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Re: Fluxbox & GraveGNUIndia

Posted: August 20th, 2008, 7:50pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... "Think Python' is another downloadable book. It is published under the GNU Free Documentation License. In the authors own words, this book is more about

Re: Fluxbox & GraveGNUIndia

Posted: August 17th, 2008, 11:10pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... The author of this book has his site at http://effbot.org/ and a copy of the book (public release) is available at

Re: emptying items from trash in nautilus

Posted: August 1st, 2008, 2:57pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... sudo rm -rf ~ashley/.Trash/* would be better I think.

Re: GeeXboX - GeeXBox, Reinventing the steel??

Posted: July 31st, 2008, 3:19pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... Read the article... follow the links... It is a port of *the* GeeXboX. See: http://www.geexbox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9897&highlight=wii

Re: can opendns be used as a backup nameserver?

Posted: July 31st, 2008, 3:10pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... No. It is a caching nameserver with a few additional features. You can use it either as your primary (and/or secondary) nameserver or as a forwarder.

Re: Educational resoures... from azimpremjifoundation.org

Posted: July 28th, 2008, 2:24pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... You got a copy great! Under what license are they distributing the software? Can you make copies and distribute them to the schools in Goa?

Re: problem with resolving names in opera - fixed but now resolv.con

Posted: July 24th, 2008, 2:54pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... Hey I was only pulling your leg... notice the smiley ;) at the end of that line.

Re: problem with resolving names in opera - fixed but now resolv.con

Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 8:16pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... A nice way to say thanks ;) ... The problem is not with the DHCP client, but with "resolv.con". At the moment it only allows 3 nameserver entries, which

Re: problem with resolving names in opera

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 7:07pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... Forgot to mention. This is on Ubuntu 7.04. Your millage may vary on other distros.

Re: problem with resolving names in opera

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 4:18pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... unless ... In the file "/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf", uncomment the following line: prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; That should fix your problem.

Re: problem with resolving names in opera

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 3:44pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... For even better performance, set resolve.conf to point to 127.0.0.1 and put the OpenDNS entries as forwarders (as shown below) in named.conf in the options

Re: problem with resolving names in opera

Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 3:37pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... The BSNL DataOne portal now opens fine in Firefox (I am using Firefox3). "User Agent" switching is also not required. Also as I had mentioned earlier, the

This is not OT!

Posted: June 27th, 2008, 3:15pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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Why is this thread marked OT? The phone runs Linux. Promotes openness and encourages tinkering. So what if some of us are drooling about it and want to acquire

Re: OT: BSNL DNS servers available or down?

Posted: June 19th, 2008, 6:42pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... In addition to the OpenDNS servers, you could also add the BSNL servers (above the OpenDNS servers). Since they are only a few hops away, even the initial

Re: OT: BSNL DNS servers available or down?

Posted: June 19th, 2008, 3:01pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... The new DNS servers reported are: 218.248.240.23 218.248.240.24 HTH

Re: Reminder: Tomorrow is Firefox Download Day

Posted: June 17th, 2008, 2:01am BST by Arvind Yadav

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... Done. Downloaded and running... This message comes to you from FireFox3 :)

Re: Html Editor..

Posted: June 12th, 2008, 11:44pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... Why are you compiling this? Does your distro not have this package. Which distro are you using?

Re: Which distro to use..??

Posted: June 6th, 2008, 12:07am BST by Arvind Yadav

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... selection of Linux Distro Server edition. 10 people will give you 10 different answers. Still... Try CentOS. ... Desktop machine (Pentium 4). Yes. Make

Open letter on OOXML happenings in India

Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 6:52pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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http://deepakphatak.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-is.html This is an open letter written by Prof Deepak B Phatak, IIT Bombay, who is a member of the LITD 15

Re: docx files

Posted: May 9th, 2008, 1:53pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... http://www.oooninja.com/2008/01/convert-openxml-docx-etc-in-linux-using.html ... What else can you expect. ... This will be far less painfull ;)

Fedora sux - or is that Ubuntu... (Was Re: [ILUG-GOA] help help help

Posted: May 8th, 2008, 1:56am BST by Arvind Yadav

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... To each their own. BTW, your method works on Ubuntu as well. What Stan does is good for him because his laptop is too underpowered to allow you to do a

Re: Ubuntu cramfs problems

Posted: May 8th, 2008, 6:19pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... So too on Ubuntu. KDE, XFCE, WindowMaker, FluxBox, Enlightment, ICEWm... Just to be clear, I am not rooting for Ubuntu. I work with a number of different

Re: Ubuntu cramfs problems

Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:10pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... I thought that Fedora also defaulted to Gnome.

Re: Ubuntu cramfs problems

Posted: May 8th, 2008, 2:36pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... bit cramped. Oh, the live CD works fine on 256M machine. It's the installer that's the problem. BTW, after the installation, Gnome works fine even with

Re: help help help

Posted: May 7th, 2008, 3:53am BST by Arvind Yadav

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... really ... I will hold you to that :) Just today installed Ubuntu 8.04 on a PIII 500Mhz machine with just 128M of RAM. Used the Ubuntu alternate CD (the

Re: hard disk problem?

Posted: May 4th, 2008, 5:04pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... Looks like it is a bad drive. To rule out mother-board problem, try this drive in another machine. To rule out software problems, boot with a live CD

Re: [ilugd] Candidate for Hall Of Shame?

Posted: April 24th, 2008, 10:54pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... Thats ok. It is very much relevant here too.

