Dear Readers,

September 2006 issue of LINUX For You bundles a hugely popular distro
in its DVD format - Ubuntu 6.06. Ubuntu brings with it the proven
stability, desktop convenience and user-friendliness.

On the editorial front, this issue is a 'Clustering Special'. We have
3 great articles that aim to make the complex phenomena of Clustering
easier for you. For newbies, we have some really enlightening articles
on Amarok music player, Google Earth Linux and the review of Elive
Linux distro.

The topic for CommunitySpeak this month is "What do you gain from
participating in an open source projest that you wouldn't from a
regular work environment?" Also, in the 'Down Memory Lane' series, we
look at the history of the openSUSE project.

FOR YOU & ME

* Amarok-Let The Music Play
* A Sneak Peek Into Google Earth Linux
* A Sneak Peek Into Google Earth Linux
* Opinions: How Important Is It To Have Tux In A Turban And Dhoti?
* Freespire 1.0-A Desktop Delight
* OpenSUSE-From Fuerth To The Future
* Elive-An `Enlightening' Experience
* Open Source Perils
* GPLv3-A Heady Battle Against DRM And Patents

ADMIN

* NAS Devices For Your Linux-Based Set-up
* Enabling Enterprise Communication In The Linux Environment
* Scale Up Your LTSP

DEVELOPERS
* Castor XML-Binding The XML
* C, C++ And Qt Development On Linux With Eclipse IDE

GEEKS
* Linux Scheduling-The Final Word
* Getting Started With Condor
* Clustering-Making Rocket Science Simpler
* Nautilus-Managing Much More Than Mere Files

COLUMNS
* FreedomYug: Gnu Gibberish
* BraveGNUIndia: Of Tropical Islands, Cyberspace And Web Servers

PLAYERS
* Reevik-A Promising Future `On The Rails'--Dibya Prakash
Bhattacharjee, CEO-Reevik Technologies Pvt Ltd
* Tux: UTI Bank's Trustworthy Companion

ON LFY DVD
* UBUNTU 6.06--Ubuntu 6.06 (codenamed `Dapper Drake'), bundles with it
the proven Debian stability and desktop convenience, through a clear
focus on the user and stability.

ON LFY CD
* Enterprise Communication Solutions: SurgeMail, Mail Server,
QmailToaster, Courier Mail Server, JBoss E-mail Server, The Apache
Java Enterprise Mail Server, Helios qmail, Sendmail 8.13.8, Zimbra
Collaboration Suite, Postfix qmail, eGroupWare
* Newbies: Comix, BORG calendar, jp2a, Inquisitor, ImageMagick, Goby
* Developers: Gideon Designer, Crosscheck Browserless Testing
Framework, Sahi, SoapUI, Eclipse SDK
* Magazine Software: Amarok-Let The Music Play, Castor XML
* Games: TORCS, GalaxyHack, Armagetron Advanced, FreeCol, Freeciv
* Updates: Kernel 2.6.17.10, Clam AntiVirus

Our effort is in your hands now. We hope you enjoy reading the issue.

WHERE TO GET YOUR COPY?

Problems getting a copy of LFY? Feel free to reach out to our
distributors (IBH) listed below:

# Ahmedabad - Mr. S. K. Sharma (079-26577068)
# Bangalore - Mr. Devaru Bhatt (080-22261305, 080-22252385)
# Chennai - Mr. Vijay Rengan (044-28273893)
# Hyderabad - Mr. Ramesh Rajgopal (040-27564945, 040-27561140)
# Kolkata - Mr. Mehta (033-22498096/97)
# Mumbai - Mr. Indur Vaswani (022-24943707)
# New Delhi - Mr. P. K. Das (011-23313014/15)
# Pune - Mr. Ashok Basant (020-26131261)
# Trivandrum - Mr. Hari Kumar (0471-2475443)

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE OR COMPLAIN?
Go to our website www.lfymag.com OR email at support@... OR
call at 011-26810601/02/03

Warm Regards!
TeamLFY
LINUX For You

A very confusing subject line that !

Well don't be surprized, this is the title of a nice article telling what is so
bad about Windows. No more suspense. Here is the link of this must read note:

http://www.getgnulinux.org/windows/

Cheers,
-Tarun

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Scientist D                          /\\
Biotechnology Laboratory            _\_V
Forest Genetics & Tree Breeding Division
Arid Forest Research Institute
New Pali Road
Jodhpur 342005 India
Phone: +91-291-2722269 ext. 162
Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/bobkant/
I'm Registered Linux User # 284692
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                           TUX Desktop Watch -- August 29, 2006
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   Welcome to the TUX Desktop Watch

     This Week: The Quote Heard 'Round the Community

     "No matter how painful, no matter how ugly, we must enable the
Linux desktop
     to run Windows media, to support iPods.  We may not want binary programs in
     user-space, but we must have them." Eric Raymond, author of "The Cathedral
     and the Bazaar" in a panel discussion at Linux World 2006.

     I would encourage everyone to search for more information on the discussion
     and the background.  Of course, it is nothing new to readers of TUX and TUX
     Desktop Watch.  I've been talking all around the subjects which are the
     foundation for his remarks.  The Register was the first to break the story
     and you can find their report here:
     http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/eric_raymond_linux_compromise/.

     It's funny how we filter information.  We each bring to every bit of
     information every experience that makes us unique.  When we add new
     information to that unique mixture of experiences, it becomes like
     chemistry.  There are interactions between our experiences and the new
     information, those reactions often form what we take the new information to
     "mean".

     So it is with Raymond's comments.  We all read or heard what he had to say
     and then like chemistry we arrive at our reactions (our conclusions).  For
     me, I think that Raymond is spot on some of this conclusions.  Now I'll
     admit his conclusions about the switch from 32- to 64-bit
technology and the
     closing window for Linux are areas I've not considered.  But I see in his
     comments one critical conclusion.

     In his book The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Raymond documented his first hand
     experience with what makes the Open-Source software development process
     work.  In my opinion, no one can begin to understand what makes Open Source
     different, special, and mysterious without reading his book.  So I believe
     he is uniquely qualified to have voiced what he did.  So I believe Raymond
     sees a disconnect between what we all want Linux to become and what the
     developers working on Linux want.  For TUX and our readers, we want a Linux
     that just works, but Linux developers don't really care what we want.  Now
     I'm talking about the vast majority of individual developers who contribute
     to Linux and not the corporate interests of Linspire, Xandros, or Novell.
     From the other perspective many within that same development community
     believe that Linux represents everything that the ideals of the Free
     Software Foundation proclaim.  They believe that Linux should
always reflect
     those ideals and should never be diluted with software that does not
     guarantee the free software ideals.  Many people first encountering Linux
     ask questions like Raymond proposes,"does it work with my iPod?" After
     telling many college students here in Puerto Rico about LInux,
a very common
     question was, "does it run Windows Messenger?" To which I was like, mouth
     gaping, saying to myself "don't you mean does it support connecting to the
     Windows messenger service?"

     From both perspectives we have a gap, (I know here he goes again with the
     gap crap again...) that are uncrossable.  So I believe that Raymond has
     recognized that the two ends have no way to meet in the middle, so he made
     his call to the Linux community to make the effort to meet the users where
     it is most important to them.  Whether that compromise is drivers, or
     codecs, or whatever, the community must move the mountain to
where the users
     are.  It's the only way! Raymond knows it and whether everyone else cares,
     it is the only way to reach widespread Linux desktop adoption.

     Otherwise, we have a great deal of cool content for you this
week, which you
     can find below.  We have plenty of great Weblog entries, plus a chapter on
     compiling and installing source code from the book SUSE Linux
by Chris Brown
     from O'Reilly Media.  We wish you much learning enjoyment!

     With best regards,

     Kevin Shockey
     Editor in Chief, TUX Magazine


   Feature Links of the Week

     Package Management in SUSE Linux: Compiling and Installing Source Code by
     Chris Brown by Chris Brown
     http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000217
     There is so much great free software for Linux out there in the world, but
     unfortunately, sometimes that software is in source-code-only
format and not
     in binary.  This is an excerpt from Chris Brown's book SUSE Linux from
     O'Reilly Media.

     To Choose or Not to Choose by Kevin Shockey
     http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000218
     Kevin sorts out the advantages and disadvantages of the dizzying array of
     choices we have in the Open-Source world.

     Programming Options by Phil Hughes
     http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000219
     Phil offers a primer on where to start if you want to learn how to program.


   From the Field

     This is where you will find tech tips that come directly from you, our
     readers.  Please send us your fantastic desktop-Linux tips and tricks to
     ed@....  If we publish your submission, we'll send you a free
     t-shirt or other great Linux gear!

     Here's a submission by anonymous from somewhere in cyberspace:

     Backing up your Personal website.
     Like many people you have one of those cheap personal web sites that don't
     allow direct shell access or file access to the server.  This is a real
     problem if you want make a copy of your web site for backup or other
     reasons.  The solution is simple but requires using the command line in a
     terminal.

     The program wget allows you to make a copy of a web site with the command
     line option --mirror.  This allows you to download a complete copy of the
     files on your web site to your home computer.

     This is an example of how to do it:

         wget -nv --mirror http://YourWebSite.com/

     This should download all files on your web site except possibly the CSS
     files.  To find the CSS files you can view the HTML source of
your home page
     by right clicking your mouse while you are viewing your web site in a
     browser and then selecting "Source" or "View Source" in the
popup menu.  The
     location of the CSS files will be listed somewhere in the top of the
     displayed source information.  Search for .css to find it.  You can then
     (usually) add the specified directories and css file name to the basic url
     of your website and view the css files in your web browser.
This allows you
     to copy and paste the CSS information into an editor and save it on your
     computer.

     For more information check out the manual:
     http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html


   From our sister publication, Linux Journal

     Do-It-Yourself Robots by Michael Surran
     http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9103
     Michael is a teacher who works with his high-school students to build cool,
     Linux-driven robots.


   Last But not Least: Tech Tip!

     Using Kate to help speed up repetitive tasks.

