Linuxers December 2008

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Reminder: ILUG-BOM December 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

H! All, Here is the final announcement for Dec. 2008 ILUG-Bom meet. The only change is Kartik's talk have to be drop due to his ill health. He may not be able to make it the meet. But if he can there will be BoF during/after the meet. Date: 21st Dec. 2008 Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM IST Venue: Directi (Thanks to Gaurav Chaturvedi) 330 Link-Way Estate, Link Road Malad (W) Above Greens hotel Directions: Get off at Malad/Goregaon station, ask for "greens hotel" (it is very close to in-orbit mall) Agenda: 1. Bazaar Version Control System by Prashant Shah 1. Introduction 2. Fundamentals of a version control system 3. Creating repository 4. Working with local and remote repository 5. Checkouts 6. Branching and merging 2. Creating Interactive Widgets with Qt. 1. Drawing and Painting in Qt, 2. Changing look and feel of Qt Widgets with style sheets, 3. The QGraphicsView Framework for Visualization. 4. A small demo app using QGraphicsView Framework having custom widgets and usage of style sheets. Wiki: http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/wiki/index.php/Current_events#Dec_2008_Meet Looking forward to large participation. See you all tomorrow. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Lily Tomlin - "I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

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Announce: ILUG-BOM December 2008 Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

H! All, I am pleased to announce one more addition of ILUG-BOM Meet for December 2008. Date: 21st Dec. 2008 Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM IST Venue: Directi (Thanks to Gaurav Chaturvedi) 330 Link-Way Estate, Link Road Malad (W) Above Greens hotel Directions: Get off at malad/goregaon station, ask for "greens hotel" (it is very close to inorbit mall) Agenda: 1. Bazaar Version Control System by Prashant Shah 1. Introduction 2. Fundamentals of a version control system 3. Creating repository 4. Working with local and remote repository 5. Checkouts 6. Branching and merging 2. Status of Debian GNU/Linux Distribution by Kartik Mistry (@Kartik OL Please) 3. One more topic open. Please come forward to talk on topic of your choice! Announcement on Wiki: http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/wiki/index.php/Current_events#Dec_2008_Meet Looking forward to you coming in large numbers With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Chevy Chase - "Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish."

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Disable Kernel Module from loading at boot on Ubuntu 8.04
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

H! All, On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) <dineshah(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I will know for sure if the issue is resolved after I reboot the system. > > The driver is Ubuntu 8.04 was r8169 > > I downloaded RTL driver from > http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFi… > > and compiled installed the same on the system. I have added # Replaced with r8168 --Dinesh Shah blacklist r8169 in file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist Still the r8169 module is loaded after reboot. I am not able to find using google any other way to disable the module loading at boot. Any pointers? TIA WIth regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Douglas MacArthur - "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."

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Strange issue with network card on Ubuntu 8.04
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

H! All, This on-board gigabit ether net gives strange problem. It works most of the times but at times it does not work. Distro: Ubuntu 8.04 (I am not upgrading/changing distro, it ain't broken, wont fix. ;-) ) Kernel Version: Linux matrix 2.6.24-18-generic #1 SMP Wed May 28 20:27:26 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux dmesg [ 126.566892] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out [ 127.381312] r8169: eth0: link up [ 204.415881] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out [ 205.229306] r8169: eth0: link up [ 677.674793] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out [ 678.489221] r8169: eth0: link up lspci: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev ff) lspci -vvv (Nonworking State): 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev ff) (prog-if ff) !!! Unknown header type 7f lspci -vvv (working State): 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device e000 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 221 I/O ports at a000 [size=256] Memory at d1010000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at d1000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at d1020000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: <access denied> Any ideas what's happening? TIA With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Douglas MacArthur - "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."

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Apologies. Content creation/kiosk. Opening of an online university with automated testing followed by in-person testing.
by Erach 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Hi, My apologies to the net for flooding them with requests and top posting and breaching netiquette (I apologized to both Easwar and Sanjay). Well, my Ubuntu 8.10 does NOT install on my Kubuntu 8.04 computer. And Canonical promises only 18 months of SECURITY updates ---- not ALL updates. Yet, I have ordered Kubuntu 8.10 from CANONICAL. My machine has something like 768 Kbytes of RAM. Now, what can a KIOSK do ---- why should cultural book depot or a college put a kiosk. How can you enhance the marketing appeal of a LINUX kiosk in any book-store (educational). Well, how about training courses English (from Hindi/Marathi/local Indian language) followed by online testing (a cybercafe would love this) followed by in-person testing or (in-camera testing in the cybercafe). The training course could be scheduled for 1 hour of adult training or 30 minutes of adult training daily and distributed via DVD / CD ---- computer should not be needed if you want to reach the very poor --- but if you wish initially computer could be needed. What are the consequences of boosting English, boosting Education, boosting even skill-based training and knowledge-based training ? Well, Google language tools translates web-pages into Hindi (written) and shows original Wikipedia pages in English. The IIT's have courses they distribute online. Why are you focusing on KIOSK and LINUX (Linux is merely a tool, Windows works just fine/see Wikipedia) ---- why not an entire University. (Sorry, I am a toothless PhD so I seek to inspire you to lift your vision for Education --- but I have no resources or labor to give). Flame me if you want. You have seen students smoking outside colleges ---- do you think you could inspire them to build open-source content (or content for a cheap fee). There is a website which sends you the revenues for free of all the videos loaded on it. I asked an old woman (67) whether she would put an Italian-Hindi cd (author it, she teaches Italian when she has students), she promptly said, what is in it for me ? Erach

