[Ilugc] [X-post]: Our Next FreeIndian: Runa B.

2008-05-10 Thread Roshan
List, Our current interview features a contributor to various l10n projects who started work as early as 2001-2002. Internet was a unsolved mystery and emails were something that this contributor was afraid of in her early days of computing, but now is able to meet people across the globe from her

Re: [Ilugc] digital freedom in iitm?

2008-05-10 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 10-May-08, at 9:52 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: --- On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | But I found that I just could not acquire any satellites | within the IIT campus. \-- 1. Did you walk with your device outside the building or did you try it from

Re: [Ilugc] digital freedom in iitm?

2008-05-10 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | But I found that I just could not acquire any satellites | within the IIT campus. \-- 1. Did you walk with your device outside the building or did you try it from inside? You are not going to get consistent si

Re: [Ilugc] digital freedom in iitm?

2008-05-10 Thread Saripalli Siva Prakash venkata phani
hi, i think its some problem with your device iitm doesnt waste money in crap like that :) On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Zico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > > hi, > > > > at today's lug meeting I wante

Re: [Ilugc] digital freedom in iitm?

2008-05-10 Thread Zico
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > at today's lug meeting I wanted to give a live demo of digital mapping with > gps after my talk. But I found that I just could not acquire any satellites > within the IIT campus. Max lock I could get was 15 sec

[Ilugc] digital freedom in iitm?

2008-05-10 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, at today's lug meeting I wanted to give a live demo of digital mapping with gps after my talk. But I found that I just could not acquire any satellites within the IIT campus. Max lock I could get was 15 seconds. The moment I left the campus, my instrument behaved normally. This leads

Re: [Ilugc] Switching between sets of keybindings in vim

2008-05-10 Thread Sykora
> On 19:28:24 May 09, Arun Tejasvi Chaganty wrote: >> There are times where I want to switch between an entire set of >> keybindings/commands depending on the type of file I'm editing. For >> example, if I'm using C/C++, I'd like to (hypothetically) have a >> shortkey to create an for loop block a

Re: [Ilugc] Switching between sets of keybindings in vim

2008-05-10 Thread Arun Tejasvi Chaganty
I've found this amazing plugin: SnippetsEmu which does what I want and so much more (thanks to Vimal for pointing it out to me). Thank god the code is open, so I'll be hacking through it to learn something. Can you point me to some good vimscripting tutorials perhaps? -- Arun Tejasvi Chaganty (

[Ilugc] Unable to upgrade from ubuntu 7.10 to ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-10 Thread msverman
Hi, At present I am using in Ubuntu 7.10 and i would like to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04. So I downloaded Alternate CD iso of Ubuntu 8.04 and then I burned them in the CD. After burning the CD, I list the the files as below -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/cdrom$ ls -l total 174 -r-xr-x