Linuxers July 2002

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Simputer
by Sameer Shinde 16 Jul '02

16 Jul '02

Hi All, Yesterday I read an articall about the Simputers ( SIMple comPUTER ) which are meant for the satisfing the need ofthe peoples from rural area in India. Peoples those are just literate or low qualified but still wants to know & learn about the computer can take the great advantage of the simputer. According to an artical, one software team of IIT is developing these simputers & it will probably be avaliablein the market from November. Mr. Mark Mathayan of IIT encore team said that, simputers are designed & developed by keeping in mind the percentage of literacy in India. He further said that, these simputers will be avaliable with a low prize of approx. Rs. 9,000 /- only. These Simputers will have all the facilities which are avaliable in normal computer. But they will not be working on MS-Windows, rather they will work on LINUX, which is freely avaliable world wide Many foreign companies have shown their interest in this project & asked for the rights for the production of these simputers. But IIT has not given the rights to anybody as it wants the simputer to be purely Indian & wants some Indian company to come up & start the production. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - If we forget rest of the part of this artical & concentrate on using LINUX on the simputers, I think this is a golden opportunity for us to wide sprade the Linux in India & making the peoples aware of Linux. We can even add it in our projects TO - DO list. So.... What U guys say? Think on it............. Thanks & Regards, SAMEER :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My Messenger IDs : MSN : s2sameer Yahoo! : s9sameer RediffBol : s2sameer Indiatimes : s2sameer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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elisp
by Vinay Pai 16 Jul '02

16 Jul '02

I've always known you can do real cool things in emacs with elisp, but never got around to learning how. Has anyone out there significantly tweaked their .emacs files? If so care to send me an example of the stuff you've done?

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[3] Error while transfering install image on HDD- Out of disk space
by Sameer Shinde 16 Jul '02

16 Jul '02

} On the 3rd day i.e. today, I deleted all the 3 linux partitions of the disk & accessed the free space from the windows ( fdisk ) & scanned it for any bad sector, which I didn't found on the disk so I again partitioned them for linux ( in linux setup) But still get the same message as before i.e. " An error occurred while transferring......... " $ { WHY IS THIS MESSAGE COMMING UP? WHERE IS THE MISTAKE? } $ { HOW CAN I COME OVER IT ? } Here during the partitioning I got another message that, " Automatic Partitioning Failed There is not sufficient disk space in order to automatically partition your hard disk. You will need to manually partition your disk for RHL to install." Plz choose the tool U would like to use the partitioning your system for RHL - [ Disk Druid & fdisk ] Before this installation, I had deleted the partition which was created for scanning in windows. So I had around 4GB of free disk space, But still I got the above message. Waiting for your helpful reply, Thanks & Regards, SAMEER :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My Messenger IDs : MSN : s2sameer Yahoo! : s9sameer RediffBol : s2sameer Indiatimes : s2sameer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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[1] Error while transfering install image on HDD- Out of disk space
by Sameer Shinde 16 Jul '02

16 Jul '02

Hi All, - - - - - - - - - - - I am providing u this detail story b'coz I want u to understand the problem properly & give me out the correct solution. The mail is divided in the 3 parts b'coz of the restirision on the mail size - - - - - - - - - - - Since last 3 days I am trying to install RHL 7.1 on my pc but, every time my installation fails b'coz of failure of disk partitioning or due to system hanging, yet I'm not able to install RH on my pc & I'm still trying...... I have kept around 4GB of my disk space, to install linux on my m/c the total disk space I assign in the following way. /boot 54 MB hda8 $ { what is the min space we can assign to /boot? } swap 133 MB hda9 / remaining all space hda10 ( around 3.7 GB ) $ { Do I need to create any other partion for the installation & for improving the performance, as I found the system is quite slow in the 1st installation? } [ I read in one of the how-to (on the CD) that we can install linux with these 3 partitions, so I followed it ] [ NOTE: I'm not able to partition the disk with Disk Druid as it is not setting up /boot partition saying that your boot partition is >1024 cylinders & can not be mounted, so I used fdisk instead ( after reading the info & help ) & I found it very easy. ] o.k... On the very 1st day, the installation goes fine ( with little difficulties) but there was still some errors such as after shuting down the system it was giving an error - * general protection fault : fooo cpu : 0 EIP : 0050 [<00008881>] [snip] . . . . . . . . . . [snip] * dos partitions were not able to mount [ I tryed ' mount ' command along with editing /etc/fstab file but it didn't work, leaving the message vfat partitions can not be mounted ] $ { why it was not mounting the partitioning ? } * I was not getting a proper screen resolution. which I wanted to solve. So I finally desided to re-install RHL. Sorry for inconveniance, SAMEER :)

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] how to surf using linux
by Nikhil Karkera 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 ketan shah wrote : >tell me how to surf using linux.how to configure modem >settings in linux.how to receive and send hotmail and >yahoo mails using linux I found "Linux in easy steps" to be a nice beginer's book for GNU/Linux (from the 'in easy steps' series). Has most of the simple things people want to do after they install GNU/Linux, like setting the wallpaper on X, connecting to the Net etc. I think it costs a little over Rs.100/= Warm Regards, Nikhil. _________________________________________________________ There is always a better job for you at Monsterindia.com. Go now http://monsterindia.rediff.com/jobs

