Freedel is now freed.in! Paper submissions are now open, please see
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freed.in - New Delhi 2007 - September 28-29
freed.in isn't just a Linux conference. It is a technical conference
about Free Software and related topics, held annually in New Delhi. We
invite submissions on any Free Software related subject; from Linux
and the BSDs to OpenOffice.org, from networking to audio-visual magic,
from deep hacks to Creative Commons. Important dates
* Submissions open: July 15, 2007
* Submission deadline: August 13, 2007
* Email notifications from review committee: August 20, 2007
* Conference begins: September 28, 2007
Presentations being accepted
We are accepting proposals for two different types of presentation:
you can submit a proposal for a talk or a tutorial. If in doubt, you
want to submit a talk proposal rather than a tutorial proposal.
Call for Papers
Talks are the main part of the conference: a series of presentations
on Free Software related subjects. This year there will be 20-30
presentations. Presenters will be given a 50 minute slot, which
includes up to 10 minutes for questions.
The main programme also has 8 tutorial slots. Tutorials are longer and
more interactive presentations, with slots lasting for 160 minutes,
giving the speaker time to interact with the audience. Proposals for
tutorials should be clear about the level of expertise required of the
audience.
Most presentations and tutorials will be technical in nature, but
proposals for presentations on other aspects of Free Software and Free
Culture, such as educational and cultural aspects are welcome.
Topics
Submissions related to the following topics are welcome:
* General Papers (very strict accept policy!)
* System Administration
* Collaboration and Communication
* Scientific and Research Tools
* Native Language Computing
* Legal Aspects of FLOSS
The main site for the conference:
http://freed.in/
Conference registration and paper submission site:
http://conf.freed.in/
Please contact info(a)freed.in if you have any questions.
Regards,
-- Raju
--
Raj Mathur raju(a)kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/
GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F
It is the mind that moves
Hi people,
A few days ago my computer vendor came to me with some real problems
regarding Linux. Hes a small time guy who supplies assembled PCs to
individuals and maybe some small companies. Anyway, he owns an office
and himself is pissed off with Microsoft's products as he has to format
the machines every other day.
Another reason pushing him towards Linux is that hes now getting
inquiries regarding installing Linux from home users. And Vista cracks
are not yet stable and widely available :P After having a small chat
with him, I got his requirements.
For office use, he requires:
1. Microsoft Office - docs and excel spreadsheets
2. Internet Explorer - surfing / banking etc..
3. Tally - accounting
Now, I'm aware that he has the following alternatives:
1. Open office
2. Firefox
3. Tally ( Linux version )
But the problem with Open Office:
1. With average machines, it performs slow
2. The documents it generates are not 100% compatible with Ms.Office
3. Advanced features are not completely compatible
But they need to inter-operate with the rest of the world which means a
good compatibility is important.
Another problems that one generally faces is that Linux doesn't always
work out of the box. When it does, it works wonderfully well but when it
comes down to tweaking it to get it to work, its like performing a brain
surgery ( for a newbie ).
One more issue that I perceive is that distros don't always have good
hardware compatibility. Let me explain it in more detail. Ubuntu 6.06
worked well on my friend's machine. No issues. But Ubuntu 7.04 refuses
to work on the same machine. Some driver compatibility issues.
The other issue that people in India generally face is of bandwidth.
Ubuntu installs well. It impresses them. But then it runs up HUGE bills
downloading softwares.
