Re: [ubuntu-in] Debian-Ubuntu Project Day: Final List
On 10/29/07, Bhavani Shankar R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey.. > Can I speak/Participate on Contributing to ubuntu for newbies and Gaming and > media center on ubuntu? Please let me know...I m interested... You can not have a talk now on project day. But you can sure have BoF. The focus of FOSS.IN this year is on attracting contributors to FOSS. So please make sure that your session has same focus. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] This is about Ubuntu Indian Members..
@Gaurav/Vivek, There is no need to be so aggressive. Bhavani seems to be misguided about the ways of contribution. I think it is our duty to correct his misconceptions than to ban him. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [Ubuntu Bangalore Team] The Bangalore team is up and rocking..!
On 10/30/07, Bhavani Shankar R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey wait a min.. > I am for kannada localisation and I was dissapointed by the flaming and > cannons thrown on me.. > Bhavani Shankar. Then please join or merge your teams with https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-l10n-kn instead of creating new teams Also collaborate with http://indlinux.org/ and http://kannada.sampada.net/ Regards, Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Java plugin for gusty
On 11/1/07, Mir Nazim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello guy > > here I am again to bug you guys. I am running Gusty on AMD Turion 64 > x2. Now I need Java plugin for firefox/swiftfox. I found out that > sun-java6-plugin package is not available for 64 bit version. But even > sun-java5-plugin is not showing up in repositories. Any idea what to > do. > > Moreover, Gusty finds and installs something called IceTea and GCJ > plugin when you click the "CLick here to install missing plugin" in > firefox/swiftfox. > > > Any ideas how can i get it working. Icedtea is a project to fill in gaps of currently in works Free (GPLed) version of Java. It replaces some components that are not Free yet with alternates available in other projects like classpath. Just install icedtea packages in gutsy and get going. :-) Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Java plugin for gusty
Mir Nazim wrote: > On 11/1/07, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 11/1/07, Mir Nazim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hello guy >>> >>> here I am again to bug you guys. I am running Gusty on AMD Turion 64 >>> x2. Now I need Java plugin for firefox/swiftfox. I found out that >>> sun-java6-plugin package is not available for 64 bit version. But even >>> sun-java5-plugin is not showing up in repositories. Any idea what to >>> do. >>> >>> Moreover, Gusty finds and installs something called IceTea and GCJ >>> plugin when you click the "CLick here to install missing plugin" in >>> firefox/swiftfox. >>> >>> >>> Any ideas how can i get it working. >>> >> Icedtea is a project to fill in gaps of currently in works Free >> (GPLed) version of Java. It replaces some components that are not Free >> yet with alternates available in other projects like classpath. >> >> Just install icedtea packages in gutsy and get going. :-) >> > > Thanks Onkar > > But IcedTea packages are already installed. icedtea-java-bin, > icedtea-java-jre, icedtea-java-plugin are already there. but still > applets do not load. > > What is output of 'ls -l /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so'? Does it point to correct file (/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-icedtea/jre/lib/i386/gcjwebplugin.so in my case)? If it doesn't, try 'sudo update-alternatives --auto firefox-javaplugin.so'. I think 'sudo update-java-alternatives' should help to update all alternatives related to java. And if this also doesn't work then file a bug. :-) Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Instant Messenger in Gutsy
Vivek Khurana wrote: > On Nov 1, 2007 9:24 PM, Vipul Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Does it work for *voice* on yahoo / google talk? I have been unable to >> find that feature in pidgin. What is the status of the vv (voice and >> video) plugin? I guess this was one of the Google Summer of Code >> projects for pidgin. >> > > Nah, dont think it is working. Also there are patent issues around VOIP. > As far as google talk is considered there are no patent issues. Jingle is an extension to XMPP and libjingle is an open source library. @Ashfaq AFAIK, Kopete supports VoIP for both Yahoo and Google. Try installing it using synaptic and let us know if it works. I would have recommended empathy/telepathy combination but the version in gutsy doesn't support VoIP and I don't want to recommend third party repositories yet as you are new to Ubuntu. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Java plugin for gusty
Mir Nazim wrote: > On 11/1/07, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mir Nazim wrote: >> >>> On 11/1/07, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On 11/1/07, Mir Nazim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hello guy >>>>> >>>>> here I am again to bug you guys. I am running Gusty on AMD Turion 64 >>>>> x2. Now I need Java plugin for firefox/swiftfox. I found out that >>>>> sun-java6-plugin package is not available for 64 bit version. But even >>>>> sun-java5-plugin is not showing up in repositories. Any idea what to >>>>> do. >>>>> >>>>> Moreover, Gusty finds and installs something called IceTea and GCJ >>>>> plugin when you click the "CLick here to install missing plugin" in >>>>> firefox/swiftfox. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Any ideas how can i get it working. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Icedtea is a project to fill in gaps of currently in works Free >>>> (GPLed) version of Java. It replaces some components that are not Free >>>> yet with alternates available in other projects like classpath. >>>> >>>> Just install icedtea packages in gutsy and get going. :-) >>>> >>>> >>> Thanks Onkar >>> >>> But IcedTea packages are already installed. icedtea-java-bin, >>> icedtea-java-jre, icedtea-java-plugin are already there. but still >>> applets do not load. >>> >>> >>> >> What is output of 'ls -l /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so'? Does >> it point to correct file >> (/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-icedtea/jre/lib/i386/gcjwebplugin.so in my case)? >> If it doesn't, try 'sudo update-alternatives --auto >> firefox-javaplugin.so'. I think 'sudo update-java-alternatives' should >> help to update all alternatives related to java. >> > > Here are the outputs of the two comands. > $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so > /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so -> /usr/lib/gcj-4.2/libgcjwebplugin.so > > $ sudo update-java-alternatives -a > No alternatives for appletviewer. > No alternatives for apt. > No alternatives for extcheck. > No alternatives for idlj. > No alternatives for jar. > No alternatives for jarsigner. > No alternatives for javac. > No alternatives for javadoc. > No alternatives for javah. > No alternatives for javap. > No alternatives for java-rmi.cgi. > No alternatives for jconsole. > No alternatives for jdb. > No alternatives for jhat. > No alternatives for jinfo. > No alternatives for jmap. > No alternatives for jps. > No alternatives for jrunscript. > No alternatives for jsadebugd. > No alternatives for jstack. > No alternatives for jstat. > No alternatives for jstatd. > No alternatives for native2ascii. > No alternatives for rmic. > No alternatives for schemagen. > No alternatives for wsgen. > No alternatives for wsimport. > No alternatives for xjc. > Do you have gcj installed? It may be interfering with icedtea. Check the output of 'dpkg -l gcj*'. If there is any gcj related package installed then do 'sudo apt-get --purge autoremove gcj-4.2-base' (or similar) and then try setting java alternatives again with 'sudo update-java-alternatives --auto'. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Is their a possibility of voice chat like yahoo messenger, or google talk in gutsy?
Ashfaq Shaikh wrote: > I have downloaded and installed Gutsy about 15 days back. After the > initial fears I had very well settled and happy without windows > interface except for the voice messengers like yahoo and Google talk > which I used extensively in windows for voice chatting. > > I am sure linux too is competable, and not lagging behind, but I dont > know where to find the info or the how to to get the voice chat enable > in linux. Kindly help me out with the available information for this. > All my other multimedia problems for Audio video have been solved > except this one, and the the other is Lexmark Z513 printer! > > Will some one guide me to get this resolved/ I already replied to your other thread regarding VoIP. Have you not read the reply? I can not help with printer problem unless you tell what the problem is exactly. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Java plugin for gusty
@nan, A request. Please don't hijack someone else's thread to post your question. Start your own thread. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Guide for installing useful apps on Ubuntu Gutsy
On Nov 10, 2007 9:08 PM, Nilesh Trivedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I wrote a short and simple guide for those who are trying out Ubuntu for > the first time. This will also save time for us who have to do handholding > for them while we make their Ubuntu installation usable. > > http://ubuntu-in.org/wiki/Fixing_Gutsy > > Please contribute to it and make it a definitive place to point people to. I have few comments and I need inputs from other page before fixing the page. 1. I have objection to the title 'Fixing Gutsy'. There is nothing wrong with Gutsy. 'Customizing Gutsy' is more appropriate title. 2. I really fail to understand what functionality Adobe Acrobat Reader provides that home users require which is not by provided by Evince (the default PDF reader in Ubuntu). Apart from that it is non-Free software. 3. If you install all gstreamer plugins and w32codecs you can play almost every media file except .rm. Also you can play those files in Firefox since totem-gstreamer-firefox-plugin is installed by default. So I don't know what are you trying to achieve by recommending mozilla-plugin-vlc. 4. I haven't yet felt the need to run a Windows application. So at least I don't see a need to recommend wine. It defeats the purpose of using a Free operating system. 5. Now the most important. Your page is IMHO just a variation of http://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats targeting a specific version of Ubuntu. We already have loads of guides about how to play restricted formats. What we need are the guides to achieve some other specific tasks. I hope you will take this as constructive criticism. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] How to synch a Nokia 6681 cell phone with Ubuntu 7.10
On Nov 11, 2007 9:19 PM, Biju Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > Ive decided to cut my questions into pieces. One of my main issues is I > can't synch my phone with anything in Ubuntu. Anyone know how to synch a > Nokia 6681 with Ubutu or if it is possible at all. > > Ive tried wammu , gnokii , opensync evolution plugin and Nokia PC suite > (doesnt work over Wine :( ) . I cant even connect using the bluetooth > dongle. Using the USB cord the system could recognise the phone but thats > pretty much it. Does your phone support syncml? If that is the case, have you tried multisync? For file transfer over bluetooth install gnome-vfs-obexftp package, logout and login again and you can browse your device by entering obex:// in nautilus location bar. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] bug(s) or what
On Nov 26, 2007 12:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > First Bug (or some problem) > > Everytime i insert an external usb disk (pen drive, external harddisk > etc) the icon that pops up automatically usually (often but not always) > hides behind an existing icon on the desktop. I have seen this many times. It is very annoying. Sadly there is no 'Auto Arrange Icons' in gnome desktop. Go ahead and file a bug if it is not there already. > Second problem - while trying to unmount a external usb pen drive, hard > disk i get the error "unable to eject device" everytime. Initially i > thought it was becuase some operation was in progress but this happens > even if all the windows and any operations have been completed. I have seen this one also many times. Not sure what the problem is. May be tracker is trying to index the disk. Thought that should not be the case since it indexes home directory only by default. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Upgrading from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10
On Dec 4, 2007 8:41 AM, Rajib Biswas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > Both the previous replies to my post referred to upgrading through download > method. But that will add tremendously to my broadband bills. I have already > received my brand new Ubuntu 7.10 live CD. Can I upgrade from this CD? As > far as I have gone, it has only the option of fresh install. I know that I > can upgrade through through the Alternate Install CD. But can I upgrade from > the supplied live CD? No. You need 'Alternate CD' for upgrade. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Has anybody tried LinuxMint
On Dec 5, 2007 6:13 PM, Mir Nazim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 5, 2007 5:57 PM, Lut4rp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did try it out on my PC with a live CD, no real eye-popping stuff, > > except for the theme. Another addition to the 2000+ odd linux distros. > > But then again, the whole of the Mint look is available on Ubuntu from > > gnome-look.org, and im fine with that. > > The point is not LinuxMint. Its has certain things build in like > better support for WiFi cards etc. Better support for wifi cards through what? Latest kernel? Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] help on kannada localisation.....
