Linuxers August 2009

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Iptables Query
by Rony Bill 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Hello, I have to setup a firewall box for someone ASAP and I was going through the tutorials at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=16166 I just have a small query as I am confused with the directions of packets. When setting a rule for the INPUT table, there is a source and destination setting. From the examples given in the above tutorial, when an incoming packet is received, the source is a local IP and destination is the world. Shouldn´t the incoming packet´s source be the world and destination the local LAN IP address? Could the experts please clarify? Otherwise it seems quite easy to setup. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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any FOSS tool to make amplitude of music files uniform
by Kussh Singh 16 Aug '09

16 Aug '09

Hi group, Is there any tool to set all music/audio files to a certain amplitude? While hearing music files, the amplitude changes from one file to another due to which the volume has to be manually adjusted. I tried normalize-audio but maybe don't know whether it will do the job or how to use it properly. Would appreciate any help if a tool can be applied on a set of files in batch mode. Thanks Kussh

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Eureka! Firewall set up.
by Rony 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

Hello, Finally I was able to code the firewall exactly as it is intended to operate. It was tough and I even tried to cheat by using Firestarter on a live session and copy the resulting codes, but they turned out to be even more complex than what I wanted. Even tried Shorewall but it did not suit my purpose. I was almost giving up but finally got the wall up. Now I have understood the main concepts and what goes to which table/chain. In this setup, there are 15 machines in a LAN and except 4 senior users, no one had internet access. However the company decided to get a remote office setup at their website and everyone would pass on memos, to-dos, jobs etc through it. Therefore net access had to be enabled but only to that website. The 4 main users would still have to be allowed to go anywhere on the net. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Microsoft Certification with Red Hat Training
by Siji Sunny 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

HI friends,recently I just gone through one of the redhat link which offering Microsoft certification with Redhat training( https://www.redhat.com/training/mcp/). They mentioned that This can achieve - expand your skills, providing you with the open source training that is in high demand - provide you with cross-platform expertise - help your organization leverage the performance and cost savings of open source technology - differentiate you from your peers and maximize your career opportunities. This looks really funny.Anyway congrats to Redhat and Microsoft for this new Business relation. -- Siji Sunny

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Data recovery after formatting ext3 to ex4 partition
by narendra sisodiya 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

is it possible to recover data from formatted ext3 partition. Actually while installing ubuntu 9.04 , installer misbehaved with me and formatted my /home partition and thus i lost my valueble data. the new partition is ext4 type. I tried with testdisk but unable to recover any bit !! anythought ?? -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ R&D Engineer │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a └─────────────────────────┘

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Random Observations
by Rony 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

Hello, I had bought this month's Digit magazine which had 3 distro ISOs in one DVD. OpenSuse, Fedora11 (live+Install) and Ubuntu 9.04 (Live+Install). Thankfully, the ISOs did not throw up any md5sum errors. First the Fedora live cd was booted. Everything came up fine. I checked out the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts folder to check out the ifup-eth0 file but was surprised to see that there was no such file. The command ifconfig threw up the eth0 details. The networking was taken over by 'Network-Manager', the gui utility for gnome. Then Firefox was tried out. It was 3.5 Beta4. Sites opened lightning fast. Out of curiosity I checked out the dns entries in resolv.conf and saw the following DNS server entries (using dhcp). 59.185.0.23 and 59.185.0.50. Then I logged into my MTNL Triband modem to discover that I had earlier disabled DNS relay and my preferred DNS servers were the 203.94..... entries. In the modem's interface however, the DNS is 59.183.63.254. I wonder how 59.185.0.23 got into the DNS entries of the computer. However I am happy as these servers seem to be very quick. The Ubuntu 9.04 cd was then booted and even here the DNS entries were 59.185.0.23 and 50. Again, the sites opened very fast. As with Fedora11, the /etc/network/interfaces file had only one entry for lo. There was no entry for eth0. The observations made were. 1. MTNL's new DNS servers 59.185.0.23 & 50 are very fast and those entries should replace the traditional 203.94... entries in machines with static ips. Before this, at 2 of my clients' places I had to use the open dns ip as the secondary dns entry for sites to open at least. Now I can try out these new IPs. 2. The gui networking utilities have completely taken over the traditional distro network config files and we don't even know how these GUIs are storing their config files to be able to read/modify them. I recollect, before throwing out knetwork-manager from my Lenny, I had a tough time trying to locate the config files for the same and even googling did not help. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linuxers Digest, Vol 75, Issue 50
by prathamesh 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

