[ilugd] BSNL EVDO dongle on Fedora 14

2011-10-04 Thread gurteshwar singh
Hi,

I am trying to help somebody get a BSNL EVDO card  running on Fedora 14.
From lsusb, I get that device is (15eb:1231) . Problem is that Fedora
14 sees it just as a storage device
and is not detected as a modem. I had a similar problem with my
reliance card but usb_modeswitch solved that.
However, configuring usb_modeswitch.conf in this case does  not help.
When usb_modeswitch is run, it ends up
giving the error : 'response endpoint not given or found' . Any help
to get this working would be much appreciated.

Thanks
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Re: [ilugd] Large Debian installations in India

2011-04-03 Thread gurteshwar singh
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 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:40:05 +0530
 From: Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org
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 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

Hi,

First, congratulations on the large scale deployment !
May I also add a few related questions. Feel free to ignore any if
they fall in the NDA domain :)

1) Regarding support and access: Setting up telephony systems is not
such an easy job and messing them up seems to be even easier. So my
question is how much of access do you give the organisation's in-house
support team on your servers. Do you for example take the risk of
asterisk config files getting messed by somebody at your client's
location? Or do you only expose only the dynamic parts of the system
(adding users, retrieving call recordings etc). I imagine it would be
mandatory to give them root access. Is that correct? If yes, then is
it the case of implementing as many safeguards as you can?

2) Licensing: How do you go about explaining them the license. Do you
just list major parts like asterisk and debian and tell them we used
this and its licensed under so and so foss license? Is there detailed
written license documentation to be provided or just providing links
to licenses sufficient?

Regards,
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Re: [ilugd] Request for suggestion for setting up Asterisk based call-center

2011-03-21 Thread gurteshwar singh
Hi,

Basically what is illegal to do in terms of VoIP is to say have a
PSTN/ISDN line plugged into your voip server and then lease that out
to somebody over IP. In effect selling it as a DID number over IP.
Most other cases are perfectly legal. There's tons of EPABX systems
being sold from vendors like Simens, NEC, etc for years. You plug in
an outside line, which could be PSTN or ISDN and distribute calls to
your extensions (either through IP or TDM). For IP, these systems
(Siemens for eg) come with some sort of a LAN card, which lets you
plugin that massive EPABX box on to your LAN switch and route all
incoming traffic to your softswitch (Asterisk for eg) and then
distribute calls to extensions which maybe IP phones or softphones.

 You can go for official permission to integrate VOIP with the normal
 DOT lines/exchanges. Authorities charge heavily for it,  but it is
 possible.

There is NO offical permission required. You apply to a provider, who
will take some documents from you and do whatever is required in terms
of dealing with authorities like TRAI for whatever obligations there
maybe. There is NO special license required and certainly NO extra
fees. You just pay your provider, the same way you pay for your
internet connection.

Disclaimer: I'm no legal expert but I just got a PRI line from Airtel,
so I've been through the 'process'.


  From what I'm aware, the primary concept behind the law is preventing
 toll bypass, which I don't think is happening in Niyaz's case as he
 mentioned the calls are incoming calls. Even if it was outgoing, it was
 happening via the PRI, so there also no toll bypass is happening. I
 don't recall which document it was, but I interpreted it as PBX being
 allowed, and if the company has multiple locations in India, then PBX
 over VPN was also permitted.

My assessment too is exactly this.

 I've always found VOIP in India be a gray area, and have never been able
 to figure out what's legal and what's not. Would be glad if you've some
 conclusive documents/links.


The best I could find was a document on TRAI's website, which was also
pretty dated and worded in an almost self-conflicting manner.
There really should be more official clarity on this.

Regards
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Re: [ilugd] Request for suggestion for setting up Asterisk based call-center

2011-03-21 Thread gurteshwar singh
---

 Message: 2
 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:08:20 +0530
 From: Raj Mathur ( ???         =?utf-8?b?IOCkruCkvuCkpeClgeCksA==?=)
        r...@linux-delhi.org


 Of course, the law itself exists purely to protect the erstwhile VSNL
 and similar organisations from unfair competition from the Internet.
 Unfair to whom, I wonder?  VoIP is certainly fair to the population of
 India, who are currently needlessly being denied access to new paradigms
 of communication purely to protect some vested interests.

Quite the norm, don't you think?

