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How to Create a Makefile which supports on Xwindow
by punit chaturvedi 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Hi, I would like to know how can i change my makefile so that i can run it on X Window Environment. My makefile is perfectly working in Shell, but i need to either compile it into xwindow environment or is there any way i can change my makefile so that it can be run in xwindow environment. Appreciate if you guys can help me out. With Regards, Punit --------------------------------- Be a chatter box. Enjoy free PC-to-PC calls with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

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Debian Linux Ver 3.1 CD
by deshpande＠vsnl.com 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Hi Does anyone have latest debian CD I will highly appereciate if somebody can guide me Thanks in advance MAHESH DESHPANDE Trainer for Linux Installations, Linux for End Users.

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Grub issue
by Puneet Lakhina 31 May '06

31 May '06

I have two hard disks. THe hard disk which is connected as slave has grub on its mbr. and has a windows xp installation, running along with ubuntu 5.10. The other disk(connected as master) has only a windows xp installation. I want to be able to boot into either of these 3 os installations (ubuntu and xp on slave and xp on master) from the grub. So i made the slave hard disk as my 1st boot device. Now i can boot into xp and ubuntu of the slave deive easily. But when i try and boot into the xp installation of the master disk, it boots into the xp installation of slave only. The entry for the master xp installation in menu.lst is as follows root (hd1,0) makeactive savedefaults chainloader +1 I have added this entry myself. COuld anyone suggest what the problem could be?? -- Puneet

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opensource projects for training trainees ...
by Steven Joseph 31 May '06

31 May '06

why cant companies give development hands on practice by making trainees work on some opensource project. That way the trainees can get to see some real community approved style of coding. That will improve their coding skills and technique also. Its like the trainees having the whole opensource community as mentors.. till they are ready to work on internal projects that is. After which it depends on the company policy whatever. Steven -- Life would have been a lot more easier if we could look at the source code.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Driver development kit
by hemendra jain 30 May '06

30 May '06

>"Have you ever felt teased when driver developers of other operating >systems teased you about a lack of a "proper" driver development kit >for Linux? Have you felt left out of the crowd when looking at the 36 >cdrom package of documentation and example source code that other >operating systems provide for their developers? Well feel ashamed no >longer!" > >http://www.kroah.com/log/2006/05/24/#ddk I have inclination towards driver development and also develop the same. We can have a session of 'development of DD using an e.g'. Rgds, Hemendra

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[OT] Thank God! if it werent for Linux...
by Dinesh Joshi 30 May '06

30 May '06

We all would be using this... http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/flexgo/payasyougo.mspx It's now official. Microsoft has gone I.N.S.A.N.E. >:( :) Disclaimer: This post is meant to be funny and not a flamebait of any sort... -- Dinesh A. Joshi

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Service interruption
by Anurag 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hello, Due to a minor DNS issue with tifr.res.in registry at NCST, ILUG-BOM website and mailing list may not be accessible for a day. We are looking into the problem and trying to resolve it at the earliest. Please try again after sometime if your postings do not get delivered to the list. thanks Anurag -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.

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kdevelop tool view ... annoyance
by Steven Joseph 29 May '06

29 May '06

HI, im having a little trouble finding if there is any shortcut in kdevelop to close any open tool view. -- Life would have been a lot more easier if we could look at the source code.

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CyberCafe - Time Bounded User Control.
by bimal pandit 28 May '06

28 May '06

Dear All, recently one of my friend came to me and asked to setup a proxy server for his cyber cafe, though the setup and configuration is not an issue but the control/management of user with time boundation is!!! what I mean is He need to have time bounded user access, as what happens in cybercafe is a user comes in, a username and password is provided to him with a validity in time e.g. 1Hrs., 2Hrs. etc as per the charge and time decided by the cafe owner and requested by the user, so I am looking for such a tool which can do the same for such a cybercafe based on squid and linux as a platform. In this regard I need help from you to guide me if there is such a tool exists or some pointer to acheive this. regards, Bimal Pandit

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Driver development kit
by jtd 28 May '06

28 May '06

Useful stuff for the final yr project challenged. "Have you ever felt teased when driver developers of other operating systems teased you about a lack of a "proper" driver development kit for Linux? Have you felt left out of the crowd when looking at the 36 cdrom package of documentation and example source code that other operating systems provide for their developers? Well feel ashamed no longer!" http://www.kroah.com/log/2006/05/24/#ddk -- Rgds JTD