What are your thoughts on this? How can we work with these people to
effective push Linux into homes and offices? This definitely is one of
the best ways of boosting Linux user base :)
--
Regards,
Dinesh A. Joshi
hi i am trying to configure a qmailserver as per qmail rocks
as per my httpd conf file looks like this
<Directory "/usr/local/cgi-bin/vqadmin">
AllowOverride AuthConfig
AllowOverride All
Options ExecCGI
Order deny,allow
deny from all
</Directory>
wen i view the following :
http://mydomain/cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi
i am able to view this ,
but wen i am trying to view "qmailadmin" ( http://mydomain/cgi-bin/qmailadmin )
i get the error ====>
**You are not authorized to view this page**
my eror_log looks llike this
[Tue Jul 31 11:10:24 2007] [error] [client 210.211.142.17] client denied by serv
er configuration: /usr/local/cgi-bin/qmailadmin
========================================================
But if i change my httpd.conf to :
<Directory "/usr/local/cgi-bin/vqadmin">
AllowOverride AuthConfig
AllowOverride All
Options ExecCGI
Order deny,allow
allow from all ===================.> i hve made change here
</Directory>
i can view http://mydomain/cgi-bin/qmailadmin but then i cant view
http://mydomain/cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi
pls help me out ... thansk
--
Warm Regards
Agnello . G .Dsouza
www.agnellogeorge.blogspot.com
Please test my LAMP instalation aqnd let me know if you find any errors ....
this wud be really gr8 help
1. Installing Apache 2.2.3
a) Download the Apache 2.2.3 source files from http://httpd.apache.org
b) Extract the source from the gunzipped file using tar or gunzip
c) change the working directory to the directory containing the
extracted source files
d) Run the following command for basic apache installation
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql
--enable-shared=max --enable-module=rewrite --enable-module=so
--enable-shared=ssl --enable-ssl --with-ssl=/RPM/openssl-0.9.8d
make
make install
2. Installing PHP 5.2.0
a) Download the PHP 5.2.0 source files from http://www.php.net
b) Extract the source from the gunzipped file using tar or gunzip
c) change the working directory to the directory containing the
extracted source files
d) Run the following command for PHP installation
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php5
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs
--with-libxml-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-zlib
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql
--with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config --with-gd
--enable-soap --enable-sockets --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --enable-exif
e)Build the PHP configuration using the following command
make
f) Install PHP
make install
3. Installing MySQL 5.x
a) Download the MysQL source files from http://www.mysql.com
b) Extract the source from the gunzipped file using tar or gunzip
c) Create the mysql user and group using the following commands
groupadd mysql
useradd -g mysql -c "MySQL Server" mysql
d) Create a symbolic link to the MySQL source directory in a directory
of your choice. (I use /usr/local/). Here is an example of the same
ln -s /software/mysql-max-4.1.22-pc-linux-gnu-i686 /usr/local/mysql
e) Change the working directory to the symbolic link that you have
created in the server.
f) Execute the following command
./scripts/mysql_install_db
The above command will install the mysql and the test database
g) Change the ownership of /usr/local/mysql using the following command
chown -R root:mysql /usr/local/mysql
Where root is the user and mysql is the group
h) Change the ownership of /usr/local/mysql/data using the following command
chown -R mysql:mysql /usr/local/mysql/data
i) Copy the default configuration file for the expected size of the
database (small, medium, large, huge)
cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf
chown root:sys /etc/my.cnf
chmod 644 /etc/my.cnf
j) Now we have to tell the system where to find some of the dynamic
libraries that MySQL will need to run. We use dynamic libraries
instead of static to keep the memory usage of the MySQL program itself
to a minimum.
echo "/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
ldconfig
k) Now create a startup script, which enables MySQL auto-start each
time your server is restarted.
cp ./support-files/mysql.server /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql
chmod +x /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql
/sbin/chkconfig --level 3 mysql on
l) Then set up symlinks for all the MySQL binaries, so they can be run
from anyplace without having to include/specify long paths, , etc
cd
cd /usr/local/mysql/bin
for file in *; do ln -s /usr/local/mysql/bin/$file /usr/bin/$file; done
m) First, we will assume that only applications on the same server
will be allowed to access the database (i.e., not a program running
on a physically separate server). So we'll tell MySQL not to even
listen on port 3306 for TCP connections l ike it does by default.
Edit /etc/my.cnf and uncomment the
skip-networking
n) Start MySQL
--
Warm Regards
Agnello . G .Dsouza
www.linuxitsolutions.org
Hello All,
I was facing a problem in Knemo. The ip address and other interface
details would not show in the version installed from apt-get. So I
posted a bug report and finally with help from some nice souls, the
problem got solved after I installed the updated package from the link
provided.