     Kate version 2.5 and above has a template feature that can save you lots of
     time if you have to create similar html pages, newsletters or emails on a
     weekly basis.  The template feature has to be turned on by clicking on
     Settings >> Configure Kate >> Plugins and checking the box on
the right next
     to Kate File Templates.  Once activated you will have a new listing under
     Files >> New From Template where you can load the templates and under
     Settings you will have a new listing, Manage Templates, where
you create and
     modify templates.

     Manage Templates allows you to create new, edit or delete templates.  It
     also allows you to upload or download templates from a Kate supported
     template repository.  Managing existing templates is fairly
straight forward
     but creating new ones can be frustrating.  This is the method I
use and have
     found to be the fastest but only because you rarely have to start over:

     First create the contents of the template in Kate just like you would a
     normal file.  After this is finished it is time to create an
empty template.
     When the empty template is finished you will paste in the content you just
     created and save the template.  Here is how you create the blank template:

     In the Manage Template dialog box click on New.  In the first window,
     "Choose Template Origin" You want to check "Start with an empty document"
     and click the "Next" button to go to the "Edit Template Properties" window.
     In that window you will find the following choices:

     Template:
            This is the name that appears in the "Group" when you go to select a
            template to load.  The button on the right lets you select an icon
            but I have not been able to find where it is displayed.

     Group:
            A Group is just like a folder.  It is a heading for similar
            templates.  If you want a new group just highlight the text in the
            box and type in the new name.  The one you highlighted
remains, it is
            not deleted.

     Document Name:
            This is the name that appears as the file name inside Kate -- until
            you save the file.  Handy for making sure you have the right
            template.

     Highlight:
            This sets the files highlighting type, HTML, CSS, Ruby, Python,
            etc...  Click on "None" and search for the highlighting style you
            want.

     Description:
            Since this only appears when you are editing the template file I
            assume it is for information you might want to know when editing the
            template.

     Author:
            This is your name and email address and is automatically inserted.

     After you finish filling out the above window, click on the "Next" button
     and in the "Choose Location" window select Template directory and enter a
     Template file name.  Do not spaces or special characters, it is the file
     name that it will be stored under.  When you are finished click on the
     "Next" button and go to the "Create Template" window and check "Open the
     template for editing" and click on the "Finish" button.  This opens the
     template file for editing but you will need to close the final
window of the
     "Manage Template" dialog since you are through with it.

     The katetemplate: header is at the top of this file.  This is where the
     information used to define the template is stored.  It does not appear when
     you open a regular template only when you edit a template.  Here is an
     example:

        katetemplate: Template=Template Group=Email_Responses
        Documentname=Documentname Highlight=HT&ML
        katetemplate: Author=Keith Daniels <xxxxxxx@...>
        katetemplate: Description=Description

     Notice the & in HT&ML.  That & is a bug in certain versions of Kate and you
     need to remove it from the "Highlight=" specification, it appears in all
     highlighting types.  It should be just HTML or whatever highlighting type
     you selected.  You can not get to the "Edit Template
Properties" window when
     you edit an existing file.  You have to edit the template itself and change
     the entries above.  In creating the template I used the name of
the text box
     and that is why it shows Template=Template, etc...

     Everything else in the header should be fine and you can now copy and paste
     in the "template contents" you created earlier, right below the header and
     then close and save the file.  To test it, open the template as
described at
     the beginning and check that everything is the way you want it.  If not go
     to the Manage Template window and edit the file.

     The main advantages of the Kate template feature Are:

       * Finding templates is Fast! because they are built into the menu bar and
         don't have to be searched for in the file system.
       * The first time you save the template it forces you to
assign a file name
         - it does not overwrite your template - which is what always happens
         when you create your own set of templates.
       * Highlighting works, even before you save the file and even
if you do not
         give the file a standard extension like ".html" which helps prevent
         errors when filling in the template.

     Go to this site for more information:
     http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdeaddons/kate-plugins/filetemplates.html#k
     atefiletemplates-menu

         -- From TUX Webmaster Keith Daniels

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I installed Ubuntu 6.06 LTS from Live CD on Compaq Presario V3000
(V3018TU). Its graphic card is "Intel PCCI Mobile Integrated Graphic
Controllr" is Ubuntu uses driver i810. I
could not divert Video through LCD projector. Rebooting after
connecting Projector makes no difference. fn-f4 also not work. Can not
say its behaviour on MicroSoft windows, as Laptop is inslatted with
Linux Only.

May, I get some tip or clue, how to do make Projector to work with
this Laptop.

Thanks in advance.

--
H.S.Rai
===================

Dear Readers,

First off, let me thank our readers for the tremendous response to the
July 2006 issue and the Debian 3.1 DVD bundled with it.

Encouraged by the kind of response that our DVDs are generating every
month, we have bundled yet another great distro with the August issue
- Knoppix 5.0.1. A true marvel of German engineering, Knoppix 5.0.1 is
simply brilliant. One of the most popular live Linux distros
available, its versatile nature has made it the distro of choice for
many users around the world.

On the editorial front, we have an interview with the technology head
of Naukri.com - Vibhore Sharma - who describes the extent of Linux
usage in their ever increasing IT setup. Also, in our trends section,
we take a look at the extent of Linux usage in educational institutions.

The topic for CommunitySpeak this month is "What would make a Windows
user pick up a Linux magazine?" and "What would make a Windows user
adopt Linux instead?" Also, in the 'Down Memory Lane' series, we look
at the history of Knoppix.

For Techies
* Connecting Evolution To MS Exchange
* Linux Scheduling (Part II)
* VMware Player - Introducing Linux Into The Enterprise
* Developing P2P Protocols Across NAT
* PHP Development on Eclipse
* Setting Up a Discussion Forum in Linux

For U & Me
* Linux in Educational Institutions - A Bitter-Sweet Symphony
* Mobile Phones - The Embedded Linux Challenge
* Laser Printers that Work on Linux

For Newbies
* Google Office - A Rent-free, Anytime, Anywhere Office
* Knoppix 5.0.1 - Ausgezeichnet
* Lord Of The Code

For BizUsers
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 - A Winner All the Way
* SpikeSource - Making OSS Ready For Business

The LFY CDs

LFY DVD - Knoppix 5.0.1

A true marvel of German engineering, Knoppix 5.0.1 is simply
brilliant. One of the most popular live Linux distros available, its
versatile nature has made it the distro of choice for many users
around the world.

LFY CD #2 - The Ultimate Software for Businesses

* ERP Tools: Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution, opentaps Open
Source ERP+CRM, Openbravo ERP, Neogia, webERP accounting, Samooha --
Empowered Business Networks, Tiny ERP
* Power users: Debian 3.1 Sarge Custom Installer, h-inventory,
Sysstat, Netwox, Host Grapher II, CaLStats
* Newbies: Vile, LilyPond, Rubrica, Xchat
* Developers: Spring Framework, PHPFIT, XennoBB 2.0.1, PIDA, Xwpe
* Games: Gorky 17 Demo, Quetoo

Our effort is in your hands now. We hope you cherish reading the issue.

WHERE TO GET YOUR COPY?
Problems getting a copy of LFY? Feel free to reach out to our
distributors (IBH) listed below:
# Ahmedabad - Mr. S. K. Sharma (079-26577068)
# Bangalore - Mr. Devaru Bhatt (080-22261305, 080-22252385)
# Chennai - Mr. Vijay Rengan (044-28273893)
# Hyderabad - Mr. Ramesh Rajgopal (040-27564945, 040-27561140)
# Kolkata - Mr. Mehta (033-22498096/97)
# Mumbai - Mr. Indur Vaswani (022-24943707)
# New Delhi - Mr. P. K. Das (011-23313014/15)
# Pune - Mr. Ashok Basant (020-26131261)
# Trivandrum - Mr. Hari Kumar (0471-2475443)

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE OR COMPLAIN?
Go to our website www.lfymag.com OR email at support@... OR
call at 011-26810601/02/03

Warm Regards!
TeamLFY

Hello all,

Greetings from the Linux For You magazine team!

As you all know, two months ago we launched a new initiative called
CommunitySpeak where we pose a question to various ILUG mailing lists
and publish the top five responses (selected by our technical editors)
in the magazine. Thanks to all those who responded to last month's
question. The best among the responses received are to be published in
the August 2006 issue of LFY. We have contacted the chosen respondents
off-list.

This month we have chosen the topic: "What does one gain from
participating in an open source project that he/she does not gain from
a regular work environment?"

What's your take on this? Our eyes and ears are wide open and we are
waiting to listen to your ideas. Please write to us at
writetojanani@... with a CC to atul.goel@..., before
5th August 2006.

The top five responses will be published in the September 2006 issue
of Linux for You.

Look forward to your responses.

Thanks,

Janani Gopalakrishnan, Freelance Writer
Atul Goel, Asst. Associate Editor, LFY

P.S: We have not tagged this as commercial as we feel that there is no
business angle involved in this communication. But if you feel that it
should be tagged please let us know so that we can do it from the next
time.

--- In SunCityJodhpurLUG@..., "girish patel"
<girish.super@g...> wrote:
> present in red hat. I need the mp3 plugin for noauton which is *
> kdemulimedia-extras.* If any own or know the link to download.

This information may help you:

Redhat Linux does not ship with MP3 enabled media players due to
patent concerns. You can, however, download and install an RPM package
that will add support back in for MP3 CDs.

An example RPM package might look like this:

     xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21.i386.rpm


RPM packages for most distributions can be found at:

     http://www.freshrpms.net

Can someone suggest Linux friendly LapTop avilable in maket
now a day.  The budget is about Rs. 48,000/- and
distributions, which may be used are Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora.

Thanks in advance,

--
H.S.Rai

Anybody who has a Linux computer that is used by other members of the family can
relate to this problem: How do you log off another user when they're not around?
A short how-to article here at DesktopLinux.com describes two options -- the
"mean way," and the "nice way."

"[The mean way] guarantees your kids will complain to you. Well, OK, any method
guarantees that," Steven J. Rosen writes. "But this method is especially mean
because there's no chance to save the other user's work first."

