[Ilugc] one more child for ilugc

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

hi,

a new baby is to born to ilugc tomorrow. And it looks like the birth
will be healthy and the child will live long and grow well:

http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/index.php?title=First_Meet
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Re: [Ilugc] Is our ILUGC mailing list for some entertainment?

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 14:23 +0200, Aanjhan R wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Arulalan T 
> wrote:
> > Is our mailing list for some entertainment?
> 
> Of-course it is.
> 
> "The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery
> of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are
> ‘entertained’ enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit
> of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the
> subject and in people's interest in it.” - Richard Feynman 

naturally it is - which is why we have got some really excellent
speakers for this month's meet. ILUGC is really going places.
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[Ilugc] OSCO.in - Open Source Community

[Vijay]

Dear luggies,
OSCO.in a open source community based out in madurai.
we made some organ changes to our website and have launched it on 5th OCT  
2010.

we would like to have your feedbacks on the same
please visit www.osco.in


Thanks and regards
Vijay
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Re: [Ilugc] kde plasma doubt

[Raman.P]

--- On Mon, 4/10/10, Arun SAG  wrote:
> Raman.P 
> wrote:
> 
> > Dear luggies
> >
> > >In a recently installed debian system with kde4
> desktop I accidentally
> > >deleted the desktop switcher from the panel. How
> to get it back?
> > >Adding widget option doesn't seem to have it.
> >
> 
> Easy solution: Create a new user account.

Sorry that is not the easy solution. This particular user, a doctor is using 
this login id from 1988.

I found that correct name of widget is Pager, I was searching under workspace 
switcher, desktop switcher etc.  That was my mistake.

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Re: [Ilugc] Is our ILUGC mailing list for some entertainment?

[pavithran]

On 7 October 2010 20:52, steve  wrote:
> should not take ourselves too seriously. Being part of the community should
> be Fun ! ..and the occasional flames, trolls, n00bs all are part of what
> makes us who we are. Denying that leads to a community which only has a
> whole bunch of 'serious' high-nosed elitists. There already exist mailing
> list in India of that nature. I am glad this list is not one of those.


+1 Completely agree . I am happy that ILUGC is continuing despite many
generations of experienced users , there are n00bs coming in in a
continuous flow and ocassional flames which is what makes an active
community IMHO !

Regards,
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Re: [Ilugc] endian neutral in c/C++

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:36 AM, narendra babu  wrote:
> One more input in need from you is  as i mentioned i have solaris generated 
> big endian binary file and i need to read the same big endian file in Linux 
> which is little endian or on intel machine .
>
> So is there anyway i can read big endian file in linux and process it and 
> write the binary in big endian .

When you read the data into a struct, it will be read as big-endian
and you can write it back as is, so long as you don't want to
interpret the numbers. To interpret, you can use macros defined in
/usr/include/endian.h.


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[Ilugc] endian neutral in c/C++

[narendra babu]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:02 AM, narendra babu  wrote:
> Hello all ,
>
> I have 2 questions on endian neutral  :
>
> 1)I'm  dont need C++ Object Serialization per-se but I intend to write a few 
> C structures to disk (file.bin) -
> The written data structure on-disk should be portable across different 
> platform architectures (small/big endian)

If you use a character buffer C struct then it is endian neutral. Then
when you read back the structure by doing a cast using
this code:

                                struct mydata *nw_struct;
                                  nw_struct = malloc(sizeof(mydata);
                                 memcpy((struct mydata *) &nw_struct,
buf, sizeof(struct mydata));

                                  Now you can send and receive from
across the network in an Endian neutral fashion.
                                  If you have longs or shorts inside
the struct, just use htonl(), htons() and vice versa.

                       This will surely work.

> Would someone know where I can find some library and/or sample code to write 
> portable C data structure to a disk storage.
> at least some guidelines and pointers / examples would be nice.

You have the code to achieve it.

See above.

> 2) if have solaris code which genrates binary file and i have read it from 
> Linux program .
>

On Sparc architecture? No problem. It will work. I have done that.

> so any specific thing i need to take care so that i can read big endian 
> generated from soalris   from Linux program which is on little endian
>

Nothing more than what I wrote above.

