Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 8.04 is Out !!!

2008-04-25 Thread Sudev Barar
On 25/04/2008, Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Been using the beta for past few weeks and found it good. It auto
 detected most of the hardware on my laptop including the in famous
 broadcom wireless. Things not working
 Finger print scanner


 I am not an Ubuntu user nor do I have a finger print scanner but came
  across this, might be of help:
  
 http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/04/get-your-fingerprint-reader-to-work-in.html

Thanks for the excellent heads up. Worked virtually out of the box.
Problem with forums is that you get so many pages on a search that
many times relevant pages go missing.
Now only to get my stylus touch screen working.

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Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 8.04 is Out !!!

2008-04-25 Thread Shiv
- Original Message 

From: Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now only to get my stylus touch screen working.

Hi,
Has the Intel HDA card with Realtek ALC861 chip issue that we faced with Gutsy 
been sorted out?
I hadn't upgraded to gutsy for that reason.


 With Warm Regards, 
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linux user no: 450769
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Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 8.04 is Out !!!

2008-04-25 Thread Sudev Barar
On 25/04/2008, Shiv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Has the Intel HDA card with Realtek ALC861 chip issue that we faced with 
 Gutsy been sorted out?

What is that issue?  I am not having any problems playing sound on
8.04 or for that matter on 6.06 or 7.04 or 7.10

In the previous versions I had to add options snd-hda-intel
model=3stack in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base In 8.04 nothing was needed.
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Re: [ilugd] Candidate for Hall Of Shame?

2008-04-25 Thread Anil Seth
  Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:05:29 +0530
  From: Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Re: [ilugd] Candidate for Hall Of Shame?
  To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org
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  On 24-Apr-08, at 8:23 PM, Anil Seth wrote:

   Incidentally, I had an unfortunate irritant with HDFC as well - for
credit card security code. But they were much more sympathetic though
I had to use Opera with Mask as IE option to actually register the
security code.

  all HDFC stuff works for me with firefox without any tweaking. Things
  keep crashing, but that is because the coding is crappy -nothing to
  do with firefox. For example, I was booking a bus ticket which sent
  me to the HDFC portal. Entered everything and clicked 'pay', then
  clicked confirm, then I get a form asking me to join verisign secure
  or something like that. There is a link saying that I can do this
  later and can proceed with my transaction. I click that and it says
  'transaction cancelled' and times out. Second time round, i click
  register for the verisign thing. A form appears and i click on
  'help'. A popup appears with the help message. I click 'close' on the
  popup and everything closes and I am returned to the bus company
  site. However, the transaction has gone through and I have my ticket.


  --
  regards

  Kenneth Gonsalves
  Associate, NRC-FOSS
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/

Here is the problem:

On HDFC's home page,under Login to your account, Selecting
NetSafe/Verified by Visa/MasterCard SecureCode and choosing to
Register, pops up a window warning that Cookies are Disabled.
Clicking on 'Click here' works with Opera (masked as IE) however with
Firefox 2 on Fedora 8, it gives the error:

  Only Internet Explorer with version 5.0 or above and Firefox with
Version 1.5 or above are Supported.

Once I have registered, I have been able to use my credit card with
the SecureCode using Firefox on Fedora.
Incidentally, SecureCode should make online use of Credit Card safer.

Regards
Anil

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Re: [ilugd] Candidate for Hall Of Shame?

2008-04-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves

On 25-Apr-08, at 6:28 PM, Anil Seth wrote:

 Once I have registered, I have been able to use my credit card with
 the SecureCode using Firefox on Fedora.
 Incidentally, SecureCode should make online use of Credit Card safer.

nothing is safe in HDFC. I applied to open an account there and  
received my first phishing mail with all my details - email address,  
full name etc, *before* my account was officially opened - they even  
knew the branch in which I had opened it.


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Re: [ilugd] Candidate for Hall Of Shame?

2008-04-25 Thread Shiv
The ABN Amro story gets more interesting. Here is a transcript:

Here is what they responded:
Dear Customer, 

This is with reference to your email dated
April 23, 2008. At the outset we would like to thank you for the time taken
and effort made by you in sharing your concerns with us. 

We wish to inform you that we have forwarded
your concern to our customer service manager in Delhi, who shall be glad
to discuss the same with you, post evaluating the same. 

Please quote reference number R283200804244076 in case any further 
clarification / assistance is required regarding this
query.  



Here is what I had written in response to their email:

Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for your unsatisfactory response.
I would like to inform you that I am submitting ABN Amro's website to the
Linux Hall Of Shame as you have deliberately prevented a large population
of Linux users from accessing your site.
I would also request you to forward me the contact details of your Corporate
Communications Head since I would like to forward the listing of ABN Amro
on the Hall of Shame to that person.
 
