Linuxers February 2006

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Re: How to IM from behind a SQUID proxy on a GNU/Linux box? Here is a solution...
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

> Heh, so if I start a website of my own, with pretty pictures and > colours, will you give me your IM passwords as well? I think Philip is raving mad! What prompted you to think that only meebo and not Yahoo!, Google or Microsoft will be having our IM passwords and sneaking into our privacy? By the way I will greatly appreciate it if Philip is able to come up with a solution to IMing from behind a proxy.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: How to IM from behind a SQUID proxy on a GNU/Linux box? Here is a solution...
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

>> I think Philip is raving mad! What prompted you to think that only >> meebo and not Yahoo!, Google or Microsoft will be having our IM >> passwords and sneaking into our privacy? > To be able to authenticate to Yahoo!, you need to know a username and > password from that service. You are not supposed to share that with > anyone else. > Meebo is effectively able to MITM your IM conversations. But thats not the point. Yahoo! may very well read every e-mail IM that I have ever sent. Who told you that the Yahoo! guys ae absolute saints not prone to mischief. Its a matter of trust. If you trust Yahoo!, very well, go forward and use its services. If you trust meebo then go ahead. If you do not then, very well again. But do not spread your mistrust, until you have very sound reasons to back your claims. Can you prove how Yahoo! is more trustable than meebo? >> By the way I will greatly appreciate it if Philip is able to come up >> with a solution to IMing from behind a proxy. > There is always Jabber. Plus, if you _do_ need IM from work, you should > be able to get a hole poked in the proxy. Alternatively, you could > always telecommute, or even get another job. Hahaha my dear friend, you have got it all wrong. I do not do a job, I study in an university where every other Windows IM client works. Yahoo! MEssenger, Google Talk, Rediff Bol, etc.. Therefore the university has no policy to block IM. But not a single UNIX based client works. Not even Gaim, Kopete, Yahoo! Messenger for UNIX. Needless to say that I have tried using Jabber on Gaim. The simple reason being that the Windows clients piggyback the IM packets on HTTP packets and use port 80 for their job, while the UNIX based ones do not. Hence the problem. Those who have attended Mark's talk on making GNU/Linux more desktop friendly, we have to work out solutions that work on Windoze and GNU/Linux equally well. So do not talk about stuff that require obscure hacking to make them work. I do not have any problem with them, but laymen do have problems doing so! For your kind information a lot of UNIX based utilities like CVS are very difficult to get to work from behind a proxy (in my case SQUID)! I expect an answer to my poblems...

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HELP !!! vsftp
by Sushant Gulati 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

hello all, i am in a major problem at present, i need help regarding an error "OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable anonymous root". Actually i hav to give a demonstration of my project and this ftp portion is a critical part of that. But the problem arises, when i uses ncftp for uploading a file to the ftp server. When i use ncftp command via a shell script, this errot pops up. Also wheni try connecting to the ftp through terminal by giving command ncftp or ftp, and try using any of the commands available within the ftp prompt, it gives an errot "not connected" tell me what my problem is and help me out. I have enable all the anonymous user related options in the vsftpd.conf file. KINDLY HELP ME OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Warm regards, Sushant __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Diskless Networking
by neel s Gurjar 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

Hi I have suse 10. & I want to do diskless networking. My server is P4 2.Ghz 256 MB RAM. And I have clients (which will be diskless) of P2 333 Mhz 32 to 64 MB RAM. I need GUI on clientside. How can i do it ? without using LTSP ? Please help me Neel

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how to change my yahoo id
by madina bikiteyeva 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

good day every body please advise me how to change my yahoo id thanks --------------------------------- Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses!

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OpenLX at Linux Asia
by Sudhir Gandotra 05 Feb '06

05 Feb '06

KalCulate & OpenLX Alliance Invites you to the Yearly Event on Linux Linux Asia 2006 8th, 9th & 10th February 2006 09 am till 6 pm (on all days) Stall No. A-12, India Habitat Center Lodhi Road, New Delhi Please consider this a personal invitation and do visit to encourage and bless us with your best wishes To all those who have been and are supporting us, having faith in us and making us stronger; To all those who opposed us & made us stronger; To all those who manipulated us & made us stronger; We are happy with what we have achieved, We feel stronger to achieve more & more, Our thanks to all, that we can have our own stall, at this prestigious event. Kalculate is being bundled by OEMs & has over 3000 users, OpenLX Linux is bundled by OEMs, 25,000+ copies distributed and being used in 30+ countries, with daily Downloads happening across the InterNet, and positive & encouraging reviews across the globe, OpenLX Alliance has partners in India, Mauritius, Middle-east, USA, UK and growing bigger. We are working to achieve our Global aims. We will be launching more products & services at the show. -- Peace, Force & Joy! Sudhir Gandotra. 98-101-20918 / 93-124-65666 OpenLX Linux OS, Linux Training, Support, Services, Product Development Legal.Software @ Fractional Cost : http://kalculate.com http://openlx.com - International Alliance of LINUX companies You don't need violence to shake the world Treat Others As You Would Have Them Treat You www.humanistmovement.org

