Re: KSQL - SQL query file

[Visakh Murukesan]

You can use RUN SCRIPT command for this

See

https://docs.confluent.io/current/ksql/docs/tutorials/examples.html#running-ksql-statements-from-the-command-line


On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 8:12 PM KhajaAsmath Mohammed <
mdkhajaasm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am looking to run the ksql query with the queries file in windows. May I
> know how to acheive this? I cannot run directly on CLI as the query has
> more than 3000+ columns. I am looking to create stream with it
>
> Thanks,
> Asmath
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Bug#890692: ITP: node-agentkeepalive -- http.Agent for having keepalive mode in http requests

[Visakh S]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: VISAKH S <visakh1...@gmail.com>
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name: node-agentkeepalive
  Version : 3.3.0
  Upstream Author : fengmk2 <feng...@gmail.com> (https://fengmk2.com)
* URL : https://github.com/node-modules/agentkeepalive#readme
* License : Expat
  Programming Lang: JavaScript
  Description : http.Agent for having keepalive mode in http requests

 http.Agent for having keepalive mode in http requests
 .
 The Node.js's missing keep alive http.Agent. It supports http and https.
 .
 What's different from original http.Agent?
  *keepAlive=true by default
  *Disable Nagle's algorithm: socket.setNoDelay(true)
  *Add free socket timeout: avoid long time inactivity socket leak in the
   free-sockets queue.
  *Add active socket timeout: avoid long time inactivity socket leak in the
   active-sockets queue.
 .
 Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
 .
 This package is a useful dependancy of NPM 5.0
 .
 I am planning to maintain this package as part of a javascript
maintainers team.
 Pirate Praveen has agreed to sponser this package.

Bug#890692: ITP: node-agentkeepalive -- http.Agent for having keepalive mode in http requests

[Visakh S]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: VISAKH S <visakh1...@gmail.com>
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org

* Package name: node-agentkeepalive
  Version : 3.3.0
  Upstream Author : fengmk2 <feng...@gmail.com> (https://fengmk2.com)
* URL : https://github.com/node-modules/agentkeepalive#readme
* License : Expat
  Programming Lang: JavaScript
  Description : http.Agent for having keepalive mode in http requests

 http.Agent for having keepalive mode in http requests
 .
 The Node.js's missing keep alive http.Agent. It supports http and https.
 .
 What's different from original http.Agent?
  *keepAlive=true by default
  *Disable Nagle's algorithm: socket.setNoDelay(true)
  *Add free socket timeout: avoid long time inactivity socket leak in the
   free-sockets queue.
  *Add active socket timeout: avoid long time inactivity socket leak in the
   active-sockets queue.
 .
 Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
 .
 This package is a useful dependancy of NPM 5.0
 .
 I am planning to maintain this package as part of a javascript
maintainers team.
 Pirate Praveen has agreed to sponser this package.

Bug#890692: ITP: node-agentkeepalive -- http.Agent for having keepalive mode in http requests

[Visakh S]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: VISAKH S <visakh1...@gmail.com>
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org

* Package name: node-agentkeepalive
  Version : 3.3.0
  Upstream Author : fengmk2 <feng...@gmail.com> (https://fengmk2.com)
* URL : https://github.com/node-modules/agentkeepalive#readme
* License : Expat
  Programming Lang: JavaScript
  Description : http.Agent for having keepalive mode in http requests

 http.Agent for having keepalive mode in http requests
 .
 The Node.js's missing keep alive http.Agent. It supports http and https.
 .
 What's different from original http.Agent?
  *keepAlive=true by default
  *Disable Nagle's algorithm: socket.setNoDelay(true)
  *Add free socket timeout: avoid long time inactivity socket leak in the
   free-sockets queue.
  *Add active socket timeout: avoid long time inactivity socket leak in the
   active-sockets queue.
 .
 Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
 .
 This package is a useful dependancy of NPM 5.0
 .
 I am planning to maintain this package as part of a javascript
maintainers team.
 Pirate Praveen has agreed to sponser this package.

Accepted node-is-object 1.0.1-1 (source all) into unstable, unstable

[VISAKH S]

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Description:
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Closes: 868443
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Bug#868792: ITP: ruby-custom-counter-cache -- Functionality that supports conditions and multiple models

[Visakh S]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: VISAKH S <visakh1...@gmail.com>
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name: ruby-custom-counter-cache
  Version : 0.2.0
  Upstream Author : Cedric Howe <ced...@howe.net>
* URL : https://github.com/cedric/custom_counter_cache
* License : Expat
  Programming Lang: Ruby
  Description : Functionality that supports conditions and multiple
models

 Functionality that supports conditions and multiple models
 .
 This is a simple approach to creating a custom counter cache in Rails
 that can be used across multiple models.

Bug#868792: ITP: ruby-custom-counter-cache -- Functionality that supports conditions and multiple models

[Visakh S]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: VISAKH S <visakh1...@gmail.com>
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org

* Package name: ruby-custom-counter-cache
  Version : 0.2.0
  Upstream Author : Cedric Howe <ced...@howe.net>
* URL : https://github.com/cedric/custom_counter_cache
* License : Expat
  Programming Lang: Ruby
  Description : Functionality that supports conditions and multiple
models

 Functionality that supports conditions and multiple models
 .
 This is a simple approach to creating a custom counter cache in Rails
 that can be used across multiple models.

Bug#868792: ITP: ruby-custom-counter-cache -- Functionality that supports conditions and multiple models

[Visakh S]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: VISAKH S <visakh1...@gmail.com>
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org

* Package name: ruby-custom-counter-cache
  Version : 0.2.0
  Upstream Author : Cedric Howe <ced...@howe.net>
* URL : https://github.com/cedric/custom_counter_cache
* License : Expat
  Programming Lang: Ruby
  Description : Functionality that supports conditions and multiple
models

 Functionality that supports conditions and multiple models
 .
 This is a simple approach to creating a custom counter cache in Rails
 that can be used across multiple models.

[fsug-tvm] Multi-boot on UEFI

[Visakh]

Hi everyone!
  Based on our experiences and difficulties we faced in doing UEFI based 
multi-boot setup
at the recent GNU/Linux install-fest, I prepared a gist detailing some 
technical info about
UEFI and the procedure to do a UEFI based multi-boot setup.

The gist is available here: 
https://gist.github.com/gokuldas/828eb87e433cc649c7dba0cf9e93cf64

Please go through. Leave you valuable comments and corrections below the 
gist.

Regards,
Gokul Das B

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Bug#868443: ITP: node-is-object -- Checks whether a value is an object

[Visakh S]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: VISAKH S <visakh1...@gmail.com>
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name: node-is-object
  Version : 1.0.1
  Upstream Author : Raynos <rayn...@gmail.com>
* URL : https://github.com/ljharb/is-object
* License : Expat
  Programming Lang: JavaScript
  Description : Checks whether a value is an object

 Checks whether a value is an object
 .
 Node.js is an event-based server side javascript engine
 .
 The assert module provides a way of testing expressions. If the expression
 evaluates to 0, or false, an assertion failure is being caused
 and the program is terminated.
 .
 This package is a useful dependency of npm
 .
 I am planning to maintain this package as part of a javascript maintainers
team
 Pirate Praveen has agreed to sponser this package
 I would like to join the javascript maintainers team

Bug#868443: ITP: node-is-object -- Checks whether a value is an object

[Visakh S]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: VISAKH S <visakh1...@gmail.com>
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org

* Package name: node-is-object
  Version : 1.0.1
  Upstream Author : Raynos <rayn...@gmail.com>
* URL : https://github.com/ljharb/is-object
* License : Expat
  Programming Lang: JavaScript
  Description : Checks whether a value is an object

 Checks whether a value is an object
 .
 Node.js is an event-based server side javascript engine
 .
 The assert module provides a way of testing expressions. If the expression
 evaluates to 0, or false, an assertion failure is being caused
 and the program is terminated.
 .
 This package is a useful dependency of npm
 .
 I am planning to maintain this package as part of a javascript maintainers
team
 Pirate Praveen has agreed to sponser this package
 I would like to join the javascript maintainers team

Bug#868443: ITP: node-is-object -- Checks whether a value is an object

[Visakh S]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: VISAKH S <visakh1...@gmail.com>
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org

* Package name: node-is-object
  Version : 1.0.1
  Upstream Author : Raynos <rayn...@gmail.com>
* URL : https://github.com/ljharb/is-object
* License : Expat
  Programming Lang: JavaScript
  Description : Checks whether a value is an object

 Checks whether a value is an object
 .
 Node.js is an event-based server side javascript engine
 .
 The assert module provides a way of testing expressions. If the expression
 evaluates to 0, or false, an assertion failure is being caused
 and the program is terminated.
 .
 This package is a useful dependency of npm
 .
 I am planning to maintain this package as part of a javascript maintainers
team
 Pirate Praveen has agreed to sponser this package
 I would like to join the javascript maintainers team

Re: [Freeipa-users] Please Provide the IPA Client Configuration Doc for Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04

[Visakh MV]

Hi,


first case: As per your direction, things are going well even if we are
facing some issues as well. even like once logged in to ipa-client machine
with ipa user with certain privilege after that while using terminal " TAB"
and " Arrow " keys have not working. due to the same we can not use the
system properly.

second case: if any policy would have to edit at any certain reason then it
will not update it with at real time, it could take some time to update new
changes. is there any command to update at real time?

third case: what are the sudo rule option?

only one sudo option you have shared across the doc " !authenticate " has
working fine. and it will not take other custom options.

example:  I added one sudo option inside sudo rule like " rootprivilege "
but its showing one error on client machine while checking allowed
commands.

Please revert back.

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Visakh MV <visakh...@sisplc.net> wrote:

> Hi Team,
>
> Could you provide the client setup guide for Ubuntu systems. And we are
> using FreeIPA 4.2.0 version.  it's been a while trying to find the document
> for Ubuntu with latest version FreeIPA Server, even now can not find the
> doc. so kindly provide the same doc via mail as soon as good.
>
> even if tried some solution that could find out from internet as well but
> still its not help us.
>
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>
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>
> *Support Engineer*
>
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Re: [Freeipa-users] Please Provide the IPA Client Configuration Doc for Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04

[Visakh MV]

Hi Team,

I forgot to describe the actual requirement on IPA client machines, which
we needs to configure client machine SUDO privilege from FreeIPA server for
IPA Server users. after configuring client machines can able to login as a
IPA user but unable to give sudo privilege from.  Please revert back your
kind response

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Visakh MV <visakh...@sisplc.net> wrote:

> Hi Team,
>
> Could you provide the client setup guide for Ubuntu systems. And we are
> using FreeIPA 4.2.0 version.  it's been a while trying to find the document
> for Ubuntu with latest version FreeIPA Server, even now can not find the
> doc. so kindly provide the same doc via mail as soon as good.
>
> even if tried some solution that could find out from internet as well but
> still its not help us.
>
> --
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> *Visakh m.v*
>
> *Support Engineer*
>
> Soffit Infrastructure Services (P) Ltd | Raj Bhavan | Power House Road |
> Palarivattom|Kochi-25 | Kerala | India.
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[Freeipa-users] Please Provide the IPA Client Configuration Doc for Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04

[Visakh MV]

Hi Team,

Could you provide the client setup guide for Ubuntu systems. And we are
using FreeIPA 4.2.0 version.  it's been a while trying to find the document
for Ubuntu with latest version FreeIPA Server, even now can not find the
doc. so kindly provide the same doc via mail as soon as good.

even if tried some solution that could find out from internet as well but
still its not help us.

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*Support Engineer*

Soffit Infrastructure Services (P) Ltd | Raj Bhavan | Power House Road |
Palarivattom|Kochi-25 | Kerala | India.

