Linuxers March 2009

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17 Mar '09

Hi! For the past few days, I'm not being able to access the login page of my online stock trading website which is www.hdfcsec.com The login page url is https://trade.hdfcsec.com When I click on the login button on the main site, the login page tries to open but the status bar keeps showing "Connected to trade.hdfcsec.com..." indefinitely but the page does not loads up. I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.17 under Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty fawn) on my laptop and Firefox 3 under Fedora Core 10 on my desktop. Both machines are connected to the internet through bsnl dataone broadband connection and I'm using Netgear DG834G adsl modem-cum-router in dhcp mode. The desktop is connected through ethernet and the laptop connects on wireless. I tried accessing the page from Firefox/IE runnning under Vista on my laptop but I'm facing the same problem there as well. I tried accessing the login page from one of my friend's machine who's got the same broadband connection but a different modem (huawei smartx882 connected via ethernet with static ip setup) with ubuntu 8.04 installed on his machine and the page opens just fine at his place using Firefox/Opera. What could be going wrong at my end? Please help. Regards, Sarfaraz

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by Faraz S 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

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Approaches of Kundra : towards commercial technology, opensource and egovernance etc.
by jitendra 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Vivek Kundra: The Alpha CTO By ctovision <http://ctovision.com/> on February 3, 2009 9:27 PM | 3 Comments<http://www.ctovision.com/2009/02/vivek-kundra-the-alpha-cto.html#comments> | 0 TrackBacks<http://www.ctovision.com/2009/02/vivek-kundra-the-alpha-cto.html#trackbacks> [image: Vivek_Kundra.jpg]Every CTO I know has heard of Vivek Kundra, CTO of the District of Columbia. We have all been following his accomplishments in transforming the technology program in DC and have watched in excitement as more and more capabilities have been rolled out to serve the city and its citizens. We have followed reports of bold moves he put in place to ensure technology programs deliver. We have read about his new approaches to technology portfolio management and watched as he discussed the leap ahead he delivered to his enterprise by his audacious, courageous use of Google Apps and other cloud-based solutions. If you are not one of those familiar with Vivek, here is a short bio: VivekKundra is the CTO for the District of Columbia where he leads an organization of over 600 staff that provides technology services and leadership for 86 agencies, 38,000 employees, residents, businesses, and 14 million annual visitors. He brings to the role of CTO a diverse record that combines technology and public policy experience in government, private industry, and academia. Previously, Vivek served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the first dual cabinet role in the state's history. In the private sector, Vivek led technology companies serving national and international customers. Earlier he served as Director of Infrastructure Technology for Arlington, Virginia. He also taught classes on emerging and disruptive technologies at the University of Maryland. Since Vivek became District CTO, he has been honored with major IT awards. In 2008, the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium recognized him among outstanding IT innovators. In addition, InfoWorld Magazine named Vivekamong its "CTO 25"<http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/02/23FE-cto25-kundra_1.html> . I recently saw Vivek at a meeting of the Washington Area CTO Roundtable<http://www.chieftechnologyofficer.org/>, an informal collective of area CTOs led by Yuvi Kochar, CTO of the Washington Post Company. Before the meeting we chatted about mashup technologies (including his Apps for Democrac<http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/>y contest and also JackBe <http://jackbe.com/>). During the meeting Vivekdiscussed several aspects of his innovative efforts to transform the District's information technology infrastructure. A point that struck me was his leadership through principles. Three key ones he articulated were: 1) Leveraging commercial technology, 2) Driving transparency, and 3) Rethinking notions of IT governance. Vivek and I just finished a phone call where we discussed these and other items in more detail. Here is a bit more on his approach. *1) Leveraging commercial technology:* Commercial radios and cell phones allowed a rapid enhancement of the tactical communications infrastructure of the DC workforce, including the police workforce. Police squad cars are also now equipped with commercial, but toughened, laptops. Commercial web technology has been leveraged in ways that leaped ahead of old clunky office automation and also enable rapid development and mashups. *2) Driving transparency and engaging citizens: * Technology impediments to information access and information sharing were eliminated in ways that enable citizens to see