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Linux distro posters ...
by Arun K. Khan 27 May '06

27 May '06

On the lighter side. http://www.flickr.com/photos/glagla/sets/1177687/show/ -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble. -- Alan Perlis

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OO.org on Rediff - It is a threat to Microsoft Office!
by Dinesh Shah 26 May '06

26 May '06

At the outset, this article was written in OpenOffice Writer - a word processor comparable to Microsoft Word. The Writer is just one part of the suite called OpenOffice.org - touted as "open source" competition to Microsoft Office. The original version was slow and clunky. However, with the latest version (2.0), OpenOffice.org has made it worthwhile to be written about. http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/may/26spec1.htm Enjoy! -- --Dinesh Shah :-) <Dinesh(a)ShahMicro.com> Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] CyberCafe - Time Bounded User Control.
by bimal pandit 26 May '06

26 May '06

Dear Javed, On Thu, 25 May 2006 Javed Dhanani wrote : >> >> I am looking for such a tool which can do the same for such a cybercafe >>based on squid and linux as a platform. >> >>One of my friends has a complete software for cybercafe based on linux >with user, cache and bandwidth controls. >Mail me off the list if you are interested. >-- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers only with "User" regards, Bimal Pandit

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MIT $100 laptop (one laptop per child)
by Arun Khan 25 May '06

25 May '06

Pictures of the first prototype units; runs Fedora - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pete/sets/72057594143224765/ Project web site: http://www.laptop.org/index.en_US.html -- Arun Khan

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cd enhanced
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 25 May '06

25 May '06

Add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc, and you will be able to go back and forward in bash as we are used to in Nautilus and Konqueror. Use cd [ and cd ] to avail the features: __COUNT=0 __BACK=0 cd () { if [ "${1}" = "[" ]; then if [ "${__BACK}" -lt "${__COUNT}" ]; then pushd +1 > /dev/null __BACK=$(($__BACK+1)) else echo "can't go back any more" fi elif [ "${1}" = "]" ]; then if [ "${__BACK}" != 0 ]; then pushd -0 > /dev/null __BACK=$(($__BACK-1)) else echo "can't go forward any more" fi elif [ "${1}" = "." ]; then builtin cd "${@}" else if [ "${1}" = "-" ]; then pushd "${OLDPWD}" > /dev/null elif [ "${#}" -eq 0 ]; then pushd "${HOME}" > /dev/null else pushd "${@}" > /dev/null fi while [ "${__BACK}" -gt 0 ]; do popd -0 > /dev/null __BACK=$(($__BACK-1)) done __COUNT=$(($__COUNT+1)) fi } Happy hacking, Debarshi

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[Commercial] Drupal programmers wanted in Mumbai
by Sierra Bravo 24 May '06

24 May '06

Dear all Programmers proficient in Drupal wanted for migrating the website of a member-based professional society to Drupal. The site is of moderate complexity, with about 15,000 members. Programmers should have had prior experience with managing websites of this magnitude on FOSS platforms. Please reply off-list. Thanks and good luck, Linuxers sb

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GRUB, MBR and NTLDR confusion
by िऩऩाद 24 May '06

24 May '06

Hi I have 2 hard disks. /dev/hda(primary) and /dev/hdb(slave) 40gb each. I have been facing a problem of bootloaders when installed on the MBR. To be safe and avoid any further problems I have decided to go with ntldr the windows bootloader. My first hdd has Win XP Slack 10.2 and FC3. The 2nd hd is solely for experimentation and contains Ubuntu 5.10 only. Whilst googling for information I found that GRUB can be loaded on to the boot partition instead of the MBR and also ona floppy or CD. Now my problem is I do not have a seperate boot partition. In turn whilst installing ubuntu I installed GRUB on /dev/hdb2. I created a linux.bin file by issuing dd if=/dev/hdb2 of=/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 and copied it to C:\ and also added it to boot.ini and named it as linux. When I start the pc I get this option along with the windows XP option but on selecting it the system hangs with a constant beeping sound. Is there any other solution? Have I gone wrong somewhere? I do not want to install GRUB on to MBR but instead use the ntldr to boot Linux Currently I am booting by inserting the first cd of the slackware and issuing the boot command with the root as the specific partition Thanks and Regards Ninad Bapat