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[Freeipa-users] Freeipa deployment request

[Visakh MV]

Hi team,

We have plan to integrate windows ad and openshift origin with freeipa. We
have doubt about that DNS working between those. And also needs
configuration details of replication between those. If guys you provide any
kind of information for above, I am really would like to go for with Redhat
7. Your kindly responses as soon as good for us.
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Re: Spark SQL - Exception only when using cacheTable

[visakh]

Can you try checking whether the table is being cached? You can use isCached
method. More details are here -
http://spark.apache.org/docs/1.0.2/api/java/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLContext.html



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Re: spark won't build with maven

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You are running a Continuous Compilation. AFAIK, it runs in an infinite loop
and will compile only the modified files. For compiling with maven, have a
look at these steps -
https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/building-with-maven.html

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Running Hive UDF from spark-shell fails due to datatype issue

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(SparkILoop.scala:616)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.innerLoop$1(SparkILoop.scala:624)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.loop(SparkILoop.scala:629)
at
org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop$$anonfun$process$1.apply$mcZ$sp(SparkILoop.scala:954)
at
org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop$$anonfun$process$1.apply(SparkILoop.scala:902)
at
org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop$$anonfun$process$1.apply(SparkILoop.scala:902)
at
scala.tools.nsc.util.ScalaClassLoader$.savingContextLoader(ScalaClassLoader.scala:135)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.process(SparkILoop.scala:902)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.process(SparkILoop.scala:997)
at org.apache.spark.repl.Main$.main(Main.scala:31)
at org.apache.spark.repl.Main.main(Main.scala)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.launch(SparkSubmit.scala:314)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:73)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala)

I looked at the dataTypes.scala script
(https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/types/dataTypes.scala)
and could find a definition of ArrayType which seems to expect a datatype as
well as a boolean value. And in the script HiveInspectors.scala
(https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveInspectors.scala),
at line 212, I couldn't find a definition for array datatype. Is this a
known issue? Doesn't Spark support queries and operations on array column in
Hive tables? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Visakh

(Also, I have an open question in SO since last week with a bounty of 50 for
the same issue -
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25059527/udf-not-working-in-spark-sql)



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[fsug-tvm] [OT] Suggestion for a good graphics card and monitor for Linux

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Hi,
  I have desktop PC running Arch Linux which I use primarily for 
programming and data analysis. It is almost an year old, but is running 
smooth as butter, and is still a top notch configuration for desktops. The 
main tools I use are vanilla system programming tools (C/C++, rust and go + 
emacs), numerical analysis and DSP tools (python with numpy, gnu radio), 
hardware development tools (vhdl/ghdl, xilinx ise) and web development 
tools (pyramid framework, nginx, postgres, node.js).

 I had planned a dual monitor setup for all these, but had deferred the 
decision for want of a good graphics card. Presently it has a Samsung 19' 
monitor (VGA/DVI, no HDMI), powered by onboard intel graphics (whose driver 
had the best support for 'kernel mode setting' at the time). Now I am 
looking for an additional monitor and a good enough GPU to support better 
development (so that I can use emacs in one monitor and docs on a browser 
on the other). I have one PCI-E port free. Can anyone suggest a good 
monitor and GPU, considering the following requirements? The group members 
have much better experience with these type of work than me. The monitor 
market and linux graphics driver capabilities changed drastically after I 
bought my desktop.

Monitor Requirements:
1. Of good size (I'm looking for 21'. But is there a better size for 
development?)

2. With HDMI interface

GPU requirements:
1. Support for atleast 2 monitors. I am also interested in anyone's 
experience with using dual monitors on Linux.

2. HDMI + HDMI interface (preferred), or HDMI + DVI interface (2nd option)

3. Good graphics driver support for Linux. Good open source driver is 
preferred, but even good binary ones are acceptable. I'm not clear about 
the latest diver scenario after Valve's and Dell's push for linux into 
gaming and desktop arena. I assume that it has improved a lot in the last 
one year. (No - I don't want to use windows for this work)

4. Best GPGPU capability. I just wanted to try my hand at OpenCL/CUDA. 
Ultimately, that may mean more for my work than absolute eye-popping 
graphics capability.

5. Best support for special Linux graphics stack technologies, à la KMS, 
DRI2 and GEM. These are essential for support of next gen graphics servers 
like Wayland and Mir. The decision by Nvidia to not support KMS in their 
driver was the reason for me in deferring that choice.

So, what are your ideas and suggestions? Links to good articles are also 
welcome.
TIA  Regards,
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Wheezy for Aspire One D270

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Sir, 

Please help me , which of your distribution is suitable for my netbook, Aspire 
One D270 from Acer. The processor is Intel Atom N2600

Wheezy for Aspire One D270

[visakh vijayan]

Sir, 

Please help me , which of your distribution is suitable for my netbook, Aspire 
One D270 from Acer. The processor is Intel Atom N2600

Network Proxy

[visakh vijayan]

Can anybody help me how to set up  network proxy in Wheezy. Actually when i 
connect a wired network , I can give only ip,subnet mask, gateway, and dns. 
There is no option for giving proxy. Please help.

Wheezy Alongside Windows7

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How can i install my debian wheezy alongside my windows7. I want both of them 
during booting and the option to select. Please help.

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Building a Hackerspace

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Hi Dhananjay,
   Of course, you can donate it! :D
   There are always takers!

Regards,
Gokul Das

On Sunday, 2 June 2013 19:55:36 UTC+5:30, Dhananjay Navaneetham wrote:

 Hi,

 I am moving out of Trivandrum in coming month, I have some electronic 
 stuff (Wires, weird power supply, components, screws etc) that me and 
 friends own. Its neatly packed into one cardboard box. I was wondering if I 
 could donate it you guys.

 Any takers?


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 I heard from one of my friends that corporates have scheme to donate a 
 small percentage of there profit for the improvement of the society.The 
 idea of hackerspace is a grand one..if we can prove to the society that our 
 activities are worth good for the generations to come then i am sure 
 funding will not be a barrier and we will get lot of equipments and 
 resources from corporates ,governments and  private donations will come and 
 our hacker space will race to world standards...cheers...lets unite to gear 
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[fsug-tvm] Re: Changing display resolution permanently

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Hi,
  I have two similar configurations (single and dual monitor setups on my 
laptop). So, I used a very quick and dirty solution for this.
  Assuming that you use X-server only with a DE, you can add the same line 
to your DE's 'application autostart' or 'startup programs' list. I have 
both configurations in my startup list, but keep only one of them enabled 
as required.

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[fsug-tvm] Re: FSUG TVM Meeting and Debian Wheezy Release party images

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Hi,
  It's best if you use a new thread for new items like these.

Regards,
Gokul Das

On Friday, 10 May 2013 15:31:11 UTC, smr wrote:

 Sorry for being late
 I have written the article. 
 http://ilugtvm.blogspot.in/2013/05/5-may2013-free-software-meting-started.html

 please give suggessions on improving the article

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Hardware Freedom Day 2013 celebration

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Congrats Team! That was one hell of a show you put up!

Compliments to FSUG-TVM, Space, Beginow, Hello Infinity and every 
individual involved. I hope this to be a precursor to the next round of 
hacker/maker show of strength! 

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[fsug-tvm] Re: FSUG TVM Meetup Report 14-4-2013

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Hi,
  Sorry to ask, but where did you post the call for meeting? I wish to have 
attended, but missed the info completely. I couldn't find any reference on 
the mailing list.

  Nice initiative with the meeting and blog, BTW! Congrats to everyone 
involved! Please publish any future calls on the mailing list.

Regards,
Gokul Das 

On Sunday, 14 April 2013 19:12:13 UTC, ganesh wrote:


 Hi all,

 I think after a year a meetup happened and it was a nice one.Five people 
 appeared in the meeting.Midhun came first after that Anish and Arun joined 
 after that Arun M(Coordinator of SPACE) Joined the meeting.The meeting 
 started at 4.30 and continued till 5.30.After icebreaking Anish showed 
 Raspberry Pi.We booted it,then discussed about Raspberry Pi programming 
 using python and various projects where Raspberry Pi is used.There was one 
 VIA APC computer at SPACE we opened it and discussed about that too.Then we 
 discussed about Hardware Freedom Day on April 20th SPACE has registered an 
 event in their site.So we discussed how to make the open hardware program a 
 grand sucess and what topics must be included.The last topic in the 
 discussion was about the next meetup, as per our discussion we planned to 
 have two meetups per month on first and third sundays are the proposed days 
 each meetup will be having a tutorial session or workshop on some topic.We 
 will discuss and confirm about the topic in the mailing list.

 Images can be found at this link

 https://www.facebook.com/SPACE.KERALA


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[fsug-tvm]: Unable to boot from any device... Please help

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Hi,
  What OS do you have on that system other than the messed up Win7
installation?

You could try to reinstall win7 again. Or, if you have any full
version of win or linux which was working before, you could also try
to reinstall its bootloader (grub for linux, bootmgr/ntldr for
windows). There are many step-by-step procedures available on the net.

Regards,
Gokul Das

On Dec 28, 10:08 pm, Mathew mathewroy...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi all, I was trying to reinstall a DELL laptop completely. I partitioned
 the HDD using Gparted. And I proceeded to install windows 7 in a NTFS
 partition I created. The installation hung up when I tried to delete a
 partition, I previously created. So I forced shutdown the lap.

 And on restarting it simply doesn’t boot from any device at all. All it
 shows is a blank screen with cursor blinking at top-left corner of the
 screen. The BIOS works fine, I tried changing the boot order and
 everything. But every time I try to boot, it shows the screen with blinking
 cursor.

 Can anyone please tell me how to solve this?
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[fsug-tvm]: ISSUE IN SHARING BROADBAND BETWEEN TWO LAPTOPS WITH ROUTER TP-LINK WR740

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Hi,
  Are you saying that Linux can't connect at all, or that windows is
getting a better connection?

  What happens when one system is connected at a time? (Windows and
Linux). Is ubuntu still able to connect when windows is offline?
  Try doing a ping check from both systems (one at a time and then
both together). See if there is any packet loss or extra delay in any
case.
  If the case is that only one system can connect at a time the
'Network Address Translation' settings may be wrong.

Regards,
Gokul Das

On Dec 29, 4:36 am, vineeth kartha vineeth.kar...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear Friends,

 I have a broadband connection with 1Mbps speed, and it works perfectly when
 one system is connected. But recently I bought a TP-Link router and tried
 to share the broadband on two laptops ( One running windows and the other
 running Ubuntu), The windows laptop gets the max speed and the ubuntu
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[fsug-tvm] Re: : ISSUE IN SHARING BROADBAND BETWEEN TWO LAPTOPS WITH ROUTER TP-LINK WR740

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Hi,

On Dec 29, 12:53 pm, Roshan P Koshy rospkos...@gmail.com wrote:
 Damn that prejudice!!

Ha! That's classy! :D

On Dec 29, 9:59 am, vineeth kartha vineeth.kar...@gmail.com wrote:
 Both are connecting. Its just that Windows is getting more bandwidth, and
 when connected individually I can get good speeds on both systems.

Need some more info to say anything meaningful.

1.  When requesting web pages using Firefox (or any browser), it shows
a status message at left bottom corner of window - like 'Connecting to
google.com' or 'transferring data from google.com' and so on. Which
message do you see the longest, and approximately how long?

2. What are the DNS settings on the systems? (Auto/manual, DNS
addresses etc - I suggest making them the same)

3. How does the ping result look (packet loss and timings)? Try 'ping -
c 100 google.com' on ubuntu and 'ping -n 100 google.com' on windows.

4. How do you connect both systems to the router.

5. Most importantly, which exact model router are you using?

Regards,
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[fsug-tvm] Any Python programmers here? A 'must read' for you

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Hi,

On Dec 23, 11:54 am, Jaseem Abid jaseema...@gmail.com wrote:
 This article was on HN front page a few months back. Good one!

 I did indeed lift it off the HN! I posted it here because the memory
model is one of the important aspects of any programming language.
Python is special because its 'variables' are handles to objects
rather than memory locations. This info has the potential to solve a
lot of confusions.

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[fsug-tvm] Meetup

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Hi,
  Apologies for reopening an old topic again. There was a discussion a
few months back about a meeting, but no follow up was seen. Did the
meeting happen? And if so, what was the outcome?

  Even if a meeting did happen, I believe that another one is long
overdue. From experience, meetings, even small ones are followed by
sudden rise in mail list and community activity. Looking at the
mailing list, I feel that this community need one such event soon.

  The holidays could be a good opportunity (assuming that students are
not held down by exams). Assuming that there will be quite a few
people interested in a meeting, I urge someone to take lead in
deciding the venue and time and ushering participation. (I am
interested, but I would much prefer college students to lead).

  Please express your willingness here. And if we can agree on a
meeting, please do suggest some topics and activities we can take up.

Regards,
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[fsug-tvm] Convert flv videos to mp4

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On Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:55:20 UTC, Anoop wrote:

 WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG(From here 
 http://winff.org/html_new/ ) .

