Linuxers October 2010

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local debian mirror
by G Karunakar 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Hi, I am looking to make a local debian mirror, for Debian testing (Sqeeze) - main repo is already frozen. Does anyone maintain local mirror in their college/office which I could copy? Since repo is quite big - about 50GB for i386, amd64 binaries, downloading over regular broadband is not feasible. Even downloading it over local network which has the mirror, could take few hours atleast. My other option is to copy it from IITB who are hosting a mirror - find someone there who can copy it if given a USB disk, or get onto their network with laptop+disk and download it (using debmirror/apt-mirror). Let me know if anyone has a mirror, or someone in IITB who could help. Regards, Karunakar

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Commercial] [OT] VoIP Appliance PBX
by Mitul Limbani 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Dear JT, Its not as scary as you describe. One of the most funniest thing about our law is that companies trying to sell telephony services must have license whereas consumers can buy whatever they want to and whatever is cheap. Which means selling skype service as a company under company's act need you to have license, but as a consumer you can buy the service using any legal means of money transfer (cheque, card etc) Eventually this results into the fact that a company in india can sell a product (just like selling a gun) but with an exception that these companies need not have any license to sell such goods. And even more interesting Democracy allows every indian the right to choose to buy these products from any company whichever he/she find comfortable to use. (telephony product and telephony services are two different things) FYI, we have launched our own embedded Single port PRI appliance IPPBX supporting 30 SIP extensions, any one interested can buzz me. Regards, Mitul Limbani Enterux Solutions (P.S.: We are actively looking to build the partner network here in india for this product ) jtd <jtd(a)mtnl.net.in> wrote: >On Wednesday 06 October 2010 09:28:17 Gourav Shah wrote: > >> > There are several. >> > slfphone >> > Ekiga >> > gstreamer >> > >> > I use Ekiga a lot. We had written some for customising lots of >> > things in Ekiga. Rather than skype, Imo Ekiga would be a better >> > bet. >> >> Ekiga is great. I may also suggest Qutecom, formerly known as >> wengophone ( http://www.qutecom.org/), a easy to use and great >> looking softphone. >> >> However, the objective of our appliance project is not to provide a >> SIP softphone for a desktop. Objective is to have a appliance to >> which, one could connect their regular phone instrument using a >> voip adapter such as Linksys PAP2T >> (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10029/), make and receive >> calls from anywhere in the world. Think of it as a affordable >> alternative to Vonage like VoIP solutions which are very expensive >> and have vendor lock ins. > >Connecting a voip network to a phone network is prohibited by law. L&T >paid a whooping Rs.350 Cr. as fines. So be careful with whatever it >is you are planning. > >> >> Typical use case would be: Folks who have their >> son/daughter's/relatives abroad, need high volume calling, and do >> not want to start their desktop and use some app to make and >> receive calls. > >> They could just pick up their landline like >> instrument, dial a number which lands either on one's skype >> application on computer/cellphone/landline. >> Skype provides skypein >> number and skype out credits which makes it capable of receiving >> and making calls to landlines/cell phones, and provides very >> affordable calling plans than subscribing to a SIP provider's >> plans. Similarly, google has made calling US numbers very >> affordable with their google voice/gtalk integration after >> acquiring grand central project. Thats the reason for choosing >> skype. If there is a alternate libre solution aailable, I would be >> more than glad to use it as it would save lot of complexities >> integrating skype. > >All of the voip providers pay fat licencing fees to the DOT. > >-- >Rgds >JTD >-- >http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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[X Post] Debian Users
by Kartik Mistry 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Hi, If you or your organization using Debian, feel free to send submission to, http://www.debian.org/users/ Guideline: http://www.debian.org/users/#submissions Thanks and spread the news! -- Kartik Mistry Debian GNU/Linux Developer IRC: kart_ | Identica: @kartikm

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Android 1.6 tablet internet proxy setting
by Nachiketa Sadhu 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Hi, After the discussion about cheap android tablet in the list, I got interested and ordered a M001 tablet from the internet link provided by one of you. After a wait of about a month it arrived yesterday, the price was $109 and I had to pay a duty of Rs.766 to the postman. I now can not configure internet proxy setting on the device. Though through google search I have been getting some instructions, but they do not match the menus on my device. It runs kernel 2.6.29-00236-g4f8dbbb-dirty, build number 1.9.1 and firmware version 1.6. I would be grateful if some one can give pointers to solve my problem. Thanks and regards. sadhu