linuxers-request(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in wrote: > Send Linuxers mailing list submissions to > linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > linuxers-request(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > You can reach the person managing the list at > linuxers-owner(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Linuxers digest..." > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Today's Topics: > > 1. VOB file merge and conversion (Ankit Sangwan) > 2. Re: VOB file merge and conversion (Sameep Kaul) > 3. Ultimate ubuntu available with me. (Krishnakant) > 4. Re: using orca to read pdf files in evince (Easwar Hariharan) > 5. Re: Ultimate ubuntu available with me. (Shirish Padalkar) > 6. Canonical releases source code for Launchpad > (Vivek Varghese Cherian) > 7. [OT] [X-Post] Setting Up a GNU / Linux Distro Store (Sameep Kaul) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > [ILUG-BOM] VOB file merge and conversion > From: > Ankit Sangwan <ankit_1992s(a)yahoo.co.in> > Date: > Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:01:37 +0530 (IST) > To: > linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > To: > linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > > I am new to linux. I am using Fedora 10. Recently i bought an iPod. I can't get to load my DVDs on my iPod because there are mutiple .vob files and .vob is not supported format of iPod. So please let me know if there is vob merge and convert software out there for fedora 10. > P.S.: It would be better if the software is free. > Regards, > Ankit. > > > > Looking for local information? Find it on Yahoo! Local http://in.local.yahoo.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: [ILUG-BOM] VOB file merge and conversion > From: > Sameep Kaul <sameep(a)tuxwire.com> > Date: > Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:06:26 +0530 (IST) > To: > "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > > To: > "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ankit Sangwan" <ankit_1992s(a)yahoo.co.in> > To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 2:01:37 PM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi > Subject: [ILUG-BOM] VOB file merge and conversion > > I am new to linux. I am using Fedora 10. Recently i bought an iPod. I can't get to load my DVDs on my iPod because there are mutiple .vob files and .vob is not supported format of iPod. So please let me know if there is vob merge and convert software out there for fedora 10. > P.S.: It would be better if the software is free. > Regards, > Ankit. > > > > > Hi Ankit , > > There are several ways to do it. Handbrake or Avidemux would be your best bet. Here are a couple of links you can use to get started. They might be for other distributions but should work well for fedora. > > Handbrake : > > http://www.zimbio.com/Ubuntu+Linux/articles/336/Using+Handbrake+Easily+Conv… > http://howto.diveintomark.org/ipod-dvd-ripping-guide/ > > > Avidemux > > [Screencast] > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxtxNGX6tJQ > > > Regards, > > Sameep > [tuxwire.com] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > [ILUG-BOM] Ultimate ubuntu available with me. > From: > Krishnakant <krmane(a)gmail.com> > Date: > Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:19:31 +0530 > To: > "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > > To: > "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > > > Hello all, > I got ultimate ubuntu 32 and 64 bit downloaded and iso images (2 gb ) > are available. > > For those who don't know, ultimate ubuntu is an all inclusive distro > built up on ubuntu, with the addition of many softwares and multimedia > libraries. > > Actually it is the usual ubuntu which has be remastered to add all the > codecs for audio vidio and many softwares like inkscape and thunderbird > get installed by default. I also found a lot of admin tools in the > system by default. > softwares like gpartit and other interesting tools are also there by > default. 3D desktop is also enabled by default which can obviously be > switched on and off at will. > > the only down side of this remastered ubuntu 9.04 version is that it > takes about 45 minits to install on an average. > > If any one would be interested I would be most happy to provide dvd for > either 32 or 64 bit. > Even better I will try to download this on a server where I have about > 250 gb for foss related activities. > happy hacking. > Krishnakant. > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: [ILUG-BOM] using orca to read pdf files in evince > From: > Easwar Hariharan <meindian523(a)gmail.com> > Date: > Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:09:45 +0530 > To: > "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > > To: > "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Krishnakant<krmane(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 16:33 +0530, Kussh Singh wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I cud get orca to start up and have configured it. But it is not able to >>> read any page which is open in the evince document reader. The key binding >>> for "reading entire document" is KP_add. I wonder what that means. Can >>> anybody help?. Orca is only able to read menus or echo typed characters, >>> words etc and that too is hardly heard (voice is cut). >>> >>> >> Orca reads every thing for me. >> I use ubuntu 9.04 and all works well. >> I for example not just get to read the full text of an openoffice >> wordprocessor, but also get to know the font attributes like bold >> italics and size, etc. >> >> spreadsheets also work abslutely fine. >> >> I use pdf2text or pdf2html depending on whether formatting information >> is of any interest to me. >> Right now evince is not accessible because the evince guys are not >> really into lot of accessibility, although they are showing some active >> interest into it off late. >> >> Else all works absolutely fine. >> >> > > Was any work on accessibility of Evince done during the recent Mozilla > Firefox 3.5 Release Party/CAMPStudio pad.ma overview,according to the > plan set forth by KK during the MumPy meet at CAMPStudio?No minutes > are available on the wiki. > > Thanks and Regards > Easwar > Registered Linux user #442065 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: [ILUG-BOM] Ultimate ubuntu available with me. > From: > Shirish Padalkar <shirish4you(a)gmail.com> > Date: > Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:22:42 +0530 > To: > "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > > To: > "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > > > Another drawback of Ubuntu Ultimate (at least I noticed) is it's a bit > unstable. It crashes too often. > > If they have made some improvements in current release, then it's kool. :) > hi, i am using ubuntu ultimate edition 2.2 (32-bit). & i not yet found any crash. also it is loaded with lots of new themes which are more attractive, new features like partition editor, firewall configuration, backup facility, & many packages. must say it is ultimate. regards, Prathamesh. > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Krishnakant <krmane(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Hello all, >> I got ultimate ubuntu 32 and 64 bit downloaded and iso images (2 gb ) >> are available. >> >> For those who don't know, ultimate ubuntu is an all inclusive distro >> built up on ubuntu, with the addition of many softwares and multimedia >> libraries. >> >> Actually it is the usual ubuntu which has be remastered to add all the >> codecs for audio vidio and many softwares like inkscape and thunderbird >> get installed by default. I also found a lot of admin tools in the >> system by default. >> softwares like gpartit and other interesting tools are also there by >> default. 3D desktop is also enabled by default which can obviously be >> switched on and off at will. >> >> the only down side of this remastered ubuntu 9.04 version is that it >> takes about 45 minits to install on an average. >> >> If any one would be interested I would be most happy to provide dvd for >> either 32 or 64 bit. >> Even better I will try to download this on a server where I have about >> 250 gb for foss related activities. >> happy hacking. >> Krishnakant. >> >> >> >> -- >> http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers >> >> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > [ILUG-BOM] Canonical releases source code for Launchpad > From: > Vivek Varghese Cherian <vivekcherian(a)gmail.com> > Date: > Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:16:10 +0530 > To: > linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > To: > linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > > > Hi folks, > > Finally Launchpad is Free/Open sourced :-) > > http://www.ubuntu.com/news/canonical-open-sources-launchpad > > https://dev.launchpad.net/ > > > Regards, > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > [ILUG-BOM] [OT] [X-Post] Setting Up a GNU / Linux Distro Store > From: > Sameep Kaul <sameep(a)tuxwire.com> > Date: > Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:15:13 +0530 (IST) > To: > ubuntu-in(a)lists.ubuntu.com > > To: > ubuntu-in(a)lists.ubuntu.com > > > Hi , > > Would anyone be interested in setting up and running an Online Store [India Only] selling CDs / DVDs of different GNU/Linux distributions ? There are a few people selling distros however noboy has a dedicated store yet. > > If anyone is interested , please contact me offlist. > > > Thanks in advance , > > Regards, > > > Sameep > [tuxwire.com] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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first mail from new id, sorry for the inconvineance.
by Krishnakant 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