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PPPOE keeps disconnecting
by Shekhar Sherikar 05 Feb '06

05 Feb '06

Hey people Will someone please help me out with this? I access the Internet via pppoe. I am using Fedora Core 3 and Win XP dual boot machine. Prior to FC3 (1 year), I had been using FC1 (1 year), Red Hat 8 (1 year). The connection is working fine with WinXP's (using default pppoe option in connect setup). The problem is with the connection and my Linux install - that the connection works fine for say, a minute ot so. Then though ppp0 shows to be up in ifconfig, ping <domain> (say, ping google.com) gives me "Host not Found" messege when I ping. Needless to say that my browser gives me the same error when I try to access a website. The funny thing is that previously resolved DNS (such as an on-going download) continues, but new queries do not resolve after a minute or so of the network start. When I restart the network using /etc/init.d/network restart, the same story repeats - DNS resolving fine for some time and then it doesn't work. I even tried using latest FC3 update of rp-pppoe, but things look the same. The most frustating thing is that things worked perfectly with the same connection since I got it in September till a week ago. Then my provider changed something that made the pppoe connection not connect at all. The guy kept telling me that my system had a 'virus' or 'bad sectors' and to re-install some 'ras-pppoe' for Windows. After I told the guy that I cannot connect despite threatened the provider that I'll throw out his connection along with the switch (which connect 1 more connection beyond mine), he sends his incompetant Windows guys who tell me all sorts of crap including boo-boo stories of viruses and what not. Eventually, I got them 4 lan cards and one more machine to test things on and had them admit that the only problem was with their server setup. Then a day later the incompetant guy at the server made some changes and now the connection works with Windows. But not with Linux. Since I mostly like to use Linux for everything, I am pretty depressed and frustrated. If anyone can help me with this issue, I'd be grateful.

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Create a custom GNU/Linux network install image
by प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A) 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

Hi, Built on LinuxCOE a powerful set of tools recently open sourced by Hewlett Packard, Instalinux makes installing Linux easier than ever. http://www.instalinux.com/ LinuxCOE http://linuxcoe.sourceforge.net/ News stories: http://linux.sys-con.com/read/176353.htm Almost the same - http://www.pclinuxonline.com/article.php?sid=10355 Cheers Praveen -- "GNU is the system, and Linux is the kernel." A proud GNU user http://www.gnu.org Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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centOS 4.2: Does anyone have it? south mumbai or otherwise?
by Abhishek Daga 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

Hi, Anyone has the CDs for CentOS 4.2? Could I borrow your copy and burn and return or if you can spare yours can I have them ? in return you can have the blanks and/or ? thanks! abhi ps: mail me direct with your number and I'll call you. *********************************************************************** According to the theory of aerodynamics, a bumble bee cannot fly. A bumble bee is not aware of this theory and so it decides to fly anyway. *********************************************************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Workshops for Awareness
by Roshan 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Kind Attn: Rony Sir I had made a request earlier for a Seminar on GNU/Linux and got a good response for the same. Novell India's Employee decided to conduct but due to some time constraints, it could go further. Recently, I read the minutes of the past meeting, and found that GLUG MUMBAI plans to conduct workshops for awareness. I study in S. K. Somaiya College of Arts, Science and Commerce pursuing Third Year BSc (I. T.). We have department of I.T. and Computer Science and a few students would be interested to know about GNU/Linux. Kindly inform me how does GLUG plans to go about this and what I am supposed to be doing and who to be in touch with. _____________________________ www.geocities.com/d_rosh2001 If there's anything that you want to ask about related to computers and information technology email me at any of the following addresses 1) d_rosh2001(a)yahoo.co.in I think I should be able to help you If you don't know something, its always better to learn it and then experiment with components! PLAN THINGS BEFORE EXECUTION! Visit http://www.somaiya.edu The internet is the biggest Library, laboratory and the Classroom independent of location but dependent on computer with an internet connection! --------------------------------- Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket

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