If you are under a proxy server, and want to access net using http or ftp through Konsole/Terminal, you will need to export http_proxy/ftp_proxy variables. One simple way to do so is that you type the following 2 commands :
$export http_proxy="http://username:password@proxyserver:proxyport"
$export ftp_proxy="http://username:password@proxyserver:proxyport"
You will need to replace “username”, “password”, “proxyserver” and “proxyport” with appropriate values.
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So, again, we were expecting 50-60 people. Before FOSSKriti whiling planning for FOSSKriti, I was arguing with Arun saying that there wouldn’t be much participation for linux kernel workshop and we dont need 50 computers. To all my surprise, we had around 300 people interested in the workshop.
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For last few days, I have been talking to people (mainly IITK students) about different events we have in FOSSKriti. I found people pretty enthusiastic about different events. I am pointing out those events here:
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There was a post on LinDesk about how to use SSH over proxy. Thats surely a big issue for people living in developing country. They have to work behind proxy. So, this post talks about some old way of tunneling. Today we have got transconnect which is much better and makes proxy transparent for applications running through konsole/terminal. All you need to do is something like this : download transconnect from here. Extract it, and follow the following commands :
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2007 was overall good. I got to learn lots of things, and got to do lots of things. Got to talk to lot of cool people. Though I wouldn’t forget that it also brought 7th semester which was like the most difficult semester I ever had. This semester probably took my anxiety level to top. Some of the highlights of 2007 are below:
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I have been thinking about business models for open source softwares. Though I couldn’t come up with proper answer. Lets see, let me try to start with different software people make and use.
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Its a great pleasure to announce that Tata guys have come up with a supercomputer which is ranked 4th fastest in the world, and fastest in Asia.
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-by guest blogger nareshov 
Let’s begin then:
Let’s see, I’ve been asked to post here by rohitj on some sort of Fedora vs. Ubuntu. (He was more interested in “Fedora sucks” than “Ubuntu rocks” :P).
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So, I was out for the weekend. When I came back I saw my phpMyVisites and found this statistics for the week :
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