Linuxers April 2006

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Wireless Mesh
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dinesh Joshi <dinesh.a.joshi(a)gmail.com> To: linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:22:32 +0000 Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Wireless Mesh On Saturday 15 April 2006 16:30, jtd wrote: > I hate you. I hate you. I hate you for evoking more of my interest > :( Um...bad timing I guess but next week we have continuous practical > exams and vivas :( I was keeping away from this highly interesting > thread. May be you guys could demo this again in July? ( please ) > Engineering students will be free only in June - July. Very true. I can vouch for that since I am an engineering undergraduate too. > *curses Mumbai University's bad timing* Then you got to curse a hell lot of universities too. :D Well I am not even in Mumbai, not even within a 1000 km radius of the city. However I will be coming to Bombay this summer. Could we have a meet sometime in June/July regarding this. I am very interested to discover what all can be achieved with my notebook's wireless LAN card (Intel Pro 2200). Debarshi Ray

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Mutt File
by Rony Bill 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

Hello All, Since some days I have been going through various docs and sample .muttrcs on the net on how to configure mutt. I got the overall pictire and how set commands are used to set parameters in .muttrc . However it would be great if I could get a sample muttrc file for the following purpose, without any fancy pgp or macro stuff. I plan to use it as a stand alone application to send and receive our group messages using my yahoo pop/smtp server. Regards, Rony. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux Education - Continuation
by Roshan 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

>Hi, >Sorry for not replying to the original thread, I've >deleted the >thread.. No problem, its back now ;) >Anyway, my friend is studying B.Sc. Physics. He just >gave his final >year >theory exams last week and has his practicals next >week. The >interesting thing is, that this year, for the first >time, from what he >says, Linux has been included in the syllabus. Quite Interesting. Infact, I was a bit surprised, I thought physics had more of electronics rather than Software! And wow!, more Physics graduates might now probably understand why they should be using GNU/LINUX >He had to study 8085 Microprocessor, Operating >Systems and hardware >basics etc. There was also a topic specifically >devoted to Linux versus >Windows. This question appeared in the exam paper. Umm..Generally, I am against a comparison, but I would only encourage using GNU/Linux for different purposes. >For the last couple of days, he has been practising >basic CLI on my >box. >8085, MS Office and Linux command line weighs 30 >marks in total, in the >practicals, apparently. Is he using Wipro KWin on Windows for practising Linux commands?.. >I think that's good news? What do the luggers think? This is good. BSc (Comp. Sci.) has something about GNU/Linux, as I had posted in the original thread, but they don't seem to be savvy for GNU/Linux in my COLLEGE. >Mrugesh >P.S. Only gripe being the use of MS Office >specifically... Aah..probably MS-CIT also teaches how to use MS Office, as it is more common in many offices, rather than Open Office Org __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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Re: Linux Education - Continuation
by Roshan 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

> "Vivek J. Patankar" <list307(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I see that changing in the near future. ICICI Bank > recently pushed the > installation of OO.o on all it's corporate desktops > as part of a major > cost cutting effort. And were talking of a lot of > desktops here, > thousands. Oh wow! This is amazing!..But would they be using it on Windows?.... Probably, they might consider migrating to GNU/Linux later..sometime.. __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] FW: [OT] - OSS Philosophy Explained
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Infra, Energy) 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

>All free software is open source software. Here free refers to freedom, we are >not talking of money. Right, I think this qualifies as mass-miscommunication of all readers of that mag. It just sent me to sel-questioning mode. -- Gishu

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Hard disk upgrade
by pitcom＠vsnl.com 15 Apr '06

15 Apr '06

I want to upgrade a dual boot 32gb hdd to 80gb hdd partition table as: hda1 fat32 hda5 fat32 hda6 fat32 had7 fat32 hda3 linux (Debian/Lilo) hda4 Swap Also available an utility from hdd vendor for win platform to partition/copy (Seagate). Suggest the upgrade. Regards Kamlesh

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Posgresql help
by Amit 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

