Linuxers February 2007

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Timed Download Cron Script Required
by Rony 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

Hello All, I need the script for using wget in a cron job for timed downloads at night and disconnect by morning. There are Triband NU users who use the script for night downloads. So if a script copy could be posted, I would be grateful. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Steve Jobs on DRM
by Vihan Pandey 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

Dear Friends, Linuxers and Music Lovers, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has issued and interesting public statement on DRM. In the statement his wholeheartedly agrees that DRM has NOT worked and is NOT the solution for curbing ``illegal music" and is certainly NOT the way to go for the future. i think this statement worth noting as this is the fist time(to the best of my knowledge) a CEO of a company doing major music related business has ever admitted to the failure of DRM. To all those with the Anti-DRM campaign, i think someone's listening :-) For the complete article : http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ Regards, - vihan

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Yet another hardware thread
by Devdas Bhagat 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

LinuxBIOS support for the GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4 motherboard: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/496453 Devdas Bhagat

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Linux on DG965RY Motherboard
by Rajesh Rajani 25 Feb '07

25 Feb '07

Hi All, This is just a brief writeup on my experience with installing Linux on the Intel DG965RY motherboard. Hardware -------- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @2.4GHz Intel DG965RY Motherboard 1 GB DDR2-533 RAM 250GB SATA HDD PATA Emprex DVD+-RW Software i386 ------------- Suse 10.1 Suse 10.2 Debian Sarge Knoppix 5.1.1 Fedora Core 6 Mandriva Software x86_64 --------------- Suse 10.1 x86_64 Debian Etch AMD64 Fedora Core 6 x86_64 CDROM detection --------------- Out of all the software mentioned above, NONE of them except for Fedora Core 6 even proceeded further than the CDROM detection stage. The DG965RY board uses the Marvell PATA chipset which is not supported by the linux at the moment (though there are some patches available in the kernel tree). All the distros would boot and then fail to detect a valid installation disk in the drive. The solution on google is to add the "all-generic-ide" option while booting. It didn't work for any of the distros. Only the Fedora distros would actually proceed beyond the CDROM detection phase and start the installation procedure. The complete option set recommended for this board is "all-generic-ide irqpoll pci=nommconf". Installation ------------ Having a dual core system, I obviously wanted to use virtualization so I opted for the virtualization package while customizing my install. The install proceeded normally and within 30-40 mins I had an installed Fedora Core 6 system with Xen virtualization. Unfortunately it was horribly unstable. Being a new system, I didn't know if the issue was with my hardware or software so I reinstalled Fedora (both i386 and x86_64) multiple times with various combinations of bios settings, installation options, etc. Nothing worked. The system would lock and crash within 10 mins of use. Yesterday I installed a bare minimum Fedora Core 6 x86_64 option again with no virtualization. Lo and behold, it worked beautifully. No crashes, very stable with the 2.6.18 kernel. Booting ------- The install doesn't add the full option line to the kernel in the grub menu.lst. It just adds the pci=nommconf option. The line has to be manually edited in the menu.lst file. Browsing -------- Browsing, of course, doesn't work out of the box since it enables IPV6 by default. Disabling IPV6 worked and I could browse the net. Updates ------- The default yum repository configured is from download.fedora.redhat.com which is so slow that yum timeouts trying to retrieve repomd.xml. Same with the default configured mirrorlist. The option was to create a local mirror list with mirrors added manually from Taiwan, Hong Kong, etc. This worked and a "yum update" updated 300 packages by downloading 421 MB from the mirrors. (1 night's work with the DSLNU plan from MTNL) Open Issue ---------- Even though I have added "irqpoll" in the kernel option, the boot message says that IRQ #19 not working or something and that I should use the irqpoll option !!! Haven't yet checked this on google. Any inputs will be welcome. Summary ------- I now have a working Fedora system with the 2.6.19 kernel and updated packages. It is still barebones and I have to install all the productivity and development software but now I don't anticipate any difficulties. I have not added my printer/scanner/camera, etc. I'll try and update this when I do so. Hope this helps others using this board. Regards, Rajesh