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[OT] mATX Motherboard in ATX Cabinet
by Antriksh Bajaj 24 May '06

24 May '06

Hi all, I have a 2 yr old PC with the following specs: ASUS A7V8X-MX SE Motherboard (mATX) AMD Athlon XP 2600+ VIA KM 400 Chipset 256 MB RAM (DDR 266) 40 GB HDD MATX cabinet, 240 W power supply As this is an mATX motherboard so I was wondering if I can install this Motherboard in an ATX cabinet. Please tell me is it possible to do so and also is the power supply unit of An ATX cabinet compatible with an mATX motherboard. Thanks in advance. Regards, Antriksh

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[OT] volunteers for new collaboration project
by Rohit V. Bhute 23 May '06

23 May '06

Please take a look at http://hthite.com/ISFwiki/Main_Page This is a nascent project attempting to provide a collaborative platform for (but not limited to) students attempting software projects as part of their academic activities. The platform is not limited to academic projects or even just software. In fact, the concept is barely "out of the brain and onto the web page", to speak of. I request you all to take a look at the project wiki and signup to participate in the discussion. To give you a hint of the brainstorming progress, these are the (so far) two pages with some ideas. http://hthite.com/ISFwiki/Discuss:Project_Name http://hthite.com/ISFwiki/Discuss:Content Activity is low as MU engineering exams are in progress. But others can chip in. Thanks. -- Rohit V. Bhute http://rvbhute.freelinuxhost.com/wordpress

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[OT] volunteers for new collaboration project
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 23 May '06

23 May '06

> Please take a look at > http://hthite.com/ISFwiki/Main_Page I represent the GNU/Linux User Group of NIT Hamirpur (http://www.glug-nith.org). We were also planning something similar for our college only. But it would be better if we can have something which is meant for all Indian universities. Maybe the service can be linked to existing services like Savannah, Sarovar, Sourceforge. > Activity is low as MU engineering exams are in progress. But others can > chip in. We are also having ours. :( Regards, Debarshi

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Securing email ... Linux servers ... GNU/Linux CLI ... Lyx ... game clones of Tetris
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 22 May '06

22 May '06

Issue 12 of Free Software Magazine is out Another great issue with 10 articles on various aspects of free software. It's available in HTML and PDF download... for free! In Issue 12 of Free Software Magazine, Jerome Gotangco guides us through securing email communication and Yousef Ourabi shows us how to harden our Linux servers. Rosalyn Hunter introduces the GNU/Linux CLI for beginners and Terry Hancock explains LyX. We also get to have some fun when Robin Monks reviews some clones of a classic game: Tetris. And more... Download the whole issue as a high-resolution PDF file! http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/issues/issue_012

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Re: Problem printing with Gnome/RH9
by vvcrishna＠radiophony.com 22 May '06

22 May '06

Rony had advised me to try editing the printer selector in each application. I tried doing this with Mozilla, but cannot see the right way to edit the module using a line editor. Siddhesh also asked whether I was setting up OpenOffice for the printer, but I haven't done this, nor can I see how it is done. The OpenOffice installation was done long before the printer arrived. In case this is a very small fix, please mail me separately to avoid list noise, or point me to a faq where this is fully explained. Vickram

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CNN interviews Linus Torvalds
by Arun K. Khan 22 May '06

22 May '06

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/05/18/global.office.linustorvalds/

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Light weight google Calendar
by Francis 22 May '06

22 May '06

I was wondering how to extract data from the body of a HTTP 200 ok Header using PHP. What I am trying to do is to write a light weight GUI that connects to google Calendar[www.google.com/calendar] ! Why do this : Simple my cellphone does not support AJAX and I want to be able to update the calendar on the move from my cell !! I am sending the username along with password and a couple of other variables that google needs , to their authentication url [ http://francis.byethost22.com/googlelogin.php ] . In response it sends back a Auth token which I need to place in a cookie . How on god's green earth do I extract the token !! Francis . Warm Summerr !!

