Linuxers June 2011

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[OT] Computers in Education
by Rony 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

Hello, Nowadays there is a new trend among schools in Mumbai, to install electronic interactive black boards in classrooms. This concept is being marketed in a crazy way and there appears to be a race to install one everywhere. Marketing persons are convincing the school authorities that this is the only way to teach and will also help students that have learning difficulties. The systems run on Windows and teachers are being encouraged to do everything in MS Power Point slide shows by creating them every day. Another interesting thing is that they have a server installed where teachers must upload all their teaching material so it is commonly available to everyone. It appears that the hardware will be sold to the schools and the data made by the teachers may get used for marketing. My question is that how much computing is needed in teaching today? Apart from showing educational films and slide shows in the auditorium, what more can be done in class using a computer? -- Freedom is a shared resource. Take some, leave the rest for others. Please trim your replies. Avoid cross posting to other lists. Post your replies below the relevant original text, leaving a line space. Regards, Rony. http://ronybill.blogspot.com/

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Ubuntu 11.04 LAN Data Transfer
by Sanket Shah 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

On my Ubuntu 11.04 install on laptop (amd64 arch) as well as desktop (x86 arch) on the office wired LAN (Intranet, not connected to internet), there is a constant 6-15 kilobytes/second data down happening. The LAN works normally at all times, but even with no activity this data down is running. I checked with internet connected wifi on laptop and a USB dongle on both, but there was no such data transfer in idle conditions. It doesn't happen when on Windows 7. Is there a tool to find out which port or software is taking this data? I tried netstat but couldn't make a headway. Searched on ubuntuforums but found nothing close enough. Can somebody please guide me how to go about it. -- Sanket Shah

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huge TIME_WAIT for apache port 80
by suraj nayak 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

hi guys, I am facing some problem with my network. actually netstat -tan command showing huge TIME_WAIT connection for apache port 80. I am new in linux. Can anyone tell the solution for this? I searched lot on this but not found appropriate solution. thanks; Suraj

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Great Initiative by State Govt. to Provide free laptop and free Linux OS!
by chetan patil 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

*http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/27/stories/2011062756181600.htm* *Free or open source for students?* Vasudha Venugopal CHENNAI: Recent discussions on which software package to be incorporated in the free laptops to be distributed to students this year in Tamil Nadu have highlighted the attempts across the country to promote the use of Free and Open Source Software in education and other fields. While the government's tender specifications call for dual-booted laptops offering the Windows starter edition and Linux (Tamil version), activists say it must be only an open source. An oft-cited example is the IT@School project, started by the Kerala government in 2003. “We had both Windows and Linux initially, but we migrated to the open source completely in 2008,” says K Anvar Sadath, executive director of the project. While Swecha of Andhra Pradesh is also striving to train students and teachers in free software, Assam, Punjab and Haryana have started using open source software in education. It is unfortunate that while in the West, the dependence on proprietary software is decreasing, the developing countries are giving in to predatory marketing tactics, says Atul Chitnis, consulting technologist and founder, FOSS.In. Training of teachers can go on simultaneously, says Mr. Anvar, recalling his experience of training more than 10,000 teachers in a month through videoconferencing facilitated by the open source environment. Now Kerala has 600 open source learning centres across 14 districts, offering specialised training in animation, graphics and multimedia on open source technologies, apart from regular education. Gurumurthy Kasinathan of the Bangalore-based IT for Change says: “Many free educational software applications, bundled with Ubuntu GNU/Linux, are powerful in helping teachers and students understand concepts in math, science and social sciences.” S. Shanu, convener of the Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu, says linguistic flexibility is a big advantage of free software. The culture of innovation and community-based support systems can transform the way students think. Some industry professionals and government officials cite authentication, warranty and access as reasons for preferring proprietary software to open source technologies. “If you want to buy a proprietary system, you pick up one, but how many local directories tell you what to do if you need open source software. Heterogeneous environments of companies train us to choose the best tool for the job, considering compatibility with specialised applications and vendor support,” says Suresh Ramanujan, a software consultant. However, academics feel, it is the flexibility to understand the logic of the software that an open source offers, which is the key. “The question is what kind of learning process are we encouraging among students, and not if we should let them decide on their own, says Pratap Reddy, Chairman, Board of Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University. The stack of free software for school education is so huge that it does not need a learning management system or specially designed tools for building it, say experts. -- Chetan Arvind Patil, +919970018364

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linuxers Digest, Vol 98, Issue 21
by chetan patil 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

I want to utilize the pcmcia card slot. just thought if better options are there they why don't opt for that. how about pcmcia graphics card? Thanks. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:00 PM, <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. PCMCIA (chetan patil) > 2. Re: PCMCIA (Arun Khan) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: chetan patil <chtpatil(a)gmail.com> > To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in > Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:24:09 +0530 > Subject: [ILUG-BOM] PCMCIA > hi, > > Does anyone have an idea about PCMCIA card which will work > on IBM t43 with fedora 14. > > And does bluetooth,wifi and usb come Bundle in one PCMCIA? > > Thanks > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Arun Khan <knura9(a)gmail.com> > To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> > Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:29:22 +0530 > Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] PCMCIA > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:24 PM, chetan patil <chtpatil(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > And does bluetooth,wifi and usb come Bundle in one PCMCIA? > > > > PCMCIA on laptops is legacy - I have seen USB Cards, WiFi cards but > not both in one. Not sure about bluetooth. > > -- > Arun Khan > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- Chetan Arvind Patil, +919970018364