Endianness does not hurt when you use unsigned char buffers.

-Girish
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Thanks Girish for your inputs ,
 
 
One more input in need from you is  as i mentioned i have solaris generated big 
endian binary file and i need to read the same big endian file in Linux which 
is little endian or on intel machine .
 
So is there anyway i can read big endian file in linux and process it and write 
the binary in big endian .
 
The reason why i am asking is becos i need to maintain the existing solaris 
code and i need to use linux to read and generate the big endian binary so 
that  solaris code can read the big endian file genarted by Linux 
 
in simple words i need to read/write the binary file which in bigendian from 
linux .
 
also i am mostly looking for disk i/o not much of network i/o
 
Thanks
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Re: [Ilugc] Can not ping via switch consistently

[Arun Khan]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Joe Steeve  wrote:
> On 10/06/2010 11:54 PM, Arun Khan wrote:
>> I am presuming the "server" is 192.168.48.9 since you have not
>> explicitly stated so.  What is your objective for using a /28 netmask?
>>
>> Anyway, with a /28 netmask, the "server" is on a different subnet
>> vis-a-vis your other systems.  see [1] and [2]
>
> The OP is using /20 netmask. The IP numbers are correct. The problem is
> elsewhere.

Mehul pointed it out in his own style; I accepted my error and also
pointed to a possible cause and a solution.

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[Ilugc] Python seminar at MIT

[விக்னேஷ் நந்த குமார்]

Hi all,
A seminar on Python programming language has been arranged at MIT (Madras
Institute of Technology) as part of our intra-college tech fest
"Enigma"
on this saturday. Though the events are intra-college contests we would like
make this seminar open to all (Access to knowledge must not be restricted
;-)).

Mr.Chandrashekar Babu  handles this *Introductory
session on Python programming*.
Date: 09-10-2010 (Saturday)
Time: 11 AM - 1.00 PM
Venue: Conference Hall, Lecture Hall Complex - 3rd floor, MIT, Chrompet.
Registration fee: Rs.50 (Can be paid on the spot)

Interested people can contact me offlist.

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Re: [Ilugc] Setting up Ingres Database

[Shrinivasan T]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Nithin K K  wrote:
> Ya i installed Ingres as root user ! I never use ingres so i'm not sure
> about config files and all !  Can you tell me how to set up a Ingres
> Database from scrap in ubuntu?

I did not tried ingres.
wait for someone to try and answer you.

Replace the word scrap with scratch.


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Re: [Ilugc] Setting up Ingres Database

[Nithin K K]

> This is the Error message that i get when i try to install as root user !!
>
>
> Ingres 10.1.0 has installed successfully.
> The instance will now be started...
>
> Starting Ingres as root is not permitted.
>
> Building the password validation program 'ingvalidpw'.
> Executable successfully installed.
>
>
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Re: [Ilugc] Setting up Ingres Database

[Nithin K K]

This is the Error message that i get when i try to install as root user !!

Ingres 10.1.0 has installed successfully.
The instance will now be started...

Starting Ingres as root is not permitted.
Building the password validation program 'ingvalidpw'.
Executable successfully installed.
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Re: [Ilugc] Setting up Ingres Database

[Nithin K K]

Ya i installed Ingres as root user ! I never use ingres so i'm not sure
about config files and all !  Can you tell me how to set up a Ingres
Database from scrap in ubuntu?
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Re: [Ilugc] Is our ILUGC mailing list for some entertainment?

[steve]

Hi,

On 10/07/2010 05:36 PM, Arulalan T wrote:

Dear Ilugc Members,


Is our mailing list for some entertainment?

http://twitter.com/kmanikandan/statuses/26055560696



Sure ! what's so bad about the lug list being entertaining to some ? That is the 
very nature of our community (by 'our' I mean the FOSS community). We should not 
take ourselves too seriously. Being part of the community should be Fun ! ..and 
the occasional flames, trolls, n00bs all are part of what makes us who we are. 
Denying that leads to a community which only has a whole bunch of 'serious' 
high-nosed elitists. There already exist mailing list in India of that nature. I 
am glad this list is not one of those.



Why its happening ?

