Re: [ilugd] Monitor Broadband usage
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:20:04 +0530, Vivek Kapoor subs...@exain.com wrote: On 03/30/2011 12:24 PM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Vivek Kapoorsubs...@exain.com wrote: 2. Add a USB wifi dongle to it to make it as a wifi access point. Please share the brand/model that you have used for above setup. It would be a more cost effective solution compared to the mini PCI card with the Atheros chip set (TP-Link) that I have been considering. You should be better with Atheros. It has worked for me too, though haven't used it for a good enough duration. But setup should be painless. I won't be able to help in selecting a good USB dongle as I bought only one, and faced more than a few issues with it. The one that I have, and I won't recommend, is Linksys WUSB54GC v3, bought it for Rs. 2100 approx in late 2009 from Nehru Place. First inconvenience would be that you'll I thought of testing the Linksys adapter again on Ubuntu 10.10. Booted 10.10 via USB and set everything up. Spent considerable amount of time on it. Things are better than 10.04 (and much better than 9.04 where I first began), but still not good enough. Though I can connect to the access point, but the connection doesn't last, and WPA authentication is painful, and doesn't work majority of the times. I tested particularly with Nokia E61 device as the client. The Atheros one that I have (it's a PCI card of Netgear on one of my desktops) worked flawlessly without complaining. I've written a short howto on how to make your machine an access point - http://wp.me/p9bZ0-1z - should take 5 mins once you have hostapd and dhcp3-server installed. Hope it helps. Regards Vivek Kapoor http://exain.com ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Ilugd Digest, Vol 16, Issue 25
Message: 1 Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:14:31 +0530 From: Gora Mohantyg...@mimirtech.com To: Linux Delhiilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org Subject: [ilugd] Detections of GPL violations, and compliance efforts Message-ID: AANLkTimiQ1ZkUKis7hKVwBOJ+YzG5WR5on7vFoAVsd=j...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello everyone, Are people interested in becoming involved in efforts by SFLC, India in detecting violations of open-source licenses, and in bringing software vendors into compliance? There are largely two parts to this: * The first is looking for violations in binary code, usually in embedded devices. The most common form of violation here is the unauthorised use of BusyBox. As people here might not be familiar with the subject, SFLC, India is willing to arrange a 2-3 day training session with an expert from the US. While the session will be open to all, the expense can be justified only if at least a few people commit some time (say, a few hours/week) to working with SFLC, India on this. * The second part is compliance efforts. Often, these are not antagonistic, i.e., software vendors are willing to have their code audited for licensing violations that they were not aware of. This should be of interest to people working on machine learning, and similarity. There can also be a commercial angle to this: Black Duck software, for example, has (closed-source) commercial tools that do this: http://www.blackducksoftware.com/learn/open-source-compliance Please note that in both cases above, the intent is to bring violators into compliance, and *not* to spawn litigation. If you are interested, please follow up here. Especially for the first part, the training session will happen only if there is sufficient committed interest. Regards, Gora I am also interested. weekend will be preferred. Regards ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Large Debian installations in India
Hi, Tirveni and I just completed a large (~2500 desktops + ~40 servers) installation of Debian -- Squeeze and Wheezy -- in 6 locations in India. Was wondering, is anyone aware of larger or comparable Debian installations in the country? Or should we be spraining our wrists trying to pat ourselves on our backs? Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [Commercial] Full time Java developer Delhi / Noida needed
hi, I am looking for a full time developer, those interested pl mal me offline asap, for this urgent opening. Pl. find the JD below. Job Profile 1 (Job Code JAVA – 64 ): Senior Java developer: a.3 yrs of experience in coding in java / j2ee b.Excellent skills in Core java (mandatory) c.Good fundamentals in java d.Excellent skills in Mysql Database (mandatory) e.Good skills in struts ,and good to have hibernate skills f.Good to have skills in Linux , from developer point of view g.Good to have skills in AJAX, HTML, Javascript, JQuery h.Must be a team player and demonstrate integrity with the company i.Must be able to take leadership role and be proactive Candidate should have worked preferably independently on projects and will be from a good college, either BTech / MCA, Location: Noida Pl reply back with: a. Relevant Experience b. Total Experience c. Current and expected CTC d. current location e. Copy of CV / Resume Mail to me urgently -- Thanks and kind Regards, Abhishek jain ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Large Debian installations in India