OK, enough ranting, back to Asterisk hacking ;-)

I'm a freeswitcher ;-)


 Message: 3
 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:18:10 +0530
 From: Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com


 Great, and very illuminating discussion thread, I must say.
 Maybe, it is time for an Asterix meetup :-)

Count me in.
Also there's this event called Convergence India happening from 24th to 26th.
I was contemplating whether to attend, maybe just to pick up some
first hand information if nothing more.
Has anybody attended such a conference?
Seems worthwhile.

Regards
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[ilugd] CentOS intel 82574L gigE NIC problem

2011-03-13 Thread gurteshwar singh
Hi,

I have a very weird problem which I'm unable to diagnose after trying
various things.
So this maybe long, please bear with me.
I bought a new IBM x3250 server. It has two gigE ports.

lspci :-

0b:00.0 Ethernet Controller : Intel Corp 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
15:00.0 Ethernet Controller : Intel Corp 82574L Gigabit Network Connection

lspci -n |grep 0b:00.0 :-

0b:00.0 0200: 8086:10d3 (same for the other one)

uname -r :-
2.6.18-194.el5

I installed CentOS 5.5 and configured the interface for dhcp.
It fails to connect and just keeps fluctuating. In /var/log/messages/
I see Link is up/down message repeatedly (every second).
I can give it a static ip and define a static route, but it does
absolutely nothing except self-ping.
First I thought it was a driver issue, so I updated to the latest
driver for my card (e1000e) first from elrepo.org (didn't work) then
from the intel website (didn't work).
elrepo btw is not up to date with intel.

I called the IBM guys who showed up today with a Windows Server CD
today, installed it- same problem there.
They called for a new motherboard, put windows 2003 server edition,
same problem!
They updated the BIOS 3 times.. same problem on all 3.
They went back without a solution, collecting the DSA logs (it's an
ibm thing i think). They haven't closed the call and are still on it.
I then got a new, exact same machine from the vendor, I ran a live cd
first (linux mint) and I get a STABLE link, booted windows from the
previous installation (hot-swap drives) STABLE link.
IBM guys go home, I install CentOS and poof! back to square one! :(
Then I tried linux mint, same issue.

You can rule out faulty cables or switch ports, I've verified that.
Ok, this is really weird, I just found a workaround. By just I mean
after I'd typed all of the above email.
Just for kicks I put in a dumb 10/100 mbps hub in the path and it
works great :)
This however, is temporary. Could this be a link negotiation issue?

Also, what baffles me is that this problem persisted across 3
motherboards and 2 machines only after CentOS was brought into the
picture.
CentOS first, followed by other distros. Failed for every one of them.
Other OS first (including windows) STABLE link, bring CentOS into the
picture, it failed and also for every subsequent OS.
I read somewhere that there was a time when the e1000e driver in the
kernel was bricking NICs but somebody also told me that code didn't
make it into CentOS.

Anybody ever come across such a thing?
Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Gurteshwar

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Re: [ilugd] CentOS intel 82574L gigE NIC problem

2011-03-13 Thread gurteshwar singh
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 2:23 AM, gurteshwar singh
gurteshwarsi...@gmail.com wrote:
snip


 You can rule out faulty cables or switch ports, I've verified that.

My bad, the faithful wndr3700 is now toast!
Just by co-incidence it was perfectly in time with the new machine's arrival.
The ports were screwing up intermittently, and not on any other
machine in the LAN. Until today.
I've replaced that and everything's good.

 Thanks
 Gurteshwar

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[ilugd] [Commercial] Looking for a web designer.

2010-07-06 Thread gurteshwar singh
Hi,
I am looking for somebody to build me a website for a consulting
company. Nothing really fancy is required. I have bought the domain
names. You will also be responsible for maintaining, updating and all
sort of housekeeping. We could work on an yearly subscription type
deal, where I pay you X and outsource everything to do with the site
to you. It would be a big plus, if you have some sort of portfolio of
current clients that I could have a look at. Those interested, please
contact me off the list.

P.S. Just so you know, the company's a start-up.

Thanks
Gurteshwar

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[ilugd] Which L2 Switch should I buy?

2010-06-27 Thread gurteshwar singh
Hi,

I need recommendations for a L2 switch that is capable of 802.3af PoE.
I had shortlisted D-Link's DES-1228P but I just read some reviews on
forums.dlink.com (glad I did!). It seems like a lot of people have had
to get theirs replaced. Please suggest some switches that you are
using in production and have good things to say about. My budget is
around 30-35k.

