[ilugd] Linux is a BIG hit in India
http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/apr/08spec.htm this is old hat (no pun intended!) to this list. nevertheless, text of article reproduced below: Linux a BIG hit in India Leslie D'Monte | BS | April 08, 2006 | 11:31 IST It has been over a year since UTI Bank set up its call center that handles over 7,000 calls per day. The bank was looking for a robust platform that could guarantee it high availability of services and uninterrupted call traffic. It had options but finally decided on Linux for its core business applications. Today, we are really happy with Linux that has delivered 99.99 per cent uptime so far, says Pritesh Thaker, AVP, IT, UTI Bank. The bank, in fact, is now planning to base its credit card-based system on Linux too. UTI is not the lone player to swear by Linux. Eveready, a leading manufacturer of dry cell batteries and flashlights in India, has built a mission-critical resource system to automate all functionalities of its daily business using the Oracle e-business suite running on a Linux platform. Central Bank of India has implemented Linux in nearly 3000 branches. The Penguin (official mascot of Linux), it appears, has finally marched into enterprises like IDBI Bank, Canara Bank, New India Assurance, LIC, BSNL, IRCTC, ABN Amro, Airtel and even the governments of Maharashtra and West Bengal. The list, of course, is not exhaustive. In most cases, though, the implementation of Linux in Indian enterprises is by Red Hat (primarily since Red Hat Linux has been popularised by the media and offers support for Linux which, being open source, can be downloaded for free and has no upfront licensing fee). Otherwise, one can choose from the hundreds of other Linux distributions - Mandriva, Debian, Suse, PCLinuxOS, Knoppix and Ubuntu to name a few - for desktops and enterprises. All verticals are ready for Linux adoption today. However the banking, financial and insurance services (BFSI) and government markets have been pioneers of sorts in adopting Linux. The retail segment is also gaining ground quickly, along with verticals ranging from telecommunications to media and entertainment. In India, we are increasingly seeing corporates running ERPs and mission-critical applications on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. Large databases and blade servers are being powered by Linux to run online share trading and lottery applications, says Javed Tapia, CEO, Red Hat. The Indiabulls group is a case in point. Indiabulls runs its Internet trading platform - Oracle 9i - on Linux. This system, which handles 40-45 per cent of Indiabulls' revenue transactions - nearly 10,000 customers are online at any point of time and transactions are in the range of Rs 1000 crore (Rs 10 billion) - runs on Linux. The online share trading infrastructure at Indiabulls generates close to 15 database queries per minute. Linux has become prettly stable. We never considered Windows because of the perception that it has a lot of vulnerabilities. Hence, we adopted the Linux route and are satisfied with the results, says Tejinderpal Singh Miglani, CTO, Indiabulls. IDBI's Sanjay Sharma, Head IT, corroborates this view. IDBI has been using an Oracle HR management and financial accounting system, which runs on Linux. From Sharma's perspective, this is a mission-critical application. We did evaluate options like Unix and Windows too. However, we did not want to be tied up to resource-hungry applications and any particular vendor. Besides, you hardly have a problem of viruses with Linux, he says. Linux, indeed, is doing reasonably good business. IBM's business built around Linux, for instance, was worth $16 billion last year and is projected to be worth more than $50 billion, says the company's global head of public sector Linux sales, Mary Ann Fisher, who recently spoke at LinuxWorld, Australia. She added: Governments worldwide are spending more than $3 billion a year on Linux hardware, software and services, and this is growing at 35 per cent a year. But it's the US military that is spending the most. Mission-critical debate Now, mission-critical applications, among other things, need servers. And for the first time, the server market in India is expected to cross the 100,000-unit mark in 2006. Servers are powerful networked machines for tasks such as handling e-mail, financial transactions, airline reservations and file storage. Based on the price, vendors classify servers as small (anywhere from Rs 4 up to Rs 500,000), medium (from Rs 500,000 to Rs 1 crore) and large (over Rs 1 crore). They are identified as Intel (or X86 processor-based), Unix (or non-X86 processor-based) and Blade servers. Linux and Solaris are flavours of Unix. Windows and Intel form the loosely-termed Wintel brand. Back in 2000, India was primarily a Unix market in the enterprise. With the entry of certified and supported Linux solutions, Unix users in India found Linux an