Re: OT: TataIndicomm Data plans have changed - lower prices for Goa

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 4:25pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... must be ... system. ... As Edgar mentioned, I have been using the TATA Indicom data-card for over a year now. I use it not only at Porvorim and Verna, but

Re: Firefox plugin for DataOne users

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 2:29pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... Doesn't matter whether you trust them or not. You better keep yourself within limits as shown on their site, else expect to be billed for the extra usage.

Re: Firefox plugin for DataOne users

Posted: April 10th, 2008, 6:02pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... ~/data.txt* ... This plugin does not measure the the amount of data transferred by Firefox or that through your network interfaces, it instead picks up its

Firefox plugin for DataOne users

Posted: April 8th, 2008, 7:21pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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For those of you who do not have the unlimited usage broadband account from BSNL, there is a nice firefox plugin (DataFox: http://www.thegoan.com/datafox/) to

India Rejects Microsoft's OOXML Format

Posted: March 21st, 2008, 11:56pm GMT by Arvind Yadav

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Swapnil Bhartiya, EFY News Network (Thursday, March 20, 2008 3:33:23 PM) The BIS Committee has rejected the OOXML format. Thursday, March 20, 2008: The BIS

Re: Meeting this month on March 22, 2008

Posted: March 21st, 2008, 9:13pm GMT by Arvind Yadav

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... फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया" ... Since the Goa Science Center (our venue for the meet) will be closed on account

Re: Meeting this weekend...

Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 1:08am GMT by Arvind Yadav

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Sorry, I will not be able to make it, as I am at the moment in Delhi attending Freed.in.

Re: FossConf Day One snaps

Posted: February 2nd, 2008, 1:19pm GMT by Arvind Yadav

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... Great. It would be nice to have some captions/comments on the photos.

Re: PHP on Ubuntu

Posted: January 22nd, 2008, 1:18am GMT by Arvind Yadav

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... Try: Bluefish: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl Quanta Plus: http://quanta.kdewebdev.org Though not available as a package for Ubuntu, you might also want to

Hanlon's razor

Posted: January 10th, 2008, 11:02pm GMT by Arvind Yadav

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... Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Re: Mass installing Linux on 100 machines

Posted: December 20th, 2007, 12:42am GMT by Arvind Yadav

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... Some links which may be of use to you: http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemimager/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/

Malicious help

Posted: November 29th, 2007, 11:46pm GMT by Arvind Yadav

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Mailing lists can be good place to get help. Some really evil minded people have recently started preying on inexperienced users by suggesting dangerous

Re: LUG meet this Saturday - talks, anyone?

Posted: November 22nd, 2007, 2:03pm GMT by Arvind Yadav

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... Very long ago :( Though I have not really used it, I believe that Scribus would be the equivalent of PageMaker type of software. Ease of learning is not

Re: [foss.in-announce] Posters

Posted: November 15th, 2007, 2:34pm GMT by Arvind Yadav

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... FOSS stands for freedom. That includes the freedom to use proprietary software. I am a self confessed FOSS fanatic. I would like to limit that fanaticism

Re: QSynaptics tames your Synaptics touchpad

Posted: November 13th, 2007, 2:43pm GMT by Arvind Yadav

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... Thanks Ed. "aptitude install qsynaptics" did the trick on my Ububtu box. This is sure to help a lot of people. For those that love the command line and

Free Linux eBooks

Posted: November 12th, 2007, 12:35am GMT by Arvind Yadav

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Over at homelinux.org, one kind soul has posted an extensive collection of free Linux-related PDF ebooks, covering topics ranging from installation and

Convincing hardware vendors

Posted: November 10th, 2007, 2:22pm GMT by Arvind Yadav

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Some time back there was a discussion about convincing vendors to offer Linux on assembled systems. Maybe thiGive Vista the heave-ho and turn your customers on

The Linux Information Project

Posted: November 9th, 2007, 6:28pm GMT by Arvind Yadav

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Welcome to The Linux Information Project (LINFO). This project is dedicated to providing high quality, comprehensive and easily accessible information about

The Mandriva Club is now open to all Linux users for free

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 10:37pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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http://lwn.net/Articles/255543/ Good news for Mandrake lovers, the Mandriva Club is now open to all Linux users for free. Arvind Yadav

Re: Samba authentication without system user.

Posted: October 24th, 2007, 5:51pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... http://linuxwiki.riverworth.com/index.php/LDAP_Authentication#Samba_Authentication ... From the references at the bottom of the above article:

Re: When and where is our next meeting?

Posted: October 23rd, 2007, 4:21pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... These are the ground realities. He is coming back after a long gap. We don't want him to go back home thinking that he has come on the wrong day because

Re: When and where is our next meeting?

Posted: October 23rd, 2007, 3:32pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... Supposed to be 3pm to 5pm, but most people tumble in only around 3:30pm. Arvind Yadav

Re: this is interesting

Posted: October 18th, 2007, 12:54am BST by Arvind Yadav

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... Instead of only giving a link, could you also give a little description about the linked article so that we could decide if it is of interest to us and

ADMIN: End this topic (Was: links to sites promoting illegal activit

Posted: October 15th, 2007, 9:00pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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Attention All: This thread and topic has been discussed for long enough, and is unproductive, and is heading towards impolite language and a flame war. Stop

BITS TALK CANCELLED Re: [ILUG-GOA] DhavalG: Kernel - CFS and more, a

Posted: October 13th, 2007, 2:32am BST by Arvind Yadav

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... Kindly do NOT post links to sites promoting illegal activity. List Admin

Re: Offtopic: European decision against M$

Posted: September 18th, 2007, 2:36am BST by Arvind Yadav

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... No, it is not. It will only hurt those who abuse their monopoly position. This is a Microsoft FUD being echoed by lazy journalists who don't do their

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