  My problem is FFMPEG is showing an error saying codec is not found. So 
 there is no use with WinFF 


 With Regards,
 Anoop P 
 www.anoopp.in


Hi,
  Please note one point - FFMpeg is a versatile and universal tool in 
Linux. It has almost every conceivable codec. But many binary ffmpeg 
distributions installed from package managers exclude proprietary codecs 
due to licensing issue. You may have to install them separately (restricted 
package) if available, or compile it from source.

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[fsug-tvm] Any Python programmers here? A 'must read' for you

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Is Python call-by-value or call-by-reference? Neither

http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/11/13/is-python-callbyvalue-or-callbyreference-neither/

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[fsug-tvm] News: Python Blaze. Power tool for FOSS maths

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Hi everyone,
  We have a new development which could be a giant leap for FOSS
numerical computing (a la matlab, mathematica). It also calls for and
requires participation of FOSS community -especially CS and math
enthusiasts and those who need a replacement for matlab (those who are
interested, please read the end).

A company named Continuum Analytics is developing a numerical
computing engine called 'Blaze' for python language. It is touted as
the next generation of Numpy. For anyone who doesn't know yet, Numpy
is a library that makes it possible to do Matlab type matrix
calculations in python. Continuum Analytics is headed by Travis
Oliphant - the creator of Numpy.

What is new in Blaze?
I got to read some of the early docs for Blaze. Here are some of my
early impressions. It is a generalization of numpy concepts, and has a
fresh new data model and computing paradigm.

Data model:
The data model of Blaze has arrays/tables that combine concepts of
software like numpy, pandas, pytables and theano. Its features are:

1. You can combine multiple data buffers (called chunks) into a single
array or table. These chunks can include RAM buffers, GPGPU buffers,
hard disk locations and even network streams. This makes it possible
to defines infinitely huge arrays. Numpy could accept only arrays
which span a single RAM buffer, and pytables used to handle storage.

2. You have array/tables whose rows or columns can be tagged by name
(like python maps). For example you can name columns as time,
temperature, pressure etc. This was a feature provided by Pandas and R
language.

3. The 'Dtype' of numpy is generalized and extended. Dtype defines how
raw data buffers in memory have to be interpreted. As a consequence,
you will be able to define arrays with very complex type layout.

Computation model:
The computation engine (for crunching numbers defined by the arrays)
is designed like a virtual machine that accepts python inputs. Its
features are:

1. It can be optimized for the target processing system. For example,
different algorithms can be evolved for CPUs, SMPs (ie, multicore
processors), clusters, GPGPUs, DSPs or vector processors (like Intel
MIC, Nvidia Fermi, Adapteva Parallela).

2. It supports 'Lazy evaluation' - a very significant feature which
makes blaze behave like Mathematica, Sympy or maxima. Numpy presently
evaluates expressions as soon as they are executed. Blaze on the other
hand by default, will wait until an evaluation is forced. What this
means is that when you write a blaze expression in python (like x = a
+ b,  y = x**2), blaze will create a data structure called AST
(abstract syntax tree) instead of executing the specified operation.
AST is a machine representation of the expression. ASTs from multiple
expressions are combined (you will get y = {a+b}**2 ), and finally
executed when a result is required.
This allows optimization of expressions before evaluation - for
example (a*b + a*c) can be optimized as (a*(b+c)), since
multiplication is expensive. You also get advantage of symbolic
mathematics- for example, when you do sin(x)**2 + cos(x)**2, you can
get an array of 1s without even evaluating the expression.

Blaze has many more features like these, but I could figure out only
these so far. An official announcement is yet to come. To know more
about Blaze, you can refer these:

1. Slides presented for PyCon: 
https://github.com/ContinuumIO/blaze/raw/master/slides.pdf

2. Docs within blaze repositories:
Principles: 
https://github.com/ContinuumIO/ArrayServer/blob/master/docs/principles.txt
NDTables doc: 
https://github.com/ContinuumIO/ArrayServer/blob/master/docs/ndtable.rst

3. GitHub repositories:
https://github.com/ContinuumIO/blazeprototype
https://github.com/ContinuumIO/ArrayServer

 Blaze could boost FOSS numerical computing if done successfully. It
will create a powerful and versatile numerics tool for multiple target
machines. But there is a catch. Continuum Analytics is a company with
commercial interests. In the principles.txt document, they state that
they intend to publish the specifications for blaze and a 'reference
implementation' as open source, but an optimized version will be
closed source. This is just like Bittorrent, whose protocol is open,
but the canonical implementation is closed. Other developers have
produced good free implementations like Transmission. Just like that,
blaze will require optimized free implementations for various
backends. There is a need for developers to step up to this and there
is good opportunity too. For example, someone could do an
implementation for Intel MIC or a DSP coprocessor as a college project
(a very large one).

If anyone is interested, please share your comments. More insights on
the design documentation, your thoughts about the project, and
expression of interest are welcome.

Regards,
Gokul Das

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[fsug-tvm] Re: FSF Statement on Secure Boot

[Visakh]

On Monday, 30 July 2012 13:25:59 UTC+5:30, V. Sasi Kumar wrote:

 Dear Visakh, 

 Thank you for posting it to smc. That is where I should have originally 
 posted it, and, in fact, that is what I thought I had done. Some stupid 
 oversight it was to post it to lug. Anyway, there is no need to 
 apologise. You only corrected a mistake that I made. 

 Thanks again and regards, 
 Sasi 

  
@ Sasi sir: Oops! My bad! Actually, it was the other way around! You did 
post it to SMC, and I cross posted it from SMC to LUG. That was what I 
apologised for! :) I think I expressed the idea wrongly and caused the 
confusion. I will take more care in the future to improve my communication 
skills! I have to apologise the second time in a single thread! :D

Anyway, I cross posted this because I thought it affected every computer 
user today - more so the ordinary people. As long as there is an option to 
disable secure boot, newer computer systems can be used exactly the same 
way as with BIOS - but with all advantages of UEFI. But Microsoft has 
already made it clear to OEMs that ARM based systems running windows MUST 
NOT have an option to disable secure boot. How long before they arm twist 
OEMs to do the same for x86? If that happens, our only option will be to 
add our own cryptographic key or the distro's cryptographic key to the UEFI 
memory (assuming that atleast this option is not taken away). Anyways, it 
will be one hell of a headache to install other OSs from then on.

Regards,
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[fsug-tvm]: How to test latest software from source?

[Visakh]

@Syam sir: Thanks for the clear reply - it makes things a lot easier now. I 
was already familiar with some of your suggestion, but others were plain 
new to me. I had partially tried these ideas earlier when I tried a 
Django/Apache/Python/Postgresql server stack. But I still had to ask since 
there were many unsolved problems.

Most 'make' based packages will have a 'prefix' argument to the 'configure' 
 script to install to a custom directory. For example --prefix=/my/path will 
 install everything relative to that path: /my/path/lib, /my/path/include 
 etc.

 
I used the same method for the server stack. Even python setup-tools has a 
--prefix option.
 

 Again, most packages I use have an argument to configure the directories 
 for individual dependent libraries. For example, when building gcc, IIRC, 
 there are options --with-mpfr=, --with-gmp= which allow you to set the same 
 prefix directory as you used when building GMP and MPFR for compiling gcc. 
 There are even more options for fine tuning which will let you specify the 
 'include' and 'lib' separately, rather than specifying the 'prefix' path.


This was the section that I really needed help with. I never figured out 
the way to specify dependencies. At that time, it was not important. But 
this time, I am trying to prepare a Python/Numpy/IPython/Emacs based 
scientific stack. Unfortunately, all these packages are undergoing 
transition (mainly due to py2 to py3 porting) and a dependency hell is in 
the making.
Still, it makes me wonder if it is not possible to specify a 'preferred 
dependency/library location' for the entire stack, rather than having to 
specify location of each dependency to each package during compilation. I 
will check the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable you suggested, to see 
if that can do something.

For this, I guess you'll have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable 
 to point to your custom directories before you invoke your app. You can do 
 this in a wrapper starter script so that it doesn't get applied to the 
 whole system.

 
Actually, I was referring to a situation where one app invokes another - 
not the case of dynamic linking. But the solution was similar to what you 
suggested. I created a wrapper script with the PATH environment variable 
pointing to the other preferred apps (this was necessary since I wanted 
Apache to invoke my freshly compiled Python binaries). My only regret is 
that I couldn't find a single method to specify the PATH for all the apps 
in the stack.

Your reply gave a lot of methods and clues for solving the problem. Thanks!

Regards,
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[fsug-tvm]: How to test latest software from source?

[Visakh]

Hi,
  I want to test a bunch of bleeding edge software (scientific) directly 
from source. However, I am facing the usual issues related to installing 
from source. The dependencies provided by the distro's package manager are 
always too old. And, many of the build scripts don't provide an option to 
uninstall compiled packages from the system cleanly.

That is, I want to be able to test the software without touching the 
default installation (install to a non standard location). I am willing to 
compile all required dependencies from source, but the compiled apps should 
be able to link with custom-compiled SOs, rather than with the distro's 
version (ie, ld configuration). The apps should also invoke other 
custom-compiled apps when available. This way, I can hack the source 
without breaking the default install, and return the system back to normal 
after experimentation.

Can anyone suggest how this is done? A reference doc/page would be nice. I 
have been googling for it, but can't form the correct search terms to get a 
meaningful result. Right now, I am looking at Debian package managers' 
manual for a solution, but not sure if I will get it. Any help is 
appreciated.

with regards,
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[fsug-tvm] Fwd: FSF Statement on Secure Boot

[Visakh]

On Friday, 20 April 2012 15:01:28 UTC+5:30, V. Sasi Kumar wrote:

 Friends,

 I have translated into Malayalam the web page containing the FSF's
 statement on Secure Boot being promoted by Microsoft.  I have written to
 Prof. Nagarjuna about adding it to the website of FSF India along with
 translations into other Indian languages. I am attaching the text file.
 Please see if it needs changes.

 Best,
 Sasi
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 Free Software Foundation of India
 http://swatantryam.blogspot.com

 
സുരക്ഷിത ബൂട്ടും നിയന്ത്രിത ബൂട്ടും 

വിന്‍ഡോസ് 8നു് യോജിക്കുന്ന എന്ന ലോഗോയോടുകൂടി കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറുകള്‍ 
വില്‍ക്കണമെന്നു് നിര്‍മ്മാതാക്കള്‍  ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നെങ്കില്‍ അവര്‍ സുരക്ഷിത 
ബൂട്ട്  എന്ന സംവിധാനം നടപ്പാക്കിയിരിക്കണം എന്നു് പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു. 
എന്നാല്‍ ഈ സാങ്കേതികവിദ്യ അതിന്റെ പേരിനു് അനുയോജ്യമായി വരുമൊ അതൊ നിയന്ത്രിത 
ബൂട്ട് എന്ന പേരു് ആര്‍ജ്ജിക്കുമൊ എന്നതു് ഇപ്പോള്‍ തീര്‍ച്ചയായിട്ടില്ല. 

ശരിയായി നടപ്പാക്കിയാല്‍, ബൂട്ട് ചെയ്യുന്ന സമയത്തു് 
അധികാരപ്പെടുത്തിയിട്ടില്ലാത്ത ബൈനറി പ്രോഗ്രാമുകള്‍ ലോഡു 
ചെയ്യുന്നതില്‍നിന്നു് തടയുന്നതിലൂടെ ദ്രോഹപ്രോഗ്രാമുകളില്‍നിന്നു്
കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറുകളെ രക്ഷിക്കുക എന്നതാണു്സുരക്ഷിത ബൂട്ട് ചെയ്യേണ്ടതു്. 
പ്രയോഗത്തില്‍, ഇതര്‍ത്ഥമാക്കുന്നതു്, ഈ സാങ്കേതികവിദ്യ നടപ്പാക്കിയിട്ടുള്ള 
കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറുകളില്‍ അധികാരപ്പെടുത്തിയിട്ടില്ലാത്ത ഓപ്പറേറ്റിങ്ങ് 
സിസ്റ്റങ്ങള്‍ പ്രവര്‍ത്തിക്കില്ല എന്നാണു് -- ഒരിക്കല്‍ അംഗീകരിച്ചതും 
എന്നാല്‍ അതിനുശേഷം മാറ്റങ്ങള്‍ വരുത്തിയതും പക്ഷെ രണ്ടാമതു് 
അധികാരപ്പെടുത്താത്തതും ആയിട്ടുള്ള സിസ്റ്റങ്ങള്‍ ഉള്‍പ്പെടെയുള്ളവ. 