The "nice" way might be the better way to go, and could even earn a "Thanks,
Dad" or "Thanks, Mom" from the young one.

Rosen offers complete details on how to log somebody else off gracefully from a
Linux desktop machine. Read his full story:

http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2289829573.html

Cheers
-Tarun

_______________________________

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       /\\    Penguin
      _\_V    Power !


      You only live once,
   but if you live it right,
       once is enough !
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TUX Desktop Watch for July 18
    ____________________________________________________________

    Welcome to the TUX Desktop Watch

     As you might have seen in the last edition of TUX Desktop Watch, I was
     recently on vacation.  I spent my vacation visiting family in Indiana. I
     grew up in Kokomo, Indiana, but haven't lived there since I left for
     college, umm, a while ago.  Visiting Kokomo is always a trip because,
     everywhere I turn it reminds me of a story.  One of the advantages of
     working for TUX, is that I get to take my office along with me -- my SUSE
     10.0-powered laptop.  With this new visit, I now have another story.

     What surprised me most about my visit to the Heartland of the United States
     was the lack of free wireless Internet access.  When I did find a wireless
     network, there wasn't even a notion, that I might want to connect to the
     network with something other than Microsoft Windows.  I'll dive into this
     topic deeper in my next Web log entry at http://www.TUXMagazine.com.

     When I desperately needed to get online I used one of the two public-
     library locations.  Of course, all of the machines available were running
     Microsoft Windows and none of them were using Mozilla Firefox.  Man, am I
     attached to using multiple tabs for browsing many pages simultaneously!
     Anyway, while I was there I noted that the library was deep into their
     summer reading program.  I have extremely fond memories of my mother taking
     me to the library to participate in similar programs.  I credit these
     programs with creating my thirst for knowledge and my love for reading.
     Knowing firsthand the success of these programs made me wonder if we don't
     need similar programs to teach general computing.  Hopefully, a broad
     computing program would include Linux and FOSS (Free and Open Source
     Software), but it wouldn't be critical.

     From my perspective, computing is becoming nearly as important as reading,
     writing, and arithmetic.  So we as a society should accept the importance
     computing holds for our future and begin offering secondary, tertiary, etc.
      education programs to teach fundamental computing.  I believe that
     increased computing knowledge is necessary for wider Linux and FOSS
     adoption.  When more people understand computers and computing technology,
     the path towards wider adoption of Linux and FOSS will become easier.
     Public libraries as social, intellectual, and knowledge hubs must play a
     special role within the community to create the computing expertise
     necessary.

     Here's a call to action: I'd like to hear your ideas about how we can raise
     the general computing knowledge of the populace.  Assume that most schools
     have some type of program, and although I know that is one of the most
     important programs, I also know that every school doesn't have a program.
     If you don't have suggestions, please help me understand what are the
     largest obstacles to achieving this goal.

     Also, after my first call for tech-tips.  The well is running dry.  So
     please don't forget to send us your technical Linux tips.

     Kevin Shockey
     Editor in Chief
     TUX Magazine


    Feature Links of the Week

     Building a Database with Kexi by Dmitri Popov
     http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000207
     This link is intended to show you what you are missing by not downloading
     and reading the July issue of TUX. Billed as the open-source competitor to
     Microsoft Access, Kexi provides a rapid application development tool for
     database systems.

     Declare Your Independence from Proprietary Software (Or How to Break the
     Habit of Proprietary Software) by Kevin Shockey
     http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000206
     Kevin shares his thoughts on breaking through the comfort level
we feel with
     the proprietary software we have grown accustomed to.

     Voices from a Veteran Columnist: My Ten Favorite "Cooking With Linux"
     Columns by Marcel Gagne

http://www.linuxjournal.com/xstatic/advertising/newsletter/issue-8/Favorites.htm\
l
     As mentioned in previous editions of the TUX Desktop Watch, Marcel Gagne's
     super column over in Linux Journal, called "Cooking With Linux," typically
     has material of great interest to us TUX folks.  Well this
month, Marcel did
     us the great favor of sharing with us his Top 10 list of favorite columns
     he's written since he started the column back in 1999.


    From the Field

     This is the space for tech tips that come directly from you, our readers.
     Keep sending your fantastic desktop-Linux tips and tricks to
     ed@....  If we publish your submission, we'll send you a free
     t-shirt or other great Linux gear!

     Here's a submission from Daniels from somewhere on Earth:

     Kate Tip
     If you have Kate (KDE's all purpose text editor) version 2.5.x installed
     under KDE 3.5.x you can use some external commands, like sort for example,
     to sort highlighted text.  All you have to do to enable this feature is to
     click on: Settings (on the menu bar) >> Configure Kate >> Plugins and then
     check the box next to Kate TextFilter and then click on the OK button.

     To use the filter you highlight the text you want to sort, press the Ctrl
     key and the \ key at the same time and then enter sort in the text box that
     pops up and press OK.

     Sort when used by itself, sorts based on the first characters in a line.  A
     useful option is the -g option. If numeric sorting is not working correctly
     add -g after sort, because without it sort just looks at the first digit.
     Other options can be found by typing man sort and pressing enter while in a
     console or terminal window.

     If you create or edit HTML code for web pages this feature allows you to
     easily use the tidy command to check the HTML code for errors and
     automatically fix minor problems in the code.


    From our sister publication, Linux Journal

     Musings from Studio Dave by Dave Phillips
     http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000057
     Dave Phillips is one of the most eloquent and savvy voices in our community
     regarding music and sound on the Linux platform, and he's written scores of
     articles for us.  This article is Dave's first stab at the world of
     blogging, in which he discusses his own home music studio, dubbed "Studio
     Dave", as well what programs he uses with his underfunded music students.


    Last But not Least: Tech Tip!

     TUX editor Daniel McCarthy says:

     "A page that is frequently hit on my site is how to recover the root
     password.  I've written up the following on how to recover the password
     using Grub.  If you have ever forgotten the root password for any of your
     machines you know what a hassle it can be.  If you have direct
access to the
     machine and it is using the Grub boot loader it is very easy to change the
     password.

     All you need to do is reboot the machine.  When you are presented with the
     Grub menu, hit the 'e' key.  This will allow you to edit the current boot
     options.  Select the line that begins with 'kernel', hit the
'e' key again to
     edit that line and add the word 'single' at the end of the line
and press the
     Enter key.  Now press 'b' to boot with the modified boot options.

     You'll now be presented with the command line.  At the command line simply
     enter 'passwd' and press Enter.  You'll be prompted, twice, for a new
     password.

     After you have finished entering the new password, type in 'exit' and press
     Enter, and the machine will continue booting into the normal process.  Your
     root password has now been changed."
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plz try to use default printer installation method .....

or go to the printer website hope u will find the driver there ....






Quoting Tarun Kant <tarunkant@...>:

>
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I have recently bought a new Xerox Phaser 3117 laser printer for my
> office. The advertisement and the printer brochure all were loudly
> claiming Linux support and full compatibility and I gladly bought
> it.
>
>
>
> Tried installing the printer on my office PC running Mandriva LE
> 2005. The printer was auto detected but  the model was not listed.
> Infact none of the models from the Phaser range is listed in the
> driver database on Mandriva.
>
>
>
> Next I tried following the instructions given in user manual. To my
> disappointment the file 'setup.sh' is missing from the software CD
> that came with the printer. Though the CD face clearly mentions
> both Linux and Windows on it. I wrote to the company, but did not
> receive any reply back.
>
>
>
> Tried a lot of different things, but could not make the printer to
> work. Has any one got any idea on what to do now or experience with
> this printer model. Please let me know if anyone can help.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Tarun
>
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Tarun Kant, M.Sc., Ph.D.             -o)
>
> Scientist C                          /\\
>
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>
> Forest Genetics & Tree Breeding Division
>
> Arid Forest Research Institute
>
> New Pali Road
>
> Jodhpur 342005 India
>
> Phone: +91-291-2722269 ext. 162
>
> Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/bobkant/
>
> I'm Registered Linux User # 284692
>
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Dear Readers,

First off, we would like to thank our readers for an overwhelming
response to the June 2006 issue of LINUX For You.

The monsoon season brings with it a gift that we are sure most of our
readers were eagerly awaiting. For the third month in succession, LFY
has bundled a DVD, and that too, a distro that had virtually become
the 'numero uno request' on our readers' wish list - Debian Linux 3.1.
Check it out and do send us your feedback.

On the editorial front, we have a great article on the tuXlabs project
which is a partnership between the Shuttleworth Foundation and South
African schools to setup self-sustainable computer centres in South
African schools using open source. We have also included a resource
manual - the tuXlabs Cookbook - in this month's LFY CD that serves as
a recipe for setting up a tuXlab and explains formal processes like
education, application, installation, support and training that define
the tuXlabs model. We hope that this article and the cookbook will
serve as facilitators for the policy makers in our country to take
full advantage of open source in our education system.

Starting this month, a new column has been introduced called
CoomunitySpeak. Here, we take a topic and post it on various LUGs for
members to give their opinion on the same and the best 5 responses get
a place in the magazine. This month's topic is 'Why is it that a clear
majority of world's top ten supercomputers are powered by GNU/Linux?'
Also, in the 'Down Memory Lane' series, we look at the history of the
Firefox project.

For Techies
*  Konquer Your File Management with KIO
*  Interconnecting Two Asterisk Machines
*  Getting Mobile with Your Linux Laptop
*  Basics of System V Semaphore
*  Linux Scheduling (Part I)
*  Manipulating the Networking Environment Using RTNETLINK
*  Ruby as Enterprise Glue
*  Webglimpse-Make Your Site Searchable
*  Making Startup Services in Red Hat Manageable
*  SNORTing Out Network Intrusion
*  Security Features In Debian 3.1

For Newbies
*  Learning Foreign Languages with Tux
*  Ubuntu 6.06 LTS-Do the Dapper Dance
*  Freespire-A Curtain Raiser
*  A Sneak Peek Into AJAX

For Policy Makers
*  OpenGovernment: How to Develop an Open Source Industry in
Developing Economies: Learning to Play the Open Source Services Game
*  tuXlab-An Open Source School Computer Centre Programme

The LFY CDs

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Hello all,

Greetings from the Linux For You team!

