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Laptop Mode Tools, version 1.61, has been released and will land up soon for Debian. This is the version that would be targetting Wheezy.
This release includes many bug fixes and should make power savings much better on your machines.

Changelog:

Now these are the kind of moves that needs to happen more often. Whether this will cause a negative impact on the overall market, and the further invention of drugs (including patent control),  but the affordability of the medicatoin to an average citizen is a great move.

The typical Chemotherapy can be on an average of 22 times. When summed up with the dosage (somewhere around 250 mg IIRC), the cost comes to approx: (22/4) * 15000 = 82k, which now, will be affordable at 27k.

I guess the price slash is only for India and am not sure what the impact to the global market will look like.

Quoting the article:

http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/cipla-drug-price-cut-not-to-hurt-revenue-much-say-analysts_700380.html

Cipla cut price of its kidney cancer drug Sorafenib, which is sold under brand name Nexavar by multi-national Bayer to Rs 6,840 for a month's supply, from around Rs 28,000 earlier. Its lung cancer drug Gestinib, which is sold under brand name Iressa by AstraZeneca will cost Rs 4,250, versus Rs 10,200 earlier, and price of Temozolamide used to treat brain tumour, has been reduced by Rs 15,000 to Rs 5,000.

India's Patent Office recently issued a compulsory licence allowing Natco to make a generic copy of Sorafenib, on the payment of a royalty to Bayer, which sells the drug at around Rs 2 lakh.

Domestic sales account for 46-47% of Cipla's total sales and of that the cancer drugs portfolio is a very small portion, so these price cuts are unlikely to have any major impact on its revenue, Hitesh Mahida of Fortune Equity Brokers told moneycontrol.com

"Cipla's idea seems to be to create disruption in the market, increase its market share..." the analyst says.

Swiss pharma major Roche had earlier this year signed a manufacturing deal with India's Emcure Pharma so that its anti-cancer drugs Herceptin and MabThera could be made in India at affordable prices. Analysts say Cipla's move to slash prices could in future deter some MNCs from launching their drugs in India at all, but some may also look at doing deals like the one struck by Roche.

Meanwhile, shares of pharma major Cipla surged over 3% on Friday after brokerage CLSA upgraded the stock to "outperform" from "underperform," saying, Cipla would be strongest beneficiaries of a weakening rupee.

The rupee has been sliding sharply against the US dollar in recent days and hit over four month low of around Rs 53.78 earlier in trade.

"We expect improving margins over the coming quarters on back of a weak rupee and a low base. We expect strong operating profit growth over coming quarters led by margin expansion and high margin product supplies," CLSA's Hemant Bakhru said.

The US Food and Drugs Administration has approved Meda's drug Dymista for allergic rhinitis and the product is widely expected to reach USD 300-500 million in annual sales over the coming years. The analyst says Cipla being a partner, will benefit through product supplies over a longer term.

"Apart from approval (outside North America) related milestone payment (US$5m), we expect gradual increase in Cipla’s sales from product related supplies to Meda. Assuming Cipla supplies product at 10-15% of sales, it could earn US$50-75m at peak sales," Bakhru said.

Additionally, a low base in domestic formulations could result in reasonable India growth, he adds.

Cipla shares were up 2.8% at Rs 326.60 on NSE in noon trade.

In the 3.x days of KDE, there were some wonderful applications. One of them I still admire, is kscope. Recently, I stumbled upon this blog entry and thought of sharing my living with kscope.

The move from KDE 3 to KDE 4 was a big one. During that move, the kscope author decided to port kscope to a Qt only application. That is what we have as the latest kscope, 1.9x version. But, on personal taste, it is not as good as the 1.6x series.

With no viable replacement to my knowledge, making use of kscope 1.6x on Debian (and Ubuntu) was the choice. Thanks to the way it is all packaged by the KDE, it is easy.

Kscope depends on 2 packages for its functionlity: kdelibs4c2a and kate. kdelibs4c2a is unsupported, but for the dire needs, you live with it. The library can be easily pulled from the snapshot website, or just get the package from the old distribution URLs. The same goes for kate and kscope (1.6x)

Install the kdelibs4c2a package.