സ്വയമോ വിശ്വാസമുള്ള മറ്റാരെങ്കിലുമോ എഴുതിയതും മാറ്റം വരുത്തിയതും ആയ 
സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയറുകള്‍ പ്രവര്‍ത്തിപ്പിക്കവണ്ണം ഉപയോക്താവിനു് സ്വയം 
അതു് അധികാരപ്പെടുത്താന്‍ കഴിയുമെങ്കില്‍ ഈ സംവിധാനം അതിന്റെ പേരിനു് 
അര്‍ഹമാണെന്നു് പറയാമായിരുന്നു. എന്നാല്‍ വിന്‍ഡോസ് അല്ലാതെ മറ്റൊന്നും 
ഉപയോഗിക്കാന്‍ കഴിയാത്തവണ്ണം മൈക്രോസോഫ്റ്റും ഹാര്‍ഡ്‌വെയര്‍ 
നിര്‍മ്മാതാക്കളും ഈ സാങ്കേതികവിദ്യ നടപ്പിലാക്കും എന്നു് ഞങ്ങള്‍ ഭയക്കുന്നു. 
അങ്ങനെയെങ്കില്‍ അതിനെ നിയന്ത്രിത ബൂട്ട് എന്നു വിളിക്കുന്നതുതന്നെയാണു് 
നല്ലതു്. കാരണം അതു് ഒരു സുരക്ഷാസംവിധാനം എന്നതിനു പകരം ഉപയോക്താക്കളെ 
വിനാശകരമായ നിയന്ത്രണം നടപ്പിലാക്കാനുള്ള  ഒരു സംവിധാനമായിരിക്കും. 

ഈ സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യം നിങ്ങള്‍ക്കു് പ്രാധാന്യമുള്ളതാണു് എന്നു്കമ്പ്യൂട്ടര്‍ 
നിര്‍മ്മാതാക്കളെയും സര്‍ക്കാരുകളെയും മൈക്രോസോഫ്റ്റിനെയും അറിയിക്കാനായി 
\engmal{
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement} എന്ന 
വെബ്സൈറ്റില്‍ ലഭ്യമായ ഇടത്തു് നിങ്ങളുടെ പേരും ഇമെയ്ലും ചേര്‍ക്കുക. അതു് 
പൂരിപ്പിച്ചു് സേവ് ചെയ്തുകഴിഞ്ഞാല്‍ നിങ്ങള്‍ അതില്‍ പേരു ചേര്‍ത്തു എന്നു് 
ഉറപ്പുവരുത്താനായി നിങ്ങള്‍ക്കു് ഒരു ഇമെയ്ല്‍ ലഭിക്കും അതില്‍ 
പറയുന്നതനുസരിച്ചു് നിങ്ങള്‍ പ്രവര്‍ത്തിക്കുകകൂടി ചെയ്താലേ പ്രസ്താവനയില്‍ 
നിങ്ങളുടെ പേരു് ചേര്‍ക്കുകയുള്ളൂ. അതില്‍ പേരു് ചേര്‍ത്തതുകൊണ്ടു് 
നിങ്ങള്‍ക്കു് സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയര്‍ ഫൌണ്ടേഷന്റെ കത്തുകളെല്ലാം 
തുടര്‍ന്നു് ലഭിക്കും എന്നു് ഭയക്കേണ്ടതില്ല എന്നു പറയട്ടെ. 

എന്നാല്‍ മേല്പറഞ്ഞതൊരു പരസ്യ പ്രസ്താവനയായതിനാല്‍ അതില്‍ പേരു 
ചേര്‍ത്തുകഴിഞ്ഞാല്‍ അതില്‍ പങ്കുചേര്‍ന്നവരുടെ കൂട്ടത്തില്‍ നിങ്ങളുടെ പേരും 
പരസ്യമായി ദൃശ്യമാകും. എന്നാല്‍ നിങ്ങളുടെ ഇമെയ്ല്‍ വിലാസം ഞങ്ങള്‍ 
പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കുകയൊ മറ്റാര്‍ക്കെങ്കിലും നല്‍കുകയൊ ചെയ്യില്ല. 

 

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[fsug-tvm] Re: FSF Statement on Secure Boot

[Visakh]

My apologies to Sasi sir (Shri.V. Sasi Kumar, Free Software Foundation of 
India) for cross posting his mail to SMC here. I do believe that this issue 
will become prominent very soon - as the latest windows 8 may compulsorily 
require UEFI + Secure Boot in place of the age old BIOS. Newer systems may 
all have only UEFI. The Secure Boot technology in present form is mostly 
harmless for advanced users who want to install their own OSs line 
Gnu/Linux (either with some extra effort, or by disabling secure boot). 
Novice may find the extra steps associated with secure boot a little 
intimidating. But a danger exists that the market monopolies may coax the 
system manufacturers (OEMs) to take away options to disable secure boot or 
add your own keys. If that happens, it will become impossible to install 
other OSs without rooting the motherboard. I am leaving this here for 
further thoughts.

Regards,
Gokul Das

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Howto share remote project folder and work on it using IDE like netbeans and eclipse

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Hi,
  Sorry, I may be out of topic and a bit silly. But that sounds like a 
situation where I would use a centralised or distributed version control 
system like git or mercurial. You will have to create a central repository 
server at the host machine. What prevents this for you?

On Monday, 2 July 2012 21:18:42 UTC+5:30, sajuptpm wrote:

 I want to access project running on remote machine, for that i done 
 following steps

 * Shared remote proect folder using NFS
 * Mounted on client machine eg: on /mnt/cms
 * Created a new project in netbeans/eclipse and pointed project path to 
 /mnt/cms/--
 * After that i can work on project but it Very slow in Navigation and 
 Searches.
 * Have any way to solve this performace issue 
 * Have any other way to do similar setup ???

 Note:
 I am using ubuntu 12.04 as server and client


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[fsug-tvm] Re: Video driver Samsung NP-N100s netbook

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Hi,
  The netbook seems to have an Intel GMA 3150 graphics chipset. It doesn't 
need a restricted driver - the open source ones are official. Your 
resolution seems to be 1024 * 600. You will have to change to it, if not 
already set. As for effects, please see this thread : 
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141t=55159
(Sorry, too drowsy to learn what is written - will help you later with that)

Regards,
Gokul Das

On Tuesday, 19 June 2012 19:12:03 UTC+5:30, Adhin wrote:


 Hi guys

 I recently bought Samsung N100s netbook  installed Ubuntu 11.04.
 I guess there is some problem with video driver. The visual effects is not 
 working properly, even the screen resolution is not correct. I looked at 
 the Additional Restricted Drivers there was none listed there.
 Please help.
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[fsug-tvm] Re: Searching for driver

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Hi,
  The device 18ec:3299 USB 2.0 PC Camera (model number QC3231) by 
ArkMicro is supported by Linux UVC driver 
(linkhttp://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/) 
completely. It is available by default in kernel version 2.6.26 and newer. 
To see if you have that kernel, try 'uname -r' command. A kernel update is 
recommended for older kernels. Please do post the outcome.

Regards,
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On Thursday, 26 April 2012 21:16:46 UTC+5:30, Vishnu Pradeep wrote:

 I want to find the correct driver for this device (Webcam). 

 output from 'dmesg'
 usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x18ec/0x3299) is not claimed by any active 
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[fsug-tvm] Re: Problem with Visiontek 3G modem

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Hi,


On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 22:53:22 UTC+5:30, V. Sasi Kumar wrote:

 Thank you for the link, Visakh. The post is well written and clear. But

 I have one doubt. He writes, Using lsusb I found that the device has
 three configurations. Then he goes on to use the command,

 sudo usb_modeswitch -v 230d -p 0001 -u 3

 to switch the device to modem mode. But, as you have seen, the lsusb
 command in my case does not give any such details, like what should be
 the number to follow -u in the command. Could this be because, as you
 say, The device may be so new that linux support may be just
 appearing?

 
The configurations (modes) are given in deep detail by the lsusb -v 
command. A summary is posted below:

Device: Communications
  Configuration: MSC AutoInstall Device
Interface: SCSI Mass Storage
  Endpoint: Unsynchronized Bulk Data
  Endpoint: Unsynchronized Bulk Data
  Configuration: WMC Device
Interface: Communications/Wireless Handset Control
Interface: USB Modem1 - Communications/modem (AT-commands)
  Endpoint: Interrupt
Interface: USB Modem1 - CDC Data
  Endpoint: Unsynchronized Bulk Data
  Endpoint: Unsynchronized Bulk Data
Interface: USB Modem2 - Communications/modem (AT-commands)
  Endpoint: Interrupt
Interface: USB Modem2 - CDC Data
  Endpoint: Unsynchronized Bulk Data
  Endpoint: Unsynchronized Bulk Data
Interface: Communications/Device Management
  Endpoint: Interrupt
Interface: Audio/Control Device
Interface: Audio/Streaming - Audio In (disabled)
Interface: Audio/Streaming - Audio In (PCM 16Bit Mono)
  Endpoint: Isochronous Data
Interface: Audio/Streaming - Audio Out (disabled)
Interface: Audio/Streaming - Audio Out (PCM 16Bit Mono)
  Endpoint: Isochronous Data
Interface: Bulk SCSI Mass Storage
  Endpoint: Unsynchronized Bulk Data
  Endpoint: Unsynchronized Bulk Data
  Configuration: WMC Device
Interface: Communications/Wireless Handset Control
Interface: USB Modem1 - Communications/modem (AT-commands)
  Endpoint: Interrupt
Interface: CDC Data
  Endpoint: Unsynchronized Bulk Data
  Endpoint: Unsynchronized Bulk Data
Interface: USB Modem2 - Communications/modem (AT-commands)
  Endpoint: Interrupt
Interface: CDC Data
  Endpoint: Unsynchronized Bulk Data
  Endpoint: Unsynchronized Bulk Data
Interface: Communications/Device Management
  Endpoint: Unsynchronized Bulk Data
Interface: Audio/Control Device
Interface: Audio/Streaming - Audio In (disabled)
Interface: Audio/Streaming - Audio In (PCM 16Bit Mono)
  Endpoint: Isochronous Data
Interface: Audio/Streaming - Audio Out (disabled)
Interface: Audio/Streaming - Audio Out (PCM 16Bit Mono)
  Endpoint: Isochronous Data
Interface: Bulk SCSI Mass Storage
  Endpoint: Unsynchronized Bulk Data
  Endpoint: Unsynchronized Bulk Data

As the report shows, your device indeed has 3 modes/configurations as the 
blog suggested. The configuration number, which you are looking for, is 
actually given by the *bConfigurationValue* field of the configuration 
descriptor (available from your original report). Thus the configurations 
with their numbers are:

   - MSC AutoInstall Device (confignum: 1) - With 'mass storage' interface, 
   probably for installing PnP driver.
   - WMC Device (confignum: 2)
   - WMC Device (confignum: 3)

This actually gives me more confidence that the solution given in the blog 
will work.

I am attaching as a text file the output of the lsusb -vd 230d:0007
 command just for your knowledge. I have not done any experiments as you
 have suggested. I shall do that later and let you know the results. But
 this output seems to say that here also it is mode 3, unless I am
 mistaken.


I couldn't find any indication that the device is already in mode 3. If it 
is the bNumConfigurations value in the device descriptor, it just says that 
there are 3 configurations available.
The only sure way of knowing which configuration is chosen is to see the 
pseudo-files in /sys/bus/usb/devices (using command: ls 
/sys/bus/usb/devices ). It will show a few device files in a special 
format. For example a device file of name 3-2:1.4 indicates a usb device 
connected to 2nd port of 3rd bus controller. Its configuration is 1 and 
interface 4.

