About Me!!!
by Pratyush Verma
Hello Everybody,
This is Pratyush Verma, presently doing engineering at Birla Institute of
Technology, Mesra. My majors is Computer Science and I am in 3rd semester.
My interests are programming, software development and networking. I am
intersted in the development of open source and would love to work in its
development. I love programming in C, C++, Java and bash. My hobbies include
playing cricket and i love listening to music. Please follow me at my tech
blog http://www.vermapratyush.co.cc to know what i am up to or my wiki page
at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Vermapratyush to know more about me.
14 years, 5 months
FOSS.IN 2009 - Short list of selected talks
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
Fedora Contributors and other Red Hat folks:
http://foss.in/news/foss-in2009-first-shortlist.html
Main Sessions:
Dimitris Glezos Building a disruptive open source project
James Morris Secure and Simple Sandboxing in SELinux
James Morris FOSS Security Workshop 2009
Kushal Das Deadly Combo — Python and newt
Kushal Das Hacking Boog
Lennart Poettering PulseAudio Internals
Lennart Poettering The Linux File System Hierarchy from a
Developer’s Perspective FOSS Talk
Lennart Poettering Is S.M.A.R.T. really that clever?
Rahul Sundaram Exploring PackageKit, a cross distribution standard
software management framework
Fedora Project day:
Joerg Simon The Fedora Security Spin and the OSSTMM
Kedar Sovani Fedora ARM: Past, Present and Future (It is listed as a
main conference talk however. Kedar, want to change this?)
Shreyank Gupta Dorrie (Might want to clarify that this is part of Fedora
Project day and give a proper description of what this is all about)
Susmit Shannigrahi Redrawing and rewriting Fedora Distribution process
Rahul Sundaram How to create your own Fedora Remix
Rahul Sundaram Integrating a Free and open source software project
into Fedora
---
Rock and Roll,
Rahul
14 years, 5 months
Re: [Ambassadors] Upcoming events in India
by Shakthi Kannan
Hi,
--- On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Chitlesh GOORAH
<chitlesh.goorah(a)gmail.com> wrote:
| I came across this blog post today
| http://pramode.net/2009/11/04/a-lot-of-pythonfoss-events-in-november
\--
Pramode has been very active in embedded/open hardware initiatives in
Thrissur, and in Kerala, India. We have done workshops at
Thiruvananthapuram (also known as Trivandrum), Kerala earlier. I have
presented Fedora Electronic Lab to them.
http://pramode.net/2009/03/11/national-seminar-on-embedded-design-with-gn...
---
| I would appreciate if someone could drop by and have a look how
| fedora's and FEL's exposure is doing during these events and
| ultimately using your ambassador powers provide some inputs which can
| benefit the opensource eco-system.
\--
http://fossee.in is a Python initiative, headed by Prof. Prabhu
Ramachandran [1], from IIT, Mumbai. Any Fedora Electronic Lab tools
pertaining to Python and scientific computing are useful in their
events.
You can also contact Jeffrey [2] from Thrissur who has done prototype
boards with PCB for Arduino, for example. He is also writing an
article for LFY [3] on gEDA.
Regards,
SK
[1] http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/~prabhu/
[2] http://jeffrey.co.in/blog/
[3] http://www.linuxforu.com/
--
Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com
14 years, 5 months
DVD writer troubles
by Ankur Sinha
Hi,
I do realize this isnt the right place for the query, but I really dint
know where else to ask.
My fedora system cannot burn dvds properly. That is, my laptop burner
and the new USB burner I got just today. I'm using "wodim" and it
continually wastes dvds.
Here is an example:
[Ankur@Ankur Fedora-11-i386-DVD]$ wodim -scanbus
scsibus4:
4,0,0 400) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GSA-4084N' 'KQ09' Removable CD-ROM
4,1,0 401) *
4,2,0 402) *
4,3,0 403) *
4,4,0 404) *
4,5,0 405) *
4,6,0 406) *
4,7,0 407) *
scsibus14:
14,0,0 1400) 'SONY ' 'DVD+-RW DW-D56A ' 'PDS7' Removable CD-ROM
14,1,0 1401) *
14,2,0 1402) *
14,3,0 1403) *
14,4,0 1404) *
14,5,0 1405) *
14,6,0 1406) *
14,7,0 1407) *
------------------------------------------
[Ankur@Ankur Fedora-11-i386-DVD]$ su -c ' nice -n -18 wodim -v -eject
dev=14,0,0 Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso '
Password:
wodim: No write mode specified.
wodim: Asuming -tao mode.
wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent
defaults.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '14,0,0'
scsibus: 14 target: 0 lun: 0
WARNING: the deprecated pseudo SCSI syntax found as device
specification.
Support for that may cease in the future versions of wodim. For now,
the device will be mapped to a block device file where possible.
Run "wodim --devices" for details.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Wodim version: 1.1.9
SCSI buffer size: 32768
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'SONY '
Identification : 'DVD+-RW DW-D56A '
Revision : 'PDS7'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording)
Profile: 0x002B (DVD+R/DL)
Profile: 0x001B (DVD+R)
Profile: 0x001A (DVD+RW)
Profile: 0x0014 (DVD-RW sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0013 (DVD-RW restricted overwrite)
Profile: 0xFE12 ()
Profile: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording) (current)
Profile: 0x0010 (DVD-ROM)
Profile: 0x000A (CD-RW)
Profile: 0x0009 (CD-R)
Profile: 0x0008 (CD-ROM)
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 1563904 = 1527 KB
Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if
device
communication breaks or freezes immediately after that.
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 3513 MB
Total size: 4034 MB (399:43.26) = 1798745 sectors
Lout start: 4034 MB (399:45/20) = 1798745 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
HINT: use dvd+rw-mediainfo from dvd+rw-tools for information extraction.
Blocks total: 2298496 Blocks current: 2298496 Blocks remaining: 499751
Speed set to 2770 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2.0 in real unknown mode for single
session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation
starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 1842 of 3513 MB written (fifo 99%) [buf 99%] 3.0x.Errno: 5
(Input/output error), write_g1 scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 2A 00 00 0E 65 D0 00 00 10 00
status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS)
resid: 17408
cmd finished after 42.754s timeout 40s
write track data: error after 1932427264 bytes
wodim: A write error occured.
wodim: Please properly read the error message above.
Errno: 5 (Input/output error), test unit ready scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 04 01 00 00
Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x01 (logical unit is in process of becoming
ready) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.436s timeout 40s
Writing time: 542.984s
Average write speed 5.0x.
Min drive buffer fill was 99%
Fixating...
Errno: 5 (Input/output error), flush cache scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 04 01 00 00
Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x01 (logical unit is in process of becoming
ready) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.940s timeout 120s
Trouble flushing the cache
wodim: Cannot fixate disk.
Fixating time: 0.940s
wodim: fifo had 59101 puts and 58974 gets.
wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 22707 times full, min fill was 72%.
I thought it was caused due to a faulty drive. However, as you can see,
the new USB drive I got just today gives the same errors. Please advise
a course of action.
--
regards,
Ankur
14 years, 5 months