Lets change.



Let's not ! :)

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Re: [Ilugc] Setting up Ingres Database

[Shrinivasan T]

> /install.sh: 603: cannot create /opt/Ingres/IngresII/ingres/.ingAAsh:
> Permission denied
> ./install.sh: 603: cannot create /opt/Ingres/IngresII/ingres/.ingAAcsh:
> Permission denied

Did you install and start ingress as root?


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Re: [Ilugc] Setting up Ingres Database

[Raman.P]

--- On Thu, 7/10/10, Nithin K K  wrote:

> Date: Thursday, 7 October, 2010, 7:17 PM
> I tried installing Ingres Database
> 10.0 BETA in my ubuntu 10.04. It got
> installed but with 1 error. I was not able to start
> ingres.Can any one tell
> me how to set up a Ingres database ? from scrap.
^^
If you feel it is a scrap, better try postgresql.

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Re: [Ilugc] Setting up Ingres Database

[Nithin K K]

Error that I'm getting is Given below !




/install.sh: 603: cannot create /opt/Ingres/IngresII/ingres/.ingAAsh:
Permission denied
./install.sh: 603: cannot create /opt/Ingres/IngresII/ingres/.ingAAcsh:
Permission denied
Ingres 10.1.0 has installed successfully.
The instance will now be started...


Ingres/ingstart
Error while opening ingstart.log

Checking host "cyber" for system resources required to run Ingres...

Your system has sufficient resources to run Ingres.

Starting your Ingres installation...
Error while opening ingstart.log

Starting the Name Server...
Error while opening ingstart.log
rm: cannot remove
`/opt/Ingres/IngresII/ingres/files/memory/./Cryptshmem.mem': Permission
denied
rm: cannot remove `/opt/Ingres/IngresII/ingres/files/memory/./iievents.001':
Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/opt/Ingres/IngresII/ingres/files/memory/./lglkdata.mem':
Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/opt/Ingres/IngresII/ingres/files/memory/./Repshmem.mem':
Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/opt/Ingres/IngresII/ingres/files/memory/./server.2':
Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/opt/Ingres/IngresII/ingres/files/memory/./sysseg.mem':
Permission denied

Allocating shared memory for Logging and Locking Systems...
Error while opening ingstart.log

Starting the Recovery Server...Error while opening ingstart.log
Your username: ii.$.privileges.user.ingres does not have any privilege

iirundbms: server would not start.
II_SYSTEM must be set in your environment.
Has the csinstall program been run?
II_DATABASE, II_CHECKPOINT, II_JOURNAL and II_DUMP
must also be set.  See II_CONFIG/symbol.tbl.
Check the file '/opt/Ingres/IngresII/ingres/files/errlog.log'
for more details concerning internal errors.
See the Installation Guide for more
information concerning server startup.

The Recovery Server failed to start.

Error while opening ingstart.log
Building the password validation program 'ingvalidpw'.
Executable successfully installed.
The home directory for the user ingres:

/home/ingres

does not exist or is not writeable. The environment setup script for
this instance of Ingres 10.1.0 will be written to:

/opt/Ingres/IngresII/ingres
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Re: [Ilugc] Setting up Ingres Database

[Shrinivasan T]

hI,

> I tried installing Ingres Database 10.0 BETA in my ubuntu 10.04. It got
> installed but with 1 error. I was not able to start ingres.Can any one tell
> me how to set up a Ingres database ? from scrap.

What is the error your are getting on installation?





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[Ilugc] Setting up Ingres Database

[Nithin K K]

I tried installing Ingres Database 10.0 BETA in my ubuntu 10.04. It got
installed but with 1 error. I was not able to start ingres.Can any one tell
me how to set up a Ingres database ? from scrap.
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Re: [Ilugc] Is our ILUGC mailing list for some entertainment?

[Aanjhan R]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Arulalan T  wrote:
> Is our mailing list for some entertainment?

Of-course it is.

"The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery
of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are
‘entertained’ enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit
of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the
subject and in people's interest in it.” - Richard Feynman

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Re: [Ilugc] Is our ILUGC mailing list for some entertainment?