The next action that could be taken is to do a systematic check to find if 
the solution works. It can be done like this:

   1. Plug in the USB device and make sure that it doesn't work (to ensure 
   that the solution works). You can check the present configuration as 
   explained above (if needed).
   2. Do a mode switch with the command : *sudo usb_modeswitch -v 230d -p 
   0007 -u 3 *
   3. See if it works now. If not, that could be a problem with network 
   manager too. Ensure that the NM has detected the device and its 
   configuration in NM is correct.
   4. If it is working now, make more changes to the system (evdev

[fsug-tvm] Re: Problem with Visiontek 3G modem

[Visakh]

Hi,

@ Sasi sir,

Software problems tend to be predictable and repeatable. This one 
sounds otherwise. So I can't say for sure I have a solution. But I did find 
a possible explanation and solution. The device may be so new that linux 
support may be just appearing (note that the USB vendor and device IDs are 
not recognised in the lsusb output). A solution to similar problem in a 3G 
dongle from the same vendor is given in the following blog:


http://amit-mendapara.blogspot.in/2010/11/amazing-bsnl-3g.htmlhttp://amit-mendapara.blogspot.in/2010/11/amazing-bsnl-3g.html

The post has a detailed explanation of the solution (assuming that I am 
looking at the correct problem). Others also have suggested the same 
solution. The problem description is given by the 
usb-modeswitchhttp://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/tool site as:


More and more USB devices (especially high-speed WAN stuff, based on cell 
 phone chipsets containing that feature) have their MS Windows drivers 
 onboard; when plugged in for the first time they act like a flash storage 
 and start installing the driver from there. After installation (and on 
 every consecutive plugging) the driver switches the mode internally, the 
 storage device vanishes (in most cases), and a new device (like an USB 
 modem) shows up. Modem maker Option calls that feature ZeroCD (TM) 
 since it eliminates the need for shipping a separate driver carrier.

 In the beginning, nothing of this was documented in any form and there was 
 hardly any Linux support available.
 On the good side, most of the known devices do work in both modes with the 
 available Linux drivers like usb-storage or option (an optimized serial 
 driver for high-speed modems).
 That leaves only the problem of the mode switching from storage to modem 
 or whatever the thing is supposed to do. 

What I believe is the problem is that your USB dongle is getting mode 
switched correctly only in some instances - may be due to some other 
factor. Sir, you could do some experiments as suggested in the blog to 
determine if this is indeed the problem. If you need assistance with more 
analysis, please post the result of the following command (The result would 
be enlightening for me and others even otherwise):
*lsusb -vd 230d:0007*


@ Arun sir,

I believe that you modem is device 19d2:2003. Could you post the result 
from:

*lsusb -vd 19d2:2003
*
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[fsug-tvm] Re: Connecting Windows 7 to ubuntu

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Hi,

  Sorry for the late reply. 

  Default method for sharing between Win and Lin is using the smb protocol. 
Install Samba (linux implementation of smb) and any required samba admin 
application in linux. Also, enable the folder sharing option (from folder 
properties, sharing tab). In windows, enable sharing as well. Take care to 
use same workgroup name in both systems. Other than this, you will have to 
do the appropriate IP settings was well.

  Do write back if you need more help.

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Problem with Visiontek 3G modem

[Visakh]

Sir,
  Sorry for late response. Hope you got the solution. If not, any info on 
the dongle chipset will help. Please post lsusb output with the dongle 
connected.

Regards,
Gokul Das

On Saturday, 31 March 2012 08:46:18 UTC+5:30, V. Sasi Kumar wrote:

 Dear friends,

 I am using an Idea 3G mobile broadband connection. The dongle is a
 Visiontex device and I find that once I disconnect the device and try to
 connect again later, it gives quite a bit of trouble. Often, I have to
 restart the laptop (sometimes more than once) and/or unplug the device
 and plug it in on another usb port and keep trying this until finally it
 connects. I have not been able to make out the problem. I am using GNOME
 on Linux Mint. I had similar problems earlier also when I tried to use a
 BSNL 3G dongle, also of Visiontek. Has anyone else had a similar
 experience and found a solution? Any help would be appreciated.

 Regards
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[android-developers] How to solve Voice Echo problem in Android??

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I am currently using Android 2.3.3. I am developing an application for
Android to Android voice communication.
But the problem I faced is voice echo problem. It become very noisy
within a short period of time. How can solve that issue??
I found some where that it is solved in the Android 4.0. Is it solved
actually in Android 4.0? Does any one know??

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[fsug-tvm]: Reliance netconnect Broadband+ connectivity issue in Ubuntu 10.04

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On Feb 16, 4:03 pm, Manoj K manojknai...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi All,

           I am facing a issue with Reliance data card. While connecting USB
 modem, me not getting only 256 kbps speed instead of  3.1 mbps. For
 connecting the same me using default soft in ubuntu package. Kindly help me
 to get speed of 3.1 mbps.

 --
 -

 *ThanksRegards*
 **
 *Manoj k

Hi,
  Sorry for answering so late. Is the problem solved?

  If not, please post the device information of the data card. If
unsure how to, connect the card to your system and run 'lsusb' command
from the terminal. Then post the results (relevant part is enough).
Further info can be obtained with that.

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[fsug-tvm] [OT] RIP - Dennis Ritchie

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A group like this should need no introduction to Dennis Ritchie.
Anyone using C and *nix should have heard of him. Many even learned
about him from text books. He was the unsung hero on whose work, the
whole of modern computing is based on - FOSS or otherwise. There is no
modern OS untouched by his pioneering work on C and Unix.

Sadly, the world lost him yesterday (12 Oct 2011) at the age of 70.

The news article from ZDnet :
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/business-of-it/2011/10/13/dennis-ritchie-father-of-unix-and-c-dies-40094176/

Let us take a moment to remember the great human being who gifted
hackers the world over, the tools to tame a powerful machine.

RIP - Dennis Ritchie (9 Sept 1941 - 12 Oct 2011)

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Mirror for git documentation at kernel.org

[Visakh]

Hi,
  Here is the mirror you seek : http://schacon.github.com/git/git.html

  Here is the directory page for almost all git docs: 
http://git-scm.com/documentation

  Here is a really good one that I recommend : http://gitref.org/

Regards,
Gokul Das

On Sep 24, 6:20 pm, srihari k srih...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 Since kernel.org is still down ,is there some other website that serves this
 page(google cache) 
 -http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:duJikPVQqbIJ:www...

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Mirror for git documentation at kernel.org

[Visakh]

Hey, that looks eerily like a man page. You should already have it on
your system if you installed git.

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Best type II modem

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Agreed. But I am now desperately looking for another solution. BSNL
has not solved dozens of complaints about the stupid connection and
now they are arrogantly neglecting the new ones. I am wondering if I
should take them to consumer court. It is disheartening to see their
contemptuous disregard for the rights of a customer who pays for their
services. So for anyone who is thinking about their landline services,
my advice would be to pretend that they don't exist.

Regards,
Gokul Das

On Sep 16, 9:04 pm, sunil s sunils1...@gmail.com wrote:
 But it is true that initial investment is a lose to the customer always
 either it is broadband landline or wireless.

 I already have 3G connection also.  Frustrated with the experience from
 Asianet, I bought the 3G of BSNL.  (At that time only BSNL and MTS has
 licence for 3G and MTS had very poor performance I experienced).  I got very
 good result - Very good speed, reliability etc at that time.  Also they have
 several promotional and unlimited packages.  I have invested Rs.2000/- for
 the data usb device and other miscellaneous charges.  But as customers
 increased, BSNL has brought several restrictions on band with ( I think so )
 and it was not suitable for mass downloads like OS cds/dvds etc.  Also they
 have stopped the unlimited schemes on 3G at that time.  Though I had much
 interest in Wimax, the experience got from the 3G forced me to adopt the
 landline.

      It is only later I have identified that the usb device supplied by BSNL
 was compatiable with only 3.6 mbps, It was wise to buy an unlocked one
 having 7.2 speed paying just 300 or more.
 Now, the Asianet moder worth Rs.1300/- and the usb device Rs.2000/- is a
 dead investment for me.

 3G is a money eater.  I think among the 3G services, bsnl is the cheapest
 one.

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[fsug-tvm] Re: SATA and PATA

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Hi,

On Sep 17, 12:20 am, Jemshid KK jemshi...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 23 August 2011 20:44, Syam Krishnan sya...@gmail.com wrote:
 Can you provide references to support this statement.

 Thank you
 Jemshid

Wow! Looks like the wikipedia bug is catching up! No statements
without references!

Here is the link of reference: 
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/87095/Serial_vs._Parallel_Storage
[Computerworld: QuickStudy: Serial vs. Parallel Storage]
Warning: Annoying ad loads first. You may want to skip it.

Basically, the problem is this - Different bits in a single word in a
parallel bus reach its destination at different times. This is due to
difference in lengths of parallel bit lines, component imperfections
etc. So far, this difference was negligible since each word lasted
long enough that all bits got enough time to reach the receiver
before they were latched. But lately, the speeds have gone up so much,
that this differential delay is comparable to the signalling speeds.
In other words, some bits of a parallel word may still be only on its
way, when the clock signal reaches the destination to latch the word.
This causes data word corruption.

Thus in a way, the speeds of a parallel bus hit a wall - after which
the data is corrupted. Asynchronous serial transfer doesn't have this
problem and can be sped up indefinitely (until you hit some other
wall!). I hope that was simple enough!

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Best type II modem

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Hi,

On Sep 15, 6:01 pm, bipin bipin...@gmail.com wrote:
 how so ? you still have to either buy a wimax or 3g modem/card to use those
 services. and in most cases will be locked to providers network(the ones
 already in market) so portability will be an issue as well.

True. But I meant that you wont be stuck with a twisted pair line that
is as flimsy as a cloth line. Atleast, the wireless communication
medium (air) wont break every 24 hours leaving you at the mercy of
their questionable competence. Considering the hassle, I definitely
prefer a non-portable wireless solution - you need only worry about a
data card!

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Linux Foundation server compromised

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Hi,

On Sep 14, 11:08 pm, Ershad K ersha...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yeah, but I'm curious how the server got compromised.

To start with, I made a mistake - the linux kernel is distributed from
kernel.org. Not from linux foundation. The bad news is, kernel.org is
also compromised.
There is very little info available right now - but this much is
apparent: (from kernel.org)

*  Intruders gained root access on the server Hera. We believe they
may have gained this access via a compromised user credential; how
they managed to exploit that to root access is currently unknown and
is being investigated.
*   Files belonging to ssh (openssh, openssh-server and openssh-
clients) were modified and running live.
*   A trojan startup file was added to the system start up scripts
*   User interactions were logged, as well as some exploit code. We
have retained this for now.
*   Trojan initially discovered due to the Xnest /dev/mem error
message w/o Xnest installed; have been seen on other systems. It is
unclear if systems that exhibit this message are susceptible,
compromised or not. If developers see this, and you don’t have Xnest
installed, please investigate.
*   It *appears* that 3.1-rc2 might have blocked the exploit injector,
we don’t know if this is intentional or a side affect of another
bugfix or change.


This is a little disturbing due to the following:

1. Two sites were compromised nearly at the same time - possibly in
the same way. (leaked ssh keys?)
2. If both cracks used compromised credentials, it is surprising how
*root* credentials to *both* sites were leaked.
3. You can place malware in linux systems.

Some people have already picked up point 3. Some wise guys are even
claiming that linux is more insecure than windoze. Only that claim
lacks common sense. The whole purpose of a root account is that - to
mess with a system any way you want.

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Best type II modem

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Hi,

 I am interested in the points of Gokul das.

 If its is true, what about other service providers?

  It is ok as far as your connection doesn't break. However if it
does, it is a lost cause. They appear to lack the competence or
resources to correct it. It is best to go for a wireless connection
(Wimax or 3G data) since it doesn't entail a permanent investment.

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Linux Foundation server compromised

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Hi,

On Sep 11, 10:13 pm, Ershad K ersha...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 09/11/2011 09:11 PM, Prasad SR wrote:

 This is a shocking news, Indeed. But how's this really possible? The
 crackers should have got compromised authorization details, right?

 Relax! Thanks to Git, there should be thousands of pristine copies of
linux kernel history. Nothing is lost - it is only as bad as
reformatting the server (figuratively). The kernel mirror as far as I
know is already up in github.

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Best type II modem

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Hi,
  I don't know if this is meaningful here, but may I suggest that you
avoid any of BSNL's landline based services? The dearth of official
modems is a very ominous indication of a deeply systemic rot in their
services. They have been totally incompetent in solving very
frequently occurring problems with their DSL service. And lately, they
have started to totally neglect any complaints. I also heard rumours
that they were instructed not to deal with complaints which require
replacement of any of their equipments (the sources will remain anon).