On Dec 11, 2007 7:38 PM, Bhavani Shankar R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > Can anyone please give some info on kannada translation in Rosetta? are > there any fonts/keyboard layouts/software that support direct kannada input > on linux like nudi or baraha on windows? Any info will be appreciated.. > http://ubuntu-in.org/wiki/XKB_Howto Screenshots are not updated with respect to gutsy but you will get an idea what to do. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Editing grub "menu.lst"
I am not including your mail as I don't know answers to all the things. I will just give some tips. 1. There is a package called grub-splashimages in repositories. Install it. Then in /boot/grub create a symbolic link to one of the images. sudo ln -s splashimages/fiesta.xpm.gz splash.xpm.gz Then update grub. sudo update-grub See if this works. 2. I am not sure what you mean by 3 coulous image. What I usually do is open image in gimp and select menu Image -> Mode -> Indexed, put 16 as number of colours and then save modified image as xpm file. Hope this helps. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Help with BSNL and UBUNTU in Allahabad
On Jan 10, 2008 6:28 PM, Anurag Mishra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Dear Friends! > > My father has got BSNL broadband in Allahabad. Unfortunately, the BSNL staff > doesn't know what linux is and hence he is having problems getting it to > work. If anybody in Allahabad could help him with that, I would really > appreciate that! Check if this page helps you. http://ubuntu-in.org/wiki/Broadband_Howto Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Any Luck Setting up Atheros Chipset?
On Jan 15, 2008 1:28 PM, Jayanth S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey . Have any of you guys had any luck in setting up Atheros > 5bxb63(AR5007EG in Windows) on Ubuntu? Have you tried madwifi drivers? Or have you tried using Restricted Drivers Manager from System -> Administration? Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] problems connectiong Airtel GPRS phone to Ubuntu
Please follow this howto. And let me know if you have any questions (via mailing list, no personal mails please). Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [ubuntu indian promoters] Hello all...
On Jan 18, 2008 1:11 PM, Bhavani Shankar R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello > I have got a new idea... > Why not schedule up an IRC Meet and discuss about the present linux scene in > India with special ref to ubuntu? and have an idea pool created so as to > have a larger chunk of the team contributing to ubuntu and moving forward > ubuntu in india? any takers?/responses/critics > /comments/suggestions If i get a positive response.. then i ll register > a sprint on LP and put it up on the mailing list so that attendees can > register themselves.. > > P.S. Its a part of the marketing team I set up.. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IndianPromoters > > (the team's wiki) As far as I am concerned, I am trying to fix some java related packages for past month in universe repository. And that activity is going well since I am a java programmer. Do you have anything specific in mind? I would like to hear some of your ideas. Because there is nothing other - than bug reporting/triaging, patches, packaging, documentation, translation to Indian languages - that I can do at this moment. So if you have anything else to say please do. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Tracker Indexing.
On Jan 24, 2008 12:33 PM, Venkatesh Nandakumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Tracker, as in my predefined settings, indexes the file as soon as it is > created. This is annoying, especially when I download pdf files, and see > tracker consume a large amount of memory and processor usage. > > Is there any method, by which I can make tracker to index files, only > when I'm idle(screensaver's on or something), like how google desktop > for linux does?, Again, I hate the intial startup indexing also. I am assuming that you are using gutsy. Have you looked in System -> Preferences -> Indexing? There are some performance related preferences. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] problems connectiong Airtel GPRS phone to Ubuntu
On Jan 17, 2008 6:12 PM, Francis Bosco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No link is given by you here sir, Sorry, forgot the link. http://ubuntu-in.org/wiki/GPRS_Howto And please follow mailing list guidelines - http://ubuntu-in.org/wiki/Mailing_list_FAQ Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] how to get sify broadband in ubuntu7.10
On Feb 9, 2008 3:21 PM, Francis Bosco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I am using ubuntu7.10. now wish to have sify wireless internet connection. > It seems they will connect a modem like device in systems pci slot then they > will install a driver and software for login purpose. They are saying that > they only give software and drivers for windows platform. i don't like to > have internet i my system with windows. > > What can i do to make internet accessible in my ubuntu system thru' that > sify broadband. > > Can anyone here help me on these? Then don't take the Sify connection. I think it really is time to let the vendors know that they will lose customers if the provide Windows centric services and refuse to provide help for other platforms. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] how to get sify broadband in ubuntu7.10
On Feb 9, 2008 10:27 PM, Harikrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 09 February 2008 19:59:58 Onkar Shinde wrote: > > I think it really is time to let the vendors know that they will lose > >customers if the provide Windows centric services and refuse to provide help > >for other platforms. > > Is there any ISP who provides help for linux users ? > I have a BSNL connection, and they dont have any clue about linux. > > -hk You are not completely wrong, but I would say that BSNL connections are perhaps most easy to configure. And that is the reason you will find many howtos for BSNL on Linux. In fact just recently I setup the DHCP server in the BSNL wireless router at my home and I don't have to do a static configuration anymore. Network Manager works beautifully. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Help needed with VSNL DSL
Hi, If by VSNL you mean Tata Indicom broadband connection then put your ethernet card in roaming mode and let network-manager take control. This is how I am using it currently. Of course mine is new connection so if the method I specified does not work for old connection then you will have to consult someone else. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] My webcam 041e:0405f does not work in Hardy
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Mohan Dasaratha Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All! > After I upgraded to Hardy Heron, I had two problems, one is wi-fi > connectivity and the other is my webcam. My wi-fi connectivity problem got > resolved with the help of one of the members in this forum. My webcam is not > working still, though it worked with Gutsy. I searched th e net and got a > driver package ov51x-jpeg and installed through package manager. It still > did not solve my problem. Probably, I may have to configure manually. I am > not sure on this. My device is listed under usb list. Can anyone help me? > Thanks. Hi Mohan, Simply saying 'does not work' is not sufficient for us to to debug the problem. Which webcam is it? What are you exactly trying to do with webcam? Do you have more than one video/V4L devices (ex a TV tuner card)? Try running following command (without quotes) and tell us if it works. 'gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src device=/dev/video1 ! video/x-raw-yuv,width=640,height=480 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink' Also try replacing v4l2src with v4lsrc if above command does not work for you. This will help us to know which driver supports your webcam. There is another tool which can be launched with command 'gstreamer-properties' where you can test your video sources. Hope this helps. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Bombay is shown with Pakistan Standard Time
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Mohan Dasaratha Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All! > I am slowly catching up with Linux/Ubuntu OS. Currently, I am using Hardy > Heron. Few problems, but solving them with the help of friends like you. I > liked the addition of local information in the date/time stamp in desktop. I > added Bombay as one of my locations. Alas! the time shown is Pakistan > Standard Time and not IST. The names of locations also require changes. > Madras should be changed to Chennai and Bombay to Mumbai. Can anyone > report/fix these bugs please? Thanks. As far as I know. IST actually maps to Calcutta (Kolkata) time. And yes the difference between Bombay (Mumbai) time and Karachi time is less than Bombay time and Calcutta. I think there have been discussions previously as to if India should have two timezones considering the the longitudes covered by width of India i.e distance between east and west extreme ends. I don't remember where the discussion have been held. Please correct me if I am wrong. And for filing bug you are welcome to register at http://launchpad.net and file a bug there. Of course it will be even better if you can file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org itself for the world clock applet. And yes I admit that the location/timezone entry is not very friendly. In fact there should be a way to simply put something like UTC+5:30 in the timezone entry. I will file a feature request for this myself. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Bombay is shown with Pakistan Standard Time
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Vivek Khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Mohan Dasaratha Rao > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All! > > > I am slowly catching up with Linux/Ubuntu OS. Currently, I am using > Hardy > > > Heron. Few problems, but solving them with the help of friends like > you. I > > > liked the addition of local information in the date/time stamp in > desktop. I > > > added Bombay as one of my locations. Alas! the time shown is Pakistan > > > Standard Time and not IST. The names of locations also require changes. > > > Madras should be changed to Chennai and Bombay to Mumbai. Can anyone > > > report/fix these bugs please? Thanks. > > > > As far as I know. IST actually maps to Calcutta (Kolkata) time. And > > yes the difference between Bombay (Mumbai) time and Karachi time is > > less than Bombay time and Calcutta. > > Nope, IST actually maps to time in Mirzapur U.P. and not Kolkata. > What you are referring to is "Calcutta time" used by rail companies > during pre-independance era. Thanks for corrections. I found this also on wikipedia. Should have searched before replying. :-) > > > > And for filing bug you are welcome to register at http://launchpad.net > > and file a bug there. Of course it will be even better if you can file > > a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org itself for the world clock applet. > > > > Well showing Mumbai time as PST is a bug definitely and OP should > file a bug. The gnome time is br0ken. I second that. I initially thought that showing PST was fine. But even wikipedia says that timezone used is IST. By the way, following is an interesting read for problems related to single timezone - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time#Problems Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] My webcam 041e:0405f does not work in Hardy
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Mohan Dasaratha Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Onkar, > 'I am sorry that I did not give more information. I thought that my device > number 041e:0405f would be sufficient. It is a Creative Live Webcam. I had > to download driver file os511 from a dedicated website for this purpose in > Fiesty version. I could identify the manufacturer from '041e'. But I was not able to identify actual product as the second part is not correct. It is having five digits '0405f' instead of four. > http://www.rastageeks.org/ov51x-jpeg/index.php/Main_Page > Now, this site has an upgraded driver version for Hardy. So, I tried this > new driver without any success. As long as possible please don't use third party drivers or drivers downloaded from third party websites. It makes debugging harder. > I have Nvidia Gefore4 MK440 AGP card. My earlier version Ubuntu was using > restricted driver and I assume that Hardy is also using the same. I asked about video devices that map to the device nodes of form /dev/videox. Graphics card is not one of then. Just FYI... :-) > As I suggested by you, I typed the commands and the results are pasted for > your information. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src device=/dev/video1 ! > video/x-raw-yuv,width=640,height=480 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink > Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... > ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause. > ERROR: from element /pipeline0/v4l2src0: Cannot identify device > '/dev/video1'. > Additional debug info: > v4l2_calls.c(429): gst_v4l2_open (): /pipeline0/v4l2src0: > system error: No such file or directory > Setting pipeline to NULL ... > FREEING pipeline ... > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > When I typed gstream-properties, multimedia system selector dialog box > opened. When I tested video input device, it says "Device "/dev/video0" does > not exist". I am waiting for some more advise. Please note that I am a > novice in Linux and slowly catching up. Thanks. I was going to ask you to use device /dev/video0 in gst-launch command. But looks like that device node is not created for some unknown reason. Since you are saying that it was working on gutsy, it is a regression and I suggest that you log a bug on http://launchpad.net and provide the information asked. This is all the help I could provide. :-) Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Problems with some web pages in ubuntu7.10