[Abishek Goda]

Hi,


> http://twitter.com/kmanikandan/statuses/26055560696
>
> Why its happening ?
Well, we really  cannot control any of that i guess. Besides, unless
its a trending topic that makes fun of the LUG, i guess we shouldn't
be giving it any more than its worth.

> Add your thoughts, comments and ideas to change others' thoughts which is
> posted in twitter.
Post more relevant stuff with that tag? And try not to oppose each
other's views way too often. But then unless you do that, good ideas
aren't going to come out anyway!

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[Ilugc] Is our ILUGC mailing list for some entertainment?

[Arulalan T]

Dear Ilugc Members,


Is our mailing list for some entertainment?

http://twitter.com/kmanikandan/statuses/26055560696

Why its happening ?

Lets change.

We have the full responsibility to take care the goodwill of our mailing
list .

Do we ?

Add your thoughts, comments and ideas to change others' thoughts which is
posted in twitter.

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[Ilugc] ILUGC Monthly Meet (October 9th)

[Shrinivasan T]

ILUGC Monthly Meet (October  9th):-
==

Time : Sat October 9 , 2010  (3.00 - 5.30 PM)

Venue:  Classroom No 6,
  Areo Space Engineering,
  Near Gajendra Circle,
  IIT Madras.


1.
Topic : Introduction to Drupal

Discussion on Drupal's strengths and weakness.  Hands-on
with installing Drupal core and essential modules.

Speaker :  Raja Subraminian
Raja is an active FOSS promoter and an entrepreneur.

Duration : 30 min


2.
Topic : Getting Started with Rails 3

Live coding a rails application and highlight some
of the new features of rails 3 in the process.

Speaker : Vagmi Mudumbai
Vagmi is a passionate hacker. He is a founder and a director at Artha42
Innovations Pvt Ltd. He likes coding in dynamic languages and shipping
quality software.

Duration : 45 min


3.
Title : Introduction to OpenLdap
Live demo on installing openldap and migrating local users to openldap

Speaker : Baskar K
Baskar is a freelance FOSS trainer

Duration : 30 min

4.
General group discussions on any queries, events etc.
CDs/DVDs can be shared on prior request.


Announce this to all your friends, social network sites etc.
All are welcome. Entry Free.

Thanks.


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Re: [Ilugc] Can not ping via switch consistently

[Bharathi Subramanian]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Joe Steeve wrote:
> The OP is using /20 netmask. The IP numbers are correct. The problem is
> elsewhere.

Long back, I faced a similar problem due to the failure of the switch
internal buffer, which used to store the MAC table.

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Re: [Ilugc] c/c++ endian neutral disk i/o

[Joe Steeve]

On 10/07/2010 03:02 AM, narendra babu wrote:
> 1)I'm  dont need C++ Object Serialization per-se but I intend to
> write a few C structures to disk (file.bin) - The written data
> structure on-disk should be portable across different platform
> architectures (small/big endian)

Have a look at 'google protobuf' (http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/).
Store your content onto protobuf objects, serialize them onto disk and
load them back when needed.

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Re: [Ilugc] Can not ping via switch consistently

[Joe Steeve]

On 10/06/2010 11:54 PM, Arun Khan wrote:
> I am presuming the "server" is 192.168.48.9 since you have not
> explicitly stated so.  What is your objective for using a /28 netmask?
> 
> Anyway, with a /28 netmask, the "server" is on a different subnet
> vis-a-vis your other systems.  see [1] and [2]

The OP is using /20 netmask. The IP numbers are correct. The problem is
elsewhere.

j...@lark:~$ sipcalc 192.168.48.9 255.255.240.0
-[ipv4 : 192.168.48.9 255.255.240.0] - 0

[CIDR]
Host address- 192.168.48.9
Host address (decimal)  - 3232247817
Host address (hex)  - C0A83009
Network address - 192.168.48.0
Network mask- 255.255.240.0
Network mask (bits) - 20
Network mask (hex)  - F000
Broadcast address   - 192.168.63.255
Cisco wildcard  - 0.0.15.255
Addresses in network- 4096
Network range   - 192.168.48.0 - 192.168.63.255
Usable range- 192.168.48.1 - 192.168.63.254

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