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

19 Dec '07

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

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

19 Dec '07

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

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

18 Dec '07

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

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

18 Dec '07

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

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

18 Dec '07

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

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

16 Dec '07

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

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fossconf update
by Kenneth Gonsalves 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

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

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

15 Dec '07

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

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

14 Dec '07

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

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

14 Dec '07

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

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