Thanks
gs

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[ilugd] 24 port Pre-standard PoE switch

2010-05-21 Thread gurteshwar singh
Hi,
Basically, the Cisco 7940G VoIP phones don't work with
the IEEE standard 802.3af PoE. They require Cisco prestandard PoE.
Since I don't have the option of getting other phones. Please suggest
what (however limited!) options do I have for the switch.

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[ilugd] Linksys Spa3102 regional settings.

2010-05-04 Thread gurteshwar singh
Hi,
So I did manage getting hold of a spa3102. I've been trying to set it
up with FreeSwitch and integrate my PSTN line. After repeated attempts
I was getting nowhere when I finally looked at regional settings. I've
tried various configs and am now reasonably sure that its an issue
with regional settings.

 I reset the spa3102 to default settings, and plugged in the PSTN
phone line into fxo and an analong phone into fxs. There is no network
cable connected and no sort of PBX involved. When I call my PSTN
number, the phone at fxs does ring but a call is not being
established. If I answer the phone, there is no call established and
it disconnects in 2 sec. and I get a disconn tone, while the caller
continues to hear the PSTN number ring. Same thing if the call goes
unanswered. The PSTN line status on the spa3102 shows Last Call
Disconn. reason: CPC Signal.

I think I am correct in assuming that there is no point in any further
configuration attempts until I manage to get this call established
first. Should this plug and play setup be working by default on every
spa3102 if regional settings are correct? If that is the case then it
mostly seems like an issue with regional settings. I looked at the
voxilla forums and other places and tried whatever regional tone
settings I could find for India. Nothing has worked so far.

When I bring in the PBX into the picture, I have no problem with my
phone working as an sip extension doing everything that is configured
just as any other softphone would do. The problem is with PSTN and I
suspect its regional settings.

Where can I find the correct settings? If anybody has this device
configured, please drop me a line.

Thanks

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Re: [ilugd] Where can I buy a Linksys SPA3102 VoIP Adapter?

2010-04-21 Thread gurteshwar singh
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote:


 *cough* is this stuff legal in India now ?  *cough*

 - KB


wow! This is new to me. I read somewhere that terminating PSTN traffic
at a PBX and integrating with VoIP extensions among a closed user
group(CUG) is legal. I'm not sure about this either. Where can I find
more details about the legal hurdles?

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[ilugd] Where can I buy a Linksys SPA3102 VoIP Adapter?

2010-04-20 Thread gurteshwar singh
Hi,
I am looking for a Linksys SPA3102 adapter. I called a few places in
Nehru Place, only one said he could procure it in a week. All of them
seem to have the Linksys PAP2T adapter readily available. If you know
some place I might find it, please send me a contact number.

Also if anybody's using anything else that has min. 1 FXS + 1 FXO + 1
WAN port with Freeswitch, please email me.

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[ilugd] [OT] The Pirate Party wins.

2009-06-07 Thread gurteshwar singh
The Pirate Party won a seat in the European Parliament.

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-wins-and-enters-the-european-parliament-090607/

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[ilugd] PirateBay hilarity..

2009-05-21 Thread gurteshwar singh
First the trial judge was accused of bias, now the judge who was
appointed to review whether the earlier judge was biased has also been
removed for being biased. This drama just keeps getting better and
better. :-)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/judge-reviewing-pirate-bay-trial-bias-is-removed-for-bias/

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Re: [ilugd] FOSS and Indian Political Party Websites

2009-05-05 Thread gurteshwar singh
 india is indeed a young nation, with approximately 54% of its
 population under the age of 35 years,
 and that's a lot of folks for a 1 billion population.
 what amazes me, is how come no one has yet seriously considered a
 'Pirate Party of India'.
 the one in sweden is the fourth-largest in its country already, and
 similar ones exist across Europe.
 take a look here:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party

Fourth largest and this time they may also get a seat in the EU parliament.
link:
http://in.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=INIndia-39428420090505

 i am reasonably certain such a party would soon emerge in india, more
 sensitive (hopefully)
 to our cultural values towards knowledge and sharing across software,
 authored literature, medicine,
 education, agriculture, genetics, and more.

While such parties do exist elsewhere, India would certainly benefit
the most by something like this emerging here.

 who knows, we might just see some of our young folks from ilug-d
 moving on to form such a party eventually. i can think of several
 dozen candidates from the foss community!