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hard-disk queries
by rohit bhute 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Hi friends. Does Linux auto-powerdown a SATA hard-disk, if none of its partitions are being used/mounted? I have a WD 250GB drive on a SATA port, with ext3 partitions. 2-3 times I heard swishing sounds and clicks. This morning I fired up the Partition editor after one such event and found that the drive was not listed in the partition editor. A reboot fixed the problem. Another issue was I am getting 'could not read block <7-8 digit number>' errors (which would terminate all the operations) when I tried to merge two partitions on this drive - by deleting one and growing the other. I got same error when I deleted the second one and created a new one of size equal to sum of earlier drives. I succeeded when I tried again second time. I monitored the drive for 2-3 hours this morning by frequently loading the partition editor, but it appeared in the editor without fail. Is a HDD failure imminent? Regards. -- Rohit V. Bhute http://rvbhute.org/

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Need SMS Gateway for Organization
by Neelesh Gurjar 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi, We need a Bulk SMS Gateway on Linux for an Organization. Please tell me if anybody knows company which provide enterprise solution for this. -- Regards NeeleshG LINUX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

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Unable to mount folders exported by NFS Server
by Pankaj Kumar 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi, I am having three linux system in my LAN with details as follows: 1. Open SUSE 10.2 with Static IP Address 192.168.0.2 and treating as Server. 2. Fedora Core 6 with Static IP Address 192.168.0.3 and treating as Client1. 3. Zenwalk Linux 5.2 with Static IP Address 192.168.0.4 and treating as Client2. Now I want to export one fixed folder to Client1 and another fixed folder to Client2 from Server so that I can work on Server from Client Systems using the concept of NFS. For this purpose I made following entry in the /etc/exports file: ======================================================================= # See the exports(5) manpage for a description of the syntax of this file. # This file contains a list of all directories that are to be exported to # other computers via NFS (Network File System). # This file used by rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd. See their manpages for details # on how make changes in this file effective. /home/rashid 192.168.0.4(rw) /home/ccpplinux/public_html 192.168.0.3(rw) ======================================================================= Then I started nfs server on the Server system with the following command: ======================================================================= linux-server:/etc # /etc/rc.d/nfsserver restart Shutting down kernel based NFS server done Starting kernel based NFS serverexportfs: /etc/exports [1]: Neither 'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export "192.168.0.4:/home/rashid". Assuming default behaviour ('subtree_check'). NOTE: this default will change with nfs-utils version 1.1.0 exportfs: /etc/exports [2]: Neither 'subtree_check' or 'no_subtree_check' specified for export "192.168.0.3:/home/ccpplinux/public_html". Assuming default behaviour ('subtree_check'). NOTE: this default will change with nfs-utils version 1.1.0 done linux-server:/etc # ======================================================================= Then from the Client2 system I tried to mount the folder exported from the Server as follows: ======================================================================= root[~]# mount 192.168.0.2:/home/rashid/ /root/server/ mount.nfs: internal error root[~]# ======================================================================= But as you can see I am getting the message of internal error. Similarly from the Client1 system I tried to mount the folder exported from the Server: ======================================================================= [root@FedoraClient ~]# mount -t nfs 192.168.0.2:/home/ccpplinux/ /root/server/ mount: 192.168.0.2:/home/ccpplinux/ failed, reason given by server: Permission denied [root@FedoraClient ~]# ======================================================================= As you can see I am getting message of Permission denied. So I am unable to make use of NFS in my LAN. Can you please help me so that I can start using the facility of NFS on my Linux Systems? I will remain thankful to you all for this forever. -- Best Regards ... Pankaj Kumar

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Crossover Linux
by Ashwin Shah 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

I would like to know the experience of Crossover Linux , a program which allows to load all windows programs on linux or any other programs similar to this -- Ashwin R Shah Dec 18

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Why distribute only FOSS LINUX OS's by kiosk. Why not cheap english/hindi/marathi/chinese teaching CDROMs DVDs Educational movies the works.
by Erach 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hi, > > Definetly doable. Instead of colleges, set it up in Cultural book > depot and or some popular mobo vendor. This will provide much wider > exposure than a college. Setup one such in each major metro. > Followup in the form of install fests in the vicinity would add punch. > Have you thought --------------- once the kiosk is made. And now you get 1 TERABYTE HARD-DISKS for $ 100 ------------- why not put all types of content on the kiosks. Then the commercial vendors will get interested // so will the colleges. I mean, any reason the kiosk stores only FOSS LINUX. Erach

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