mumbai Colleges / Schools, this article is an interesting read. http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/security/investigator/archives/im-in-your-leenuc… Hope, you will enjoy reading it. -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc 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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Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 51, Issue 14
by Nirav Mehta 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

Hi All, > VJTI, Mechanical Engineering Department is available as the venue on Sunday > 15th July. > The date is fixed. 21st July. If we can have another venue, that can accommodate more people, we can change the venue. If not, let's keep it the same. So, do we have something else available for 21st July?

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OT: regarding sound card of Sun Fire V210 server OT
by praveen shinde 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

Hello , We purchased a Sun Solaris Server - Sun Fire V210 from Nortel along with a Nortel product - Media Processing Server 500 We need to install a Sound Card on Sun Fire V210 Server I checked the Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) for Sun Fire V210 Server and found that the following Models of Sound Cards will be suitable for our Server. 1. Sound Blaster MP3+ by Creative Technologies 2. Sound Blaster Live 24 bit External by Creative Technologies 3. Sound Blaster 128 PCI by Creative Technologies Please let me know if any of the above mentioned Sound Cards are available at any vendor. Regards, Praveen Shinde. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/

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[OT] Sify Port 22 blocked?
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

Hi, Does anybody notice that? Since last few hours, I am unable to ssh, svn+ssh to any servers I would like to. I am getting timeouts from each of the servers. I called the sify helpline, which now even has a "Press 2 for technical support". The dude asked me to click on the trayicon of sifybb thingie. When I told him that I am using Linux, he kept me on hold and had a conference, I think. Another dude spoke to me after that and asked me - if ssh was a program or something? After some more discussion I was promised that everything will be ok in next 1 hour. So I am waiting. I am wondering if somebody with sifybb in Mumbai/New Mumbai can check if port 22 is blocked or is it my figment of imagination? Thanks. 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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Are you the Linux type?
by Praveen A 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

Interesting comparison of OSes. "I think that our choice of Linux, BSD, Windows, Apple or whatever really boils down to how we look at life. To put things in a simpler way the different types of operating systems floating around in the ether can be broken down into two classes. The first class in which I will include Windows and Apple is what I would compare to an automatic car. You don't need to know how it works you just get in and drive. The second class in which I obviously include Linux, BSD and their ilk I would put in the manual car analogy. In a manual car you don't just get in and drive, the car becomes an extention of yourself." http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/are-you-the-linux-type-17… -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Re: Firefox Community Event + July LUG Meet
by Kartik Mistry 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

> From: Mitul Limbani > Lets start by making a quick post like below, Just make sure you append > your name, and not say me, and me too, count me in. Please put in your > full name. in order suggested. > > List of Attendents : > > *) Nirav Mehta > *) Mitul Limbani *) Kartik Mistry Someone wish here that he/she will come with better venue, he/she didn't came yet -- so, venue is same :) -- -------------------------------------------------------- Kartik Mistry | Eng: kartikmistry.org/blog 0xD1028C8D | Guj: kartikm.wordpress.com --------------------------------------------------------

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Acer 3684 -- ubuntu installation
by saurabh daptardar 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Hi, Installed Ubuntu Feisty on Acer 3684 . I have added installation report on the wiki. http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/wiki/index.php/Laptop_Installation_Report_-_Acer_… Many things are not tested currently -- I shall make changes as I test them. Regards, Sourabh

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PHP Seminar
by Prashant Shah 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Hello all, I am keeping a PHP seminar in Ghatkopar/Mumbai. It will be for 2 hours, once a week for 4 weeks. It is for beginers with knowledge about HTML/C/C++ It will cover the basic php knowledge (basics, loops, variables, arrays, error handling, database connectivity) It is free of cost. Email me on <pshah.mumbai at gmail.com> to register for it. Regards. ps : Exact place and timing not decided. It will be in Ghatkopar area.

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Firefox Community Event + July LUG Meet
by Nirav Mehta 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Dear All, I wrote last week about the Firefox Community event happening on 14th July. The event is now rescheduled to 21st because Seth and JT will be attending Open Source Conference in A'bad on 13th and 14th. The plan for the day remains the same. We will be able to accommodate limited people - only 25 - so would like to get your confirmation. If you will be attending the event, please email me: nirav <dot> mehta <at> magnettechnologies <dot> com. You can find more details about the event at: http://www.mehtanirav.com/2007/06/29/join-hands-with-firefox/ * Here is the plan for the day: * * 10.30AM - Registration (it’s free!) * 11AM - Introduction & Welcome * 11.30AM - The State of Mozilla * 12.00AM - Do we need an EN_IN version of Firefox? Local English, local search providers, certain spellings and other India specific items. Brainstorming, and team formation. * 1.00PM - Lunch break * 2.00PM - Brainstorming on promoting Firefox in India * 3.00PM - How to localize Firefox? How did we localize for Gujarati? - small workshop * 4.00PM - Firefox 3 - what’s up the sleeve? * 5.00PM - Completion of Firefox event * 5.30PM - LUG Meet starts - Ruby On Rails presentation by Dibya Prakash * 6.30PM - Chai - Coffee and the usual LUG after event gatherings!