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Francis Bosco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > I am using ubuntu7.10. When i loading some web sites with Firefox its not > at all showing the contents. They have clearly mentioned that this site will > work properly only with IE6.0 or above and also i have to get some java > applets to be loaded in my browser when i click a link in that particular > site. I have tried IE4rlinux but it was not possible to get that java > applets working in that too. even i have tried opera for that nothing > useful. > > Can anyone suggest me any of browser just like IE but designed for > linux/ubuntu or can anyone guide to how to configure jvm for a ubuntu/linux > browser No. There is no browser just like IE but designed for linux/ubuntu. As to installing java plugin, install package sun-java5-plugin, provided you have multiverse repository enabled, and then run command 'sudo update-java-alternatives --auto' Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] mGinger !!
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Parthan SR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [ stripped ] > > Sending such invitations of mailing list is considered a bad etiquette > and is against the mailing list guidelines. As this issue has occurred > in the past, the OP should have been aware of the issue and should have > taken proper care not to let this happen. The OP is being put on > moderation, if failing to make an apology to the list in a day he will > eventually be removed from the list. Parthan, Many a time such mails are sent by some worm or social networking based spammers/systems and user is not even aware of it. Let's not make a big issue out of it, IMHO. How about we put all HTML mail under moderation. I suppose that there is such an option. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Saving pages From Broswer for Printing them Later
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Biswajit Dutta Baruah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gaurish and Nilesh, > > This may not actually work. The PDF file may open with evince or kpdf > but will certainly not open with a adobe reader. The reason I think is > because it is actually a ps(postscript) file rather than a pdf file, > even though it is labelled a pdf. I would suggest the following: > > 1. Hit print button after your online booking > 2. In the print dialogue box chose print to file and choose your file > name and location. > 3. Then visit a site like http://ps2pdf.com/convert.htm > Upload your pdf file, hit convert and then wait for a few seconds and > download the pdf file from the link. > 4. Now you can print the pdf file from any windows pc that has adobe > acrobat or any other pdf reader installed at office or elsewhere. Biswajit, While you present a valid concern in reality it is not a problem. I have personally printed many pages i.e websites stored in PDF form, from the printers in netcafe. And yes they open perfectly fine in Adobe reader. The PDF printer is exactly what the name suggests. It saves files in PDF format, not as postscript. On a side note I think Adobe reader can also open PS file. But I have not done this experiment myself. Hope this information helps. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] DVD not mounting on Gutsy
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Vivek Khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Mir Nazim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all > > > > I am completely unable to mount the movie DVD on gutsy. > > > > I was working earlier but then did not watch any movie for quite some. > > > > Some quick search Google/Ubuntu Forums tell me that updates are > > culprits. I verified on an un-updated system and DVD mounts easily. > > > > Any ideas what could wrog. > > Looks like ubuntu QA is the culprit again... I would like 'Ubuntu QA' not being blamed for following reasons 1. Ubuntu QA is not a well defined team. It includes almost anyone who does packaging, bug reporting/triaging/fixing and anyone who uses/tests Ubuntu. So when you say 'Ubuntu QA', it sounds like everyone is to be blamed. 2. People do make mistakes, It happens in all distros. Of course if there is/are a single person or group of persons who keep making mistakes, being careless then a platform is available to raise voice against it. 3. More often than not the hardware problems that come in the form of regressions are side effects of supposedly harmless change or security/bug fix that someone did. 4. It is my firm belief that all of the core developers in Ubuntu who have power to crash your systems through the way of broken packages, take very much care not to let it happen. But it is many times not possible to test all the scenarios which might introduce regressions. I think it is in best interest of Ubuntu in particular, free software in general that when you encounter such problem you report a bug and provide as much information as possible. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] DVD not mounting on Gutsy
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Kingsly John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +++ Onkar Shinde [2008-04-05 02:05:09]: > > > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Vivek Khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Mir Nazim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello all > > > > > > > > I am completely unable to mount the movie DVD on gutsy. > > > > > > > > I was working earlier but then did not watch any movie for quite > some. > > > > > > > > Some quick search Google/Ubuntu Forums tell me that updates are > > > > culprits. I verified on an un-updated system and DVD mounts easily. > > > > > > > > Any ideas what could wrog. > > > > > > Looks like ubuntu QA is the culprit again... > > > > I would like 'Ubuntu QA' not being blamed for following reasons > > 1. Ubuntu QA is not a well defined team. It includes almost anyone who > > does packaging, bug reporting/triaging/fixing and anyone who > > uses/tests Ubuntu. > > No it doesn't include so many people... there is a specific package > maintainer who has responsibility for a package.. and at the very least > should check if something basic like starting mailman or inserting an optical > disc has the expected result. We are not sure if the problem is faced here (related to DVD) is by everyone or just few users who have specific hardware. So we can't not say directly that package maintainer didn't test the package before upgrade. > > 3. More often than not the hardware problems that come in the form of > > regressions are side effects of supposedly harmless change or > > security/bug fix that someone did. > > No, regressions have little to do with hardware... the hardware is a > constant.. it's the code that is the problem. Yes, hardware is constant on your machine. But it is variable between your machine and package maintainers machine. So even if it is broken for you, it may not be for him. > > 4. It is my firm belief that all of the core developers in Ubuntu who > > have power to crash your systems through the way of broken packages, > > take very much care not to let it happen. But it is many times not > > possible to test all the scenarios which might introduce regressions. > > Murphy will ensure that regressions can and will continue to happen .. but > they should not happen for such basic functionality. > > And there is no reason to justify such regressions. > > What next justify the security issues on Windows because MS Employees are > human too ? > > Kingsly > > PS: I have no idea if the DVD is issue is a regression or not ... I just > don't > think trying to justify it is the right attitude. The case we are discussion here is a regression. It happened on gutsy when some updates were installed. No. I am not trying to justify the regressions. I remember some bugs in launchpad where people were not able to boot their hardy installations when they were having some specific type of hard drives. The problem was that some old driver got disabled in favor of new driver and it was causing unbootable machines for a small percentage of users. So I believe that issues like this which are related to hardware are most of the times corner cases. And i specifically wanted to present objection to the sentence 'Ubuntu QA is culprit'. I hope I have properly explained what I wanted to say. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Help to reduce the resolution of jpg file
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:23 AM, gaurish sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > There also a Easy to use Gui implementation which i would like to point out. > There is a Package named "nautilus-image-converter" which is Available > in Ubuntu repository. It fully integrates into nautilus fire manger. > with help of nautilus-image-converter images can be right-sized with a > click of a button. > > Step to Use The above package > > 1) Open terminal & type: > sudo apt-get install nautilus-image-converter > and Restart X, by CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE A small correction. You just need to restart nautilus. This can be done with command 'killall nautilus'. You can choose to do proper restart of X by logout and login instead of Ctrl + Alt + Backspace. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] wireless in Hardy
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:10 PM, AlgoMantra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lut4rp, > > Since I don't have Hardy currently installed, I tried this running the > LiveCD > two times with different outcomes. I am not a CLI guy yet, and perhaps I > should have tried this on a proper install, but here's what happened. I > got the .O file in XP, rebooted and kept it waiting as a copy in Home on > Ubuntu.. I am not completely able to understand why are you trying this in a live session. I don't have idea how this works in live session but if you install hardy, I will be able to help you. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] wireless in Hardy
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:01 AM, AlgoMantra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am not completely able to understand why are you trying this in a > > live session. I don't have idea how this works in live session but if > > you install hardy, I will be able to help you. > > > > > > Onkar > > > > > Okay, I have installed Hardynow what should I do? This is the command you should run, once the b43-fwcutter package is installed. 'b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o' (Replace .o filename appropriately) There is another command you can find in /usr/share/b43-fwcutter/install_bcm43xx_firmware.sh but I am not sure if it is required. You can check output of command 'dmesg' after few minutes to check if firmware got loaded. If it doesn't then restart the machine. Hope this helps. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] wireless in Hardy
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:01 PM, AlgoMantra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Parth/Onkar, > > Inside /lib/firmware (using sudo) I found all these .fw files. > rebooting had no effect. Kindly advise... > > regards, > - Rohit > > a0g0bsinitvals2.fw > a0g0bsinitvals5.fw > a0g0initvals2.fw > a0g0initvals5.fw > a0g1bsinitvals5.fw > a0g1initvals5.fw > b0g0bsinitvals2.fw > b0g0bsinitvals5.fw > b0g0initvals2.fw > b0g0initvals5.fw > pcm4.fw > pcm5.fw > ucode11.fw > ucode2.fw > ucode4.fw > ucode5.fw My fault. The driver expects the firmware files in b43 directory. The correct command is (I have verified on my ibook :-D ) 'sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/b43 wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o' (Replace .o filename appropriately). In case you get error 'directory does not exist then do 'sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/b43' and then run above command. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] hardy getting slower with use?