16:55:27 rrs@champaran:~$ apt-cache policy kdelibs4c2a 

kdelibs4c2a:

  Installed: 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-5

  Candidate: 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-5

  Version table:

 *** 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-5 0

        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Many of the SAN components in Debian have me involved. So I think out to give an update on what the state of SAN would be in Debian Wheezy.

Open-iSCSI: Just uploaded a newer version to experimental which eventually will crawl into testing. It should fix all release goals for Wheezy. Please give it a good test

iscsitarget: Same goes here. This one is already in testing. Please test. It has some bugs reported, all in needinfo, as they haven't been easily reproducible or reported complete.

multipath-tools: It is in pretty good shape. Some minor bugs. But still, please test. :-)

Open-FCoE: Being dependent on hardware, for which I couldn't manage resource commitment, this one is literally untested. It lies in testing, untested.

LIO Target: The newest target implementation for Linux. It is also available in testing, has had some minor bugs reported by users, and fixed. If you use, or anticipate to use it in the Wheezy life cycle, now is the time to test.

apport just cleared the new queue and is now available in experimental. For those who do not know what apport is:

 

Debugging program crashes without any automated tools has been pretty time consuming and hard for both developers and users. Many program crashes remain unreported or unfixed because:

• Many crashes are not easily reproducible.

• End users do not know how to prepare a report that is really useful for developers, like building a package with debug symbols, operating gdb, etc.

• A considerable part of bug triage is spent with collecting relevant information about the crash itself, package versions, hardware architecture, operating system version, etc.
• There is no easy frontend which allow users to submit detailed problem reports.
• Existing solutions like bug-buddy or krash are specific to a particular desktop environment, are nontrivial to adapt to the needs of a distribution developer, do not work for crashes of background servers (like a database or an email server), and do not integrate well with existing debug packages that a distribution might provide.

Apport is a system which

• intercepts crashes right when they happen the first time,
• gathers potentially useful information about the crash and the OS environment,
• can be automatically invoked for unhandled exceptions in other programming languages (e. g. in Ubuntu this is done for Python),
• can be automatically invoked for other problems that can be automatically detected (e. g. Ubuntu automatically detects and reports package installation/upgrade failures from update-manager),
• presents a UI that informs the user about the crash and instructs them on how to proceed,
• and is able to file non-crash bug reports about software, so that developers still get information about package versions, OS version etc.

At this moment, it is quite broken. The crashes are not intercepted by update-notifier on my box. With it now in experimental, my intent is to slowly integrate it well with all dependent tools for Debian. It won't be ready for the Wheezy release, but hopefully for the one after that.

On the Ubuntu side, Canonical hosts a retracing service that takes user reported core dumps and generates a usable backtrace. For Debian, my plan is to have a chroot kind interface, where in the user could opt-in to download all debug packages to generate a valid backtrace. This could go as the debian backend for apport in the future. On the bug reporting side, afaik, we do not have a web interface to lodge bugs. To report bugs (minus the core dumps), we will want a backend to submit it over email. The current apport report gathering tool is pretty good (if compared to other tools like reportbug), so here the low hanging fruit would be to just take the report and feed in email to our BTS server.

For the eyes:

In astrology , a horoscope is composed by two group of planets and they are  Anukul planets & Pratikul planets. Anukul planets give  good & auspicious results in one’s life while the pratikul planets give malefic results full of panic & sorrows .

Now  considering remedial astrology, vedic gems are recommended for anukul planets because gems increase the the influence of their concerning planets on its wearer body. Hence  Anukul gems give anukul i.e good & auspicious results.

Remember gems are never recommended for pratikul planets. Gems are only responsible for accelerating the influence of cosmic vibrations of their concerning planets on to its wearer body. It has nothing to do with the nature of the planet.I meant to say that gems can’t change the nature of their concerning planets. That is why  gems for pratikul planets are never recommended .Wearing gems for pratikul planets will just magnify the negative influence of its  concerning pratikul planet resulting  increase in the speed of pains & sorrows  on to its wearer’s life.

In short we should understand ,

”Anukul Planet +  Anukul gems=Auspicious results”

“Pratikul Planet + Pratikul gems = Pain & Sorrowful results”
Now a question arises that what should be done to pacify the malefic effect of pratikul Planets.In astrology there are several tips and systems explained for pacifying the malefic effects of Pratikul Planets. Here I shall explain some.