--- On Thu, 3/31/11, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: From: Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com Subject: Re: [ilugd] Large Debian installations in India To: Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org Cc: The Linux-Delhi mailing list ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 5:48 PM Hi, On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: Hi, Tirveni and I just completed a large (~2500 desktops + ~40 servers) installation of Debian -- Squeeze and Wheezy -- in 6 locations in India. Was wondering, is anyone aware of larger or comparable Debian installations in the country? Or should we be spraining our wrists trying to pat ourselves on our backs? Congrats !!! No idea whether there is any other bigger Linux setup (not just Debian, but any Linux distro). But this IS a huge setup. Few questions popped up. Hope you will answer them for everybody's benefits. (Organisation name is not required) A. On what parameters selection of a particular distro is done. Pricing, support, stability etc. etc. B. Is the decision taken by some central IT department and imposed on all others or is it coming from user requirements across the country? C. How the organisation is going to get support? Inhouse? services from vendors or consultants? Outsourced activity completely? D. What is the typical configuration of desktops, servers. E. What was the timeframe to complete the project? F. What are the most troublesome situations you face during the whole exercise. Technical, manpower handling, financial etc. Any other points you wish to share with us. I am sure answers to these will be helpful to all the FOSS implementors as a reference point and even more to the people who are converting from non-FOSS to FOSS environment. Thanks and regards, -Sudhanwa Also I have some questions... 1) How the servers are connected? 2) Are they connected as nodes of a big cluster or they are placed in different location of the country and form a distributed server setup? --- নির্মাল্য লাহিড়ী [Nirmalya Lahiri] +৯১-৯৪৩৩১১৩৫৩৬ [+91-9433113536] ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Large Debian installations in India
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: Hi, Tirveni and I just completed a large (~2500 desktops + ~40 servers) installation of Debian -- Squeeze and Wheezy -- in 6 locations in India. Was wondering, is anyone aware of larger or comparable Debian installations in the country? Or should we be spraining our wrists trying to pat ourselves on our backs? Regards, congratulations! regarding whether this is the larger deployment or not: we need to check with some Govt department deployments done by BOSS team of CDAC. Assam Govt and Kerala Govt. are other possible places. -- GN ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Large Debian installations in India
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Raj Mathur writes: Hi, Tirveni and I just completed a large (~2500 desktops + ~40 servers) installation of Debian -- Squeeze and Wheezy -- in 6 locations in India. Was wondering, is anyone aware of larger or comparable Debian installations in the country? Or should we be spraining our wrists trying to pat ourselves on our backs? w00t. Unless bound by some NDA, do you mind posting some technical details (minus IPv[46] addresses, username, passwords, and private keys ;)) about the project ? Thanks - -- Ashish SHUKLA “I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.” (Douglas Adams) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJNlMLwAAoJEMdGz6nnT6SwMk8QALLn2auhAQ6URfrcaUWfVnWK oxIMQ1HJL2yogydyaNx+f7ANYw1EtT+kOLfWjpgomc6ypFhs2iPvHo5TM87QgoLK x+ru/pmetHvkEdtZ4eTeuHj53tu4u2KrULD2O7/Txn/dzfzxN6GY+AbauaRF2kgd tdJlc4u/0ZmcsXPqg1dYK1fkxiSrgBrfdAG+XQh61VNqAnHN5Wkdr/sP2Eby0zIS Y1FgGayW3XRJniMZ2ARFVfM15N0rYF0A2ochJt+ZE1M52+o9f+y5lnN3EkDuwOmi wWMDVdCzTJ6Bp6w+XGjQpMAsfH3gLeItwp6mNVxqU2MuZuGtnDT5O4MgSqVm6EJx O0UgZOVqcEUYA6GE3UjHsSqxU1Kx9WI6zfPf6UD7svxuKMMTlEPFAgC/HwESz/9D WO6y8xOs3NcZkobbuB19wOYrVu2i6jQckFL4+zGjDhFLdrvbd3sObcvIQys2NvPl Tju8kAzQmjVk2VuuzFveP09FqXWg+MzweM5mS43UpV0Tzknx3zG+kq7EowdNhLdp 5HnClfP7LK1SYQ3m0fLDqne2uKfmlnHwbn+5c5I2mLxPPKxn538JvdpbJ+14M2gh XlK9OgTgIUCFOn8tdu00K/KYkj7JAjZKsaKJ29S4BwyTzPaKSHGlVQUa51zv4/Nj J/5RUvkm8mfRpuYagD6y =kVn1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Large Debian installations in India
I know linux-desktops are being used in various courts in Delhi. I can't estimate the exact number of installations there. If we consider all district courts as one organisation, we will get an impressive figure. Any more ideas? -Niyaz -Original Message- From: Raj Mathur Sent: 31-03-2011 16:40:05 Subject: [ilugd] Large Debian installations in India Hi, Tirveni and I just completed a large (~2500 desktops + ~40 servers) installation of Debian -- Squeeze and Wheezy -- in 6 locations in India. Was wondering, is anyone aware of larger or comparable Debian installations in the country? Or should we be spraining our wrists trying to pat ourselves on our backs? Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Large Debian installations in India
Oops. Sorry friends. I did a top posting. please ignore the mistake . -Niyaz ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [LONG] Re: Large Debian installations in India