how government decisions are being made. Data was also exposed in ways that enabled mashups and agile programing/development. Examples include DCs digital public square <http://dps.dc.gov/> and Apps for Democracy efforts. *3) Rethinking notions of IT governance:* Totally new, innovative ways to manage IT portfolios were created and used to ensure all stakeholders could evaluate the technology program and better make informed decisions on when to terminate programs and where to invest more money. Chief among these innovations was an approach to portfolio management that replicates a stock market trading floor. More important, however is the relentless focus on performance and innovation to support performance. Beside rethinking these notions of governance Vivek also took measures to smartly watch/reduce/reprioritize IT costs. I asked Vivek for thoughts that might be relevant to technologists who have set their sites on careers where they can deliver results. Many of us would like to follow in his footsteps. I wondered, if there is a particular computer programing language we should all be learning now? Should we be diving into Python? That's hot now. And what about databases? MySQL and Hadoop are all the rage. The thoughts I got back from Vivek were incredibly insightful and far more relevant than the simplistic question I asked. V: Technology is important, and we do need to know technology. But in these very exciting times where Moore's law pushes us all forward it is actually more important to be able to quickly learn new technology rather than focus on one and only one. This is the beauty of the new world of technology. There is always something to learn. We should also always remember that the reason to learn is the mission. To an enterprise CTO, technology by itself is worthless. Technology only has value if it addresses business problems and drives business success. Therefore technologists must have an ability to translate between the worlds of mission needs and technology and need an ability to rapidly learn and deeply understand both. I asked Vivek for his intention for sharing his models and methods, since they have clearly delivered success in DC. He is doing quite a bit there so all of us who would like more info have plenty of ways to learn more: V: The DC CTO site at http://octo.dc.gov provides links to many of the ongoing activities of the office and for those who would like more on the models that produce the results we link to policies, guidelines and procedures. We also provide information on how our governance process works. But additionally we host visits to our office by interested parties and have begun blogging about them. In another effort we hope will help move the models forward we are pressing ahead with plans to turn our stock market approach to portfolio management into an open model and will open source the code that makes it work, which should help drive more innovation there. Speaking of innovation, Vivek seems to have found a way to accelerate innovation, which is something all CTOs are interested in doing. I asked him for his thoughts on where to look for innovation. Another interesting reply: V: You can look for innovation many places, but remembering that necessity is the mother of invention you should keep an eye open for places that innovate because they really need to. I always keep an eye on the developing world and am so incredibly amazed at the tech innovation there. Enterprise IT does not mean that every program and project must be delivered with huge budgets and huge staffs and the incredible innovations coming out of the developing world prove that time and time again. I'm excited and enthused about developments like cell phone voting in Estonia, electronic census that works in Chili, fishing villages around the world using instant direct data to plan movement. Innovation occurs many places, but some of the greatest lessons for innovation are coming from the developing world. I asked Vivek about how to find balance between setting standards and enabling innovation: V: Standards are important, but if a standard gets in the way of innovation kill it. Use standards that enable innovation. This is the role of the CTO. Vivek also offered thoughts on social networks. V: In seeking ways to make your cycles of innovation move faster, never underestimate the power of social networking tools and the networks you can build with them. Facebook is the example most talked about but there are many others including networks built around ecommerce like eBay and Amazon. I believe we should not only embrace them to enable the power of social networking but to help us leverage, in a large way, the IT infrastructure of these platforms. The new generations today are making maximum use of these platforms and I view this as a very optimistic point. As for me, I view the results of Vivek Kundra and his models as optimistic points. The great thing about being a CTO is the learning never stops in this field and Vivek is a great teacher we should all be learning from. For more on Vivek and the way hew views technology, including some of his inputs to the Obama adminstration, see: http://www.ctovision.com/2009/01/federal-government-technology-directions-a… -- jitendra

