Linuxers March 2009

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[OT] New Wireless Broadband USB Modems.
by Rony 30 May '09

30 May '09

Hello, Reliance and Tata Indicom have now come out with USB modems that provide broadband speeds theoretically upto 3.1 Mbps in major cities with National low speed roaming in other areas. A client of mine told me that his friend uses a Reliance one and clocked upto 1.5 Mbps on it. Reliance promo emails mention peak hour speeds between 512K and 1Mbps. Tata also provides a wireless router that talks wirelessly to the tower and provides a wired+wireless LAN for the office. MTNL and BSNL broadband are getting competition. Great! Now use your note/netbooks for video conferencing on the move. No more linesman telling you that your modem or wiring is bad. Is this the 3G thing by the back door before the licenses are issued or something in between, before 3G makes a big bang? Will 3G bring in something even newer? -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Which is the cheapest hand-held available?
by Deboo 29 May '09

29 May '09

Which is the cheapest / low-cost hand-held computer (not mobile phone) available which even a por man anywhere in India can buy with little money? If it can run linux, great.

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Fedora 10 DVDs
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi, I have got a spindle of brand new F10 DVDs and some nice F10 stickers. If there are people who want the same, please contact me offlist. I can't send them by courier unless the cost is taken care of, so in effect we have to arrange for a meeting somewhere in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai or better yet - New Panvel ( where I live ) :). Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Webcam not working on Ubuntu
by sushanth poojary 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

hey, I have been trying to get this webcam to work on ubuntu though it gets detected, the video is not getting captured i have been using cheese to do that any help on this would be great. I have provided output values of a few commands to show how its getting detected *sushanth@sushanth:~$ lsusb Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0c45:613b Microdia Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c517 Logitech, Inc. LX710 Cordless Desktop Laser Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 * sushanth@sushanth:~$ ls -l /dev/video* crwxrwxr-x 1 root video 81, 0 2009-04-01 01:03 /dev/video0 Regards, Sushanth Poojary

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HP lj1007 printer not working in ubuntu
by sameer shinde 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hi All, As the subject of this post shows, I'm using Ubuntu Linux 8.04 / 8.10 on which I've connected HP LaserJet P1007 printer with the USB port. The printer is getting detected in the system but when I shoot any document to the printer, the prints does not printed on the printer. The documents get spooled out of the system & shows that, it is printed successfully on the printer, but it is not printed If I connect another USB printer like HP LaserJet 3005 on the same system, then it can print on that printer( on 3005). If the same printer (LaserJet P1007) I connect to the windows xp system, the printer works properly giving all the prints. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sameer Shinde. M:- +91 98204 61580 Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

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Check out for Freedom Toaster locations
by Joju Joshua 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hi, India's Freedom Toaster location updated in Freedom Toaster main site. Check out: http://www.freedomtoaster.org/node/14 -- Joju Joshua Zyxware Technologies Trivandrum www.zyxware.com Ph: +91-471-243-7711 >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------< "Be the change you wish to see in the world" M K Gandhi >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<

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Display problem Asus P5VD2-VM SE
by Mukesh Yadav 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hi, Today I was installing Mint 5 on my firends PC, he is using Asus P5VD2-VM SE. live CD boots normally but When It go to DEsktop it looks something like this. http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00719kc1.jpg this is not my image but it looks the same when I run live cd. any help will appreciated. -- P. J. O'Rourke - "If government were a product, selling it would be illegal."

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[OT] Suggest an ISP in Mumbai
by Dinesh A. Joshi 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Warning: This post contains strong language. Reader discretion is advised. Hi, So the jackasses of MTNL have ****** up a perfectly working setup at my place in Mumbai. Now my old folks are left without Internet. So I'm thinking of adding a redundant line. They dont require anything fancy - a volume based plan and a low latency connection ( for VoIP ) would be required at the very least. Reliance has cabling but I was burnt the last time I used their services. They're supposed to have improved since then but I dont want to fall into *that* trap once again. Recommendations are welcome. - Dinesh