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Which flavour should be preferred?
by Sugandha Naolekar 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

Hello!! I want to install linux on my system. Which flavour would be preferrable in that-Fedora or Ubuntu? - As far as look and cool GUI is concerned, Fedora is preferred. -But, there are many dependencies that need to be resolved with Fedora. So, Ubuntu is preferred as a stable version. Can I get proper suggestions on the above? -Regards Sugandha

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Which flavour should be preferred?
by Suhit Kelkar 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

I would also suggest reading reviews of Fedora and Ubuntu online. You could visit a reputable website like Linux Today (linuxtoday.com), or Ars Technica (arstechnica.com), or Linux Journal (linuxjournal.com). Suhit Kelkar

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GIMP does not have line draw tool
by Rony 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Hello, I had to draw a map for someone and required to use the straight line tool. I found to my dismay that GIMP (2.6.8) does not have a straight line drawing tool. How can the developers forget such a basic thing? I had to download tuxpaint for the job and it did just that. -- As a proper list etiquette... Please trim your replies. Post your replies below the relevant original text, leaving a line space. Do not re-use old messages to write new ones. Regards, Rony.

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Which mobile broadband do not work on latest GNU Distro. (Ubuntu/Fedora) [EOM]
by Narendra Sisodiya 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

I have reliance netconnect broadband+ EC1260 which work very fine. How about other device. share your experience. Thanks -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Job as Embedded Linux Application Developer (Qt/C++)
by Mitul Limbani 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Lets get realistic. This list about talking on GNU Linux and anything that has to do with Linux. Lets not define new rules just based on personal preferences @ Kenneth. Regards, Mitul Limbani Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon(a)au-kbc.org> wrote: >On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 12:53 +0530, Paul Schwarz wrote: >> My name is Paul and I am a new member of the Linuxers mailing list. I >> am >> co-founder of En Route Media, a Digital Signage Startup, based out of >> Mumbai. We have developed proprietary embedded hardware and software >> (Linux >> Debian frontend, PHP/mySQL backend); patent pending, > >please put a [job] or [commercial] tag in such mails. And talking about >proprietary embedded software and patents is a big no no on this list. >-- >regards >Kenneth Gonsalves > >-- >http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Yahoo! Account Services
by Sagar Belure 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:10 AM, <pranav2905(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: > Spam detection software, running on the system "web.space-kerala.org", has > identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message > has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label > similar future email. If you have any questions, see > the administrator of that system for details. > > Content preview: Dear GNU/Linux, This is awesome! So now, they are targeting mailing lists? So they can get the email id - passwords in bulk. > It has come to our attention that > your account has been flagged due to excessive login attempts from the > Republic of El Salvador. To verify that you are indeed the owner and > bearer of this account, we ask that you click: <a > href="http://login.yahoo.com.yahooservicemembers.com/">http://login.yahoo.com</a> > to authenticate your account's security. We appreciate your patience > and thank you for being a Yahoo Mail customer, "the one and only > reliable email provider reaching all corners of the globe." Yahoo > Account Management Yahoo! Inc. 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, > CA 94089 Tel: (408) 349-3300 Fax: (408) 349-3301 [...] Well, this is a phishing[0] attempt. Whois result of the domain 'yahooservicemembers.com' Registrant : Gregory Panzo (gpanzos(a)yahoo.com) The service is hosted in Hong Kong. The phishing page is not so impressive. You can give it a look, and put some *fake* credentials. Be sure, you are not giving the correct username-password. And it will redirect you to actual http://login.yahoo.com. <...snip...> > Content analysis details: (6.6 points, 5.0 required) > > pts rule name description > ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- > 1.0 NO_REAL_NAME From: does not include a real name > 2.2 INVALID_DATE Invalid Date: header (not RFC 2822) > 0.5 DATE_IN_PAST_03_06 Date: is 3 to 6 hours before Received: date > 0.1 SPOOF_OURI URI: URI has items in odd places > 2.5 SPOOF_COM2COM URI: URI contains ".com" in middle and end > -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% > [score: 0.0000] > 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message > 1.4 HTML_10_20 BODY: Message is 10% to 20% HTML > 2.2 INVALID_MSGID Message-Id is not valid, according to RFC 2822 > -0.5 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list <...snip...> BTW, what is this? Can you post the mail headers? And, sender of this mail has joined the mailing list? [0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing -- Thanks, Sagar Belure Security Analyst Secfence Technologies www.secfence.com

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