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] CNN interviews Linus Torvalds
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 21 May '06

21 May '06

>> RMS was NEVER associated with the Open Source movement. He is the >> founder of the free software movement, the GNU Project and the Free >> Software Foundation, and none of these are part of the Open Source >> movement. Atleast not according to RMS. (And I am a RMS fan.) >> > Think OpenSource and GNU without Linux. > Don't separate the things - Why one should envy or be jelous to any of > our community? And by hating each other - only M$ is gaining and > laughing at us. I am wondering why people starting GNOME v/s KDE and > Linux v/s GNU/Linux wars? Stating the fact that RMS was NOT a part of the Open Source movement does not convey any hatred towards anybody. It just clears some misinformation. In the same way that, if I said I am not part of the Indian cricket team I would not convey any hatred towards Indian cricket. :D Being a member of a GLUG (there IS a difference between a LUG and a GLUG, however subtle that maybe), we are expected to be aware of the differences between these various entities and terms. Otherwise how are we going to spread awareness about GNU/Linux. I found many of my fellow members refer to "the GNU utilities being used by Linux". Well that is again a mistake. Linux is the kernel which is a part of the whole operating system, which the GNU project, sponsored by the FSF started. There are other GNU based systems that use other kernels. eg., GNU/Hurd. Yeah it is true Hurd is still far from being complete, but that is again another matter. It is not a matter of a GNU/Linux vs. Linux warfare, it is just about getting the record straight. Linus Torvalds should get full credit for developing such a wonderful monolithic kernel, and releasing it under the GNU GPL. Similarly RMS should be credited with spearheading other components of the system. Namely the compiler (GCC), a text editor (GNU Emacs), the debugger (GDB), the shell (GNU Bash), a desktop environment (GNOME), the bootloader (GRUB) and so on. These are very important parts of the system without which Linux would not have been able to survive. The other way round is true also. So honestly there is no scope for flame wars, as long we give credit where it is due. Regards, Debarshi

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] CNN interviews Linus Torvalds
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 21 May '06

21 May '06

>> http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/05/18/global.office.linustorvald >>s/ > Linus isn't really the father of the open source movement. RMS has a > lions share to say the least :) RMS was NEVER associated with the Open Source movement. He is the founder of the free software movement, the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, and none of these are part of the Open Source movement. Atleast not according to RMS. (And I am a RMS fan.) Debarshi

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[ot] mono laser printer recommendation?
by Abhishek Daga 21 May '06

21 May '06

hi, am looking for a mono laser printer (and/or multifunctional device) where the primary criteria is economy in running cost. my guess is that those toners that can be refilled with ease (as opposed to buying new cartridge each time) drastically brings down the cost. is that correct? if so then what are the printers that allow for this? Speaking of multifunctional devices, are they really compelling? especially the ones which have Fax and PC fax? the samsung multifunctional 4110 is only 2000 more than regular mono laser but without a fax. any recommendations based on first hand experience, highly solicited. thanks abhishek __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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ET:Microsoft and Open Source
by Nikhil Marathe 20 May '06

20 May '06

Today's economic times(pg 13) has an interbiew with some microsoft guy about the companies outlook to open source. It seems he didn't know what he was talking about. There are a few things which stand out. 1. "We see open source as a software development method" He undoubtedly has still not opened his eyes to the revolution 2. "We compete with OSS products" He continued to mention red hat, ibm and oracle. THey don't realise that the bigger threat is from the stuff that matters to the majority of the people. its projects like KDE and ubuntu leading to their gradual fall, the ones that matter to the common people, not products made by some company. 3. "OSS is at its peak" I thought we are still at the foot of the mountain (or a plateau since we never go down) while microsoft is finished climbing and now going down 4. "99% of devs work on drivers and such" Yes i suppose kde/gnome/etc are all device drivers offering a protocol to communicate with the user's brain. its not the kernel thats starting to matter these days, its the software on top of it. I have always been one who doesn't give a damn about enterprise level software. its not a big problem if linux doesn't reach there, it is almost never seen by Average Joe. the place where it matters on the desktop, the DE's, the search tools, the browsers, the multimedia. That is what is going to reinforce linux on the desktop, that is m$ biggest threat since most of their revenue comes from windows. M$ seriously has to wake up and reassess the situation, they are still stuck in the OSS situation of say 5 years ago. What are your views on the article. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Debian Hosting
by Anil Gupte 20 May '06