As you all know, last month we launched a new initiative called
CommunitySpeak where we pose a question to various ILUG mailing lists
and publish the top five responses (selected by our technical editors)
in the magazine. Thanks to all those who responded to last month's
question on "why a majority of the world's top 10 supercomputers are
powered by Linux". The best five among the responses received are to
be published in the July 2006 issue of LFY.

The selected responses were sent by Vishnu Vyas (Chennai), S R Parthan
(Chennai), R Subramanian (Chennai), Manu Konchady (Bangalore) and P
Sriram (Chennai). Thanks again for your participation.

This month we have chosen the topic: "What would make a Windows user
pick up a Linux magazine?"

No, this is not a marketing tactic. We are *really* curious. What
would make Windows users pick up a Linux magazine? How can we convince
them to read about and adopt Linux and other free and open source
software? Would they be interested in reading about free business
software than run on Windows?

What's your take on this? Our eyes and ears are wide open and we are
waiting to listen to your ideas. Please write to us at
writetojanani@... with a CC to atul.goel@... before
July 5th 2006.

The top five responses will be published in the August 2006 issue of
Linux for You.

Look forward to your responses.

Thanks,

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P.S: We have not tagged this as commercial as we feel that there is no
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should be tagged please let us know so that we can do it from the next
time.

Hi Friends,

We are now listed at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUGs,_FSUGs,_GLUGs_in_India_and_Asia

Cheers
-Tarun

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tarun Kant, M.Sc., Ph.D.             -o)
Scientist C                          /\\
Biotechnology Laboratory            _\_V
Forest Genetics & Tree Breeding Division
Arid Forest Research Institute
New Pali Road
Jodhpur 342005 India
Phone: +91-291-2722269 ext. 162
Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/bobkant/
I'm Registered Linux User # 284692
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Hi Himanshu,

Good point. I personally feel that if -
#1. M$ goes open source and
#2. Leave behind their monopolistic market practices,
we can even discuss about their products. Looks like a dream right now :-)

Our group I feel is for Open source in general and Linux in particular. I feel
we should have broad based discussions. I am sure every one will agree to this.

Cheers,
-Tarun

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tarun Kant, M.Sc., Ph.D.             -o)
Scientist C                          /\\
Biotechnology Laboratory            _\_V
Forest Genetics & Tree Breeding Division
Arid Forest Research Institute
New Pali Road
Jodhpur 342005 India
Phone: +91-291-2722269 ext. 162
Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/bobkant/
I'm Registered Linux User # 284692
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Sunday June 25, 2006

03:05 Music Player * Delhi LUG
02:53 Re: pertanyaan 5 * Jogjakarta
02:49 Whats wrong with... The Coalition * KSIT-Keeping IT Simple

Saturday June 24, 2006

23:05 [COMMERCIAL] Linux Jobs * Delhi LUG
23:05 [OT] [Commercial] Linux job with wipro * Delhi LUG
20:43 Your New ICQ Password * ILUG Jodhpur
20:05 [OT] [Commercial] Linux job with wipro * DubaiLUG
19:50 [COMMERCIAL] Linux Jobs * ILUG Indore
19:25 Re: Hi * Pondicherry GLUG
19:05 ACL's using Squid Server * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
19:05 blocking sites using squid * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
19:05 DomainPop with Qmail * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
19:05 looking for a linux teacher * Delhi LUG
18:56 Re: Linux Server Problem * ILUG-Goa
18:36 Re: Hi * Pondicherry GLUG
18:35 New and hot But without any results? * ILUG Jodhpur
17:44 Re: software wars - something interesting * ilughyd
17:43 Re: Want to know equivalent commands * Linux Bg Programming
17:03 Re: Hi * Pondicherry GLUG
17:00 Tejas Dinkar (gja): 18 till I die * Planet.foss.in
16:47 software wars - something interesting * ilughyd
16:21 Re: Installation and uninstalling Programmes Linux BgTech
15:05 pta cuts bandwidth rates * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
15:05 looking for a linux teacher * Delhi LUG
14:52 Md Hafiz bin Ismail: Xajax and side-projects * Planet MYOSS
14:52 Xajax and side-projects * mypapit gnu/linux blog
14:30 Anush Shetty: GPLv3 Conference in Bangalore Planet.foss.in
14:29 Installation, uninstalling Programmes inlinux * LinuxBgTech
14:07 Shyam Mani (fox2mike): Awwwww. Damn. * Planet.foss.in
14:02 Re: Perlu segera mengantarkan sesuatu... * BaLinux (Bali)
14:01 Hi * Pondicherry GLUG
13:46 What do we advocate? * Sun City Jodhpur LUG
13:37 Open Malaysia: Belgium now heads to ODF adoption * PlanetMYOSS
13:02 Maaf Oot > Cellular phone jammer * BaLinux (Bali)
12:17 Aizat Faiz: ICT Events in Malaysia * Planet MYOSS
12:14 Muhd Najmi A Zabidi * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
11:58 Aizat Faiz: PHP Talk & Meetup 2006 * Planet MYOSS
11:05 Gentoo: Network Configration with ISA Server * LinuxPakistan.Net
10:54 Re: OOT: Distro Linux Baru Minggu ini :-) * Jogjakarta
10:54 Re: OOT: Distro Linux Baru Minggu ini :-) * Jogjakarta
10:54 Re: kompku-gw dan gw-komp... dan diremote * Jogjakarta
10:41 pertanyaan 5 * Jogjakarta
09:04 Re: June BLUG Meet * Linux Bangalore (non-tech)
08:45 Want to know equivalent commands * Linux BangalorePG
08:45 Re: mandriva linux 2006(64bit) * Linux BangaloreTech
08:45 SM56 on SuSE 10.0 * Linux Bangalore Technical
08:45 Re: Anybody got the Ubuntu 6.06 DVD? * Linux BangaloreNT
08:45 Re: Mounting NFS Filesystems * Linux Bangalore Technical
08:44 Re: Help: CD/DVD Repository Ubuntu 6.06 .. * Jogjakarta
08:40 Wahlau: weekend project * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
08:25 GNU/Linux is essential to our students * BytesForAll_FLOSS
07:59 Re: Help: CD/DVD Repository Ubuntu 6.06 ..* Jogjakarta
07:42 design for portable devices based on Intel's PXA270 * Simputer
07:29 Microsoft's hobbled software to poor countries * ILUG-Goa
07:26 [TECTONIC] Open source news from Africa * Linux-Abad-Users
07:05 SUSE 10.1 available now * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
03:26 Lau Kai Jern: Apache Chinese GB2312 * Planet MYOSS
02:17 Re: HP Compaq M2235 Hardware Driver * Jogjakarta
01:25 Re[11]: * ILUG Jodhpur
00:48 Fwd: help -2 * ILUG Jodhpur
00:39 Arroyo and her laptop computer * Dong Calmada,Philippines

Friday June 23, 2006

23:05 Add these line in existing firewall...LinuxPakistan.Net
23:05 malloc failure on x86_64 * Delhi LUG
19:57 Re: Offtopic - Looking for summer job * DubaiLUG
19:46 Liew Cheon Fong: IEs4Linux - Install Internet Explorer
       on Linux with One Script * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
19:42 Re: June BLUG Meet * Linux Bangalore (non-tech)
19:05 Gentoo users meeting. * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
19:05 Software Engineers with 1yr experience LinuxPakistan.Net
18:49 June BLUG Meet * Linux Bangalore (non-tech)
18:19 Re: June BLUG Meet * Linux Bangalore (non-tech)
17:22 Re: Perlu segera ... ada yang bis * BaLinux (Bali)
16:34 Empanelment of translators. * BytesForAll_Readers
15:06 Fedora Panic errors on Intel SE7221 Board with SATA LPk
15:06 imap installation problem * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
15:05 Bio-Informatics workshop at JNU * Delhi LUG
15:05 wi-fi driver required * Delhi LUG
14:59 Re: print area * Jogjakarta
14:23 Re: ## Seminar ## * Pondicherry GLUG
14:21 Aizat Faiz: Global Alliance for ICT and Development
       (GAID) 06: Part 2 * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
14:08 Aizat Faiz: MNCC 18th Annual GM * Planet MYOSS
12:58 Liew Cheon Fong: New WordPress ThemeViewer * PlanetMYOSS
11:51 ## Seminar ## * Pondicherry GLUG
11:32 mandriva linux 2006(64bit) * Linux Bangalore Technical
11:05 C shell and Tcl shell * Delhi LUG
11:05 malloc failure on x86_64 * Delhi LUG
10:53 A judge's blog... on open doc format BytesForAll_Readers
10:03 L&T Infotech Walkin Job Fair Linux India Programmers
09:33 Agenda for June Month * ilughyd : Hyderabad
09:27 Re: Mounting NFS Filesystems * Linux Bangalore Technical
09:22 Re: Problems while installing RedHat Linux 9.0 * ilughyd
09:20 Re: band watch * ILUG-Goa
09:08 Some Ubuntu Help * Pondicherry GLUG
08:53 How to find resourses used by a process * BiharLUG
08:34 Re: June BLUG Meet * Linux Bangalore (non-tech)
07:50 Re: Mounting NFS Filesystems * Linux Bg Technical
06:45 A tiny effort in Bangla Computing dedicated to you * BDLug
06:38 linux toy * Pondicherry GLUG
06:21 Re: Mounting NFS Filesystems * Linux Bangalore Technical
04:33 Yazid Idrus: My W900i automounted ...* Planet MYOSS
04:09 Driver Canon Pixma IP 1200 bwt SuSE 10 * Jogjakarta
04:03 Re: mailing list * ILUG-Goa
03:00 Harald Welte (laf0rge): Last librfid ISO 14443-4
       chaining bug elimitated * Planet.foss.in
03:00 Harald Welte (laf0rge): Some small A780 progress
01:24 HP Compaq M2235 Hardware Driver * Jogjakarta
01:24 Balasan: Booting lilo * Jogjakarta
00:39 The Codebreakers: Conclusion defeats facts * Dong Calmada
00:16 Bakhtiar: Halt! who goes there? »Planet MYOSS