  

 With Warm Regards, 
Shivkumar 
linux user no: 450769
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[ilugd] What's wrong with it???

2008-04-25 Thread devesh
hi guys,

Can anyone find something interesting ?

Well here is a shell script (kill.sh) :

  *#!/bin/bash
id=`ps -ef | grep wget | grep -v grep | cut -c 10-15`
if [ $id -eq 20698 ]
then
sleep 10m
sh kills.sh
else
date  kill_time
poweroff
fi

*
1.It was around 4.AM i run it background.And checked the PID of wget, it was
20698.
2.I slept and wake up at 8.40 AM and checked again.
3.PC was still ON. No kill.sh was running .No Wget process was running as
wget-log showed saved at 8.15AM.

question : why didn't pc go OFF.

4.Again I start : sh kill.sh ... PC went OFF. (of course it must be)

5.  Any comment(s)


Cheers,
Devesh.
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Re: [ilugd] What's wrong with it???

2008-04-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 10:21:31PM +0530, devesh wrote:
 hi guys,
 
 Can anyone find something interesting ?
 
 Well here is a shell script (kill.sh) :
 
   *#!/bin/bash
 id=`ps -ef | grep wget | grep -v grep | cut -c 10-15`

Probably you can active the same using pgrep?
id = `ps -ef | pgrep wget`

 if [ $id -eq 20698 ]
 then
 sleep 10m
 sh kills.sh
 else
 date  kill_time
 poweroff
 fi
 
 *
 1.It was around 4.AM i run it background.And checked the PID of wget, it was
 20698.
 2.I slept and wake up at 8.40 AM and checked again.
 3.PC was still ON. No kill.sh was running .No Wget process was running as
 wget-log showed saved at 8.15AM.
 
 question : why didn't pc go OFF.
 
 4.Again I start : sh kill.sh ... PC went OFF. (of course it must be)
 
 5.  Any comment(s)

I believe you're running this via cron. So, the user from whose cron
entry you're running it, can issue poweroff command?
Maybe you need to give full path to poweroff?
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Re: [ilugd] What's wrong with it???

2008-04-25 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
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,--[ On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:21:31PM +0530, devesh wrote:
| hi guys,
| 
| Can anyone find something interesting ?
| 
| Well here is a shell script (kill.sh) :
| 
|   *#!/bin/bash
| id=`ps -ef | grep wget | grep -v grep | cut -c 10-15`
| if [ $id -eq 20698 ]

^^^ you should've wrapped $id in quotes, e.g. if [ $id -eq 20698 ]

| then
| sleep 10m
| sh kills.sh

^^^ a) name of your script, you mentioned on top is kill.sh
b) you should've used 'exec sh kill.sh' instead otherwise you'll
end up with a hundreds of 'kill.sh' instances.

| else
| date  kill_time
| poweroff
| fi
| 
| *
| 1.It was around 4.AM i run it background.And checked the PID of wget, it was
| 20698.
| 2.I slept and wake up at 8.40 AM and checked again.
| 3.PC was still ON. No kill.sh was running .No Wget process was running as
| wget-log showed saved at 8.15AM.
| 
| question : why didn't pc go OFF.
| 
| 4.Again I start : sh kill.sh ... PC went OFF. (of course it must be)

If in the first run of script, result of evaluatino false, then it'll get 
executed,
but not for subsequent times, because name of script is incorrect.

| 
| 5.  Any comment(s)

HTH
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[ilugd] Article: UFS Journalling On Desktop PCs

2008-04-25 Thread Mani A
See
http://store.itsyourftp.com/~sonic2000gr/freebsd/gjournal-desktop/article.html

The author provides this amusing info

5.1. I am getting kernel panics during periods of high disk activity.
How is this related to journaling?

The journal probably fills up before it has a chance to get committed
(flushed) to disk. Keep in mind the size of the journal depends on the
usage load and not the size of the data provider. If your disk
activity is high, you need a larger partition for the journal.


Best

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Re: [ilugd] Advice on buying a laptop and reclaiming M$ tax

2008-04-25 Thread Raj Shekhar
in infinite wisdom Manish spoke thus  On 04/21/2008 10:46 PM:

   First, I thought it's kinda like a toy and then I found out that
 people installed Debian on this and that it runs Firefox and Emacs,
 has WiFi and boots very fast.. what else does one need?

screen space. 800x600 sucks


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Re: [ilugd] What's wrong with it???(Mehul Ved,,,Ashish Shukla)

2008-04-25 Thread devesh
Hi ,

Well i knew pgrep and it is same as i wrote in single line.NO ISSUE
about it.

I logged in as 'root' so poweroff could be invoked and path was  OK.

Moreover  the last point  I  again  did  'sh kills.sh'  PC WENT OFF.

Well, name of script was kills.sh not kill.sh always.

cheers,
Devesh.
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