List,
Came across this article on pcworld. Thought it would be an
interesting read for the "community" to understand what the 'average'
end user wants. :) Indicative, not necessarily correct. But good to an
extent.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/164205/why_people_quit_linux.html
--
Roshan Baladhanvi
[Forwarding without prejudice -- Raju]
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: DLUG
Date: Monday 04 May 2009
From: Scott Mackenzie <scott.mackenzie(a)meeza.com.qa>
To: "raju(a)linux-delhi.org" <raju(a)linux-delhi.org>
Dear Raju,
We are building out a business in Doha, Qatar that will span the Middle
East & North Africa. The business model is quite unique and is pushing
out a better balance of Linux/Unix/MS/Other than ever before in the
region. Linux/Unix is …
[View More]not widely used and locating the talent needed
to help balance the market is very challenging. We are seeking some
help from DLUG. Can DLUG please communicate to its membership that
this hip startup called MEEZA (apologies v.1.0 of our site is not
great) http://www.meeza.com.qa/ needs help and is seeking full time
employees to join us. We are targeting those that are considered Gurus
or Gurus in training and have direct experience in service provider
operations. With the global economic downturn affecting many we hope
that this opportunity may be of interest to members of DLUG.
Thank you for taking the time to consider this request.
Warm Regards,
Scott E. MacKenzie
Chief Executive Officer
MEEZA
T +974 454 7120
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List,
I am not trying to install any distro but my orientation towards being
newbie friendly just doesn't stop. Why? I receive quite a few emails
about "how do I install Linux?" in my inbox on a monthly basis.
Apparently, guides on the internet aren't /generic/ enough to answer
such a question. So, I thought of writing 'just-generic-enough'
tutorial on the wiki and have completed it. It is a wiki article, so
by no means, it may be termed 'complete'. In other words, your
comments / additions / …
[View More]deletions are welcome, provided you have an
account.
http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/The_FIRST_Question:_How_do_I_install_…
--
Roshan Baladhanvi
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FYI,
=== Forwarded message ===
From: Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu(a)aero.iitb.ac.in>
Date: Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:51 PM
Subject: [JOB] Project on FOSS adoption in Indian education
Hello,
Project positions are open at IIT Bombay for a new government funded
project on adoption of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) in Indian
science and engineering education. Applicants may email their resumes
along with a one page writeup on why they think they are well suited for
the project to:
admin.…
[View More]foss[at]iitb.ac.in
News, announcements and details regarding the project are available here:
http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/~prabhu/Projects/FOSSEducation
Overview of the project
-----------------------
The eventual goal is to replace the use of commercial tools in Indian
science and engineering education at the college level. Towards this we
are working on the following broad themes:
- Python for scientific computing.
- Scilab (http://www.scilab.org, http://www.scilab.in).
- Multimedia authoring tool suited for Indian languages with a LaTeX
backend.
- Other projects related to the above.
I will be personally involved with the "Python for scientific computing"
component. This will broadly involve:
- NumPy (http://numpy.scipy.org),
- SciPy (http://www.scipy.org),
- matplotlib (http://matplotlib.sf.net),
- Sage (http://www.sagemath.org),
- Mayavi (http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi),
- ETS (http://code.enthought.com/projects),
- SymPy (http://code.google.com/p/sympy),
and various other packages of interest.
As part of the project you will have opportunity to work with the core
developers of these major projects.
Requirements
------------
The positions are all for a maximum duration of 3 years. The initial
appointment will be for a period of 1 year which will be extended based
on performance.
- Project manager: 1 position
- Technical writer: 1 position
- Software Developers/content generators:
- Python: 4 positions
- Scilab: 3 positions
- LaTeX: 2 positions
You will need to stay on campus or commute to IITB. Accommodation will
be provided if available, otherwise HRA will be provided.
Qualifications
---------------
Project manager:
- Good knowledge of programming and open source software community
- People management
- Communication
- Organizational skills
Technical writer:
- Excellent language and communication skills (spoken and written)
- Familiarity with computers
- Willingness to learn
Programmers/content generators:
- Willingness to learn
- Good programming skills
- Passion for FOSS
- Experience with FOSS
- Good math and science skills
System administration and web development skills are also required so
strong applications with those skills would also be considered.
Experience with Python/Scilab/LaTeX is a plus. Experience with working
on a FOSS project is a big plus.
