Linuxers August 2005

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I can not surf the NET
by Rajat malhotra 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hi rony > Just see if this helps. Add this line below in your > kppp in the script 'After Connect' section or simply >su after connecting to the net and issue the same >command. Logout from su and check if you can surf. > 'route add default ppp0' without the quotes. Did the same as you said but it doesn't work and i am not able to understand that i did the same thing on woody and had no problem even Fedora, No why Sarge? I also did this after seeing google usermod -G dialout pppusers dip user as i saw somebody saying about it, Made resolv.conf readable by all. Still only ROOT can surf. Help....... Rajat __________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your friends 'n family snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://in.photos.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

On Thursday 13 December 2018 03:36, Mukund Deshmukh wrote: > > VIA makes ITX mini board, which is as good as regular mobo but > small in size. > It also has 5.1 Dolby sound output , hardware MPEG4 and much more. > > It boots up via USB flash drive. Only a single pci slot. You always seem to require one more than available. That apart it is a great platform to do all sorts of stuff. And most important Via has gpld the drivers and provided documentation (mostly incomprehensible). The simputer guys should take a cue and use this platform. BTW what is the cost and availability. rgds jtd

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Mail server Valid IP
by Ramang G 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hi all, For installing a mail server (postfix) for an organisation, is it necessary to have one Valid IP? or not an issue. please explain? Raman __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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which perl extension
by onkar mahajan 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

I know C C++ java system level programming , I also know perl (general) , which perl extension is suitable for systems programming line.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 19:16, Rony Bill wrote: > Trevor Warren wrote: > > MP3_PCB_ASSEM MP3 Player Board, Fully Assembled and > > Tested $150 > > MP3_DISPLAY LCD Display For MP3 Player, 24x8, with > > Pushbuttons and Cables $42 > > CABLE_IDE_LAPTOP Cable for Laptop (2.5 inch) IDE Hard > > Drive, 1.4 Inch Length $9 > > STANDOFF Standoff Set For Mounting Laptop Hard Drive > > $3 > > PWR_12VDC 12 Volt DC Power Adaptor (US only) $8 > > SIMM_32M Standard 72 Pin SIMM, 32 Megs, Used $8 > > Totals :- 220$ > > For learning purposes see if you can manage with a normal HDD > instead of a laptop's. That will bring down your costs and use > locally available cables. Make your own power supply. Are the cables available?. > > JTD can guide on this. Can a pci i/o card (Rs. 1k2 only) be used > with some extra circuit (without any mobo) to get access to a HDD You can use an 8bit 8052 micon to connect an ide device (cdrom / hdd). You will get raw access at about 300kbps. Afaik filesystem drivers on 8052 will be useless due to performance issues (maybe dosfs on a 50Mhz device will work). > and then convert its signals into mp3 using an open source program > loaded into a memory chip? Software decoding of MP3 on 8 bitters is a no no. Hardware decoders / encoders yes. But the cost of 32bit arm / mips / sh micons with onchip flash, ram and mp3 encoder /decoders is about $8 retail. Adding an ide is easy. Or even better add usb driver ic at $1. Get USB to ide disk dabba from Lamington Rd. stick in 400gb hdd and freak out. The problem is that there is vast array of devices available to do a given job. Couple that with the even wider choice of GNU software and the decision making process becomes never ending - even for a fun thing. Was the 8051 and ISA better? I need to think before i decide |-/ > Can pci standards be used on a pci card > without a pci slot mobo? No. The PCI signals require special drivers to reduce signal bounce and switching power consumption in order to run at high speeds, apart from other requirements like irq routing and dynamic address and dma assignment etc. The old ISA bus was simple to interface with but was pathetic at i/o. Even on a 386 33MHz signal bounce was a nightmare with dma transfers. The RD and WR signals would pulse twice causing all sorts of problems. rgds jtd

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Grub's splash screen.
by Sameer Niphadkar 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 Shakthi Kannan wrote : >Hi, > >--- Raj Shaz <rajshas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I just want to make a cool grub > > splash screen and i > Try these steps to colour and make your own Grub boot screen Here's how: (You need to have root access) 1)Start the GIMP. 2)Click on File->New or type Ctrl+N 3)In the new image dialog, change Width to 640 pixels and Height to 480 pixels. (The image should be of size 640x480 pixels.) Now click OK. 4)Create the image which you would like to be the splash image. It's quite fun to experiment with the various tools of the GIMP! 5)After you have finished creating the image, hit Alt+i or right click on the image and click on Image->Mode->Indexed... 6)In the Indexed Color Conversion dialog that appears, click on the radio button "Generate optimal Palette" and in "# of colors" enter 14. Click OK.(The image should be of only 14 colors) 7)Now right-click on the image and click on File->Save As...Save the file as splash.xpm in a directory of your choice. 8)Now open a terminal window and navigate to the directory where you have saved splash.xpm 9)Now key in gzip splash.xpm 10)You will find that a file named splash.xpm.gz is created in the directory where splash.xpm used to exist. 11)Copy this splash.xpm.gz to the /boot/grub directory. You may want to back up the pre-existing splash.xpm.gz file in the /boot/grub directory first. That's it! When you reboot, you will find your image in the background, with the menu of operating systems etc. in the foreground 'You will be what you WILL to Be' -James Allen

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[announce]Prabhat Workshop at KRESIT IITB
by Sameer Niphadkar 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi, For your updates do check this out http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/ita/workshops/prabhat05/index.php?id=home rgds Sameer 'You will be what you WILL to Be' -James Allen

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Freedom Toaster
by Ninad Bapat 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi Look at this link. http://edison.tsf.org.za/toaster/ It is a vending machine which writes linux cd's for you. How about some thing like this in India may be for a start Thanks Ninad

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 09:56, Trevor Warren wrote: > That totals to about 220$ with i do not know how much > for a Laptop HDD. Rs.4k afair > Apart from this all we need to also > account for a custom casing to have these plugged in. > It will turn out to be about 15Grand over all. > > For that price we can purchase an AppleIpod which is > far more compact and robust and pretty portable out of > the box. Since i know a close friend who has just > obtained one for 14Grand with about 20Gb in storage. > > Whatda say????. U can load uclinux on some models. http://www.ipodlinux.org/ Or buy some taiwnese clones at about 7k. But u still cant beat the combo in my previous mail. rgds jtd

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I can not surf the NET
by Rajat malhotra 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi I am a newbie to the list and linux. Lately i installed Sarge 3.1 and when i try to surf the net from root i can but when i try to do the same from user, mozilla says "Website not found" Same with GAIM, Kopete and others. SO presently i pull up my terminal and issue the su command and from there fire mozilla to surf. Is there a way where i can surf as a normal user. I channged pppd to suid "chmod 4660 /usr/sbin/pppd" even that doesn't work. Can somebody help me here. THanks in Advance . Rajat __________________________________________________________ Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Yahoo! Mail: http://in.mail.yahoo.com

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Linuxers August 2005