I have finally changed my membership to this email id which is also similar to my signature. I am extremly sorry for the inconvineance caused to you all by some uncontroled problems, that was a blunder from my side which led to some badwisher indulge in a crack. sorry again. happy hacking. Krishnakant.

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Fwd: [Ilugc] Mirror at iit kanpur
by Mehul Ved 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil(a)imsc.res.in> Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:39 PM Subject: [Ilugc] Mirror at iit kanpur To: ILUG-C <ilugc(a)ae.iitm.ac.in> Hello, The following information may be of interest. http://mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in/ Official mirror of: Arch Fedora Ubuntu. The debian mirror is functioning but is not officially listed. This info was received from Piyush Kurur of IIT Kanpur. Regards, Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-request(a)ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc -- Boucher's Observation: He who blows his own horn always plays the music several octaves highe... - http://kingsly.net/tmp/fortune.php/1249182910

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Web Based Sify Boradband Connector
by Pravin Dhayfule 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi Folks, Recently I got a solution from Sift Authorities regarding Sify Connect, as I complained them about the buggy Linux Dialer. The responded by enabling my id for the web based connector http://202.144.65.70:8090/login_rest.php This is similar to standalone client, instead it opens in web browser and so is good alternative as a cross platform connector, which means no extra back ground processes. If you are Sify user you can just request them to activate your id for using web based dialer. Bye Regards -- Pravin Balaji Dhayfule

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