I have a few extra openSUSE 10.2 (32bit) DVDs (original press from
Novell) to give away.
Please contact me offlist if you are interested ->
(mailto:knura@yahoo.com?subject=openSUSE102_DVD).
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Arun Khan
Hello All,
Though faithful to the Debian based distros, I could
not help flirting with Fedora 7 which is being touted
as a great distro.
It was the bootable DVD that came with July 2007 LFY.
The hardware, Pentium-4 2.4 Ghz., Intel 845 GEBV2, 256
MB RAM, Samsung 80 GB IDE HDD, Sony DVD writer,
Samsung CD writer.
The DVD cleared the media test and the installation
began. When you come to the partitioning part, please
note that like other distros it does not list choices
in radio buttons or check boxes. It is a drop down
list. I did not see the list and checked a manual
option placed below. However the warning that my
entire disk will be formatted saved me from a
Himalayan blunder. The drop down list has the actual
manual option. After that installation was smooth.
When it comes to the packages part, please select
everything you want from the DVD in this step itself.
I did not do that and found that the DVD repo is not
added to the Yum package manager after installation.
So everything selected later is downloaded from the
net. By default, only Gnome is the installed desktop.
Installation looked slower than Kubuntu, though the
number of packages is similar. Fedora 1007, Kubuntu
950 approx.
Post installation was smooth too. The screen
resolution was 1280 x 1024, a very nice thing. However
it was switched manually to 1024 x 768 for easy
reading. Sound setup comes up during first boot and
you can play a test sound. The wallpaper is great. You
are floating above the clouds with hot-air baloons
around you.
The top panel bar does not have any applet enabled on
it but you can add whatever you want manually by right
clicking on the panel and selecting 'Add to panel'. I
liked the 'Dictionary' utility very much. 'Eyeballs'
are nice too and move as you move your mouse. Next to
the date is the user's Name, which is handy for the
boss to know who is logged into the desktop.
By default the user does not have sudoer rights so you
need to open a terminal and 'su -' with the root
password. Edit the file /etc/sudoers. In that file, go
to the entry which mentions '## Allows people in group
wheel to run all commands'. Uncheck the option below
it. Keep the % sign. Then edit the file /etc/group. In
the line containing the wheel group, after root, put a
coma and add the user_name. This will make this user,
a sudoer.
For multi-media codecs, go to
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2853 and follow the
instructions as given there. Copy the commands and
directly paste them into a gui terminal using Shift +
Insert. Please add sudo to the beginning of every
command or do the whole exercise as root 'su -'. From
that web page, please note that VLC player
installation is optional and not necessary. The same
is true for the installation of Amarock, as it is kde
based and is a whopping 77 MB of download from the
net, due to extra kde components.
It can play mpg, wmv, mp3, 3gp, dvds etc. DVD playback
is good. However VCD playback is kinky and after a few
seconds of video and sound, it crashes whatever player
you use. I tried 3 and all crashed. Looks like the new
kernels are not VCD friendly. I could not try the USB
of the MTNL ADSL router as mine is a 4 port one
without usb.
Overall a very good system and very pleasing to look
at. I could not try out kde in it as it would have to
be downloaded from the net. With latest hardware and
more RAM, it should be a pleasure to work with.
So go ahead and try it out.
Regards,
Rony.
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Rajeev wrote:
> Interesting.
> i've been looking at that phone already, the only problem being that i'm a
> cdma user. But i may buy the phone for my dad :)
> Do let me know once you have any further info
Hi Rajeev,
OpenMoko is still experimental piece. Don't expect that all cool
things are there in it (and work out-of-box), the current model is for
developer oriented.
Correct me, if I am wrong..
I would love to order one, but not now :)
Cheers,
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Hello Friends,
Some of you might have heard regarding Linux based open source mobile phone
OpenMoko.
OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based open software development platform.
Developers have full access to OpenMoko source and they can tailor their
implementations to underlying hardware platforms.
If interested read more at
http://www.openmoko.com/index.html
For details of Standard Kit please check link below.
http://www.openmoko.com/products-neo-base-00-stdkit.html
This is a Developer
Version<http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Developer_preview>Version.