Re: [ilugd] Capture sound from sound card
raju my msg to ilugd got spamblocked. request to post to list. thanks akr -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:22:45 +0530 (IST) From: Ajit Ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org Cc: Mayank Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ilugd] Capture sound from sound card On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Sanjeev Ghane Gupta wrote: vivek khurana wrote: --- Mayank Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to capture sound from my sound card using C/C++. How can i do that? Any pointers/libraries... Look at code base of audacity, if you want to seriously learn art of capturing sound through soundcard. Last week, the Singapore LUG had an interesting talk on Audio applications in Linux. You may wish to see the slides at: http://audiomind.org/LUGS/LinuxAudioLUGS20050128Slides.pdf speaking of capturing sound, i hope you guys followed this hack with ipod, which enables you to - yes, boot linux. -- begin blurb -- nilss over at the iPodLinux Project has performed one of the coolest and most bizzare hacks I've seen in a while. He was able to extract the bootloader from the 4G iPod by sounding out ticks with the iPod's squeaky piezo. With some tweaking and a makeshift recording studio, he was able to dump the 64 kb file at 5 bytes/sec. And yes, this means that 4G iPods can now boot linux! -- end blurb -- story at http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/29/2017244tid=222tid=176 cheers -ajit ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] Bapu Kuti se Bazaar ki aur: ek Khoj lecture on 2nd October
this year's gandhi peace foundation's gandhi jayanti lecture is entitled as above. the lecture will be in hindi, by well known author and writer rajni bakshi (she is best known for her book bapu kuti). she has been following the open source movement for quite sometime and also has interviewed stallman (rms), raymond (esr) etc. i believe that her lecture will partly dwell on the economics/market paradigm of the open source/free software movement, and examine how it may actually be a reasonable bridge between gandhi's village (small is beautiful) economy vision and the modern reality of a capitalist/globalised multinational dominated economy. but of course, i am second guessing the content of her lecture, which we will know only on 2nd oct. details - date: Saturday, October 2nd time: 4:15 pm venue: Gandhi Peace Foundation, 223 Deendayal Upadyaya Marg, New Delhi - 110002 phone: 3230-8810 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Re: [LIH]Indiatimes listed in RBLs again ...
folks (esp sandip) while we are on this topic, can you also guide us vsn-as-dialup-ISP users, on how to get our dynamic IP off RBLs? i think organised action helps, and if the ISP understands that many users are affected, they make take some corrective action. like giving us authenticated SMTP fr example. i am sure that this email is going to bounce back from most of the recepients. raju, request you to post on ilugd. thanks for any help/guidance. ajit. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[ilugd] further notes on being a victim of smtp server ban
sandip thanks for your help, regarding how to get myself un-blacklisted from spam lists, because all dynamic IP's of vsnl are reported to spamblock blacklists, effectively shutting me out from sending email. your suggestion (to use a smarthost) was as follows (this is applicable to exim users also) Check the sendmail mc page at http://www.sendmail.org/m4/ Use something like: define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp:fire.wall.com') in sendmail.mc before regenerating the sendmail.cf file but you see the only smtp server i know is the vsnl one. and it won't accept email unless the from header is vsnl.com or vsnl.net (see below). so this is forcing me to buy third party smtp service. (as you have said yourself below). so basically i am stuck. i could try and hunt for free smtp service on the net - but i fear it will be terribly slow (i am a dialup user as it is). i fully endorse your view below (and i hope linux-user group delhi and other chapters take this up with vsnl.) for details on DUL (dynamic user lists) referred below, and why they are a bad idea do lookup http://bucksch.com./1/opinion/dul/ or also see http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/maps-dul-is-wrong.html basically DUL's are nothing more than a harmful prejudice. sandip wrote -- begin quote I publically discourage everybody from using VSNL( now TATA-Indicom) ISP accounts. They have inherited the monopolistic attitude of the Raj days. On one hand they dont allow their own subscribers to relay mail which do not have a vsnl.com/vsnl.net domain in the From: address. On the other hand they have voluntarily submitted all their dialup IPs to DUL. *Both* of these constraints make them a very unusable ISP forcing people to do either direct-to-mx mailing(which is stringly discouraged) or to incur additional charge for buying 3rd party SMTP services. Boycott VSNL/Tata-Indicom end quote fully agree. ajit. (starved of smtp). ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [OT] Re: [ilugd] further notes on being a victim of smtp server ban