Thursday June 22, 2006

23:22 What would a geek political party look like? *KSIT
23:13 Dual or Single core for laptop * DubaiLUG
22:14 Bill Gates Gets Schooled (long) * BytesForAll_Readers
22:11 Re: Global alliance embraces UNese... * BytesForAll_Readers
21:42 Tejas Dinkar (gja): Congrats Ronaldo * Planet.foss.in
20:28 Lee Chin Sheng: Aget - Flashget? * Planet MYOSS
19:53 NOME Tamil Translation - 81 % * Tamilinux
19:41 Seemant Kulleen (seemant): Gentoo Tests * Planet.foss.in
19:28 GNU/Linux command line * Teach-Yourself-Linux
18:06 Arun Raghvan (fordprefect): What if ... * Planet.foss.in
17:10 Yazid Idrus: Playaround with Bluetooth dongle in SUSE
16:19 Re: Need More Hardware Info * The GNU/Linux-based Simputer
16:18 One Laptop per Child boards... * Simputer
16:17 apps development using qt-embedded * Simputer
16:15 Digital Learning India 2006 Conference * BytesForAll_Readers
16:15 Global alliance outlines work ...  * BytesForAll_Readers
14:30 Kartik Mistry: ASCII Football * Planet.foss.in
14:25 Philip Tellis: Mumbai on the wikimap * Planet.foss.in
13:06 Re: acpi=off in Enterprize Linux 4 ES * Linux Bangalore Tech
12:54 Re: Mandrake 9.1 * Linux Chandigarh
12:13 Re: Suse 10.1 * ILUG-Goa
11:51 acpi=off in Enterprize Linux 4 ES * Linux Bangalore Tech
11:51 Re: configuring a custom vsftpd server * Linux Bg Tech
11:45 Re: Linux SIS 5 * TWLG Thai Linux Working Group
11:06 Invisible Mouse Pointer in FC 5 *86_64 * LinuxPakistan.Net
11:06 Linux as VPN Server * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
11:05 Philip Tellis (bluesmoon): Bangalore floods ...
11:05 Call for mentors for Bio-Informatics workshop at JNU * Delhi LUG
11:05 [commerical] System Admin role * Delhi LUG
10:49 Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin: SAP SummIT'06 Malaysia * PlanetMYOSS
06:27 Bharath Shetty (codo): Social Boundaries * Planet.foss.in
06:07 Kalyan Varma (kryptic): Back from Goa * Planet.foss.in
05:48 Open Malaysia: ...talk on ODF * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
05:40 Wipro ... Solectron Centum Recruits * Linux India Programmers
05:34 qyiux good * ILUG-Nagpur
05:05 (Freshers) Microsoft Contest... * Linux India Programmers
04:57 News on blug.in * Linux Bangalore (non-tech)
04:39 [OOT]Linux ikut WorldCup2006 * Jogjakarta
04:24 Novell open sources its Identity Mgt Solution * DubaiLUG
03:19 Re: Help: CD/DVD Repository Ubuntu 6.06 .. (milisdad?)
03:06 FOSS in Asia-Pacific * Links from the Asia Commons BaLinux (Bali)
03:05 I need some books * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
03:04 SMS saves lives * Dong Calmada, Philippines
03:00 Harald Welte (laf0rge): GPLv3 and Steve Ballmers blood
       pressure * Planet.foss.in
02:37 Re: setting LTSP * ForumLTSPIndonesia
02:32 Muhd Najmi A Zabidi * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
02:18 Re: installing RedHat Linux 9.0 * ilughyd : Hyderabad
01:54 Re: HP Compaq M2235 Hardware Driver * Jogjakarta
01:46 Re: Help: CD/DVD Repository Ubuntu 6.06 .. (milisdad?)
01:12 bandwidth reporting tool * DubaiLUG
00:55 bikin boot disk untuk dlink dfe528tx * ForumLTSPIndonesia
00:20 Re: sharing files * Gnubies-IL Israel

Wednesday June 21, 2006

23:06 FC-5 Mirrors in PK? * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
23:06 configure VPN server of fir linux9 * LinuxPakistan.Net
23:05 Installation issues for Oracle 9i on suse10.1 * DelhiLUG
22:41 Ideas for Projects * ilughyd : Hyderabad
20:57 INDIA: Wavelength disconnect * BytesForAll_Readers
20:45 Wahlau: ruby on rails, on Dapper * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
20:27 Digital Music & Memory... In Dhaka * BDLug (Bangladesh)
18:11 Create a bootable qemu image ...* Linux Bangalore Tech
15:54 Re: Another war between Torvalds and Tanenbaum *LBTech
15:40 Lau Kai Jern: FreeBSD ports tips * Planet MYOSS
15:34 Help: CD/DVD Repository Ubuntu 6.06 .. (milisdad?)
15:05 Samba share woes! * Delhi LUG
14:53 Paul Ooi: Applied Information Management Services
14:48 IOSN: ShahreKord GNU/Linux Conference (Iran FOSS)
14:48 ShahreKord GNU/Linux Conference (Iran FOSS) * IOSN News
12:12 One Laptop per Child boards... * BytesForAll_Readers
12:12 Hackers are Not Crackers (Philip Tellis) BytesForAll
11:25 cellular phone jammer -pembungkam HP * BaLinux (Bali)
08:30 Praveen A: Creating a bootable qemu image... Planet.foss.in
08:22 Mohammad Hafiz bin Ismail: Evolution mail client is now
       available on Windows! * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
07:06 Yusmar Yahaya: the green bug * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
02:00 Re: GNU/Linux books... * ilughyd : Hyderabad

Tuesday June 20, 2006

22:29 Help: PHP-IDE di Linux (support OOP) * Jogjakarta
21:37 Most Microsoft Workers Search With Google * Linux ME
20:42 FOSS in Asia-Pacific * Asia Commons * Linux Middle East
17:45 Meling Mudin... dance floor * Planet MYOSS (Malaysia)
15:39 ADSL configuration * ILUG-Goa
15:25 Swaroop C H: Linkblog * Planet.foss.in
15:05 Linux installation VMWARE * LinuxPakistan.Net Forum
14:06 FOSS gathering in Mashad, Iran * IOSN News
09:24 UN-GAID: One more acronym... BytesForAll_Readers
09:22 Open Video Contest * BytesForAll_Readers
08:32 IT Asia 2006 conference Jakarta Indonesia * LIP
05:02 List of Open Source Games for Windows * mypapit

Monday June 19, 2006

19:50 Re: Amida and Ncore-Tech not responding * Simputer
18:22 Microsoft partners Guj govt for e-Gram project * BfA
18:21 Sahara promises laptops below Rs.25,000 BfA Readers
18:19 Digital divide... here we come * BytesForAll_Readers
10:28 Re: Help me to learn LINUX and OpenSource * ilughyd
11:05 Pradyumna Sampath: Andaman Islands * Planet.foss.in
08:15 Ubuntu India * Pondicherry GLUG

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OUR GOAL? To links all Free/Libre and Open Source Software
(FOSS) feeds from Asia. If you have a list that generates RSS
feeds and is not listed above, please get in touch with
fred@... We appeal to all groups to keep their
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Compiled by Frederick "FN" Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org

Dear Fellow Members,

I am a regular reader of articles at Embedded.com
Mr. Jack Ganssle there has reopened the once hot discussion about the
monolithic and microkernels. Minix is back with a new presentation where
all device drivers are pushed to user space. I read the article and the
reliability article on the minix's site. I don't want to jump into the
debate on this matter which nearly always turns hot. But one thing that
came to my mind is, here what are we advocating? Opensource or Just
Linux in particular.

Suppose if M$ Win goes open source, will you support it? (I know that is
next to impossible, but there is no harm in imagining)

Mr. Ganssle is right in saying that this all is essentially a
comparision between apples and oranges. When it comes to embedded
systems, reliability is something that is first priority. But its not
just the case with embedded systems. Any desktop user would like his
system to be as reliable as any embedded system. No doubt 4000 lines of
kernel code will have less bugs than millions of kernel code. As the
code size bloats the susceptibility of the code of being erroneous
increases.

Although Linux has millions of lines of kernel code, its being used in
embedded system more reliably than any other operating system for that
matter.

I just posted whatever I had on my mind. Any comments?

Regards
--Himanshu

P.S.: You can read Ganssles article at
http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189500560

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IN THIS ISSUE

SPOTLIGHT
Asia Commons: Asian Conference on the Digital Commons,
Bangkok, Thailand, 6-8 June 2006

ASIA-PACIFIC REPORTS
Governments, Going Online and Macau

IN THE MEDIA
Bangladesh, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Asia

TIDBITS FROM HERE AND THERE
IOSN Grows to Three More
Software Freedom Day
Partnerships with Asia
LPI Certification in Northeast Asia
Intel Commits Big Money to Third World Project
FOSS Scholarship in India
GNU/Linux in Local Languages: Nepali
Messaging Solution for Small and Medium Companies in the
Philippines
Winner from Singapore

LINKS FROM ASIA-PACIFIC
Open Source in Singapore
English-Telugu Dictionary Online
UNEGOV.NET, Promoting FOSS in e-Governance
Computers, School and Goa
Whom is This Coming From?
Feeds from Asia
Spreading software, the human, low-cost way

QUOTE...UNQUOTE
South Asia, Malaysia

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SPOTLIGHT
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AsiaCommons: The Asian Conference on the Digital Commons, was
held in Bangkok, Thailand, from June 6-8, 2006. For detailed
coverage of the event see http://asia-commons.net

Asia Commons' goal was to bring together participants from
Asia-Pacific and around the world to discuss, explore and
collaborate around three key themes:

      * Access to Knowledge and Culture in Asia
      * Models for Collaborative Knowledge and Culture
      * Towards a Healthy Asia Commons

Asia Commons has some interesting perspectives, and their
ideals flow in close parallel to the Free/Open Source
Software (FOSS) movement.

