Linuxers August 2005

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player
by vaibhav samant 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

>Not sure if it will meet your requirements, but, you >can check out LART, worth 230 UK pounds: > >http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/ > >SK Why go pounds ??? Apna desi Simputer costs only about 10K, and has an inbuilt MP3 player. Unless ur idea is to learn making ur own MP3 player.... Vai

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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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[Announcement] Upcoming Agile Conferences in India
by Naresh Jain 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Namaste Team, The Agile Software Community of India [ASCI] is organizing 2 more conferences in India 19th and 20th Aug 2005 - Pune 27th and 28th Aug 2005 - Mumbai [revised dates] Details of the same can be found @ http://agileIndia.org Naresh Jain

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need to build an embedded mp3 player
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

On Monday 01 August 2005 08:24, vaibhav samant wrote: > >Not sure if it will meet your requirements, but, you > >can check out LART, worth 230 UK pounds: > Why go pounds ??? > Apna desi Simputer costs only about 10K, and has an inbuilt MP3 > player. Unless ur idea is to learn making ur own MP3 player.... For real bang for the buck nothing can beat the i386 pc. The compromise is power consumption (as in cant use a battery) and size (as in cant carry around). A via cle266 based mobo with 1.6Ghz onboard cpu costs around Rs.3100. Add 128mb ram, 40gb drive, cd and box. Total Rs. 8600/-. Add 2 line lcd and remote =Rs.1200/-. Add 15" LCD, pixelview tuner card, audigy sound card and creative speakers and DVD/cd combo = Rs.26800. Load Mythtv and friends. You have a full blown home entertainment Personal Video / Audio Recording system which should last for the next 5 yrs. It should beat the crap out of commercial stuff costing 4 times as much. You need a 105db noise floor sound card to match the pros. I am renovating my place and am doing precisely the above. I am going to add an LCD projector. My amp is a home brew 200w rms mosfet thingy. For starters i will be using my 100w 3way 20 yr old homebrew speakers (after limiting the amp ofcourse). I might build a pair of Electro Static Loudspeakers tho. The mid and high clarity and definition is astounding with ESLs. I will be loading linux bios for fast booting and will run it from a usb pendrive. In order to reduce harddisk wear load all songs into ramdisk and stop the hd.One problem area will be the SMPS. The ones in the pc are perfect audio and rf noise sources. Embeded boards are expensive because of miniscule volumes. Their advantage is battery operations, low heat, no moving parts and compact size. Relative to their cost the performance is pathetic. If you do not need the embedded intrinsic advantages use the i386. rgds jtd

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User logging
by Richard Chang 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi all, How do I keep a log of a user logged in. I mean I want to know what is he doing right now and what commands he has run and also what is he currently running. Is there a way to keep log all these. I want it to be automated if possible. Thanks, rc

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Re: Cyberoam trouble
by dushyant sharma 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

> he upgraded it. Now it uses Cyberoam version 6.5.0.5. linc-daemon is unable to login :(. It does say "login sucessfull" but I am unable to connect to > any websites. The same configuration was working fine before he upgraded. He >> wasn't very co-operative the last time I had enquired about getting his >> connection working on Linux. Plus he has this weird idea that Linux is a > "hacker" (or cracker) OS. I am 100% sure that the configuration is correct. > Nevertheless I tried I tried the client which is distributed by cyberoam. It >> doesn't work either. It says "You have successfully logged into > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" yet I can't connect to websites. It just get stuck after > name resolution. As I said earlier I am 100% sure that there is no > configuration problem. It is definitely due to some misconfiguration on the > ISP's side or the protocol isn't supported by linc-daemon. u can u can call them on this #56450200, this is their customer support and just ask for tech support i hope this helps

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2 hard disks and formatting
by Ninad Bapat 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi I have 2 hdds both 40gb. ( Say D1 and D2) I have 2 pc's (say P1 and P2) P1- new with P4,256mb ram CDR/DVD combo drive etc.and D1 is connected here P2 old IBM branded celeron 500 64 mb RAM 52x CD ROM drive BIOS does not support CD booting and D2 is connected here The P1 pc boots XP and FC3 as XP is used by my brother. Also I have installed 2 more distros on this. As the P2 pc does not have a FDD and CD boot is not possible I was not able to load any distros except ubuntu so it was lying idle for some time I removed D2 from the old PC P2 and connected in the P1 Pc The P1 Pc is detecting it as Primary master and Primary slave. Even FC3 recognises it as hdb. My problems 1.I do not remember what filesystem I have created on D2 although FC3 shows some partitions. I am unable to mount them. 2. Sometimes after booting FC3 or even Slackware when I run dmesg I get some errors of DisK_read io error 3.How do i format D2 and create partitions on the same 4.My D2 is showing as 32gb even though it is 40 gb. Can this be resolved by formatting it new Thanks and regards Ninad Bapat

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Grub's splash screen.
by Raj Shaz 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

hi grp need to know few things. If u tried ubuntu the grub which comes has a table format , how is that made? can that be removed without compiling a new kernel? . I just want to make a cool grub splash screen and i dont want that box and those notes. one solution is to change the color of the box and the text. But itz not the correct way. Any Idea? Raj

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rate oss
by Trevor Warren 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

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[ot]cableTV+linux+wireless
by Trevor Warren 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Afternoon Guys, Have been trying to find someone who can help me bridge a solution for me wireless needs. At home we have a x86 box with gnu-linux on it and am planning to have a combo card fitted on it. The Co-Ax for the cable TV will terminate on it. From here i will want to transmit these signals to tbe bedroom where i want to install a smaller TV set. Does anyone have any idea of the options i should be looking at. If you have any URL's please send them across and i will gladly RTFM. Thanks fellas and take care. Trevor |------|____________________________________|------| ( >- / Scaling FreeSoftware & OpenSource \ -< ) /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | |_|_ \____________________________________/ _|_| ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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