Background: The client is a large call-out business headquartered in NOIDA with call centres in 5 other cities in India, including New Delhi. At the time we started, they had no IT or automation on the call floor at all. Before you see the words call centre and freak out, let me assure you that this is one of those professional ones -- any telecaller found calling a DNC number is immediately and publicly terminated. In fact, preventing calling of DNC was one of the reasons they wanted to give up manual calling and switch to an IT solution where call-outs could be controlled. All the implementation decisions were taken by Tirveni and I in conjunction with the client's technical team. We decided to go with Asterisk for the telephony part and Linux desktops with headsets for the tele-callers. To answer the specific questions Sudhanwa and Nirmalya put up: On Thu, 3/31/11, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: A. On what parameters selection of a particular distro is done. Pricing, support, stability etc. etc. The key element here was stability and availability of packages. Pure desktop distributions were ruled out due to their (typical) quick obsolescence and, to some extent, lack of testing. This left the enterprise-grade distributions like RH, CentOS and Debian. RH and CentOS don't have the wide variety of packages that Debian offers, so we decided on Debian. Of course, our own affinity for Debian may have played some part in that decision :) B. Is the decision taken by some central IT department and imposed on all others or is it coming from user requirements across the country? The decision was made at headquarters. As I said, the organisation is pretty raw where IT maturity is concerned, and having a strong, technically sound, experienced CTO at the helm more or less defined the direction for the whole company. Of course, business decisions are still made at the operations level, so the technology strategy has to ensure that it's in sync with and can service business requirements in what is, after all, a very dynamic environment. C. How the organisation is going to get support? Inhouse? services from vendors or consultants? Outsourced activity completely? L1 and hopefully L2 support will be handled within the organisation. T and I have been working on documenting standard procedures, and in the past 2 months or so most of them have been handed over to the client's support team, along with some scripts that make life easier for them (e.g. quickly make new users -- you wouldn't believe the employee turnover these call centres have!). We still handle some L2 and most L3 support, and that is likely to be the model going forward too. Incidentally, anyone with Linux technical competence interested in a job? ;-) D. What is the typical configuration of desktops, servers. Desktops are commodity 2GB RAM, 3GHz Pentium dual-core machines. They seem to be handling plain voice telephony over SIP just fine. Servers are much larger -- Asterisk needs a load of power to handle 1000 simultaneous users, and we've split up functionality so that the SIP handling and the PSTN connectivity are done by different servers. Servers are typically 2x4 core or 4x4 core Xeon class boxes with SAS disks. E. What was the timeframe to complete the project? We started around mid-December (2010), got the servers by mid-Jan and had one centre live on Asterisk within about 15 days of that. Planning out the architecture in advance made a lot of difference to the overall speed of implementation. Tirveni did tons of preseed magic on the desktop front, and we now have a process where you can put a bare machine on the LAN, select Boot from network (PXE boot) and have a working, customised Debian desktop ready for use in 10 minutes. F. What are the most troublesome situations you face during the whole exercise. Technical, manpower handling, financial etc. AFAIR, the most troublesome portions were (a) handling user creation, (b) changing business requirements and (c) diagnosing and fixing Asterisk-PSTN issues remotely. User creation went through multiple phases of streamlining, until now we have a process by which a support person can login to a desktop, run a command, feed in the user ID, get it validated against a central database and have the desktop ready for the user in about 30 seconds. It's still not perfect, but we're getting there. As mentioned before, business requirements keep changing, and keeping up with them is quite a challenge. This is not due to lack of foresight on the organisation's part -- just that business needs, TRAI regulations, security issues, mandatory controls, etc. are so dynamic. And if you're sitting in NOIDA and trying to manage an Asterisk box connected to the PSTN 2000KM away, I have one word of advice: don't! We're learning as we go along, but Asterisk diagnostics are cryptic to say the least, and telcos
Re: [ilugd] [LONG] Re: Large Debian installations in India
2011/4/1 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org Tirveni did tons of preseed magic on the desktop front, and we now have a process where you can put a bare machine on the LAN, select Boot from network (PXE boot) and have a working, customised Debian desktop ready for use in 10 minutes. I would love to know the details of the process. We have tried to do PXE boot for installation in our college labs, but got stuck somewhere both the times we tried. -- Kartik Singhal http://k4rtik.wordpress.com/ ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
