Linuxers July 2006

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Microsoft Sponsored ODF plugin
by Harsh Busa 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/07/microsoft_sponsored_odf_plugin.h… <snip> Some very interesting ice thawing out there, and I'm not talking about the arctic tundra (though that's melting too at a rather disturbing rate …). Gerald Bauer, a friend and noted expert in the XUL space twigged my attention to a recently deployed Source Forge project to develop an Open Office ODF plugin for Microsoft Word 2007 (http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/). While there are a number of participants involved, what I find most interesting is this entry: Microsoft (Funding, Architectural & Technical Guidance and Project co-coordination) While this may be simply a tacit recognition of the writing on the wall, I find it fascinating nonetheless that this is being done 1) as a source-forge project, 2) with both funding and apparent blessing from Microsoft, and 3) that it seems to be a very real effort to reach out to the OSS community in a meaningful way on a technology that could be seen as directly competitive. Watch that space closely - I sense that there are shifts and strains going on at the intermediate management level within Microsoft that may prove to be critical for the evolution of the company in the next several years, and this quiet little project may be simply the vanguard of this approach. </snip> -- __________________________ http://www.ebackend.com/blog

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Netgear Wireless PCMCIA Card in RHEL 4 WS
by Richard 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Hi, I have been trying unsuccessfully to get my Netgear MA521 PCMCIA Lancard work under RHEL 4. According to Google, it has a RTL 8180 Chipset and the driver provided in the Realtek website doesn't work with my version of the kernel. Anyone has been successful in getting it worked?. Thanks, Richard

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[Commercial] Cheap Linux, OSS CDs/DVDs
by Raseel Bhagat 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Hi Everyone, check this link out for Cheap Linux and OSS CDs/DVDs : http://osd.byethost8.com/ Thanks, Raseel. Thanks Raseel Bhagat

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need techies to demonstrate Ubuntu Dapper at Bombay Press Club
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

> thats cool but Dr.Nagarjuna's PhD student (forgot her name) gave an > excellent presentation on LaTeX. It'll beat the crap out of any > software. Her name is Ms. Meena Kharatmal. > Do correct me if I am wrong. I did keep away from this thread because I > am neither an expert in Photoshop/Pagemaker/Corel Draw or their > equivalents in Linux. Same here. Cheers, Debarshi

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linux firewall : query
by Vijay Kale 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Friends, I have one firewall with 4 NIC's , two are connected to ISP's (suppose ISP1 and ISP2) link and other two to 192.168.0.0 and 10.0.1.0 network and have in house mail server 192.168.1.8 running qmail. Current setup is like this: 192.168.0.0-->ISP1 10.0.0.0 --->ISP2 Now my problem is: When ISP1's link goes down i should be able to access mails using ISP2's link. For this to work i have configured two mx entries in my DNS server one IP from ISP1 and other from ISP2.and assigned these two IP's to firewall. i'm able to ping to these IP's from outside. Now when ISP1's link is down, i'm able to ping firewall with IP of other ISP2. but not able to access mails. 1. In this situation How should i configure the firewall to accesss mails in case of link failures. 2. Will i need routing to be configured for this setup to get it working. hope any one answers this query. Regards, Vijay --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new Click here Catch all the FIFA World Cup 2006 action on Yahoo! India Click here

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] LPI 101 & 102 exam material
by Amish Munshi 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

> Hi guys! > > > Can anyone suggest some good links for LPI 101 /102 exam material? , or download for test exam, > There is enough material for LPI 1, very little material is available for LPI 2. Get a book, study try getting hands on exp with the topics. Amish.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] SuSe 10.1 issues.
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

>> Can you please point to a resource or explain how WMV9 can be made to >> work? Yes, it is illegal, but only if you don't own a copy of M$. > I would, if I had access to my desktop. You see, ssh is disabled and > currently the keyboard isn't working and more importantly I cannot get > out of bed. Doctors orders :( And yet you typed this reply. Regards, Debarshi

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] SuSe 10.1 issues
by अिनकॆत (Aniket) 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

RonyBill wrote... > In my xine in suse 10.1, there is no VCD button, only dvb and dvd. I > feel its a scaled down version. When I was compiling the xine-lib from > the tar file, it did have entries for vcds. But the problem is that I > cannot remove the installed rpm as it gives dependency errors of other > players. Totem too does not work. > > In my FC5 there is no xine as the rpm -q does not show any xine entry. > The command 'xine' too does not work indicating there's no xine > installed. However there is totem as well as noatun. They are supposed > to be xine guis. Totem can list my vcd in its file menu but it cannot > run it as it gives an error of 'cannot find path'. (in both oses) > > I have observed that the new linux OSes don't have entries for cd drives > in fstab. Are the new kernels using some virtual method of mounting cds? > They don't show up in the mount command either. > > Could you give an exact list of steps you took to load FC5 and get xine > working? If anyone else can give the same steps for Suse 10.1 then that > would be great. > Well rony ...I use FC5 and xine works perfect for me. Here's what I did... 1] Enable freshrpms repo in yum/yumex (I prefer yumex) 2] do yum install xine-lib kaffeine (its not 'xine' ..its 'xine-lib') 3] Have all the win32 dll files in /usr/lib/win32/ 4]this will play all your vcd's and most avi files. 5] If you want all media capabilities, do 'yum install mplayer mencoder ' This is also from the freshrpms repo.Mplayer simply rocks. -- The Future is Open...The Future is LINUX

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need techies to demonstrate Ubuntu Dapper at Bombay Press Club
by vvcrishna＠radiophony.com 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Quoting Steven Joseph: > > Hmm... techies who are into art and type setting........... > A rare breed, i must say. > It is also possible... and very desirable... to have a bunch of people into art and typesetting here to sharpen their skills on Gimp, Scribus etc. Vickram

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SuSe 10.1 issues.
by ronbillypop＠yahoo.co.uk 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Hello All, I tried out suse 10.1 on my system. Installation was smooth and the variety of softwares was great. The video and sound was properly detected and network is working properly too. There are some issues though that have taken a full day of mine but no result still. This time I did not use the shortcut method of installing VLC for playing vcds. The win32 dll rpm was installed and xine 1.1.1 is already in my system. Still I am getting errors while opening vcds in kaffeine. The xine website shows no extra lib file to be installed and the Yast auto updater was one big PIA that only drained out my limitted triband Mbs. The packman site link taken from google does not open. There is also a minor issue about mounting CDs. There is no entry for cd drives in the fstab but the system shows up the cd in 'My Computer' of suse and creates a virtual mount point in the /media folder of the same name as the cd title. Even then the mount command does not show any optical drives. I am able to see files and folders in the cds. Are these 2 issues connected? Though I must add that a avseq01.dat file in my hdd still did not play in kaffeine. In the case of the cd drive if I select 'Open VCD' in the kaff. options, it throws an error 'could not locate drive' and asks for the path. When I give the path /dev/hdb, it closes and gives a bug report type error. The same directly happens if I select the .dat file directly on the hdd. Normally what do you guys do with xine just after a fresh OS installation? Can you give the steps? I even successfully installed xine-lib-1.1.1 from source using make install, only to realise that it was already installed as an rpm. So using make uninstall, it was removed. However before it was removed, I could play a vcd once but could not repeat the process. Any help on this will be appreciated. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ All New Yahoo! Mail � Tired of Vi@gr@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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