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[ANN] Scaling PHP in the cloud
by Anurag 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Sorry for the mess up with the previous mail. Sending it again. >From the friendly folks at HasGeek -- highly recommended for web engineers. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Scaling PHP in the Cloud is a one day conference on the challenges of scaling up from a single-server to multi-server software development model. It is an event for hands-on programmers, with sessions conducted by other programmers on how they do it. Our leading sessions are from Flipkart on how they write and deploy software on the hundreds of machines that power their e-commerce website; Zynga on their use of Membase; MobStac on how you can use Amazon EC2 to scale; and a number of other notable developers from the community. The event is on July 9 at Dharmaram College, Christ University Campus, Dairy Circle, Bangalore. Event website: http://phpcloud.hasgeek.in/ Session proposals: http://funnel.hasgeek.in/phpcloud/ Tickets: http://phpcloud.doattend.com/ Tickets are Rs 800 online and Rs 900 at venue. Early bird pricing has expired, but you can still get tickets at a lower price if you team up with your friends and buy together (3 or more tickets; even lower with 6+). We are a participant-supported event, by developers, for developers, with no sponsor interference. Your ticket money makes this possible. At this event, you get to choose the sessions you want. The schedule was made on the basis of sessions voted up by the community, and we've still got a few spots open for anyone who wants to come up and speak. Part of the ticket price goes to the cost of spreading word about the event. If you can help by telling your friends and buying your ticket with them, we'll give you a nice discount on the total price. -- Anurag <0xB20A82C1> http://web.gnuer.org/blog/

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[ANN] Scaling PHP in the cloud
by Anurag 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

>From the friendly folks at HasGeek -- highly recommended for web engineers. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Scaling PHP in the Cloud is a one day conference on the challenges of scaling up from a single-server to multi-server software development model. It is an event for hands-on programmers, with sessions conducted by other programmers on how they do it. Our leading sessions are from Flipkart on how they write and deploy software on the hundreds of machines that power their e-commerce website; Zynga on their use of Membase; MobStac on how you can use Amazon EC2 to scale; and a number of other notable developers from the community. The event is on July 9 at Dharmaram College, Christ University Campus, Dairy Circle, Bangalore. Event website: http://phpcloud.hasgeek.in/ Session proposals: http://funnel.hasgeek.in/phpcloud/ Tickets: http://phpcloud.doattend.com/ Tickets are Rs 800 online and Rs 900 at venue. Early bird pricing has expired, but you can still get tickets at a lower price if you team up with your friends and buy together (3 or more tickets; even lower with 6+). We are a participant-supported event, by developers, for developers, with no sponsor interference. Your ticket money makes this possible. At this event, you get to choose the sessions you want. The schedule was made on the basis of sessions voted up by the community, and we've still got a few spots open for anyone who wants to come up and speak. Part of the ticket price goes to the cost of spreading word about the event. If you can help by telling your friends and buying your ticket with them, we'll give you a nice discount on the total price. -- Anurag <0xB20A82C1> http://web.gnuer.org/blog/

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PCMCIA
by chetan patil 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

hi, Does anyone have an idea about PCMCIA card which will work on IBM t43 with fedora 14. And does bluetooth,wifi and usb come Bundle in one PCMCIA? Thanks

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Meetup in Mumbai on 24th at 5 PM
by satyaakam goswami 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Hi, i am travelling and will be in Mumbai from 23rd plan to have a meetup with folks from Mumbai on 24th , the meeting place is going to be Directi office, we will be going out for Dinner after the meetup Meeting time : 5 Pm Meeting Location : Directi.com , Directiplex, Old Nagardas Road, Andheri (East) Mumbai - 400053 Meeting Agenda : Networking Contact Person : Gaurav Chaturvedi , 09869201103 -Satya fossevents.in | fossyatra.in

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MTS mblaze netconnect
by Koustubh Sinkar 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

Namaste, I am trying to use my MTS mblaze netconnect with my Fedora 14. The modeswitching takes place automatically. I don't have to manually use the modeswitch command to switch the mode from storage device to modem. The problem starts after that. When I allow the network manager to connect to the internet automatically, it shows connected and also assigns an ip address to my computer. It also adds the default nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf but I am not able to ping www.google.com or 8.8.8.8. Then I changed the nameservers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. and tried pinging again. It failed. Next I tried using wvdial. The device connects, but again I am unable to ping and the modem shuts down automatically after 2 minutes or so. I starting reading more about this and realized that the wvdial is nothing but a heuristic frontend that uses the chat(08) program. I think writing the chat script should solve my problem, but the problem is that to write the chat script I will need specs of how this particular modem works. The modem is identified as ONDA systems communications device after typing lsusb in the shell and the manufacturer is ZTE. If anyone have access to these specs or if anyone has experience in hacking or reverse-engineering their protocol please help. Regards, Koustubh Sinkar कौस्तुभ सिनकर <http://www.about.me/ksinkar>

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