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 09 May 2008 4:30:17 pm AlgoMantra wrote: >> Hi, I'm noticing that Hardy (esp. Firefox) has become much slower >> since i installed it only a few days ago. Nothing dramatic, but its >> kind of annoying. How does one clean up the temp files and >> unnecessary data? > > Blame Ubuntu for shipping Firefox 3 beta version. They could have wait > until it become stable. Alas. > > Use Firefox 2 or other browser(s) available in hardy. Since Hardy is an LTS release, the packages need to be maintained/updated for bug/security fixes for 3 years. AFAIK, the Ubuntu developers prefer doing FF3 beta to FF3 final upgrade in hardy-updates over shipping FF2 version which might not be supported even by Mozilla for next 3 years. Cheers, Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] What is Special with Ubuntu Studio
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Francis Bosco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using ubuntu gnu/linux for the past one and half years so. > I wish to what is special about other derivatives of ubuntu like > UbuntuStudio, Xubuntu, Goubuntu. I have already downloaded ubuntu Studio > 8.04 before installing i wish to know more about that Xubuntu - Comes with XFCE desktop by default. Suitable for old machines with low RAM and processor speeds. You get get XFCE desktop on your Ubuntu installation by installing meta-package xubuntu-desktop. Gobuntu - It is supposed to be completely Free version of Ubuntu that adheres strictly to Debian Free Software Guidelines. There are no 'restricted' and 'multiverse' sections. Also, AFAIK, Firefox is not present since it is not compliant with DFSG. UbuntuStudio - This version is targeted for audio/video artists. It includes packages for audio/video editing and low latency kernels. Don't ask me what low latency is, I don't know. :-D. Similar to xubuntu, you can install ubuntustudio-desktop meta-package. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Will live CD make any changes to laptop
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Francis Bosco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My friend asked me wheather live cd will make any changes to his office > laptop. > Will it do? No, unless you decide to save your session. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Looking for a flat-bed scanner in the 6-7k range which is supported by ubuntu & available in India
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:43 PM, shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm looking for a flat-bed scanner in the 6-7k range which is > supported under ubuntu out of box and support is available in India. > I'm looking for specific model nos. and any contact nos. if possible > in Pune. I haven't personally used any scanners but I believe support for HP scanners/printers/all-in-ones is very good out of box. By the way, can someone please verify if CC-BY-NC 3.0 is acceptable license for mails in this mailing list? Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] What is Special with Ubuntu Studio
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Francis Bosco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is Ubuntu Studio comes with all those multimedia codecs or it only contain > extra softwares for multimedia editing and graphics. and will UbuntuStudio > has all those features(prog/text edit) present in normal Ubuntu UbuntuStudio doesn't contain all those multimedia codecs. It contains softwares for multimedia editing and graphics. And I don't have idea about other programs. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] permanently putting eth1 to sleep
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:14 AM, shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now is there anyway to permanently shutdown eth1 rather than doing > sudo ifconfig eth1 down ? > > Looking forward for comments and suggestions on the above. Why do you want to do it? What difference does it make if you leave the settings as it is? Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Licensing ..[was Re: Looking for a flat-bed scanner in the 6-7k range which is supported by ubuntu & available in India]
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Kingsly John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +++ Onkar Shinde [2008-05-09 22:41:43]: > >> By the way, can someone please verify if CC-BY-NC 3.0 is acceptable >> license for mails in this mailing list? > > Not everything needs to be licensed. > > Your mails are still copyrighted to you, so nobody can claim it to be theirs > since you can always show that you posted it first. So there's really no > reason to further license mails in any way. > > And licensing mails to a public mailing list is dumb. If you don't want to > share the information, don't participate! > > To give you an example of how useless/unenforceable an idea it is ... > > This email is licensed under my Beer-mail license, anyone who has read this > mail now owes me a beer! > The reason i asked was because shirish's mail to which I replied says it is licensed under CC-BY-NC 3.0. I was just not sure about the NC part. If it was CC-BY-SA, I wouldn't have asked. :-) Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
[ubuntu-in] Which wireless DSL router to buy?
Hi all, Any suggestions as to which wireless DSL router to buy? Following are prerequisites. 1. One wireless and one ethernet port is necessary. Additional ports don't matter. 2. In built DHCP and DNS servers are must. 3. WEP increption is minimum. 3. Should work with Ubuntu out of box. 4. I want to use it with Tata Indicom connection. I expect this not to be much hassle, otherwise the router is useless to me. I am assuming that 2nd and 3rd are de facto these days, but just specifying here. Any help is appreciated. Exact model no, prices and shops where it could be obtained in Pune/Aurangabad is even more helpful :-D Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Which wireless DSL router to buy?
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Aanjhan R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Any suggestions as to which wireless DSL router to buy? Following are > > prerequisites. > > > > 1. One wireless and one ethernet port is necessary. Additional ports > > don't matter. > > 2. In built DHCP and DNS servers are must. > > 3. WEP increption is minimum. > > 3. Should work with Ubuntu out of box. > > 4. I want to use it with Tata Indicom connection. I expect this not to > > be much hassle, otherwise the router is useless to me. > > > > I use a Dlink WBR2310. No hassles. And all the above mentioned > requirements are satisfied. NetGear ones are cheap but a are known to > have several quality issues. The WRT Linksys ones are also very good. > > [1] http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=470 > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G Aanjhan, Thanks for information. I liked both of the products and specifically linksys ones because they are hackable. :-D But they don't seem to fit my purpose. I seem to have caused a bit confusion here by missing the fact that not all routers are modems too. Sorry for that. What I am looking for is a wireless router + DSL modem, something similar to what BSNL provides. I realized my mistake when I checked both the links. The products you have specified are supposed to act like frontend for my existing modem/router which I don't want. I wish to replace current modem/router with the new one. I guess I will check the Tata Croma store. They seem to have average collection of the products I am looking for. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
[ubuntu-in] The power of linux in embedded systems
While many people in India still think that 'Windows == Computer' and 'Microsoft == Information Technology', linux is making inroads in life of common people. And what is great about it, it doesn't get in user's way. Following is an article about how BEST in Mumbai has employed a system for auto charging travelers. I won't give too many details here as I want you all to enjoy reading it. http://www.linux.com/feature/132871 Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] broken filesystem link
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:51 PM, AlgoMantra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Gang, > > I needed to create a soft symbolic link from my home directory like this > (in order to run a language called Processing), which I did: > > java -> /usr/lib/j2rel.4.2 > > Now I have verified that the target directory exists, but the system is > reporting that its a 'broken link'. > > 1. How do I fix this? > 2. Why is the system defaulting to OpenJDK from Processing? Should > I remove OpenJDK in order to use the JRE1.4 I have installed? What do you mean by JRE1.4 that you have installed? Is it installed from repositories? Assuming that it is installed from repository, you simply need to change the default java being used. Try 'man update-java-alternatives' Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Some help with wvdial
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > normally > i just go to the terminal and type > > sudo wvdial k tab tab (to autocomplete the wvdial dialer) > > but now the tab tab does not autocomplete and i have to type the whole > thing byhand > > any idea what could be wrong Do you have package bash-completion installed? Also search for bash_completion in /etc/bash.bashrc and uncomment appropriate lines. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Looking for a flat-bed scanner in the 6-7k range which is supported by ubuntu & available in India
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > One : HP scanners are no longer so linux friendly - they may be > supported out of the box but its good to verify from reviews and from > the > > http://www.sane-project.org/ > and this site > http://www.buzzard.me.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html The information provided at the links you have provided is very old. By the way, a more reliable, but may not be sufficient, resource is https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsScanners Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] compiling C in Hardy
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:04 PM, AlgoMantra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just an advance warning, since I found this very strange for > a linux system..you might be trying to compile C code > using gcc but it may not work, > with many errors saying "stdio.h: no such file"etc > > that means you need to: > $sudo apt-get install build-essentials. This is nothing specific to hardy, you always need build-essential for compiling c programs. And build-essential is installed automatically in case of clean install. If it is an upgrade you need to make sure ubuntu-desktop is installed before upgrading. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] OT - Multiple Booting of GNU/LInux OS's
You can see which partition on each disk is marked as bootable from the fdisk outout i.e. the one with '*'. 1. When you say (hd0,1) it means 1st partition on 0th hard disk. So in your case you will have to specify (hd1,1). 2. You can see that root partition of your installation is specified with UUID. UUID is a unique identifier for every hard disk partition in your system. I am not sure if partitions on a USB disk will have same UUID everytime you boot. But if it is the case then you can boot into Ubuntu and find UUID for all partitions with command 'ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/'. 3. It is possible to dynamically specify kernel, initrd, and root in grub instead of trial and error on menu.lst. When you see grub menu of Ubuntu, press 'c' key. It will give you a command prompt. You can then give commands root, kernel and initrd. After that give command 'boot'. Ifthe parameter you have provided are correct it will boot in Mandriva. If now you can reboot machine by Ctrl + Alt + Del and try again. This way you won't have to boot in Ubuntu everytime. Once you have found correct values add those to your menu.lst Hope this helps. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu on Apple Mac's
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Am interested in user experiences of Ubuntu (and other Linux OS) on > Apple Macs-particularly MAC books - both the positives and negatives. I don't understand how user experience is going to be different on thse machines than any other. But if you are talking about hardware compatibility then following links might be useful. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro > also interested in why one should / should not buy a a macbook and run > gnu/linux on it, Macbook is highly portable because of the small screen size (approx 13.3"). And this is very useful when you have to carry it as against the other laptops these days with 17" screen where you need to carry separate bags. Also apple machines always come packed with latest technologies. For ex. they started shipping graphics cards with DVI output interface long time before other vendors. Macbook seems to be favorite among FOSS developers. Check photos from UDS on planet Ubuntu you will know what I mean. As for disadvantage they are overpriced in my opinion. And if you plan to run on linux you will have some binary only driver, mostly graphics card but you may need for wireless too. Hope this helps. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] WHY CC Licensing is not a good idea (Was Looking for a flat-bed scanner in the 6-7k range)
