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In spite of folks talking about not to buy Benq i bought myself a gift for New Year Joybook Lite U 121 Eco from Nehru Place, New Delhi.

Actually the itch has been going on for long after reading reviews on various mailing lists in India, it was evident that finding a Netbook with GNU/Linux installed would be a tough bargain.

I had an eye on Acer One D250 for long. But it was a no no after reading this presentation by Matt Porter

i strongly recommend for all the mobile developers to consider reading this before diving into the Android way of undoing things.

ok coming back to the story of why Benq all in the world , since Acer was already ruled out and Asus had some good recommendations , Benq was definitely was not on the list.

had a look at the two Joy Book models one was with smaller screen and lesser hard disk space , the other was recommended by the marketing guy as it came with Linpus .

Linpus still does not connect me to the Net , i called up there office had to go round in circles aka musical chairs, but still i wanted to taste first hand reasons why folks don’t make GNU/Linux based Netbooks or Laptops.

The answer i suppose is a well know one in FOSS world “Support” , i am still exploring and finding how the OEM is tied to Linpus and what support aggrement i am entitled to.

in the meantime i did not want to install any other OS and get online ASAP since i am still exploring and expecting some form of decent support from the Vendor ;-( , more on that later…

In the meantime i had a liveusb with Ubuntu 9.10 to test the wifi, it too does not work out of the box , i got it working working by inserting rt kernel module.

$sudo su -
#modprobe rt3070sta

enabled the network by pressing function key and F10

Verbatim Mail from Carlos ….

Hi community,

Fifteen days before the third anniversary of our repository, this project arrived
to the commit 10.000, and Trifon had the honor to make it:

http://adempiere.svn.sourceforge.net/adempiere/?rev=10000&view=rev

Thanks to the 56 committers that have made this possible:

http://www.adempiere.com/svnstats/20090824/stats/adempiere/index.html

trifonnt
hengsin
vpj-cd
teo_sarca
red1
mjudd
tspc
gvishi
shameem_z
fredtsang
kthiemann
olivensteins
pelgrimforever
wght
kontro
jc-perez
phib
armenrz
deathmeat
usrdno
mark_o
agramdass
redchris
afalcone
joergviola
fer_luck
fjviejo
sendy_yagambrum
xiaomj
bayucahya
rob_k
bmovaqar
kolec
tobi42
ljreyesd
croo
gabrielke
eskabetxe
stefan_kuthan
acanaveral
j2garcia
ancabradau
ivanceras
vinhpt
marekmosiewicz
needle58
satyaakam
kzmp
kai7
agenda_gm
vclark
hongnk
banym
egssolutions
richardgennaro

and to myself globalqss

Regards,

Carlos Ruiz

Tried booting OLPC from USB , OLPC has a security feature to not boot from external devices by default , it comes with a security lock , we can remove this by

a) Getting a Developer key
b) Flashing the firmware

The idea is to boot from USB device and run Ubuntu from USB then some apps over it, hope AMD processor with 256 MB of Ram can take all this.

Michael Judd setup an asterisk system for adempiere community to use. once the accounts for people are created you can access it using a voip softphone or a hard phone.

With the service we can currently conference, and call extensions for free. Mike have the servers located in data centre in London which has plenty of bandwidth. (1,000GB/month) he has some inbound UK numbers which can be routed through different call groups and queues. You can schedule timezones and only route to certain extensions at certain times of the day (so as not to wake you up at night).

Currently, there is no outbound calling (as that costs money), but he can add additional telephone numbers for different countries and route them directly to you.

People who want to join the system will be able to call and transfer calls to each other – so this could be used as a collaboration tool for support.

Mike is presently looking for other interested parties to try this out – please contact michael dot judd at akunagroup dot com if you are interested.

I have tested it using Ekiga on 256 Kbps bandwidth from Airtel Broadband services , it works well some screen shots below

account settings i have done in Ekiga

service:
username:
password: (same for voicemail)

You can try the following numbers:
102 – Mike Judd
304 – Satyag
# – Directory
*43 – echo test
*60 – speaking clock
411 – Directory dial by name
*97 – voicemail

You can try other sip clients from this Sip software list and report to mike how things are working at your end

When you use Python interactively, it is frequently handy to have some standard commands executed every time the interpreter is started. You can do this by setting an environment variable named PYTHONSTARTUP to the name of a file containing your start-up commands. This is similar to the .profile feature of the Unix shells.

This file is only read in interactive sessions, not when Python reads commands from a script, and not when /dev/tty is given as the explicit source of commands (which otherwise behaves like an interactive session). It is executed in the same namespace where interactive commands are executed, so that objects that it defines or imports can be used without qualification in the interactive session. You can also change the prompts sys.ps1 and sys.ps2 in this file.

If you want to read an additional start-up file from the current directory, you can program this in the global start-up file using code like if os.path.isfile(‘.pythonrc.py’): execfile(‘.pythonrc.py’). If you want to use the startup file in a script, you must do this explicitly in the script:

import os
filename = os.environ.get(‘PYTHONSTARTUP’)
if filename and os.path.isfile(filename):
execfile(filename)

Red1 asked on the Adempiere forum is shifting to GIT from SVN a good idea , i think it is here is why?
local , distributed, branched ,small , fast, staging area….. more on whygitisbetterthanx

Well it is official now i am the first commiter from India for Adempiere.For those who don’t know what Adempiere Business Suite is its an industrial strength open-source software solution that combines ERP, CRM and SCM support for business processes. ADempiere provides a framework for extending and customizing to meet business needs. here is a short video about Adempiere

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Well we all face it converting .html format to .txt format , was converting two files to txt format html2txt was of not  much help, did not want to go the vim way ,perl or python was overkill  lynx came handy

lynx -dump index.html >index.txt