Many resources exist on the conference themes, including:

* del.icio.us Links: Del.icio.us is a public collection of
web resources which anyone can contribute to. Resources added
(or 'bookmarked') in del.icio.us have been 'tagged' by their
contributors to describe the resource's content. Participants
are encouraged to contribute resources of interest through
del.icio.us using some of the tags above in order to discover
new resources shared by other del.icio.us users. Using
del.icio.us is easy, simply register for del.icio.us

* IPR with a Development Focus:
   http://del.icio.us/tag/ipr+development
* Access to Knowledge: http://del.icio.us/tag/a2k
* WIPO with a Development Focus:
   http://del.icio.us/tag/wipo+development
* Open Business (models): http://del.icio.us/tag/openbusiness
* Open Content: http://del.icio.us/tag/opencontent

* Copyright and Access to Knowledge:  Consumers Intenational
Asia Pacific Office has produced a research report Copyright
and Access to Knowledge as well as two country level studies
for Indonesia and Thailand. See: http://www.ciroap.org/a2k

* The Copy/South Dossier: Issues in the economics, politics,
and ideology of copyright in the global South:
http://www.copysouth.org/

* P2P Foundation Encyclopedia Resources: P2P Foundation is
building an encyclopedia with many topics related to the
conference themes:
http://p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Category:Encyclopedia

* Book Commons:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Book_Commons

* Copyleft:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Copyleft

* Creative Commons:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Creative_Commons

* Diffuse Innovation:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Diffuse_Innovation

* Distributed Creativity:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Distributed_Creativity

* Distributed Intellectual Property Right:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Distributed_Intellectual_Product_Right

* Educational Commons:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Educational_Commons

* General Intellect:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/General_Intellect

* General Public License:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/General_Public_License

* Genome Commons:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Genome_Commons

* Global License:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Global_License

* IANG License:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/IANG_License

* Information Commons:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Information_Commons

* Libre Commons Licenses:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Libre_Commons_Licenses

* Open Access:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Access

* Open Archives:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Archives

* Open Biology:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Biology

* Open Content:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Content

* Open Courseware Initiative:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Courseware_Initiative

* Open Data:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Data

* Open Educational Resources:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Educational_Resources

* Open Hardware:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Hardware

* Open Knowledge:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Knowledge

* Open Learning:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Learning

* Open Media Standards:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Media_Standards

* Open Networked Learning Model:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Networked_Learning_Model

* Open Source Architecture:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Source_Architecture

* Open Source Biology:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Source_Biotechnology

* Open Source Economics:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Source_Economics

* Open Source Hardware:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Source_Hardware

* Open Source Industrial Design:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Source_Industrial_Design

* Open Source Licenses:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Source_Licenses

* Open Source Record Label:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Source_Record_Label

* Open Source Telephony:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Source_telephony

* Open Spectrum:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Spectrum

* Open Standards:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Standards

* Open Textbooks:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Open_Textbooks

* Patent Commons:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Patent_Commons

* Peer Property:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Peer_Property

* Peer to Patent:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Peer_to_Patent

* User-Capitalized Networks:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/User-Capitalized_Networks

* User-centered Innovation:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/User-centered_Innovation

* Wireless Commons:
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Wireless_Commons

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Governments, Going Online and Macau

FROM MACAU, REPORT SAYS, "GOVERNMENTS GO ONLINE - WITHOUT
WINDOWS": Inter Press Service had this interesting report on
26 March 2006.

      "Developing countries can't afford to buy Windows-based
      software. The basic Windows operating system costs a
      year and half salary for the average Vietnamese
      citizen," said Mike Reed, director of the United Nations
      University International Institute for Software
      Technology.

Electronic governance promises to cut corruption and improve
transparency, and open source software offers a way to break
South Asia's technological dependence on industrialized
countries, experts say.

Open source software such as Linux is non-proprietary, less
complex, more efficient and freely available to anyone -
unlike Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows operating system,
says Mike Reed, director of the United Nations University
International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST),
based in Macau, China.

"Linux is now the fastest-growing software and powers eight
of the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world," Reed said.

Open source software like Linux is embedded in many types of
electronic devices, like mobile phones and cameras. Open
source is also starting to cut into the near complete
domination of the personal computer market by the Windows
operating system, he said.

"Developing countries can't afford to buy Windows-based
software. The basic Windows operating system costs a year and
half salary for the average Vietnamese citizen," he noted.

That's led to rampant theft or illegal copying Latest News
about illegal copying of Microsoft software. However, such
software cannot be modified or customized to meet local
needs. Companies and governments have no other choice than to
commission expensive custom programming from California's
Silicon Valley.

Open source, on the other hand, is easy to customize and not
particularly difficult to learn, says Reed. Although Linux
has been around for more than 10 years, only a few developing
countries like Brazil have a significant number of home-grown
open source programmers. Without local programmers, setting
up electronic governance - use of computer technology by
governments to improve public access to information and
services - becomes very expensive and difficult.

Access to computers is one major problem in the developing
world, and so is the lack of local programming projects so
that programmers can learn, says Reed.

Reducing Corruption

Vietnam is one exception. A few years ago, Vietnam launched
an ambitious effort to modernize, developing its own version
of Linux called Vietkeylinux, partnering with the computer
chip Latest News about computer chips manufacturer Intel
(Nasdaq: INTC) Latest News about Intel and moving to
electronic governance (e-governance).

"Vietnam has more things online than the U.S. government,"
Reed said.

Isolated Vietnamese villages now have public computer kiosks
where citizens can conduct business with the government
online, such as registering for birth certificates.

"That reduces mid- to low-level government corruption,
because it's easier to keep track of paperwork and everything
is visible and public," he said.

Government services are easier and cheaper to provide
electronically. Plus, such an electronic/information
infrastructure and expertise in these areas is crucial for a
country like Vietnam to successfully participate in the
global economy.

South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore are successful examples
of countries with low levels of corruption and high levels of
economic activity that other Asian countries are hoping to
emulate, Reed said.

The information revolution has been slow in reaching
two-thirds of the world, according to Darrell West, an
e-governance researcher at the Center for Public Policy at
Brown University in Providence, R.I.

"Many countries don't have the money, and some don't see the
benefits or have the desire to make the public sector open
and transparent," West told IPS.

Major Motivator

      In an exhaustive survey of the e-governance capabilities
      of 191 countries, West found that it is practically
      nonexistent in most African countries, as well as those
      in the Middle East. While money is the main problem in
      the former, the latter are dominated by "rich
      monarchical governments that have a very different view
      of public service and are not interested in
      e-governance," he said.

Although e-governance can reduce "street-level corruption,"
the biggest motivator for most countries is to improve their
economic development and boost their trade capacity, he said.
In the long term, West is optimistic. "Countries are
beginning to see the benefits and the cost reductions of
e-governance," he said. However, launching such initiatives
isn't easy and requires technical expertise, financing and
political leadership, Reed added.

It required a major two-year effort in the UNU home base of
Macau, on the coast of China. Among the most difficult parts
of moving to e-governance is getting government departments
to open up, share their information and cooperate with each
other, he said.

"It used to require permissions and licenses from 10
different agencies to start a business in Macau. Now, there
is just one online form," the researcher explained, and it
took a strong leadership that insisted government officials
make it happen.

The impoverished country of Nepal was on the verge of
achieving a good level of e-governance until the current
political strife erupted a year ago. Nepal's high level of
literacy and good mathematical education made it possible to
develop Nepalese programmers who, with UNU training and USD2
million in outside funding, built an open source e-governance
infrastructure.

Government Resource

E-governance in Nepal is effectively on hold now, said Reed.
This month, India announced an extremely ambitious national
e-governance plan to computerize data in public sector banks,
insurance companies and tax departments, create national
citizen databases, put passports, visas and immigration
information and data online, and much more. The two-year
effort is expected to cost USD1.5 billion.

To assist these e-governance attempts and to help other
countries get started, the UNU has established an interactive
information clearinghouse on the Internet that it calls
UneGov.net. In addition to having instructional how-to
materials online, the portal will make available software and
research papers, as well as contact information for others
who have or are setting up e-governance in their own
countries.

The World Bank is among funding agencies being approached.
Already, Vietnam is sharing some of its experience with
Nigeria, Reed said.

"People love to share their success stories," he concluded.

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IN THE MEDIA
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BANGLADESH: Omi Azad recently wrote about FOSS in the weekly
Ekattor magazine of Bangladesh.
<http://www.ekushey.org/files/ICT_Report-FOSS-9th.pdf>
(article in Bangla) Omi is a contributor to the Bangla
Computing and Localization Projects including Ankur
http://www.ankurbangla.org and Ekushey http://www.ekushey.org
For an active Linux User Group related to Bangladesh, see
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bdlug/

JAPAN: Controversial David software is out in Japan
<http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=60585>

MALAYSIA: FOSS Spreading its Wings
<http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2006/5/2/itfeature/1407608
4&sec=itfeature> OPEN source is spreading beyond the
operating system market and is being utilised in other areas,
such as database and customer relationship management (CRM)
software. About 53% of Malaysian software is based wholly or
partly on open source, according to Wilvin Chee, IDC Asia
Pacific software research director. In his presentation,
Direction O6 Open Source Software: Its Impact to the
Marketplace, he said the Linux operating system would make up
15% of the overall server market this year.

PHILIPPINES: Open source better for those school PCs by Behn
Fer. Hortaleza
<http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/pan/2006/03/09/oped/behn.fer..hortaleza.ht
ml>

SOUTH ASIA: Linux powers autonomous military ground vehicle
<http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS5782785656.html> Interesting
to see LynuxWorks CEO Inder Singh has South Asian
connections. iRobot used embedded Linux to build an
autonomous unmanned ground vehicle aimed at military
scouting, guarding, and hauling applications. The "R-Gator"
is based on John Deere's diesel-powered, 658cc M-Gator
military utility vehicle platform, with control, navigation,
and object-avoidance systems based on BlueCat Linux from
LynuxWorks.