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:53 PM, AlgoMantra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lawrence Lessig is, like all lawyers - an extremely tiresome > and misleading person. Copyleft and Copyright are absolutely > redundant notions in today's day and age of mechanical > and effortless digital reproduction. I don't know how Lawrence Lessig is as a person. I have never communicated with him via any mean. But as founder of CC, I have respect for him. It is the CC license (specifically CC-BY-SA), that allows distribution include the artwork created by community. > There are only two kinds of media now - CopyCan & CopyCan't. > If you can copy it, it's a CopyCan license, if you can't copy it, > learn some crypto...dude. > As of now there is almost no CopyCan't media in existence. Even the AACS protection used by Blue-Ray/HD-DVD has been circumvented. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] WHY CC Licensing is not a good idea (Was Looking for a flat-bed scanner in the 6-7k range)
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:33 PM, AlgoMantra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It is the CC license (specifically CC-BY-SA), that allows distribution >> include the artwork created by community. > > I don't agree. Look at BitTorrent, it doesn't need any license and yet > provides an efficient means of distributing art. I think you understood me wrong. By distribution, I meant a linux distribution. Linux distributions mainly contain artwork licensed under CC-BY-SA. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] WHY CC Licensing is not a good idea (Was Looking for a flat-bed scanner in the 6-7k range)
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:46 PM, AlgoMantra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I think you understood me wrong. By distribution, I meant a linux >> distribution. Linux distributions mainly contain artwork licensed >> under CC-BY-SA. > > I haven't seen any art in Ubuntu except the desktop wallpaper yet. Kindly > enlighten me! Even if I misunderstood you, my argument is for ALL art - > images, movies, comics, literature, music, software etc. Try installing packages like peach-look or tropic-look. By the way even if bittorrent is a free distribution medium, it doesn't give you license to distribute the art you don't own i.e. copyrighted by others. Anyway I think we are going too much off-thread now, so let's stop here. :-) Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [Ilugc] [OT] How TV , Mobile and Computers are interfaced
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:43 PM, sivaji j.g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are looking for low volumes, you can try things out at home by >> >> purchasing a GSM Modem and by using Kannel Gateway >> (http://www.kannel.org). >> See the SMSCs list here http://kannel.org/compatibility.shtml. > > After a long struggle i came to know about how to configure kannel sms > gateway the official document was very technical contains all the possible > configuration details ,i was using my friends Sony ericsson w80i mobile as > GSM modem to test this thing , unfortunately that mobile does not supports > the AT command to read sms from smsbox . One more problem with kannel is , > it generate too many entries in log file , > size of bearerbox.log went beyond 10GB because of some file permission > problem.Later i managed to make it work properly . I find it hard to believe that SE phone doesn't support AT command. May be command or parameter is different. Have you tried checking documentation of their developer site? Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Retrieving Track details from Audio CD's
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Have been wondering what software is there that shows the track details > that are on audio cd's > > the audio cd's open by default in Sound Juicer and very rarely do i get > the track details > > so i i tried installing cd-cat. cdfs-src (too complicated),cd discid etc > > but nothing seems to work and i just get unknown album, unknown tracks. > > So whats the solution and advise / tips Audio CD's don't have any track details. Sound Juicer retrieves track details from online databases such as Musicbrainz, provided the details are available for your CD. You will need to be online for retrieval to work. Musicbrainz is community managed database, anyone can register and add details for the CD. There is some menu item in sound juicer which will let you add details yourself. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] How safe it is to install (*)ubuntu on a laptop
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Arpan Patelia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello friends, > I bought a new Dell XPS laptop a month back and I want to intall Ubuntu on > it. However I've read on internet that there is one bug present in Ubuntu > kills your laptop hard-drive in very short period of time(this bug does not > affect desktops, it is present in one of the modules for laptop). It is not > fixed yet as per Launchpad. > > The bug: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695 > > > Did anyone install Hardy on laptop and was successful with workaround? > > Is it safe to install (*)ubuntu on laptop ignoring the existance of that > bug? As far as I remember, the bug is specific to some hard disk and not all. IIRC, the problem is that Ubuntu keeps waking up the hard disk every few seconds (or milli seconds perhaps) which causes more wear and tear than usual. I have also heard that a workaround is available to fix the problem. Try searching on wiki.ubuntu.com or planet.ubuntu.com Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Retrieving Track details from Audio CD's
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Audio CD's don't have any track details. Sound Juicer retrieves track >> details from online databases such as Musicbrainz, provided the >> details are available for your CD. You will need to be online for >> retrieval to work. > > So what does sound juicer retrieve, just something it has in its database > > How does oen get the details from an aduio cd which are present on it > - as when we play it with a cd player or in wincedoze ?? I think winamp and windows media player have facility to retrieve details from servers. Look for something called CDDB in preferences. But it has been really long time since I used windows so can't tell for sure. > i have a cd Cafe De Flore and Sound Juicer shows all the track details > nicely - how come ?? AFAIK, every album cd has a unique identifier. The data is tored in database against this identifier. So sound juicer just uses this id to retrieve details. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu on Apple Mac's
> 2) all praise for ubuntu is praise for apple and mac in disguise. mark > shuttleworth is 100% inspired by the design and aesthetics and > UI-approach of apple. he makes no bones about this. Did he say that? How about some link to some article or interview? By the way, Ubuntu's uses GNOME as default desktop which I do not find much similar to Mac OS X. Also Mark Shuttleworth himself does not make many UI related decisions nor he is actively contributing to GNOME project. Apart from that GNOME has been making steady improvements and I don't think the approach has ever been 'we do it like Mac OS X'. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Some problems on Ubuntu 7.04 /7.10and some questions
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 7:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Have been struggling with some niggling problems (well maybe more than > niggling) The original ubuntu is 7.04 with some partial upgrades / > updates from 7.10. > > I also installed some additional packages to try and improve access to > other file systems and some auto mount tools and what has happened is > that vfat partitions on external USB devices like FAT32 an FAT16 file > systems don't get mounted. > the programs installed are automount, cdfs-src , fuseutils. > > There is an VFAT partition on my laptop hard disk which mounts normally. > > The error i get while trying to mount these external systems is > > "Cannot Mount Volume > > Unable to Mount the volume "S_disc' > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing > codepage or helper program or other error. In some cases useful infor is > found in syslog - try dmesg|tail or so" > > then > ram-laptop:~$ dmesg |tail > [ 1037.76] sdb: Mode Sense: 27 00 00 00 > [ 1037.76] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through > [ 1037.76] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 > [ 1037.78] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb > [ 1037.78] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 > [ 1038.236000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "usefree" or missing value > [ 1038.292000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > [ 1038.292000] EXT3 FS on sdb2, internal journal > [ 1038.292000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > [ 1837.152000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "usefree" or missing value > > which i don't understand ?? > > so whats this problem and how can it be resolved. > *** > I have not done a full upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 because the first time > i did it crashed the x-org and i had to reinstall 7.04 and then do only > selective upgrades (of some packages) from 7.10. Also unable to install > 7.10 because i have only the repository DVD's and not a boot cd / dvd. Can you please tell us what kind of enhancements you wanted to do for which ytou installed automount, cdfs-src , fuseutils? By the way, AFAIK, the DVD is also bootable if you have downloaded it from mirrors and not created one yourself. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Mounting Linux Partitions on windows
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:51 PM, sri ram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > i am using Ubuntu 7.10 with ext3 partitions. How can i mount this > Linux partitions on windows XP. Which tool is used to mount linux partitons? Ext2ifs is a file system driver that let's you use ext2/3 partitions in Windows as drives. http://www.fs-driver.org/ Please note I have not actually used this driver. I had used another unrelated tool long time back which worked fine for me on Windows 2000 - http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Old Problem Revisited: Unable to read hindi news paper websites
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> am trying to access http://www.amarujala.com - >>> >> check this out >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/versions/873 >> > ok it works but partially , the drop down menu's are still screwed If Padma can't help you then no one can. A better approach will be to contact the website and ask them to use UTF-8. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [COMMERCIAL] Ubuntu's Latest Version (DVD) With LFY's June Issue
> WHERE TO GET YOUR COPY? Crossword book store has LFY on their shelf (at least in Pune). So getting LFY shouldn't be that bug problem. I got the issue today. Will read articles on weekend, specifically netbeans and scribus. :-) Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [COMMERCIAL] Ubuntu's Latest Version (DVD) With LFY's June Issue
> But Hardy heron disappoints - first checked out the live cd and it seemed > wow with quite a few improvements and good responsiveness > > after installing found that it did not reconize my BSNL USB CDMA based phone > - through which i access ( only way) the net. Tried all the tricks give in > the help page > http://www.openpages.info/huawei.html > > but the help seems to work only with 7.04 and 7.10 and 8.04 simply refuses > to progress to properly setting up the ttyusb0 and redirecting the USB modem > to this slot. So i have given up and am back to 7.04 (yep because i don't > have 7.10 ) I haven't actually seen what you meant by BSNL USB CDMA phone, but when you connect the device check output of dmesg command to check which device node is created. Just make sure that device node is ttyusb0. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
[ubuntu-in] GUI equivalent to wall command?
