Re: [ubuntu-in] New ClamAV India mirror
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:07, Narendra Diwate wrote: > Why is the Ubuntu mirror not seen on the list of mirrors. I dont know about > other distros, but Ubuntu I jusr saw the list today morning and there was no > mention of a india mirror or HNS? > If you are talking about the official list of mirrors, HNS is indeed there - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors -- Sambit Bikas Pal Dept of Physics, Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research, Kolkata Web: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] can't play video in ubuntu 9.10
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 15:22, suranjan jii wrote: > Dear brothers and sisters, > namaskar. > I went in the properties of the file and it was written there==- > > "Name- avseq01.dat > > Type- dat document (application/x-extension-dat)" > > IT was not playing video before updating also. I thought when i will > download all updates then video will play. But still not playing. I > have movie player which comes with live CD of ubuntu 9.10 > > I don't know all coedecs are installed or not related with video. I > just downloaded all updates. If i have to download something else then > pls guide me. > Try installing the package ubuntu-restricted-extras That should install most of the codecs required to play A/V files. Also install VLC and check if vlc can play the dat file. -- Sambit Bikas Pal Dept of Physics, Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research, Kolkata Web: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Multiboot on USB Pendrive
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 18:12, Narendra Diwate wrote: > This is strictly not Ubuntu, but does anyone have any exp in Booting > Multiple Linux Distros off a USB pendrive. I am not looking at > "PendriveLinux". Something that preferably uses GRUB2. > You can try this out - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/easily-create-multiboot-usb-stick.html -- Sambit Bikas Pal Dept of Physics, Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research, Kolkata Web: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] BSNL Broadband conncetion in ubuntu 9.10
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 15:05, suranjan jii wrote: > Namaskar brother, > I checked it and can't see the name of the wifi network in the list > of networks. Pls tell me which driver i have to install. I am using > Dell laptop latitude D400. > In order to install the driver for wifi, first get connected to the net using your Airtel connection (don't worry, the driver is quite small in size, it will not take much time). Then go to System --> Administration --> Hardware drivers You will get a list of proprietary drivers that are available for your system. I guess Dell Latitude D400 uses Broadcom wifi card. Select the Broadcom STA driver and click activate. It should download and install the driver on your system. Restart your computer. Wifi should work. Please try this out. Well you are absolutely right that Ubuntu should automatically do these things, so that the user doesn't need to worry about these little issues. However the problem in this case is not with Ubuntu. Broadcom is not kind enough to provide GNU GPLed (sorry, but in case you don't know what it is -- it is a software license that allows free distribution/development of the software, read more about this here if you want - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) drivers. The current drivers that are available for Broadcom are proprietary, which restricts their free distribution as well as development. For example computers having wifi card from Intel, generally work out of the box, since Intel releases open source drivers for most of their hardwares. These open source drivers can be included in the default installation, since there is no issue with the distribution of such drivers. Anyway please mail us, if you come across any issue while installing the drivers. Thanks. -- Sambit Bikas Pal MS 5th Year Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata, Web: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] BSNL Broadband conncetion in ubuntu 9.10
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 17:31, suranjan jii wrote: > So i want to download updates in cybercafe who has BSNL modem and > connection. They are telling me that there wifi is on and i should do > it via wifi. IP and DNS server no. are there's. I can't use username > and password. B/c they will not provide. > > I can see that in XP OS easily they are just going in control panel > and puting IP and DNS no. there and it is working fine. > > Is there any way to do this ? Hi Suranjan, When you are in that cybercafe, can you see their wifi connection on the list of wifi networks (You can get this list by left-clicking on the network manager icon in the upper panel) ? If you can see the name in the list, then your job is half done. Try clicking on that, to check if you get an ip address automatically via dhcp. If not, You have to right click on the network manager icon --> Edit connections --> Wireless Networks --> Add Now you can manually put in the info like SSID, IP address, gateway, dns etc. However in case you can't see the name of the wifi network in the list of networks, then it might be that you would have to install the drivers for your wlan card. Please check this and tell. -- Sambit Bikas Pal Dept of Physics, Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata, Web: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Setting up a local Ubuntu repository mirror