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[X-Post] Mumpy - Python Users Group Meeting
by Mehul Ved 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hello everyone, Mumpy will be organising the Python User's Group meet this Sunday 29th January 2009. Time :- 3:30 p.m Location :- Directi, 330, Link-way Estate, Near Inorbit Mall, Linking Road, Malad (West), Mumbai - 400064. The session will be conducted by Baishampayan Ghose on "Starting with Simple Python Applications using Google App Engine". For further details check the wiki page for the meeting at http://mumpy.org/wiki/Directi29032009 The session will be a hands on practical session so please get your laptops along to make the most out of the session. And don't forget to charge your laptop battery before reaching the venue as there will not be enough plug points. Also, before the meeting do remember to create your Google App Engine account(http://appengine.google.com/) and download the App Engine SDK(http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html). -- Higher education helps your earning capacity. Ask any college professor.

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[X-Post] Freenode is looking for donations
by Parthan SR 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

--------- Forwarded Content -------------- I will try to keep this brief and to the point. This message has been cross posted to several lists which will explain why you might get more than one copy. I hope you find it informative too. Send all flames to me, not to the lists. I'm taking off the other hats I wear for a moment to ask for you or your company's support of Freenode [1] (technically the Peer-Directed Projects Center or PDPC) now based in the United Kingdom. For those that don't know, Freenode is an IRC [2] network supporting Open Source and Free Software communities globally. Another PDPC activity is the annual FOSSCON conference in the fall. PDPC is specifically [3] raising funds in order to be recognized by the UK as an official charitable organization. This status has many benefits, however they need to raise a certain amount of money by March, 2009. There are just a few days left in the fundraising campaign. Canonical Ltd. (the company created by Mark Shuttleworth that drives Ubuntu Linux) has graciously stepped forward to provide dollar for dollar matching, magnifying the impact of your donations to PDPC. The fund raising goal has almost been reached but your contribution is needed. Brainstorming by the PDPC board of directors for how to use any funds not used for operations includes hosting live conference events in Europe and the US, extending current services and improving the reliability of the freenode network by hosting a few of their own hubs and backup systems. Freenode is growing rapidly [4] supporting up to 57,000 concurrent users up from a maximum of about 40,000 18 months ago. Some people may not be aware that IRC is used by a huge array of Open Source and Free Software projects. The list of groups [5] Freenode works with is truly impressive. I feel it is not at all hyperbole to say that the work done over freenode and OFTC [6] are the real-time backbone of open source collaboration throughout the world, Coders use the IRC network to develop applications used by millions of people every day and provide *end user support*. If you use any open source software you may be an indirect beneficiary of the services Freenode provides. I encourage those who are interested to try launching an IRC client such as Pidgin [7] and see for yourself. You won't be sorry you did. While I have used Freenode for many years, this year I too became a contributor for the first time. For a one time contribution http://freenode.net/pdpc_donations.shtml of as little as $8 you can join me in supporting Freenode and the many Open Source projects they serve. Thanks for your consideration, -- -- Grant Bowman <grantbow(a)gmail.com> [1] http://freenode.net/pdpc_donations.shtml http://fosscon.org/about/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat is a form of group instant messaging first used in 1988. Related sites include http://www.irchelp.org/ and http://www.irc.org/ [3] http://blog.freenode.net/2008/10/fundraising-for-charity-status/ http://blog.freenode.net/2009/03/20082009-fundraiser-campaign-update/ [4] http://freenode.net/history.shtml also http://searchirc.com/network/Freenode [5] http://freenode.net/primary_groups.shtml include the Apache Software Foundation, Canonical Ltd (Ubuntu), Creative Commons Corporation, Free Software Foundation (GNU Project), Mozilla Foundation (Firefox), MySQL AB, NetBSD Foundation, Open Darwin Foundation (Apple builds OSX using Darwin), OpenOffice.org, Red Hat, Inc. & the World Wide Web Consortium among others. [6] OFTC is a a similar but much smaller IRC network. See "Freenode and OFTC IRC networks buddy up", May 2007 http://www.linux.com/articles/62098 also http://searchirc.com/network/OFTC [7] http://pidgin.im is an IRC client that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux formerly named Gaim. http://www.mirc.com/ is also popular on the Windows platform. ---------- End -----------------

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