Ratna Arpana. This system is a very effective method for pacifying the malefic effect of pratikul planets.In this system gems of pratikul planets are donated to pacify the malefic effect of pratikul planets.

Ista-Dev Pujan. This is another effective and easy  way to pacify the malefic effects of Pratikul Planets. In sidereal astrology there is a provision of considering the nine planets which are  sun,Moon,Mars,Mercury,Venus,Jupiter,Saturn,Rahu & Ketu. Now each planets are governed by separate Ista-Devas .To pacify the malefic effect of pratikul planets one should worship their concerning Ista-Devas. Below is mentioned the nine Ista-Deva ruling the nine planets.

Sun = Lord Vishnu .If sun is pratikul in a horoscope then one should worship lord Vishnu.One should read Vishnu astottara ,Hariwans puran daily.

Moon= Lord Shiva.If moon is pratikul in a horoscope then one should worship lord Shiva.One should read Shiv Chalisa, Shiv tandav,Shiv astottara daily.

Mars= Lord Hanuman.If mars is pratikul then one should worship lord Hanuman.One should read Hanuman Chalisa,Bajrang Baan,etc daily.

Mercury =Goddess Durga.If mercury is pratikul then one should worship lordess Durga.One should read Durga Chalisha,Durga Astottara et.

Jupiter= Lord Brahma.If Jupiter is pratikul then one should worship lord Brahma.

Venus =Goddess Laxmi.If venus is pratikul then one should worship Goddess Laxmi.One should read Astta-Luxmi Astottara,Sree-Sukta daily.

Saturn=Lord Bhairav Nath.Similarly for pratikul Saturn one should worship lord Bhairav Nath.

Rahu=Goddess Sarswati.For pratikul rahu one should worship goddess Sarswati.One should recite Sarswati Astottara daily.

Ketu= Lord Ganesha.For pratikul ketu one should worship lord Ganesha.

Fasting and Donating items of pratikul planets .This is another effective way to pacify the harmful effect of pratikul planets.Every planets govern a particular day.There are seven major planets which govern their separate days while the two shadow planets Rahu & Ketu share with Saturn.

·        Sun. If sun is ill placed i.e pratikul in any one’s horoscope then he/she should take fasting on Sunday.He/she should donate copper ,wheat,sugar-cane on Sunday. Also one should give water to sun daily in copper utensil .One should also avoid eating raw salt and using copper made items.

·        Moon. If moon is ill placed i.e pratikul in anyone’s horoscope then one should take fasting on Monday.He/She should donate milk, rice,curd,silver etc to a female on Monday.One should respect & take care of  the female members of their family.

·        Mars.If mars is ill placed i.e pratikul in horoscope then one should take fasting of Tuesday.One should donate masoor dal (red colour pulse),sweets,etc on Tuesday.

·        Mercury.If mercury is ill placed i.e pratikul in one’s horoscope then he/she should take fasting on Wednesday.One should donate moong dal (green coloured pulse),green clothes etc on Wednesday.One should give water in the root of Tulsi plant.

·        Jupiter.For Jupiter one should take fasting on Thursday .one should donate tuar dal,turmeric,yellow clothes etc on Thursday.

·        Venus.If venus is ill placed i.e pratikul in one’s horoscope then he/she should take fasting on Friday.One should donate curd,rice,milk to female or cow.One should feed half portion of his food  to a cow for atleast 40 days.Also one should give respect and love to his/her spouse.

·        Saturn.If Saturn is ill placed i.e pratikul in a horoscope then one should take fasting on Saturday.One should donate mustard or teel oil in a iron utensil.One should strictly avoid intake of liquior i.e alcohol instead he can donate it in God Bhairav Nath’s Temple.One should give water in the root of Shami plant daily.

·        Rahu.If rahu is ill placed i.e pratikul in a horoscope then one should take fasting on Saturday.One should donate black clothes,coal,mustard seed, radish  to leper or cleaning personnels.One should cooperate in any girls marriage either by giving his physical service or financial assistance.

·        Ketu.For ketu one should take fasting on Saturday.He/She should wear a gold ear-ring in his right ear.One should feed sweet bread to dogs daily.

