Linuxers September 2009

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need volantery testers for improved Gnukhata features.
by Krishnakant 12 Sep '09

12 Sep '09

hello all, I am happy to announce that we have already gone pritty much ahead in the first deployment of GNUKhata at Comet Media Foundation and have got a few other interested parties. While this is a great news for the GNUKhata project, we have made some drastic changes to GNUKhata which has resulted in a practical improvement of the software to a large degree. Thanks to all of you specially Kenneth, JTD, Mehul and many many others. Right now we need Some people to test the new source. There are 2 branches of GNUKhata, the bleeding edge is http://gnukhata.gnulinux.in/svn/gnukhata_alpha and the stable version is http://gnukhata.gnulinux.in/svn/trunk. Some of the major improvements include the way gnukhata is installed. A database can be setup using the client itself specially on the first time lonch of the front-end. We have also incorporated a lot of things based on the feedback we hav got. I would be intersted to know how people feel about this. right now due to some reason the mailing lists are down at the sid-india server so I can't get through. Do let me know off the list or on this list if other members won't mind. happy hacking. Krishnakant.

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Ayttm 0.6.0 is out!
by Siddhesh Poyarekar 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hi, Ayttm 0.6.0 is out. You can get the sources for the latest release here: http://ayttm.sourceforge.net/files.php The binaries should be available in a while for respective distributions via their own repositories. What is ayttm? Find out here: http://ayttm.sourceforge.net/ Report bugs: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=77614&atid=550744 Request Features: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=77614&atid=550747 Submit patches: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=77614&atid=550746 Rant about what you want to have by the next release: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ayttm-users This is by far the biggest release in that last two years because of the sheer number of components that have been touched. Here's an overview of the things that have changed in this release: * MSN Protocol updated to MSNP15 * Yahoo protocol updated to YMSG16 * Fixes to jabber. We now have service discovery and GMail notifications if you want it. The option is in your account preferences * Spellcheck is now provided by aspell by default. Pspell is long dead and we have finally let go * Overhaul of the networking code. We now have a transparent connection layer which takes care of SSL, proxies, etc. for the protocols. What's more, it's multi-threaded, and hence lives life on the edge. The good thing is that the interface will no longer hang when you're looking up a host name or connecting to your proxy. * Improvements in support of character encodings other than UTF-8. Ayttm now tries to convert incoming data into the correct encoding than crashing or whining. Look up the "encodings" option in your ~/.ayttm/prefs if you want to tweak its behaviour * Ayttm now uses stock icons wherever possible. This has resulted in a fair decrease in binary size (do I see Barry Kauler smiling? ;) ) and also makes the interface a little prettier. * Various fixes to the status window and chat window UI * Removed deprecated AIM-TOC, ICQ-TOC and ICQ modules from the package. You can still get them out of CVS, but I'll be removing them from there too pretty soon. A full ChangeLog is available here: http://ayttm.cvs.sf.net/viewvc/ayttm/ayttm/ChangeLog?view=log&pathrev=AYTTM… There is a lot more coming up. If you have any ideas you want to share, do get in touch with us in any of the ways stated above. -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.in

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Meetup anyone.
by Zubair Loladia 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hello everyone, The meetup date and time sounds cool to me I am in. Zubair Loladia, RDG Library Services.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linuxers Digest, Vol 77, Issue 17
by Praveen 10 Sep '09

10 Sep '09

Hmm if a few more people join in we can make this a nice "meet". there hasnt been one for a while iirc.