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[fsug-tvm]: Using gEDA

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Sir,
  I started with KiCAD before migrating to gEDA. KiCAD has a good
interface, but is considerably lacking in functionality compared to
gEDA. The most striking is the lack of a good autorouter in KiCAD's
pcbnew, whereas gEDA's pcb has a very good one (still only learning
that, though).

  gEDA on the other hand is very competent, but the interface is not
upto the standards. gEDA's workflow is essentially the same as any
professional EDA package. But it often requires the use of command
line - most famously, the netlister. I am not too shy to to use the
command line, but many professional students/engineers are very
unprofessional when it comes to facing up to the command line. There
are also places where a GUI is most preferable - like setting up a
SPICE simulation. The use of a command line here is purely medieval.
gEDA needs a lot of improvement in this area (like a good SPICE
control GUI that is well integrated with gtkWave).

  Very often, gEDA feels like a disorganized collection of tools. Many
professional suites like orcad hide this separation by providing menu
items that call other associated application (like schematic capture
app menu to setup and start a SPICE simulation or component footprint
selection for PCB). KiCAD goes further in this area by proving a
project manager app which allows easy workflow control without
interlinking specialist applications. This is a seriously big drawback
for gEDA. Most professionals and students value enhanced productivity
and a gentle learning curve more than freedom or cost.

  I have the following conclusions about open source EDA:

1. I wouldn't fancy gEDA's chances as an appealing tool as long as the
designers don't get over the 'geeks use command line' syndrome. Most
students and engineers wouldn't consider themselves as geeks.

2. GUI enhancements to gEDA would be extremely helpful to the project.
gschem and pcb interfaces are already great. What is needed is a
project manager on the lines of KiCAD that can hide all command line
operations. Also needed is a good interface for SPICE (though there
are 2 already). This alone may make it a very appealing to students
and professionals. Quite ironically, this should have been very easy
compared to the rest of the suite.

3. There are free apps that simply have no commercial counterparts.
Students may find them interesting. First is XCircuit for schematic
capture. Though it is not as easy as gschem, it results in publication
quality schematics (Think of it as LaTeX for schematics). Its drawings
are inherently hierarchal and is natively stored as postscript. Its
output can be netlisted for SPICE and PCB).
The second is Electric VLSI. It is a VLSI chip design tool that is par
excellence. I loved its design paradigm (it is different from
commercial tools). More interestingly, you can mix CAD and HDL design
entry.

4. There is one another way to promote freedom and cooperation among
electronics academia. Though FOSS elephantiasis may disagree, I
believe that there is future for open source hardware (rather, open
source designs). Licences like TAPR and OSHW can be used by students
to showcase their talent - just as the do with free software.

5. The best way to promote free EDA tools is to use them as tools to
promote professional design practices. Eventually they will improve as
their products improve (like GCC, GDB, mercurial, git etc).

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[fsug-tvm]: Using gEDA

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Sir,
  I do use gEDA out of academic interest, though not that often. I am
more interested in it for device and circuit modelling (just starting
to learn it).

  We used to have discussions about gEDA in relation to the Fedora
Electronics lab distribution. But the complaint at that time was that
gEDA user interface is not that friendly. Lately however, I am
noticing a lot of refreshing changes in the project with respect to
UI. Newer users may not find it that difficult.

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Xcircuit

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Their user documentation seems to be pretty good. Especially, tutorial
1  2 has the answers you seek. Tutorial 2 is on schematic capture.
They are at: http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/tutorial/index.html

Regards,
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 draw the simple circuits I need. If anyone has used this, please do email
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[fsug-tvm]: Drawing circuit diagrams

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Hi,
  The self designated software for drawing publication quality circuit
diagrams is XCircuit.

http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/

  It uses postscript for storing the hierarchial schematic. In
addition, it can export hierarchal spice netlists and can be used with
PCB (software) for laying PCBs.

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 Could someone tell me what is the best program to use for drawing circuit
 diagrams. I need these to be publication quality.

 I cannot get Xfig to draw straight lines.

 Thanks

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[fsug-tvm] : minitube-youtube in your hands

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Hi,

On Nov 16, 11:09 am, Manilal K M libreg...@gmail.com wrote:
 Which browser are you using? When I visitedhttp://www.youtube.com/html5, it 
 says I need firefox version 4.

 --
 Manilal K M : മണിലാല്‍ കെ എം.http://libregeek.blogspot.com

  The Firefox version that supports WebM (FF4) is still in beta. But
Chromium and Opera support WebM in their stable releases.
  Anyway, I tried HTML5  WebM on Youtube using Chromium 7. Sorry to
say - it wasn't very impressive. The video was quite jerky and the
audio was a little washed out. I couldn't really find out what was
wrong. Anyway, it still in early development and it is too early to
pass a judgement. I guess we can check again after sometime.

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[fsug-tvm]: Ubuntu plans to replace X-server with Wayland server

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Hi,

On Nov 16, 7:38 pm, prakreet vipinmatth...@gmail.com wrote:
 the main problem canonical is going to face is getting graphics card
 vendors to support wayland display server.. the graphics card drivers
 need to be rewritten to support wayland. nvidia publicly said that
 they have no plans to release drivers supporting wayland.. if all
 distros take up wayland, we will have more weight behind our demand..

 shuttleworth announced the adoption early because he wants wayland to
 be really baked for the 12.04 lts.. it will take that much time for
 the drivers n apps to start using its potential to the fullest..

  Frankly, all the distros put together is no incentive for any GPU
maker to support Wayland. They will support it only if they want to -
probably because of GNU/Linux geeks working for them.

  Anyway, Nvidia's decision looks to be more out of laziness - not due
to dislike of Wayland server. The driver features needed by Wayland
(KMS, DRI etc) are not Wayland specific - they are used by Xserver
too. Fortunately, the FOSS driver Noveau seems to have improved a lot.
Perhaps that will compel Nvidia to support the server sooner or later.

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[fsug-tvm]: Ubuntu plans to replace X-server with Wayland server

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Hi,
  Well, just as I expected, people are very interested in this bold
move by Canonical. Let me throw in some tech details (as I interpret
it), so that we can make better judgment.

On Nov 13, 11:44 pm, Saji Nediyanchath saj...@gmail.com wrote:
 What I understood from the decision is that Xserver is
 something like a legacy software, it had not been designed for graphics
 intensive applications.

  That assessment seems to be same as Shuttleworth's. The original X-
server was not written keeping in mind the minimum GPU/graphics-
acceleration capabilities that we have today - even in smart phones.
Also unexpected was the rise of standards like OpenGL and DirectX.
Xserver was later retrofitted to work with them, but became
unmanageable over time when software like Compiz was written.

 And due to that the programmers lose their precious
 time writing unnecessarily long code to overcome that.

  Application programmers rarely write code that directly interact
with X-server. Rather, it is the job of the gui-toolkit (gtk/qt) and
window-manager (metacity/kwin/compiz) to do that. We program the
application to interact with toolkit and window-manager, and they talk
to the x-server. So, as long as the gui-toolkit and window-managers
are modified to work with Wayland, there will be absolutely no
difference in the way we program or the way even old gui applications
work.

 And hopefully that decision comes up with some good results in time for Ubuntu
 11.04. I believe that Canonical, backed up by the Ubuntu community can
 surely succeed in this.

  I don't know about that. Shuttleworth gave a time-line of about 4
years for that!

On Nov 13, 2:36 pm, ranjith.saj...@gmail.com
ranjith.saj...@gmail.com wrote:
 I support Canonical for This move. Wayland with X-tunneling will be good.

  I doubt that Wayland can do display tunneling - though I share your
sentiment (I want display tunneling as well!). First of all, Wayland
is not another implementation of X-server. It is a completely
different display server. In case of X-server, the application/toolkit
talks to the server using network protocols. These messages can be
routed over the network, and you get X-tunneling - application in one
system and display in another. But in case of Wayland, the server and
the app/toolkit communicates through GPU shared memory buffer. There
is a block of RAM (the buffer) in the video card that the server and
the application shares. When the app wants and update of screen, it
directly manipulates the buffer and notifies the server. The server
just reads the buffer and updates the screen. Wayland uses a Linux
kernel feature known as 'direct rendering' to do this.

  This essentially means that the app and server should be on the same
machine to share the buffer. Theoretically, it is possible to separate
the display and app into 2 machines. You just need to create identical
buffers in both machines. Whenever the app modifies its buffer, some
program should copy these changes and send it to the display machine
over the network. There, another program should receive the changes
and implement it on the Wayland server's copy buffer. However, this
introduces coherence problem - you need to avoid a situation where the
2 buffers are different (similar to cache coherence - if your subject
is computer science). This method is no different and no better than
techniques already in use - like VNC or Windows RDP. Frankly, with
Wayland, true display-tunneling would be lost forever.

On Nov 13, 8:19 pm, rakesh kr rakeshkausthub...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yes i also agree with that Mandriva is many times better than ubuntu
 i wonder why people become followers of ubuntu.?

  I really fail to understand why Ubuntu attract such ill-will over
such bold moves. Eventually, Ubuntu experiments end up as upstream
standards (like pulse-audio and libnotify). What I find is a 'purist'
culture (no offense intended) that opposes anything that changes
traditional GNU/Linux. The fact is that Wayland is as open-source as X-
server - it is even hosted by freedesktop.org. Normal users wont
perceive any change due to the switch, if not a better user
experience. The installation will be smaller, snappier and cleaner.
Infact, the Wayland server was first introduced in the Mobile OS -
Meego by Intel and Nokia (and may be Android too). The difference is
that Meego and Android are considered as new OSs -even though they use
GNU and Linux. Ubuntu is only considered as another GNU/Linux
distribution. And GNU/Linux distros need a bold change like this if
they are ever going to survive. The only ones to loose with Wayland
are those who use X-tunneling for a living. Infact, very few of us
have used it for anything other than satisfying our curiosity.

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[fsug-tvm]: minitube-youtube in your hands

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Hi,

On Nov 15, 12:59 pm, JeevZ jeevan...@gmail.com wrote:
 Minitube is a native YouTube client.
 With it you can watch YouTube videos in a new way: you type a keyword,
 Minitube gives you an endless video stream.

  Incidentally, I was looking at the same software today. The reason
was WebM (VP8 + Theora + Matroska). There is news that Youtube has
already transcoded 80% of its video collection to WebM format (
http://www.osnews.com/story/24021/WebM_Update_80_of_Daily_YouTube_Videos_Now_in_WebM
). But most linux distros ship with chrome and firefox versions that
don't support WebM yet. I was wondering if the native youtube client
has webM support yet. Any ideas?

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[fsug-tvm]: minitube-youtube in your hands

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Hi Jeev,

On Nov 15, 3:16 pm, JeevZ jeevan...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yes, Minitube doesnt need any Flash plugin

  The fact that Minitube doesn't need Flash doesn't necessarily mean
that it is using webM. It could be playing H.264 video and AAC audio
within the FLV container.

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Ham radio

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Hi,

 Would u pl. enlighten me the advantageous of a HAM  Radio over and
 above a Laptop with internet(wi-fi)?

  How about like this? Think about the difference between being able
to just use a PC and being able to open up a PC, take it apart and
then put it back together in working condition. Wifi and HAM radio are
related as something like this. It's all about being an engineer or a
builder, rather than being just a customer.

Regards,
Gokul Das

[P.S: Forgive my poor analogy! Really, should I be the one to lecture
the great uncle who brought Malayalam to computers?? It was too
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[fsug-tvm]: Ubuntu plans to replace X-server with Wayland server

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Hi,
  I am shamelessly cross-posting this news from Slashdot :
  
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/11/05/137212/Ubuntu-Dumps-X-For-Unity-On-Wayland
  http://www.cio.com.au/article/367050/ubuntu_risky_leap_unity_wayland/

  I am posting it here because this announcement from Shuttleworth is
already attracting a lot of criticism and debate. The CIO article
itself seems to be heavily biased against it -with a lot of inaccurate
info. On the technical side, X-server has been the backbone of Unix/
Linux graphical interface since mid-80s. Several attempts to supplant
it has simply failed. Now Canonical seems to be trying that again- the
difference being that Ubuntu is kind of a king maker now. With their
large customer base, they may be able to decide GNU/Linux's future
themselves. This is despite the big resistance they always face when
trying something new.

  There are some good examples from the past. First was the
introduction of pulse-audio (the system was very unstable at the time
and caused a huge ruckus). Another was the renovation of the
notification system (which everyone hated at the time, but eventually
found itself reimplemented in Gnome). Now they are planning to
sideline Gnome-shell for unity interface and now replacement of X
server with Wayland. Canonical is always blamed of introducing half-
baked features into ubuntu. But as I see it, Canonical forces everyone
to adopt new features and eventually improve it, rather than waiting
for a new feature that never matures on its own.