20 May '06

BlankTrying this again since my first message got munged. Can anyone recommend a reliable hosting provider on Debian in preferably in Pune? We need MySQL and the ability to do scripting/perl/PHP. Alternately any suggestions for possible co-location of a small server? Thanx, Anil Gupte

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Books on Debian
by deshpande＠vsnl.com 20 May '06

20 May '06

Hi Can you suggest me good books on debian administration Thanks in anticipation MAHESH DESHPANDE Trainer for Linux Installations, Linux for End Users.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] ET:Microsoft and Open Source
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 20 May '06

20 May '06

>> Must we always draw comparisons with XP? True XP is the most commonly >> used desktop OS, but then someone who has not used XP at all (or >> atleast for quite some time) might think otherwise. I for myself find >> the absence of virtual desktops in XP very irritating! > Umm....I dont use XP. I use Linux 24x7. It is only at the college that I > am *forced* into using XP. Same for me too. :( ;) > But as I said, its very simple to use - even for first timers. Thats not quite true. It is 'simple' because many people use it, or in other words there is a Windows User Group everywhere. :D It might be 'difficult' setting up things in GNU/Linux, but if you think about the system hang-ups, reboots, viruses, etc. the situation changes. > And I find the absence of a full blown CLI in XP crippling :( Quite right. > I use FC5. Dunno what version of GNOME it uses but I certainly couldn't > find it in the right click menu or any of the preferences. I was told > ( on IRC ) that I'll have to edit some files in my home directory to > make that association. Sucks! I use FC5 too and it uses GNOME 2.14. You right click a file and there is an option to 'open this file in another application' in the drop-down menu. By the way I think there is no way to perform hover-select in single-click mode in Nautilus, as it used to be in WIndows. Regards, Debarshi

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] ET:Microsoft and Open Source
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 20 May '06

20 May '06

> I have run the latest KDE / GNOME > and they are no where near the responsiveness, intuitiveness, > userfriendliness that XP's (or M$) GUI offer. Must we always draw comparisons with XP? True XP is the most commonly used desktop OS, but then someone who has not used XP at all (or atleast for quite some time) might think otherwise. I for myself find the absence of virtual desktops in XP very irritating! > I dont see any > userfriendliness being built into GNOME. As a concrete example, I still > cannot right click any file and associate it with an app. This has been > a standard in M$ GUI for like ever and even KDE guys added it a long > time ago. Yeah this is true. While using FC2, I could not find an easy way to edit the file-type and application associations. But the right-clicking functionality is now present in GNOME 2.14. > it still lacks > a good "control panel" (infact AFAIK it doesnt have one). KDE is far > far ahead of GNOME in this case. Thats again true. Not only that, I can not really differentiate between the logic behind placing an option in the preferences or administration sub-menu in the 'System' menu in GNOME. They look very similar to me. Any idea? By the way I know one Microsoft employee who claimed that Redhat is a very bad open-source company, while giving examples about the economic failures of FOSS based firms. He did not elaborate on Redhat though, although he gave the example of Mandrake going bankrupt. Wonder how good a proprietary software company M$ is? Regards, Debarshi

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Re: ET:Microsoft and Open Source
by Roshan 20 May '06

20 May '06

> 4) People are used to Corel Draw, Photoshop,.Net, Alternatives are there such as Scribus, GAIM, Mono Project but people are not aware. If someone joins any institute for DTP course, he would have to be taught using CorelDraw, Photoshop because, "most" of DTP providers use these. > The list can go on. Please everyone, do not discuss > the individual cases > as the intention is only to highlight the problems. I haven't. But, people who are a part of the list, would know their alternatives, though they cannot be "the" alternative. *snip* > kudos rony! You hit the nail on the head :) But you > need to agree that > KDE and GNOME still have a long way before they can > become as > userfriendly as Windows UI. This brings a thought to my mind. Question: The subscribers of this mailing list, have migrated from Windows to any Linux Distribution, OR have been using GNU/Linux right from the day he/she started learning computers? Because, there would be some people, who like the Windows GUI because they were introduced and taught about the GUI and they would generally resist a change from that GUI to KDE or GNOME. Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

