*Minutes of Mark Shuttleworth's talk at IIT-Bombay*
The GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai held an additional GLUG meet in
january at KReSIT, IIT-Bombay. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth
interacted with the GLUG members and shared his views and ideas
regarding ``Free Software'' and how it made a perfect business
sense. This talk was attended by about 60 people coming from all over
the country.
Falling short of time, Mark Shuttleworth quickly talked about the
following points, apart from answering questions.
* Community and its background:
Before starting his talk, Mark was eager to know about the Mumbai's
GLUG community, its background.. since every GLUG is unique in its own
respect. He then talked about his own background and about his
ventures.
* Ubuntu Organisation Structure:
Mark talked about how ubuntu project started and what its goals are,
how Ubuntu project is different from Debian yet how both still manage
to collaborate with each other, how latest packages are adopted from
upstream to make Ubuntu's archives always fresh.
* Business Sense:
Quoting Mark's own words, ``... knowledge and software are
copyable. Their value or quality does not decrease when it is shared..''
According to him, this makes a perfect business sense. Ubuntu project,
and all the best things that they produce, will always remain freely
accessible to the entire community, individuals or large companies
alike. Canonical is in a self sustaining business since it provides
software services to organisations which are willing to hire them.
Canonical has tied up with LPI and plans to start certification
programs for Ubuntu professionals.
* Free CD distribution:
Mark answered several questions related to free software distribution
and the rationale behind it. There are several parts of world where
internet access is extremely costly. Free CDs therefore have an
important role to play.
Some questions were asked about the free CDs that Canonical ships
worldwide and how some people tend to misuse the resources. Mark then
recalled an incident wherein a `gentoo' fanatic tried to drain out
Canonical's money by ordering 500 CDs.
* Dapper Drake Preview:
Mark gave a brief idea about the upcoming ubuntu release codenamed
`Dapper Drake' and why it is going to have a 3 year(desktop)/5
year(server) support cycle and security updates. Dapper is also a
distribution which is going to be certified by third party application
providers like IBM.
Starting from Dapper release, users will have the luxury of a GUI
installation program and a single CD which acts as both live and
installable.
* Freedom Toaster etc.
Answering a question related to Freedom Toaster, Mark explained the
entire concept behind it and how the whole idea came into a reality
during a brainstorming session. We couldn't talk about his space
travel however due to lack of time.
- tea break
Mark personally autographed on Ubuntu CDs and stickers and posed for
group photos. Though he left on time since he had to catch a flight,
but GLUG members continued to interact till tea lasted :)
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*Details of next GLUG meet:
Date: 12 February 2005
-> Agenda : to be decided
-> Location: Some other garden probably.
* Presentation slides:
Presentation slides of Mark's talk will be available from the glug
homepage.
* Pictures:
http://db.glug-bom.org/pics/ <Gallery2 Photo Album>
http://www.glug-bom.org/pics/ <Classic Apache style>
Anurag
--
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gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n.
(recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.
Out of curiosity, I'd like to know how many people on this list work
with computers because it's their job, and how many do it for other
reasons. If computer programming/sys admin was the worst paying job in
the industry, paying something like Rs 2000/- per month, would you still
do it?
Philip
--
Only great masters of style can succeed in being obtuse.
-- Oscar Wilde
Most UNIX programmers are great masters of style.
-- The Unnamed Usenetter
*Minutes of February GLUG-Meet @ HBCSE*
The GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai held its February GLUG meet on
19th February 2006 at HBCSE, Mankhurd. Meet was attended by about 25
people coming from all over the city. This meet consisted more of
technical sessions with handson demonstrations.
Following talks were held.
* Backup and restoring
We started with a talk about backup and restore of data. We saw the
demonstration on how one can use the utilities like tar/cp/rsync to
create incremental/differential backups.
* Professional Certifications - By Mr. Shankar Iyer (RedHat)
Shankar talked about the value of professional certifications in
today's scenario, and the various certifications available from RedHat
for upcoming professionals.
--- tea break :-)
* LaTeX document preparation system - By Ms. Meena (HBCSE)
Meena talked about the oldest and best document preparations system
availabe, LaTeX. Starting with few simple examples demonstrating the
basic text formatting capabilities of LaTeX, we moved on to see how
good LaTeX is at rendering mathematical equations, creating books,
thesis, letters etc.