Hi all, We are using wall command to broadcast notification to all users ssh'ed in to a particular server when some settings are changed. But since not everyone keeps a constant eye on terminal every now and then someone misses the notification and gets irritated. I was wondering if there is any GUI equivalent to wall command. Something that will popup a notification in panel. Any help is appreciated. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] trying to rip vcd without success
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Sanjay Bhangar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> Have you tried a> checking whether the file (AVSEQ01 or whatever it is >> called on your vcd ..) plays okay on vlc or any other media player? if >> it does, > > Yes it does. >> >> > Also are there anyother VCDripping tools, arson also does not seem too >> > work >> b> have you just tried using ffmpeg to convert the file? What are you >> trying to rip it "to"? > > Just to a file that i can edit and keep on my hd mean while Try vcdripper tool available in vcdimager package. > also am trying to make a copy - cd to cd and this is an absolute pain If you want to make a CD-to-CD copy, simply make an iso by right clicking the icon on desktop and then burn that iso. http://ubuntu-in.org:81/wiki/Create_Burn_ISO If you have brasero installed then you can use it for 1:1 copy. Brasero is installed by default on Hardy. >> If you just want to copy to your hard drive, >> you should just be able to go to the directory on the CD and copy the >> file (some newer DVDs you need to be root to read the file, but should >> work fine with a VCD, imo...) > > Maybe with newer DVD's etc but not with VCD's - this has been an age old > problem - with me and , usually i have just found a windows machine and > copied the xyz.dat file and renamed it xyz.mpeg or something and this works, Yes, this is due to partially ported VCD support in gstreamer. The cdxaparse plugin provides on the fly conversion from .dat to .mpg. This is fixed in gstreamer CVS and will be available in intrepid. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] trying to rip vcd without success
> Try vcdripper tool available in vcdimager package. My mistake, the tool is vcdxrip. The package is same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] The ip issue
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Arvind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 07:57 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >> I have no clue boss. May be the server is configured to block ip >> addresses >> taking certain route( may be, dont ask me the reason). >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > OK...BTW where is tuxmaniac...it says to contact him! Tuxmaniac is busy. I checked list of blocked ips. Looks like it was blocked because the site was getting spam from it. Your block should expire by Friday. Please reply to this thread if it doesn't. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Sugar UI on Ubuntu
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > was wondering if anyone had tried the Sugar UI on their Ubuntu machine > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux > > have seen Sugar in work on an XO laptop and it is quite cute and > effective , wonder how it will be to have it on a regular machine, > hoping to try it out soon. > > ram Sugar UI is available for hardy in universe repository. I have tried it on my small ibook and looks good. I didn't spend too much time with it and don't exactly remember which activities work and which don't. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Sugar UI on Ubuntu
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:50 AM, shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Replies in-line :- >> >> >> From what I know that's a network chip with some proprietary firmware >> written on it and the reports tell me it kinda works. There's lot >> happening on the mesh network space with something like 70 odd >> technologies (atleast the wikipedia says so ) so it would be >> interesting to see where this goes, there is the 802.11s which I'm >> interested to know as and when it gets ratified. > > > are there 70 odd mesh tech. based on the olpc system or generally, > > am also guessing that the mesh networking would have as much to do with the > firmware as the other systems on the mesh. > > Third 80.11 b/g/n are backward compatible - b being slowest, then g and then > n so that should not be a problem > > My interest is in knowing what kind of mesh network protocol is being used > by the olpc and if it can be emulated by other wifi devices and setup's > > will post to some wifi mailing lists and get back with the results You should rather post to OLPC mailing list or read their wiki. :-) Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Hello every body at UBUNTU linux!
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Hariharaprasad Vellala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am V. Hari Hara Prasad, from Proddatur of Kadapa district of A.P. My > phone no. is 9247200775. I am aged 52, but still fresh to this > distribution. I am now using a desktop version of UBUNTU. I need a > full version of this. Can anybody from hyderabad help me? I am coming > to hyderabad on 11th of this month. > All the best dears! There is no full version of Ubuntu. It is either 1 CD or DVD. CDs come in different flavours like Desktop, Server edition. All other packages can be installed over internet using 'Synaptic Package Manager' in System -> Administration menu. Or you can get DVD from someone and add it as repository and then install packages. But even on DVD you won't get all packages. I suggest you get a broadband connection for yourself. :-) @Raseel, Please don't suggest unofficial download sources or images on the mailing list. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Hello every body at UBUNTU linux!
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Raseel Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Hariharaprasad Vellala >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I am V. Hari Hara Prasad, from Proddatur of Kadapa district of A.P. My >> > phone no. is 9247200775. I am aged 52, but still fresh to this >> > distribution. I am now using a desktop version of UBUNTU. I need a >> > full version of this. Can anybody from hyderabad help me? I am coming >> > to hyderabad on 11th of this month. >> > All the best dears! >> >> There is no full version of Ubuntu. It is either 1 CD or DVD. CDs come >> in different flavours like Desktop, Server edition. >> >> All other packages can be installed over internet using 'Synaptic >> Package Manager' in System -> Administration menu. Or you can get DVD >> from someone and add it as repository and then install packages. But >> even on DVD you won't get all packages. >> >> I suggest you get a broadband connection for yourself. :-) >> >> @Raseel, >> >> Please don't suggest unofficial download sources or images on the mailing >> list. > > I was unaware that this list was strictly about official Ubuntu releases > only. I was under the impression that this > list was for all things related to Ubuntu in India. I gather mention of any > other Distro (like say, nUbuntu, Linux-Mint, etc.) other than Ubuntu, > Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Gobuntu is strictly prohibited ? > > Also, I personally feel suggesting someone to get a broadband connection is > not the correct solution. > > Anyways, for the OP, here's the official download link for the Ubuntu DVD if > you have got yourself a broadband connectiion : > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/release/ Please enlighten me if I am mistaken. AFAIK, Ultimate Edition is not an official flavor of Ubuntu in same way as Kubuntu, Xubuntu or Edubuntu are. The reason I asked about not recommending it because a new user will not know the difference. Also this list does not prohibit mention of any distro. I just want people to understand what kind of recommendations to give to what type of people. Regarding suggestion of broadband, I think that is the best way to install new packages. If broadband is not an option then use should use some other distros which come with bunch of CDs like Debian or Fedora. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 8.4.1
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > it seems like ubuntu 8.4.1 has been released, with many bug fixes and > updates. Correction. It is 8.04.1. Yes it has been released on 4th of July. > Some related blogs below: > > http://nickellery.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/hardy-8041-is-out/ > http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3544 > > My question is if we were to order ubuntu hardy cd's would they > incorporate these bug fixes or would they be the original release. You will get 8.04.1. But do you really need to order it? Can you not get it from someone near you? Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [REMINDER] Day 2 Bug Jam preparatory sessions
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Aanjhan R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Day 1 was mind blowing. Great interaction and thanks to everyone who > made that possible. Wiki page > http://ubuntu-in.org:81/wiki/Events/BugJamPrepSessions has been > updated with the logs. > > But remember it isnt over yet!!! > > Day 2 is today, 13th July 2008. The overall agenda is about Packaging > and continuation of yesterday's bug squashings! So be there. > > Time: 2100 hrs > Venue: #ubuntu-in-classroom @ irc.freenode.net > > Dropping in to say a plain "hello" is also welcomed :-) > > Happy Bug Squashing! For packaging session, it will be good to have following packages installed in advance. devscripts, dpkg-dev, debootstrap, lintian, ubuntu-dev-tools. pbuilder. Please note that even though pbuilder installation is small, creating initial chroot will take lot of download time. So I am not recommending anyone to that right now. Agenda for session is this. 1. Explain basics of packaging. 2. Demonstrate packaging with the usual 'hello' program. 3. Explain other terms related to packaging like FTBFS, syncs and merges etc. 4. Try to find some easy packaging bugs to work on. NOTE: Please keep the time in mind, 2100 (not 2130). Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Unable to log in normal Ubuntu account
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 6:20 PM, tabankg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Respected Friends, > I have successfully installed Ubuntu-8.04(Hardy Heron)on my > machine,but after using it successfully for some days I am facing a problem. > I am unable to log in as normal user account which is "kgnile",but I can > log in to Ubuntu-8.04 with "root" account in GUI. > When I want to log in as "kgnile" in text mode ttyS1-to ttyS6(console > mode),it logs in,but after showing a repetitive command > "-bash:/dev/null:Permission denied". > Friends please help me out. Looks like for some reason your /etc/passwd file is messed up. Login with root account, edit file /etc/passwd. In that file search for the username you use for normal user (kgnile). The second last entry is home folder for that user and last entry is which shell to use. Check which one of them is /dev/null. My guess is your home directory has changed. Your home directory should be of the form /home/kgnile Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 8.4.1
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah yes, > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:57 PM, alfred tims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >> " nothing can be built perfect, and shipit cannot possibly throw away >> all the cd'roms burnt after the first release - so that they can >> provide 'you and me' with totally bugfree ubuntu installation cds " >> > ah, yes nothing better than that > > assuming one has an internet connection that is faster than a crawl > > But the original question still has an unsure answer. > > Onkar ?? > I myself was confused over the issue after I read all the speculations here. But now I have got official word from Steve Langasek on #ubuntu-devel "so the situation is that shipit is trying to exhaust their rather extensive existing inventory of 8.04.0 CDs before switching over to 8.04.1 any 8.04.0 CDs that are still being sent out are being given an insert that explains that the upgrades are needed and in practice, the demand for 32-bit CDs is such that I'm told they've already switched over to 8.04.1 (with new cover art &c)" Hope that helps. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Help : Re-partitioning effects on existing install
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Arpan Patelia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've got a 250 GB HDD and I can not write to ext3 partitions inside > extended partition so I want to delete all logical(ext3)+extended > partition and recreate it. However I have a concern. My swap partition > is also a logical partition and after formatting whether I'll be able > to boot into my regular desktop shell or not? Considering that my > partition layout will be different after formatting, how the change in > partition numbering(especially swap partition) will affect my existing > install? In other words, my existing kubuntu setup is on primary > partition(sda1) and the swap partition is sda10, now if the swap > partition becomes sda3 then will I be able to boot normally into my > existing kubuntu install? > > Please advice. Thank you in advance. Ubuntu does not use partitions names anymore (from feisty if I remember correctly). It uses UUID which is unique to every partition. So unless you are messing up with the partitions used by Ubuntu itself, these UUID will not change by and other changes to partition table. You can check entries in /etc/fstab to verify it has UUID for every partition. Also you can find UUID for each partition with command 'ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/' Please note that once you change your windows partitions their UUID won't be same anymore. So they will not get mounted on Ubuntu. You have to modify fstab entries appropriately. More details at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingUUID Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Congratulations to Onkarshinde! Proud moment for Ubuntu India.