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 15:54, Anurag Jain wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm planning to set a local Ubuntu repository mirror here in my college > server. Since many students are turning up towards using Linux and specially > Ubuntu is pretty famous among them, it takes incurs lots of time and > overhead to download packages from the main server. I my college we access > Internet via proxy and but the college website(and local ftp) hosted there > can be accessed directly. So if its is possible to create a mirror on that > server which will download and update the packages on its own, we'd be able > to use that as mirror and fetch the packages at a faster rate. > > I've gone through couple of blogs for creating local mirrors but not sure if > they'll surely work. So I need help regarding how to proceed with it along > with the specifications and requirements. Hi Anurag, I was (still am) in an exactly similar situation like you. Here's my experience of setting up a local mirror - http://www.botcyb.org/2008/11/setting-up-local-ubuntu-debian-mirror.html Hope it helps. Regards. -- Sambit Bikas Pal MS 5th Year Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research, Kolkata. Web: http://sam.botcyb.org Blog: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu Tshirts
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 13:10, Mahesh Mohan wrote: > Here it is. http://ubuntu-in.info/wiki/index.php/UbuntuInTShirts > > Thanks! BTW how is one supposed to make the payment? -- Sambit Bikas Pal MS 4th Year Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata, Web: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 Sent from West Bengal, India -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] LAN repository from DVDs
You can also try the following simpler method first. No need to go for apt-mirror a) First create a local repository as described here from the DVDs - http://www.zyxware.com/articles/2008/03/05/ubuntu-repository-on-dvds-available-at-zyxware-order-it-now b) Next install apache/lighttpd in the machine where you have created the local repo as above. c) Serve the directory where you dumped the contents of the DVDs, via apache/lighttpd (For e.g if you had dumped them in /var/ubuntu/ , then serve that location through your http server by creating a symlink in /var/www pointing to /var/ubuntu . You may need to make appropriate changes in the conf file of the webserver to allow that.) d)Suppose the contents are now avaliable at http://localserver/ubuntu (obviously replace localserver with the FQDN/ IP Address of your webserver). e)In the clients in your LAN, change the sources.conf file so that they now point to deb http://localserver/ubuntu main restricted multiverse universe and run apt-get update f) The above should work. Hope this helps. Please tell us, if it worked. -- Sambit Bikas Pal MS 4th Year Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata, Web: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 Sent from Calcutta, WB, India -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] LAN repository from DVDs
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 23:50, Dibyajyoti Mohapatra wrote: >...it gradually slows down. I thought the local repository will be faster but >it disappointed me, the fact now is apt is MUCH >MORE SLOWER downloading >stuff from local repository than it used to be while fetching packages from >internet. > Anyone faced such problems where apt slows down to bytes per second? Any > solutions? > Bump! I have local repositories of Ubuntu Intrepid, Jaunty & Karmic as well as Debian Lenny and they are working really well. However I created them using apt-mirror by directly downloading all the packages from the internet. I had described it here in details - http://www.botcyb.org/2008/11/setting-up-local-ubuntu-debian-mirror.html Though I haven't tried it myself, but I guess it should be possible to use apt-mirror to create a local repository by fetching packages from the DVDs that you have, by doing the following trick. The configuration file (see the link above) for apt-mirror has entries like - deb http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Ubuntu/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted universe multiverse which tell apt-mirror where to get the packages from. By replacing this with something like- deb file:///var/ubuntu/dvd-1 main restricted multiverse universe deb file:///var/ubuntu/dvd-2 main restricted multiverse universe deb file:///var/ubuntu/dvd-3 main restricted multiverse universe it "should" be possible to direct apt-mirror to get the packages from the the local dump. Check this link - http://www.zyxware.com/articles/2008/03/05/ubuntu-repository-on-dvds-available-at-zyxware-order-it-now which describes how to dump the contents of the DVDs. Once apt-mirror is tricked into fetching the packages from the local dump instead of the internet, you can follow the rest of the instructions at http://www.botcyb.org/2008/11/setting-up-local-ubuntu-debian-mirror.html Hope this helps! :) -- Sambit Bikas Pal MS 4th Year Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata, Web: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu Tshirts
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 13:00, Arun Shrimali wrote: > Is somebody is going to print t-shirts with "do it with Ubuntu" or "I > Like Ubuntu" in India > Or asking permission from Ubuntu to allow so > I would like to have one T-shirt > > I am cross posting to Ubuntu mail list also so that Ubuntu people can > also respond. Many other Ubuntu fan would be facing the same problem. > > Great Idea! However there is a bit of hassle involved in getting the Tshirts printed by some third party, other that Canonical. As mentioned in their trademark policy - http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy , one is required to obtain a trademark license for "Use for merchandising purposes, e.g. on t-shirts and the like". Alternatively what we can do is design a template for imprinting on Tshirts and distribute the design. One can then personally use the template and get the Tshirt printed by himself/herself from some online shop selling customisable Tshirts (We have personally used http://www.myntra.com for getting our college tshirts printed, their prices are reasonable, within Rs. 300/- to Rs. 500/- . There are quite a few other such Indian shops as well and btw I don't work for Myntra, just one of their satisfied customers :) ). Open distribution of the community designed template based on Ubuntu logo should fall within "Community Advocacy" and getting the design printed on a Tshirt for personal use should fall within "no commercial intent behind the use" as one is not selling the Tshirts. Usage of the Ubuntu logo under the above circumstances is explicitly allowed by the Ubuntu trademark policy without a trademark license. Ofcourse this was my two cents, kindly correct me if I have been wrong somewhere. Thanks. -- Sambit Bikas Pal MS 4th Year Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata, Web: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x33F6A0B509354195 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] (no subject)
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 14:49, Vinit Parmar wrote: > > Yes, I want. > What do you want? -- Sambit Bikas Pal MS 4th Year Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata, Web: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] linux hosting for email
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:58, Moz wrote: > > Hello All, > > I am trying to have someone host their email host with a linux based > webserver. Can any of you suggest a reasonably priced one? I would prefer > the hosting company having an office in Ahmedabad. > > The requirements are: > > 1. I need to open mail email ids, they could be forwarders > 2. All userids and forwarders need smtp service > 3. There also have to be two central email ids which will receive all > incoming emails as well as outgoing emails. > 4. Don't need much hosting space right now, only email storage is required. > > Sincerely, > > Moz > Hi, Have you looked into Google Aps? http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Apps It has both a free and a paid version. The free version offers storage space similar to that of GMail and allows you get create @YOURDOMAIN.TLD email addresses. -- Sambit Bikas Pal MS 3rd Year Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata, HC 7, Sector-III Salt Lake, Kolkata-700106 Web: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Minimising the window
2009/4/2 Bruce Mathew : > dear friends > > i started using ubuntu very recently and is now facing a problem.. > its because of my mistake.. > > When i minimize a window, it normally resides in a panel which is on the > bottom side of the screen.. i once unknowingly deleted this pane.. now when > i minimize, i cannot see those windows again..How can i activate that > panel.. > please help me.. > I hope the panel on the top is still there. Right-click on the panel at the top, and select "New-panel". A new gnome-panel should appear. Drag the panel to whatever position you prefer (side or bottom). Right click on the new panel and select "Add to Panel", an option window will appear, from that select "Window List" and click "Add". This should do the job. Hope it helps. -- Sambit Bikas Pal MS 3rd Year Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata, HC 7, Sector-III Salt Lake, Kolkata-700106 Web: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Hosting sites on ubuntu
You can't directly use your own domain name with DynDNS. You have to use mydomain.secondarydomain.com and then add a CNAME record such that your registered domain points to mydomain.secondarydomain.com. 2008/10/14 mallikarjun arjun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:01 AM, mallikarjun arjun > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:01 AM, mallikarjun arjun >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Mehul Ved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:41 PM, mallikarjun arjun >>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> > Dear all, >>>> > I am planning to host a website on my Ubuntu host with LAMP server >>>> > and >>>> > drupal CMS, and bought domain name also, everything from my side is >>>> > done, >>>> >>>> Is it just a hobby site or your primary one? If it is the latter, have >>>> you considered >>>> 1) Whether you have enough bandwidth >>>> 2) If your network speed is fast enough >>>> 3) You have adequate security in place >>>> 4) WIll your PC and net be up 24/7 >>>> 5) You have adequate backup in place >>> >>> just a hobby site. >>> What bandwidth do you required for a primary site? >>>> >>>> > but dont know how to link my dynamic ipaddress with domain name. can >>>> > any one >>>> > of you help me? >>>> >>>> Check dyndns and no-ip.org >>>> >>>> > I can connect from outside using my ipaddress. is that >>>> > called DNS server setup? >>>> >>>> No, Your desired DNS name should point to your IP address, that is the >>>> correct setup. So, you will have to sign up with dyndns or no-ip, >>>> which will track your IP address and thus update your hostname >>>> registered with them with your current iP. You can point your own >>>> domain as a CNAME to your registered hostname on one of those >>>> services. And to be able to do this, you might need to sign up with >>>> services like everydns or freedns >>>> In my case, I have home.mehulved.com pointing to my home PC. But, it's >>>> much easier for me since I have a static IP. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ubuntu-in mailing list >>>> ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com >>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >>> >> >> Thanks for all the inputs and will give a try.. > > In dyndns which i tried. it will give mydomain.secondarydomain.com. like > xyz.homelinux.com, xyz.dyndns.org. > Cant it be like my own registered domain name? > > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > -- Sambit Bikas Pal MS 3rd Year Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata, HC 7, Sector-III Salt Lake, Kolkata-700106 Web: http://sambit.ath.cx OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Hosting sites on ubuntu
If the domain registrar doesn't allow to add CNAME records (as it was in my case), then you need to get an account with some free DNS service provider like freedns.afraid.org . In the Domain registrars control panel, you need to change the nameserver responsible for your domain to those of freedns'. It can take upto 48hrs for the change to be reflected globally. So wait for that period. You can check by doing a whois lookup for your domain. After the change has taken place, you can add required DNS entries in Freedns' control panel. Freedns allows upto 20 records including mx records for mailservers, A records, txt records, CNAME, URL forwarding. Hopefully your domain registrar is better than mine, so that all these extra hassles are not required. 2008/10/13 mallikarjun arjun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear all, > I am planning to host a website on my Ubuntu host with LAMP server and > drupal CMS, and bought domain name also, everything from my side is done, > but dont know how to link my dynamic ipaddress with domain name. can any one > of you help me? I can connect from outside using my ipaddress. is that > called DNS server setup? > > Best Regards > Mallikarjun V > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > -- Sambit Bikas Pal MS 3rd Year Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata, HC 7, Sector-III Salt Lake, Kolkata-700106 Web: http://sambit.ath.cx OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] Hosting sites on ubuntu
You have to get a free account from a Dynamic DNS service provider like www.dyndns.com .You will get a hostname like example.selfip.com or example.homeip.net, etc. Next you need to install an update client - there is one called ddclient in the ubuntu repo. It checks your external IP and updates DynDNS' records so that example.selfip.com always resolves to your IP address. Now in the control panel for your domain, you have to add a CNAME record. Suppose you have registered the domain example.com. Then you need to CNAME www.example.com to example.selfip.com. The purpose of CNAME record is, that www.example.com will now resolve to the IP address of example.selfip.com ,i.e. your IP. 2008/10/13 mallikarjun arjun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear all, > I am planning to host a website on my Ubuntu host with LAMP server and > drupal CMS, and bought domain name also, everything from my side is done, > but dont know how to link my dynamic ipaddress with domain name. can any one > of you help me? I can connect from outside using my ipaddress. is that > called DNS server setup? > > Best Regards > Mallikarjun V > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > -- Sambit Bikas Pal MS 3rd Year Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata, HC 7, Sector-III Salt Lake, Kolkata-700106 Web: http://sambit.ath.cx OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
