Linuxers September 2002

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command mode screen-saver
by Nikhil Joshi 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

hi! I've observed that in character mode the monitor screen blanks if the PC is left unattended for some 10-15 mins. where is this setting located ? As a non-privileged user i gave this command: $ setterm -powersave powerdown -powerdown 1 but the monitor doesn't turn off after 1 min. Also has anyone used a screensaver for character mode? P.S. I'm beginning to luv char mode God help me !! ;) -- Nikhil

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Enabling AGP support on my Intel 850 with nVidia VANTA
by Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

Hi, For some reason AGP stays disabled in my kernel, according to /proc. Does that mean anything? My card was correctly recognised and configured by XFree86 4. I had compiled AGP support into my kernel, not as a module. trantor5:~# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status Status: Disabled trantor5:~# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card Fast Writes: Not Supported SBA: Not Supported AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x Registers: 0x1f000007:0x00000000 trantor5:~# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge Host Bridge: Intel i850 Fast Writes: Supported SBA: Supported AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x Registers: 0x1f000217:0x00000000 trantor5:~# cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.18/ trantor5:/usr/src/linux-2.4.18# grep AGP .config CONFIG_AGP=y CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y # CONFIG_AGP_I810 is not set <-- could this be the problem? # CONFIG_AGP_VIA is not set # CONFIG_AGP_AMD is not set # CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set # CONFIG_AGP_ALI is not set # CONFIG_AGP_SWORKS is not set trantor5:/usr/src/linux-2.4.18# uname -a Linux trantor5 2.4.18 #4 Sat Aug 31 14:23:24 IST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux -- MTech Student, Reconfigurable Computing Lab, KReSIT, IIT-Bombay. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sheriff Chameleotoptor sighed with an air of weary sadness, and then turned to Doppelgutt and said 'The Senator must really have been on a bender this time -- he left a party in Cleveland, Ohio, at 11:30 last night, and they found his car this morning in the smokestack of a British aircraft carrier in the Formosa Straits.' -- Grand Panjandrum's Special Award, 1985 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

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Attn programmers: support offered [FLOSS-Sarai Initiative]
by Frederick Noronha 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

Dear friends, Can we manage to get some money into backing Free/Libre Open Source Software initiatives, that would help young volunteers out there to support their cash-strapped initiatives? Sarai.net, a Delhi-based initiative under the CSDS (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies) has been solidly supportive of such an idea. Jeebesh Bagchi <jeebesh(a)sarai.net> sent in this offer recently. It could surely be of help particularly to college students and others wanting to make a break in Free Software/Open Source, but hamstrung by resources. It might help if projects are initially kept small and definitely workable, I guess. This is my own gut-level feeling, but maybe bigger initiatives which are clearly workable could also prove convincing. If such experiments prove useful, maybe there would be a good case for greater support to free software/open source developers in regions like ours. --FN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi (www.sarai.net) invites applications for Support Grants to projects in the area of Free Software, Open Source Software and Social Usage of Software Sarai invites programmers (practictioners as well as students) to propose projects in the area of free and open source software applications relevant to educational, social and community needs. We are looking for original ideas, as well as proposals to localize and adapt existing software and applications to South Asian conditions, For example - Desktops in Hindi, Open Office and Gimp in Hindi. Lighter versions of desktops like KDE, Innovations that creatively optimises older lower configuration machines, Linux documentation in Hindi, games using local context, etc. What is Sarai Sarai is a public initiative of media practitioners and scholars looking at media cultures and urban life. Sarai's interests are in the field of old and new media, information and communication technologies, free software, cinema, and urban space - its politics, built form, ecology, culture and history, with a strong commitment to making knowledge available in the public domain. It is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. For more information visit www.sarai.net. Sarai is committed to promoting the free software and open source vision. Conditions: Applicants should be resident in India, and should have a bank account in any bank operating in India. These are support grants and grantees will be free to pursue their primary occupations, if any. Mail your project proposal, workplan and CV to both the following addresses: <application(a)sarai.net> with a copy to <fred(a)bytesforall.org>. Please mark your subjectline 'FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) Initiative'. Also point out what you see as the relevance of your work, and how you plan to share the resultant software once finalised. Enquires: dak(a)sarai.net Last date for submission: October 15th, 2002. Note: Proposals from teams, partnerships, collectives, faculty are welcome, so long as the grant amount is administered by a single individual, and the funds are deposited in a single bank account in the name of an individual. -------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Statistical Analysis in PHP
by Amol Hatwar 01 Sep '02

01 Sep '02

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 Philip S Tellis wrote : >On 29 Aug 2002, Amol Hatwar wrote: > > > If you need the functions to be fast - they should be; (PHP is >about > > speed) we can implement it in C, and extend PHP. Perhaps, even >get our > >AFAIK, PHP is nowhere near as fast as C (and friends), LISP, >Perl, Ruby >and Python. Philip :), give me something authoritative to believe you. And besides that my mail wasn't even about what is fast! Regards, -ah.

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Open Source + Government
by Frederick Noronha 01 Sep '02

01 Sep '02

Thanks to Sunil Abraham of Bangalore for posting this across to the BytesForAll mailing list. FN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Dear B4A Readers, Venezuela's Government Shifts to Open Source Software: The announcement, made on Wednesday, stated that from now on, all software developed for the government must be licenced under the GPL. The entire policy was summed up in this statement by Dr. Felipe P�rez-Mart�, Planning and Development Minister: "Open source whenever possible, propietary software only when necesary." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-08-30-011-26-NW-LL-PB Open-Source Government One thing most technology experts can agree on is that California's state government has squandered billions on ill-conceived information-technology (IT) projects in recent years. Whether it was the more than $100 million in taxpayer funds that state authorities admit were wasted on the state's automated child-support system or the more recent purchase of thousands of unneeded software licenses from Oracle, the sorry record is painfully clear. California desperately needs a more workable IT plan. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/08/29/osg… Thanks, Sunil ===== Sunil Abraham [MAHITI] 314/1, 7th Cross, Domlur Bangalore - 560 071 Karnataka, INDIA Ph/Fax: +91 80 5352003. Pager: 9624 279519 sunil(a)mahiti.org http://www.mahiti.org _______________________________________________ Bytesforall_Readers mailing list Bytesforall_Readers(a)mail.sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/bytesforall_readers

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Linuxers September 2002