LaTeX sources of examples covered in the talk are available here:
http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/lug-meetings/Feb-2006/latex-examples.tar.gz
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*Details of next GLUG meet*
Date: To be decided
-> Agenda : Talk on Qt/KDE development
-> Location: To be decided
* Pictures:
Pictures taken in this meet have been posted on ILUG-BOM picture
gallery ``http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/pics/''.
Anurag
--
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gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n.
(recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.
I am currently working on a small PHP project for my college. I am quit
new to it, so this query might seem trivial to you.
What I am trying to do is use the index.php to act as the front page of
the site, as well as be able to handle queries using the GET method. For
example, http://localhost/index.php?search=somestring should work as
well. That is, there might or might not be a query string. All I want to
know is whether such a query string exists or not. And if yes, what
is(are) the parameter(s) (in this case, search is the parameter).
Thanks in advance.
--
Regards,
Sanket Medhi.
Hi folks,
I did attempt a google for this but did not know what search term would
actually pull up a meaningful result for this.
Apparatus/Equipment.
a) SMC wireless dsl router (3 port)
b) three 8 port switches, (dlink, dax, smc)
Setup:
4 ports in each are used to connect to various PCs.
1 port used up to connect to the wireless router.
Problem:
I have had issues with routers where frequent reseting is required.
So to prevent the entire internal network going down because of a bad
router, I decided to make the connections redundant.
So connected Port 6 of dlink to port 6 of Dax.
Port 7 of dlink to port 6 of smc.
Port 7 of dax to port 7 of smc
with the assumption that even if the router fails, i'l have
uninterrupted access.
But this was not to be. Things got messed up, despite enabled
connections, machines would not ping each other or the router.
Then finally removed the links from Switch 1 and 2 to the router and
also the connection from dax to smc and it started working fine.
So what got messed up in the above setup? I am thinking its something
to do with conflicts but not convinced as to why there would be a
conflict?
Can anyone throw some light on this?
thanks
abhi
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Hello All,
Has anybody tried MTNL Triband with entry level (but reliable)
DSL-Ethernet bridge/converter? i.e. simple device which converts
DSL signals to Ethernet signals?
My idea is NOT to go for full fledged router(like DLink-502T) but
use Linux with PPPoE because afterall DLink modem itself uses Linux.
I have read that it works with DLink-502T in bridged mode so it
should work with simple and cheap bridges.
eBay shows such bridges to cost just 5-7$ but I am not sure if it
works with Triband and PPPoE on Linux. That way one can avoid
DSL modem deposit(and have their own bridge at same cost) as well
as monthly rental. And have all the power of Linux firewall/NAT/cron
jobs etc.
Please let me know if someone has tried this and which bridge/converter
was used and how much does it cost?
Thanks in advance.
Amish.
Hi,
I compiled Mplayer on ubuntu breezy. It's working fine except that when i
change to full screen mode, it runs slowly. The picture moves slowly. I have
AMD 64 with MSI K8MMV motherboard. It has unichrome video card. I m using
1280x1024 resolution in vesa mode. I tried changing to VIA Unichrome, but X
fails.
Can anybody suggest me solution for this.
Thanks & regards
Manish
Hi,
I would like to announce the availability of Perl module
Finance::Bank::HDFC version 0.12 on the CPAN.
>From the docs:
NAME
Finance::Bank::HDFC - Interface to the HDFC netbanking service
SYNOPSIS
use Finance::Bank::HDFC;
my $bank = Finance::Bank::HDFC->new;
$bank->login(
cust_id => xxx,
password => xxx,
);
print $bank->get_balance . "\n";
$bank->logout;
DESCRIPTION
This module provides an interface to the HDFC netbanking
service at
https://netbanking.hdfcbank.com/netbanking/
Changes in v0.12:
- Module Readonly used for constants
- Added method set_timeout
- All methods die on errors
- Code cleanup
- sample script in scripts/get_balance.pl
- Added TODO file in distribution
You can read more about it and download it here:
http://search.cpan.org/~rohan/Finance-Bank-HDFC-v0.12.0/lib/Finance/Bank/HD…
-
Rohan
http://rohan.almeida.in
