Linuxers August 2008

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72 discussions

by Pradeepto Bhattacharya

Hi, Has anybody use the Reliance WiMax (Broadnet) services? I am more interested in their services in Mumbai. Good, Bad, Ugly? Apparently they install separate antenna for each connection. The size of this is as big as a laptop monitor or such, thats what the marketing exec told me. What I want to know is - 1) compatibility with Linux Boxes 2) does it work during the rainy season? Considering that rains in Mumbai or Panvel is slightly on the extreme side ;), does it work fine during the rainy season? I guess the same applies to the DTH setup even. Only reason, I am thinking its worth a try is because I won't have to depend on availabilty of power and such because I will be responsible to provide power to the setup which I can in case of load shedding as well. Thanks in advance. 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

14 years, 5 months

how to find failure harddisk ?

by ravi kuamar

hi friends. In interview i was asked a question that. If a server is located at some remote place and in a server one of the hard disk had failed. Then how do we find which hard disk had failed from the several hard disk in the server remotely. we need to hav certain command for this in linux. in IBM AIX there is certain command but in linux i dont't know. does any 1 know this than plz reply. Explore your hobbies and interests. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/

14 years, 6 months

roadjams.info

by Akshay Mishra

Hello All, We have started an effort, by means of website www.roadjams.info, to provide real-time traffic information to Mumbai. Would appreciate if people who are interested to contribute can contact me or mumbai<at> roadjams.info. The development requires people to have a GPS enabled phone, (external or internal GPS) and a small utility that sits on the phone and updates location to the server. The software on the mobile is available under GPL. Currently the software works very well on Nokia phones. Support for other phones is being developed and should be possible in near future. Thanks, Akshay

14 years, 8 months

Debian Lenny Live Becomes Reality

by Swapnil Bhartiya

Dear Friends, The Debian Live team is pleased to announce the first beta of Debian Lenny's Live images. Although we missed releasing images for Etch along with the installer images, we are now prepared to release live images within the regular Lenny release process. This is the first official release of Debian Live and the whole team has been working hard during the past 2.5 years to make Debian's own live systems become a reality. Nevertheless, we do need your help to find more bugs and improve the live systems, so please try them out. The images are available at: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_live_beta1/ SWapnil Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/

14 years, 8 months

Making DVDs videos from youtube.com is that possible using KUBUNTU LINUX tools. Is it legal. Use of Kubuntu LINUX to watch "naughty" sites.

by Erach

Hi, I noticed that nobody is interested in a secure operating system like Kubuntu LINUX (CD-ROM available in 10 weeks by shipping). But with dual-boot Kubuntu LINUX can one watch any videos and any image sites without getting spyware and viruses and ad-ware -------------- that is very serious --------- some idiots might want to turn off google preferences from advanced to "watch everything" and then type in "naked mary" or some thing. On youtube.com can you make DVDs off videos off youtube.com I mean MTNL is free download at night and some idiot might make a huge DVD off videos of youtube.com Those would show all over the world. Of course, uploads by MTNL are free so nice, decent photos and videos can be posted for free. BUT is all this possible using KUBUNTU LINUX or any other linux. Erach

14 years, 9 months

foss workshop for hardware vendors

by Kenneth Gonsalves

hi, why do hardware vendors recommend customers to go for windows rather than linux? Most common reason is that they know nothing about linux, or are not confident of supporting linux. No one wants to admit lack of knowledge - so they recommend against it. Not evil minds - just ignorance. Check it out here: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/full/56/NW/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/

14 years, 9 months

windows dlls v/s wine --- would need all older versions of WINE too to run under virtualboxes running LINUX

by Erach

From: "Mehul Ved" <mehul.n.ved(a)gmail.com> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:22:59 +0530 Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installing Windows applications via virtualbox or WINE On 8/27/08, Erach <erach27(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It seems my Visual Basic, Visual Windows C++ and Microsoft Windows 98 > edition are finally obsoleted if I try to use Wine but not if I use > virtual box. Yes, cos the dll's available in wine are newer. Wouldn't it be the same in case of using later versions of windows? No, virtualbox emulates the Intel hardware and you select the version of the hardware and the guest and host operating system. Then you install your copy of Windows and then run visual c++ and visual basic on it. Do do the same in linux, one would have to run different instances of virtual box on linux, below the virtual box, run different (older) versions of WINE and then the visual C++ and visual basic would run legally under the different versions of WINE. By the way, I did run Microsoft Office under WINE, and TALLY under WINE but the next day they did not run. I wish somebody would come up with an open source / free ERP version / or at least a TALLY. Erach

14 years, 9 months

Request for the venue for Sep 2008 ILUG-BOM Meet

by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह)

H! Folks, We would like to conduct ILUG-BOM meeting in IITB/KReSIT. Are there in IITian lurkers on the list who can book the venue for Sep meet? Alternately, we would like people from central suburbs (Dadar to Thane) to come forward and offer venue for the next ILUG-BOM meet. The date for next meeting will be either 21st or 28th Sep. 2008. We have following topics and speakers confirmed for Sep. 2008 Meet. 1. Programing with QT by Prashant Shah (Thanks Prashant for coming forward to share knowledge) 2. Advance JavaScript Programing by Rakesh Pai (Thanks for your last and very good session and looking forward to the next one!) 3. Action Plan for Opposing Software Patent (Nagarjuna will brief the community about the topic and status, if he is around in Mumbai) With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 George Burns - "I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age."

14 years, 9 months

[OT] Mini Laptop Makers Hoodwink Potential Buyers.

by Rony

Hello, I am looking for a good mini laptop with the new Atom processor but find the manufacturers using gimmicks to promote their products. First they announce a product launch by a certain date in order to apply the brakes on the rival products and still there is no mention in the news about the launch. Even during the initial unveiling of the product, they mention very low prices like 300 to 400 USD as the likely price and after the product is launched it is much above 600 USD. For the Indian buyer it is a whopping 10K above the previous rate. Even the iphone 3G is sold at a much lower rate in the US and in India which is price sensitive it is priced too high, almost double. Are people in developing countries richer than those in developed ones? -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

14 years, 9 months

Installing Windows applications via virtualbox or WINE

by Erach

I have a comment on virtualization v/s WINE. WINE does not run my old Visual C++ or Visual Basic Compiler which runs on the Windows 98 because it says "sorry the new DLL's of Internet explorer 6.0 or 7.0 are here and conflict with the internet explorer 3.0 dll's of visual basic). So I prefer virtualization. That time, less memory was needed --- so it is easy to run multiple Operating System's on one machine. Of course, one should upgrade to keep enhancing the software ---- but I only want to learn my Visual Basic again. It seems my Visual Basic, Visual Windows C++ and Microsoft Windows 98 edition are finally obsoleted if I try to use Wine but not if I use virtual box. Erach

14 years, 9 months

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Linuxers August 2008