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[Commercial] Need Support for RedHat 9 system
by Dinesh Shah 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Hi List, A friend of mine needs commercial paid support for his RedHat 9 Linux system. The PC has important data and can not be formated. Minimum requirement is to bring the system up and put it on the network. If you can handle this please send me off-list your contact details. TIA for your quick response. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Join the Revolution!

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Re:[RESOLVED]Compiz-Fusion on Ubuntu 7.04 and HAL problems8
by Easwar Hariharan 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

> > Hi all, > 1)Compiz-Fusion on Ubuntu 7.04 > I am using Compiz-Fusion on a Ubuntu 7.04,ATi Radeon XPress 200 series > onboard using the proprietary fglrx drivers and Xgl.Though the startxgl > script for starting Xgl automatically on boot had a workaround for missing > shutdown and reboot buttons,I'm missing my Suspend(Hibernate?) > button.Isthere a workaround for this? > > 2)HAL problems > I am the sole user on Ubuntu 7.04 hence my userid has system > administration > privileges subject to root password.Since I don't have a printer,I > disabled > cups in System-->Administration-->Services.Also, I disabled Bluetooth > support and the second cron service(non-anacron one) and a couple other > services.Since then,whenever I login,I'm faced with a dialog box saying > "Couldn't initialize HAL" and even after supplying root password,I'm > unable > to access selected system administration components which include Users > and > Groups,Services,Network,etc.A dialog box pops up with this: > > The configuration could not be loaded > You are not allowed to access the system configuration. > > The interesting thing is that after I enabled GUI root login by editing > the > /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf file,even when I login as root,I'm unable to access > the above-mentioned components.The above-mentioned dialog box pops up for > root as well. :o > Can someone help or point out a resource please? Turned out I had disabled the dbus service which is used by many system components to communicate among each other.Was solved by a single command to restart the service sudo /etc/init.d/dbus start Thence I could access the service-admin and re-enable the dbus service.Also,the missing suspend/hibernate buttons were also due to the above disabled dbus.As soon as the command was issued,they were back! Thanx and regards, Easwar

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sound working spasmodically
by Kenneth Gonsalves 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

hi, i am trying to use krec to record sounds. Problem is that sometimes the mic works and at other times it doesnt. Last night it was working, I didnt switch off the machine, but in the morning it refused to work. It is an onboard card - headphones work all the time. Would this be a hardware problem or a software problem? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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[OT] Linux Multimedia Guide (Book Anyone?)
by Roshan 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

List, I have a task at hand and need to refer a particular book. The book is titled "Linux Multimedia Guide" authored by Jeff Tranter. If someone has it and wishes to sell it at a reasonable price, please let me know. This book is out of print, and therefore not available in most book shops. -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc ubunturos @ freenode Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. To know how, go to http://in.mail.yahoo.com

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kubuntu 7.04 and beryl
by Mohan Nayaka 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hi all, I am running Feisty Kubuntu on a Toshiba A135-S2386 notebook. I am trying to setup Beryl on it. facing some problems... My graphics card is a ATI Radeon Xpress 200M on a T2080 ( 1.73GHz) Dual core. Is the machine good enough? Following the documentation, I installed ATI's fglrx driver. Accordingly, I think I should use Xgl and not AIGLX. For this I added the line: Option "AIGLX" "false" in the ServerLayout section of xorg.conf. Without this, launching beryl would simply stop saying that conpositing is disabled. I installed ATI's driver (restricted modules). glxinfo gives "Direct rendering : Yes" fglrxinfo output is: display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: RADEON XPRESS Series OpenGL version string: 2.0.6334 (8.34.8) My xorg.conf is uploaded at : http://pastebin.com/944969 lsmod |grep gl gives: fglrx 540004 11 agpgart 35400 2 fglrx,ati_agp X -version output: X Window System Version 7.2.0 Release Date: 22 January 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2 Build Operating System: Linux Ubuntu Current Operating System: Linux ZION 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 Build Date: 04 April 2007 Also following documentation, I restarted X using Xgl using a script recommended on many websites. This script is uploaded at:http://pastebin.com/944990 and http://pastebin.com/944993 Should I try using AIGLX+mesa instead ? Regards, 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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