  So, how does Wayland migration look as of now?:

Pros:
  1. Wayland is very much less bloated compared to X-server. Any
software 2 decades old is bound to be bloated
  2. Wayland takes advantage of latest GPU and kernel features - like
DRM directrendering
  3. Compared to X-server, fewer time consuming 'context switching' is
required. Here is it in more detail: 
http://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html
  4. Wayland can be much more responsive
  5. Wayland doesnt make as much mistake as X-server when doing 3D and
desktop effects (ie, compositing). Here, the server itself will be the
compositor.

Cons:
  1. The biggest point of contention is that 'ssh -X' (Xserver ssh
tunneling) wont be possible anymore. Wayland and its client (ie, your
application) communicates through shared memory buffers in the GPU.
This is unlike Xserver-client communication which can be routed
through network. The first casualty that I see is the 'Linux Terminal
Server Project' which some of our group members use with relation to
Edubuntu. Frankly, I dont want to miss that feature - RDP and VNC
doesnt even come close to X tunneling. This has already become the
subject of the biggest debate.
  2. Every X-based application will have to be rewritten or run in
compatibility mode. In compatibility, the X-server will itself run as
a client on top of Wayland. In case of GTK/Gnome and Qt/KDE apps, they
will be fine as long as the toolkits (QT and GTK+) can be ported for
Wayland
  3. Getting hardware vendors to supply Wayland drivers instead of X-
drivers will be hard (I am unsure of this part). Nvidia users (like
yours truly) are the ones the most worried (Dont ask me why!).

  Some of you may have played around with X-server. What do you think
of this move?

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[fsug-tvm] : Ubuntu plans to replace X-server with Wayland server

[Visakh]

 Here is a much better description:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/ubuntu_embraces_unity_and_wayland_or_gnu_linux_exciting_again

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[fsug-tvm] Re: : Ubuntu plans to replace X-server with Wayland server

[Visakh]

Hi,
  Agreed that Canonical is a little bit aggressive on this. But
Desktop Linux can definitely use some modernization. It is starting to
remind me of Win XP and Win 7.

Regards,
Gokul Das

On Nov 6, 2:18 pm, JeevZ jeevan...@gmail.com wrote:
 There are other Distros like Mandriva or Fedora. Why would any  one
 stick with Ubuntu??
 if its point  of user simplicity, I think mandriva is 10 times better
 than ubuntu.

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   Here is a much better description:
 http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/ubuntu_embraces_unity_and...

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[fsug-tvm] Ubuntu 10.10 is officially out!

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Hi,

On Oct 13, 7:06 pm, Abhilash Thadathil abhilash...@gmail.com wrote:
 No , how to do that ?

Use these commands

$ cd FOLDER
$ md5sum ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso

Replace 'FOLDER' with the directory in which you saved the iso image.
Also use the correct name for the image file. Then compare the result
against list below:

a8d8e24bf8b82b4302d074fcac380d65 *ubuntu-10.10-alternate-amd64.iso
419ad8ee1bb76a49490f4a08b5be43f0 *ubuntu-10.10-alternate-i386.iso
1b9df87e588451d2ca4643a036020410 *ubuntu-10.10-desktop-amd64.iso
59d15a16ce90c8ee97fa7c211b7673a8 *ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso
6877bf8d673b87ba9500b0ff879091d0 *ubuntu-10.10-netbook-i386.iso
ab66a1d59a8d78e9ea8ef9b021d6574a *ubuntu-10.10-server-amd64.iso
ce1cee108de737d7492e37069eed538e *ubuntu-10.10-server-i386.iso
d1db1f93bb7486593b7d1ea023c0e3f8 *wubi.exe

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[fsug-tvm] SFD Planning Meeting

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On Sep 4, 12:10 am, Raru Rv raru...@gmail.com wrote:
 It seems I don't have freedom to express my feelings in this users group.
 --
 Raru Rv

I really don't understand why you take it personally. Please spare a
thought for the earlier pioneers of FSUG who had to fare even worse
problems. Even I have gone through the same situation several times.
Take it cheerfully. If you give up now, you will miss the chance to
glory in the future.

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Fwd: [smc-discuss] Obituary : Shyam Karanattu

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That is a shocking loss. Lost a friend.

Rest in peace. We pray for your soul.

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[fsug-tvm] ubuntu introducing multi-touch support

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Hi,

On Sep 4, 10:32 pm, stranger in black. gnu...@gmail.com wrote:
 http://maketecheasier.com/ubuntu-10-10-comes-with-multi-touch-support

Let me add a little bit of background info.
Canonical blog: http://blog.canonical.com/?p=414
Shuttleworth blog: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/455
Unity UI spec (very interesting): 
https://docs.google.com/View?id=dfkkjjcj_1482g457bcc7

There is a bad news, and a good news. Bad news first - It is too early
to celebrate. uTouch is an experimental framework. It presently
supports only one or two platforms (one is a high end laptop from Dell
- XT2), used as a development platforms. Also, currently its
functionality is too limited to be of any use. It will take some time
to mature.

The good news is - multi touch as touted by Canonical for Ubuntu will
be much more elaborate than anything else we have seen in the area.
Once the API matures, support for available touch screens will improve
irrespective of Canonical's efforts. Meanwhile, uTouch will
revolutionize multitouch in the following ways:

1. As is the tradition with whatever in GNU/Linux, uTouch interaction
will be subject to elaborate standardization. It will be consistent
across environments and applications. It will be easier to learn and
remember.

2. The interaction will be much richer than the ones already in
market. Simple gestures can be chained to achieve complex effects.
There will be a gesture language to specify these.

3. The framework will integrate functions in kernel, xserver (mpx) and
userland layers. However, the programming interface will make it a
piece of cake for programmers.

So patience everyone, the future is in the making!

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[fsug-tvm] Fwd: [nitdgplug] Rupee font in open format

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Hi,
  I have to disagree with you on one matter Nishan. We must actively
discourage such efforts. When there is no overall standard for doing
something, people will propagate several conflicting ad-hoc standards.
And when the real standard does arrive, it will take a long time to
subdue the rest. Remember how much problem the conflicting Mathrubhumi
and Manorama fonts used to cause? And remember how much time it took
for Mathrubhumi and Manorama to accept Unicode after it was
established? They didn't even bother to follow the set ISCII standard.
This set Malayalam content generation back by several years - and it
recovered only due to Unicode. Unlike in case of promoting FOSS, I
believe that we must take tough and strict unilateral stance on
promoting unified open standards.

Regards,
Gokul Das

On Jul 18, 9:30 pm, Nishan Naseer nishan.nas...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am not discouraging the effort, but wouldn't it be better we wait until
 Unicode comes up with a standard code point for the new Rupee Symbol?

 There is already a
 proposalhttp://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3862.pdf submitted
 for consideration.

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[fsug-tvm] activex in firefox/ubuntu

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Hi Junise,

On Jun 3, 6:23 pm, stranger in black. gnu...@gmail.com wrote:
 How can I view the websites with activex controls in my ubuntu 10.04 system?

  There seems to be no method to run ActiveX in Gnu/Linux other than
to run IE on wine.

  Besides that, I wouldn't recommend running ActiveX on any system -
it is considered one of the worst and most insecure technology ever
developed for the web. Even IE often blocks it for security reasons. I
know that this is an inappropriate reply for a help request, but
consider this as a personal advice from a friend.

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[fsug-tvm] What is our group name ilug-tvm or fsug-tvm ?

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Hi,

  The story of the two names is history. We started off as ILUG-TVM
and occasionally called GLUG-TVM as well. But, about two years ago, we
had a debate about our mandate. Finally after 2 months or so, it was
decided that the group would be called FSUG-TVM according to our
updated mandate to support free software in all forms.

  The old site http://www.ilug-tvm.org/ was from that time. With the
name change, it was decided to change the site to new domain 
http://fsug-tvm.org/
. However, the old domain was never abandoned and the new one was
never completed. Anyway, as for our new web site, I think that any
attempt to replace this google group would be in vain. Any solution
will have to involve this system within. The site admins are keenly
aware of this problem.

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[fsug-tvm] VP8 to be open sourced Lightworks video editor goes opensource..

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Hi,

On May 20, 10:15 pm, Mohamed Naufal naufa...@gmail.com wrote:
 Something for the technically minded:
 The first in-depth technical analysis of VP8
 (http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377)

 Cheers
 Naufal


  Thanks a lot for the link. Unfortunately, this article is not very
confidence inspiring. It seems to suggest that VP8 is inferior to H.
264 and that it is a patent bomb. Anyway, the truth will be known
soon. Meanwhile, Google's silence about VP8 - even during its release-
is very unnerving.

Regrads,
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[fsug-tvm] VP8 to be open sourced Lightworks video editor goes opensource..

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Finally! The news we had been waiting for! Here is the WebM project :
The open sourced VP8 video format with Vorbis audio format and a
subset of the Matroska container.

Official site : http://www.webmproject.org/
Mozilla blog: 
http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/05/19/open-web-open-video-and-webm/

Google and Mozilla, we owe you one!

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[fsug-tvm] VP8 to be open sourced Lightworks video editor goes opensource..

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Finally! Here is the news we have been waiting to hear! Introducing
WebM : Open sourced VP8 video format with Vorbis audio format in a
subset of the open source Matroska container.

Official site : http://www.webmproject.org/
Mozilla blog: 
http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/05/19/open-web-open-video-and-webm/

We owe you one - Google and Mozilla!

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[fsug-tvm] VP8 to be open sourced?

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Hi,

  Just yesterday on the sidelines of FSUG meeting, we discussed the
possibility of Google open sourcing the VP8 format/codec and the
opportunities it could open. VP8 is more than major contender against
the controversial H.264 format - the former is considered far superior
in quality and efficiency. Coincidentally, news has started spreading
around that Google is just about the do that.

See this (From a slashdot post): 
http://newteevee.com/2010/04/12/google-to-open-source-vp8-for-html5-video/

  This could be the big moment we were waiting for. Such an action by
Google could set the HTML5 standard really free and make the future of
Web multimedia really bright.

  But it is not yet time to celebrate. Google has not yet made any
official announcement. This could be a rumour - or even worse, an
intentional one intended at arm twisting Google into doing it. Can any
member throw an insight into authenticity of this news?

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[fsug-tvm] VP8 to be open sourced?

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Hi,

  I really don't mind a flame war on this one - The Matroska container
is way better than the Ogg container :P

  On a more serious note, the open source Matroska container format is
one that doesn't get the attention it deserves. I have to agree that
Ogg is slightly better for streaming. But Ogg was designed with the
Vorbis audio format in mind, and later tweaked to allow Theora video.
It is hard to make it play anything else. Matroska on the other hand,
is more or less future-proof - designed to handle almost anything. Its
other capabilities are also impressive. Don't take my word - see their
own intro : http://www.matroska.org/technical/whatis/index.html

Regards,
Gokul Das

On Apr 13, 9:23 pm, prakreet vipinmatth...@gmail.com wrote:
 we just discussed this matter yesterday n this article pops up today..
 wow.. if the news about google tv is right, this news most probably
 will also be right.. it is just logical for google to open up its
 codecs if they are going to create a thing like google tv.. lets
 celebrate when the official announcement comes..

 imagine if VP8 really goes open n ziph foundation gets VP8 into ogg
 container.. even now ogg provides better audio clarity than mp3.. with
 VP8 the video quality will also surpass any proprietary counterparts..
 then mayb a time will come when all the videos available on the web
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[fsug-tvm] Re: What's next? | What will come after Linux?

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Hi,
Looking at how much time they took to finish 66% of Hurd, I think it's
going to be a looong wait to finish the rest. Most of the FOSS
community has simply given up on Hurd - often, it's a big joke.

On the other hand, it is not the linux kernel that looks lacking now.
The desktop UI metaphor itself looks old. Many including Bill Gates
predicted the death of mouse and keyboard in favour of a more natural
UI. But we are still waiting. Perhaps the MeeGo platform (the project
merged from Moblin and Maemo) is a first step.