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[OT] Can CD/DVD writers be repaired?
by Arun K. Khan 20 May '06

20 May '06

I have a CD/DVD writer that does not read any medium. The physical function like eject/insert of the tray works OK. On insert, the external panel LED lights up a for a moment and then nothing. I suspect the LED/head is gone. I want to explore the option of getting it repaired. If you know of any place (in Mumbai) that handles such repairs please contact me off list. Thank you. TIA -- Arun Khan Linux is like a wigwam - no gates, no windows, apache inside

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[OT] Sendmail + LDAP HowTo.
by bimal pandit 19 May '06

19 May '06

Dear All, just to let people configure an email system, I have written an article on it and want that you should go through it, analyse and test it and help me to improve it further, while in case there is any error/mistake or correction is required please let me know. though I am not an expert but your valuable input will help me to understand the mailing system. SendMail + LDAP HowTo. http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/927 regards, Bimal Pandit

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video capture card & VHS to vcd.
by Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. 19 May '06

19 May '06

Hi, How do I go about recording video onto a cd or dvd from: 1. a vhs video cassette (must be able - this is the main purpose) 2. a tv broadcast (good if posible else ..) Actually I was talking to a friend of mine who would like to set this up. I offered to help him if it was a linux based solution. I have googled and found that a lot ot documentation seems to point to video capture cards and tv tuner cards with a certain amount of ambiguity. I have looked up the hardware compatibility lists, websites of mythtv, cinelerra, mjpegtools and a few more. he already has a pretty new machine w/ 2.4 G P4, 512 ram and a 80 GB hd of which we can give linux about 40 GB. He would like to do this professionally somewhere down the line and hence would not be averse to buying a good card. I want to know which card is a better bet, a video capture card or a tv tuner card. recording tv broadcasts though is not a priority or even a necessity, the aded ability would just be icing on the cake. Any personal experiences ? thanks a mil. Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K R Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer. Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

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[OT] About Plan 9
by Mohan Nayaka 19 May '06

19 May '06

Hi everyone. Just out of curiosity ; has anyone in this group tried out Plan 9 ? http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/download/ has a live CD. The ISO image is just 75.5 MB. i am downloading it. will try it out today. By the way I installed Dapper Beta 2 yesterday. Boot-up has improved in this release. The installer crashed in between. I put in a bug report & they said that this issue was rectified in the latest nightly build. All is well but no audio o/p :( (in DB2) Anyway, this seems to be a intermittent configuration configuration problem with xmms since 5.10 xmms seems to be fragile. The least mistake in configuring it makes it unusable. Any suggestions for a better music player ? I am now trying out kmplayer. Regards, Mohan S N -- There will be plenty of time to rest in the grave. - Paul Erdos

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Debian Hosting
by Anil Gupte 19 May '06

19 May '06

BlankCan anyone recommend a reliable hosting provider on Debian in preferably in Pune? We need MySQL and the ability to do scripting/perl/PHP. Alternately any suggestions for possible co-location of a small server? Thanx, Anil Gupte

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Chip FC5 bad ISOs.
by PenguinPuPPy 19 May '06

19 May '06

I am a subscriber of LFY and my experience with CD/DVD is also the same 30% to 40% of the time I get faulty CD/DVD's but hey are good enough to replace them though it make take upto 10 days.I have also communicated this to LFY to improve upon their CD quality but i guess what you said is right untill and unless there is a mass level complaint nothing seems to work.

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Future of OS
by deshpande＠vsnl.com 18 May '06

18 May '06

Hi REF the current discussions about M$ and their commitment to OSS.. Till today the OS has following attribs.. Most essential part of a computer for controlling access to h/w M$ dominant in OS So comtrols many applications ?? !! M$ has max profit in WORD (60% ?) So its not OS its APPS thts future Enter GOOGLE and its gmail services one of the MOST used apps (% ??) you(a)gmail.com is fantastic it is slowly being expanded to anynames(a)yourdomain.com That means for users of mail servers no installation no maintainance no spam ? If this becomes successful Google will be a dominant application server In such a scenario (in future) an OS will become equivalent to hardware just a tool to connect to the net. Then once you are on the net what matters which application is best by which suppliers. For mail and groupware I may connect to Google For Word or doc I may connect M$ That means no purchasing of Apps Now the BIG Question for the companies who are heavily dependant on their apps what ................ ANY TAKERS FOR THIS.... MAHESH DESHPANDE Trainer for Linux Installations, Linux for End Users.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [ot] mono laser printer recommendation?
by deshpande＠vsnl.com 18 May '06