I am optimistic as well!

regards,
guru

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Re: [ilugd] drivers for broadcom bcm4312 802.11b/g(rev 01) on centOS

2009-05-02 Thread gurteshwar singh
 Also, you could try using the drivers from this Feisty HowTo for
 ndiswrapper. They've sourced them from the Compaq website(step 2b for.
 bcm4312 revision 01) and used cabextract. Or you could use the ZIP
 file here - http://uploading.com/files/VXHOYZLY/bcm4312rev01.zip.html

Hi,
I followed the HowTo, step 2e worked for me, since my chipset pci id
was different from the one in 2b.
Now that I have wlan0 up, I don't think it will work in raw monitor
mode since the driver is installed via ndiswrapper.
Which brings me to my next question. Does anybody know of a usb-dongle
that will work in monitor mode. I do not have pcmcia card
slot and the dell people tell me that no other wifi card will be
supported by my notebook's motherboard. So I cant shift to the intel
interfaces.
The usb-dongle being my only option (i think). I am looking at
Airlink101 AWLL3026. From what I read, it really works well, including
injection.

Please advice me of what usb option I should go for. And if you know
any reseller in Delhi, do let me know

Thanks.

Regards,
guru

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[ilugd] drivers for broadcom bcm4312 802.11b/g(rev 01) on centOS

2009-04-29 Thread gurteshwar singh
Hi,
I am trying to configure wireless on my Dell inspiron 15 notebook
using centOS. This may seem like a repost. I had asked this question
about a month back but then i went home and had no wireless available
so wasn't able to try any of the suggestions. As suggested by  Raj and
Karanbir I downloaded the driver for xp from the dell website and
tried to install it using ndiswrapper.

I unzipped the .exe and installed netathw.inf. ndiswrapper -l tells me
invalid driver! I expected this since the dell website states that the
xp driver applies to only the Wireless 1515 (11agn) WLAN half
mini-card (Atheros). I have a Dell Wireless 1397 802.11b/g Half Mini
Card. The driver for Vista seems to support this card. The problem now
is that I am unable to extract the .inf (or anything else) from .exe
provided for vista. I tried unzip, cabextract and even wine, but all
failed.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
guru

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Re: [ilugd] Pirate Bay judge hilarity

2009-04-23 Thread gurteshwar singh
For anyone following the case, it's gone way beyond farce.

It's the icing on the cake.

BTW, the Pirate Party is now the 4th biggest political party in Sweden.

Compared to the 2000 members they had 3 yrs back when they first got raided.

Oh, we live in interesting times alright!
Interesting times indeed! ;-)

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[ilugd] This is weird!

2009-04-06 Thread gurteshwar singh
Hi,
I received an email from crmarket...@airtel.in, I use airtel broadband
but this is the first time they sent such a mail. The mail had an
image attached which looks like a snapshot of some webpage. The weird
part is the text of the mail, it's some sort of Non-disclosure
Agreement which I'm supposed to automatically bind to as I open the
mail, that's totally absurd. I spoke to Airtel CC and at first one
person verified the mail but seemed quite unsure to me. He said it was
only sent to 'special' customers which makes me wonder why I am a
'special' customer. After two more calls to CC, I was told to forward
the mail to care@airtel.in. They said that they would call me back
in an hour. I am still waiting for that.

The content of the mail is as follows:

This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are for the sole use of
the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged
information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the
sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies and the original
message. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure,dissemination,
forwarding, printing or copying of this email or any action taken in
reliance on this e-mail is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.
The recipient acknowledges that Bharti Airtel Limited or its
subsidiaries and associated companies(collectively Bharti Airtel
Limited),are unable to exercise control or ensure or guarantee the
integrity of/overthe contents of the information contained in e-mail
transmissions and further acknowledges that any views expressed in
this message are those of the individual sender and no binding nature
of the message shall be implied or assumed unless the sender does so
expressly with due authority of Bharti Airtel Limited. Before opening
any attachments please check them for viruses and defects.

...

It looks more like a phishing attack. Sane advice would be not to open
the attachment but my curiosity got the better of me and I had to
check what this weird mail was. Since I have not received a good
enough response from Airtel for a week now, paranoia is setting in :-)
Anybody else received such a mail?

P.S.: Apologies if this looks like a long rant, but its really
confused me and googling around didn't help as I couldn't find anybody
else facing this issue.