Regards,
Gokul Das

On Apr 8, 10:38 am, Roshan P Koshy rospkos...@gmail.com wrote:
 Gnu Hurd is now 66% complied 
 Opensolaris is no more  linux kernel is to stay ... coz of new
 advancements ... linux kernel is bloated , as many features r there .. but
 in production, it is possible to customize it giving a slim and slick look.

 there is no prob to say 'GNU/Linux' ... if u understand the technical aspect
 ..btw Hurd will be a different OS, may be on par with linux

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[fsug-tvm] Advantages of Python

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Hi!

On Nov 4, 5:49 pm, Syam Krishnan sya...@gmail.com wrote:

  I did a iteration test to 1000 using for loop, and I had to
  restart , cold boot ,my system.

 Do you mean that your program did not finish and ate up all the CPU
 time? Isn't that normal (unless you have a multi processor system and
 the OS shares the load)?

  That is new! I thought Gnu/Linux was a preemptive multitasking
system - even on a single processor. Is it really possible for a
userland application to bring down the entire system like that? Is
there something else in Python that can freeze a system like that?

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[tools-dev] Error: project file 'pcbuild.sln' was not found or not a valid project file.

[sree visakh]

hi all,

   When building OOO310_m19 from tcsh under Windows XP, dmake fails
as showing the following messages.Im using .NET 2005 compiler

Building module python
/cygdrive/e/OOO310_m19/python
-
dmake:  Warning: -- Found file corresponding to virtual target [./
wntmsci11.pro/
misc/build/Python-2.6.1/PC/
pyconfig.h].
mkdir.exe ./wntmsci11.pro/misc/build/Python-2.6.1/PCbuild
mkdir: cannot create directory `./
wntmsci11.pro/misc/build/Python-2.6.1/PCbuild'
: File exists
cd ./wntmsci11.pro/misc/build/Python-2.6.1/PCbuild 
e:/MSVS8/Vc/vcpackages/vcb
uild.exe pcbuild.sln Release|Win32   C:/cygwin/bin/touch.exe
e:/OOO310_m19/p
ython/./wntmsci11.pro/misc/build/so_built_so_python
Microsoft (R) Visual C++ Project Builder - Command Line Version 8.00.50727
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1993-2003. All rights reserved.

Error: project file 'pcbuild.sln' was not found or not a valid project file.
dmake:  Error code 255, while making './
wntmsci11.pro/misc/build/so_built_so_pyt
hon'

ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /cygdrive/e/OOO310_m19/python
rmdir /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/3876
dmake:  Error code 1, while making 'build_instsetoo_native'
[administra...@ls21ws03 ...e/OOO310_m19


any one help me

regards
sreevisakh

[tools-dev] problem building expat module

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hi all
   When building OOO310_m19 from tcsh under Windows XP, dmake
fails as showing the following messages. Im Using VB.NET 2003
compiler.


Building module expat
/cygdrive/e/OOO310_m19/expat
-
if ( -e ./wntmsci10.pro/misc/build/expat ) mv ./
wntmsci10.pro/misc/build/expat .
/wntmsci10.pro/misc/build/expat_removeme
rm -rf ./wntmsci10.pro/misc/build/expat_removeme
cd ./wntmsci10.pro/misc/build  ( unzip -qq  -o
../../../download/expat.zip) 
 C:/cygwin/bin/touch.exe so_unpacked_so_expat
unzip: invalid option -- o
unzip 1.3.5
(2002-09-30)
usage: unzip [-acdfhlLnNrtvV19] [-S suffix] [file ...]
 -a --ascii   ascii text; convert end-of-lines using local conventions
 -c --stdout  write on standard output, keep original files unchanged
 -d --decompress  decompress
 -f --force   force overwrite of output file and compress links
 -h --helpgive this help
 -l --listlist compressed file contents
 -L --license display software license
 -n --no-name do not save or restore the original name and time stamp
 -N --namesave or restore the original name and time stamp
 -q --quiet   suppress all warnings
 -r --recursive   operate recursively on directories
 -S .suf  --suffix .suf use suffix .suf on compressed files
 -t --testtest compressed file integrity
 -v --verbose verbose mode
 -V --version display version number
 -1 --fastcompress faster
 -9 --bestcompress better
 file...  files to (de)compress. If none given, use standard input.
Report bugs to bug-g...@gnu.org.
make writeable...
chmod: cannot access `expat': No such file or directory
dmake:  Error code 1, while making './
wntmsci10.pro/misc/build/so_unpacked_so_ex
pat'
dmake:  './wntmsci10.pro/misc/build/so_unpacked_so_expat' removed.
ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /cygdrive/e/OOO310_m19/expat
rmdir /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/3324
dmake:  Error code 1, while making 'build_instsetoo_native'


i am completely new in openoffice building process, so please  anyone  help
me


Regards,
  sreevisakh.v

[fsug-tvm] Build an OS

[Visakh]

Hi,
  I have a feeling that a distro for a college project may be a little
too ambitious. But that could well depend on its complexity. It could
be possible if you are just planning to modify a current distro, or
putting together a minimal one. A full fledged distro build is worth
it only for special applications or with massive community
participation.

  Anyway, +1 for 'Linux from Scratch'. It is a great resource. May be
the one place stop for understanding distro building.

@ Sebin: I think you made a slight mistake about BeOS. BeOS was
proprietary and is dead. Its FOSS clone, Haiku is the one in alpha.
  BeOS specs were very impressive, but got hunted down by- you know
who!  And just for record, the windoz clone is ReactOS- also in alpha.
Both these projects are desperately in need of help. And since both
are copying proprietary OSs, their development methods are very
special.

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Fwd: [smc-discu ss] മീര വലുതായോ?

[Visakh]

Hi,

 I think you misunderstood. We are talking about a bug and not a feature. :)
 Regarding this bug:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523454

Yes, I misunderstood. Sorry about that. But I would have liked that as
a feature - Meera having a normal size without resorting to hacks in
fontconfig. Still, I am happy having the font in the first place :) .

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Fwd: [smc-discu ss] മീര വലുതായോ?

[Visakh]

That's great news! Thanks SMC!

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[fsug-tvm] Filesystem got corrupted after filesystem check.........

[Visakh]

Hi,

On Sep 2, 1:58 pm, Srihari k harisult...@gmail.com wrote:
 @gokul OMG OMG!!!you make me nerveous!!

  Haha! Sorry for that! But remember that you are dealing with a
machine. It could fail anytime - be prepared always. Power system and
hard drives are especially worrying. Any part of the system can be
easily restored after a failure - except the data that represent your
hard work. As long as it is backed up with multiple copies, you don't
need to worry about anything.

 @gokul i ran SMART and i was not smart enough to decode the
 output.Please spare some time analysing the text that follows((Man do
 it.. ITS my HARDDISk :) ))

  Funny! In the industry, the hard drives are the devices that the
specialists care least about - even though the data in them is
considered most precious.

  As for the SMART data, it is really easy to interpret. The
instructions are available in the second link I gave earlier. And
looking at your HDD data, looks like it is healthy for now. All the
parameters are above their minimum thresholds - meaning that the HDD
is safe for now.

  There are 2 parameters you have to specially watch out for in the
future.

1. Seek error rate:
Lowest value recorded: 60  (out of 255)
Minimum threshold:   30  (out of 255)

2. Spin retry count:
Lowest value recorded: 100  (out of 255)
Minimum threshold:   97   (out of 255)

  Both these parameters are 'Pre-fail' type. That means that if they
ever touch the minimum threshold or go below it, that indicates
impending drive failure. You will have to take emergency measures if
such a situation arises. Right now, both parameters are above the
threshold, but slowly creeping down towards it. Right now, these are
not a problem. But watch out for them in the long run (you can check
the data once in a month or two).

  There is one another parameter, which if improved, can extend drive
life:

3. Air flow temperature (deg Celsius):
Lowest value recorded: 48  (out of 255) ~ 41 deg (highest
recorded).
Minimum threshold:   45  (out of 255)

  This is an 'old-age' type parameter. If this value goes below the
threshold (ie, if the drive overheats), the drive performance and
health will start to degrade. Low value for this parameter indicates
poor air cooling condition. Improving cooling can improve life. If you
feel like correcting this condition, you will have to consult a
specialist - unfortunately, I am incompetent to comment on it.

  Hope I was able to address some of your concerns. Wish you good luck
with drives and data in the future!

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[fsug-tvm] Re: filesystem got corrupted after filesystem check.........

[Visakh]

Hi,

@ Sasi sir:  The errors you mentioned are very general and I cannot
make anything out of it. But if you suspect hard disk issues, you are
completely justified (and of course your immense experience lends it
credibilty). Errors caused by a failing hard disk are sometimes very
strange and leave the user clueless. The first choice in that case is
to use 'fsck' to check file system integrity.

  But SMART is better suited to check for the problems you suspect. It
is even useful for preparing for hard disk failure in advance. SMART
is a semi-standard technology whereby hard disks record their own
health information - like temperature, seek error rate, spin up time
and a lot of others. This information can be accessed using
appropriate software to assess the health of hard drive. In case of
GNU/Linux, the package you need to install is -- smartmontools --.

  Detailed information on how to use smartmontools and analyze its
output are available on following pages:
http://blog.shadypixel.com/monitoring-hard-drive-health-on-linux-with-smartmontools/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983

  I wanted to give a better explanation, but I can't format the text
very well. I apologize for that. However, I can tell you how I used
it. I had two hard drives in my system stacked one above other. Twice,
the disk on the top failed. So, I used command:

sudo smartctl -A /dev/sda

  From the output, I realized that the upper disks were overheating
due to bad air cooling. Apparently, hot air from the lower drive was
heating the upper drive. So I reduced the number of drives to one and
also added an extra 120mm cooling fan.

  Smartmontool shows many such parameters - along with their
thresholds. If a parameter drops below its threshold, it indicates bad
health. Some parameters indicate impending disaster if they fall below
their threshold. Others indicate gradual degradation due to poor
environment. Anyway, its is useful for assessing and predicting
failures. I hope this becomes useful to you. Please let us know about
your experiments with it.

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[fsug-tvm] Re: filesystem got corrupted after filesystem check.........

[Visakh]

Hi,

On Aug 28, 2:46 pm, Rajeev J Sebastian rajeev.sebast...@gmail.com
wrote:
 Doesnt Ubuntu use a journalling filesystem ?

  You are right. Most of the Linux file systems are journaling FSs.
That includes ext3, ext4 and XFS. However, ext2 is not such a one.
Journaling FSs should be immune to this kind of error.  Besides,
folders like /etc are unlikely to undergo much change during normal
operation - they are read a lot, but not written to as much. So, this
is not exactly a file system software error. The power failure must
have messed pretty hard with the data and possibly the disk hardware
as well.

  And as for the kernel panic message, I am not really sure what it
means. However, with so many critical folders corrupted, it may not be
worth tracking down the error. Reinstall is the best option. And yes,
having a UPS is a good option. Infact until now, I thought it was the
only option users took.

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[fsug-tvm] Re: Fwd: Finally the F/OS OS we ALL want!

[Visakh]

Hi Aneesh,

On Aug 28, 9:18 pm, Aneesh A aneesh...@gmail.com wrote:
 No details...

 What is that for...

  Sorry for ruining the fun by stating the damn right obvious. It is a
geeky joke! :D It says that Stalinux is designed by NKVD. Just see
what NKVD is!

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[fsug-tvm] psd file not opening in gimp

[Visakh]

Hi,

On Aug 5, 11:59 pm, stranger in black. gnu...@gmail.com wrote:
  when i tried to open a psd file in gimp i got an error..
 error loaing psd file: unsupported colour mode:cmyk
 how to solve this.. i am using gimp 2.6..

  The bad news is - CMYK is not supported by Gimp now. The good news
is that there is rumours of CMYK support on anvil. It will be based on
GEGL and babl libraries. I am a little unsure about its progress - it
should be nearing completion.

  So the only choice you have now is to open the PSD file in photoshop
and save it in RGB mode. CMYK is not something you really need unless
you are into DTP and priniting.

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[fsug-tvm] Firefox 3.5 Contest

[Visakh]

Hi,

On Aug 4, 7:25 pm, Shino Jacob shinoja...@gmail.com wrote:
 make some thing that will load firefox fast in windows. I am ok with
  the loading speed in ubuntu. but at work I have only windows. and
 some times it takes 20 seconds to load firefox.

  This was a reported bug in FF 3.5. But its fix was released along
with a security update (FF 3.5.1 if I am right). Try updating to the
latest version and see if that works.

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