18 May '06

Hello All A thought on printers.... We generally have two types of print jobs 1. light jobs :- are usually needed "right now" typically 1-2 pages economy is not the criteria 2. Heavy jobs :- Its OK if we get the jobs next day, done from a Print Shop in Andheri or so.. SHOULD BE ECONOMICAL and preferably managable via e-mails.. This seems to be a good business proposal and very good for us who need heavy printing jobs If anybody knows such printer peopl pl let us know ONE MORE India could become a PRINT AND POST HUB FOR THE WORLD !!!!!!!!! Any Takers ;) MAHESH DESHPANDE Trainer for Linux Installations, Linux for End Users.

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Breaking News !
by Prabhat Sandheliya 18 May '06

18 May '06

Hi guys, I am sure you remember, the story I posted few days back, on the mailing list ( http://groups.google.com/group/lug-indore )about Ankit Fadia, "Ankit Fadia : The real picture " . There is a new twist in the story. :-) I sent this mail to various people, including one IT and Cyber Law expert, Deepti Chopra. She also felt that Mr Fadia is doing something fraud and misleading people. She talked to Certificate authority of India and questioned about the authenticity and credibility of the certificate. When I posted the original story to various people, I got many positive responses. I forwarded all those mails to Deepti and she passed them to the Certificate authority of India. Now the twist in the story. :-) Deepti just informed me that, she got positive reply from Certificate authority of India. They have issued a notice to Mr Fadia and CEO, Reliance Web World to stop the issuing certificates. Now we are also thinking about taking some legal action against Mr Fadia and Reliance Web World. Cheers to our victory over unethical business practice and fraud. :-) Do send me your suggestions and views. -- Prabhat Sandheliya --------------------------------------------------------------------- Promote Linux - Join mailing list : http://groups.google.com/group/lug-indore (Linux Users Group - Indore)

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Problem printing with Gnome/RH9
by vvcrishna＠radiophony.com 17 May '06

17 May '06

I am running gnome/RH9, and it has an annoying non-printing problem. When I bring up Print Manager (which turns out to be a gnome utility) it first says there are no printers and then helpfully asks if I would like to add any, using the Printer Configuration Tool. Upon clicking "yes", this comes up, immediately showing my HP DJ 840C exists and has a path already laid out. I can "Edit" this but there is nothing to add that I can see. When I close the edit box, I have the option to "Apply" the new settings, but even after doing so, the Print Manager fails to show me any printers. While I can print a test page from the configuration tool, I can't print anything else, meaning no documents created or viewed in OpenOffice, or pdfs or pix. How do I fix this problem?

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Re: Problem printing with Gnome/RH9
by vvcrishna＠radiophony.com 17 May '06

17 May '06

Quoting Siddhesh Poyarekar: > > While I can print a test page from the configuration tool, I can't print > > anything else, meaning no documents created or viewed in OpenOffice, or > pdfs or > > pix. > > > > How do I fix this problem? > Are you setting up openoffice to use the new printer? I think that is > required. I don't see any option like that. OpenOffice wants to use a 'generic' printer by default, because gnome can't see the attached printer, while the printer configurator can. These two parts of the total set don't seem to be sitting at the same table. In any case, it is not just OpenOffice, I can't print at all, except the test page (from the printer set-up tool within the configurator).

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Commercial - TAX Calculator
by TAC Forums 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi We downloaded the tax calculation sheet from the link below. http://ynithya.com/taxcalc/TaxCalc_2006.xls We opened the said file in MS Excel, filled in all the necessary and required cells and it calculated the tax for us. However later when we opened the document in Open Office 2.0 the tax calculated was almost doubled without making any changes to the documents. We posted a query in the openoffice list and got the following reply. ========================================================== Have you re-written the macros in OOoBASIC? I think this task needs to be done before you can use this spreadsheet properly under OOo. To help you with this task, see the Cross-reference docs and tools at http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html Remember, OOo does not use VB. ========================================================== Would anybody be interested in taking up this task and how much would it cost. Would appreciate an offline formal quotation for the same on the following email address support(a)theargoncompany.com. -- TAC Support Team