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linuxuser digest
by ambika divya 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

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Interactive map of Linux kernel
by Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

For those who wants to dive in the Linux Kernel Source! http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/

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BJP endorses key sections of the FOSS manifesto
by Venkatesh Hariharan 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

Dear Friends, Key sections of the FOSS manifesto (Point # 1 on FOSS in education, # 4 on open standards, #5 on encouraging freely shareable, FOSS based knowledge repositories like Wikipedia in Indian languages), have been strongly articulated in the BJP's IT vision document that was unveiled today by BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Shri LK Advani. The 40 page vision document is at: http://www.lkadvani.in/eng/images/stories/it-vision.pdf The press release is at: http://www.lkadvani.in/eng/content/view/799/281/ The FOSS Manifesto is at: http://www.public-software.in/FOSS-manifesto (have you signed it yet?) I am also enclosing my blog on this subject: Venky ===== http://osindia.blogspot.com/2009/03/bjps-it-vision-supports-open-source-and… Saturday, March 14, 2009 BJP's IT Vision supports open source and open standards The BJP, the largest opposition in India has released an IT Vision document that endorses open source and open standards. Many of the points mentioned in the FOSS Manifesto for India that we put up online last week have been incorporated in this document. This document was unveiled by none other than Shri. LK Advani, the BJP's candidate for Prime Minister. I did a quick read of the 40 page document and am impressed with how thorough and comprehensive it is. As a long time supporter of free and open source software, I am delighted to see a major Indian political party endorse it. However, I am even more delighted to see that this endorsement is rooted in a comprehensive vision for India's development. A big chunk of the credit for this document should go to Shri. Sudheendra Kulkarni (an alumnus of IIT Bombay) and Shri Prodyut Bora (an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad). Shri Kulkarni was advisor to Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee when Vajpayee was prime Minister of India and Shri Bora is Head of the IT Cell of the BJP. I was happy to see that the Digital Colonization theme that my friend, Jaijit Bhattacharya of Sun talks about has been incorporated in this document. Apart from the FOSS Manifesto, some of my key passions on open standards (that we don't pay for standards like weights and measures in the physical world, so why should we pay for standards in the digital world?) have been reflected. Also, as a co-founder of IndLinux.org which we started in 2000 in an attempt to bridge the digital divide, I am happy to see that the BJP has promised to create a National Mission for Indian Language Computing. The CPI(M), another national party in India has always been a strong supporter of our stand on open source, open standards and our fight against software patents. We are hopeful that other political parties will also take cognizance of the FOSS Manifesto and incorporate the same into their IT plans for India. With the country scheduled to go to polls next month, we now have a broad consensus emerging around the use of open source and open standards. This is great news for all of us who believe in free and open source software!

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Scanners under linux
by Nachiketa Sadhu 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi, We are trying to put up a list of low cost scanners for our Institute users. All the scanners lists available on the Internet is either too old or are yet to be available in the Indian market. I would be grateful to the list members if they can suggest some scanners or multifunction devices available locally and working under Linux. Thanks and regards. sadhu