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Raseel Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Aanjhan R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Some good news to start of the week. >> >> Our own Onkarshinde, popularly known as slytherin has been given the >> Ubuntu Universe Contributing Developer status. More info on how to get >> there are jotted down clearly at >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers >> >> Info on his status approval can be found >> http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=142 and under the MOTU news category in >> the Ubuntu Weekly News >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue102 >> >> Lets wish him all the best and more progress! >> >> Cheers! > > Awesome ! > Its a GREAT motivation and inspiration to know this. > Congrats Onkar. > Usually I would have yelled "Speech ! Speech ! Speech !!!" > But I think in this case it would have to be "Blog ! Blog ! Blog !!!" > Sure, a blog post is must. Of course I have to first add my blog to 'Planet Ubuntu' after which a 'Hello Planet Ubuntu' post will follow. but you will have to wait till tomorrow as I will be pretty busy with work throughout the day. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Congratulations to Onkarshinde! Proud moment for Ubuntu India.
Thanks for all the congratulations and praise. :-D I have just done a 'Hello Planet ...' post. You can check it on Planet Ubuntu http://planet.ubuntu.com/ or Planet FLOSS India http://planet-india.randomink.org/ Nothing spectacular about the posts but it is nice to see my head on two planets at same time. :-) Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] portable external hdd
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:59 AM, shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm looking for using a portable external hdd which works with GNU/Linux > i.e. Debian/Ubuntu. If you can find a external HDD which doesn't work with linux then let me know. :-P > I saw one recently the FreeAgent 250 GB but its recommended or works with > Windows and/or Mac. > > http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/freeagent_desktop_data_movers/ So are many more products. For most manufacturers linux either does not exist or it is something out together by bunch of kids who have nothing to do better. Some manufacturers are ignorant and some are arrogant. > I have 2-3 questions :- > > 1. This particular drive doesn't have GNU/Linux as a label. As a customer I > would prefer a product which would also be compatible with GNU/Linux, does > anybody know that? Any hard disk that has USB or FireWire interface should just work. > 2. The drive is formatted in NTFS. While I don't think there may be issue > with making it ext3 would it void the warranty? There is good support for NTFS with help of ntfg-3g in all recent distributions. So NTFS works out of box. An I would suggest not to buy from a manufacturer who voids warranty if you reformat a hard disk with different FS type. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [Announcement] Ubuntu India site now supports OpenId
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Mehul Ved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/12/08, Aanjhan R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You need not >> register on our wiki if you already have an OpenID > > Most of us do have OpenID accounts but are not aware of it. If you're > signed up with any of these services[1], you have got an OpenID > account. > I will try using one of my OpenID accounts. > > 1. http://openid.net/get/ Friends, Let's try to be consistent as much as possible in selecting the openid provider. Launchpad provides openid to anyone who is registered there. Also now the main Ubuntu wiki [1] is using launchpad for authentication, so it will be nice if we can use the same. [1] http://wiki.ubuntu.com Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [Announcement] Ubuntu India site now supports OpenId
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Mehul Ved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 8/12/08, Aanjhan R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> You need not >>> register on our wiki if you already have an OpenID >> >> Most of us do have OpenID accounts but are not aware of it. If you're >> signed up with any of these services[1], you have got an OpenID >> account. >> I will try using one of my OpenID accounts. >> >> 1. http://openid.net/get/ > > Friends, > > Let's try to be consistent as much as possible in selecting the openid > provider. Launchpad provides openid to anyone who is registered there. > Also now the main Ubuntu wiki [1] is using launchpad for > authentication, so it will be nice if we can use the same. > > [1] http://wiki.ubuntu.com Forgot one thing. Thanks Aanjhan for your work in making this possible. :-) Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] [OT] OpenId Discussion
> With one developer resources website , i had to enter my OpenId which > wouldbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then the password.. I was redirected for > authentication(agreed) but in between, i did send my info to the site.. I > mean, from myside it would have been a mistake to trust the site.. But i was > just testing something out so thats ok.. > OpenID is not supposed to work this way. The site which supports openid authentication never asks password. The way it works is like this. Let's see you need to login to ubuntu-in.org using openif provided by launchpad. 1. In the login box on ubuntu-in.org, you enter your launchpad openid. 2. You are redirected to launchpad. 3. If there is no existing session with launchpad, step 4 is executed else step 5 is executed. 4. Launchpad asks you for your username and password. 5. Launchpad asks whether you want ubuntu-in.org to identify you through launchpad. You also have options like only once or always. 6. Launchpad sends confirmation to ubuntu-in.org that you have been authenticated. 7. ubuntu-in.org creates a session for you. So no where in the process ubuntu-in.org asks you the password. Hope this helps. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] NetworkManager VPN "Add" button is disabled
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Vishal Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying out Intrepid Alpha 4 under VMWare 1.0.5 Server on WinXP > with NAT networking option. > > I noticed NetworkManager (0.7?) has a "VPN" option but the "Add" > button is disabled. > > I've installed the openvpn, vpnc, network-manager-openvpn, > network-manager-vpnc[-gnome] packages. > Trying to install network-manager-pptp gives a package error/conflict > asking to uninstall network-manager and network-manager-gnome :-) > > How can I enable the VPN configuration so I can test it out? > > - Vishal IIRC, the vpn plugins have been ported very recently. They will be available with NM 0.7 final release. What is currently available in Intrepid is some svn snapshot which does not have ported vpn plugins. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Firefox 3 in beta version
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Rajib Biswas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Installed Ubuntu 8.04 on 17/8/2008. I opened Firefox to see that it is > still in version 3.0 b5 (beta 5). Why so? The stable release 3.0 of Firefox > was was out on July. The current version is 3.01. But even after updating my > Firefox through update manager, it is still in the beta version. Can anyone > tell me the reason? Are you sure you actually got any upgrades? Can you look into /var/log/dpkg.log file to see what is the version of firefox installed when you did the upgrade? Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] to read HLP files
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:05 AM, Jinoy Jose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Which programme can help me read .HLP files in Ubuntu? This seems to be a > Windows specific programme. I tried all available options. Any juggard? > Jose Can you tell us what 'all available options' did you try in Ubuntu? .hlp files are windows help files. Where did you get these files on Ubuntu? A quick search in repository doesn't find any program to view .hlp files. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Require Hindi TTF font that is incript layout based
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Gora, > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:31:35 +0530 >> Ramnarayan.K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> am searching for a hindi ttf font that is inscript layout based. >>> >>> The reason i need it is to pass it to people who have wincedows and >>> want to learn inscript typing. >> [...] >> >> You are confusing issues here. Modern Indian language fonts >> are Unicode-encoded, and use OpenType rules to aid rendering. >> Inscript defines a keyboard input method which specifies what >> Inidan-language characters are output upon pressing keys on >> a normal English keyboard. The two have nothing to do with >> each other. > > Thats what i was trying to work around - the need to setup some system > to setup inputting in hindi > > with say the kruti dev fonts .ttf wallah you install select the font > and begin typing based on the hindi typrewriter. > > Its just for ease of use (fore newbies) that i was searching for > inscript ttf fonts There are Hindia fonts installed by default in Ubuntu. It is called Lohit. For setting up Hindi input system - refer to http://ubuntu-in.info/wiki/index.php/IndicLangWithScim Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Synaptic error - what to do ??
