Re: [Ilugc] RMS and Cloud Computing

2008-10-09 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Mano wrote: In fact, in a discussion in this list long ago it was generally accepted that freedom is only an issue if s/w is being distributed without source code. If there was no distribution involved and only 'use' as by a cloud computing service provider, there was no problem!!! Well, yo

Re: [Ilugc] RMS and Cloud Computing

2008-10-09 Thread Mano
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Using the cloud to process data is also not such a big problem as long > as data is not "secret" and the result can be easily extracted and a > copy stored with me. > Thats the issue. For all its efficiency and eas

Re: [Ilugc] RMS and Cloud Computing

2008-10-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Bhuvaneswaran A wrote: I don't understand why he is missing the point that cloud computing is feasible more because of open source tools like Hadoop, MadReduce. The important aspect of cloud computing is that it is cheap. If user is worried about security, FREEDOM, or relying upon a third-party

Re: [Ilugc] RMS and Cloud Computing

2008-10-09 Thread Bhuvaneswaran A
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 09 Oct 2008, Bhuvaneswaran A wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Apropos some flaming^Wdiscussion that took place on this list >> > earier.

Re: [Ilugc] Linux Package Dependencies

2008-10-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Ashish Verma wrote: Hi Rahul, I have already made this repo. However the issue is that still I get dependencies errors. Post your repository configuration files and the exact error you are getting if you want to specific help. If your local repository is complete there shouldn't be any issu

Re: [Ilugc] Python - Apache2 doubt

2008-10-09 Thread Bhuvaneswaran A
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Sivaram Kannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > When I give the following url "http://localhost/first.py"; the function > handler is getting executed. But when I give the url > "http://localhost/first.py/get_time"; the function get_time is not > getting called.

Re: [Ilugc] difference between interactive and background cron script

2008-10-09 Thread Mohan Sundaram
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Girish Venkatachalam < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > cron(8) cannot use STDIO, STDOUT or STDERR. All point to /dev/null. > Know this and precisely the reason why piping to logfile was used. > > So it is AFAIK impossible to run interactive programs using cron. > > Fi

Re: [Ilugc] RMS and Cloud Computing

2008-10-09 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008, Bhuvaneswaran A wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Apropos some flaming^Wdiscussion that took place on this list > > earier. > > > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/stallman-vs-clouds > > I also agree that

Re: [Ilugc] FAT patents

2008-10-09 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, 09 Oct 2008, Aswin Anand wrote: > Dude, care more about the utility than worrying about these problems. The > pen drive storage area is formatted to FAT by most manufacturers. So its > something they should worry about and not you I guess :-) That depends on the precise nature of t

Re: [Ilugc] RMS and Cloud Computing

2008-10-09 Thread Bhuvaneswaran A
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Apropos some flaming^Wdiscussion that took place on this list > earier. > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/stallman-vs-clouds I also agree that stallman is wrong. According to him cloud computing is

Re: [Ilugc] Linux Package Dependencies

2008-10-09 Thread Ashish Verma
Hi Rahul, I have already made this repo. However the issue is that still I get dependencies errors. If you can guide me to some site, that provides all the 'lib' packages, that would be very helpful. Ashish ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: [Ilugc] Linux Package Dependencies

2008-10-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Ashish Verma wrote: Hi, I do not have a net connection all the time, so I have configured local yum repos. I even tried rsyncing one of the livna repositories. I have all the packages listed in one of the Livna repos. However now that I am not connected to net, I tried to install some packages a

[Ilugc] Linux Package Dependencies

2008-10-09 Thread Ashish Verma
Hi, I do not have a net connection all the time, so I have configured local yum repos. I even tried rsyncing one of the livna repositories. I have all the packages listed in one of the Livna repos. However now that I am not connected to net, I tried to install some packages and I still get depende

Re: [Ilugc] FAT patents

2008-10-09 Thread Aswin Anand
Dude, care more about the utility than worrying about these problems. The pen drive storage area is formatted to FAT by most manufacturers. So its something they should worry about and not you I guess :-) On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Ashok Gautham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Recently Microso

Re: [Ilugc] difference between interactive and background cron script

2008-10-09 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cron(8) cannot use STDIO, STDOUT or STDERR. All point to /dev/null. By default, cron saves anything written to stdout and stderr, and emails it to the cronjob owner. - Raja __

Re: [Ilugc] difference between interactive and background cron script

2008-10-09 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 17:16:16 Oct 09, Mohan Sundaram wrote: > I've written a bash script to get my SSID and accordingly set my network > preferences (on a Mac). The script works well in an interactive shell but > fails to work similarly when invoked thro cron. > ssid = `networksetup -getairportnetwork| cut -d : -f 2

Re: [Ilugc] difference between interactive and background cron script

2008-10-09 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Mohan Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've written a bash script to get my SSID and accordingly set my network > preferences (on a Mac). The script works well in an interactive shell but > fails to work similarly when invoked thro cron. Ensure your PATH enviro

[Ilugc] difference between interactive and background cron script

2008-10-09 Thread Mohan Sundaram
I've written a bash script to get my SSID and accordingly set my network preferences (on a Mac). The script works well in an interactive shell but fails to work similarly when invoked thro cron. ssid = `networksetup -getairportnetwork| cut -d : -f 2` echo $ssid ESSID found. gives me the SSID of my

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2008-10-09 Thread siva moorthy
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[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (LSB_RELEASE)

2008-10-09 Thread Bharathi Subramanian
One Day One GNU/Linux Command = lsb_release -- Show Linux Standard Base and Distribution info. Summary: If the installation is LSB compliant, the "/etc/lsb-release" file should contain the LSB_VERSION field and other optional fields like DISTRIB_ID, DISTRIB_RELEASE,

Re: [Ilugc] Reliance Huawei EC-121 USB CDMA modem conf problem

2008-10-09 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Prasanna David G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | [ 101.310052] scsi 5:0:0:0: CD-ROMHUAWEI Mass Storage \-- It is being detected as a pseudo SCSI CD-ROM device, hence no /dev/ttyUSB* devices. Not the same modem, but, still relevant: http://oozi

[Ilugc] Reliance Huawei EC-121 USB CDMA modem conf problem

2008-10-09 Thread Prasanna David G
Hello all, I got a Reliance Netconnect USB CDMA modem. They gave me a Huawei EC-121. I am trying to get it work in my Ubuntu Hardy laprop, but no success yet. ---As soon as I plug in, this what dmesg shows : [ 95.755347] usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and add

[Ilugc] Oct Month ILUGC Meet

2008-10-09 Thread Bharathi Subramanian
ILUGC Meet (Oct 11th):- = Time : Sat Oct 11th 15:00 IST 2008 Venue: ADI-TeNeT Seminar Hall, Room No: CSD 320, Electrical Science Block, IIT-Madras. Map: http://www.chennailug.org/tenet Talk 1: Overview of /proc file-system By Raman P (30min) /pr