hi,
just an update on fossconf chennai - we have a good list of speakers
- most of them new and speaking for the first time. We have also been
able to attract quite a few people from academia. Also a few student
groups doing their projects in foss. So we have around 70 good talks
- now let us hope we get a good audience to listen to these talks ;-)
The talk list is here:
http://registration.fossconf.in/web/talks/
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regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate, NRC-FOSS
lawgon(a)au-kbc.org
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/
Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/
On Jan 20, 2008 12:00 PM, Rony wrote:
> A friend of mine showed me this site for internet radio. It works in
> Linux too. Go to www.sky.fm and check out 'Listen Now' on the top and
> from the list, select 'MP3 Streams'. A playlist file .pls will be
> downloaded. Save it and load the playlist in your audio player. Listen
> to good music without RJ yak yak. I selected the 96Kbps stream. As per
> the theoritical calculations, one hour of listening takes about 43 MB
> download.
Also, http://schizoid.in/ and http://radioverve.com/ is 'working' with
Linux (Specially, check faq at schizoid.in) without any issues. Check
it out!
Make sure that you have fat bandwidth too.
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Cheers,
Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_
blog.ftbfs.in | kartikm.wordpress.com
Hello All,
I wanted to copy a Fedora 8 DVD for a friend. I tried the default
Brasero in Etch-Xfce but it would not even proceed further than the
window where Read and Write drives are chosen. So gnomebaker was used.
It read the master DVD and created the image but on writing the image
back to a blank DVD, it completed the process halfway but with no
errors. However the DVD is only half burned as can also be observed
physically. Then my all time favorite K3B was installed but it too
recorded halfway and said ok.
What I observed in gnomebaker was that it uses the 'dd' command to write
the DVD which I feel is outdated. I did not check the same in K3B as I
did not expect it to do the same. All necessary packages like
dvdrw+tools, and many more are installed in my system. I lost 2 blank
DVDs. Finally for the third and last one in stock, Nero was used in the
other operating system and that recorded properly.
What could be possibly happening? I recollect gnomebaker showing
messages like...
Writing image using dd if=... of=.....
Flushing Cache.
Updating RVM (?)
Google does not yield much information about this problem.
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Regards,
Rony.
GNU/Linux !
No Viruses
No Spyware
Only Freedom.
Rony wrote:
"A friend of mine showed me this site for internet radio. It works in
Linux too. Go to www.sky.fm and check out 'Listen Now' on the top and
from the list, select 'MP3 Streams'. A playlist file .pls will be
downloaded. Save it and load the playlist in your audio player. Listen
to good music without RJ yak yak. I selected the 96Kbps stream. As per
the theoritical calculations, one hour of listening takes about 43 MB
download."
There is a 24 Kbps stream also available for slow connections. The sound
is mono but decent for listening. 24 Kbps also cuts down on the
downloaded data for connections having data download limits.
--
Regards,
Rony.
GNU/Linux !
No Viruses
No Spyware
Only Freedom.
List,
I want to create a partition on my laptop by freeing up space from my C:
drive, NTFS. I have been reading documentation on Gparted, but I could not
determine if it requires contiguous free space within a partition to shrink
it and create a new one with free space.
The defragmentation utility provided with Windows XP does not consolidate
free space. Would using Gparted to repartition the disc, after such
(suboptimal) defragmentation, result into loss of data, or will it use only
the free space? It would seem visually that Gparted will use free space,
but there are conflicting opinions everywhere.
Can somebody provide a concise, unequivocal answer? Can somebody provide a
feasible solution if there is a definite problem?
> I'm using Fedora 8. Nowadays yum is updating at extremely slow speeds
> from Asian mirrors.
I am assuming that your Yum is configured to fetch mirrorlists from
the following URLs:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=x86_64http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f8&arch=x…
Now do you know which particular mirror you are using and finding it slow?
Most of the time, the first two mirrors would be an Indian one. One of
the Indian mirrors -- ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ -- allows only a
limited number of anonymous clients to connect, and each client is
allowed a maximum of 32KBps to 48KBps of bandwidth.
The other Indian mirror -- http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/pub/fedora -- is
also planning to do something similar, and they might be changing
their configuration as I am writing this email.
In case you are having problems with the Indian mirrors:
Now both these mirrors are quite new, experience very heavy loads --
http://glug-nith.org/usage ;
http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/awstats/awstats.pl -- and face the standard
bandwidth shortage prevalent in India. The first one has an 8Mbps
line, while the second has a 5Mbps line, which they are planning to
increase.
Even then, it has been my observation that apart from the heavily
loaded Fedora mirror, the other mirrors which these two machines host
are quite fast. eg., try downloading Emacs from
http://gnu.glug-nith.org/emacs/emacs-22.1.tar.gz and
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-22.1.tar.gz and compare the speeds.
So if we had some specific inputs from you as to which mirror(s) you
find slower, what sort of bandwidth you have, etc. we can try to
optimize the Indian Fedora mirrors accordingly.
If the problem is with the other Asian mirrors, then you might take it
up on Fedora's mirror mailing lists.
> mirrorlist.txt is filled with asian servers only.
> Is there any way that yum downloads Non Asian mirrors list from US or
> Europe? or on what basis does yum downloads country specific mirror
> lists. Is there any way to change the defaults?
There is a way. You need to pass a country variable tothe mirrorlist
URLs. Eg., for only Indian mirrors you would do:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=x86_64&count…http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f8&arch=x…
Cheers,
Debarshi
--
Free software for the Indian community:
* ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora)
* http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU)
* http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP)
Hello All,
I had pasted some files on my desktop. These files opened with a preset
default application. I wanted to use another one that I installed but on
right-clicking the file, no option for opening in an alternate
application was available. Even googling for help did not yield any
usefull results. Finally while checking out some files in my home
directory ( using the default Thunar browser) I found that inside
Thunar the alternate application option is available and I could change
it to my chosen one.
Plus, those who do not have the archiving option on right click inside
Thunar can install the 'thunar-archive-plugin' using apt-get. This will
add the archiving options 'Extract Here' and 'Extract To' on right
clicking files inside Thunar.
--
Regards,
Rony.
GNU/Linux !
No Viruses
No Spyware
Only Freedom.
Hello All,
A friend of mine showed me this site for internet radio. It works in
Linux too. Go to www.sky.fm and check out 'Listen Now' on the top and
from the list, select 'MP3 Streams'. A playlist file .pls will be
downloaded. Save it and load the playlist in your audio player. Listen
to good music without RJ yak yak. I selected the 96Kbps stream. As per
the theoritical calculations, one hour of listening takes about 43 MB
download.
--
Regards,
Rony.
GNU/Linux !
No Viruses
No Spyware
Only Freedom.
Hello All,
This month Linux For You has done it again. The magazine costs Rs. 100/-
like other computer mags but again their optical media is bad. This has
become a tradition with them and they seem to be pretty thick skinned
about it. I have decided to stop buying this magazine altogether as it
is a waste of hard earned money.
--
Regards,
Rony.
GNU/Linux !
No Viruses
No Spyware
Only Freedom.
We are working with NDMFS(an implementation of NDMP protocol) to take
backup (on fedora 7 platform) but are facing a problem.
When giving the "backup" command to take the backup ,it is giving the
error-NDMP_NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR.
Can u help?