Hi All, I have installed posgresql 8.1 database in my system(RHEL3) . It was installed perfectly and i also compiled it with gmake and gmake install later. i added user posgres for creating database and made him owner of /usr/local/pgsql directory . I created a db called db1 with initdb -D and createdb command and all the datas were located at /usr/local/pgsql/data .but when i tried to create a user or start teh database with psql .. it throws an error saying server is not running locally.. three questions 1) what port does posgresql listen? 2) What services i need to start? 3) Later how do i integrate with apache in future. Which sharedlibrarly do i need for that? Rgds AK

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FW: [OT] - OSS Philosophy Explained
by Pillai, Gishu R (GE Infra, Energy) 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

-----Original Message----- From: Pillai, Gishu R (GE Infra, Energy) Sent: 10 April 2006 18:10 To: 'GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India' Subject: [OT] - OSS Philosophy Explained -----Original Message----- From: linuxers-bounces(a)mm.glug-bom.org [mailto:linuxers-bounces@mm.glug-bom.org]On Behalf Of Frederick Noronha (FN) Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Digit April 2006... and FLOSS >* Fast track to [GNU]Linux, a 178-page handy guide small-sized. Hey glad that you brought this up.. Just watched Revolution OS this weekend + then I bought this Digit copy The fast track guide says pg 16. top - "Free software need not be open source" Is this true? I thought free = free to improve and distrib... Since this is from Digit, I don't take it on face value. Also on the business model (can of worms alert), Stallman n co say that the money lies in providing support to OSS. The movie showed that despite initial hoopla, VA Linux went down under due to mounting losses. Anyone know of a slightly more lived success story? This is an aspect that bothers me at times. -- Gishu

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Formation of Ubuntu India
by Baishampayan Ghose 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [Sorry for cross-posting] Hello fellow Ubunteros, Greetings!!! Hope by this time you would have known that the Ubuntu Indian Local Community Team has got the Official Status from the Council. See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/IndianTeam We have a few requests as well as announcements to be made. * Firstly we would appreciate if the GLUG's have their Local Ubuntu Teams who will be responsible for creating awareness about Ubuntu and Ubuntu-In community and also distribute the Ubuntu CDs in their Monthly meets or FOSS Events organised by placing bulk orders. [http://shipit.ubuntu.com] * We request you to create a Wiki page for your Local Team on our ubuntu-in.org website and start posting/contributing. Once you have created a wiki page kindly link it from http://ubuntu-in.org/wiki/Regional_Teams For e.g.. Once you have created a wiki page for your regional team say [Ubuntu_Chennai] kindly go to the Regional_Teams wiki page mentioned above and add your team name and link it. * You can help us in Localisation/translation/Packaging for Dapper as well as future Ubuntu releases. * Contribute Articles, Documentations, Frequently Asked Questions /Answers * Keep giving suggestions to help make Ubuntu better for us and the world. You can subscribe to ubuntu-in mailing list to get the latest information: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in Hang around in our IRC channel #ubuntu-in @ irc.freenode.net "Live the Spirit of Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings" Regards, BG - -- Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose(a)ubuntu.com> Ubuntu -- Linux for Human Beings http://www.ubuntu.com/ 1024D/86361B74 BB2C E244 15AD 05C5 523A 90E7 4249 3494 8636 1B74 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEP6rtQkk0lIY2G3QRAgrdAJ4lcxWe51bt023ufJbxbDViPTWKQwCguuvv NH+vR1W49mZIz/xLCrztfDg= =6Cvr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Linux goes to High Court!!
by Mukund Deshmukh 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

Hi, The Linux has penetrated to High Courts of Maharashtra and soon will enter district and session courts too. The online information system is based on linux. The IVRS is based on low cost external modem and my Perl module for IVRS (http://search.cpan.org/~mukund/Ivrs-0.24/Ivrs.pm) The online information system is being extended to 350 courts of Maharashtra. The project was completed by NIC Pune team. Best Regards, Mukund Deshmukh. Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd 10/1, IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur-440022 Cell - 9422113746

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