On Thursday 29 Jul 2004 2:36 am, Linux Lingam wrote: guilty until proven innocent. i am fed up of spam and junk emails, the LL- we are not human rights advocates for spammers. all we are asking for is good reliable SMTP service to PAYING customers like me. why can't vsnl provide authenticated SMTP service to a paying customer like me? surely that can prevent spam to a large extent? they could even force change of passwds every fortnight if they like. i have taken up this issue with them several times, with their tech support making sympathetic noises, but nothing happens. what's relatively recent is the ban on non-vsnl FROM: headers and submission to DUL. On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: I am all for DUL based blocking ... *if* the ISPs act responsibly, and provide proper SMTP service to their clients. The biggest problem with Indian ISPs is that they are all satisfied being part of a nation-wide dialup cyber-cafe, where if HTTP and Yahoo Messenger/MSN messenger works, then all is well. snip VSNL: doesnt let mails sent from non-vsnl email addresses out, submit dialups to DUL lists. Almost completely unusable, for those who dont know anything about non-webmail mail, or direct-to-mx. vsnl does not care for customers running linux boxes. most of the non linux user customers are happy with webmail, and probably never heard of direct-to-mx. since it looks like all the Indian ISP's are putting restrictions - this needs to be taken up in some other consumer forum - but where? ajit. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [ilugd] Re: Linux PDA mailing list
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Raj Mathur wrote: Tarun Most of us are too poor to afford a PDA. Can't we discuss Tarun out things on the main-list itself (this list). (a) A show of hands of people on this list using a PDA should be interesting. Count me (1). i would prefer a separate Linux-on-PDA list. (related suggestion - we could discuss it here, and when traffic builds up, move to a separate list.) ajit. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[ilugd] network not reachable
folks i am on a 192.168.x.x internal LAN, which communicates with the outside world and a multi-location WAN through a router which is 10.1.x.x we don't use DHCP. so my linux box has an assigned IP number 192.168.x.x. i have to bring up network, by typing ifconfig 192.168.x.x eth0. i then also run route -add network 10.1.0.0. netmask 255.255.255.0 the DNS is on one of the 10.1.x.x., which i entered in the /etc/resolv.conf file. i also put the environment variables http_proxy and ftp_proxy in the /etc/profile file for systemwide use. lynx.cfg also has a proyx entry. so far so good. lynx works. (mozilla doesn't, because i can't get X to work. but that's because 2.4.18 kernel does not support the ATI Radeon 7500. but that's another long story, for another post to linux-delhi.) back to the network story. what i really want is to upgrade kernel etc using the network - i.e. network install. so i need to get to debian.org. however when i ping, i get a correct name -- IP number transation, but get a message network is unreachable. ifconfig shows eth0 is up, and netstat shows network is up. so i think the network is unreachable, because ping (and also apt-get) is unable to get through the proxy server. same fate for fetchmail. so what should i be doing? i have a feeling that i am missing out something most obvious! any help welcome, and thanks in advance. ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender (fwd)
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Sudeep Kumar Sharma - (BHM Deputee) wrote: install xmms player to play the mp3 in linux, but to listen to them u have to install mpg123 plugin for the xmms too...otherwise u wont be able to listen the mp3 and video cds too. download it from www.xmms.org time to put in longstanding query. xmms works only as root for me. and that too only for audio cds, not mp3. mp3 plays i.e. shows total time of song, but no audio. why, oh why? (yes i changed all the perms on mixer and audio. /dev/dsp is world writable (not readable). help? ajit. ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
