Linuxers July 2006

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Skype on Linux
by Dinesh Joshi 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Hi guys, I've installed Skype-1.2.0.18 on my FC2 system. It worked out of the box. But the problem is that voice breaks a lot to such an extent that a decent conversation becomes impossible. I am NATed behind my own router. I've forwarded all ports above 1024 and allowed UDP on them. I have 64Kbps connection but the latency is high on my connection. I get more like 48-56Kbps speeds. As I understand Skype isn't very bandwidth efficient. Can someone point me to a better VoIP software or some hacks so that Skype plays nicely with my connection? Thanks. -- Dinesh A. Joshi

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fwd: Indian governments blocking blogspot, geocities,
by Amish Mehta 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Philip Tellis wrote: > >Sometime on Jul 20, Amish Mehta assembled some asciibets to say: > >> 1) Make your DNS server host blogspot.com and redirect ALL port 53 >> traffic to it and block blockedblog.blogspot.com requests. > > User can use an alternate DNS server Well thats why I said redirect port 53. When port 53 is redirected alternate DNS would not work as user expects. >> 3) Just like ip_conntrack_ftp module which tracks PORT commands, >> develope ip_conntrack_http module which tracks HTTP "Host:" header >> and blocks the blocked sites. > > User can use HTTP/1.0 which does not require the Host: header unless > going through a proxy. General users do not know how to do all that. There are many other ways to access sites too. Anonymous proxies (not necessarily running on port 80), SOCKS and all which is too tough to block. But most of people do not know all that. And if one is expert to do that, which means that person is doing something which is banned by Government and hence illegal so can get himself arrested. Amish.

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Commercial: JOb Opening for the post of GM - IT (domain: Open Source)
by AISHWARYA 23 Jul '06

23 Jul '06

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Re: lug meet
by Roshan 23 Jul '06

23 Jul '06

> I'd been trying to arrange for an alternate venue > this time, at Press > Club instead of HBCSE. I was unable to coordinate > with Mr. Shiv as he > went to aurangabad on an assignment. So, as of today > its undecided if > we are going to have lug meet (this weekend is > surely no possible). > > I'll let the list know if there is any progress in > this regard. Btw, > would it be okay to have meet at HBCSE instead of an > alternate venue? It is ok if it is at HBCSE. I say this because I live in Ghatkopar. I'm interested to meet LUG members. The last I had attended was in February. :( __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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CG Technology Meetup: Rhythm & Hues India
by Samuel Nair 23 Jul '06

23 Jul '06

Hi, This might be interesting to people who want to know about how a VFX company uses Linux. Rhythm & Hues has worked on movies like 'Chronicles of Narnia', 'Superman Returns' and many more. http://www.asifaindia.com/ Rhythm & Hues India home page: www.rhythm.in Sam!!

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fwd: Indian governments blocking blogspot, geocities,
by Amish Mehta 23 Jul '06

23 Jul '06

Devdas Bhagat wrote: > >On 20/07/06 09:06 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >> >> On 20-Jul-06, at 12:50 AM, Harsh Busa wrote: >> >> >saw on some TV channel that govt is refining the order to only certain >> >blogs of blogspot and parts of other sites. >> >> which cant be done >> >It *can*. It isn't impossible. Just economically infeasible. > >Devdas Bhagat Three ways to do this and not at all expensive: 1) Make your DNS server host blogspot.com and redirect ALL port 53 traffic to it and block blockedblog.blogspot.com requests. 2) Use transparent proxy which also does SNAT, back to original IP for outgoing packets. 3) Just like ip_conntrack_ftp module which tracks PORT commands, develope ip_conntrack_http module which tracks HTTP "Host:" header and blocks the blocked sites. 3rd option seems to be much more easy (and technically sound as it would require no redirection/NAT) once code is developed and can also be implemented on router chip. Amish.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Wireless LAN hacking.
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

>> I am trying to configure my Wireless LAN in such a way that it can >> route packets from other nodes to a access points, so that nodes >> outside the reach of the access point can route their packets through >> my card. I understand that I need to put my card into Ad-hoc mode for >> this to work. >> >> However, >> # iwconfig eth1 mode Ad-Hoc >> # service network restart >> fails to look up IP information for my card. DHCP is configured in >> the network. I have tried to put the card in Auto and Repeater mode >> too through iwconfig, with the same results. Funnily the >> configuration file at /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1 >> still showed the mode as Managed even when I had set it to Repeater. >> Manually changing the setting did not yield anything fruitful. >> >> I am using Fedora Core 5, 2.6.16 kernel, and my card only supports >> 802.11b not 802.11g. >> >> Any idea? > Ok...did you check whether your wifi card is binding with the other > node? Unless it binds, it wont get an IP address. How do I check that? Cheers, Debarshi -- -- ,= ,-_-. =. ((_/)o o(\_)) `-'(. .)`-' \_/

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lug meet
by Philip Tellis 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

is there a lug meet this weekend? btw, the website still advertises the april lug meet. philip

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Linus does not matter to the World anymore ?
by Raseel Bhagat 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Wassup ppl, The following article contains 2 lists : People who matter most in the World and the people who don't. Interestingly, Linus Torvalds , the President of Sony and Rob Malda (who gave us Slashdot) are in the latter list. http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/21/technology/10dontmatter.biz2/index.htm Thanks, Rasee. Raseel http://osd.byethost8.com/ http://raseel.livejournal.com

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Fwd: Can anyone here convert a miniDV to Ogg Theora?
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Stallman <rms(a)gnu.org> Date: 21-Jul-2006 21:51 Subject: Can anyone here convert a miniDV to Ogg Theora? To: gnu-prog(a)gnu.org If you know how to do this, please send me email. _______________________________________________ GNU Maintainers Announcement List gnu-prog(a)gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-prog -- ,= ,-_-. =. ((_/)o o(\_)) `-'(. .)`-' \_/

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