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Re: Linuxers digest, Vol 1 #545 - 4 msgs
by Vinay Pai 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

Hi linuxers-request, Monday, July 15, 2002, 12:37:34 PM, you wrote: > Send Linuxers mailing list submissions to > linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > linuxers-request(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > You can reach the person managing the list at > linuxers-admin(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Linuxers digest..." > Today's Topics: > 1. Re: problem with modem (Shishir) > 2. RE: About firewalls... (Amarendra Godbole (Intl Vendor)) > 3. Re: [3] Error while transfering install image on HDD- > Out of disk space (Rajen M. Parekh) > --__--__-- > Message: 1 > From: "Shishir" <iamshishir(a)lycos.co.uk> > To: <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] problem with modem > Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 22:27:15 +0530 > Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > Use the L3 string for your modem. > Shishir > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Saswata Banerjee & Associates" <scrap(a)saswatabanerjee.com> > To: <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 9:52 AM > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] problem with modem > Since we are on the topic of modems ..... > I also use Mandrake 8.2. > My modem works fine, but is there any way of making the modem play the line > sound when it dials and connects ? Meaning, while it is dialing and > connecting, I would like to hear the sound from the modem to know if it is > getting the line, dialing, whether line is busy or waiting to connect, etc. > I could not find the relavent option in the control panel > Regards > saswata > --__--__-- > Message: 2 > Subject: RE: [ILUG-BOM] About firewalls... > Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:24:21 +0530 > From: "Amarendra Godbole (Intl Vendor)" <v-amarg(a)microsoft.com> > To: <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in >> Packet filtering alongwith other measures should work. IPchains is >> good try it out. Also use tools like dsniff and nmap to check the >> security of the network.Shutdown services which are not >> needed. And block >> all ports which are not in use. > ...and follow the paranoid approach to security. ``Deny all, allow > selectively.'' You should be enough secure that way... :) > --amar > -- > Amarendra A. Godbole / Microsoft ``Services For UNIX'' / These opinions > are _MINE_. > If anything can go wrong, _FIX_ it. (To hell with MURPHY) > --__--__-- > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:00:32 -0400 (EDT) > From: "Rajen M. Parekh" <rajparekh(a)vsnl.net> > To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [3] Error while transfering install image on HDD- > Out of disk space > Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Sameer Shinde wrote: >> } >> >> On the 3rd day i.e. today, I deleted all the 3 linux partitions of the disk & >> accessed the free space from the windows ( fdisk ) & scanned it for any >> bad sector, which I didn't found on the disk so I again partitioned them >> for linux ( in linux setup) But still get the same message as before i.e. >> " An error occurred while transferring......... " >> >> $ { WHY IS THIS MESSAGE COMMING UP? WHERE IS THE MISTAKE? } >> $ { HOW CAN I COME OVER IT ? } >> > Use fdisk and make necessary partitions, except a seperate partition for > /boot. For booting problems for partitions beyond 1024 cylinder, you > should use loadlin. This shouldn't be a problem with the newer versions of LILO (or Grub). You just need to add "lba32" to /etc/lilo.conf Unfortulately if you use disk druid during RHL installation it still complains if you use a boot partition > 1024

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OT: s/w expert needed ....
by Ulhas Vaidya 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

dear all, an acquitance's company in andheri needs an expert in system integration for one day. this company is involved in iso quality certification (like iso 9000, 9002 etc). the date it would need the expert is 23 /24 july. ideally, the person should have B.E. or equivalent deg with some experience..... the money paid for a day's service will be quite ok (as i think it, of course..) pls call Mr. K. K. Banerjee / Mr. Frances on 6730915 / 16. thank you for your time regards, ulhas

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Hi
by Nilesh Singit 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

Hello, I just installed PCQ Redhat 7.1. on my new P4 1.5 on 10gb hdd with win2000 insstalled on the 40gb. i am able 2 run both win200 and linux with dual booting my prob is that in haste i forgot to configure the vga card, i have asus v3005 32mb, this was not shown in the list. i learnt from a friend that i could've used sis 300 (is it in the list shown by redhat??). now i am not able 2 startx. my question is how do i configure X windows to take the correct drivers for with re-installing linux all over again. my vga card is agp asus v3005 32mb ram monitor is lg studioworks 563N please help! nilesh

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Re: Linuxers digest, Vol 1 #543 - 15 msgs
by Rajendra Shastrakar(Raj) 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

> From: "Amol Hatwar" <amolhatwar(a)rediffmail.com> > To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > Subject: Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] OBJECTIONS to setting up groupware + volunteering for ILUG-Mumbai > Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > > > > At present I feel I would be better off > >with the designing and maintaing of ILUG-Mumbai website. I Notsure wot u guyz are implementing .But i think you can have a look at my zope product http://forums.gnu.org.in/Volunteers

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] HDD in LBA? CHS? Huh?
by Vinay Pai 15 Jul '02

15 Jul '02

>Large (whatever *that* means) FYI "Large" means larger than *gasp* 32MB. (MB, not GB) Basically a remnant of the "640kb oughta be enough for anyone" days.

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Linuxers July 2002