Job description
---------------
As part of this project you will work towards creating material for
adoption of the various existing FOSS tools in the science and
engineering curriculum. This will involve generation of a significant
amount of documentation in the form of tutorials, audio/video
demonstrations, written material, and lectures. The material will often
go towards augmenting existing courses. The project will involve
working with several well known packages and improving them both in
terms of documentation and code to add features or fix bugs.
We will be hosting several workshops, sprints and conferences where you
will get to meet the developers of many important packages.
Remuneration
-------------
The pay will be in the range Rs. 10000 to 30000 depending on the
qualifications and experience. For extra-ordinary people the upper
limit is flexible. Accommodation will be provided on campus if
available.
Why you should apply
--------------------
- You get paid to improve and write FOSS.
- You get to do really meaningful work -- your work will influence
generations of future students all over India and potentially
elsewhere.
- You get to work on some of the most important projects that will
influence the future of science and engineering.
- You get to meet and work with the authors of various important
packages.
- You will be at IIT Bombay and will have best of both worlds --
good pay and an academic environment.
Thanks.
Prabhu Ramachandran http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/~prabhu
=== END ===
--
Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com
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Hi George!
> I would like to have a backup internet connection to maintain a 100%
> up-time of the Internet.
>
> We want to achieve this by automatically switching between the internet
> links if it fails (i.e for eg. if the BSNL link goes off, it has to take
> the AIRTEL link and once the BSNL link is ready, it has to switch
> automatically to it.)
>
> Can anyone throw some guidance on achieving the same.
Checking the link automatically won't work all the time, as …
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in earlier posts. But still it may work most of the time. There are
scripts available which can switch the network settings in such a
way that a particular configuration can be chosen from a list of
options. One of the problem in using multiple network interfaces have
been naming the interface reliably. Which card would be eth0 and
which would be eth1? Kernel used to switch cards occasionally
while initializing the network interface. This problem can be solved
now with udev rules.
Once the system names the interfaces correctly, a simple script
can be used to initialize required interface when need arises. In my
setup, I use a script which uses dialog (curses based console UI)
to switch the default gateway. It uses sudo to allow a group of
selected users to do this job. Using a curses based UI allows a
non-technical person to do the required task without getting into
the nitty-gritty of the network setup. This script can be customized
to do automatic switching of the interfaces by adding special
command-line options.
If required, I can provide this script to anyone interested in it.
Raghu
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>
> NO it wont i tried that
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rony <gnulinuxist(a)gmail.com>
> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in>
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:58:28 +0530
> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux distro, but no war...
> Arun Khan wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> True. In my case FWIW, 1280x1024 res. was auto detected by the hardware
>> detection of the Ubuntu/openSUSE …
[View More]LiveCDs. I did not set them @ boot time.
>>
>>
>>
> Lenny has a live cd too. It boots a full desktop on only 256 MB machines.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Rony.
>
> GNU/Linux !
> No Viruses
> No Spyware
> Only Freedom.
>
>
>
> --
> http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
>
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>>> I am looking for a simple linux distro with following features for
>>> few of celeron 256Mb machines.
>>> 1. Light window manager.
>>> 2. Networking
>>> 3. Abword
>>> 4. and spread sheet.
>>> I tried DSL, knoppix, ubuntu, but non of them work.
>>> Any idea, suggestions, but no war ;-)
>>
>> Try PuppyLinux, Debian with the LXDE desktop, use text based installer.
>
> Thanks, will give a try.
>
…
[View More]Thanks Arun, for suggesting puppy. It rocks.
Now there is one XP machine with canon printer.
I wish to use this printer from puppy machine.
Any idea how to go ahead...... Do I need CUPS?
Warm Regards,
Mr. Mukund Deshmukh,
Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd.
10/1 IT Park, Parsodi,
Nagpur -440022 India.
Web site - http://betacomp.com
Meet us at our Booth 10.1 A09 ,
CHINAPLAS 2009 , May 18 - 21, 2009,
Pazhou Complex, Guangzhou, CHINA.
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2009-04-30 18:09:52 [18027] squidGuard: can't write to logfile
/usr/local/squidGuard/log/squidGuard.log
2009-04-30 18:09:52 [18027] squidGuard: can't open configfile
/usr/local/squidGuard/squidGuard.conf
2009-04-30 18:09:52 [18027] Going into emergency mode
I am getting this error can anyone tell me where i should look for it
to get sorted out.