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TIDBITS FROM HERE AND THERE
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IOSN Grows to Three More
http://www.apdip.net/news/opensourcecentres
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In order to address the growing information and technological
needs of the Asia and Pacific region, the International Open
Source Network (IOSN) has established three new Centres of
Excellence - IOSN ASEAN+3, IOSN PIC (Pacific Island
countries), and IOSN South Asia. Together, these Centres will
continue the research and development, networking,
institutional strengthening, and training undertaken by IOSN
over the last three years to advance the adoption of
free/open source software, open standards, and open content
across the region.

Software Freedom Day: Sept 10, 2006
http://www.softwarefreedomday.org
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Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to
educate the public about the virtues and availability of
Free/Libre and Open Source Software. Over 200 teams are
registered so far, and they have plans to celebrate Free
Software at schools, universities, parks, and many other
public places.

How can I help: http://softwarefreedomday.org/helping
Forming a team: http://softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide

Feeds from Asia
http://feeds.goa-india.org
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      WHAT IS ASIA talking about? You can keep track via
      http://feeds.goa-india.org -- a site for RSS feeds of
      mailing lists discussing (mainly) FOSS in Asia. If your
      Asia and FOSS-linked mailing list offers RSS feeds and
      is not yet listed here, please contact
      fred@...

DP's REVIEW: You must be aware of the fact (atleast by now)
that there exists many LUG (Linux User Groups) and FSUG (Free
Software User Groups) which have publicly available feeds of
their message archive. However the number of user
groups/communities are not only very large...it's hard to
find out which ones have online mailing lists...which among
these have opened their message archive for public preview
(i.e. a visitor can read the messages without joining the
group)...and finally, what might be the URL's of those mailng
lists? One simple answer is http://feeds.goa-india.org/

It's a simple website with the message subjectlines from
members of various LUG's, FSUG's etc. of India (and some more
countries of Asia) appearing in reverse chronological order
.... You can expand a subject line to read the summary (the
default abstract that a website exposes through it's RSS/Atom
channel) and also read the full article by clicking on the
appropriate link.

Although, this site itself doesn't archive feeds for more
than a week, it serves as the perfect LUG newspaper. You get
to see all the news, links, software from such a wide variety
of sources and yet at the same time, they are guaranteed
fresh..thanks to the RSS technology...umm format actually. :)

Last but not the least...joining more than one LUG is
sometimes not only necessary (to get in touch with a
community of people better geared towards answering queries
in certain fields of open source/linux) but also encouraged
to volunteer your help to more people than just those in your
own user group or community. We need to get discussions going
on here...so maybe we'd feature on
http://feeds.goa-india.org. ;)

Hope you find the resource timely and useful. Or atleast a
constructive way of enjoying leisure time. -- Diabolic
Preacher ILUG-Ponda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-ponda

Spreading GNU/Linux the low-cost, human way
http://linuxdvdsale.tripod.com
-------------------------------------------------------------
In India, bandwidth can still be an issue in many parts of
the country (apart from the bigger cities). In this context,
the best way to spread GNU/Linux software is to encourage
FOSS enthusiasts to replicate the same and sell the service
at a low-cost affordable price. One such example is Nelson
Lobo's http://linuxdvdsale.tripod.com (where, for India, a CD
costs a little over US$1 and a DVD under four dollars). Try
to replicate operations in your part of Asia. This could help
to make Free Software widely and affordably available.

Partnerships with Asia
http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/224587.htm
-------------------------------------------------------------
Enterprise Open Source News Desk reported on 19 March 19,
2006, Covalent Technologies, a trusted source for complete
enterprise open source solutions, has announced it has
entered into strategic partnerships with a number of
technology companies based in England, Germany, India, and
the Philippines. These new partnerships bolster Covalent's
ability to deliver commercial support and service offerings
for popular open source projects out of the Apache Software
Foundation on a global basis, namely the Apache Web Server,
Apache Tomcat Application Server, Apache Axis Web Services
Framework, and the Apache Geronimo Application Server, and
complement existing Covalent partnerships already in place in
Japan, Germany, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

LPI Certification in Northeast Asia, Linux News
http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/8750.html
-------------------------------------------------------------
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) hosted certification
events and "exam labs" within the Northeast Asia region
(China, Japan, Republic of Korea) during May and June 2006 to
promote Linux and Open Source professionalism. Jim Lacey,
President and CEO of LPI, noted the growing importance of
China, Japan and Korea as part of the organization's new
global strategy.

Intel Commits Big Money to Third World Project, Nestor E.
http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/8318ae8c-3170-49e4-906c-f959add22722.h\
tmls
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Arellano reports in ITWorld Canada (12 May 2006) that Intel
hopes to gain a head start on untapped markets in the Third
World by launching World Ahead, a global programme that will
pour USD1 billion over the next five years to promote
computer training and Internet use in developing countries.
The Santa Clara, California-based company recently unveiled
its five-year project plan, which includes extending
broadband access to one billion users and training 10 million
teachers on the use of technology in education. A component
of the programme is the development of a USD400 mobile
personal computer, dubbed Eduwise, that will run on Microsoft
Windows or the Linux operating system. The World Ahead
Programme will also push adoption of WiMax wireless
technology that allows high throughput broadband connections
over long distances.

FOSS Scholarship in India
http://www.in.redhat.com/community/rhscholarship.php
-------------------------------------------------------------
Mayank Sharma in an interview in Newsforge says, "there is no
dearth of IT talent in India, but for a country that churns
out thousands of IT students every year, the number of Indian
contributors in the FOSS world is disproportionately low, due
in part to a lack of proper mentoring. To encourage more
students to go into FOSS development, the Kanwal Rekhi School
of Information Technology (KReSIT) at the Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay partners with Red Hat for an open source
scholarship challenge each year. Participants, mentored by
FOSS leaders, get the opportunity to work and collaborate to
solve a real-world problem, and the winners get a share of
the Rs. 1 million (about USD22,000) prize." [Source:
http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/05/18/1459236.shtml?tid=35]

GNU/LINUX in local languages
http://blog.apc.org/en/index.shtml?x=4956277
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NEPAL FINDS ITS SOLUTIONS: From simplified Nepali typing...to
an OS is an article by Bal Krishna Bal, published in April
2006 on the Association for Progressive Communications blog.
Bal tells the story where it starts: "Somebody rightly said,
'Necessity is the mother of invention'. Had it not been for
the necessity felt by Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya(MPP) for the
electronically cataloging of its collection of books some
four years back, which was then not possible with the help of
the existing fonts of Nepali like Preeti and Kanchan, there
are doubts that MPP, a principal archiving house got involved
in developing software in Nepali." And what they achieved was
something quite unexpected.

Messaging Solution for SMEs in the Philippines
http://www.axigen.com
-------------------------------------------------------------
AXIGEN Mail Server is now available for the Philippine market
as a result of the distribution agreement signed between
local company GEN Automation and Gecad Technologies
(Romania). AXIGEN Mail Server calls itself "a fast, scalable
messaging solution, perfectly adaptable to the communication
demands from both small and medium companies and Internet
services providers." Launched by the last fall, during Linux
World Expo in London, AXIGEN says it "succeeded until
nowadays to manage e-mails from over 300,000 mailboxes and to
be distributed worldwide through 10 valued partners." It
reached version 1.1 and operates on both Linux and FreeBSD.
AXIGEN Mail Server has been designed and created from scratch
by Gecad Technologies developers. Gecad Technologies has a
five-year history of expertise in technology research,
information security, project management and messaging
solutions. [Source: http://www.prleap.com/pr/34866/]

Winner from Singapore
-------------------------------------------------------------
Congratulations to Ricky Lee of Chevalier Singapore for
winning the Asia Pacific's RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer)
of the Year title. Red Hat would like to thank all RHCEs for
their submission. Ricky has won himself a sponsored trip to
the Red Hat Summit in Nashville, Tennessee, and will be
presented with the RHCE of the Year plaque.

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Open Source in Singapore
http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/
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LUGS is maintaining a list of Free and Open Source
contribution, usage and companies that support this in
Singapore. These can be in any area that supports the concept
and philosophy of open source.

English-Telugu Dictionary Online, Ind Linux, 30 May 2006
http://www.swecha.org/dict
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Swecha team has put up a web interface for English Telugu
Dictionary. The interface is in Telugu Unicode unlike most
other online dictionary lookup services. It is based on
Charles Philip Brown English-Telugu Dictionary, available
under GPL at
http://ltrc.iiit.net/onlineServices/Dictionaries/Eng-Tel-DictDwnld.html

UNEGOV.NET, Promoting FOSS in e-Governance
http://www.unegov.net
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Established by the U.N. General Assembly in 1973, United
Nations University is an international community of scholars
engaged in research, advanced training and the dissemination
of knowledge related to pressing global problems. The
University operates a worldwide network of research and
post-graduate training centres, with headquarters in Tokyo.
UNeGov.net is also actively promoting the use of open source
software for e-Governance through its schools and courses by
teaching open source technologies and tools. It will also
provide a rich collection of open source frameworks and tools
for building e-Governance applications through its portal.

Computers, School and Goa
http://wikiwikiweb.de/FlossInSchools
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A Spanish volunteer from Catelonia, working for the Goa
Schools Computers Project (Knowledge Initiatives Trust), put
together this interesting collection of software suitable for
use in schools.

Whom is This Coming From?
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If you would like to know more about the work of the compiler
of this newsletter or would like to explore possibilities for
FOSS-style collaborative working (specially in the
information and mailing-list area), then check out
http://wikiwikiweb.de/FrederickNoronha You can also find a
link to a report that gives a snapshot of FOSS in many Asian
countries circa 2003, at
http://www.maailma.kaapeli.fi/asia.html/


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QUOTE...UNQUOTE
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>From Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and More
http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/05/18/1459236.shtml?tid=35
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This is the first time that Red Hat is doing such a program
of this nature anywhere in the world. In the first two years,
we started with India because this is a vast geography to
cover. The third year's program has been expanded to the
Indian subcontinent, and we have received project submissions
from Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and more. -- Venkatesh
Hariharan, on the South Asian scholarship challenge.