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144411
--
Regards,
Rony.
Knock Knock
Who's There?
Linux
Who Linux?
GNU/Linux
> I am currenty SCping using the command line, where i am asked for the
> password in order to run the command.
>
> Now I wish to run the SCP command from within a php script.
> I'd rather enter the password each time in a form rather than store it
> within the script itself.
>
> How can I handle the password request? i.e., pass the password to the
> remote system when it asks for it.
PHP has a module to handle SSH2 related activities. Following link
explains about sending data using scp; along with a small example. On the
same page, hyperlinks with details of other ssh2 functions are provided too.
http://in2.php.net/manual/en/function.ssh2-scp-send.php
Raghu
cpu-intel celleron 1100MHz
128MB RAM
and more important
display hardware
Intel 82810E graphics controller
Board-Mercury(AT support)
at first i installed Debian(IT SCHOOL latest) then after booting a
gray screen wil come(not even the login screen)
then it displays
{
could not open default font fixed
X10:fatal IO error 104(connection reseted by the user) on Xserver ":0.0"
after 0 request (o known processed) with 0 events remaining
}
but i could use the terminal at dat time too..
den i tried to reinstall Debian with the old CD(IT SCHOOL test
version) again... it was done proper
i said thank God... at last there was a Login screen
i loged in..... but the same thing the bad old gray screen with the
mouse pointer again came....
mouse pointer was not moving.....
with gods grace terminal was der for my help. i logged in as root and
removed the file /tmp/.X0-lock and restarted the Xserver..
den i got dis
{
X windows System version 7.1.1
Module loader present
......
......
blah blah blah.....
Markers
(==) log file "/var/log/Xorg.o.log" Time.....
(==) Using config file:/"etc/.X11/Xorg.config"
.....
.....
.....
(EE) AIGLX:screen 0 is not DRI capable
Xkb_keycodes {include "xfree86+aliases cqwerty"};
xkb_types {include "Complete"};
xkb_Compatibility {include "Complete"};
}
den i thought to boot a live cd(knoppix 3.3 old stuff) to test there
is any trouble.
machine has got two mouse
1-PS/2
2-serail
both were not working with Debian
live cd worked fine....... i have pugged the serial mouse.. it too
worked fine....
den i tried to fix the trouble with the mouse...
and logged in as root to the Debian... and went to edit the file
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
In the pointer section
the previos entry was
{ device /dev/input/mice
protocol ImPS/2
}
i changed dis to
{
device /dev/input/mouse0
protocol PS/2
}
and then restarted
then also the same trouble is there bt some thing interesting the
MOUSE was moving.... very slow...
i need help
so wat is the problem here....
and last one more thing this machine works fine in Windows
XP......(Even both mouse)....
Hi All,
This is probably a very basic question but here goes anyways -- which
would be faster in C/C++ (or would it make no difference at all?):
while(condition)
{
...
}
OR
while(true)
{
...
if(condition)
break;
...
}
Thanks,
Siddhesh
--
Siddhesh Poyarekar
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> you can do ssh key exchange between the hosts, for a particular user login.
> beware it will never ask for password, when you do ssh to that box, or
> create a shell to exit if done ssh
It does ssh key exchange without a password provided no passphrase
exists for the key. In case a passphrase exists you have to put it in.
Also since keys are dependent upon user account or user permission
from which the command is being executed so the appropriate ssh key of
that person stored in the ..ssh or appropriate directory is used.
In case you do have a passphrase you can use an ssh agent to load the
private and once you key in the private key the agent takes care of
the connection and for further it will not ask for the passphrase. I
think you can also tell the ssh agent not to take input from a file
and not standard input. Look for it other ssh agent will solve the
purpose. See ssh-add it will do the trick for you. By default it loads
the private key from the identity file.
Regards,
Vivek
--
Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte, "Maxims"