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Squirrelmail password changing option
by Ramang G 16 May '06

16 May '06

HI, I have installed squirrelmail successfully but iam not able to change the password .Any help? thanx in advance, Raman. --------------------------------- Love cheap thrills? Enjoy PC-to-Phone calls to 30+ countries for just 2¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

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Chip FC5 bad ISOs.
by ronbillypop＠yahoo.co.uk 15 May '06

15 May '06

Hello All, The Chip DVD containing the FC5 ISOs has a bad disk_2 iso. Even the replacement dvd has the same problem. Has anyone else faced the same problem? Regards, Rony. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] DSL not working in SUSE 10.0
by अिनकॆत (Aniket) 15 May '06

15 May '06

> > > > I am going to install SUSE 10.1 in a few days. > x86-64 edition, by any chance? > Nopes I have SUSE 10.1 - i386 version . Just downloaded it. If anyone wants , please contact me , I can burn them for you after June 12th, after my exams end. Mail me off the list.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Ubuntu CDs and Debuging using gcc
by Roshan 15 May '06

15 May '06

> Dear All > > We ( K.J.Somaiya College of Engineering , > Vidyavihar Mumbai) are > organising Short Term Training Program on OPEN > SOURCE SOFTWARES : An > Effective Way Managing Engineering Education > between May 15 and May 26 > 2006. > We plan to distribute *Ubuntu Linux* to all > participants ( around 50) so > please guide me from where I will get those CDs of > Ubuntu Linux. Sir, It's a little late, for this. You could have got free CD's (as many as you wish) of Ubuntu Linux (packaged, with good paper covers) from http://shipit.ubuntu.com but, you had to order it atleast a month before. I am a student of S K Somaiya College of Arts, Science and Commerce, pursuing my T. Y. BSc (I. T.), and my university exams end tomorrow. If required, I can give a copy of Ubuntu 5.10 tomorrow, and you could make multiple copies of it on blank CD-R's and distribute. > One more problem please guide me *How to debug > using gcc* or any other > book for that because I plan deliver the > lecture on that topic. In one of my bookmarks, I had this link ... http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/ Debugging-Options.html Hopefully, it should be helpful __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. http://in.answers.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] DSL not working in SUSE 10.0
by अिनकॆत (Aniket) 15 May '06

15 May '06

> > > > I have a similar connection with two different linux machines. Both need > different > methods to connect. One of the two methods can help you. > > I think you need to check the IP settings. Mostly your server is not > supporting > DHCP. so you need to find out the IP address you need for your ethernet > card > and > assign the same to it mannually. Before doing adsl-setup/adsl-start you > can > try : > # ifconfig eth0 [your IP address] > > 1. or better run network configuration service: > # system-config-network > and edit the configuration of your ethernet card(mostly eth0). Fill in the > IP address, > Subnet mask, and default gateway. I'm not sure if this service is > available > in SuSE. > > 2. Otherwise, if available you can try #netcardconfig and #pppoeconf > commands as well . > to do the same. > > PPPOE does not need any IP addresses to be put up. Its the same as dialup connection , the only additional parameter being that one has to specify "service name" along with username and password. You are confusing DHCP with PPPoE. Also PPPoE is not dependant on the IP address assigned to the LAN card , it can be anything or nothing. So you do not have to specify the Default Gateway , DNS etc ..its done automatically each time a connection is made. The easiest way to setup a PPPoE connection is as follows.... 1> run "/sbin/pppoe -A" from the terminal and note down the service name. 2>If you are using any RedHat system , just fire up "system-config-network" and in new connection select "XDSL" , enter username password and service name . 3> If using Ubuntu , do "sudo pppoeconf" and just follow the instructions on screen. Also remember that you have to set the MTU/MRU to 1492 or such value and _NOT_ 1500 for PPPoE to work properly. 4>In SUSE you can do it using Yast /Kinternet , I had done it once long time ago in SUSE 9.1 LIVE Cd. Dont remember the procedure exactly. If anyone can shed more light on this please....I am going to install SUSE 10.1 in a few days. -- The Future is Open...The Future is LINUX

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