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Commercial.Hurry up the Sunrise period for D-CAP (Digium Certified Asterisk Professional) Certification in India on 15th March 2009.
by Hariharan C Iyer 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi, Hurry up the Sunrise period for D-CAP (Digium Certified Asterisk Professional) Certification in India on 15th March 2009. Even if you register on 16th March 2009, the discount of 50% off will not be applicable. Please hurry up to register yourself before 15th March 2009 to avail the offer of 50%($1500 instead of $3000) discount on D-CAP training. Enterux solutions is an authorized Digium training partner for D-CAP (Digium Certified Asterisk Professional) Certification in India. The Digium-Certified Asterisk Professional (dCAP) certification is a verification of your knowledge of Asterisk. The certification covers a specific released, stable version of Asterisk. The program is offered at the end of the Asterisk Bootcamp and the Asterisk Advanced training course. The dCAP test consists of a 150 question written exam concerning Asterisk and Asterisk-related technology, and a hands-on practical lab exam in which you are asked to configure a PBX according to a given specification.. For more information about training visit http://www.entvoice.com/training/ <http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eentvoice%2Ecom%2Ftr aining%2F&urlhash=oWKp&_t=disc_detail_link> To See the course outlook: http://www.entvoice.com/training/agenda.php <http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eentvoice%2Ecom%2Ftr aining%2Fagenda%2Ephp&urlhash=XILQ&_t=disc_detail_link> Enterux solutions is going to launch the first Asterisk Certification Program at Mumbai from 13th of April. Register today to get exciting 50% discount ($1500 only) till 15th Mar. Limited seats... after 15th March the same will be at $3000......so rush your application along with full payment before 15th of March to avail the discount. For registration visit; http://www.entvoice.com/training/signup.php <http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eentvoice%2Ecom%2Ftr aining%2Fsignup%2Ephp&urlhash=Jvs0&_t=disc_detail_link> With Best Regards Hariharan C Iyer Business Development Manager Enterux Solutions Private Limited. (Digium Authorised Training Partners) hari@ enterux.com <http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fenterux%2Ecom&urlhash=h8g K&_t=disc_detail_link> www.enterux.com <http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eenterux%2Ecom&urlha sh=YvyJ&_t=disc_detail_link> +91-9833572938/+91-2267339716 Gtalk:- chiyer2004@ gmail.com <http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgmail%2Ecom&urlhash=Hr7N& _t=disc_detail_link> YM:- chiyer2004@ yahoo.com <http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fyahoo%2Ecom&urlhash=xFmZ& _t=disc_detail_link> Skype:- chiyer1984 Hotmail:- chiyer1984@ hotmail.com <http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhotmail%2Ecom&urlhash=7Dz 4&_t=disc_detail_link> MTNL- Training Facility Partner URL: http://www.enterux.com/ <http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eenterux%2Ecom%2F&ur lhash=-2k3&_t=disc_detail_link>

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] DHCP issues on network
by Sachin 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi, Sorry for not posting the full informations. 1. The DHCP server is running on rhel-4. 2. What I meant by machine goin offline was that they are off the network without an ip showing IP conflict. Thank you all for the suggestions. Would try pulling down the lease time and increasing the subnet range. Sachin Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/

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Fwd: XO Laptop SPEAKS about "OLPC Mumbai Group First Meet-14th March, '09" (Kindly ignore this mail if member of OLPC India Google Group)
by Anurag 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- From: amit gogna <amitg(a)laptop.org> To: Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:50:14 +0530 Subject: XO Laptop SPEAKS about "OLPC Mumbai Group First Meet-14th March,'09" (Kindly ignore this mail if member of OLPC India Google Group) Hi All, My name is XO Laptop. I'm planning to join a group of people meeting on 14th March,2009 to discuss about my development and my family - OLPC. The details are on the wiki :- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Mumbai. Somethings about me :- a) I run a very unique OS called SUGAR which is totally focussed on Education (www.sugarlabs.org) b) No matter what your interest is you can be my friend and part of my family OLPC. c) I'm still very young and need to gain some muscle in terms of building content, developing new activities , speaking native languages etc. d) Also you see i've got the Looks, i'm Strong , i'm very Friendly and willing to change according to your needs... and above all kids love me. .... and much more.... Now , the OLPC Group in Pune (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Pune) already had a similar session in Pune called XO Getting Started Camp which was conducted by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay from The Fedora Project. ( It was simply an amazing session :-) ) The details are on the wiki :- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Getting_Started_XO_Pune_Camp. So if you want to know more about me and OLPC family and be my friend and work with me... here is your chance .. All you need to do is enter your name under attendees section on OLPC Mumbai wiki page. (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Mumbai) and be there. Cheers, XO OLPC India Google Group :- http://groups.google.com/group/olpc-india -- http://web.gnuer.org/

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