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 4:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > recently i downloaded a ttf.liberation.deb file from Red Hat which had > alternate fonts for some common M$ fonts > see link > http://layer-acht.org/blog/debian/#1-176 > > but while installing it using gdebi some error occurred and now i cannot > open synaptic > > this is the errors: > E: The package ttf-liberation needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find > an archive for it. > E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report. > > *** > So what do i do to clear the system and get synaptic back working. > Why did you download it from Red Hat? In case you are using hardy or intrepid, ttf-liberation is available in repository. If not you can download the deb by searching it from http://packages.ubuntu.com Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] New User Intro
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Nareshkumaran A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi I'm a new user to ubuntu. I use the version ubuntu 8.1 for AMD. I have > installed in my laptop. as far concerned, it is easier than vista, but I > don't know to install some open source software's that are not found in > add-programs Not every application is listed in Add/Remove. Use System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
[ubuntu-in] Congratulations to Aanjhan! Proud moment for Ubuntu India
Hi All, Considering continuous contributions in various areas of Ubuntu community, our friend Aanjhan, popularly known as 'tuxmaniac' has been given the Ubuntu Member status. More details on 'Member' status at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership Info on his status approval can be found http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/08/26/%23ubuntu-meeting.txt Lets wish him all the best and more progress! Cheers :-) Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu Developer Week - Sept 1 to Sept 5 2008
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:14 PM, mallikarjun arjun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its 5 hrs parthan not 4. > 16 to 20 UTC > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please avoid doing top posting? It breaks flow of conversation. Also what is the rational behind adding your email address at bottom of every mail you send? Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] LCD monitors?
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Moz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Are there any LCD monitors available in India which need custom > softwares to configure and do not work with linux? A friend might > move to linux in near future and is about to purchase a new PC, in Baroda. I haven't come across any monitor which needs separate drivers, even the LCD ones. We are using LCD monitors at our office without problem. Sometimes you may need to make changes to xorg.conf for proper frequency and resolutions etc. I remember spending all night to get proper resolution on my friend's 32" LCD TV attached to PC when I installed Gutsy on his machine. But hardy didn't need any tweaking, it worked ut of box. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Having linux stuff on syllabus
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:43 PM, mallikarjun arjun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently read an article about china being too much concentrating on linux > education one such is in "http://www.linux.com/feature/144852";. > At that time i thought why cant we approach universities (in karnataka like > VTU, BU and i dont know in other states) to have courses on Open source, > Linux, and many more, I am very sure most of us know what these universities > teach. > If it is already under progress please ignore this, I am unaware. Engineering courses in most of universities I am aware of don't even talk about any industry related tools. ex. build tools like make and ant, protocols like ssh and vnc etc. So open source and linux don't even exist for them. But this doesn't mean that we can't do it. Doing this on personal basis will be a good start. For example those of us who are working in industry already can design courses about various tools and conduct them in their colleges ans and when possible. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Having linux stuff on syllabus
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:49 PM, mallikarjun arjun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:43 PM, mallikarjun arjun >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I recently read an article about china being too much concentrating on >> > linux >> > education one such is in "http://www.linux.com/feature/144852";. >> > At that time i thought why cant we approach universities (in karnataka >> > like >> > VTU, BU and i dont know in other states) to have courses on Open >> > source, >> > Linux, and many more, I am very sure most of us know what these >> > universities >> > teach. >> > If it is already under progress please ignore this, I am unaware. >> >> Engineering courses in most of universities I am aware of don't even >> talk about any industry related tools. ex. build tools like make and >> ant, protocols like ssh and vnc etc. So open source and linux don't >> even exist for them. >> >> But this doesn't mean that we can't do it. Doing this on personal >> basis will be a good start. For example those of us who are working in >> industry already can design courses about various tools and conduct >> them in their colleges ans and when possible. And who is going to teach these subjects when it is in course. Instead if 'we' do teach 'learn for free how we do it in industry' then I think more students will be interested. After all 90% students are looking for job after getting out of industry. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Having linux stuff on syllabus
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:45 PM, mallikarjun arjun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:49 PM, mallikarjun arjun >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > so >> > >> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:43 PM, mallikarjun arjun >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I recently read an article about china being too much concentrating >> >> > on >> >> > linux >> >> > education one such is in "http://www.linux.com/feature/144852";. >> >> > At that time i thought why cant we approach universities (in >> >> > karnataka >> >> > like >> >> > VTU, BU and i dont know in other states) to have courses on Open >> >> > source, >> >> > Linux, and many more, I am very sure most of us know what these >> >> > universities >> >> > teach. >> >> > If it is already under progress please ignore this, I am unaware. >> >> >> >> Engineering courses in most of universities I am aware of don't even >> >> talk about any industry related tools. ex. build tools like make and >> >> ant, protocols like ssh and vnc etc. So open source and linux don't >> >> even exist for them. >> >> >> >> But this doesn't mean that we can't do it. Doing this on personal >> >> basis will be a good start. For example those of us who are working in >> >> industry already can design courses about various tools and conduct >> >> them in their colleges ans and when possible. >> >> And who is going to teach these subjects when it is in course. >> Instead if 'we' do teach 'learn for free how we do it in industry' >> then I think more students will be interested. After all 90% students >> are looking for job after getting out of industry. >> >> >> Onkar >> > Gud idea, But in industry they wont be free to come. if u want them to come > on Saturday mostly they will be scheduled. I work in software industry and I am ready to do it free at my home town. :-) But it will take some time to actually start. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Dell with ubuntu
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Aanjhan R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:14 PM, mallikarjun arjun >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Actually i am thinking of buying dell with ubuntu laptop. The 2 options >> > i am >> > looking for are XPSM1330 and XPSM1530 >> > Is anybody using those laptops if so please suggest me. > > I am using the Inspiron 1525 - I'm really happy with it, although its > overheated a few times and ACPI has shutdown on me - but that is also > because I was over-stressing the poor baby a bit .. >> >> >> XPS M1330 is a very good buy. Do you get those pre-loaded with Ubuntu in >> India? > > Unfortunately, I dont believe you get them pre-loaded with Ubuntu in India. > I assumed that since they sold the model with Ubuntu abroad, everything > would work flawlessly out of the box with ubuntu. While this was true for > most things, I remember there being some problems with sound, etc. > Basically, Dell has its own release of Ubuntu with some of its proprietary > drivers packaged in and it was available only as a DVD which meant a 2-week > download, etc... it is nicer if you can get it from abroad with ubuntu > pre-loaded, should save some bucks as well.. (although you wont get the > pleasure that I did of formatting the Vista drive and ripping off the > sticker... :) ) If I remember correctly, the sound problems were on Intel HDA cards due to old alsa. Hence Dell backported new alsa drivers. The only proprietary part in Dell OEM installation of Ubuntu is the DVD player. Rest it is stock Ubuntu Hardy now. By the way, in case you are getting it from US, you may also want to take a look at system76 [1]. They have been providing machines with Ubuntu preloaded for long, even before Dell started doing it. [1] http://system76.com/ Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Firefox crash in ubuntu
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:43 PM, mallikarjun arjun
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear all, my mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 has been crashing since from upgrade to
> firefox 3.0
> Initially firefox 3.0 5 alpha which came with Hardy was very stable, but
> after upgrade its is causing problems. It crashes only with some sites like
> http://www.crocinfo.com
>
> Ths crash report is
>
> Add-ons:
> [EMAIL
> PROTECTED]:1.1,{fce36c1e-58d8-498a-b2a5-66ad1cedebbb}:0.75,{2fa4ed95-0317-4c6a-a74c-5f3e3912c1f9}:2.0.95,{db96a043-006f-43ae-b7fa-9b9cec1230c1}:1.2,{DDC359D1-844A-42a7-9AA1-88A850A938A8}:1.0.3,[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]:2.2.4,[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]:1.90,{89506680-e3f4-484c-a2c0-ed711d481eda}:0.9.4.9,{19503e42-ca3c-4c27-b1e2-9cdb2170ee34}:1.1,[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]:0.5.0,[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]:2.8.4,{000a9d1c-beef-4f90-9363-039d445309b8}:0.4.15.0,{3112ca9c-de6d-4884-a869-9855de68056c}:3.1.20080730L,{FDD8ECF0-451A-414D-8C8F-7B7F78B0ECD3}:1.3.3,{95C9A302-8557-4052-91B7-2BB6BA33C885}:0.9.3,[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]:1.0.3,[EMAIL PROTECTED]:1.0a6,[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0.2,[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]:0.9814,[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]:1.0.1,{e0204bd5-9d31-402b-a99d-a6aa8ffebdca}:1.2.0,{37fa1426-b82d-11db-8314-0800200c9a66}:1.1.5,{a0d7ccb3-214d-498b-b4aa-0e8fda9a7bf7}:20080811,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.0.1,{c3ca1d8e-644e-4da6-b9c7-d115e3b1e444}:1.0
> BuildID: 2008070206
> CrashTime: 1220029747
> InstallTime: 1219429323
> ProductName: Firefox
> SecondsSinceLastCrash: 49
> StartupTime: 1220029707
> Theme: stratahuman
> URL: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/5025.html
> UserID: 033735c8-0af4-b935-a054-fb0a7683a602
> Vendor: Mozilla
> Version: 3.0.1
Try disabling all the addons you have installed. See if it stops
crashing. If yes, then enable them one by one and see which one causes
crash.
Also check if flash is causing crashes.
Onkar
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