Beej  Mantra Mala.  This is another effective  method for pacifying the malefic planets. In this method, one should daily recite one mala of beej-mantra of their pratikul planets. Every planets have their separate beej-mantra and reciting beej-mantra pacifies the malefic influence of the pratikul planets.

The beej-mantra of the nine planets are given below:-

·        Sun. If sun is ill placed i.e pratikul then one should recite one mala of sun’s beej-mantra  “Om hram hrim hraum sah suryaya namah” daily in the morning.

·        Moon. If moon is ill place i.e pratikul then one should recite one mala of moon’s beej mantra ,” Om sram srim sraum sah chandraya namah” daily in the evening time.

·        Mars. If mars is ill place i.e pratikul then one should recite one mala of mars’s beej mantra ,” Om kram krim kraum sah bhaumaya namah” daily in the evening.

·        Mercury.If mercury is ill place i.e pratikul then one should recite one mala of mercury’s beej mantra ,” Om bram brim braum sah budhaya namah” daily in day time.

·        Jupiter. If Jupiter is ill placed i.e pratikul then one should recite one mala of jupiter’s beej mantra ,” Om gram grim graum sah gurave namah” daily in the morning.

·        Venus.If venus is ill placed i.e pratikul then one should recite one mala of venus’s beej mantra ,” Om dram drim draum sah shukraya namah” daily in the morning.

·        Saturn.If Saturn is ill placed i.e pratikul then one should recite one mala of saturn’s beej mantra ,” Om pram prim praum sah shanaisharaya namah” daily in the evening.

·        Ketu. If ketu is ill placed i.e pratikul then one should recite one mala of ketu’s beej mantra ,” Om sram srim sraum sah ketave namah” daily in the morning.

·        Rahu. If Rahu is ill placed i.e pratikul then one should recite one mala of rahu’s beej mantra ,” Om bhram bhrim bhraum sah rahave namah” daily in the evening.

So these are some of the easy and effective  remedial methods which will successfully pacify the malefic i.e Pratikul Planets.These remedial tips  can easily be adopted in to our lifestyle and hence we can safe guard ourselves from the influence of malefic results of the Pratikul Planets.

I recently purchased a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1 TB hard drive. It is a 2.5" compact disk that you connect over USB. It draws its power from the USB controller. My previous Extern HDDs were all 2.5" laptop drives, for which I bought a USB enclosure. Those devices always worked perfect, as in:

• They were automatically detected
• Partitions/File Systems understood
• Desktop systems would prompt for actions

The typical kernel messages I got for these devices were:

But for my Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex HDD, things were different. The kernel would detect but then it would not mount. The error reported is that the device is busy. My FreeAgent's kernel messages look similar to what the regular one has:

As the Device Mapper Multipath Debian Maintainer, I have multipath-tools installed on my laptop. Turns out, for some reason, the  device is consumer by the device mapper multipath stack.

Also the block device ID listing is enumerated as type SCSI.

But I'm not sure why the same doesn't happend for my external laptop drive. It gets properly tagged as device type USB.

So Laptop or Server, if you have a FreeAgent that you want to connect to your machine, and see the device busy error when accessing the device['s] directly, do the following:

First, the ID of the device.

Add the ID to /etc/multipath.conf under blacklist section

Run mulitpath -F to flush the unused maps.

Run multipath -v3 to ensure that now the device is blacklisted.

The front cause for the mis-behavior is:

But something else, maybe the default blacklist table, needs the actual fix.

OpenXenManager cleared the NEW queue and is now available in the archive.

What it is:

It is written purely in Python so should work at most of the places. The current consumer of OpenXenManager are users who have a Citrix XenServer platfrom running as a hypervisor. Soon, once XCP efforts are completed for Debian, OpenXenManager will also be able to manage Debian Xen Hypervisor installations using this graphical tool.