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Wiki updates
by Roshan 24 Feb '07

24 Feb '07

Hello List, The wiki has been updated with updates in the IRC channel section on the main page and the CD's Available page. URL's http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/CDs_Available Contribute, and let the wiki grow. -- FSF of India Associate Fellow http://www.gnu.org.in I love listening to FM radio! __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Web based feed aggregators -- Gregarius vs Planet (by Derek Cordeiro)
by Frederick Noronha 24 Feb '07

24 Feb '07

http://derek.profusehost.net/ Web based feed aggregators -- Gregarius vs Planet Wed, 2006-12-13 19:29 — Derek Cordeiro It has been a while that Gregarius has been set up on feeds.goa-india.org and has been working pretty fine with minor downtime due to mysql and memory issues. Today I have set up Planet at planet.goa-india.org. How do these two feed readers compare? Gregarius is a PHP/MySQL based script. Its got buzzwords written all over... Ajax! Pros: * Web based admin with adding a feed with just about one click * support for themes * support for plugins * opml import/export makes switching to Gregarius a piece of cake * support for tags and categories * additional functionality like sticky articles, flagged articles, etc Cons: * Requires MySQL database * requires cron Planet is a python based feed reader powering a lot of "planets" Pros: * setting up is very straightforward for a geek.(just a few commands will get it done) * support for Author Photos * requires only python 2.2 * generates static html output(easier on the server) Cons: * No Web based admin, feeds have to be added to a config file. * requires cron. * no theme switching available, templates are available though. * since feeds have to be added manually, there is no direct opml import. * no readily available plugins or themes(to my knowledge) Please visit the sites http://feeds.goa-india.org/ and http://planet.goa-india.org/ and give your opinion -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com 7500+ sharable pics from Goa http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/

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Debian Etch DVD's available
by Vihan Pandey 24 Feb '07

24 Feb '07

Hi all, i've finished downloading all 3 Debain Etch DVD iso images for i386. These are the full install DVD's. i have also written 2 sets of them on DVD's. One set is going to be passed to HBCSE so that more people can make copies, i spoke to Anurag about the same. The other is with me, i'm willing to exchange it for 3 blank Sony DVD-R's. i can't burn them that often as its pretty time consuming and my writer only supports DVD burning max at 2x. Let's see if we can work out something. If there are other's willing to share in on the burning time, please get in touch with me. i know most here are waiting for a comment, well i'll throw in one - the text installer is still there and the GUI installer ROCKS :-) Regards, - vihan

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Shaving cream ran out. Suggestions for a new, shaving cream/foam
by Mrugesh Karnik 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

On Thursday 22 Feb 2007 22:43:29 Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > Why was this mail sent to > > Suggest-me-a-product(a)pavri.net, Users(a)pavri.net, > Group(a)mrugeshkarnik.pavri.net, Mumbai(a)mrugeshkarnik.pavri.net, > India <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> > > mighty curious ........... It was suppose to be "Suggest-me-a-product Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> I messed it up obviously, but I have no idea where that pavri.net came from :s -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------

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Linux Compatible Laptops
by Rony 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Hello All, The NGO that Krishnakant is assisting in converting to Linux, plans to buy 4 laptops that will be used for demonstration sessions in multimedia as well as web, graphics and office applications. So the lappys have to run proper sound as well as video. Krish is right now in Kerala so I am posting this message on their behalf. Those who have recently purchased laptops and are running linux properly on them, please give their suggestions and opinions for lappys that install linux out of the box. Last time Krish and his team had a tough time getting linux up on 102 ggc with dual core processors. So this time we are playing safe. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - with free PC-PC calling and photo sharing. http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Line wrapping on web-browser
by Openlx Linux 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Hello list, I am creating an html page through php, extracting data from postgresql. The resulting page is showing the completing text in one line. I am not able to find a way to wrap the line to make the age readable on browser without horizontal scrolling. Please help Thanks. Ashok -- Linux - Transforming Lives !

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