Currently its priced at 300$ (Approx INR 12300) and doesn't have stable OS
as well as complete applications.
The Consumer Version will be available in October and will be priced at
450$. Apart from better hardware, it will have stable OS and good
applications. Read more at
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02#.22Phase_2.22_.28GTA02.2C_.22Mass_Marke…
I am very much interested in buying this phone, one problem is high
transportation cost.
It costs around 90$ for 1 piece from Taiwan to Mumbai. If three pieces are
ordered it costs around 120$.
So average total cost of mobile comes out to be 340$ i.e. approx 14000.
Is anyone interested in buying this phone? Comments and questions are
welcome.
--
Keep Smiling and Mailing,
Regards,
Saurabh
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote :
>On 24 Jul 2007 07:34:47 -0000, Joel Solomon
><joel_joel72004(a)rediffmail.com> wrote:
>>all the lights expect the ethernet light
>>--
>
>Could you try this -- unplug your router and plug it back in. Once the
>USB LED on your router starts glowing, execute this command:
>
>dmesg | tail -n 20
>
>and post it's output.
the ouput is
[ 93.940932] pcc_acpi: loading...
[ 102.509639] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 107.720136] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[ 107.720155] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[ 110.323843] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[ 110.324045] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 110.324048] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 110.324058] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 110.463930] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[ 110.463946] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 110.590593] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 110.590643] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 110.590646] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[ 122.077050] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 122.077337] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 198.380398] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 198.564439] usb 1-2: no configuration chosen from 1 choice
[ 292.860428] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 3
[ 314.552114] usb
Hi,
We have installed Oracle 10gR2 with patch updated to 10.2.3 on a RHEL 4 ,
update 4.
Some how the dba made a mistake to install the database file on / folder
instead of the /var folder which had loads of disk space.
Now the / folder is used upto 100% of the disk space.
Can creating a softlink to /var/database/ help in this case.
Is there any other way to resolve this problem
thanks
Hozefa
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote :
>On 24 Jul 2007 07:34:47 -0000, Joel Solomon
><joel_joel72004(a)rediffmail.com> wrote:
>>all the lights expect the ethernet light
>>--
>
>Could you try this -- unplug your router and plug it back in. Once the
>USB LED on your router starts glowing, execute this command:
>
>dmesg | tail -n 20
>
>and post it's output.
>
>Alternatively, add 2-3 Network Monitor applets in your main panel.
>Configure one with connection name as eth0, the second as eth1 and the
>third as eth2. Unplug and plug in your router and see which one of the
>applet icons change when you do so.
>
>
>-- Siddhesh Poyarekar
i'll try it out n let u know by 2mrw....
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote :
>On 23 Jul 2007 05:42:20 -0000, Joel Solomon
><joel_joel72004(a)rediffmail.com> wrote:
>> >Ok. No when you plug in your router into the USB, does the 'USB' led
>> >on the router turn itself on at any time? Is the 'Power' LED on the
>> >router on?
>> >
>> >-- Siddhesh Poyarekar
>> >This document validates as Plain Text
>> >
>>yes it does..... glow
>
>Which ones?
>
>
>-- Siddhesh Poyarekar
all the lights expect the ethernet light
http://www.sysadminday.com/
<quote>
Show your appreciation
Friday, July 27th, 2007, is the 8th annual System Administrator
Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System
Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their
hard work and dedication.
Let's face it, System Administrators get no respect 364 days a year.
This is the day that all fellow System Administrators across the
globe, will be showered with expensive sports cars and large piles of
cash in appreciation of their diligent work. But seriously, we are
asking for a nice token gift and some public acknowledgement. It's the
least you could do.
Consider all the daunting tasks and long hours (weekends too.) Let's
be honest, sometimes we don't know our System Administrators as well
as they know us. Remember this is one day to recognize your System
Administrator for their workplace contributions and to promote
professional excellence. Thank them for all the things they do for you
and your business.
</quote>
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Anurag <B20A82C1>