Ref:Graha-Gochar-Jyotish

Most astrological practicioners agree that vedic gems should be used to enhance the cosmic vibrations of good (anukul) planets in one’s horoscope, but some are unsure about what should be done to pacify the harmful effects of malefic(pratikul) planets.In our vedic science there is indeed one method that has been mentioned for appeasing malefic(debilitated)planets in one’s horoscope which is known as “Ratna-Arpana”which means a vedic system of DONATING a fine gem for a harmful planet to a specified recipient at a specific time with a specific seed mantra.
Using this system greatly simplifies the prescription of jyotish gems:
For a good (anakul) planet, a gem is to be accepted (worn)
For a bad (pratikul) planet, a gem is to be donated (given away)
It is amazingly simple - gems are appropriate in all cases, but must be used in entirely different ways. Everyone already understands that gems for favorable planets are to be worn, but were uncertain what should be done to appease harmful planets. Our ancient Vedic Science point the way - donate the gem to a specified recipient, and solve the problem of the harmful planet.
Following is the information needed to pacify harmful planets by donating a gem:
SUN: Propitiation of the Sun (Sunday). Donate a ruby (or another fine red jewel like red spinel) to a middle aged male government leader at 12:00 noon on a Sunday, while reciting Surya seed mantra: 
Om hram hrim hraum sah suryaya namah. ---7 times. 
RESULT: The planetary deity Surya is pleased increasing courage and notoriety.  Relief from any solar problems caused by Surya, the Sun, when he is ill placed.

MOON: Propitiation of the Moon (Monday). Donate a pearl (or moonstone) to a female leader on Monday evening, while reciting Chandra seed mantra:  Om sram srim sraum sah chandraya namah ---11 times. 
RESULT: The planetary deity Chandra is pleased increasing mental health and peace of mind.

MARS:  Propitiation of Mars (Tuesday). Donate a red coral to a celibate on Tuesday at evening, while reciting Mangala seed mantra:  Om kram krim kraum sah bhaumaya namah ---19 times. 
RESULT: The planetary deity Mangala is pleased increasing determination and drive, and protecting one from violence or injury.

MERCURY:  Propitiation of Mercury (Wednesday). Donate emerald (or another fine green gem like tourmaline) to a poor student on Wednesday at noon, while reciting Budha seed mantra:  Om bram brim braum sah budhaya namah --- 9 times. 
RESULT: The planetary deity Budha is pleased increasing health and intelligence. Relief of nervous complaints caused by an ill placed Budha-grahadev.

JUPITER:  Propitiation of Jupiter (Thursday). Donate yellow sapphire (or another yellow gem like yellow topaz) to a brahmin (Vedic priest) on Thursday morning, while reciting Guru seed mantra:  Om gram grim graum sah gurave namah --- 19 times. 
RESULT: The planetary deity Brihaspati is pleased increasing satisfaction and facilitating  marriage and childbirth and family harmony. Reduction in diseases caused by an ill placed Jupiter.

VENUS: Propitiation of Venus (Friday). Donate a diamond (or another colourless gem like quartz crystal) to a poor young woman on Friday morning, while reciting Shukra seed mantra:  Om dram drim draum sah shukraya namah --- 16 times. 
RESULT: The planetary deity Shukra is pleased increasing riches and conjugal bliss. Also a reduction in diseases caused by an ill placed Venus.

SATURN: Propitiation of Saturn (Saturday). Donate a blue sapphire (or another blue to purple gemstone like amethyst) to a poor man on Saturday evening after sunset, while reciting Shani seed mantra:  Om pram prim praum sah shanaisharaya namah --- 23 times. 
RESULT: The planetary deity Shani is pleased insuring victory in quarrels, over coming chronic pain, and bringing success to those engaged in the iron or steel trade.

RAHU:  Propitiation of Rahu (Saturday). Donate a hessonite (or another fine orange garnet or zircon)  to a leper on Saturday, two hours after sunset, while reciting Rahu seed mantra:  Om bhram bhrim bhraum sah rahave namah --- 18 times. 
RESULT: The planetary deity Rahu is pleased granting victory over enemies, favour from the King or government, influence over the masses, and reduction in diseases caused by Rahu.

KETU:  Propitiation of Ketu (Saturday). Donate a cat's eye gem to a poor young man on Saturday at evening after sunset, while reciting Ketu seed mantra:  Om sram srim sraum sah ketave namah --- 18 times. 
 
RESULT: The planetary deity Ketu is pleased granting victory over enemies, favour from the King or government, and reduction in diseases and mysterious troubles caused by an ill placed Ketu.