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Welcome to a limited 1984
by Easwar Hariharan 10 Sep '09

10 Sep '09

Hi all, We have the government attempting to play Big Brother in the financial capital.[1] Looks like India will soon go from Extensive Surveillance to Endemic Surveillance in Privacy International's rankings, if this keeps up. [1]http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/traffic-cops-advisers-on-electron… Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065

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Hardware Compatibility List for Debian
by Mayank 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

Hi, Maybe the question has been asked already and I could find one of the posts by Wouter Verhelst where he has mentioned about some kind of installer which can be used for Hardware Compatibility Testing. I need to deploy Debian for purpose of running a web service based application on JBoss. My first worries are about purchase of hardware for this project and I am pretty much stuck up as no major vendor except HP is providing support for Debian and pushing the idea of installing a unsupported OS to top management would not be an easy task as well. Is there any way in which I can be assured and hence push my top management to move to Debian despite it not being supported by major hardware vendors ? I know that's more of a management issue then technical but if there is someway through which I can find compatibility of Debian with different servers provided by various vendors (primarily HP, Dell and IBM) then it would be really helpful for me in decision making. I tried to install Debian 5.0 on a HCL Infinity Global Line 2700 series server and the installation went hassle free, however when I did lspci -n and tried to verify the compatibility using the web based utility provided at http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl I was surprised to see several hardware components as not being supported. Can I consider the report displayed by http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl as final and dump my idea of installation of Debian or will the lack of support for some of the drivers won't have much effect on functioning of my system. This is the question which is worrying me the most as of now, because I don't want my servers to hang up in middle of operations at later stage and it would be really nice if someone can help me out on this front. Also if possible please let me know how to find which all hardware is supported by a specific kernel. For e.g. I'm using kernel 2.6.22-3-486 and would like to know which all hardware components does it support. If there is someway to find a categorical list of such hardware components then that would be lot more helpful. Thanking you for your kind concern. Regards, Mayank

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marathi/hindi font in openoffice 3.x
by sameer shinde 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

Hi All, I'm using Openoffice 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 Desktop. I wanted to type With Marathi/Hindi (pneumatic) font in Openoffice 3.x version. Can you suggest me any font with which I can do this? I've also tried to install Keyboard layouts of Marathi / Hindi font but it is still not working. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sameer Shinde. M:- +91 98204 61580 Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

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Fwd: [PLUG] [Commercial] course on LaTeX
by Mehul Ved 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Manjusha Joshi <manjusha.joshi(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:51 PM Subject: [PLUG] [Commercial] course on LaTeX To: Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List <plug-mail(a)plug.org.in> NOTICE A course on LaTeX is starting from 12th Nov. 2009, at Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana. LaTeX is an open source software for technical documentation. It is useful for writing research papers, books, notes, presentations (beamer, pdfscreen, prosper, etc.). It is a collection of many other packages which make LaTeX useful for every type of document preparation. More details on website www.tug.org. Prerequisites : Familiarity with computer. The course will be conducted in English. Duration : 2 hrs. Lab session on every day, on 5 Saturdays (sometimes on other days if Saturday is not available) Fees : Rs. 500/- ( Notes and CD included in the cost) Coordinator : Mrs. Manjusha Joshi Mail for correspondence : bhaskara_p(a)vsnl.com Registration : Open till 12th Sept. 2009. Registration by email is possible. Time : 4pm - 6pm Venue : Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana, Pune ( www.bprim.org) S. A. Joshi (Admin. Officer) Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana -- Manjusha Joshi _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

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[COMMERCIAL] mysql database performance tuning help required
by Abhishek Daga 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

Hello, Looking for mysql performance tuning assistance on commercial terms. Anticipating a two day gig which would involve working with developers to help them fine tune the database and the queries (if possible). Please contact me off list if this interests you with any other relevant information. Regards Abhishek Daga

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Beware of Intel 4965AGN Wifi issues
by Dinesh Joshi 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

I recently came upon a weird and obscure problem with Ubuntu 9.04 and intel 4965AGN wireless adapters. Apparently in an area with a high density of access points one cannot connect. This was / is a known issue ( http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1885 ). I believe this maybe a regression. I switched to Fedora 11 and kernel 2.6.29 and upwards dont exhibit the same issue. Just a heads up for everyone! -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi

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Linuxers September 2009