Regards,
guru

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[ilugd] Wireless on Dell Inspiron 15 (CentOS 5.2)

2009-03-28 Thread gurteshwar singh
Hi, I am trying to configure wireless on a Dell Inspiron 15 notebook.
I am using CentOS 5.2. The output of lspci tells me that my wireless
card is 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB
Controller (rev 01). The only way to get this up seems using
ndiswrapper. Is there any other way?
Also I am pretty sure that even if I get it working, my wireless card
will not support raw monitoring (rfmon) mode.

Please suggest any addon wireless cards (usb/other) which will run in
rfmon and will be supported(not necessarily out of the box) by CentOS
5.2 and be easily available in the market, the cheaper the better :-)

Also is there any other way of getting my present wifi card to work
without using ndiswrapper?

Thanks
guru

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Re: [ilugd] Wireless on Dell Inspiron 15 (CentOS 5.2)

2009-03-28 Thread gurteshwar singh
Yes.Enable rpmfusion-nonfree repository in your system. (visit
www.rpmfusion.org)
then install broadcom-wl package, yum install broadcom-wl

I did that, it says No package broadcom-wl available.

Regards,
guru

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Re: [ilugd] FOSS Manifesto for Indian political parties

2009-03-10 Thread gurteshwar singh
This is really cool.

Maybe OT, but this makes me ask something I have been wondering about
for sometime: what if I need to look up some such Indian census data
online? Where can I look? (take a look at http://www.censusindia.net/,
for example, the link for 2001 Census returns a 404).

Or, what if I need to lookup some (central or state) law document
online? The few law sites that Google returns want you to pay them to
view the documents.

Is there some useful resource (nic.in?) that I am missing? If not, is
there any work being done in this direction?

Chaitanya

As far as I know, the way things work here is that you can request for
information to be made public http://rti.gov.in/

But to make info readily available online without having to go through
a requesting protocol has never been a goal of the govt. If it is, I
maybe unaware. Somebody please point me to relevant links

guru

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Re: [ilugd] FOSS Manifesto for Indian political parties

2009-03-09 Thread gurteshwar singh
Great work!
The obama campaign for change has made a lot of noise in India as well
and has supposedly inspired or motivated people here. Here's what
they're doing with open source.

http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Open_Up_Government_Data

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Re: [ilugd] blog post about freed.in day 2 (shirish)

2009-03-01 Thread gurteshwar singh
 From: shirish shirisha...@gmail.com
 Subject: [ilugd] blog post about freed.in day 2
 Hi all,
  Day 2 now online (sans photos) apologize for the same.

 http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/freed-day-2/
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          Regards,
          Shirish Agarwal

Hi all,

Dear Shirish,

I read your posts about freed.in day-2. A few things I wish to point
out regarding your take on my talk.

From your post http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/freed-day-2/

The real story which he forgot was that the year after, ERNET was up and shell 
accounts were starting to give people which dried up the business of BBS 
overtime.

Not something I forgot but was actually aware of. It would've made
sense to include, if I was giving an elaborate account of the
business history of BBS overtime. My whole point was how people got
together on the boards(i cant call it the internet :-)) for speaking
against something they didn't like or thought was unfair and how it
actually resulted in action on ground. My not including or as you say
forgetting what happened to the BBS business after that does not
dispute my claim in any way. Also, I thought it to be irrelevant to
the given context.

His 2 second plug www.indiasopinion.com as his take on where this can be taken 
forward.

This is completely misunderstood. Maybe I did not do well enough to
get my point across clearly to you. If you asked Kishore, I think he
would recall that after the first volunteer meet, I had quite a
detailed discussion with him regarding my talk. I even asked him if I
should completely remove any mention of my 2 second plug as the idea
was to bring forward the research that showed how the information we
seek online is directly proportional to the opinions we form and
communicate. And how these two also happen to be the primary
activities of all users. My effort was to pitch these ideas and
research to an audience with way more advanced technical skills than
mine, so that they could try and decide how it can be taken forward.
Sadly, as of now my skills are limited to system/network
administration. I am not(yet) a developer. The only little
contributions I could make were via Wordpress, which I had been
checking out for some time. Hence, my 2 second plug which I think is
by no means conclusive. A lot can and I think needs to be done to take
this forward.

My take, watch out for wordpress+buddypress, that should be a killer thing to 
look at ;)

Great. Thanks for letting me know of this. Looks very good. Perhaps if
it could be integrated via a facebook app, the problem of first
establishing a large user base would diminish.

Regards,
guru

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