Linuxers August 2007

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can some one explain how to install the official openoffice rpm on ubuntu?
by krishnakant Mane 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

hello all, as mentioned by Chetan on another thread, I am aware that rpms of open office 2.0.3 are very fast and stable as well. can some one explain me how to convert these rpms with alien and which rpms to install for getting the latest of openoffice? I need to know exactly the order in which the files must be installed. may be chetan can suggest the right (exact) version of 2.2 or 2.3? regards, Krishnakant.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] 2 NIC
by Raghu Prasad 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

> I have 2 nic's in my machine with FC6 loaded....... This particular problem has nothing to do with FC6. Any distribution of GNU/Linux will show the same result, I guess. > iam assinging two same range ip's i.e 10.0.10.1 & 10.0.10.2 with all > the subnet mask Is there any particular reason for allocating the IPs of same network to these interfaces? Why not assign IPs of two different network numbers? > and gateway address being the same for each of the interfaces...... The entry of default gateway in the routing table has a special meaning to it. It is to be used by the kernel when the destination address of the packet being pushed out is not reachable by using the other entries in the routing table. So it is not interface specific, but system specific. If there is an entry for the default gateway, then that address must be reachable via one of the other entries in the routing table. And every entry in the routing table has an interface attached to it. > i am taking the lan cable and inserting to the first interface and pinging > the gateway, its pinging and its ok. > > but when i take the same cable and insert into the other NIC it is not > pinging the gateway....... It won't; until the kernel knows that you have removed the cable and decides to use the other interface to move the packets to the gateway. It doesn't happen in the kernel automagically. The problem here is pertaining to possibility of reaching same destination via two interfaces. That's why I asked in the beginning, why you want to create that possibility by assigning same network number to two interfaces. A packet goes out of the system via one interface only, even if the other is configured to carry it. In this particular case, the kernel is pushing the packet to the gateway via first interface. When you remove this interface from the switch/hub and connects the cable to second interface, kernel doesn't care. It uses the first interface only. You need to bring down the first interface using command "ip" or "ifconfig". Then only the second interface will be used to reach the gateway. Hope that clears the matter. Raghu

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learning alphabets
by Kenneth Gonsalves 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

hi, there is a program called Klettres in KDE for teaching alphabets in any language. We have done the Tamil, Kannada and Telugu versions of this - details at http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/klettres hindi is already there - so just 18 languages to go -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] learning alphabets
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Hi, ( cc-ing to the list so that there is no duplication of work ) On 8/3/07, Kartik Mistry <kartik.mistry(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/3/07, Pradeepto Bhattacharya <pradeeptob(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Annma, I am hoping that 3 more Indian languages will be > > added soon to KLettres. Thank you for your damn cool work :) Oh and if > > you are confused, these three gentlemen above speak different > > langauges and are foss contributors in different projects. I hope you > > get stuff from three new languages - Gujarthi, Marathi and Bengali > > other than the ones that Kenneth listed in the original post. > > Man, > > Why did I have not seen this damn cool KLettres yet? Well, I am up for > Gujarati Language work, but it will take time (as recording need to > do..), but I and team definitely want to do that. Probably we can have a session at VJTI or some place. I know that Mrugesh has some know-how about sound foo on Linux-y systems. Mrugesh? Kartik, to be honest, a lot of KDE-Edu packages should be l10n or video demos of them should be done - in local languages - esp if we are targeting schools / colleges. Just for starters have a look at the KDE-Edu packages. Apps like KGeography, KAlgebra, Kalzium et al can be a huge hit in localised stuff. Actually Kushal Das did make some videos in Bengali. > > Thanks for sending this mail!! No problemo! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released!
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Hi Just incase somebody missed the dot announcement [1] ( or otherwise ). Try out the distro packages if you are interested or better yet try the svn :) ( really rocks! ). Seriously Marble rocks! And thats just one of the really good things :) . [1] http://dot.kde.org/1186051550/ Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Not able to ping two ethernet interfaces connected using cross cable in same PC.
by Bhavesh Kamani 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hi Team, I want to test ethernet driver for NIC, I have only one PC with two different NICs(for both drivers are different), So I disabled loopback and connected both the NICs using cross cable. Output of "ifconfig" is displaying both the interfaces and ip address is also set for both the interfaces. I executed following to set ip address : #ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 #ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 #ifconfig lo down After that I tried to execute following commands, #route add -net 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.0.5 dev eth0 #route add -net 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.0.1 dev eth1 but those comands are giving error like : " route: netmask doesn't match route address" I also put "1" in ip_forward file. I am not able to ping anyone of those interfaces using ping command. Can anyone give some inputs on this? Thanks, Bhavesh.

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Useful tips in Open Office
by Rony 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hello All, I was struggling to remove an envelope from a document and google showed this useful page. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Writer/Printing -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Pushing Linux through small vendors
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

> I haven't touched upon the hardware part. All I would like to know is > actual case reports about small offices that were doing their work > earlier in doze and later migrated everything to GNU/Linux. Rony, you may be pleasantly suprised to know that the West Bengal University of Technology (http://www.wbut.ac.in/) uses Free Software (specifically GNU/Linux) exclusively on their computers. This goes to the extent that the Vice-Chancellor had (atleast the last time I met him a few weeks back) only GNU/Linux on his laptop, and no proprietary operating system is allowed to use the university network. To know more just drop in the ILUG-Cal.org mailing list (http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss) and place a query. Some of the ILUG-Cal.org members have been instrumental in this effort, and they will be happy enough to let you in on their secrets. :-) Cheers, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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network adapter installation problem with fedora core 5
by Meghnathan Naidu 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hi I am trying to install fedora core 5 in one of our server, problem was my network adapter was not detected. i download the source for intel pro 1000. which as per the instructions when i "make install". i get error "make file:66: *** Linux kernel source not found. stop." I tried for kernel compilation. but coudnt find kernel in /usr/src i can only find a folder redhat there. i am newbie with fedora. can somebody help me with this

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qmail error ... pls help
by Agnello George 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

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

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