Take Responsibility for Something You Believe In... writes
Khairil Yusof in MyOSS Community of Malaysia
http://www.iosn.net/Members/kaeru/blog/being-involved
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Let's be clear. MyOSS community consists of students and
developers. Hard pressed for time and other resources. Every
now and again, somebody comes up and says that the community
ought to do something. They've done a lot already:
http://my-opensource.org
http://www.my-opensource.org/oss-faq.html
http://myoss.iosn.net/ http://foss.org.my
Of course these students and developers should give up what
little personal time they have left to do what other people
tell them to do. I take this personally, because whenever
this comes up, it usually comes down to a few people (aizat,
ditesh, nsh) who do real things (papers, presenting at
conferences and talks, organising meetups). It's unfair to
ask any more of them. This won't be the last time we hear
such requests, but what I would like to see next time is
something along the lines, "I want to do this guys, and have
spent some time doing it and would like the community to help
me out." Taking responsibility for something you believe in
is a much better attitude, then just throwing it to the
"community."

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Noronha -- http://fn.goa-india.org -- and supported by the
International Open Source Network -- http://www.iosn.net

      IOSN promotes the adoption of free/open source software,
      open standards and open content for sustainable human
      development in the Asia-Pacific region. It is an
      initiative of UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information
      Programme and supported by the International Development
      Reserch Centre of Canada.

To include Asia-Pacific related news about FOSS in this
newsletter, please email fred@... This newsletter
is released under the Creative Commons Attribute 2.5 license.
Reproduction of the contents of this newsletter is
encouraged, provided acknowledgement of the source(s) is
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Friends,

You can watch soccer live on your text based interface!!

type this on your terminal:

  telnet ascii-wm.net 2006

Remember that streaming starts 10 mins before the match commences.

Regards
--Himanshu


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  MCA (Final Year)
  I.G. National Open University
  Jaipur (India)

  Mobile:(+91)-(98292)-(92757)
  Web: http://members.lycos.co.uk/hschauhan
  Email: hs.chauhan@...

  "Education is what remains after one
   has forgotten everything he learned
   in school." -- A. Einstein.
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Hello All,

Check out the link.
http://www.dspdesignline.com/188701325

warm regards
--Himanshu

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  Himanshu Chauhan
  MCA (Final Year)
  I.G. National Open University
  Jaipur (India)

  Web: http://members.lycos.co.uk/hschauhan
  Email: hs.chauhan@...

  "Education is what remains after one
   has forgotten everything he learned
   in school." -- A. Einstein.
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A proof-of-concept virus that targets the alternative application suites
StartOffice and OpenOffice is out and about, multiple security companies
said Wednesday.

The macro-based virus, dubbed "Stardust" by Kaspersky Labs and
"XML_Dustar.a" by Trend Micro, arrives hidden within a
StarOffice/OpenOffice document attached to an e-mail message. The virus
is written in StarBasic, a variation of the BASIC programming language
used to write scripts and macros in the two suites. (Microsoft's Office,
for instance, uses something similar, called VisualBasic, for its macro
scripting functionality.)


Checkout more at:
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/188700958?cid=rssfeed_pl_lxp


regards
--Himanshu

--
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  Himanshu Chauhan
  MCA (Final Year)
  I.G. National Open University
  Jaipur (India)

  Web: http://members.lycos.co.uk/hschauhan
  Email: hs.chauhan@...

  "Education is what remains after one
   has forgotten everything he learned
   in school." -- A. Einstein.
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Dear Readers,

Last couple of months have been simply rocking for the community -
first it was Red Hat who rocked the centrestage with the release of
Fedora Core 5 and this time it was Novell's turn to hog the limelight
with the release of their much-awaited and celebrated distribution,
SUSE Linux 10.1. Though it was tight, but LFY managed to bundle SUSE
Linux 10.1 DVD with June 2006 issue. Check out the LFY DVD this month.

This month, we have tried to keep the content also equally rocking. As
always - from newbies to power users, from biz users to policy makers
- there's something for everyone. Our cover story this month deals
with the issue of trademarking of the brand 'Linux'. We continue our
exploration of Asterisk - the revolutionary open source telephony tool
- by finding out how to write dialplans. There is also an article on
how you can create your own applications for Symbian based smart
phones. For the newbies, we present three great open source tools -
FreeMind, F-spot and Scribus - that find use in applications like idea
management, photo management and desktop publishing and are sure to
make your life simpler.

A good news for the game crazy. Starting this month, LFY will carry a
regular news column featuring latest updates from the Linux gaming
world. Also, in the 'Down Memory Lane' series, we look at the turn of
events that made OpenOffice.org stand where it is today.

For Techies
~~~~~~~~~~~
*  Outsmart Your Smart Phone
*  Running FreeNX on Fedora Core 5
*  Scripting a Remote System Shutdown
*  Writing Asterisk Dialplans
*  Enhance Your Java Stack Trace Using JPrintStackTrace
*  Boot Linux From USB Pendrives

For Newbies
~~~~~~~~~~~
*  Excellent Photo Management Using F-spot
*  We Will, We Will...Map Your Mind
*  Scribus - A Snappy Approach Towards Desktop Publishing

For Decision Makers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* TuxHeroes: (1) Alp Management Consultants
                      (2) Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology
                      (3) DTDC

* Interview: Mr. Faisal M. Paul, country manager, HPC & Linux
technology solutions group, HP India

For Policy Makers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Mounting The Development Juggernaut - The OSS Way

The LFY CDs
~~~~~~~~~~~
SUSE Linux 10.1 DVD

LFY CD #2 - A collection of software, games and updates.
  * Developers: PHP For Applications - PHP Framework, MoonShine IDE,
OpenLDev, Ultimate++
  * Newbies: WengoPhone, FreeMind, F-Spot, Scribus, Wallpaper
  * Power User: Linux Bandwidth Monitor, Bandwidth Management Tools,
MRTG - The Multi Router,               Traffic Grapher, Planner,
TaskJuggler
  * Fun Stuff: Stellarium, Cube, CubeCombat
  * Updates: Kernel 2.6.16.18, Fedora Core 5

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--- In SunCityJodhpurLUG@..., H S Rai <hsrai@g...> wrote:
>
> Yesterday at 12:06pm -0000 Mathur wrote:
>
> >   If members are agree to this idea, I'll send few of the stuff,
> >   dividing them in small chunks.
>
> You may upload file in file section of this group,
In this case again if we go for one tip one file, there would be good
no. of file. If we still go with files, this will increase headache of
Tarun as we need to send each file to him for review and then it would
be uploaded.


> or may use random
> tips, below your signature.
I've given my views in my last email

>Or you may have it on your web-site and
> can post its URL on this mailing list.
>

Yes this can be but again not all may have their own site. But still
this idea is good.

Let us have sugggestions from our other members.

> --
> H. S. Rai
> _____________________________________________________________________
> http://www.grex.org/~hsrai | Alternate E-mail: hsrai@m...
> ___________________________|_________________________________________
>
> :
> ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]#######################
>
> Sub : Knowing your IDE HDD parameters                LOST #226
>
> To know the IDE hard disk identification info  which was found
> by the kernel at boot time, inclusive of things like the model
> serial number, as root try: #hdparm -i /dev/hdx (where x is a,
> b, c etc).
>
> ####[bish (at) nde.vsnl.net.in]###############################
> :
>

Hi f'ends,

Recently I've installed SuSE 10.0 on my server with Tomcat, Apache,
MySQL, Samba, SSH etc.

So far I've started using Samba and SSH and facing one strange problem
that after a fixed amount of time, all services are getting
disconnected from a particular client machine for a small duration.

During the disconnected time, the same client gets connection refused
err from the server, whereas other client can get connected to the
server to the ssh/ samba on same ports.

I tried to get it in google and all security files..but no use :-(

Please help

Thanks

Saksham

--- In SunCityJodhpurLUG@..., H S Rai <hsrai@g...> wrote:
>
> Yesterday at 12:06pm -0000 Mathur wrote:
>
> >   If members are agree to this idea, I'll send few of the stuff,
> >   dividing them in small chunks.
>
> What about LOST, see below signature.
>
>
Yes I used to look on your signature for various tips, but in my views
these are not searchable. What I feel, if the subject line itself have
something related to tip, it will be easier to search, else in LOST
case, we may need to open each and every email sent by you for a tip.

--
> H. S. Rai
> _____________________________________________________________________
> http://www.grex.org/~hsrai | Alternate E-mail: hsrai@m...
> ___________________________|_________________________________________
>
> :
> ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]#######################
>
> Sub : Line numbering your programs (#3)              LOST #152
>
> Want a listing of your program with line numbers ?
> Use `cat -n my-file' to print my-file with line numbers.
> This is specially useful when you want the output sent to
> another file or printer [ e.g. cat -n test.c | lpr ]
>
> ####[karra (at) cs.utah.edu]##################################
> :
>

Yesterday at 12:06pm -0000 Mathur wrote:

>   If members are agree to this idea, I'll send few of the stuff,
>   dividing them in small chunks.

You may upload file in file section of this group, or may use random
tips, below your signature. Or you may have it on your web-site and
can post its URL on this mailing list.

--
H. S. Rai
_____________________________________________________________________
http://www.grex.org/~hsrai | Alternate E-mail: hsrai@...
___________________________|_________________________________________

:
####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]#######################

Sub : Knowing your IDE HDD parameters                LOST #226

To know the IDE hard disk identification info  which was found
by the kernel at boot time, inclusive of things like the model
serial number, as root try: #hdparm -i /dev/hdx (where x is a,
b, c etc).

####[bish (at) nde.vsnl.net.in]###############################
: