Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Indian Court Order

2012-06-08 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Jun 8, 2012 4:18 PM, "Yogesh Girikumar" wrote: > I don't agree.. what do you mean by a lot of illegal activity? Among other things, tor has been used for child pornography. Which is why any tor traffic is taken very seriously and closely monitored. It makes no sense to use tor to access somet

Re: [Ilugc] [event report] Linux for web development

2012-06-07 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Jun 7, 2012 5:50 PM, "Girish Venkatachalam" < girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perl is not meant for kids and impatient people. I was led to believe that laziness, impatience and hubris were the three virtues of a good Perl programmer. The Camel Book defines each as 1. Laziness - the h

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Indian Court Order

2012-06-07 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Jun 7, 2012 6:18 PM, "Deepak Babu" wrote: > > Well, I use this: https://www.torproject.org/ (Anonymity Online: Protect > your privacy. Defend yourself against network surveillance and traffic > analysis. ) My advise is to never use tor. It is used for lot of illegal activity and heavily monito

Re: [Ilugc] Xmessage in SUSE

2012-06-06 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Jun 6, 2012 10:57 AM, "Rajesh kumar" wrote: > > I am building a custom application which starts in roots cron every day. I > am using Xmessage to alert the user that the application is completed > running. It should alert all the user who have logged in via a popup. Use dbus, it is designed ex

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Indian Court Order

2012-06-05 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:38 PM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > which port number would one have to forward? On your local desktop, run ssh -D 8080 shell.example.org and set your browser's proxy to SOCKS localhost 8080. http://www.debian-administration.org/article/SSH_dynamic_port_forwarding_with_S

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Indian Court Order

2012-06-05 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > You can setup a VPN connection to a US machine and browse the sites. ;) VPN not needed. If you have shell access to an external machine you can use SSH port forwarding and configure it as a SOCKS proxy in your browser. - Raja __

Re: [Ilugc] How does load balancing work?

2012-06-02 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Load balancing involves promising a 100% uptime for a server application. Load balancing only eliminates downtime due to server/application being a single point of failure. Even with full redundancy it's still not possible to provide

Re: [Ilugc] Linux media center

2012-05-30 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:13 PM, 0 <0...@0throot.com> wrote: > Have you tried xbmc ? > > http://xbmc.org/about/ +1. I run it on an Apple TV2 and it's excellent. Active community, great documentation and plenty of plugins. - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List:

Re: [Ilugc] dd reports I/O errors on CF device but copies the disk image installed in it

2012-05-27 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > Any hypothesis for this anamoly? dd is trying to read past end of device and failing? A little OT, but related: tar is far more flexible than dd for backup/restore tasks. You don't require the disks/filesystems to be of exactly same size. Not

Re: [Ilugc] more on firewall

2012-05-22 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Mohan Sundaram wrote: >> Agree. Like ECN not being honoured, many routers have not implemented TCP > window scaling. Routers need not participate or even be aware of it. TCP window scaling works between source/destination. TCP window is an integral part of an ker

Re: [Ilugc] [Commercial] Low Cost FOSS Resource Server

2012-05-22 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Mohan Sundaram wrote: >> True. But still very early stages. ARM was traditionally positioned as > power saving as opposed to performance leading it to be dominant in > mobiles/ tablets etc. I reckon it will a while before these become > commonplace enough to be ch

Re: [Ilugc] more on firewall

2012-05-22 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Mohan Sundaram wrote: > Absolutely. In addition, nowadays ECN is also being used though there are > not very many devices that honour this yet. Dropping packets on the > incoming interface is a sure way of slowing down specific incoming traffic. Dropping packets

Re: [Ilugc] more on firewall

2012-05-21 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > We can easily control that but what about packets coming to us? > > Nothing much we can do there. TCP window scaling can get the remote end to slow down and reduce your incoming packet rate. Queueing UDP flows individually and introd

Re: [Ilugc] Incoming redirection, port forward, DMZ, skype et al

2012-05-21 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Mohan Sundaram wrote: > DMZ  (De-Militarised Zone is a standard term used in securing your > perimeter. It is a wartime terminology. Essentially, it divides the area > that needs to be protected into different zone with different  levels of > security and restricti

Re: [Ilugc] anatomy of a mail server

2012-05-15 Thread Raja Subramanian
On May 15, 2012 8:41 PM, "Jacob G Podipara" wrote: > users on a Linux Desktop with multiple users. I had to create a fetchmail config, run it for each > user and route all mail through a commom Gmail ID with SMTP fwding. As it is a family desktop I can > assert my will, but it's unfair. Fetchmail

Re: [Ilugc] Dual Boot - Help

2012-05-14 Thread Raja Subramanian
On May 14, 2012 8:21 PM, "Muthukumar S" wrote: > Also, Please guide me how to make the USB bootable with Ubuntu ISO. Unetbootin.sf.net is a nice app for Linux and Windows which makes bootable USB sticks from ISO images. - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: h

Re: [Ilugc] X forwarding over reverse ssh

2012-05-11 Thread Raja Subramanian
On May 10, 2012 12:58 PM, "poomalairaj" wrote: > Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > Connection to xxx.xxx.xxx.xx closed For troubleshooting run "xhost +" on your desktop and try again. This

Re: [Ilugc] dynamic

2012-05-09 Thread Raja Subramanian
On May 9, 2012 7:25 PM, "Girish Venkatachalam" < girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, you have to use dynamic DNS but that does not come free even from > dyndns.org. Try afraid.org. - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman

Re: [Ilugc] Who is the user that runs apache webserver ?

2012-05-07 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:05 PM, 0 <0...@0throot.com> wrote: > The short answer to your question is to bind to privileged port 80. Nice reply :-) To OP, long answer is: http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/PrivilegeSeparation - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http

Re: [Ilugc] Linux Kernel PID understanding

2012-05-07 Thread Raja Subramanian
On May 7, 2012 6:48 PM, "0" <0...@0throot.com> wrote: > Also, the process IDs run from 1 to 32767 and roll over, so don't be > surprised if you see gaps. The gaps just indicate that those processes > have exited. Some security minded OSes like OpenBSD and patched Linux kernels do not allocate PID

Re: [Ilugc] best image compression & file transfer opensource software........?????????

2012-04-24 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Apr 24, 2012 10:10 PM, "Girish Venkatachalam" < girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Look for some algorithms that do not lose data like JPEG. JPEG is lossy. Unless you are specifically referring to JPEG 2000 or JPEG LS. - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing L

Re: [Ilugc] best image compression & file transfer opensource software........?????????

2012-04-24 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Apr 24, 2012 5:21 PM, wrote: > open source tools available for the maximum possible image compression Djvu is great for lossy image compression and streaming like with Google Earth. See djvu.org. > effective & secured file transfer Djvu itself has a streaming solution. Else you can always

Re: [Ilugc] php malware from wordpress blog

2012-04-11 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Raja Subramanian wrote: > The malware sample is here: http://pastebin.com/7X9imPGp > > Can anyone decipher what this script is doing and how much damage > it has caused? Sorry to reply to my own post. PHP programmers have nothing other t

[Ilugc] php malware from wordpress blog

2012-04-11 Thread Raja Subramanian
Hi, I have had a recent malware injection on a WordPress website I host. The malware sample is here: http://pastebin.com/7X9imPGp Can anyone decipher what this script is doing and how much damage it has caused? This stuff appeared in several files in my WP installation, new files created insid

Re: [Ilugc] [OT?] Many sites not opening - BSNL BB

2012-04-01 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Natarajan V wrote: > The following is what *think* might have happened. > MTU is largest size of each packet. The default value is 1500. But > seems like this size is too big for some networks. Actually the issue is more like this: The link between your DSL modem

Re: [Ilugc] why embedded Linux not having swap partition.

2012-03-28 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > This thread is full of theoretical stuff, lot of useful info but > nowadays I only deal with practical reality. > > That is the single biggest problem with the people I meet here in LUG. > > You have to get practical doubts. > > Theory

Re: [Ilugc] why embedded Linux not having swap partition.

2012-03-28 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Zico wrote: > I am sorry, but, what does it means by "access times are non deterministic"? > Pardon me, I don't have any knowledge on Embedded system architecture. :) "non deterministic" is CS lingo for unpredictable. Assume you are accessing a memory address, if

Re: [Ilugc] Multiple passwords for root user in Linux

2012-03-20 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Raman.P wrote: > 1. Copy the line containing root user information in /etc/passwd into a > new line and change the name 'root' some thing else say 'root1'. Unix admin tradition is to call this account as "toor" - root backwards. A better solution to the OP's prob

Re: [Ilugc] samba share permissions

2012-03-13 Thread Raja Subramanian
Sorry... I replied prematurely in my earlier post. Please ignore earlier one. Here is the completed response. On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Raja Subramanian wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:26 PM, rapghere rap wrote: >> Anyone, could you please explain in detail. > > Her

Re: [Ilugc] samba share permissions

2012-03-13 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:26 PM, rapghere rap wrote: > Anyone, could you please explain in detail. Here are some high level steps. You'll need to consult relevant documentation along the way. >> I have an ubuntu 10.04.2 desktop joined into my windows domain running on >> Windows 2008 R2 AD serv

Re: [Ilugc] Android on X86 platforms

2012-03-13 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:54 PM, prasannatsmkumar wrote: > There is an Android port for x86 hardware (Intel and AMD CPUs) at > http://android-x86.org/. Those who wanted to try Android but did not buy a > tablet or smartphone can try this in your PCs. Android was (and still is) primarily a phone/t

Re: [Ilugc] Firefox_Mozilla

2012-03-13 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:28 PM, rmariya sagaya asirvatham wrote: > How can i configure my firewall to accept all outgoing web traffic only > from my proxy server > > may i add below lines  in my iptables > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to > 192.168.x.x.312

Re: [Ilugc] Firefox_Mozilla

2012-03-12 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:01 PM, rmariya sagaya asirvatham wrote: > We are in the need of proxy authentication mode for all users ,So we are > unable to implement  transparent mode. Good network security implementation should work regardless of the desktop/browser settings. If you configure your

Re: [Ilugc] extract sentences from a xml file in bash

2012-03-07 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Mar 7, 2012 1:54 PM, "Shrinivasan T" wrote: > How can we use the bash utilities to achieve this? Use Perl. I'm sure there's an ini parser on CPAN which will make this trivial. - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Ilugc] Need Volunteers for ILUGC Website - enhancements

2012-02-25 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Feb 25, 2012 4:54 PM, wrote: > > Congratulations Raja and thank you for volunteering. Suggest you read my post again - I have nowhere mentioned that I'm volunteering. If the site was built in WordPress I can help out. I have little experience in Drupal and cannot be of much use. The OP has l

Re: [Ilugc] Need Volunteers for ILUGC Website - enhancements

2012-02-25 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Our website http://ilugc.in is run by drupal 6. Many of the enhancements requested are already addressed by Drupal 7. It is also easier to maintain than Drupal 6. Consider upgrading first? > It needs some enhancements as follows. Please c

Re: [Ilugc] libpanel-applet error

2012-02-22 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Karthikeyan Venkatraman wrote: > Give me the suggestion to over come the problem. Please stop top posting. What distro and release are you using? Have you added any unofficial apt repositories? Confirm that your /etc/apt/sources.list is consistent for your distr

Re: [Ilugc] alternate to skype

2012-02-09 Thread Raja Subramanian
2012/2/10 விக்னேஷ் நந்த குமார் (Vignesh Nandha Kumar) : > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Raja Subramanian > wrote: >> Google Voice. > > Is that Free Software? Sorry, my bad. - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.i

Re: [Ilugc] alternate to skype

2012-02-09 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Feb 10, 2012 5:38 AM, "Shrinivasan T" wrote: > > I am using skype to all US toll free numbers. > > is there any free open alternate to make toll free calls? Google Voice. - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] remotely accessing a machine on a lan with dynamic IP

2012-02-08 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:54 PM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > I maintain a server in a remote place. It is connected to a LAN - the > LAN is the usual poor man's LAN which uses the BSNL router as the dhcp > server. They have dynamic IP from bsnl. The machine the machine has a > fixed IP (192.168.1.12

Re: [Ilugc] The right way to set permissions for an Apache Virtual Host

2012-02-06 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Feb 7, 2012 3:16 AM, "Roshan George" wrote: > Is this the right way to go about things? You're on the right track. This is exactly how large web hosting providers also do it. - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/i

Re: [Ilugc] Mailman customisation services needed

2012-02-05 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Feb 5, 2012 8:17 PM, "Sundaram Ramachandran" < sundaram.ramachand...@kggroup.com> wrote: > > In addition, I also want the Mailman to store user's mobile numbers and SMS any tasks that are created. An Android app forcreating and updating tasks would also be a useful feature. >From your requi

Re: [Ilugc] Cron Job

2012-01-27 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:31 PM, kumaresan chandran wrote: >  * * 01 * * /usr/bin/bbpurne > > These script will execute every month of the first day fully 24 hours or > only one time a day its execute. It will run repeatedly on the 1st of the month. Probably not something you intended. If you wa

Re: [Ilugc] PIPA and SOPA Co-Sponsors Abandon Bills

2012-01-19 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Venkatraman S wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > does anyone have a writeup on how SOPA / PIPA impact people in India ? > > Not exactly , but a good intro : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwuXNv8fJM Here's one more: http://www.you

Re: [Ilugc] [ILuG-C] Microsoft Office on Linux

2012-01-08 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Akilan R wrote: > LOL. :D This is getting hilarious. No, it's getting pointless and increasingly tiresome. Now it's degenerating into insults. Please stop this thread. - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm

Re: [Ilugc] Request for suggestion : laptop VS netbook

2011-12-31 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > Avoid, the 10" screen.  It looks very nice and compact but after a > while the small foot print feels a bit cramped especially the > keyboard. +1 I had the Acer Aspire One D150 for 18 months. The screen and keyboard are not convenient for extend

Re: [Ilugc] My thin client experience

2011-12-30 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Suraj Kumar wrote: > Of course, I'm running a 64-bit PAE. PAE is for 32 bit systems. If you are using a PAE kernel then your kernel is still 32 bit but it can handle more than 4GB RAM. - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: htt

Re: [Ilugc] OAOD (unison)

2011-12-18 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Dec 18, 2011 9:18 PM, "Ashok Gautham" wrote: > Cons: >1. Binaries aren't handled well. I remember reading that rsync's >delta algo works pretty well for these. rdiff-backup uses this and it works great as a general purpose backup system. Eg Using rdiff-backup on Windows I have more th

Re: [Ilugc] [Technical] Does 'C' language specification has 'boolean' datatype ?

2011-12-16 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Dec 17, 2011 11:20 AM, "0" <0...@0throot.com> wrote: > Nope, just define one using typedef such as, > > #define true 1 Since C defines any non-zero value as true, rather than defining true as 1 you better define true as !0. Ie, true is the opposite of false. This is the only way to ensure that

Re: [Ilugc] ULTRASURF IN UBUNTU 10.10

2011-12-13 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Sree wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Dinesh Infotech wrote: >>          Is it possible to use ultrasurf in ubuntu...or equivalent to >> that > > Just use Tor. Hope your are not considering using Ultrasurf/Tor in a corporate environment. This tra

Re: [Ilugc] [TIP] perl tutorial VII (perl tricks)

2011-12-10 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar wrote: > When a language has a variable like "$|" and people use such stuff > frequently, I wouldn't call that language elegant. You can always ask perl to "use English". Mathematics is full of symbols and it is very beautiful once you unde

Re: [Ilugc] call for speakers - November meet

2011-11-13 Thread Raja Subramanian
2011/11/13 Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் > Once we used to have quality lectures in ilugc meeting, i see that stuff > are no more happening. There are plenty of first time talkers, so give them a chance and some encouragement! > IMO, proactive leadership is what ilugc missing. If nobody volunteers to

Re: [Ilugc] Can we access the SWAP SPACE in Python

2011-10-12 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Arulalan T wrote: > I couldnt use mmap( ) function in my case, since I am accessing the binary > file like NetCDF, PP, HDF, Grads which contains data > in formats of numpy.float32, numpy.float64 and some meta data also. > > These files cant read it as like normal

Re: [Ilugc] [HW] Do the HDD cages in rack mount chassis indicate visual/audio HDD failure?

2011-10-12 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > I have no experience with rack mount chassis and the associated HDD > bays (active or passive) > > To reduce the H/W cost, I am considering Linux mdadm RAID10 on a 2U > chassis.  However, I am not sure whether there is any visual/audio HDD > fail

Re: [Ilugc] Can we access the SWAP SPACE in Python

2011-10-07 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Arulalan T wrote: > Is there any way to store the data (temporarily) in the SWAP SPACE instead > of RAM ? No, it's best to let the kernel handle memory management. But read below. > Is there any way to store some data in SWAP (but not in RAM) and get the > data

Re: [Ilugc] how to find data rate of the disk.

2011-09-28 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sep 28, 2011 11:24 PM, "Saravanan Selvamani" < saravananselvam...@gmail.com> wrote: > We need of a tool or a utility in linux that helps us to find the > data rate of a disk that has been used by a particular job while doing the > IO operation . iotop - http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/

Re: [Ilugc] Hardware changes in Linux

2011-09-28 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Rajesh kumar wrote: > > I need a application which logs the hardware changes in a linux machine. Say > if ram is increased or reduced, harddisk added, sound card removes etc > should be logged. Search for a "hardware inventory" or "IT asset management" applicatio

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] ankit fadia

2011-09-22 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > The genuine people in their respective industries/professions know who > is who and shun such individuals. True. How to spot false security claims: http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/snake-oil-faq.html http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram

Re: [Ilugc] Linux Tablet suggestion

2011-09-17 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > The new SONY VAIO netbooks with AMD E350 APU look very nice. Thinkpad X120e :-) - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Linux Tablet suggestion

2011-09-14 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Noorul Islam K M wrote: > Raja Subramanian writes: > > Things I regret about the Nook Color: small screen, no 2G/3G (wifi only), > > no GPS, no microphone, no cameras. > > I think those are plus points. Because there will be no distraction.

Re: [Ilugc] Linux Tablet suggestion

2011-09-14 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Raman.P wrote: > Please suggest me a tablet. Also will it be comfortable to read with 7.x > inches display? I have Sony ebook reader and a Nook Color 7" android tablet. ebook readers are nice for reading, and Calibre (calibre-ebook.com) can be used to convert va

Re: [Ilugc] Open Souce Anitivirus(Client-Server)

2011-09-09 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:40 PM, rmariya sagaya asirvatham wrote: > Any open source Antivirus (Client-Server) Tools avilable . http://www.clamav.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clam_AntiVirus ClamAV may not perform as well as some commercial solutions. Suggest you evaluate it carefully befo

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-03 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sep 3, 2011 11:23 AM, "Arun Venkataswamy" wrote: > I hope the courts help in pulling out this entire thing of free laptops. +1 There's all probability that a vast majority of these laptops will end up being used for totally unrelated purposes - games, music, movies, and porn. I'm sure the go

Re: [Ilugc] Wikipedia not accessible

2011-08-29 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Asokan Pichai wrote: > For (at least) two days I am not able to connect to wikipedia. ANy one else > facing a similar problem? http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac

Re: [Ilugc] [slightly OT] free dns service

2011-08-26 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:47 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > for several years I have been using everydns to maintain the dns for my > (mainly opensource) websites. Recently they have gone over to a paid > model. I do not mind paying for my commercial usage, but would like to > ask members for opti

Re: [Ilugc] Squid proxy serevr

2011-08-20 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:54 PM, karthik kgm wrote: > I am using squid proxy server with fedora14 in my Lab. I want to see Traffic > in each IP to be tracked on a weekly basis - Each IP's (machines connected > through my proxy server) upload & download. There are several Squid log analyzers to ch

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-18 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Vamsee Kanakala wrote: > give me the same money, I'd buy a ThinkPad X220 with SSD option and run > Ubuntu (or Arch, if you're hard core :D) and run VirtualBox for Win7/Mac > OSX needs, etc. +1 for the Thinkpad. - Raja _

Re: [Ilugc] installing boost in ubuntu

2011-08-10 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Aug 11, 2011 10:52 AM, "kenneth gonsalves" wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 10:39 +0530, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > > tried to install boost in Ubuntu 10.04, but keep getting the message > > boost >= 2.30 not found. > > typo that should be 1.30 not 2.30 All the boost packages: http://packages

Re: [Ilugc] Listing Process

2011-08-08 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Rajesh kumar wrote: > Is there any process or command that we can export the list of process > running to csv "ps -o" can produce output in fixed width format. You will then need to convert it to csv. See "man ps". - Raja

Re: [Ilugc] Hi

2011-08-03 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Lakshimi Parthasarathy wrote: > I am searching job in system administrator field (linux) See fossjobs.in > I need some sample resume.does any one send me few sample linux system > administrator resume. Suggest you spend some time/effort into writing your own re

Re: [Ilugc] What is wrong in this script ?

2011-07-29 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Mukesh Yadav wrote: > I'm trying to compress js file via shell script here is code > > #!/bin/sh > for file in `find . -name "*.js"` > do > echo "Compressing $file …" > java -jar ~/yuicompressor-2.4.6/build/yuicompressor-2.4.6.jar --type js -o > min/$file $file > d

Re: [Ilugc] SO_REUSEADDR in conjunction with INADDR_ANY issue

2011-07-29 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:16 AM, narendra babu wrote: > Also, the client that is established to the port is  sending messages to what > it believes is its peer. > No errors are returned. > The socket has been in this state for couple of  a days Open a raw socket and send an RST to this port. Th

Re: [Ilugc] [OT/HW] Low cost VOIP Analog Telephone Adapter

2011-07-22 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Jul 22, 2011 10:47 PM, "Arun Khan" wrote: > Back to your posting - this is a whole new area for me. I plan to do > some R&D with asterisk and freeswitch as well on a very small setup (2 > nodes to be precise). http://nerdvittles.com/index.php?p=677 can get you started with asterisk very quic

Re: [Ilugc] [OT/HW] Low cost VOIP Analog Telephone Adapter

2011-07-19 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Jul 19, 2011 12:32 PM, "Arun Khan" wrote: > I am looking for a low cost VOIP Analog Tel. Adapters to do a small > VOIP setup in my home. GrandStream makes good soho ATA devices. Check your local reseller for availability. For hobbyist use, suggest you get used Cisco or Motorola ATAs off eBay.

Re: [Ilugc] Open source enterprise backup solutions

2011-07-18 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Jul 18, 2011 4:27 PM, "devjyoti patra" wrote: > I was thinking that there must exist an open source alternative for > Dropbox (except > the share feature), which can de-duplicate and compress data before > backing it up "online". See duplicity and duplicati. It can compress, dedupe and encrypt

Re: [Ilugc] Which is best IDE

2011-07-15 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Natarajan V wrote: > With almost 10 years into Java, I care the least about which IDE ... > If you are clear in what you want to develop, the tool is just an aid. > And, switching between Eclipse and Netbeans is not a big deal at all. > So don't worry much about th

[Ilugc] $25 ARM SOC runs ubuntu

2011-07-12 Thread Raja Subramanian
Hi, Some people in the last LUG meet expressed interest in this USB stick sized $25 embedded computer which runs Ubuntu: http://www.raspberrypi.org/ In the first photo, the tiny thing just underneath the monitor on the left is the device. The others are USB hub, ethernet, etc. The founders

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Inventory management software for general grocery stores

2011-07-10 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Jul 11, 2011 11:44 AM, "రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్" wrote: > Do we have an inventory management system software for a local kirana shop ( > groceries shop/vegetable shop) which will take care of stock of shop as well > as the daily sales both at large and small scales. Have you searched in the freshme

Re: [Ilugc] Locked Root password, Debian 5 refuses to go into single user mode

2011-07-10 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Raja Subramanian wrote: > 5. run passwd to reset the root password.  You are already root > so you will not be promoted for current password. That needs to be "passwd -u" to unlock the root account. I misunderstood that you lost the root passwor

Re: [Ilugc] Locked Root password, Debian 5 refuses to go into single user mode

2011-07-10 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Roshan George wrote: > Unfortunately, on Debian this leads to a deadly situation. In the event > of a failed fsck, Debian gives you the bog standard, "Enter root > password to continue (or press Ctrl-D)" message. The problem is that the > root user is locked. Ther

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] dvorak keyboard

2011-06-23 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > still slow, but hands do not pain anymore. Get a TVS Gold mechanical keyboard and forget finger pain forever. - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] rsync log -reg.

2011-06-14 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Jun 14, 2011 4:27 PM, "Vijay Kumar" wrote: > 4 rsync commands per day, for backup my data to VPS server opver the > network. Check out rdiff-backup, it's far better than rsync for backups. - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mail

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] dvorak keyboard

2011-06-03 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Jun 3, 2011 4:09 PM, "Kenneth Gonsalves" wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 15:50 +0530, Akilan R wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Arulalan T > > DVORAK keyboards can be ordered in internet :-) > > for laptop? You can always use an external USB keyboard with your laptop. Duh! I pulle

Re: [Ilugc] To view accessing user for an nfs share

2011-05-27 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Sagayaraj wrote: >    How to see the currently accessing user for an nfs share. # showmount -a When run on your NFS server, this shows list of all connected NFS clients. Note that NFS mounts are per workstation and not per user. - Raja

Re: [Ilugc] Remote Administration and Node Management

2011-05-22 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Rajesh kumar wrote: > Can you please tell me some of them and is there any service provider for > these things? OpenNMS and OCS NG. - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS Lab Setup in IGCETW, Kanchipuram Dt.

2011-05-13 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:45 PM, satyaakam goswami wrote: > do not try to fix if  ain't broken , also  holds good for business models , > its his business and if it works for him why try changing it? having said > that do not be under the impression that you cannot challenge it . ... > come out w

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS Lab Setup in IGCETW, Kanchipuram Dt.

2011-05-13 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Baskar Selvaraj wrote: > I am also having idea about providing one FOSS lab server for all LUGs in > India to simplify FOSS lab setup in academic institutions.  Requesting > members to share their ideas/toughts on this. +1 But I suggest rather than providing the

Re: [Ilugc] Private Key Generation

2011-05-13 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Zico wrote: > but then again, I am confused about one things: (1) Is it really necessary > to "generate private key" from their server? I mean, ssh into my client's > server, run openssl command like from their server : No need to generate the keys on the target s

Re: [Ilugc] How to find the source of packet loss

2011-04-19 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Apr 19, 2011 4:49 PM, "Preetish" wrote: > Thanks. I ran MTR and did see that there are packet loss on certain > hops ( outside our ISP's AS ) I have created a video and sent it to > the ISP. Lets see what they have to say. Your ISP will counter this through your own admission that if you remov

Re: [Ilugc] Configuring Dnsmasq server

2011-04-16 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Mukesh Yadav wrote: >  I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 and I have installed dnsmasq to resolve local domain > say www.example.com. In dnsmasq I have configured these settings. > > address=/example.com/127.0.0.1 > listen-address=192.168.0.3 ... > On my desktop I'm running Wi

Re: [Ilugc] Fedora 14 Display Monitor Resolution

2011-04-06 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > The newer Xorg do an autodetect and seem to override xorg.conf if it > exists (from my observation). Auto detection also depends on the Xorg video drivers. I recently had a problem with a LCD panel connected to an Nvidia Quadro FX card over DVI.

Re: [Ilugc] Suggest a FOSS Ticketing System

2011-04-06 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > rt is also good (bit of a pain to set up though). An org that I was > connected with has been using it for some years with good results. +1 Request Tracker is available as a Debian package for quite a long time. I had an RT setup support

Re: [Ilugc] Mysql query issue

2011-04-01 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:04 PM, JAGANADH G wrote: > I have a MySQL table and it contains around 20,000,00 records. Your comas are misleading, how many records are you having? 20 million or 20 lakh records? > id(promary key and autogenerate),review(text),hash(int)) is the table > structure > The

Re: [Ilugc] ssh connection: port 22 problem

2011-03-31 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Tha.Suresh wrote: > I tried many ways like, >  $ /etc/init.d/sshd start Check the logs for clues on why sshd is failing. See the fies in /var/log/. - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinf

Re: [Ilugc] Introduction to MongoDB

2011-03-29 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Swapnil wrote: > How about sending it ONLY to the poster and not the entire list? That > way archive won't be messy. How about including this logic into the mailing list engine itself so top/bottom posts do not get accepted!!! - Raja _

Re: [Ilugc] PHP timestamp difference on Linux and Windows systems

2011-03-18 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Mar 18, 2011 11:12 PM, wrote: > Can you please explain how to customize the Linux system to set the > hardware clock to local time? I am using Open SUSE 11.0 on my system. When you install Suse, the installer will give you the choice of setting hardware clock to local time or UTC. Best refer

Re: [Ilugc] PHP timestamp difference on Linux and Windows systems

2011-03-18 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:40 PM, wrote: >  When I am executing a php code like below: > >  $timestamp=mktime(0,0,0,3,1,2011); >  echo $timestamp; > ?> > > on Linux and Windows system then there is always a difference of 19800 in > output. The result shown on Linux system is always 19800 less th

Re: [Ilugc] hai

2011-03-18 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 5:51 PM, kala. aim wrote: > i am 3rd yr BE cse student.i wnat information about NS2 INSTALLATION. > plz help me http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=ns2+installation Try one of the instructions which show up, and post back if you face any problems. Also request you to read/follow t

Re: [Ilugc] Identifying the source of high memory usage

2011-03-17 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Roshan George wrote: > Just thought I'd bring closure to this thread. While the RAM usage > wouldn't show up under Buffers/Cache, it did drop to expected use as > soon as I required the extra RAM (by mallocing up a few megabytes). > > I assume this is how this hype

Re: [Ilugc] How Video Streaming Works

2011-03-17 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Venkatraman S wrote: > Can someone explain how video streaming works - i am mainly interested in > how the server works when you click along the timeline of the video. Does > the server span threads/processes to fetch the frame from a specified moment > - how is th

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